ML20149C499
| ML20149C499 | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley |
| Issue date: | 01/20/1988 |
| From: | Dromerick A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8802090175 | |
| Download: ML20149C499 (7) | |
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7590-C1 UhlTEC STATES hhCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DUQUESNE LIGHT C0FPANY CHO Cil50)T'CDMRT
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00CK?1 NO. 50-412 h0TICE OF CONSILERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACIllTY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGhlFICAhl HAZARLS CONSIDERA110N DETERtlhAT10N AND OFFCFTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatcry Corrissicn (the Connissicr.) is considering issuarce of an antndn+nt tc Facility Operating License No. NPF-72, issued te Duquesne Light Corpany, Ohio Edison Cor:pany, The Cleveland Electric Illutinating Cerrpany, and The Toledo Edison Cortpany (the licensee), fer creration of the Beaver Yelley Fcher Statior, l' nit P, located in Shippingpcrt, Pennsylvania.
The propcsed arendr+nt +,culd incorporate a teriporary char.se to Technical Specification 3.3.3.7 tc rr. lax the required number of incore detector thintles frcr 75% to 50% for the remainder of Cycle 1.
In addition, for compensater) reasures the peakir.g factor surseillance requirernents would be revised te increase t,tt uncertainty factors applied to the peaking factors wher. a flux rap is perforted with less than 75% of the thirrbles. These changes are sirilar tc these approved for Peaver Valley Fcker Station t' nit 1 (January 19, 19F3), and a nur.ber of other plarts.
The incore detection syster is used for core power distribution reasurerents. These sneasurerents are used to deterritne the feat linear heet 8602090175 880120 PDR ADOCK 05000412 p
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generation rate, which helps establish operating limits such that safety analysis assumptions are satisfied.
Sufficient coverage of detectors M needed such that the core power distribution is properly mmitored. A factor is applied to the measurement to account for uncertainty. With the proposed changes, the core would still have sufficient coverage, and a larger (more stringent) uncertainty factor w9uld be applied.
Befree issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will have made findinns required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
The Comission has made a proposed detemination that the amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration.
Under the Comission's n gulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this neans, that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendment would not (1) involve a significant increase in the prob-ability 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 significart reduction in a margin of safety.
This change is requested in order to provide flexibility in plant operation with sufficient data gathering capability to ensure operation within licensed limits. As such, this proposed change would not:
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Invol,ve a signi'icant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated -- This change merely increases the measurement uncertainty for a reduced complement of operable incere neutron detector thimbles. Therefore, the change cannot increase the probability or consecuences of an accident, es the core will continue to be adequately monitored by existing fixed incore monitors.
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(2) Create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any previously analyzed -- This modification only increases the measurement uncertainty for a reduced comp.lemont of operable incore neutron detector thimbles. Therefore, it does not create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident since it does not modify plant operation or emponents.
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Involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety -- This modification of increasino the measurement uncertainty for a reduced complement of operable incore neutron detector thimbles will adc' sufficient additional mart n to the power distribution measurements such i
that this change does not impact the safety margins which currently exist.
Thus, this change does not involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
The Comission is seeking public coments on this proposed determination.
Any coments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final detemination. The Comission will not normally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Wrhten coments may be sutxnitted by mail to the Pules and Procedures Branch, Division of Pules and Pecords, Office of Administration and Resources Management, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, DC 20555, and should cite the publication date and page number of the FEDFP.Al REGISTEP l
i notice. Written coments may also be delivered to Room 4000, Maryland 1
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4 National Bank Auilding, 7735 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland, from 8'15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Copies of written coments received may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC. The
'iling of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to intervene is discussed below.
By February 24,198Q 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 fcr leave to intervene.
Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene sFall be filed in accordarte with the Comission's "Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part ?.
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 Cornission 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.
As required by 10 CFR (?.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that triterest may be af fected by the results of the proceeding. The petition j
should specifically explain the reasons wry intervention should be pertnitted 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 I,
-5 exter.t 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 proceedino on the petitioner's interest.
The petition should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the sub.iect 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 r'ay amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first pn!-
hearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, 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 ine,lude a list of the contentions which 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. Apetitionerw$afailstofilesuchasupple-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
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ary limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opper-tunit'/ to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the oppor-tunity to present evidence and cross-examire witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Comission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration. The final deteminatter will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
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6-If the final detemination is that the emendment request involves no significant hazards consideration, the Comission may issue the amendment and meie it effective, notwithstarding the request for a hearing.
Any hearing held would take place after issuance of the amendrer.t.
If the final detemination is that the amendment request involves a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance of any amendment.
Nonnally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the expiration of the 30-day notice period.
However, should :ircunstances change during the notice period such that failure to act in a tinely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Comission may issue the license amendment before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that itt final detemination is that the amendment invohes no significant hazards consideration.
The final detennination 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 hearinc or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary o' the Comission, U.S. Fuclear Regulatory Comission, Washincton, D.C.
20555, Attention:
Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 P Street, 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 inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call to Western a
7 Union at (800) 325-6000 (in Missouri (800) 342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Datagran. Identification Nurrber 3737 and the following ressagt addressed to John F. Stolz:. petitioner's nan and telephone nur.ber; date Utitier was r. ailed; plant nare; and publicatiori date and page nur.ber o' this FEDERAL REGISTEP notice. A copy of the petition should also be sent tc the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Corrissier.,
Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Gerald Charnoff Esq. of Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, ?300 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C., attorney for the licensee.
Montirely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, arnended petitiers, supplenental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a detertination by the Corrission, the presiding officer or the Atoric Safety and Licensing Board designatt ' ^a 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 balancingofthefactorsspecifiedin10CFR2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v)and2.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for arendrent dated January 13,19FF, which is available for public inspection at the Corr.ission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20555, and at the B. F. Jones Menorial Library, 663 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania 15001.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 20th day of January 1988.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COWISSION (lb' A< W Alexan@derW.Dromerick,ActingDirecto Project Diret.torate I-4 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation s;
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