ML20206U031

Requests Publication of Fr Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-36 & Proposed NSHC Determination & Opportunity for Hearing Re 860129 Request to Delete Definition of Containment Integrity

ML20206U031
Person / Time
Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	09/30/1986
From:	Thadani A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	NRC
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NUDOCS 8610070278
Download: ML20206U031 (4)

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REQUEST FOR PUBLICATION IN BI-WEEKLY FR NOTICE - NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEARING Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company, Docket No. 50-309, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station, Lincoln County, Maine Date of amendment request: January 29, 1986, revised July 29, 1986 and August 28, 1986.

Description of amendment request: The proposed amendment would:

(1) Delete the definition of containment integrity in the Definitions Section of the TS since the definition appears in the actual Technical Specifications concerning containment integrity.

(2) Remove the term "where appropriate" from Section 3.6, " Emergency Core Cooling and Containment Spray Systems", and insert a reference to Specification 3.9 for clarity.

(3) Restate Technical Specification 3.14B for clarity and delete a reference to Cycle 7 which is no longer appropriate.

(4) Correct a misprint in the description of the concentration term C, for secondary coolant activity in Technical Specification 3.14.

(5) Divide the Technical Specification Section 3.15 concerning reactor power anomalies into a Specification and Remedial Action for clarity, and the term steady-state concentrations is used to distinguish brief transients from ongoing conditions.

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2-(6) Add the term "flouride" to the reactor coolant sample chemistry requirement of Technical Specification Section 4.2 to be consistent with the requirements of Technical Specifications Section 3.18.

(7) Delete the requirement to calibrate the post-accident hydrogen monitor in Table 4.2-2 of Technical Specification Section 4.2 as it is included in Table 4.1-3.

(8) Revise Technical Specification Section 5.8 to indicate the specific revision to Regulatory Guide 1.33 to which Maine Yankee has been and is currently committed in their Quality Assurance Program.

(9) Change Table 4.1-2 of Technical Specification Section 4.1 to reflect the upgrade to the Refueling Water Storage Tank level instrumentation made during the 1985 refueling outage and clarify the function being tested as that part of the recirculation actuation signal.

In addition, typographical errors would be corrected and changes would be made to the Bases for TS 3.11, 3.22 and 3.24 to correct cross references, clarify applicability requirements, and correct misprints to conform with the Final Safety Analysis Report.

Basis for proposed no significant hazards consideration determination: The Comission has provided standards for determining whether a significant hazard exists as stated in 10 CFR 50.92(c). 10 CFR 50.91 requires that at the time a licensee requests an amendment it must provide to the Commission

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its analysis, using the standards in 10 CFR 50.92, about the issue of no significant hazards consideration. Therefore, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.91 and 10 CFR 50.92, the following analysis has been performed by the licensee:

Much of this request consists of changes designed to clarify or simplify the Specifications without altering the actual requirements.

Other changes correct misspelling or minor typographical errors in both the Specifications and Bases.

We have reviewed this proposal as required by 10 CFR 50.92 to determine whether a significant hazards consideration may exist. A summary of our findings is as follows.

Those proposed changes which are for the purpose of improving clarity, are mere restructuring without altering intent or requirements or which correct typographical errors, which have been categcrically determined not to involve a significant hazards consideration.

From the foregoing we have concluded that the changes proposed would not:

1. Involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of__an accident previously analyzed; or

2. Create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously analyzed; or

3. Involve a significant reduction in the margin of safety.

Hence, no significant hazards consideration exists.

The staff has reviewed the licensee's no significant hazards consideration determination and agrees with the licensee's analysis. Therefore, based on this review, the staff proposes to determine that the application for amendment involves no significant hazards consideration.

Local Public Document Room location: Wiscasset Public Library, High Street, Wiscasset, Maine.

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Attorney for licensee: J. A. Ritscher, Esq., Ropes and Gray, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210 NRC Project Director: Ashok C. Thadani Ashok C. Thadani, Director PWR Project Directorate #8 Division of PWR Licensing-B 1

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