ML20037D672
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 08/12/1981 |
| From: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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UN11ED STATES OF AMERICA fiUCLEAR REGULATORY COMIISSION In the Hatter of
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Docket !!os. 50-352 PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC C0liPANY
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and 50-353 (Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2) fl0TICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION FOR FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES; t!0TICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF APPLICANT'S EleVIRONMENTAL REPORT; AND NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING Hotice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Connission (the
.n application for facility operating licenses from Commission) has receive r Philadelphia Electric Company (the applicant), to possess, use, and operate the Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, two boiling water nuclear reactors (the facilities), lented on the applicant's site on the Schuylkill River, near Pottstown, in Limerick Township, Montgocery County, Pennsylvania. Each of the reactors is designed to operate at a core power level of 3440 megawatts thermal, 1
with an equivalent net electrical output of approximately 1055 megawatts.
I The applicant also submitted, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the regulations of the Comission in 10 CFR Part 51, an environmental report, unich discusses environnental considerations related to the proposed operation of the facilities.
The report is being made....a11able at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Concission, Penn Towers Building,1819 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
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-z-After the environmental report has been analyzed by the Commission's staff, a draft environmental staterient will be prepared. Upon preparation of the draft environmental statement, the Commission will, among other things, cause to be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER, a notice of availability of the draft statenent, requesting comments from interested persons on the draft stater.:ent.
I The notice will also contain a statement to the effect that any comments of Federal agencies and State and local officials will be made available when received. The draft environmental statement will focus only on any matters v.hich differ from those previously discussed in the final environmental statecent prepared in connectis n with the issuance of the construction permits. Upon e
consideration of consents submitted with respect to tne draft environtrental statement, the Commission's staff will prepare a (inal environmental statement, the availdD1lity of wniCh will be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
The Commission will consider the issuance of facility operating licenses to Philadelphia Electric Company, which would authorize the applicant to possess, use and operate the Linerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, in accordance with the provisions of the licenses and the technical specifications appended thereto, upon: (1) the completion of a favorable safety evaluation of the application by the Commission's staff; (2) the completion of the environmental review required by the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Part 51; (3) the receipt of a report on tne applicant's application for facility operating licenses by the Advisory Cocnittee on Reactor Safeguards; and (4) a finding by the Coomission that the application for the facility licenses, as acended, complies with <.he requirements of the Atouic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Concission's
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Construction of the facilities was autnorized by Construction Peruit Hos. CPPR-106 and CPPR-107, issued by the Commission on June 19, 1974. Construction at Unit 1 is anticipated to be completed by October 1,1984, and Unit 2 by October 1,1966.
Prior to issuance of any operating licenses, the Comuission will inspect the facilities to determine whether they have been constructed in accordance with the application, as amended, and tne provisions of the construction penaits.
In addi tion, the li* censes 'Jfil not be issued until the Commission has made the findings reflecting its review of tue application under the Act, which will be set forth in the proposed licenses, and has concluded that the issuance of the licenses will not be inimical to tne connon defense and security or to the nealth and safety of the public. Upon issuance of the licenses, the applicant will be required to execute an indennity agreement as required by Section 170 of the Act and 10 CFR Part 140 of the Comoission's regul ations.
By Septemoer 21, 1961, the applicant may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the facility operating licenses and any person whose interest may be affected L'y this proceeding nay tile a petition for leave to intervene. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordan:e with the Coanission's " Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing or petitior for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Comnission or an Atomic S tety and Licensing Board, designated by the Commission ar by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on tne re -"~ nd/or petition and the Secretary of the Comission, or designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an dfpropriate o*Cer.
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-4 As required by 10 CFR 52.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how tnat interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding. The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be peruitted with particular reference to. the following factors: (1) the nature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be nade a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order wnich may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for leave to inte.ryone or who nas been admitted as a party may amend his or her i
petition without prbe approval of the presiding of ficer at any time up to i
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fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference; thereafter, a petition may be amended only with approval of the presiding officer. Any amended petition I
must satisfy the specificity requirenents described above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conf 3reace scheduled in the proceeding, the petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list cf the contentions which are I
sought to be litigated in the matter and the bases for each contention set forth witn reasonable specificity. A petitioner who fails to include a valid contention in his or her original petition or in the supplement will not be l
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A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed l
with the Secretary of the Co'. mission, United States Huclear Regui story Cornission, i
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Docketing and Service Section, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, i
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C., by September 21, 1981. /, copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regalatory Concission, Washington, D. C., 20555, and to Troy B. Conner, Jr., Esq., Conner & Wetterhahn,17i:7 Pennsylvania Avenue, 4
j H. W., Washington, D. C. 20006, attorney for the applicant. Any questions or requests for additional information regarding the content of this notice should i
be addressed to the Chief Hearing Counsel, Office of the Executive Legal Director, t
U. S. " lear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C. 20555.
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.. timely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, auended petitions, supplemental petitions ana/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent d determination by tne Comission, tne presiding officer, or the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or request, that the petitioner has made a substantial snowing of good cause for the granting of a late l
petition and/or request. That determination will be based upon a balancing of the i
factors specified in 10 CFR 52.714(a)(1)(1)-(,) and s2. 714(d).
For further details pertinent to the matters under consideration, see the j
application for the facility operating licenses and the applicant's environnental report, which are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document i
Room,1717 H Street, H.
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500 High Street, Pottstown, Pannsylvania 19464. As they become available, the following documents may be inspected at the above locations: (1) the safety evaluation report i
prepared by the Comission's statt; (2) the draf t environmental statenent;
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(3) the final environmental stateaient; (4) the report of the Advisory Comittee i
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on Reactor $ateguards 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, Division of Licensing, Office of !!uclear Reactor Regulation, U. S. Muclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.
20S55. Copies of the Coa.tission's stat.t safety evaluation o
e report and final environnental statement, when available, nay be purchased at current rates, from tue National Technical Inf ormation Service, Department of Comerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Va. 22161.
Dated at bethesda, harylarid, tnis 12tn day of august 1931.
FOR Tlif huCLEAR REGULATORY CO.%I5SI0l!
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