ML20207L943

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Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License NPF-30,adding Environ Allowance Modifier & Trip Time Delay to Low Low Level Trip Circuitry
ML20207L943
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Site: Callaway Ameren icon.png
Issue date: 10/06/1988
From: Hannon J
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8810180032
Download: ML20207L943 (4)


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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-483 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TU FACILITY OPERATING LICENSF AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-30, issued to Union Electric Company (the licensee), for operation of the Calloway Plant located in Callaway County, Missouri.

The proposed amendment would affect the steam generator low-low level trip circuitry by adding an Environmental Allowance Modifier (EAM) and e Trip Time Delay (TTD). The EAM will distinguish between a normal and an adverse containment environment and will adjust the steam generator low-low level setpoint accordingly. The Tf D will delay the trip signals during low power operations (less than or equal to 20% of rated thennal power).

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 l

Act), and the Comission's regulations.

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, 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 proceeding 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. Reque! ts for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance 8810180032 881006 DR ADOCK 0500 3

i 4 l with the Commission's "Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.

If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above 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 tequest 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 must 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 permitted with particular reference to the following factors: (1)thenature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be made 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 aspects (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 intervone or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) i days prior to the first prehearing conference schedaled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

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Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to Intervene which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration.

A petitioner who f ails to file such a supplement which satisfies those requirements with respect to at least one contention will not be pennittea to participate 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, including the opportunity to prcsert evidence a;1d cross-examine witnesses.

A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene shall be filed with the Secretary of the Corm 11ssion, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Corrrnission, Washington, D.C.

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Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., by the above date. Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner or representative for,the petit 10,%v promptly so inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at 1-800-325-6000 (inMissourt 1-800-342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Nurber 3737 and the following message addressed to John N. Hannon: petitioner's name and telephone number; date Petition was nailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER 4

notico. A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General l

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.. Counsel, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037, attorney for the licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714 (a)(1)(1)-(v) and 2.714(d),

If a request for hearing is received, the Comission's staff may issue the amendment after it completes its technical review and prior to the completion of any required hearing if it publishes a further notice for public coment 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 amendment dated August 30, 1983, which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N. W., Washington, D.C.,

and at the C:llaway County Public Library, 710 Court itreet. Fulton, Missouri 65251 and the John H. Olin Library, Washington University, Skinker and Lindell Boulevards, St. Louis, Missouri 63130.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of detober 1988.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION k

John N. Hannon, Director Project Directorate III-3 Division of Reactor Projects - Ill, IV, Y and Special Projects

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