ML20206F983
| ML20206F983 | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 11/18/1988 |
| From: | Partlow J NRC OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS |
| To: | TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC) |
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| NUDOCS 8811210439 | |
| Download: ML20206F983 (3) | |
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7590-01 NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0K'i!S$10N TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY. ET AL.
COMANCHE PEAX STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNIT NO. 2 DOCKET NO. 50-446 CRDER EXTENDING LATEST CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION DATE The Texas Utilities Electric Company. Texas Municipal Power Agency, Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., and Tex-La Electric Cooperative of Texas, Inc. (Applicants) are holders of Construction Permit No. CPPR-127 issuedbytheAtomicEnergyComission1/onDecember 19, 1974 for construc-tion of the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station Unit No. 2, a nuclear facility utilizing a Westinghouse Electric Corporation nuclear steam supply system, at the Applicants' site in Somervell County, Texas.
By letter dated April 29, 1987, as supplemented on July 22, September 9, and Decen.ber 3, 1987, and amended and supplemented on June 6, 1988, the Applicants filed a request for extension of the latest construction completion date specified in Construction Permit No. CPPR-127 to August 1, 1992. The Applicants state that an intensive program of review and reinspection was initiated in the fall of 1984 to provide evidence of the safe design and construction of Comanche Peak Units No. I and No. 2.
The temporary direction of resources since mid-1985 to activities under that remedial program to Unit No. I rather than to Unit No. 2, as well as the temporary suspension of Unit No. 2 construction for about one year beginning in April 1968 (which will U Effective January 20, 1975, the Atomic Energy Cc='ssion was abolished and its regulatory authority transferred to the Nuclear Regulatory Conmission.
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allow the Applicants time to make a more complete determination of any modifications that may be required for Unit No. 2 based upon the knowledge they gain from the reinspection and corrective action program applied to Unit 4
No. 1), have caused delays which have contributed to the need for the extension of the latest construction completion date for Unit No. 2.
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The rerredial program was undertaken by the Applicants to respond to issues raised by the NRC staff, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB),
andotherscurcesintheoperatinglicenseproceeding.E Although the Applicants temporarily suspended construction of Unit No. 2, they must maintain the r
l construction permit in effect since they have not announced termination of the i
l facility. The Applicants anticipate that remedial program activities related i
i to Unit No. 2 and its preparation for operation will not be complete before j
August 1, 1992.
j As discussea more fully in the staff's related Evaluation of Request i
dated November 18, 1988, we have concluded that good cause has been shown for i
the delay and that the requested extension is for a reasonable period. We have l
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further concluded that the requested extension involves no significant hazards consideration, and therefore, no pnor public notice is required.
i The NRC staff has prepared an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No l
Significant Impact which was published in the Federal, Register on October 25, l
1988 (53 FR 43055).
The NRC staff has concluded that this action will not have a significant impact on the gaality of the human environment, and therefore, i
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l U The CPSES operating license proceeding was dismissed on July 13, 1988 by ASLB i
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The Applicants' letter dated April 29, 1987, as supplemented on July 22, September 9, and December 3, 1987, and amended and supplemented on June 6, 1988, and the staff's letter and evaluation issued in support of this Order are avail.
able for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555, and the local public document room at Somervell County Public Library, Glen Rose Texas 76043.
IT IS HERE6Y ORDERED that the latest construction completion date for CFPR-127 be extended to Aucu t 1, 1992.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION e
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JameYG.Partlow, Director Office of Special Projects Dated at Rockfille, Maryland this 18th day of November 1988.
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