ML20080P692
| ML20080P692 | |
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 02/13/1984 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8402230071 | |
| Download: ML20080P692 (2) | |
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SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT UNITS 1 AND 2 RELATED TO AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO CONSTRUCTION PERNITS CPPR-108 AND CPPR-109 INTRODUCTION By letter dated October 14, 1983, Georgia Power Comp e y (GPC) submitted a request for amendments to its construction permits (LPPR Nas.108 and 109) for the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 (VEGP) to secure approval to transfer ownership percentages to the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG). This request involved a transfer from GPC of a 5% undivided ownership share in VEGP to MEAG. The request for amendments states that GPC will retain exclusive responsibility for the design, construction, and operation of the facilities.
GPC, Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), MEAG, and the City of Dalton had previously entered into a Purchase and Ownership Participation Agreement for Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 (previously called Alvin G. Vogtle Nuclear Units, Numbers 1 and 2) dated August 27, 1976, as amended, which provides for the sale by GPC to OPC, MEAG, and the City of Dalton of 30.0%, 17.7% and 1.6% undivided ownership interests in VEGP, respectively.
The purpose of this Safety Evaluation is to present the result of the staff's analysis of the proposed acquisition by MEAG of an additional 5%
ownership in VEGP.
EVALUATION GPC has exclusive responsibility for the design, ccnstruction, and operation of the facilities. The proposed amendments only request a transfer in ownership interest and do not involve any other change. As a result of the ownership transfer, GPC and MEAG will own undivided interests in VEGP of 45.7% and 22.7%, respectively. However, this less-than-majority owner-ship will not impact on GPC's sole authority to design, construct and operate VEGP because in order to amend the Purchase and Ownership Participation Agreement, approval of 85% undivided ownership interest is necessary.
In any event, GPC retains sole authority for the design, construction, and operation of VEGP. Accordingly, the only consideration which required review is the financial qualifications of MEAG to maintain a 22.7% owner-ship interest in VEGP.
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._w The NRC regulations relating to the determination of an applicant's finan-cial qualifications are in Section 50.33(f) of 10 CFR Part 50. These regulations state that a financial review of an applicant to construct a production facility (commercial nuclear power plant) shall not be conducted if the applicant is an electric utility. Since the Vogtle units are production facilities and since MEAG is an electric utility as defined in 10 CFR Part.50.2, a financial review of MEAG's ownership shares in VEGP is not required.
CONCLUSIONS On the basis of the above evaluation, the staff finds that the issuance of the requested amendments, increasing ownership percentage of MEAG in Vogtle, Units 1 and 2 will not be inimical to the common defense and security and does not constitute an unreasonable risk to the health and safety of the public since r.o new owners have been added. The staff finds that the requested amendments do not involve a significant hazards consideration because this action will not involve any significant increase in the probability or consequences of any accidents previously considered, does not create the possibility of an tecident of a type different from any evaluated previously, and does not involve any significant decrease in safety margin.
Further, the staff has determined that the amendments do not authorize a change in effluent types or total amounts and will not result in any significant environmental impact. Having made this determination, the staff also concluded that the amendments involve action which is insignifi-cant from the standpoint of environmental impact and, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.5(d)(4), that an environmental impact statement or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be prepared in connection with the issuance of the amendments.
Date issued: February 13, 1984 Principal Contributor: Melanie Miller, Licensing Branch No.4, DL l
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