ML20154Q075
| ML20154Q075 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Wolf Creek  |
| Issue date: | 03/18/1986 |
| From: | Hood D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20154Q078 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-60559, NUDOCS 8603210024 | |
| Download: ML20154Q075 (7) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY KANSAS ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC.
DOCKET NO. 50-482 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED N0 SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS
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CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING t
i The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-42, issued to Kansas Gas and Electric Company, Kansas City Power and Light Company, and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., (the licensees), for operation of the Wolf Creek Generating Station located in Coffey County, Kansas.
The amendment would revise Technical Specifications 3/4.2.1, Figure
- 3.2-1, Table 2.2-1, Bases Section 3/4.2.1 and Figure B 3/4.2.1 to implement the Relaxed Axial Offset Control (RAOC) mode of operation af ter fuel burnup of 8000 MWD /MTU (megawatt days / metric ton of uranium) is achieved.
This change was requested in the licensees' application for amendment dated January 20, 1986.
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 significant hazards consideration. Under the Comis-sion'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 6
increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously eval-uated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction f
in a margin of safety.
The Commission has provided guidance concerning the application of ti,e standards for determining whether a significant hazards consideration exists by providing certain examples (48 FR 14870).
Example (iv) states that "a relief granted upon demonstration of acceptable operation from an operating restriction that was imposed because acceptable operation was not yet demon-
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strated. This assumes that the operating restriction and the criteria to be e
applied to a request have been e:;tablished in a prior review and that it is justifie.d in a satisfactory way that the criteria have been met."
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l The licensee has concluded and the staff agrees, that the proposed amend-ment fits the guidance provided in example (iv) because it reflects a relaxation in the Axial Flux Difference Specification that had been analyzed and found to be in accordance with the related FSAR analysis. This relaxation is based upon i
satisfying the NRC approved methodology in Westinghouse Topical Report, WCAP-1 10216, which requires that the relaxation does not become applicable until the core burnup reaches 8000 MWD /MTU.
Accordingly, the staff proposes to determine that the application for amendment does not involve a significant hazards con-sideration.
. 7590-01 The Commission 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 determination.
The Comission will not normally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Written coments may be submitted to the Rules and Procedures Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.
20555.
Coments may 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 Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
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, 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 who interest may be affected by this proceeding and who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written-petition for leave to intervene.
Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Commission's
" Rules 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.
. 7590-01 As required by 10 CFR 62.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the int: *est 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 l
interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may
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be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the specific aspects (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 i
the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described
" a b~ove.
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 1
forth with 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 l
at least one contention will not be permitted to participate as a party.
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. 7590-01 Those permitted to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitation in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including 4
l the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Comission will make a final determination of the issue of no significant hazards consideration. The final determination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
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If the final determination is that the amendment request involves no r
significant hazards consideration, 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 involves a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance i
of any amendment.
i Normally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the expir-4 ation 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 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 its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. The final determination will consider I
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.
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. 7590-01 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 Comis-sion, 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 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) 342-6700). The Western Union
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operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following messaged addressed to B. J. Youngblood: petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.
20555, and to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, 1800 M Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
20036, attorney for the licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a detennination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
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l For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public j
Document Room, 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D.
C., and at the William
'i Allen White Library, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas and the Washburn i
University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this
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