ML20205P454
| ML20205P454 | |
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 11/01/1988 |
| From: | Dick G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML20205P454 (2) | |
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7590-01 I
UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-498 NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued Amendnent No. 2 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-76, issued to the Housten Lighting & Power Company, (the licensee), which revised the Technical Specifications for operation of the South Texas project, Unit 1, located in Matagorda County, Texas. The amendment was effective as of the date of its issuance.
The amendnent allows the expansion of the spent fuel pool storage capacity form the current 196 fuel assemblies to *.969 fuel assemblies. The expansion is to be achieved by removing the existing racks and installing new, high density ones.
The applicaticn for the aciendnent cotiplies with the standards and requiren.ents of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as aniended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 1
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10 CFR Chapter 1, which are set forth in the license t ndment.
The Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Arendaent was published in the i
Federal Register on June 23,1988(53FR230707) and amended on Septerber 14, 1988(53FR35570). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to I
intervene was filed following the notices.
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.s The Comission has prepared an Environmental Assessnient related to the oction and has concluded that an environmental hnpact statement is not warranted because there will be no environmental impact attributa b to the action beyond that which has been predicted and described in the Comission's Final Environmental Statement related to the Operation of South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2 dated August 1986.
3 For further details with respect to the action, see:
(1)theapplication for amendment dated March 8, 1988, as supplemented by letter dated March 26, 1988; (2) additional inforniation supplied in the licensee's letters of August 9, 10, 19, 30, and September 21, 22, and 29,1988; (3) Amendrent No. 2 to License t;o. NFP-76; and (4) the Comission's related Safety Evaluation and Environmental Assessment. All of these items are available for public inspec-tion at the Comission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street N. W., Washington, D.C. 20555; at Wharton Junior College, J. II. Hodges Learning Center, 911 Boling Highway, Wharton, Texas 77488; and the Austin Public Library, 810 Gaudalupe Street, Austin, Texas 78701. A copy of items (3) and (4) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comissiun, Washington 0.C.
20555, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Projects - 111, IV, Y and Special Projects.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 1st day of November,1988.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
>f Geor F. Dick, Jr.j Project Manager Project Directorate - IV Division of Reactor Projects - !!!,
!Y, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation