ML20148T915

Responds to Re Requirements Util Must Meet to Acquire License for Const of Nuclear Power Plant. Description of Licensing Process Encl

ML20148T915
Person / Time
Issue date:	02/04/1981
From:	Zech G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Cownoyer L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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Ms. Lisa Cownoyer Snohomish High School Mr. Bates' Class Corner of 5th Avenue and Dee Avenue Snohomish, Washington 98290

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Dear Lisa:

This is in reply to your letter'of December 3, 1980, regarding the requirements that a utility must meet to get a license for construction of a nuclear power plant.

Enclosed is a description of the licensing process.

I trust that this will serve your purpose.

f' Gar Zech, Chief Technical Support Branch Planning & Program Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation-

Enclosure:

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THE LICENSING PROCESS Obtaining an NRC construction permit-or a lirnited work presenting the results of its independent evaluation and recommend.

authorizauon, pending a decision on issuance of a construction per.

Ing whether or not a construction permit should be issued. The staff mit-is the first objective of a utility or other cornpany seeking to issues a supplement to the Safety Evaluation Report incorporating operate a nuclear power reactor or other nuclear facility under NRC any changes or actions adopted as a result of ACRS recommenda-license. The process is set in motion with the filing and acceptance of tions. A public hearing can then be held, generally in a community the application, generally cornprising ten or more large volumes of near the progmed site, un safety aspects of the licensing decision, material cosenng both safety and environmental factors, in accord-anee with NBC requirements and guidance. The second phase con-In appropriate cases, NRC may grant a Limited Work Authoriza.

sists of safety and environmental factors, in accordance with NRC re-tion to an app!! cant in advance of the final decision on the construc-quirements and guidance. The second phase consists of safety, tion permit in order to allow certain work to begin at the site, saving environmental. safeguards and antitrust reviews undertaken by the as much as seven months time. The authorization will not be given, NRC staff. Third, a saf,ety review is conducted by the independent howeve, until NBC staff has completed environmental impact and Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); this review is site suitability reviews and the appointed ASLB has conducted a required by law. Fourth, a mandatory public hearing is conducted public hearing on environmental impact and site suitability with a oy a three. member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB),

favorable finding. To realise the desired saving of time, the applicant -

w hich then makes an initial decision as to whether the permit should must submit the environmental portion of the application early.

be granted. This decision is subject to appeal to an Atomic Sdety and Licerising Appeal Board (ASLAB) and could ultimately go to the The environmental review begins with a review of the applicant's Commissioners for final NBC decision. The law provides for appeal Environmental Report (ER) for acceptabi!:ty. Assuming the ER is beyond the Commission in the Federal courts.

sufficiently complete to warrant review, it is docketed and an As soun as an initial application is accepted, or " docketed," by the analysis of the consequences to the environment of the construction NRC, a notice of that fact is published in the Fedcral Regnter, and and operation of the proposed facility at the proposed site is begun.

copies of the application are furnished to appropriate State and local Upon completion of this analysis, a Draft Environrnental Statement authonties and to a local publie document room (LPDR) established is published and distributed with specific requests for review and in the vicinity of the proposed site, as well as to the NRC.PDR in comment by Federal, State and local agencies, other Interested par.

Washington, D.C. At the same time, a notice of a public hearing is ties and members of the public. All of their comments are then taken published in the Fedcral Regnter and local newspapers) which pro-into account in the preparation of a Final Environmental Statement, Both the draft and the final statements are nade available to the vides 30 days for members of the public to petition u intervene in the promeding. Such petitions are entertained and adjudicated by the public at the time of respective publication. is.ing this same time ASLB appointed to the case, with rights of appeal by the petitioner to period NRC is conducting an analysis and prepa ig a report on site the ASLAS.

suitability aspects of the proposed licensing action. Upon completion The NRC staffs safety, safeguards, environmental and antitrust of these activities, a public hearing, with the appointed ASLB reviews prowed in parallel. With the guidance of the Standard For.

presiding, may be conducted on environmental and site suitability mat (Regulatory Cuide 1,70), the applicant for a construction permit aspects of the propsed licensing action (or a single hearing on both lays out the proposed nuclear plant desig in a Preliminary Safety safety and environmental matters may be held, if that is indicated).

Analysis Report (PSAR). If and when this ryort has been made suffi-ciently complete to w arrant review, th. application is docketed and The antitrust reviews of license applic %ns are carri-l out by the NRC staff evaluations begin. Even prior to submission of the report, NRC and the Attornn General in advance of, or concu; <.ntly with, NRC staff conducts a substantive review and inspection of the appil-other licensing reviews. If an antitrust hearing is require-4 as held cant's quality assurance program covering design and procurement.

separately from those on safety and environmental aspect.

The safety review is performed by NRC staff in accordance with the Standard Review Plan for Light. Water Cooled Reactors, initially About two or three years before construction of the plant is published in September 1975 and updated periodically. This plan scheduled to be complete, the applicant files an app!Ication for an states the acceptarme critens used in evaluating the vanous systems, operating licerne. A process similar to that for the construction per-components and structures important to safety and in assessing the mit is followed. The application is filed, NRC staff and the ACRS proposed site, and it desenbes the procedures used in performing the review it, a Safety Evaluation Report and an updated Environmental safety review.

Staterrznt are issued. A public hearing is not rnandatory at this stag,

The NRC staff esamines the applicant's PSAR to determine but c,ne may be held if requested by affected members of the public whet.her the plant design is safe and corcistent with NRC rules and or at the initiath e of the Commission. Each license for operation of a r

neulations; whether valid methods of calculation were employed nuclear reactor contains technical specifications w hich set forth the and accurately carried out; w hether the appbcant has conducted his particular safety and environmental protection measures to be im-analyns and evaluation in sufficient depth and breadth to support posed upon the facility and the conditions that must be met for the staff appros al with respect to safety. When the staff is satisfied that facility to operate, the acceptance criscria of the Standard Rmew Plan have been met by the applicant's prelimmary report, a Safety Evaluation Report is Once licensed, a nuclear facility remains under NRC surveillance prepared by the staff summarizing the results of their review regard-

.nd undeyws periodie inspetiom throughout its nWratmg life. In ing the anticipated effects of the proposed facility on the public cases where the NRC linds that substantial, additional protection is nnessary for the public health and safety or the common defense and hdth and safety, Tudewing publication of the staff Safety Esaluatsun Report, the security, the NilC may requie "bacif.tting" of a licensed plant, that ACns ecmsetes its resicw and meets with staff and applicant. The is, the addition, chmination or mndification of structures, spterns or ACES then prepares a letter report to the Chairman of the NRC component.; of the plant.

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