ML20107E871

Application for Amend to CPPR-137,deleting Section 3E(3) Re Thermal Discharge Regulatory Limits.Thermal Discharges Not Covered Until OL Issued.Rewording Requested If Section 3E(3) Not Deleted

ML20107E871
Person / Time
Site:	Harris, Clinton
Issue date:	10/29/1984
From:	Hall D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, ILLINOIS POWER CO.
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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L20-84(10-30)-L, U-0747, U-747, NUDOCS 8411050033
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+ U- 0747 z . L20-8400-30 )-L 8F.100 illl/N018 POWER 00MPANY IP - CUNTON POWER STATION. P.O. LGX 678. CLINToN, ILLINOIS 61727 October 29, 1984

. Docket No. 50-461!

Mr. Harold:R. Denton,. Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

'U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Subject:

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' Proposed Amendment of Construction Permit No. CPPR-137

Dear'Mr. Denton:

In. letter U-0286, August. 31, 1981,-I111nois Power requested an.

extension of Construction Permit CPPR-137 and the modification of certain provisions in Section'3E of the Construction Permit. These two

- requests were . separated by-letter U-0445, dated March 29, 1982, and the length of the requested extension was granted on June 7, 1981. (47 Fed.

Reg.-28185, June.29,-1982).

By letter U-0728, dated August 22, 1984, Illinois Power requested another extension and action on the previously requested modifications to Section 3E of the Construction Permit. In a conversation on September 6, 1984_with Mr. Byron Siegel at'your office, he noted that one of the requested modifications, at least by implication, suggests there will be two; units at Clinton Power Station although the second unit has been cancelled, We had previously requested that the thermal discharge language of Section-3E(3) be. modified to reflect the then current requirements (which reflected the possibility'of two units). -Section 3E(3)~ discusses the regulatory limits for the thermal discharges from the Clinton Power Station to Clinton Lake. Thermal discharges are subject to regulation under state law and the federal Clean Water Act implemented through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit pr2 gram.

Autaority to administer the NPDES program has been delegated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to'the State of Illinois.

Because'the primary regulation foi environmental concerns, and specifically thermal standards, is through these regulations, we now believe it would be' appropriate to delete Section 3E(3). Therefore, we request that you consider the deletion of Section 3E(3). We believe

-this is particularly appropriate for the Construction Permit because the rthermal discharges subject to Section 3E(3) will not even come into'

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- appropriate to retlect the applicable thermal standards in the Construction Permit, we believe it would be better~to do so in.a manner-which would eliminate the need to modify the Construction Permit each time-those regulatory. agencies with primary authority over the-thermal standards-alter those standards. Therefore, if the Fuclear Regulatory

. Commission concludes.that_Section 3E(3) should bel retained in some fashion, we would suggest that it be worded as.follows:

" Discharges toftake Clinton from Illinois. Power Company,-from-3_

Soyland Power Cooperative,.Inc.,"and from Western Illinois Power Cooperative,LInc.=shall meet the currently-applicable effluent

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temperature standards established pursuant to the1 federal Clean

. Water Act and the laws of the State of: Illinois, as set forth by the' Illinois Pollution Control Board."

Your prompt consideration of this request and'the other requested-amendments of the Construction Permit would be appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

.- . Hall.

Vice President RWW/lm

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DONALD.P. HALL, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:

That he is Vice' President of Illinois Power Company;.that the foregoing request for revisions to the construction permit have been prepared i

under his' supervision and direction; that he knows the contents-thereof; 4-Jand that to the best of his knowledge and-belief saH request and the +

facts contained therein are true and correct.- '

. DATED: This I / " day of October, 1984.

' Signed:

Donald P. Hall 1

Subscribed and sworn to before me this [ f,M/ day.of October.

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occ: Mr.-l Harold R.:Denton, Director A. Samelson, Esq.

-Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Assistant Attorney General U. S.: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Environmental Control Division

.W ashington, D.C. 20555 Southern Region 500 South Second Street J.lG.fKeppler Springfield, Illinois 61706

~ Regional Administrator

. Region III~- .J. Foy 3 LU. S.: Nuclear Regulatory Commission .Spokesperson, Prairie Alliance 799 Roosevelt = Road- 511 W Nevada Glen Ellyn, illinois ~60137 Urbana, Illinois 61801

~B. L. Siegel _

H. K. Clark. Esq.

Clinton Licensing Project Manager Chairman, Atomic Safety and Mail Code 416 .

Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 127A

' Washington, D.C. 20555 Kennedyville, Maryland 21645~

F. Christianson- Dr. O. H. Paris Mail Code V-690 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board NRC Resident Office U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Ccamission Clinton Power Station Washington,'D.C. 20555 R..R. f3, Box 228-

~Clinton,'~1111nois. 61727 Dr.'G. A. Ferguson Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Dr. D. Etchison. School of Eagineering Director, Illinois Department ~ Howard University of Nucleat Safety. 2300 Sixth Street, N.W.

'1035 Outer Park Drive Washington, D.C. 20059' Springfield, Illinos 62704 R'. J. Goddard, Esq.

,0ffice of the Legal Director U.'S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washingotn,'D.C. 20555 i

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