ML20080E280
| ML20080E280 | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 08/12/1983 |
| From: | Caruso R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8309060537 | |
| Download: ML20080E280 (7) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PENNSYLVANIA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY ALLEGHENY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
DOCKET NO. 50-387 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-14, issued to Pennsylvania Power & Light Company and Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc.
(the licensees), for operation of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Unit 1 located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
i The amendment would revise License Condition 2.D to include Changes N, 0, and P to the Physical Security Plan which consist of an increase of time between initial security clearances and an update, a reduction in Mobile Patrol Officers, the addition of a paragraph to the Plan which grants temporary relief of i
certain commitments during periods of construction and a new appendix describing vital areas and equipment locations and changes A and B to the Security Training and Qualification Plan to provide for consistency with changes to the Physical i
Security Plan in accordance with the licensee's application for an amendment dated June 27, 1983. Pursuant to 10 CFR 73.21 changes are withheld from public inspection.
Before issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have inade findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's regulations.
The Commission has made a proposed determination that the amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration. Under the Commission's XA Copy Has Beeri sent to PDR l
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,, (7590-01) regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendment would not (1) involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
The proposed changes do not affect reactor operations or accident analyses and have no radiological consequences. Therefore, operation in accordance with the proposed amendment clearly involves no significant hazards consideration because the changes will not (1) involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a signi.'icant reduction in a margin of safety.
The Commission is seeking public comments on this proposed determination.
Any comments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination. The Commission will not nonnally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Comments should be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission, U. S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.
20555, ATTN: Docketing and Service Branch.
By SEP 21 1983, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating license and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding and who wishes to part cipate as a party in the proceeding must file a written petition for 3
leave to intervene. Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Commission's " Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing
.- (7590-01) or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the' Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition and the Secretary or the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR $2.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding. The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be pennitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the nature of the petitioner'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 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 intervene or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth f
. (7590-01) with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. 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.
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.
If a hearing is requested, the Commission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration. The final determination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final deteimination is that the amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration, the Commission may issue the amendment and make it effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing. Any hearing held would take place after issuance of the amendment.
If the final determination is that the amendment involves a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance of any amendment.
Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendment until the expiration of the 30-day notice period. However, should circumstances change during l
the notice period such that failure to act in a timely way would result l
in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Commission may issue the license amendment before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards l
consideration. The final determination will consider all public and state r
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. (7590-01) coments received. Should the Comission take this action, it will" publish a notice of issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance.
The Commission expects that the need to take this action will occur very infreque'ntly.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.
20555, ATTN: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C. by the aboye date. Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner promptly so inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at (800) 325-6000 (in Missouri (800) 342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to A. Schwencer: petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, and to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge,1800 M Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036, attorney for the licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petit, ions and/or request for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or reauest, that the petitioner has made a substantial showing of good cause for the granting of a late petition and/or request. That determination will be based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
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For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and at the Osterhout Free Library, Reference Den artment, 71 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18701.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 12th day of August 1983.
FOR THE UCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 0
e R. Caruso, Acting Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing
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