ML20148K706
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 03/25/1988 |
| From: | Crocker L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, ET AL.
DOCKET NO. 50-424 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMEN 0 MENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-68, issued to the Georgia Power Company, et al. (the licensee), for operation of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Unit 1 located in Burke County, Georgia.
The anendment would add a footnote to Technical Specification 3.7.6, "Control Room Emergency Filtration Systen," in order to allow pre-operational testing of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP) Unit 2 heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The footnote will state the following:
The verification activity specified by Paragraph 4.7.6.e.3 is waived with respect to the Unit 1 Control Room / Unit 2 Control Room differential pressure during periods of operation of the Unit 2 Emergency HVAC System while conducting )re-operational testing of that system. The waiver is contingent upon tie capability to shut down the applicable Unit 2 HVAC systems within 4.5 minutes after receipt of a Unit 1 Control Room Isolation signal.
VEGP Unit 1 is protected from VEGP Unit 2 construction and testing activities by physical barriers and administrative controls.
In particular, the VEGP Unit 1 and Unit 2 control roam areas are separated by a temporary wall and the HVAC systems are separated by a series of dampers, removed duct sections, and caps on open ducts.
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. The licensee plans to rereve the terporary wall separating the VEGP Unit 1 and VEGP Unit 2 control room areas during the first VEGP Unit I refueling outage, in erder to ninimize the negative impact of the wall removal on the operation of VEGP Unit 1.
This schedule requires that pre-operational testing of the VEGP Unit 2 HVAC systems begin prior to the VEGP Unit i refueling outage.
The VEGP Unit 2 testing activities will result in occasional positive pressures in the VEGP Unit 2 control room, which could negate the positive pressure requirement for the VEGP Unit I control room and is the reason that the proposed amendment is necessary. These testing activities are scheduled to begin immediately and end just in time to remove the temporary wall during the VEGP Unit 1 refueling outage scheduled to begin in September 1988.
The licensee initially believed that the required pre-operational testing of the VEGP Unit 2 energency PVAC systems could be performed during full power operation of VEGP Unit I without the need for a Technical Specification i
amendment for VEGP Unit 1.
This belief was based on the temporary nature of the VEGP Unit 2 pressurization testing and the continued compliance with the VEGP Unit 1 Technical Specification Bases throuch compensatory operator action. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff informed the licensee on March 17, 1988 of their pcsition that a Technical Specification amendment was necessary. Therefore, approval of the proposed amendment on an exigent basis is necessary to avoid a potential extension of the planned VEGP Unit I refueling outage or a separate outage for removal of the temporary wall.
Before issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's regulations.
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. The Comission has made a proposed determination that the amendment request involves no sionificant hazards considerations.
Under the Comission's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendment 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 accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
The NRC staff has reviewed the proposed amendment and has determined that it would not (1) inycive a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated because dedicated operators will shut down the VEGP Unit 2 emergency HVAC systems in the event of a control roon isolation signal to ensure that radiation doses are not increased above those previously evaluated.
Also, chlorine gas will not be stored on site in a cuantity that requires any chlorine protection.
In addition, the NRC staff has found that the proposed anendment would not (2) create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated because the change does not involve any physical alteration of the plant. Therefore, a failure mode which could lead to a new or different type of accident is not introduced.
Finally, the proposed amendment would not (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety because dedicated operators with no other duties will be stationed to shut down the VEGP Unit 2 emergency HVAC systems in the event of an accident.
Accordingly, the Comission proposes to determine that this change does not involve significant hazards considerations.
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The Commission is seeking public comments on this proposed determination.
Any comments received within 15 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination.
The Commission will not normally maka a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Written comments may be submitted by mail to the Rules and Procedures Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Adr.iinistration and Resources Management, V. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and should cite the publication date and page number of the FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
Written comments may also be delivered to Room 4000, Maryland National Bank Building, 7735 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, Maryland from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Copies of written comments received may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
The filing of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to intervet.a is discussed below.
By April 15, 1988
, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the sub,iect facility operating license and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceed-ing and who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written request for hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Commission's "Rule 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.
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'. As reouired by 10 CFR 2.714, 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:
(1) 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 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 pre-hearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petitien must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first orchearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene, which must include a list of the contentions that are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reason-able specificity.
Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supple-ment 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 coaduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
'. If the amendment is issued before the expiration of 30-days, the Comission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazaris consider-ations.
If a hearing is requested, the final detemination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final detemination is that the amendment request involves no significant hazards considerations, the Comission may issue the amendment and make it effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing.
Any hearing held would take place after issuance of the amendment.
If the final determination is that the amendment request involves signifi-cant hazards considerations, any hearing held would take place before the issuance of any amendment.
Normally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the expiracion of the 15-day notice period.
However, should circumstances change during the notice period, such that failure to act in a timely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Comission may issue the license amendment before the expiration of the 15-day notice period, provided that its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards con-siderations. The final detemination will consider all public and State coments received.
Should the Comission take this action, it will publish a notice of 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, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attentinn: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., by the above date.
Where petitions are filed during the 1
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' last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner promptly so inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at (800) 325-6000 in Missouri (800) 3a?-(,700).
The Western Union operator should be given Datsqrim Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to Darl Hood:
petitioner's name and telephone nunber; cate petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
A copy of the petitio1 should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regu'atory Comission, Washington, D.C.
- 20555, and to Mr. Arthur H. Domby, Troutman, 3anders, Lockerman and Ashnere, Chandler Building, Suite 1400, 127 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30043.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, suoplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination b/ the Comission, t1e presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balaacing of the facto +s specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v) and 2.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated March 23, 1988, which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
20555, and at the Local Public Document Room, Burke County Public Library, 4th Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of March, 1988.
F0 THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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50-424 ue d Procedures Branch MEMORANDUM FOR:
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Of fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation sus;EcT:
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, V0GT1.E UNIT 1 One signed original of the Federal Regisfer Notice identified below is enclosed for your transmittal to the Of fice of the Federal Register for publication Additional conformed copies (
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5 Notice of Receipt of Application for Construction Permit (s) and Operating License (s).
Notice of Receipt of Partial Application for Construction Permit (s)and Facility License (s): Time for Submission of Views on Antitrust Matters.
Notice of Consideration of issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License.
Notice of Receipt of Application for Facility License (s); Notice of Availability of Applicant's Environmental Report; and Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Facility License (s) and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing.
Notice of Availability of NRC Draf t/Finat Environmental Statement.
Notice of Limited Work Authorization.
Notice of Availability of Safety Evaluation Report.
Notice of lasuance of Construction Permit (s).
Notice of issuance of Facility Operating License (s) or Amendment (s).
Order.
Exemption.
Notice of Granting Exemption.
Environmental Assessment.
l Notice of Preparation of Environmental Assessment.
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