ML20116B508

Notice,Denying in Part,Of Util 840306 & 0925 Requests for Amends to Licenses DPR-24 & DPR-27 & Opportunity for Hearing Re Selected Facility Staff Qualifications

ML20116B508
Person / Time
Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	04/08/1985
From:	John Miller Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML20116B468	List: ML20116B508
References
TAC-54592, TAC-54593, TAC-65647, NUDOCS 8504250383
Download: ML20116B508 (3)

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7590-01 U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-266 AND 50-301 NOTICE OF DENIAL OF REQUEST FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied in part a request by the licensee for amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27, issued to the Wisconsin Electric Power Company (the licensee), for operation of the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Unit Nos. I and 2 (the facilities), located in the Town of Two Creeks, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

The amendments as proposed by the licensee modified the Point Beach Technical Specifications (TS), to provide additional restrictions on the movement of heavy loads over the spent fuel pool, changed position titles within the administrative section of the TS, and made miscellaneous corrections and editorial changes. The licensee's application for the amendments was dated March 16, 1984 as modified September 25, 1984. Notice of consideration of issuance of the amendments was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on June'20, 1984 (49 FR 25350 at 25381) and on January 23, 1985 (50 FR 3047 at 3057). The requested changes were granted except for a proposed change regarding selected facility staff qualifications, which was denied.

Notice of issuance of Amendment Nos. 91 and 95 will be published in the Commission's next regular monthly FEDERAL REGISTER notice.

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The portion of the application which proposed a change regarding selected facility staff qualifications was denied. The request to allow the use of either a " designated alternate" or the Health Physicist to meet the requirements formerly required of either the Superintendent-Chemistry and Health Physics or the Health Physicist was found unacceptable for the following reasons:

(1)The designated alternate" is not limited to the Radiation Protection Staff (i.e.,

the individual could be part of the operations staff); (2) There is no assurance that the individual would have access to the plant manager; and (3) There is no assurance that the appointed individual would have line authority over Health Physics foremen and technicians. The existing TS were found to give the licensee sufficient flexibility to operate the Point Beach facilities.

The licensee was notified of the Commission's-denial of this request by letter dated April 8, 1985.

By May 13,1985 the licensee may demand a hearing with respect to the denial described above and any parson whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene.

A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.,

Washington, D. C., by the above date.

A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal I

Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C. 20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, 1800 M Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036, attorney for the licensee.'

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the applica-tion for amendment dated March 16, 1984 as modified September 25, 1984 and (2)- the Comission's letter to Wisconsin Electric Power Company dated April 8.1985, which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Joseph P. Mann Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin. A copy of item (2) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Division of Licensing.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 8th day of April,1985.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION A W /k' J'

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' James R. Miller, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #3 Division of Licensing I