ML20127N749
| ML20127N749 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 04/19/1967 |
| From: | Mccool W US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Eberhart D OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9212010404 | |
| Download: ML20127N749 (1) | |
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%n e i Mr. David C. Eberhart Director Office of the Federal Register National Archives & Record Service Washington, D. C. 20408
Dear Mr. Eberhart:
Attached for publication in the Federal Register are an original and two certified copies of a document entitled: Northern States Power Company Docket No. 50.-263 Notice of Hearing on Application for Frovisional Construction Fernit Please handle as schedule I for publication no later that Friday, April 21, 1967. Publication of the above document at the earliest possible date would be appreciated. Sincerely yours, W. B. McCool Secretary to the Commission
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.\\- c. UNITED STATES OF F.dlICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the hhtter of L NORTE STATES POWER COMPANY Docket No. 50-263-(yonticello Nuclear ) Generating Plant) ) NOTICE OF EEARING ON APPLICATION FOR PROVISIONAL CC'ISTRUCTION 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 Utili::ation Facilities,"' and Part 2, " Rules of Practice," notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held at 9:00 a.m., local time, on May 25, 1967, in the Wright County Courthouse, surtalo, Minnesota, to consider the application filed under $ 104(b) of the Act by the Northern States Power Co.~pany, Minneapolis, Minnesota, q for a provisional construction permit for. a boiling water nuclear reactor, designed to operate at 1469 megawatts (thermal),to be located at a site in Wright County, Minnesota, approximately 3 miles northwest of bbatice2.lo, Minnesota. e t s.2 .-.-.-.--.a._~...-_ 10ff
A '. A [ - e W. mw +t .b } 1 The hearing will be conducted by the Atonic Safety and, -Licensing Board designated by the Atomic Energy Commission consisting of-Dr. David 3. Hall, Ios Alamos, New Mexico;. Dr. Tho=as H. Pigford, Berkeley, California; and Arthur W.' - ? Marphy, Esq.,-Chair:an, New York, New York. -Mr. Reuel C. Stratton, Hartford, Connecticut, has been designated as a technically qualified alternate. ~. ~ A prehearing conference vill be held by the Board at -9:00 a.m., local -ime, on May 12, 1967,-~in the Wright County Courthouse, Suffalo, Minnesota, to consider the matters provided for consideration by $ 2 752 of 10 CFR Part 2 cnd Section II of Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 2. The Director of Regulation proposes to make affirmative findings.on Item Numbers 1. - 3 and a negative finding on-Itc= 4 specified below as the basis for.the issuance of a - provisional ~ construction permit to the applicant sub-stantially in the form proposed in Appendix A hereto. 1. Ynether in accordance vit,h the provisions of I 10 CFR 5 50.35(a) l~ i i (a) The applicant has described the proposed-1 design of the facility, including, but not limited to, the principal architectural'- A e E 4
'.~l ._~..u 1 3- ' and engineering criteria for the design, and has identified the cajor features 1 or componcats incorporated therein for the protection'of the health and safety _ of the public; (b) Such further technical or design infor-mation as may be required to complete the safety analysis and which can reasonably be left for later consideration, vill be supplied in the' final safety analysis report; (c) Safety features or components, if any, l which require research and development have been. described by the applicant and the applicent has identified, and there vill be, conducted, a research and development : progra:a reasonably designed to resolve any safety questions associated with such features or co.ponents; and i (d) 'On the basis of the foregoing, there is reasonable assurance that (1) such safety r r / N n- ...n.._.
