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' Amendment No. 3 License No. DPR-29 The Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission) having found that:-
- s. 'The application, as amended, complies.with the requirements of
- the Atomic Energy Act of-1954, as amended (the Act), and the regulations of the Commission set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I; b.
Construction of the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 (the facility) has been substantially completed in conformity with -
Provisional Construction Permit No. CPPR-23 and the application, as amended, the provisions of the Act, and the rules and regu-lations of the Commission set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I;
.The. facility will operate in conformity with the application, as c.
amended,' the provisions of the Act, and the rules and regulations i
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There is reasonable ' assurance (i) that the activities authorized by this operating license, as amended, can be conducted without endangering the health and safety.of the public -and (ii) that such activities will be conducted in compliance with the rules I
and regulations of the Commission; The Commonwealth Edison Company and the Iowa-Illinois Gas and e.
Electric Company are technically and financially qualified to engage in the activities authorized by this operating license, as amended, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission; The Commonwealth Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric f.
Company have satisfied the applicable provisions of 10 CFR Part 140,
" Financial Protection Requirements and Indemnity Agreements";
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The issuance of this amended license will not be inimical to the common defense and secu:ity or to the health and safety of the public; h.
Considering and balancing the factors as prescribed in the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, Section D.3, the balance of such f actors warrants the issuance of this amended license; and 1.
The emergency demands for pever in the area served by the f acility warrant the issuance of the amended license in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, Section D.3, Facility Operating License No. DPR-29, as amended, issued to Commonwealth Edison Company (Commonwealth Edison) and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company (Iowa-Illinois) is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
1.
This license applies to the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Unit 1, a single cycle, boiling, light-water reactor, and electric generating equipment (tha facility) which is jointly owned by Commonwealth Edison and Iowa-Illinois.
The facility is part of the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station located in Rock Island County, Illinois, and is described in the application for con-struction permit and facility license dated May 31, 1966, and sub-sequent amendments thereto, including the request for emergency power operation in excess of 20% station rated power dated April 12, 1972, and supplement thereto dated April 26,1972 (the' application).
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Subject to the conditions and requirements incorporated herein, the Commission hereby licenses Commonwealth Edison and Iowa-Illinois, pursuant to Section 104b of the Act and 10 CFR Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", to own the f acility, as their interests appear in the application, and hereby licenses Commonwealth Edison, acting for itself and as agent for Iowa-Illinois:
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Purcuant to Section 104b of the Act and 10 CFR Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", to possess, use, and operate the facility as a utilization facility at the location designated in the application, in accordance with the procedures and limitations described in the application and in this license; B.
Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 70, "Special Nuclear Material", to receive, possess and use at any one time up to 3000 kilograms of contained uranium 235 in connection with operation of the facility;
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Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 30, " Rules of General Applicability to Licensing 'of Byproduct Material", to receive,.
possess, and use in connection with operation of the f acility:
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any byproduct material with Atomic Numbers between 3 and 83, inclusive, as external contamination on fuel' bundles,
' in any form not to exceed 500 mil 11 curies per fuel bundle ~,
(2) three sealed sources of five curies each of cesium 137, (3) three sealed sources of five microcuriac each of cesium 137, (4) ten sealed sources of strontium 90, each source not to
. exceed 0.3 millicurie, (5) 1 millicurie each of cobalt 60 and cesium 137 in any form, (6) six curies of americium 241 as a sealed source, (7).
twenty-eight sealed sources of 1530 curies each of antimony 124, (8) twenty-five sealed sources of strontium 90, with no source to exceed 1.2 microcuries, and (9) two sealed sources of 350 microcuries each of cobalt 60.
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Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30 and 70, to possess, but not to separate, such byproduct and special nuclear materials as may be produced by operation of the f acility.
