ML20207E771
| ML20207E771 | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley |
| Issue date: | 08/09/1988 |
| From: | Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8808180148 | |
| Download: ML20207E771 (4) | |
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e 7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR R"GULATORY COMMISSION Ot[QUESNELIGHTCOMPANY DOCKET N05. 50-334 AND 50-412 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Commission) is considering issua.1ce of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos.,DPR-66 and NPF-73, issued to Duquesne Light Company (the licensee), for operation of the Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2 located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
The proposed amendments would exclude all containment isolation weight-and spring-loaded check valves not subject to containment type C leakage testing from the surveillance requirements of Section 3.6.3.1.
The current surveillance testing requirements applicable to these valves are items 4.6.3.1.1.a.2 and 4.6.3.1.2.e.
The proposed amendment would add a footnote to Table 3.6-1 excluding these check valves from these surveillance requirements rad, instead, references the ASME Section XI testing requirements of 4.0.5.
Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
By September 15, 1988
, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating license and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceed-ing and who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written request for hearing and a petition for leave to intervene. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance G808100140 800909 PDR ADOCK 05000334 P
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2 With the Comission's "Rules of Practice for Domestic Lices sing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing or petition fcr leave to intervene is filed by the obove date, the Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition; and the Secretary or the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding.
The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be perinitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the nature of the petitioner's righ: under the Act to be n de a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first pre hearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition l
must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference I
scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition l
to intervene, which must include e list of the contentions that are sought to be f
l litigated in the a tter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reason-l
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. able specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supple.
ment which satisfies these requirements with respect to at least one contention will not be permitted to participote as a party.
Those permitted to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, inclu-ding the opportunity to present evidence and crossr examine witnesses.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Co' mission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.
l Washington, D.C., by the above date.
Where petitions are filed during the l
14st ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner i
promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at 1-800-325-6000 (in Missouri 1-800-342-6700).
The Western Union operator j
should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message dddressed to John F. Stolz: petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, l
l 0.C. 20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esquire, Jay E. Silberg, Escuire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts, & Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, N.W., Washingto'n, D.C. 20037.
Nontirely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, l
supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic l
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- l Safety and Licensing Board that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a baloncing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
If a request for hearing is received, the Comission's' staff inay issue the daiendinerit dfter it completes its technical review and prior to the ccaipletion of any required hearing if it publishes a further notice for public connent of its proposed finding of no significant hazards consideration in accordance with 10 CFR 50.91 and 50.92.
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for asnendment dated June 22, 1988, which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Wdshington, D. C. 20555, and at the Local Public Document Room, B. F. Jones Memorial Library, 663 Franklin Avenue, Allquippa, Pennsylvania 15001.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of August 1988.
F THE NUCLEAR REGU TORY COMMISSION J/-
oh F. Stolz, Director Pr ect Directorate I vision of Reactor Projects I/II Offica of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i
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