ML20213G571
| ML20213G571 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Wolf Creek  |
| Issue date: | 11/04/1986 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML20213G526 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-61304, NUDOCS 8611180206 | |
| Download: ML20213G571 (3) | |
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SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION SUPPORTING AMENDMENT NO.
4 TO OPERATING LICENSE N0. NPF-42 KANSAS GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY KANSAS CITY POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY KANSAS ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC.
WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION DOCKET N0. 50-482 INTRODUCTION By letter dated April 15, 1986, as supplemented July 29, 1986, Kansas Gas and Electric Company (KG&E), on behalf of the Wolf Creek owners, requested that the Wolf Creek Operating License and Appendix A (Technical Specifications) be amended to allow licensed activities to be under the control of the Wolf Creek Operating Corporation, a new corporation jointly established by the Wolf Creek owners. This transfer of operating responsibility from KG&E to the Wolf Creek Operating Corporation would become effective on January 1,1987.
Currently, Kansas Gas and Electric Company (KG&E), Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCPL) and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (KEPCO) are the holders of Facility Operating License No. NPF-42, dated June 4,1985. The operating license authorizes KG&E, KCPL and KEPC0 to possess the Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit 1 (WCGS) and authorizes KG&E as agent for the Owners, to use and operate the plant in accordance with the procedures and limitations set forth in the operating license.
The owners have jointly established a new corporation, the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, to assume all responsibilities for operating WCGS now held by KG&E under the operating license. Ownership of WCGS will remain with the owners and will not be transferred to the Operating Corporation. The stock of the Operating Corporation is owned by KG&E, KCPL and KEPCO in proportion to their respective ownership shares of WCGS i.e. KG&E (47%), KCPL (47%) and KEPC0 (6%). Five members of the board of Directors are designated by KG&E, five members by KCPL and two by KEPCO. The thirteenth director will be the, as yet undesignated, President and Chief Executive Officer (CE0) of the Operating Corporation (to be elected by the remaining members of the Board of Directors).
The members of the Board of Directors will elect one of their members as Chairman of the Board to preside at meetings of the Board.
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EVALUATION The technical qualifications of the Operating Corporation to carry out its responsibilities under the operating license will be the same as the technical 8611180206 861104 PDR ADOCK 05000482 P
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qualifications of KG&E. All KG6E Nuclear Department employees, all other EC&E cnployees assigned full-tire to !! CGS n.atters, and such KCPL and KEPC0 cr.picyees who are essicned full-time to WCGS will automaticelly become employed by the Operating Corporation. Also, all KG&E employees who perform services related to the KGAE Nuclear Decartrert en a part-time basis and who are requested by the Operating Corporation for transfer to it r.rd ecreed to by KGAE will automaticaib become errployed by the Operating Corporation.
The same KGAE organizetion and staf f which is currently responsible for operating WCGS will continue those responsibilities as part of the Operating Corporation. The changes between the current ard proposed structure are:
(1) the Directors of Nuclear Operations, Engineering and Technical Services, and Quality, become Vice Presidents of the Operating Corporation; (2) a General Counsel and Secretary have been added to the Operating Corporation organization; (3) the Construction Division has been merged into the Engineering and Technical Services Branch; and (4) some other minor title changes are reflected.
The Orerating Corporation's Vice Presioents, the Director Administrative Services and the Nuclear Safety Review Coraraittee, with the newly created General Counsel and Secretary, will report to the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Operating Corporation rather than to LGLE's Vice President Nuclear.
The President ano Chief Executive Officer of the Operating Corporation will report directly to the Board of Directors of the Operating Corporation; presently KG&E's Vice President Nuclear reports to KG&E's Group Vice Presioent Technical Services who in turn reports to KG&E's President and Chairran of the Board.
The licensee states that there will be no change in the numbers and qualifi-cations of personnel who operate WCGS as a result of the license errendrient.
Therefore, we conclude that implementation of the amendment as proposed will cause no change in the current technical qualifications. The Technical Specifications affected are 6.1.2, 6.2.1, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.6.1, 6.7.1, 6.8.2, and 6.8.3.
These are title changes and do not affect current reporting re-lationships or personnel qualifications.
The licensec has stated that there will be no change ir qualifications of the personnel who operate WCGS as a result of the license amendment. The proposed charce will involve no alterations to the fecility itself and no substantive modifications to plant procedures. The NRC staff has detemined that tFe proposed Operating Corporation is an entity that generates electricity and recovers the costs of that electricity indirectly through rates established by separate regulatory authorities.
Accordingly, the Operating Corporation is an " electric utility" as defined in 10 CFR 50.2 and is therefore not subject to the requirements of 10 CFR 50.33(f) related to the applicants financial qualificatico.
Bosed on our revice of the proposed license amende.ent, the staf f finds the proposed amendment to Operating License No. NPF-42 and Apperdix A to the license acceptable.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION This amendment relates to changes in recorakeeping, reporting or administrative procedures or requirerents. Accordingly, this amendnert neets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(10).
Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact stateraent or environmental assess-ment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this cuendrcent.
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CONCLUSION The Conmission made a proposed determination that the amendment involves r.c significant hazards consideration which was published in the Federal Register (51 FR 29002 ) on August 13, 1906, and consulted with the state of Ka nsas. No public coments were received, and the state of Kansas did not have any corrrients.
k'e have concluded, based on the considerations discussed above, that:
(1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the proposed manner, and (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Convaission's regulations and the issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the comon defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Principal Contributors:
P. O'Connor, PWR#4 L. Crocker, PAF0 G. Lapinsky, PAF0 Dated: November 4, 1986