ML20154L896
| ML20154L896 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Grand Gulf  |
| Issue date: | 02/28/1986 |
| From: | Butler W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML20154L900 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-60700, NUDOCS 8603130164 | |
| Download: ML20154L896 (8) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMIS$10N MISSIS $1PP! POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY MIDDLE SOUTH ENERGY. INC.
SOUTH Ml!SISSIPPI ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION D0CKET N0. 50-416 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENOMENT TO FACILITY OPEPATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND 0PPORTUNITY FOR HEARI The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-29, issued to Mississippi Power & Light Company, Middle South Energy, Inc., and South Mississippi Electric Power Association (the licensees), for operation of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Unit 1, located in Claiborne County, Mississippi.
The amendment would change a Technical Specification surveillance require-To demonstrate ment for the heaters in the standby gas treatment system (SGTS).
operability of the SGTS, the heaters would be required to dissipate 48
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KW instead of the presently required 50 2 5.0 F.W when tested in accordance with Technical Specification 4.6.6.3.d.5.
This change was requested in the 17,1986.
Itcensees' application for amendment dated February Before issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amend Act) and the Comission's regulations.
The Comission has made a proposed determination that the amendment Under the Comission's request involves no significant hazards consideration.
regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facilit in j
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, accordance with the proposed amendments 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 Comission has provided certain examples (4P FR 14870) of actions likely to involve no significant hazards Oneoftheexamples(vi)isachangewhichmayreducea considerations.
safety margin, but where the results of the change are clearly within acceptable criteria with respect to the component specified in the Standard ReviewPlan(SRP)(NUREG-0800).
The SRP Section 6.5.1 "ESF Atmospheric Cleanup Systems" states in relevant part that systems such as the SGTS are acceptable if they meet The relevant reconnendation in the guidelines of Regulatory Guide 1.52.
Regulatory Guide 1.52 is that the heater should be designed to reduce the relative humidity of the air flowing through the SGTS from 100% to 70%
j The licensee has determined in its under design basis accident conditions.
submittal of February 17, 1986 that a heater dissipating 21.5 KW will meet The staff concludes, the design reconrendation in Regulatory Guide 1.52.
based on a preliminary review of the licensees' submittal that the small change in the minimum heater dissipation requirement (from 45 KW to 43 kW) is clearly within the relevant criterion in the Standard Review Plan.
3 Accordingly, Therefore, the proposed change is similar to example vi.
the Comission proposes to determine that this change does not involve a significant hazards consideration.
3-The foamission is seeking public comments on this proposed deterwination.
Any coments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this The Comission notice will be considered in making any final determination.
will not normally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Written coments my be submitted to the Rules and Procedures Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, DC 20555. Coments ny also be delivered to Room 4000, Maryland National Bank Building, Bethesda, Maryland, from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Copies of comments received may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H 5treet, NW..'
Washington, OC.
, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with By respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating Itcense and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding and who wishes
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to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written petition for j
i Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene leave to intervene.
shall be filed in accordance with the Comission's " Rules of Practice for i
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 Comission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Comission er 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 required by 10 CFR 62.714, a petition for leave to intervene sha11 set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that interest may be affected by t' e results of the proceeding. The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be pemitted 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 proceedingt (2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the pro-ceedingt and (3) the possible ef fect of any order which may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the specificaspect(s)ofthesubjectmatteroftheproceedingastowhich Any person who has filed a petition for leave petitioner wishes to intervene.
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 petitici 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 ressen-Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of able speciftetty.
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 pemitted to participate as a party.
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Those permitted to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to i
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 cross examine witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Comission will make a final detemination l
The final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration.
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j will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final detemination is that the amendment request involves no signif f-l
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cant hazards consideration, the Comission may issue the amendment and make it
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l If the final determination is that the amendment involves a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held woul. take place before the issuance of l
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Normally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the espiratinn r
of the 30 day notice period. However, should circumstances change during the notice period such that failure to act in a timely way would result, for esemple, l
in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Cwenission may issue the license amendment before the espiration of the 30 day riotice period, provided that its i
i final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards con-I The final determination will consider all pubite and State coments sideration.
Should the Comission take this action, it will publish a notice of received.
The Comission issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance.
espects that the need to take this action will occur very infrequently.
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6-A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed f
with the Secretary of the Connission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be f
delivered to the Connission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.
f Washington, D. C., by the above date. Where petitions are flied during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner f
promptly so inform the Connission by a toll-free telephone call to Western U The Western Union operator
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at(800)325-6000(inMissouri(800)3426700).
should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message f
addressed to Walter R. Butler: petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of th I
A copy of the petition should also be sent to the l
FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
Executive Legal Director, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission Washington, D.C j
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20555, and to Nicholas Reynolds. Esquire, Bishop, Libennan, Cook, Purcell a 20036, attorney for Reynolds, 1200 Seventeenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C.
the licensee.
Montimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions,
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supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained a determination by the Connission, the presiding officer or the Atomic Safe Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or request, that the
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e petitioner has made a substantial showing of good cause for the granting That determination will be based upon a balancing late petition and/or request.
I ofthefactorsspecifiedin10CFR2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v)and2.714(d).
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7 For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Pub 1fc
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Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., and at the Hinds Junior i
College, McLendon Library, Raymond, Mississippi 39154.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this day of FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMI5510N i
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. For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., and at the Hinds Junior College, McLendon Library, RaymonJ, Mississippt 39154 Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this day of FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Walter H. Butler, Chief BWR Project Directorate No. 4 Olvision of BWR Licinsing I
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