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-NAY 191995 Docket Nos 0 254 j
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Dear Mr. Bauser.
j The Commission has issued the enclosed A=aad= mat No. 3 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-29 and Amendment No.1 to Facility Operating j
License No. DPR-30 to the Commonwealth Edison Company (acting.for itself and the Iowa-1111acis Gas and Electric Company).' These amend-ments authorise the Cosemonwealth Edison Company to operate the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 each at steady state power levels up to 620 MWt on an unlimited basis, to 1550 megawatts (thermal) waan, 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 lead demand, and up to 2260 megawatts (thermal),
if af ter exhausting _all means reasonably available, system load demand requires the facility to exceed 1550 megawatts (thermal). The licenses will limit operation under emergency load demands to 90% rather than luo1 of rated power to comply with the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, Section D.3.
For the Committee's information, the following items are enclosed:
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A Notice of Issuance.of Amendment to Facility Operating Licenses which is being filed with the Office of the j
Federal Register for publication, and 2.
The Discussion and Conclusions of Environment 4.1 Impact by the USAEC Directorate of Licensing concerning the Proposed Issuance of Licenses for Emergency Operation of Quad -Cities Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2.
Sincerely, A. Ciambusso, Deputy Director
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. UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION DOCKET NOS. 50-254 AND 50-265 COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY AND IOWA-ILLINOIS' GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (QUAD-CITIES UNITS 1 AND-2).
NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES
' Notice is hereby given that the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission)' has issued Amendments Nos. 3 and 1 to Facility Operating Licenses Nos. DPR-29 and DPR-30, respectively.. These licenses pre-viously authorized the Commonwealth Edison Company and the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company to possess, use and operate the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 (both single-cycle, boiling water reactors and located in Rock Island County, Illinois) at steady state power levels. up to 502 megawatts (thermal) per unit (20% of each Unit's rated power).
.The amendments that are the subject of this notice authorize Commonwealth Edison Company (acting for itself and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company) to operate the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station, during the startup testing program, at power levels up to 2260 megawatts (thermal) when operating a single unit or at power levels up to 2511
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- operation of each Unit singly or simultaneously with the other Unit 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 denand is likely to exceed available capacity and other power sources are not available to meet system load demand; and (3) 2260 megawatts (thermal), if af ter exhausting all means reasonably available, system load denand requires the f acility to exceed 1550 megawatts (thermal). Incorporated in the license amendments and issued therewith are Nonradiological Technical Specifications which govern
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activities at the Station related to protection of the environment.
The license amendments for Unit 1 and Unit 2 revise the licences in their entirety and are effective upon their date of issuance. The amended licenses will expire on September 15, 1972, unless extended for good cause shown or upon the earlier issuance of superseding licensing actions.
The Commission has found that the applications, as amended, comply with the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, and has made the remainder of the findings as set forth in the amendments and has con-cluded that the issuance of these license amendments will not be inimical to the common def ense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
The Commission also has found that (1) considering and balancing the f actors as described 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 these amendments, and (2) the emergency demands for h.____
) power in the area served by the Station warrant the issuance of these amendments.
Notice of AEC Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating License-for operation of each of the Quad-cities Units 1 and 2 at 2511 megawatts (thermal), full-power, was published in the Federal Register on March 16, 1971 (36 F.R. 5008).
However, licenses for full-power have not been issued pending review of the additional environmental considerations, including the balancing of factors, required by the September 9,1971 revision of Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50. On March 9, 1972, - the Commission's Draf t Detailed Statement on Environmental Con-siderations was published in the Federal Register (37 F.R. 5073), and thereafter on March 24, 1972, a Supplementary Notice of AEC Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating Licenses was published in the Federal Register (37 F.R. 6142). The supplementary notice provided 30 days for intervention on the environmental aspects of the operation of Quad-Cities Units 1 and 2.
No requert for'a hearing by the applicants or petition for leave to intervene by any interested person have been filed following publication of the Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating Licenses on March 16, 1971, and the publication of the Supplementary Notice on March 24, 1972, thereby permitting the li-censing actions that are herein being noticed.
For further information concerning these actions, see copies of the following items which are availabJe for public inspection at the p
', Commission's Public pocument Room at 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and at the Moline Public Library at 504-17th Street, Hol'ine, Illinois 61265:
(1) Amendment No. 3 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-29 and Amendment No.1 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-30, (2) the Technical Specifications dated October 1,1971, and Nonradiological Technical Specifications, issued as part of Amendments 3 and 1, (3) Common-wealth Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company's applications, as amended, including the letter from Commonwealth Edison Company dated April 12, 1972, and supplement thereto dated April 28,
.1972, (4) the Division of Reactor Licensing's Safety Evaluation for the Quad-Cities Units 1 and 2 dated August 25, 1971, (5) the report of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards dated March 9, 1971, (6) the Discussion and Conclusions of Environmental Impact by the USAEC Directorate of Licensing concerning the Proposed Issuance of Licenses to the Commonwealth Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company for Emergency Operation of Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 dated May 4, 1972, (7) the Discussion and Conclusions pursuant to Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50 dated January 24, 1972, and supplement 1 thereto dated March 31,1972, and (8) the Commission's Draft Detailed Statement of Environmental Considerations dated March 6, 1972. A copy of each of the above items, except for item (3), may be obtained, as supply last, upon request addressed to the Atomic Energy l
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for Reactor Projects, Directorate of Licessing.
Dated at Bethesda,- Maryland, this 12th day of May 1972.
FOR THE ATOMIC UERGY COMMISSION-h ednsbebm A. Giambusso, Deputy Director for Reactor.Pr:jects Directorate of Licensing L.
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