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Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-16 & Proposed NSHC Determination & Opportunity for Hearing.Amend Changes Tech Specs Re 21-month Operating Cycle
ML20065H022
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 10/12/1990
From: Stolz J
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAP. REGULATORY COMMISSION GPU NUCLEAR COPPORAT10H DOCKET NO. 50-219 NOTICE OF CONSIDEPATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO PROV1510HALOPERAT1HGLICENSEANDOPPORTUNITYFORHEARJ,NG The U.S. Nuclear Pegulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Provisional Operating License No. DPR-16, issued to GPU Nuclear Corporation (GPUN, the licensee), for cperation of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating'$tation located in Ocean County, New Jersey.

The amendncht would revise the Technical Specifications to accommodate implenentation of a 21 month operating cycle with a 3 month outage, or a 24 month plant refueling cycle for Technical Specification surveillance intervals which will expire prior to the currently scheduled 13R refueling outage.

Specifically,licenseCondition2.c.(7)isrevisedtoextendinspectionsof all accessible surfaces and welds of both core spray spargers and repair assemblies from each refueling outage to at least once per 24 months.

Technical Specification Table 4.15.2 is revised to extend the channel calibrations for the Radioactive Noble Gas Monitors and the Effluent Flow Measuring Devices for the Main Stack Monitoring System and the Turbine Building Ventilation Monitoring System from once pe: 18 months to once per 24 scnths.

The legend to Table 4.15.2 is revised to include the designation of

.1/24 = once pei' 24 months.

Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have nade findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the t

Act) and the Consission's regulations.

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By November 19. 1990

, the licensee ray file a request for a hearing with respect to %suance of the amendment to the subject facility operating license t, any person whose interest may be affected by this proceed.

ing and who wishes +o participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written recuest for a hearing and a ptition for leave to intervene.

Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Commission's " Rules of Peactice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings

Interested persons should censult a current copy of 10 CFR 2.71t, which is available.at the Comission's Public Document Room, the Gelman tuilding, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555 and at the Local Public Document Room located at Ocean County Library, Reference Department,101 Washington Street Toms Piver, New Jersey 08753.

If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Comission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atenic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition; and the St&gtary or the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.

As required by 10 CFR 2.71a, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how tha't interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding. The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors:

(1)thenatureofthepetitioner's right under the Act to be made 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 which may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the i

specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitiorer wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has beer admitted as a party may emend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first pre-hearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

Not later than fif teen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitior.cr shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list of the cententions which are sought to be litigated in the matter.

Each contention must consist of a specific staten+nt of the issue of law or fact to be raised or controverted.

in addition, the petitioner shall provide a brief explanation of the bases of the contention and a concise statement of the alleged facts or expert opinion which support the cortention and on which the petitioner intends to rely in proving the contention at the hearing. The petitioner must also provide references to those specific sources and documents of which the petitioner is aware and on which the petitioner intends to rely to establish those facts or expert opinion.

petitioner must provide sufficient information to show that a genuine dispute exists with the applicant on a material issue of law or fact.

Contentions shall be limited to mattcrs within the scope of the amendment l

under consideration. The contention must be one which, if proven, would entitle the petitioner to relief. A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement which satisfies these requirements with respect to at least one contention will not be permitted to participate as a party.

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4 Those permitted to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.

A request for a hearing or a petition fer leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, U.S. Nuclear Rtgulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555 Attention: Docketing and Services Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 205F5, by the above date. Where petitions are filed during the lect ten (10) dtys of the notice period, it is recuested that the petitioner promptly so inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call toWesternUnionat1-(B00)325-6000(inMissouri 1-(800)342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Dategram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to John F. Stolz:

petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page nuster of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.

A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Ernest L. Elake, Jr., Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20037, attorney for the licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that the petition and/or request should be granted baseduponabalancingofthefactorsspecifiedin10CFR2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) l and2.714(d).

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1 If a request for a hearing is received, the Commission's staff may issue the amendment after it completes its technical review and prior to the completion of any required hearing if it publishes a further notice for public corrent of its proposed finding of no significant hazards consideration in accordance with 10 CFR 50.91 and 50.92.

For further details with respect to this ection, see the application for amendment dated September 21, 1990, which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room, the Celman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20555, and at the Local Public Document Room, Ocean County Library, Reference Depetnent,101 Washington Street, Toms River, New Jersey 08753.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of October, 1990.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Joth Stolz, Direc P ject Directorate

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