ML20155F113
| ML20155F113 | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1988 |
| From: | Wambach T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8810130144 | |
| Download: ML20155F113 (6) | |
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i 7590-01 UN,lTED_ STATES NUCLEAR REGV,LAT,0RY COMMISSION CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-255 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION,0F ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO PROVISIONAL OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Provisional Operating License No.
DPR-20 issued to the Consumers Power Company (the licensee), for operation of the Palisades Plant (the facility), located in Van Buren County, Michigan.
In accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated August 24, 19ES, the proposed amendment would change the Technical Specifications related i
to the method of the monthly surveillance test to be perfortned on the Area Radiation Monitors. This change is required because a new digital monitor is being installed to replace an Area Monitor at the Evaporator Control Panel.
The existing test consists of inserting a remotely operated integral check source
' while the proposed test applies an electronic check of the monitor response and continuous self diagnostic testing and the imediate display of error codes if j
a problem exists.
Prior to issuance of the proposed licens'e amendment,the Comission will i
have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
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The Comission has made a proposed detennination that the amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration.
Under the Comission's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facility in' accordancewiththeproposedamendmentwouldnot(1)involveasignificant t
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2 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 licensee has evaluated the proposed amendment to determine whether it involves a significant hazards consideration. The licensee has determined that it does not involve a significant hazards consideration. This is based on the following discussion by the licensee:
The proposed Technical Specifications Change of surveillance method does not involve an increase in the probability or consequences of an accident.
The new digital monitor is not prone to instrument drift from calibrated values which will improve the reliability over the old monitor. The new monitor has malfunction displays and performs continuous self diagnostics.
The Technical Specifications will continue to require daily checks and an 18 month calibration via an external source.
These in combination with the electronic check source, will ensure proper oper,ation of the area monitor. The new monitor ra$ge and sensitivity are equivalent to the present monitor.
The new nonitor system surveillance method will not create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident than previously evaluated as the change in the monthly test method does not affect ar,y accident analysis.
The new monitor provides the same function as the old monitor and the change in the surveillance test method has no effect on the margin o#
safety defined in the basis for any Technical Specification.
The Comnission's staff agrees with the licensee's evaluation and, therefore, proposes to determine that the proposed amendment involves no significant hazards consideration.
The Commission is seeking public comments on this proposed determination, a
Any comments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination. The Coemission will not normally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Written comments may be submitted by mail to the Regulatory Publications Branch, Division of Freedom of Inforretion and Publications Services, Office of
Administration and Resources Management, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, DC 20555, and.thould cite the publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. Written coments may also be delivered to Room P-216, Phillips Building, 7920 Norfolk Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland from 7:30 a.m.
to 4: 15 p.m.
Copies of written coments received may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC. The filing of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to intervene is discussed
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By November 10, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with i
respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject provisional operating license and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding and who wishes to participate as e party in the proceeding must file a written request for hearing and a petition for leave to intervene.
Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordancu with the Comissicn'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 Comission 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 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularly the interest of the petitioner in the pro:eeding and how that interest r,ay be affected by the results of the proceeding. The petition l
should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be pemitted I
with particular reference to the following factors:
(1)thenatureofthe l
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 interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the specific aspecc(s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervere. Any person who has filed a petition for leave 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 prehearing conference scheduled in the proceedirg, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conf 3rence scheduled in the proceeding, a petitiorer shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene, which must include a list of the contentions that are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails tu file such a supplement which satisfies these requiren4nts 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 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.
If a hearing is requested, the Coemission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration. The final determination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
l If the final determination is that the amendment request involves no 1
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significant hazards consideration, the Comission may issue the amendment and make it effective, notwithstanding the request for c 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 of any amendment.
flormally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the expiration 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, provioed that its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. The final detemination 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 hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission,
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Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing.and Service Branch, or ray be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room, 2120 i. Street, NW.,
Washington, DC, 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 telephene call to Western Union at 14 M-325-6000 (in Missouri 1-800-342-6700). The Western Union operator :hould be given Datagram Identification Nurber 3737 and the following message addressed r
g to Theodore Quay (petitioner's name and telephone number); (date petition was mailed); (plant name), and (publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTERnotice). A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission, Washington, DC 20555, and to Judd L. Bacon, Esq., Consumers Power Company, 212 West Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201, attorney for Consumers Power Company.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Commission, 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)(1)-(v) l and2.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the applicatien for atendment dated August 24, 1988, which is available for public inspection at the Corcission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20555 and the Van Zoeren Library, Hope College, Hollar d. Michigan 49423.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this day of October 1988, i
4th FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION M
Thomas V. Wambach, Project Manager Project Directorate Ill-1 Division of Reactor Projects - !!!,
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