3.. This license shall be deemed to contain and is subject to the conditions specified in the following Commission regulations in 10 CFR Chapter'I:
Part 20, Section 30.34 of Part 30, Section 40.41 of Part 40, Sections 50.54 and 50.59 of Part 50, and Section 70.32, of Part 70; is subject to all applicable provisions of the Act and to the rules, regulations and orders of the Commission now or hereaf ter in effect, and is sub-ject to the additional conditions specified or incorporated below:
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Commonwealth Edison is authorized to operate Quad-Cities Unit No.1 at steady state power levels not in excess of 2260 megawatts (thermal) when operating singly. Steady state power levels for
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Maximum Power Level Subsequent t_o Completion _of the Startup Test Program Commonwealth Edison is authorized to operate Quad-Cities Unit No.1 singly or simultaneously with Unit No. 2 at steady state-power levels up to:
(1) 620 megawatts (thermal) at any time, (2) 1550 megawatts (thermal) when, in the judgment of the system load dispatcher, total demand is likely to exceed available capacity and other power sources are not available to meet system load demand; (3) 2260 megawatts (thermal), if af ter exhausting all means reasonably available, system load demand requires the f acility to exceed 1550 megawatts (thermal).
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. Technical Specifications The Technical Specifications contained in Appendix A to this license that were issued October 1,1971, Change No.1 thereto dated April 19, 1972, and the Nonradiological Technical Specifi-cations issued herewith as Appendix B are hereby incorporated in this license as the Technical Specifications. Commonwealth Edison shall operate the facility at the power levels specified in Conditions 3.A and 3.B of this license in accordance with these Technical Specifications. Commonwealth Edison may make changes in the Technical Specifications only when authorized by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 50.59 of 10 CFR Part 50.
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This amended license is issued without prejudice to subsequent licensing action which may be taken by the Commission with regard to the environ-mental aspects of the f acility. Issuance of this amended license shall not preclude subsequent adoption of alternatives in facility design or operations of the type that could result from the environmental review called for by 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D.
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This license'is effective as of the date of issuance, and shall expire at midnight, September 15,.1972, unless extended for good cause shown or upon the earlier-issuance of a superseding licensing action.
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M A. Giambusso, Deputy Director for Reactor Projects Directorate of Licensing l
Enclosures:
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Appendix A - Technical Specif1-cations issued 10/1/71 2.
Appendix B - Nonradiological Technical Specifications Date of Issuance:.May 12, 1972 1
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FACILITY OPER_ATING LICENSE Amendment No. 1 Licer.ae No. DPR-30 The Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission) having found thats a..
The application, as amended, complies with the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the regulations of the Commission set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I; b.
Construction of the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 (the facility) has been substantially completed in conformity with Provisional Construction Permit No. CPPR-24 and the application, as amended, the provisions of the Act, and the ruleo and regu-lations of the Commission set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I; c.
The facility will operate in conformity with the application, as amended, the provisions of the Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commission; d.
There is reasonable assurance (1) that the activities authorized by this operating license, as amended, can be conducted without endangering the health and safety of the public, and (ii) that such activities will be conducted in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Commission; i
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The Commonwealth Edison Company and the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company are technically and financially qualified to engage in the activities authorized by this operating license, as amended, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission; f.
The Commonwealth Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company have satisfied the applicable provisions of 10 CFR Part 140,
" Financial Protection Requirements and Indemnity Agreements";
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The issuance of. this amended license will not be inimical to the -
common. defense and security or to the health and safety of the public;
- h.. Considering and balancing the factors as prescribed in the Commission's-regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, Section D.3, the balance of such factors warrants the issuance of this amended license; and
- i. 'The emergency-demands for power' in' the area served by the facility -
warrant the issuance of the-amended license in accordance with the provisions 'of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, Section D 3, i
' Facility Operating License No. DPR-30 issued to Commonwealth Edison l
Company (Commonwealth Edison) and Iowa-Illinois Cas and Electric Company' (Iowa-Illinois) is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
1.
This license applies to the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Unit 2, a single cycle, boiling, light-water reactor, and electric generating equipment (the facility) which is jointly owned by Commonwealth Edison and Iowa-Illinois. The f acility is part of the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station located in Rock Island County, Illinois, and is described in the application for con-struction permit and facility license dated May 31, 1966, and sub-sequent amendments thereto, including' the request for emergency power operation in excess of 20% station rated power dated April 12, 1972, and supplement thereto dated April 28,1972 (the application).
