ML20127G746

Notice of Issuance of Provisional License DPR-22 to Permit Fuel Loading & low-power start-up Testing of Facility

ML20127G746
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Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	09/08/1970
From:	Morris P US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-263 NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY Notice of Issuance of Provisional Operating License Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Initial Decision of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, dated August 24, 1970, the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission) has issued a Provisional Operating License No. DPR-22 to Northern States Power Company (the licensee) to permit fuel loading and low-power start-up testing of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1, a single-cycle, forced circulation, boiling water reactor. The f acility is located in Wright County, on the licensee's site in Wright and Sherburne Counties. Minnesota. The reactor is designed for operation at approximately 1670 megawatts ( the rmal) but operation, in accordance with the provisions of Provisional Operating License No. DPR-22 and the Technical Specifications appended thereto, is restricted to five megawatts thermal, without the reactor vessel head in place.

The Commission's regulatory staf f has inspected the f acility and has determined that, for fuel loading and low-power start-uo testing at power levels up to five megawatts thermal without the reactor vessel head in place, the facility has been constructed in accordance with the application, as amended, the provisions of Provisional Construction Permit No. CPPR-31, said initial decisi the Atomic Energy'Act, and the Commission's regulations. The licensee has submitted proof of financial protection in satisfaction of the requirements of 10 CFR Part 140.

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a The license is effective as of the date of issuance and shall expire eighteen (18) months from said date, unless extended for good cause shown, or upon earlier issuance of a superseding provisional operating license.

The matter of an initial decision authorizing issuance of such a super-seding provisional operating license to permit full power operation is pending before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.

Copies of (1) the Initial Decision Authorizing Provisional Operating License for Fuel Loading and Low-Power Start-Up Testing and (2) Pro-visional Operating License No. DPR-22, comolete vith Technical Specifica-tions, are available for public inspection in the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Copies of the license may be obtained upon request addressed to the Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C., 20545, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Licensing. ,

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this h'dday of September, 1970.

FOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION cridru 2hnu W Petsr A. .f.orra Peter A. Morris, Director Division of Reactor Licensing