ML20008F706

Notice of Hearing on Application for Facility OL

ML20008F706
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Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	04/16/1981
From:	Lazo R Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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April 16,.1981.

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NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLICATION

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FOR FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES

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Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the National

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Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the regulations in Title.10,-Code of l

Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, Part 50, " Domestic Licensing of Production j

and Utilization Facilities", Part 51, " Licensing and Regulatory-Policy and-l Procedures for Environmental Protection", and Part 2, " Rules of Practice",

notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held before an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Board) to consider the application for facility oper-ating licenses filed by Arizona Public Service Company on behalf of-itself and Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, Southern California Edison Company, El Paso Electric Company, Public Service Company of New Mexico and Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., (Joint Applicants).

The hearing will consider the issuance or denial of facility operating licenses which would authorize Joint Applicants to possess, use and operate Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, three pressurized water nuclear reactors (the facilities) located on the Joint Applicants' site in Maricopa County, Arizona, approximately 36 miles west of the City g Q4210 I

of' Pncenix.

Construction of the facilities was authorized-by Construction-

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.: Permit:Nos. CPPR-141, CPPR-142 and CPPR-143,. issued by-the Nuclear Regulator :.. :

Cemission (the Commission) on May 25, 1976.

-The hearing which will be held at a time and place to-be set in the:

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future-by the Board, will be scheduled to begin in the: vicinity ofithe. site-

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of:the:Palo Verde facilities and will be conducted by a: Board which: bas:been. i: :.

. designated by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing. Board-Panel. -"

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.The Board consists of Administrative d'udge Richard F. Cole; Ph:D:; Adminis-:-

.. ::trative Judge A. Dixon Callihan, Ph.D., and Administrative-Judge Robert M.

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Lazo, Chairman.

On_ July 25, 1980, the Comission published in the Federal Registeri

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ainotice of receipt of an application for facility operating licenses:for-

.r Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 and:noticeiof :c + "-

opportunity for hearing (45 FR 49732).1/ The Notice provided among other things that on or before August 11, 1980, any person whose interest may-be affected by this proceeding may file a petition for leave-.to intervene in:.

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Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.

A timely petition for leave to intervene:and-request for a hearing was submitted by Patricia Lee Hourihan-for:herself as well as on behalf of two other persons.

Petitioner was admitted as a party to the proceedi7g pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 52.714-during-a prehearing conference on December 2, 1980, when the Board orally: granted the petition for leave to intervene as to Ms. Hourihan.El(hereinafter -

referred to as "Intervenor.")

-1/ The July 25, 1980, notice is a clarification of an earlier notice published in the Federal Reaister on July 11, 1980 (45 FR 46941-43).

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3-A p. rehearing conference or conferences will be. held. by-the_ Board,;--\\

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- at~ a date and place to be set by it, to can' sider pertinent-matters A : :- si-

- accordance with the Comission's Rules of Practice.e.The-date and-place ~ of

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the hearing will be set by the Board at or after the-prehearing. conference.: :- - i

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' Notices ~ as to the dates and places of the prehearing conference and-the 5: -:

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~ hearing will be published in the Federal Register.~-;The specifici4ssues.toi i-- -

be considered at the hearing will be,detemined by:the Beard,4;' '

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, For further details pertinent to the matters underf consideratich, see,:-

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the application for the facility operating licenses and the' applicants'- -

environmental report dated June 19, 1980, which ariavailchle.for-public:- a:

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4nspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street,lN.W.,-

' Washington, D.C. and at the Phoenix Public Library, Science and Industry - -

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- Section,12 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona.

As they become available',

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the following documents may be inspected at the above. locations: (1) the-safety evaluation report prepared by the Comission's staff;. (2) the draft environmental statement; (3) the final environmentaF statement-; (4).the-

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report of the Advisory Comittee on Reactor Safeguards on the application. -

- for facility operating licenses; (5) the proposed facility operating

- licenses; and (6) the technical specifications, which.will be attached to -

the proposed facility operating licenses.

Copies of the proposed operating licenses and the ACRS report, when available may be obtained by request to the Director, Div.ision.of Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cemission, Washington, D.C. 20555.

Copies of the Comission's staff safety evaluation report and final envirorc. ental statement when available may be purchased at current rates, frem the National Technical Infomation Service, Department of Comerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161.

Any person who wishes to make an oral or written statement in this proceeding, but who has not filed a petition for leave-to intervene as noted above, may request pernission to make a limited appearance-pursuant

3.715 of the Comission's Rules of 2ractice; ::' :_. '.

to the provisions of 10 CFR 2

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. :. discretion of the Board, within such limits and on.such: conditions eas may.

. be datamined by~ the Board.

Persons desiring to make:a:limfted appearance :.

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.are. requested to infom the Secretary of the Comission;;Urlited States :

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'. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555, not-later than:--~ :.

thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice in:the-Federal.;:: --

.Reaister. A person pemitted to make a limited appearance _does net.become'a:

party, but may state his or her position and raise questions which:he or she would like to have answered to the extent that the questions are. :...+

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u does not have the right to participate unless ha has.been granted the right:

.to intervene as a party or the right of limited appearance.

. An answer to this notice, pursuant to the provisions of l'0 CFR 12.705 :

.of-the Comission's Rules of Practice, must be filed by-the parties to this --

. proceed'ing L(other than the Regulatory Staff) not later.than twenty (20) days -..

frem the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Reoister.

Papers required to be filed in this proceeding may be. filed by mail or teleram addressed to the Secretary of the Comission, United States Nuclear::.

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. Regulatory Ccmission, Washington, D.C. 20555, ATTENTION: Docketing and Service P.

Branch', or may be filed by delivery to the Ccamission's Public Document Room,.

1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

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Pending further order of the Hearing Board designated for this proceeding, parties. are required to file, pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 52.708 of the Comission's Rules of Practice, an original and two (2) confermed copies of each such paper with the Ccamission.

It is so ORDERED FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING E0ARD (R deJfTA. fan.

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Rooert M. La::o ' g.

Administrative Judge Dated at 5ethesda, Maryland, dis 15th day of April,1981

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