ML20072J361

Request for Hearing Re Util Request for Tech Spec Rev to Address Steam Generator Tube Repair Techniques Other than Plugging.Public Perceives Significant Hazards Considerations

ML20072J361
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	06/21/1983
From:	Goodling B HOUSE OF REP.
To:	Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
NUDOCS 8306300076
Download: ML20072J361 (2)

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' I am writing to file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the anendmnt to Facility Operating License No. DPE-50, issued to Metrcpolitan Edison Company, Jersey Central Poser and Light Ccrpany, Pennsylvania Electric Ccnpany,-'r.nd GPU Nuclear Corporation for the operation of the Three Mile Island Nucleary+ Station,

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Unit 1, located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,

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It -is my understanding.that, as published in the Federal Recis+wr (Vol.

48, No.105, May 31,1983, p. 24131), the a:rendment recuested would revise the Technical Specifications to reccgnize steam generator tube repair techniques, other than plugging, provided such techniques are apprcried by the Cannissicn.

Provisions in the NRC Authorization Act for FY '82-S3 resulted in a new procedure for. issuing anendnents to operating licenses for cer+W nuclear pcNer jTnesewerepublishedintheFederalPi reactors and testing facilities involving "no significa ecister on April 6, 1983, as ycu kncw, and i

j apply to so-called "rcratine" license anencnent requests .

As the Congmsional Pepresentative for the 19th District of Pennsylvania

', - a locality directly affected by the accident and clean-up of TC -- ntv experience has been that any.. event connected with potential " restart" of TC

. l Unit 1 is anong the nest enetionally charged issues facing the ccrmanity. It j

! is my opinion after four years of frustrations connected with IMI that this i

,' particular plant is far frcm," routine" in nature.

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j r Khile'the NBC technical staff might have dete.rmined that the kinetic steam b

,) generator tube repair techniques used at the facility pose "no significant harards consideraticns," this matter is of utrest significance to those people i living in the area, who need to be convinced that the repair techniques utilized [

there will in no way jeopardize their health or safety. i I.

What is at stake in this situation is that the public - my constituents - I perceive there to be a "significant hazards considerations" with regard to the E steam generators. Without a public hearing and anple ccesultation with the 1 Ccmronwealth of Pennsylvania in the acccnpanying safety evaluation, the decision  :

by the NRC to issue this anendrent will always be questioned by those whose lives F are inpacted daily by incidents at TC.

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e . . This is occuring at a time when this same public has yet to be convinced about the integrity and management practices of the licensees - and has ccne W"to mistrust both the managenent ccupany and the NRC as the result ars of four ye of ever surfacing problems and yet unanswered questions while their families

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- The bottcm line, really, in the case of a highly visible nuclear pcuer nj plant like 'IMI, is that what ecnstitutes a "significant" or a "not so significant" d_.';the classificaticn in the minis of those with the te6nical eWdse to understan

2s?5ff working of such technology nukes no difference to those living near the plant.

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' 3' requesting that the NRC proceed to make a final deteminaticn and accordingly g_ :=

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