ML20210P239
| ML20210P239 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Hatch  |
| Issue date: | 04/30/1986 |
| From: | Muller D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20210P244 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-61054, TAC-61280, NUDOCS 8605130136 | |
| Download: ML20210P239 (4) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0lWISSION GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, ET AL DOCKET NO. 50-321 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PRIOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. OPR-57 issued to Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe Power Corporation, Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, City of Dalton, Georgia (the licensees), for operation of the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Unit No.1, located in Appling County, Georgia.
In accordance with the licensees' application for amendment dated March 3, 1986, the amendment would modify the Technical Specifications for Hatch Unit 1 to:
- 1) delete identification of the specific automatically initiated containment isolation valves that are required to be operable and required to be tested; 2) delete the required closure time for all of these containment i
isolation valves except the main steam isolation valves; 3)' change the definition of " Primary Containment Integrity" to be consistent with the current l
containment isolation valve operability requirements of Technical Specification Section 3,7.D,2; 4) clarify the wording concerning plant operation with an inoperable containment isolation valve; and 5) extend the time allowed to reach cold shutdown if containment isolation valve operability requirements cannot be met.
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),andtheCommission'sregulations.
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, 1986, the licensees 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 petition for leave to intervene. Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance 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
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request and/or petition and the decretary 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 i
petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the nature I
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 aspect (s) of the subject matter of the l
proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has I
filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party I
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proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
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 fails to file such a supple.aent which satisfies these requirements with re:pect to at least one contention will not be permitted 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 partici[.te fully in tha conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
A request for a hearing or petition for leave to interyene shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 205'55, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, 1
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 promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at (800) 325-6000 (in Missouri (800) 342-6700). The Western
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Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 4nd the following message addressed to Daniel R. Muller: (petitlener'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-Executive Legal Director, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Bruce W. Churchill, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge,1800 M Street,' N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, attorney $r the licensees.
Nontirrely filii 3gs of po'titions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/cr requests for hearing will not. be entertained absent a determination by, the Commission, the presiding officer or the Atomic i
Safety and Licensing Board that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v) and 2.714(d).
I For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated March 3,1986 which is available for public inspection at the l
Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, h'.W., Washington, D.C., and l
at the Appling County Public Library, 301 City Hall Drive, Baxley, Georgia.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 30thday of April,1986.
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