ML19351F509

Application for Amend to Apps a & B Tech Specs of License DPR-34 Re Environ Monitoring.Includes Background & Reasons for Proposed Revisions,Summary of Proposed Tech Specs Revisions & Proposed Revisions to OL

ML19351F509
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Site:	Fort Saint Vrain
Issue date:	01/02/1981
From:	Lee O PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF COLORADO
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N BEFORE Tile UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of the Facility Operating License)

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Application f or Amendment to Appendix A of Facility Operating License License No. DPR-34 '

0F THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO FOR THE FORT ST. VRAIN NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION This application f or Amendment to Appendix A of Facility Operating License, License No. DPR-34, is submitted for NRC review and approval.

Respectfully submitted, PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO

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0."R. Lee, Vice President KELLY, STANSFIELD & 0'DONNELL Bryant O'Donnell Robert E. Thompson Public Service Company Building Denver, Colorado 80202 Attorneys for Applicaat 8101130 'jidlA

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CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER)

O. R. Lee, being first duly sworn, deposes and says; That he is Vice President of Production of Public Service Company of Colorado, the Licensee herein; that he has read the f oregoing Application for Amendment to Appendix A of Facility Operating License and knows the contents thereof, and that the statements and matters set f orth therein are true and correc t to the best of his knowledge, information and belief.

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0. R. Lee Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8T2 day of N g v'R/46/, /9[/

Witness my hand and official seal.

My commission expires: CXo6ra 7, 19 83 .

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Attachment 1 Page 1 of 1 REFERENCES (1) Letter, V. A. Moore to R. F. Walker, dated April 20, 1976.

(2) P-77041, dated January 31, 1977.

(3) P-77251, dated December 23, 1977.

(4) P-78008, dated January 20, 1978.

(5) P-79234, dated October 11, 1979.

(6) Letter, D. E. Sells to F. E. Swart, dated January 16, 1980, (G-80015).

(7) P-76075, dated March 23, 1976.

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l l ATTACH!ENT 2 BACKGROCID AND REASON FOR PROPOSED REVISIONS i

Attachment 2 Page 1 of 2 BACKCROUND In correspondence, Reference (1), the NRC requested that Public Service Com-pany of Colorado (PSC) submit revised Technical Specifications related to the Fort St. Vrain Environmental Monitoring Program. These revised Techni-cal Specifications were to be draf ted utilizing the guidance contained in Regulatory Guide 4.8 and submitted as Appendix B to the Operating License.

On January 31, 1977, Reference (2) was submitted to the NRC for review and comment. In early December,1977, members of the NRC staff indicated to PSC in verbal exchanges that the draf t Appendix B contained in Reference (2) was acceptable as submitted, but revisions to the Operating License would be required to make it consistent with the draf t Appendix B. PSC submitted the required revisions to the Operating License with the proposed Appendix B on December 23, 1977, in Reference (3) and subsequently modified on January 20, 1978, in Reference (4).

In correspondence, Reference (5), Public Service Company informed the NRC that the original intent of Specification NR SR 2.1 had been met and that PSC planned to discontinue all ecological sampling and investigations at Fort St. Vrain as of December 31, 1979.

In their reply, Reference (6), the NRC agreed with a suspension of the non-radiological ecological monitoring program pending the NRC staff review of the final ecological monitoring report, and stated that a Technical Specifi-cation change deleting the non-radiological environmental monitoring program should accompany the final ecological monitoring report. In addition, the NRC recommended that PSC undertake to revise the Fort St. Vrain radiological environmental monitoring program in accordance with the NRC's November,1979, Branch Technical Position for "An Acceptable Radiological Environmental Moni-toring Program." -

Attachmene 2 Page 2 of 2 REASON FOR PROPOSED REVISIONS The proposed revision to Appendix B of the Fort St. Vrain Technical Specifi-cations would constitute the Environmental Technical Specifications and would delete the non-radiological ecological monitoring program. It also brings the environmental radiological surveillance program into conformity with NRC's

! November,1979, Branch Technical Position related to radiological environmental

! monitoring.

i The proposed change incorporates the requirements of LCO 4.8.1, LCO 4.8.2, i LCO 4.8.3, SR 5.8.1, and SR 5.8.2, which regulate the radioactive effluent disposal system, into ELCO's 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and ESR's 3.1.1, 3.1. 2, and 3.1.3 with minor changes that reflect the accepted industry standards.

