ML20127A877
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| Site: | 05000000, Susquehanna |
| Issue date: | 07/11/1983 |
| From: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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(7590-01) 4 U41TED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY CCMMISSION
, PENNSYLVANIA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY ALLEGHENY ELECTRIC COOPEPATIVE. INC.,
DOCKET NO. 50-387 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PRC?0 SED NO SIGNIFICANT. HAZARDS' CCNSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND GPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatary Cc:=ission (the Cornission) is considering
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issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-14, issued to Pennsylvania Power & Light Ccepany and Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc.
(the licensees), for operation of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Unit I located in Luzerne County,, Pennsylvania!.
The amendment would correct typographical errors in Technical Specification Table 4.11.2.1.2-1, Radioactive Gaseous Waste Sampling and Analysis Program, and in Section 8, Electrical Power Systems. The amendment would 'also correct nomenclature in Table 4.8.1.1.2-2, Unit 1 and Common Diesel Generator Loading Timers, and add a footnote to Table 3.8.4.1-1, Primary Containment Penetration Conductor Overcurrent Protective Devices, to clarify that each number under the " Circuit Breaker Location" column represents two breakers in series.
Additionally, the amendment would delete a non-applicable requirement in Technical Specification 4.7.2.b.1, correct an inconsistency between Technical
' Specification Table 4.4.6.1.3-1 and 10CFR50 Appendix H with regard to the h@b/ 6 WO g
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Sefere issuance of the pecpesed license amendment, the Conmission will have made findings. required by the Atomic Enercy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's regulations.
The Commission has made a proposed determination that the av.endment request involves no significant hazards consideration. Under the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this ceans 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 possibiljtf of,a new or-different kind of accident frcm any accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
The Commission has provided guidance concerning application of these standards by providing ex'amples (48 FR 14871). One of the examples of actions involving no significant hazards considerations relates to license amendments which are administrative in nature in order to achieve consistency throughout the Technical Specifications, to correct errors or to change nomenclature.
On this basis, the staff proposes to determine that the.c'h~anges to the Technical Specification with exception of the change to Table 3.3.9-2 are administrative in nature (to correct editorial and nomenclature errors and achieve consistency with the Technical Specifications and as-built plant conditions) involve no significant hazards considerations. The staff proposes to determine that the-change to Technical Specification Table 3.3.9-2 involves no significant hazards 6
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Specifications consistent with accident analyses performed using an allowable value for the Reactor Vessel Level - High trip reccmended by the reactor supplier. The change does not result in a significant ha;:ards consideration because it does 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 frca any previously evaluated or (3) involve a significant reduction in' a margin of safety.
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The Ccmission is seeking public cor:ments on this proposed detemination.
Any coments received within 30 days ~ after the date of publication of-this notice will be considered in making any final detemination. The Ccmissicn will not nomally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
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Coments should be addressed to the Secretary of the Ccmission~, U. S.
Nuclear Regulatory Cocnission, 'Jashington, D. C. 205$5, ATTN: Docketing and Service Branch.
By /.UG 17 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 participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written petition for leave to intervene.
Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Comission's " Rules _ of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Comission or by the Chaiman 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
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Board will issue a notice of hearing or an apprcpriate 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 petiticn should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be pemitted 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 N'
interest in the proceeding; and (3) the pcssible 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 proceedingastowhichpetitionefvishestointe)vene. Any person who has
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filed a pe.tition 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 er.h contention set forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limitad 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.
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Those pennitted 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 Ccmission will cake a final detemination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration.
The final determination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final determination is that the amendment request involves no g,
significant hazards consideration, the Ccmission 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 detennination fs that the amendment involves 'a significant hazards consideration, any.-he'aring held would take place before the issuance of any amendment.
Nonnally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the expiration of the 30-day notice period. However, should circumstances change during the notice pe'riod such that failure to act in a timely way would result in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Comission may issue the license amendment before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that its final detennination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. The final detennination will consider all public and state 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 Comission expects that the need to take this action will occur very infrequently.
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A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be _
filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission,
. ashington, D. C. 20555, ATTN:
Docketing and Service Branch, or may be, W
delivered to the Ccmission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C. by the above date. Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10). days of the~ notice period, it is requested that'the petitioner prompity so infom the Ccmission 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 _c.opy of the pe'tition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, 'U. S. Nudear Regulatory'Cor:aission, 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 petitions and/or request for hearing will not be entertained absent a deteraination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the Atomic Safety 'and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or request, that _the petitioner has made a substantial. showing of good cause for the granting of a late petition :nd/or request. -That detemination will be based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v) and 2.714(d).
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.9/, For further. details with respect to this. action, se'e the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the.Connission's
~Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and at the Osterhout Free Library, Reference Departrant, 71. Scuth Franklin Street,
-Wilkes-Barre,' Pennsylvania 18701.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 'llth day of July 1983.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATCRY CCF. MISSION s j l 0d ?l k W i
t A./Schwencer, Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing l-4 e
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