ML20198C363

Notice of Denial in Part of Amend to OL & Opportunity for Hearing.Requests to Allow Loop Charging,Deletion of Ref to Tech Spec 4.0.5,changes to Control Room Ventilation Tech Specs & Use of Temporary Door in Airlock Denied

ML20198C363
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Site:	Yankee Rowe
Issue date:	05/14/1986
From:	Lear G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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,5 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY ,

DOCKET NO.50-029 NOTICE OF DENIAL OF AMEN 0 MENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied in part a request by the licensee for amendment to Facility Operating. License No.

DPR-3, issued to the Yankee Atomic Electric Company (the licensee), for operation of the Yankee Nuclear Power Station (the facility), located in Franklin County, Massachusetts.

, The amendment, as proposed by the licensee, modified the facility Technical Specifications (TS) for the Safety Injection Tank Temperature, Steam Generator Blowdown Monitors, Containment Isolation Boundaries, ECCS Surveillance requirements, Reactor Vessel Fluence, the Carbon Dioxide fire suppression system, the plant on-site review committee composition, and the Radioactive Effluent monitoring system. The licensee's application for amendment was dated May 26, 1981, as revised January 23, 1984 and February 26, 1985. The requested changes were granted except for proposed changes dealing with a charge to allow isolated loop charging, a request to delete a reference to TS 4.0.5, changes to the control room ventilation TS, a change to allow use of a temporary door in the Vapor Container Airlock, and a change that would have removed the requirement to sample for tritium after a core power change.

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7590-01 Notice of issuance of Amendment No. 92 will be published in the Commission's next regular FEDERAL REGISTER notice.

The portions of the application that were denied were:

(1) A request to allow isolated loop charging. The facility is currently not allowed to operate, according to their current TS, with an isolated loop under the conditions specified, i.e., above 1000 PSIG.

(2) A request to delete a reference to TS 4.0.5, since at the time of the request, TS 4.0.5 did not exist. TS 4.0.5 was subsequently issued in Amendment No. 81, and the reference to TS 4.0.5 should be kept in the TS.

(3) Changes to the control room ventilation TS. The request reflected operation that was susceptible to single failure and needed to be reevaluated by the licensee.

(4) A change to allow use of a temporary door in the Vapor Container Airlock. The proposed change was not.sufficiently prescriptive in defining what constituted a temporary door, such that the cor. sequences

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of a fuel handling accident would be adequately reduced by the temporary door.

(5) A request to remova the requirement to sample for tritium after a step change in reactor thermal power. Since tritium levels may change with power, the justification for this item is incorrect. _

The licensee was notified of the Comnission's denial of this request by letter dated May 14 , 1986.

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,- 7590-01 The licensee may demand a hearing with respect to the denial described above and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene. Such requests for hearing and leave to intervene must be received by June 24, 1986.

l- A request for a hearing or 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.

.A copy of the petition should also be sent.to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C., 20555, and to Thomas Dignan, Esquire, Ropes and Gray, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, attorney for the licensee.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendment dated May 26, 1981, as revised January 23, 1984 and February 26, 1985, and (2) the Commission's letter to the licensee dated May 14, 1986, which i

are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D.C., and at the Greenfield Community

' College, 1 College Drive, Greenfield, Massachusetts. A copy of item (2) may i

be obtained upon request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C., 20555, Attention: Director, Division of PWR Licensing-A. ..

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