These LCO's and SR's would be deleted from Appendix A, and the resulting ELCO's and ESR's added to Appendix B of the Technical Specifications. This l places all LCO's and SR's pertaining to environmental monitoring in Appendix B of the Technical Specifications.

l The proposed change deletes the existing LCO's and SR's presently regulating non-radioactive liquid effluent disposal from Appendix B, and replaces them with Section 3.2 of the proposed Appendix B, Non-Radiological Ef fluent Dis-posal System. The present specifications related to Non-Radioactive Liquid Effluent Disposal are being deleted because these itens are subject to regu-lation under conditions imposed by the NPDES permit system under Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Colorado Water Quality Act. Non-Radiological Liquid Effluent Monitoring is conducted as specified in NPDES Permit Number CD-0001121. It would be redundant to repeat these i requirements in the Technical Specifications.

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ATTACIEENT 3

SUMMARY

OF PROPOSED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION REVISIONS i

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Attachment 3 Page 1 of 2 SU'I'fARY OF PROPOSED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION REVISIONS

1. Facility Operating License, Part D, Condition (2) Technical Specifications, delete the last sentence and steps a. through h. inclusive.

See Attachment 4

2. Appendix A a) Section 4.8, Radioactive Effluent Disposal System - Limiting Con-ditions for Operation, delete in its entirety.

1) Specification LCO 4.8.1 - Radioactive _ Gaseous Ef fluent. Limiting Conditions for Operation, replaced by Specification ELCO 3.1.1 -

Radioactive Gaseous Effluent, Limiting Conditions for Operation.

2) Specification LCO 4.8.2 - Radioactive Liquid Effluent, Limiting Conditions for Operation, replaced by Specification ELCO 3.1.2 -

Radioactive Lionid Ef fluent, Limiting Conditions for Operation.

3) Specification LCO 4.8.3 - Reactor Building Sump Ef fluent, Limiting Conditions for Operation, replaced by Specification ELCO 3.1.3 -

Reactor Building Sump Ef fluent, Limiting Conditions f or Operation.

b) Section 5.8, Radioactive Ef fluent Disposal Systems - S,urveillance Requirements, del'ete in its entirety.

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1) Specification SR 5.8.1 - Radioactive Gaseous Ef fluent System Surveillance, replaced by Specification _ESR 3.1.1 - Radioactive Caseous Effluent. Surveillance Requirements.

2) Specification SR 5.8.2 - Rad _ioactive Liquid Ef fluent System Surveillance, replaced by Specification ESR 3.1.2 - Radioactive Liquid Effluent, Surveillance Requirements.

c) Section 5.9, Environmental _ Surveil _ lance - Surveillance _Re_quir_ements, delete in its entirety.

1) Specification SR 5.9.1 - Environmental Radiation. Surveillance Requirements, replaced by Specification ESR 4.1.1 - Environmental Radiological Surveillance Requirements.

See Attachment 5

3. Appendix B, Non-Radiological Ter.hnical Specifications, delete in its entirety.

4. New Appendix B to Operating, License No. DPR-34 Technical Snecificationa.

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ATTACll!!ENT 4 PROPOSED REVISION TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE i

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Fort St. Vrain Technical Specifications License Information Amendment Page 6 of 11 (5) Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30 and 70, to possess, but not separate, such byproduct and special nuclear materials as may be produced by the operation of the f acility.

D. This license shall be deemed to contain and is subject to the conditions specified in the following Commission regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I:

Part 20, Section 30.34 of Part 30, Section 40.41 of Part 40, Sections

! 50.54 and 50.59 of Part 50. and the appropriate sections of Parts 70 and 73; is subject to all applicable pre?isions of the Act and to the

, rules, regulations, and orders of the Coinmission nou or hereaf ter in ef fect; and is subject to the additional conditions specified or i incorporated below:

(1) Maximum Power Level The licensee is authorized to operate the f acility at steady state reactor core power levels not in excess of 842 megawatts thermal.

(2) Technical Specifications The Technical Specifications contained in Appendices A and B, as revised .through Amendment No. 22, are ,hereby incorporated in the licensea . The licensee shall operate the faci 11ty in accordance with. the Technicc1 Specifications.

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i l (3) The licensee shall maintain in effect and fully implement all provisions of the Commission-approved physical security plan, I

including amendments and changes. nade pursuant to the authority of 10CFR50.54(~p). .laus approved security plan conaiats of pro-l orietary documenta, . collectively titled " Fort St z Vra n Unit '

Jo, 1, Amended Security 4 Plan," dated October 31,1977{, with '

Revisions. dated April 10, 1978, and August 30, 1978.

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E. This license is subject to all Federal, State, and local standards imposed pursuant to the requirements of the Federal Watet Pollution Control Act of 1972.

4. This license is effective as of the date of issuance and shall expire at midnight, September 17, 2008.

FOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY CO?DfISSION A. Giambusso, Deputy Director for Reactor Projects Directorate of Licensing l

Attachments:

Appendices A and B - Technical Specifications Date of Issuance: December 21, 1973 1

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