ML20133H569
| ML20133H569 | |
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| Site: | North Anna  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1985 |
| From: | Engle L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML20133H568 | List: |
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| GL-84-13, NUDOCS 8510180016 | |
| Download: ML20133H569 (8) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ,
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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, et al.
h DOCKETS NO. 50-338 AND 50-339 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING o
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The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering
._ issuance of amendments to Facility Operating Licen:e Nos. NPF-4 and NPF-7, issued to Virginia Electric and Power Company and Old Dominion Electric e Cooperative (the licensee), for operation of the' North Anna Power Station, Urits No. I and No. 2 located in Louisa County, Virginia, in accordance with the licensee's application for amendments dated Septe;nber 19, 1985.
--- The amendments would add a statement to Technical Specification (TS) 3.7.10
y specifying which snubbers shall be operable and deleting Tables 3.7-4a and 3.7-4b. The proposed change would remove the requirement to update the TS vhen a snubber is added or deleted from NA 1&2. These changes are in accordance with NRC Generic Letter 84-13 dated May 3,1984 entitled " Technical Specifica-
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tion for Snubbers." Generic Letter 84-13 recommended that Tables 3.7-4a and 3.7-4b be eliminated from the TS. Generic I etter 84-13 also recommended that the TS be modified to specify which snubbers are required to be operable. This revision included a statement specifying "All snubbers utilized on safety related
_ l systems shall be OPERABLE. For those snubbers utilized on non-s fety related l systems, cicP snubber shall be OPERABLE if a failure of that snu,bber or the failure of the non-safety related system would have an adverse effect on any safety 8510180016 851004 PDR ADOCK 05000338
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related system." A list of snubbers will still be maintained as part of the plant records as required by TS 4.9.7.f. TS 4.9.7.f requires "~irecord a of the service life of each snubber, the date at which the designated service life consnenced and the installation and maintenance records on which the designated service life is based shall be maintained." The addition or deletion of a snubber will be documented in the NA-182 plant records. These changes are in accordance with the recomendations of Generic Letter 84-13. In addition
.". references to Tables 3.7-4a and 3.7-4b have been deleted from the presently specified NA-1&2 TS.
The proposed change will also add a statement to surveillance require-
'T ment 4.7.10.a regarding the early inspection of snubbers. Early inspections ,
can be used to set a new reference inspection date. However, the results of such early inspections cannot be used to increase the inspection interval.
This statement is present in the bases section of the technical specifications and is being added to the surveillance requirements for clarification purposes.
This statement is also consistent with the recomendation of Generic Letter 84-13. In section 4.7.10.c. the expression that is used to detennine the sample size for additional functional testing of snubbers (should it be l w.
required) has been modified in accordance with Generic Letter 84-13. Finally,
! exemptions from functional testing for large snubbers greater than 50 kips l during the Cycle 3 refueling and maintanance outage for Unit 1, and the Cycle l 1 refueling and maintenance outage for Unit 2 have been deleted since these outages have been completed. i l
Before issuance of the proposed license amendments, the Conssission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
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The Comission has made a proposed detemination that the yequest for amendments involves no significant hazards consideration. Under'the Comission's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendments would 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 from any
, y accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
y- The Comission has provided examples of changes that constitute no s
_ significant hazards consideration in FEDERAL REGISTER, Volume 48, page 14870.
Example (1) is a purely administrative change to technical specifications, for example, a change to achieve consistency throughout the technical
.. specifications, correction of an error, or a change in nomenclature. Example
=-- (vit) is a change to make a license confom to changes in the regulations, 3
, where the license change results in very minor changes to facility opentions i
in keeping with the regulations. The proposed changes to delete one time exemptions which have expired and to add a statement to the surveillance
- requirement which is presently in the Bases section are similar to example (1)inthattheyareadministrativeinnature. The proposed changes to delete l the snubber tables and modify the expression detemining sample size are ,
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l similar to example (vii) in that they are consistent with the guidance pro-l vided in Generic Letter 84-13. Based on the above, the proposed changes l are enveloped by examples (1) and (vii), and therefore, the staff proposes to detemine that the proposed amendments do not involve significant hazards '
considerations.
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d The Comission is seeking public coments on this proposed determination.
Any corments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination. The Comi[sion will not normally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Coments should be addressed to the Rules and Records Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555. Coments may also be
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delivered toloom 4000 Maryland National Bank Building, Bethesda, Maryland
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By November 15, 1933 , the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendments to the subject facility 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 Comission's " Rules 4
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 Comission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Comission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, I 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 appro-priate order. ,
As required by 10 CFR 52.714, a petition for leave to interkene 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
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petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be pemitted with particular reference to the following factors: (O 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 interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible 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 proceeding as- to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has 7
$- filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party
. __ may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above. .
'$' Hot later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition 7 to intervene which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bas'es 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 pemitted 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, &ncluding the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Comission will make a final}etermination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration. The final [detemina-tion will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final determination is that the amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration, the Comission may issue the amendments and make them effective, notwithstanding the request for s hearing. Any
'I hearing held would take place after issuance of the amendments.
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If the final detennination is that the amen'dments involve a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance
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of any amendment. -
Nonnally, the Commission will not issue the amendments until the expir-ation of the 30-day notice period. However, should circumstances change during the notice period such that failure to act in a timely way would g.
result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Comission i may issue the license amendments before the expiration of the 30-day notice
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-period, provided that its final determination is that the amendments involve no significant hazards consideration. The final determination 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.
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 Comission, I.
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Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Brancly, or may be 1 delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Streek, 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 promptly so infom the Comission 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 Edward J. Butcher: (petitioner's name and telephone number),
(date petition was mailed), (plant name), and (publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice). A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, 1
D.C. 20555, and to Michael W. Maupin, Esq., Hunton, Williams, Gay and Gibson,
=7 P. O. Box 1535, Richmond, Virginia 23212, attorney for the licensee.
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Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a detemination 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 and/or request. That determination 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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For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated September 19, 1985 which is available for pu611c inspec-tionattheCommission'sPublicDocumentRoom,1717HStreet,N.d.,
Washington, D.C., and at the Board of Supervisors Office, Louisa County Courthouse, Louisa, Virginia 23093 and the Alderwen Library, Manuscripts Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901.
, Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 4th Day of October,1985.
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_ FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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& . % k Leon B. Engle, c ing Chief
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