ML20140E005
| ML20140E005 | |
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| Site: | Summer  |
| Issue date: | 03/14/1986 |
| From: | Rubenstein L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8603270134 | |
| Download: ML20140E005 (4) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC A GAS COMPANY SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY DOCKET NO.-50-395 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PRIOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is con-sidering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-1?,
issued to South Carolina Electric & Gas Company and South Carolina Public Service Authority (the licensee), for operation of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, located'in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
The amendment would revise Technical Specification 3/4.4.5, " Steam Generators" and its bases. The revision would allow steam generator tube imperfections to be addressed by the Westinghouse P-STAQ evaluation method as an' alternative to the current reouirement for tube plugging. Under the
- P-STAR evaluation method, if tube. imperfections -located within the tubesheet are below the distance P-STAR (the top 1.25" of the-tubesheet), and the tube with imperfections has an intact tube directly above it (one row higher in number, same column), then the tube need not be plugged. The licensee's application for amendment was dated January 16, 1986.
Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will have made ff, dings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Acti and the Commission's reculations.
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. By April 21, 1986, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating license-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
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leave to intervene. Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to inter-vene shall be filed in accordance with the Comission's " Rules of Practice for 4
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 License Board, designated by the Comission. or by the Chaimar of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on the d
. request an /or petition arid 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 69.714, a petition for leave to intervene 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 petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors:
II) 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 petitior should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subiect matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party
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. i may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up.to fifteen l
(151 days prior to the. first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceed-ing, 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 the petition to intervene 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 amendment 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 pemitted to intervene begome parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order. granting leave to intervene, and have the.oppor-tunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including.the opportunity to present evidence and crcss-examine witnesses.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene shall be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document-Room,1717 H Street,-
N.W., Washington, DC, by the above date. Where petitions are. filed during the last ten (10)' days of the notice period, it is reouested that the petitioner or representative for the petitioner lpromptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at-(800) 325-6000 i
(in Missouri (800) 342-6700). The Western Union operator'should be given
.. Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to Lester S. Rubenstein (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, DC 20555, and to Pandolph R. Mahan, South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, P.O. Box 764, Columbia, South Carolina 29218, attorney for the licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a detennination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated January 16, 1986, which is available ~ for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, and-at the Fairfield County Library, Garden and Washington Streets, Winnsboro, South Carolina 29180.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland thisl4th day of March,1986..
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Orig signed by L. S. Rubenstein Lester S. Rubenstein, Director PWR Project Directorate #2 Division of PWR Licensing-A ph o
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