a w .w,, 4 s s.. +%q+ 4 quehtions will be satisfactorily resolve' at or before the latest date ' stated ~1n, application for completion of construction of the proposed facility cnd (ii) taking into consideration the site criteria con-tained in 10 CFR Part 100, the proposed facility can be constructed and operated at the proposed location without undue rich to the health and safety of the public; 2. Whether the applicant is technicclly qualified to design and construct the proposed facility; 3 Whether the applicant is financially qualified to dr ign and construct the proposed facility; and 4. Whether the issuance of a permit for the construction of the facility vill be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public. k 4 I i e a p ,w a
1 a- ' 4. 4 -e,.'. d r 5-4 In the ovent that this proceeding is not a contested proceeding, as' defined by 6 2.4 of the Commission's " Rules - of Practice," 10 CFR Part 2, the Board vill,~vithout conducting a de novo evaluation of the application, consider the issues of whether the application and the record of the proceeding contain sufficient.information, and the reviev, by the Co=mtssion's reguhtory staff has been adequate, to support the findin63 Proposed to be made and the pro-visional constructi n permit proposed to be issued by the 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 above as the basis for determining whether a provisional construction permit should be issued to the applicant,. As they become available, the application, the report of the Co=ission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safe-guards (ACRS) and the Safety Analysis by the Comission's regulatory staff vill be placed in the Co= mission's Public t 4 4 e b e 4 h
W 6-Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., where - they vill be available for inspection by members of the public. Copies of the ACRS report and the regulatory staff's Safety Analysis may be obtained by request to the Director 'of the Division of Reactor Licensing, United States Atomic Energy Co=ission, Washington, D. C. 20545. Petitions for leave to intervene, pursuant to the provisions of $ 2.714 of the Cc=ission's " Rules of Practice", must be received in the Office of the Secretary, United States Atomic-Energy Co=ission, Germantown, Maryland, or the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., not later than May 12, 1967, or in the event of a postponement of the specific hearing date, at such time as the Board en specify. Any person who wishes to make an oral or written statement setting fo n h his position on the issues specified, but who does not wish to file a petition to intervene, may request permission to make a limited appearance pursuant to the, provisions of $ 2.715 of the-Co=ission's " Rules of Practice". 1 Limited appearances vill be permitted at the time of the - L hearing in the discretion of the 3 card, within such limits and on such conditions as may be fixed by the Board. Persons e s m _.= 'g g^--- g^ L ai 1-2 m --*'n--- A- "h- __a_. (, +
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.- --e._ desiring to make a limited appearance are requested to inform the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Co=ission,. Washington, D. C. 2051;5, by Fay 12,1967. Answers to this notice, pursuant to the provisions of 5 2.705 of the Co=ission's " Rules of Practice", must be - filed by the applicant on or before Fay 22, 1967. Papers required to be filed in this proceeding may be filed by mail or telegram addressed to the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545, or may be filed by delivery to the office of the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Germantown, l Faryland, or the Co=ission's Public Document Room,.1717 H l Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Pending further order of the Board, parties are required. to file, pursuant to the provisions of S 2.708 of the Co=is-s l sion's " Rules of Practice", an original and twenty conformed I l copies of each such paper with the Co=ission. UNITED STATES ATOMIC L"ulGY COXMISSION By: / l' W. 3. McCool Secretary to the Cc=ission ' Dated at Washington, D. C. ^ this 19th day of April,1967
e - - 1 a APPENDIX A-NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY s-(hbnticello Nucicar Generating Plant) . r; i DOCKET NO. 50-263 PROVISIONAL CONSTRUCTION PERMIT r Construction Permit No. -1. Pursuant to $ 104 b. of the Atomic Ener6y Act of 1954, as amended, (the Act) and Title 10, Chapter-1,- Code of Federal Regulations, P rt 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 ~ c facility (the facility), ' described in the application and amendments thereto filed in this catter by the applicant and. as more fu13y described in the evidence received at the public hearing upon that application.. The facility, known as the 1 i ? Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, vill be located at the applicant's site in Wright County, Minnesota, about 3 miles northwest 'of Monticello, ' Minnesota. 4 e ~., ,a, ., + ,,-,w, n.-.
c P 9 t ~ 2. This permit shall be deemed to contain and be subject to the conditions'specified in $5 50.51+ and 50.55 of said ' 3 regulations; is subject to all applicable previsions of the Act, and rules, regulations and orders of-the Coriasion now or hereafter in effect; and is subject to the conditions. specified or incorporated below: A. The earliest da'te for the completion of the facility is October 1,1969, and the latest date for co pletion of the facility is 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 Monticello, Minnesota. C. This construction permit authorises the applicant to construct the facility described in the application and the hearing record in accordance with the principal architectural and engineering criteria set forth therein. 3. This permit is provisional to the extent that a license authorizing operation of the facility vill not be issued by i ~ the Commission unless '(a) the applicant submits to the Co==ission,. . by amendment to the application, the complete final safety 4 I .a Aa-6 f r y-e v aw. w ,w9 --- + v
.i ; - y,3-4 - t e . bb% A-e 10,- anaVsis report, portions of which may be submitted and evaluated from time to time; (b) the' Comission finds that the final design provides reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public vill 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 proof of financial protection and I, the execution of an indemnity agreement as required by $ 170 of the Act. r FOR TE ATOMIC D.T.RGY CO:MSSION L e 9 9 9 b e 4 e w v-e., ,.-1, r...- -w., e ,...e--y pg-c, y-ae**=-+ e v e < w i + e w r w-='*w<w r* - - w -vy-'y* =}}