ML20154C756
| ML20154C756 | |
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| Site: | Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png |
| Issue date: | 05/05/1988 |
| From: | Knighton G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8805180297 | |
| Download: ML20154C756 (4) | |
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6' 7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PORTLANC GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 00CKET NO. 50-344 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDPENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an a endment to Facility Operating License No, NPF-1 issued to Portland General Electric Company (the licensee), for operation of the Trojan Nuclear Plant, located in Columbia County, Oregon.
The request for amendment was submitted by letter dated March 1, 1988, l
q The prcposed amendment would eliminate the uranium (U-235) fuel enrich-ment limit on reactor fuel assemblies, and would perinit the storage of fuel with a maximum enrickment of 4.5 weight percent U-235 in the new fuel storage racks. The licensee is already authorized to store fuel assemblies of up to 4,5 weight percent U-235 in the spent fuel storage racks, J
Before issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will r
have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
By June 17, 1988, 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 request for hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
Request for a hearing and petitions for 4
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m leave to intervene rust be filed ir. accordance with the Ccnwission's ' Pules and Practice for Cerestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part E.
If a request for a hearing cr petiticti for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Ccarission or an Attn.ic Safety ar.d Licensing Board Parel will rule on the request and/cr petitier, and the Secretary or the desigrated Aten.ic Safety ard Licensing Scard will issue a r:otice of hearing or an apprcpriate order.
As required by 10 CFP 2.714. a petition for leave to intervene cust set j
forth with particularity the interest of the petiticner in the proceeding, and f
how that 4terest ray be affected by the results of the proceeding. The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be pernitted with particular reference to the follcwing factors:
(1)thenature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the rature and extent cf the petitioner's property, finarcial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which ray be er.tered in the proceeding on the petitioner's intere:t, The petition should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subject natter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervere. A person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been adenitted as a party nay
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anend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) i days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, ttt such an arended petition rust satisfy the specificity requirerents cescribed I
above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference j
1 scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplerent to the petiticn to intervene which rust include a list of the contentions which are 1
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O 4 sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth witn 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 permitted to intervene becomes parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555, Attention:
Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. by the above date. Where petitions are filed during the last te. (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner or representative promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at 1-(800) 325-6000 (in Missouri 1-(800)342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and j
l the following message addressed to George W. Knighton:
petitioner's name and 4
telephone number; date petition was iaa11ed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
A copy of the petition should 1
also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Washington 0.C. 20555, and to Leonard A. Girard, Esq., Portland i
General Electric Company,121 S.W. Salmon Street, Portland, cregon 97204, j
attorney for the licensee.
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g I l hontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervers, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a cetermination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, that the petition and/or request should te granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v) and 2.714(d).
If a request for hearing is received, the Comission's staff may issue 1
the amendment after it completes its technical review and prior to the completion of any required hearing if it publishes a further notice for public concent of its proposed finding of no significant ha:ards consideration in accordance with 10 CFR 50.91 and 50.92.
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for i
anendment dated March 1,1988, which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Portland State University Library, 731 S.W. Harrison Street Portland, Oregon 97207.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of May, 1988.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION i
W faeorge V. Knighton, Director Project Directorate Y Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation l
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