ML20137T830

Forwards Order Extending Latest Const Completion Date Until 880801

ML20137T830
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	02/11/1986
From:	Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:	Asselstine, Palladino, Roberts NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
NUDOCS 8602180466
Download: ML20137T830 (1)

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r FEB 111996 Docket No. 50-445 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman Palladino Comissioner Roberts Comissioner Asselstine Comissioner Bernthal Comissioner Zech FROM: Victor Stello, Jr.

Acting Executive Director for Operations

SUBJECT:

COMANCHE PEAK UNIT 1 - ORDER EXTENDING CONSTRUCTION PERMIT On January 29,-1986, we reported to you that the construction permit for Comanche Peak Unit .1 had expired as of August 1,1985.

The enclosed Order extends the latest construction completion date until August 1, 1988.

Original aigned by

.Vict or St ella Victor Stello, Jr. .

Acting Executive Director for Operations

Enclosure:

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COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNIT 1 DOCKET NO. 50-445 ORDER EXTENDING LATEST CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION DATE The Texas Utilities Electric Company. Texas Municipal Power Agency, Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., Tex-La ' Electric h

Cooperative of Texas, Inc. ( Applicants) are the holders of Construction Permit No. CPPR-126 issued by the Atomic - Energy Commission b on December 19, 1974 for construction of the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station Unit 1, a nuclear facility utilizing a Westinghouse Electric -

Corporation nuclear steam supply system presently under construction at the Applicants' site in Somervell County, Texas.

By letter dated January 29, 1986, as supplemented on February 4, 1986, the Applicants filed a request for extension of the latest construction completion date specified in Construction Permit

, ;- No. CPPR-126 to August 1, 1988. The Applicants state that, although construction on Comanche Peak Unit I was essentially completed early in 1985, ma, efforts to reinspect and reanalyze various structures, systems, and components are currently underway. These efforts are being conducted by the Applicants' Comanche Peak Response Team to 1/ Effective January 20, 1975, the Atomic Energy Commission was

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abolished and its regulatory authority transferred to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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. verify both design and construction adequacy as well as to respond to numerous issues raised in the operating license proceeding,, by' the NRC's Technical Review Team, and by other sources. This activity has been ongoing since the fall of 1984. The Applicants anticipate that it will not be complete before the second quarter of 1986. Because of uncertainties associated with these activities and with the hearing 1988 to process, the Applicants request an extension until August 1, cover such contingencies.

1. As discussed more fully in the staff's related Evaluation of Request 4

dated February 10, 1986, we have concluded that good cause has been ..

shown for the delay, and that the requested extension is for a i

reasonable period. We have further concluded that the requested extension involves no significant hazards consideration, and therefore no prior public notice is required.

The NRC staff has prepared an environ:aental assessment and finding of no significant impact which was published in the Federal Register on February 7, 1986 (51 FR 4834). The. NRC staff has concluded that this action will not have a significant impact on the

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quality of the human environment and therefore no environmental impact j

statement need be prepared.

The Applicants' letter dated January 29, 1986, as supplemented on i

February 4, 1986, and the NRC staff's letter and evaluation dated February 10, 1986 issued in support of this Order are available for public 1717 H Street, inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Somervell County Public Library,

, On the Square, Glen Rose, Texas 76043.

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4 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the latest completion date for CPPR-126-be extended to August 1,1988. , _

in G Thomas M. Novak Acting Director Division of PWR Licensing-A Date of Issuance; February 10, 1986 O

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