ML20009B885

Notice of Issuance & Availability of Amend 70 to License DPR-65

ML20009B885
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Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	07/01/1981
From:	Clark R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML20009B883	List: ML20009B882 ML20009B884 ML20009B885
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TAC-8320, NUDOCS 8107170307
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-336 NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANY, ET. AL NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND NOTICE OF GRANTING OF RELIEF FROM ASME SECTION XI INSERVICE INSPECTION AND TESTING REQUIREMENTS The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued Amendment No. 70 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-65 issued to Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, The Connecticut Light and Power Company, The Hartford Electric Light Company and The Western Massachu-setts Electric Company (the licensees), which reviced Technical Specifications for operation of Millstone Nuclear Power Station (the facility) located in Waterford, Connecticut. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.

The amendment revises the Technical Specifications to incorporate the inservice 11spection and testing programs requirements of ASME Code Class 1, 2 and 3 and renves outmoded requirements.

Relief is granted, on an interim basis, pending comp,letion of a more detailed review, from compliance with certain inservice inspec-tion and testing requirements determined to be impractical for the facility because compliance would result in hardships and unusual di fficulties witho., a compensating increase in the level or quality of safety.

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2 The application for the amendment and requests for relief comply with the standards and requireraents of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission 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 ar.d the letter granting relief.

Prior public notice of this action was not required since neither thi' amendment nor the granting of this relief involves a significant hazar consideration.

The Commission has determined that the issuance of this amendment and thr: granting of this relief will not result in any significant environmental impact and that pursuant to 10 CFR 151.5(d)(4) an environmental impact statement or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be prepared in connection with this action.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the appli-cation for amendment dated October 26, 1978, and the requests for relief dated May 1,1981 (two letters), (2) Amendment No. 70 to License No.

OPR-65, and (3) the Commission's related letter dated July 1, 1981.

All of these items are available for public inspection at' the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and at the i

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-3 Waterford Public Library, Rope Ferry Road, Route 156, Waterford, Connecticut. A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.

20555, Attention: Director, Division of Licensing.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this ist day of July,1981.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIO.N

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