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Subject to the conditions and requirements incorporated herein, the Commission hereby licenses Commonwealth Edison and Iowa-Illinois, pursuant to Section 104b of the Act and 10 CFR Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", to own the f acility, as their interests appear in the application, and hereby licenses Commonwealth Edison, acting for itself and as agent for Iowa-Illinois:
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Pursuant to Section 104b of the Act and 10 CFR Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", to possess, use, and operate the facility as a utilization facility at the location designated in the application,-in accordance with the procedures and limitations described in the application and in this license; B.
Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 70, "Special Nuclear Material", to receive, possess and use at any one time up to 3000 kilograms of contained uranium 235 in connection with operation of the facility;
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Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 30, " Rules of General Applicability to Licensing of Byproduct Material", to receive, possess, and use in connection with operation of the facility:
(1) any byproduct material with Atomic' Numbers between 3 and 83, inclusive, as external contamination on fuel bundles, in any form not to exceed 500 mil 11 curies per fuel bundle, (2) three sealed sources of five curies each of cesium 137, (3) three sealed sources of five microcuries each of cesium 137, (4) ten aealed sources of strontium 90, each source not to exceed 0.3 millicurie, j'
(5) 1 millicurie each of cobalt 60 and cesium.137 in any form, (6) six curies of americium 241 as a sealed source, (7) fourteen sealed sources of 1530 curies each of antimony 124, (8) twenty-five sealed sources of strontium 90, with no source to exceed 1.2 microcuries, and (9) two sealed sources of 350 microcuries each of cobalt 60.
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Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30 and 70, to possess, but not to separate, such byproduct and special nuclear materials as may be produced by operation of the facility.
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This license shall be deemed to contain and is subject to the conditions
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A. - Maximum Power Level During Startup Testing Program Commonwealth Edison is authorized to operate Quad-Cities Unit No. 2 at steady state power levels not in excess of 2260 megawatts I
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Ha,ximum Power Level Subsequent to Completion of the S_tartup Test Pr_ogra.m Commonwealth Edison is authorized to operate Quad-Cities-Unit No. 2 singly or ' simultaneously with Unit No.1 at steady state power levels up to:
(1) 620 megawatts (thermal) at any time, (2) ' 1550 megawatts (thernal) when, in the judgment of the L
system load dispatcher, total demand is likely to exceed available capacity and other power sources are not available
'to meet system load demand; (3) 2260 megawatts (thermal), if af ter exhausting all means reasonably available, system load demand requires the facility to exceed 1550 megawatts (thermal).
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Technical Specifications The Technical Specifications contained in Appendix A to License No. DPR-29 issued October 1,1971, Change No.1 thereto dated April 19, 1972, and the Nonradiological Technical Specifications issued herewith as Appendix B are hereby incorporated in this license as the Technical Specifications. Commonwealth Edison shall operate the facility'st the power levels specified in Conditions 3.A and 3.B of this license in accordance with these Technical Specifications.- Commonwealth Edison may make changes in the Technical Specifications only when authorized by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 50.59 of 10 CFR Part 50.
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This amended -license is issued without prejudice to subsequent licensing action which may be taken by the Commission with regard to the environ-mental aspects of the facility.
Issuance of this amended license shall not preclude subsequent adoption of alternatives in f acility design or operations of the type that could result from the environmental review called for by 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D.
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This license is ef fective as of the date of issuance, and shall y-
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. cause shown or upon the earlier' issuance of a superseding licensing action.
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$ hgac. KlaC &H A.- Giambusso, Deputy Director for Reactor Projects Directorate of Licensing
Enclosures:
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Appendix A - Technical Specifi-cations issued'10/1/71 2.
Appendix B - Nonradiological Technical Specifications Wate'of Issuance:
May 12, 1972 i
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