ML20127M909

Notice of Hearing on Application for Provisional Const Permit

ML20127M909
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	04/19/1967
From:	Swanson C US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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NUDOCS 9211300507
Download: ML20127M909 (11)

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NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLICATION i '

FOR PROVISIONAL CCNSTRUOTION PERMIT -

Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the regulations in Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,"'

and Part 2, " Rules of Practice," notice is hereby given that a hearing vill be held at 9:00 a.m., local time, on May 25, 1967, in the Wricht Covaty Courthouse, Buffalo, Minnesota, to consider the application filed under $ lO4(b) of the Act ,

by the Northern States Power Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for a provisional construction permit for a boiling vater nuclear reactor, designed to operate at 1469 megawatts (thermal),to be located at a site in Wright County, Minnesota, '

approximately 3 miles northwest of 1bnticello, Minnesota.

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. The hearing vill be conducted by the Atomic Safety and- c i '

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r, consisting of Dr. David B. E,all, Ios Alamos, New Mex.ico; 1

Dr. Thomas H. Pigford, Berkeley, California; and Arthur W.

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, Stratton, Hartford, Connecticut, has been designated-as a'

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l- I A prehearing conference vill be held by the Board at 9:00 a.m., local time, on May 12, 1967, in the Wright j l County Courthouse, Buffalo, Minnesota, to consider the l

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Part 2 and Section II of Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 2. '

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j The Director of Regulation proposes to make affirmative i

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l Item 4 specified below as the basis for the issuance of a '

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provisional construction permit to the applicant sub. . ,

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1. Whether in'accordance with the provisions of U '

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of the public; t (b) Such further technical or design infor- '

mation a's may be required to complete the safety analysis and which can reasonably be left, for later consideration,

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'i report; (c) Safety features or components, if any, which require research and development have been described by the applicant and the applicent has identified, and there vill

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tained in 10 CFR Part 100, the proposed facility can be constructed and operated at the proposed location without undue risk to the health and safety of the

, public; I 2. Whether the applicant is technically qualified i to design and construct the proposed facility; l 3. Whether the applicant is financially qualified

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4. Whether the issuance of a permit for the construction of the facility will be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety '

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i l In the event that this proceeding is not a cont'ested ,

proceeding, as defined by 6 2.4 of the ('ommission's " Rules

of Practice," 10 CFR Part 2, the Board vill, without conducting a de novo evaluation of the application, consider l

tho issues of whether the application and the record of the proceedinC contain sufficient.information, and the review. .

by the Commission's regulatory staff has been adequate, to support the findings proposed to be made and the pro-visional constrdetion permit proposed to be issued by the I

Director of Regulation.

In the event that this proceeding becomes a contested '

proceeding, the Board vill consider and initially decide,

, as the issues in this proceeding, Item Numbers 1 through 4 l

4 above as the basis for determining whether a provisional l construction permit should be issued to the applicant.

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As they become available, the application, the report f of the Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safe-guards (ACRS) and the Safety Analysis by the Commission's

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i Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., where

• they will be available for inspection by members of the public.

1 Copies of the ACES report and the regulatory staff's Safety Analysis may be obtained by request to the Director of the 1 Division of Reactor Licensing, United States Atomic Energy

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' Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545.

Petitions for leave to intervene, pursuant to the provisions .

of $ 2.714 of the Co=ission's " Rules of Practice", must be ~

tl received in the Office of the Secretary, United States Atomic 3

4 Energy Commission, Germantown, bryland, or the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.,

not later th:m my M,1967, or in the event of a postponement of the specific hearing date, at such time as the Board may specify.

Any person who wishes to make an oral or written statement I

setting forth his position on the issues specified, but who 4 does not wish to file a petition to intervene, may request permission to make a ' limited appearance pursuant to the

-i provisions of $ 2 715 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice". '

Limited appearances will be permitted at the time of the hearing in the discretion of the Board, within such limits J

and on such conditions as may be fixed by the Board. Persons

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, PROVISIONAL CONSTRUCTION PERVJT f

v Construction Permit No.

1. Parsuant to 5104 b. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as .

amended, (the Act) and Title 10, Chapter 1, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization .

Facilities", and pursuant to the order of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commis-

sion) hereby issues a provisional construction permit to

.' Northern States Power Company (the applicant) for a utilization ..

facility (the facility), described in the application and i

3 amendments thereto filed in this matter by the applicant and

as more fully described in the evidence received at the public '

} hearing upon that application. The facility, known as the t

Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, vill be located at the applicant's' site in Wright County, Minnesota, about 3 miles ;j

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northwest of Monticello, ' Minnesota.

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j to the conditions specified in $$ 50.54 and 50.55 of said regulations; is subject to all applicable provisions of

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the Act, and rules, regulations and orders of the Commission

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now or hercatter in effect; and is subject to the conditions 4

specified or incorporated below:

.. A. The earliest da'te for the completion of the facility is October 1,1969, and the latest date for completion of the facility ic February 1,1970.

B. The facility shall be constructed and located .

at the site as described in the application, as .

amended, in Wright County, Minnesota, about 3 miles northwest of 1:onticello, Minnesota.

O. This construction permit authorizes the applicant 3

to construct the facility described in the application and the hearing record in accordance with the principal architectural and engineering criteria set forth therein.

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3. This permit _is provisional to the extent that a license

'i ' authorizing operation of the facility will not be issued by l

the Commission unless (a) the applicant submits to the Commission,

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the final design provides reasonable assurance that the health ,

and safety of the public will not be endangered by the opera- $

tion of the facility in accordance with procedures approved

. by it in connection with the issuance of said license; and (c) the applicant submits proef of financial protection and the execution of an indemnity agreement as required by

$ 170 of the Act. I t

FOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMCSSION .

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b (MITED STATES OF AMERICA A'IOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the Matter of DOCKET NO. $0-963 Northern States Power Company CERT 17ICATE OF_ DimVICE I hereby certify that copies of hotice of Hearing' dated April 19, 1967, in the captioned matter vere servtd on the following by deposit in the l!nited States Mail, air or first class, this nineteenth day of April 1967 4

Adolph Ackernan, Consulting Engineer Leo J. Barthel, Chairman 1250 Shennan Asenue Wright County Board of commissioners

Madison, Wisconsta 53703 Buffalo, Minnesota 55313 Arthur W. Murphy, Esq. D. F. McElroy, Vice Prosident Chairman Northern States Power Company Box 3B ,

414 Nicollet Avenue Columbis University Minneapolis, Minnesota $5401 School of Inv h35 West 116th street Donald E. Nelson, Vice President 4

New York, New York 10027 Northern Stateo Power Company Dr. W omas H. Pigford 414 Nicollet Avenue Minnespolis, Minnesota 55401 Professor of Nuclear Engineering University of California Gerald Charnoff, Esq.

Berkeley, California 94720 . Bhav, Pittman, Potts, Trowbridge & Maddem Dr. David B. Hall 910 seventeenth street, W i Washington, D.C. 20006 Ice Alamos Scientific Imboratory les Alma, New Mexico 87544 Remas Engelhardt, Esq.

Regulatory Staff Mr. Reuel C. Stratton US/IC 98 Garden St., Apt. 5-J Washington, D.C.

Hartford, Connecticut 06105 20545 R. N. Barr, M.D. Honorable Harold E. IcVander Governor Secretary & Executive Officer Gtate Capitol, State Department of Health St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 University Campus Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 Lewis J. Intakar +

" ' " " Chief, Industrial Comnissico 137 State Office Building

/L St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 con A . Diggs T. Engelhardt . . ., w %,u dark V % , J, i

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