ML20129A052
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| Site: | 05000000, Salem |
| Issue date: | 07/27/1983 |
| From: | Mcdonald D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| FOIA-84-794 NUDOCS 8506040451 | |
| Download: ML20129A052 (7) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-272 AND 50-311 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND PROPOSED NO SI'GNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-70 and DPR-75, issued to Public Service Electric and Gas Company, for operation of the Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit Hos.1 and 2, located in Salem County, New Jersey.
The amendments would modify plant systems and Technical Specifications to provide for semi-automatic switchover of safety injection systems from the Refueling Water Storage Tank (RWST) to Recirculation Mode following a loss-of-coolant accident in accordance with the licensee's application for amendments dated January 27, 1983.
Before issuance of the proposed li. cense amendments the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the hti and the Commission's regulations.
i The Commission has made a proposed determination that the amendments request involve no significant hazards consideration.
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. accordance with the proposed amendments would not (1) invol.ve 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 from any accident previously evaluated; or (3J involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
This change provides a method to automatically transfer residual heat removal (RHR) pump suction from the RWST to the containment sump in the event of a concurrent safety injection and RWST low level and were submitted to resolve a prior commitment to the staff.
The automation of a number of steps in the switchover sequence eliminates the remote manual manipulation of six ECCS valves and the stopping and restarting of the RHR pumps.
This feature of the design eliminates the fossibility of operator error for those steps which are being automateo in the switchover sequence, and further, will save both time and RWST volume thus increasing the safety margin of all the ECCS pump suctions and conserving RWST volume.
On this basis, the staff proposed to determine that ti$e application does not involve a significant hazards consideration.
The Commission is seeking public coments on this proposed determination.
An ounents rece.ived within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice i
will be considered in making any final determination.
The Commission will not normally make a final ~ determination unless it receives a request for a. hearing.
Cdmments should-be addr_essed to the Secretary of the Commission, U. S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention:
Docketing and Service Branch.
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7590-01 1 BySeptember 2,1983,the licensee may file a request for a heariag with respect to issuance of the amencments to the subject facilities operating licenses 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 Commission'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 Commission or by the Chairman 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 Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR 62.114, a petition for leave to intervene all set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and hew that interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding.
The petition should specifically explain th'e reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the nature of the ipetitioner'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 interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may be~ entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest.
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should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of tbc proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene.
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7590-01 4-filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been $dmitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of t,he 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 th petition to intervent which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity.
Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendments 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.
Those permitted 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 te nresent evidence and cross-examine wit.nesses.
I If a hearing is requested, the Commission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration.
The final detencination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
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If the final determination is that the amendments request involve no significant hazards consideration, the Commission may issue the amendments and make them effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing. Any hearing held would take place after issuance of the amendments.
If the final determination is that the amendments involve a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance of any amendments.
Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendments until the expir-a: ion of the 30-day notice period.
However, should circumstances change during 1.he notice period. such that failure to act in a timely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facilities, the Commission may issue the license amendments before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that its final determination is that the amendments involve no s_i_grtificant-hazards consideration.
The final determination will consider all public and State comments received.
Should the Commission take this. action, it will publish a notice of issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance.
The Commission expects that the need to take this action will occur wy infrequently.
i A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must.be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.~
20555, Attention: Docketing and Servic'e Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.,
'Washingto1, D.C., by the above date.
Where petitions are filed during the
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.promptly so infonn the Commission 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 Steven A. Varga, Chief, Operating Reactors Branch No.1, Division of Licensing:
petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication dafe and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notices. A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. 5. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
- 20555, and to Conner and Wetterhahn, Suite 1050, 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
20006, attorney for the. licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertaTned
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absent a determination by the Comission, the presiding officer of the Atomic Safety. and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or request, that.the petitione'r has made a suastant.ial showing of good cause for the granting of a late petition and/or request.
That determination will be based upon a balancing of the factor specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(k)-(v) and i
2.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for am4ndments which is ava,1]able for public inspection at the Comission's public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Salem Free Library,112 West.Boradway, Salem, New Jersey 08079.
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Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 27th day of July 1983.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION a..'..
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