ML20076C769

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Notice of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-28 & Final Determination of Nshc.Amend Increases Number of Fuel Assemblies Approved for Storage in Spent Fuel Storage Pool from 2,000 to 2,870
ML20076C769
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Site: Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date: 07/10/1991
From: Fairtile M
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML20076C764 List:
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NUDOCS 9107240274
Download: ML20076C769 (3)


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-OPERA,Tl!1GLICENSE AND Flitt.L DETERMJflATIp,N,0F,Np,SJGylFICANT, HAZARDS CONSIDERATION The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued Amendment No. 130 to facility Operating License No. DPR-28 issued to Vermont Yankee I;uclear Power Corporation (the licensee), which authorizes the storage of 2870 assemblies in the spent fuel storage pool for the Vermont Yankee fluclear Power ",tation located in Windham Ccanty, Vermont. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.

The amendment allows the storage of 2870 fuel assemblies in the spent t

fuel storage pool._ The amendirent is in response to the licensee's proposed application for amendment dated April 25, 1986, as supplemented on August 15,

September 26, October 21, and November 24, 1986, and Febiuary 25, March 19,_

March 31, April 9, April 13, May 22, June 11, September 1, and December 11, 1987, March 2,1988 and-June _7,1988 and September 28, 1990.

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination-and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on June ~18,1986 -(51FR22226) and again on December 31, 1986 (51Fk47324).

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Requests for a hearing were filed cn January 29, 1987 by the New England Coalition on tiuclear Pollution (t4ECliP) and by the State of Vermont. On Janurry 30, 1987 a request was filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. NECNP and the Commonwealth were admitted as parties.

Following prehearing conferentcs, oral arguments, an agreement by all parties based on a stipulation, aric the withdrawal of MECNP from the proceeding, the Commission terminated the proceeding by Order, dated September 21, 1990.

The Commission has applied the standards of 10 CFR 50.92 and has made a final determination that the amendtrent involves no significant hazards consider-ation. The basis for this determination is contained in the supplemental Safety Evaluation related to this action. Accordingly, as described above, the amend-ment has been issued and made immedLtely effective.

The Commission published its issuance of Enviroamental Assessment and Finding of tio Significant Impact in the Federal Registe,r on August 1, 1988 (53 FR 28925).

The Commissior, has determined that this amendment satisfies the criteria for catecorical exclusion in accordance with 10 CFR 51.22(c)(9). Therefore, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmertal impact statement or environmental assesstent need be prepared.

For further details with respect to the action, see (1) the application for amendmco. dated April 25, 1986, as supplemented by letters dated August 15 September 26, October 21, and flovember 24, 1986, and February 25, March 19, tia-ch 31, April 9, April 13, May ??, June 11, September 1, and Decenber 11, 1937, March 2, and June 7, 1988 and September 28, 1990; (2) Amendmen' No. 104 gY tc f acility Operating License flo. DPR-28; (3) The Environmental Assessment dated July 29, 1988; (4) and the Commission's related Safety Evaluation. All of Itheseitemsareavailablef I

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Doce 7t Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555, and at the Brooks tiemorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301.

A copy of items (2), (3) and (4) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U.S. I:uclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Projects 1/11.

N-Dated at Rockville, Maryland this l O jay of Q bW991 e

b FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION J'L.vb %.[,h.C't Morton B. Fairtile, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 1-3 Division of Reactor Projects 1/11

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