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Notice of Issuance of Amend 135 to License DPR-16,revising Tech Specs to Delete Tech Spec Safety Limit 2.1.E Which Required at Least Two Recirculation Loops to Be Fully Open Except When Reactor Vessel Head Off
ML20005F096
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Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 12/30/1989
From: Dromerick A
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50 219 NOTICE OF !$$UANCE OF AttENDMENT TO PROVISIONAL OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (Comission) has issued Amendment No.135 to Provisional Operating License No. DPR-16 issued to GPU Nuclear Corporation (thelicensee),whichrevisedtheTechnicalSpecificationsfor operation of_ the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station located in Ocean County, New Jersey. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.

The amendment revises the Technical Specifications to delete Technical i

Specification Safety Limit 2.1.E which required at least two recirculation loops to be fully open except when the reactor vessel head is off and vessel water level is abcve the niain steam nozzle. The amendment also incorporates this limitation in Technical Specification 3.3.F and that limitation is revised to require-.that at least one recirculation loop, instead of two be fully open i

during applicable plant conditions. The proposed' change would also require that during power operations if at least four recirculation loops cannot be maintained inservice, then hot shutdown o' refuel conditions must be reached in 12 hours1.388889e-4 days <br />0.00333 hours <br />1.984127e-5 weeks <br />4.566e-6 months <br />.

Presently, the requirement is that the unit be placed in cold shutdown conditions within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />.

The application for the amendment complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Comission's rules and regulations. The Comission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment, m

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Notice of. Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the FEDERAL i

REGISTER on May 3, 1988 (S3FR15756). No request for a hearing

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or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.

The Comission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement.

Based upon the environmental assessment, the Comission has concluded that the issuance of this amendment will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

For further details with respect to the action see (1) the application i

for amendment dated March 31, 1988, and supplemented November 15, 1988, and August 23,1989,(2) Amendment No.135 to License No. DPR-16, (3) the Comission's L

related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the Comission's Environmental Assessment.

All of these items are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street N.W., Washington, D.C.

and at the Ocean County Library, Reference Department,101 Washington Street, Toms River, New Jersey 08753.

l A copy of items (2), (3) and (4) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention:

Director, Division of Reactor Projects - I/II.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 30th day of December 1989.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION f

M(i fP inu1Q Alexander W. Dromerick, Project Manager Project Directorate I-4 l

Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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