ML20206F696

Notice of Issuance of Amends 114 & 103 to Facility OLs DPR-39 & DPR-48,respectively.Tech Spec Sections 3.2,3.4 & 3.9 Re Authorizing Removal of Boron Injection Tank & Related Piping,Valves & Heat Trace for Recirculation Changed

ML20206F696
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Site:	Zion  File:ZionSolutions icon.png
Issue date:	11/09/1988
From:	Sands S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-295 AND 50-304 NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) has issued Amendment No.114 to Facility Operating License DPR-33 and Amendnent No.103 to Facility Operating License DPR-48 issued to Comonwealth Edison Company (the licensee) for operation of Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, located in Lake County, Illinois.

• These amendments consist of proposed changes to the Zion Technical Specification Sections 3.2, 3.4, 3.8, and 3.9 that would authorize Zion Station to remove the Boron Injection Tank (BIT) and the associateri piping, '

valves and heat trace for recirculation between the BIT and the Boric Acid Tanks (BAT). These amendments will result in operational and safety benefits ,

for the station. Presently, the negative effect of the high boric acid concentration in the BIT and BAT systems necessitates frequent BAT transfer l

, pump seal repairs, heat trace repairs and entering into Technical Specification Limiting Conditions of Operation to accomplish these repairs.

The detrimental consequences of high boric acid concentrations are glso I i potential contributing factors to Emergency Core Cooling System f i

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. inoperability. Improved analytical techniques used for Final Safety Analysis Report accident analyses show that the BIT concentrations could be reduced or the entire BIT could be removed from the Westinghouse plants.

The application for the amendment complies with the standards and requirementsoftheAtomicEnergyActof1954,asamended(theAct),andthe Commission's rules and regulations. The Comission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Comission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment.

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER ,,

on September 8,1988(53FR34849). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.

The Comission has prepared an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact related to this action and has detennined not to prepare an environnental impact statemen'.. Based upon the Environmental Assessment, the Comission has concluded that the issuance of these amendments will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

For further details with respect to the action see (1) the application for amendment dated June 9,1988,(2) Ainendment No.114 to License No. DPR-39, I

(3) Amendment No.103 to License No. DPR-48, (4) the Comission's related SafetyEvaluation,and(5)EnvironmentalAssessmentandFindingofNo

! Significant Impact. All of these items are available for public inspection at  !

l the Comission's Public Document Room, 21?0 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and l

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at the Waukegan Public Library,128 N. County Street, Waukegan. Illinois 60085. Copy of items (2) thru (5) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 205S5, Attention:

Director Division of Reactor Projects.

Dated at Rockville Maryland this 9th day of November 1988 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COFNISSION i

Step n P. Sands, ng D rector Proje t Directorate III-2 Division of. Reactor Projects - III, IV, V, and Special Projects I

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