ML20236J179
| ML20236J179 | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 10/30/1987 |
| From: | Rood H Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8711050178 | |
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1 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FDIS0N COMPANY, ET AL.
I DOCKET N0. 50-301 AND 50-362 l
NOTICE OF DENIAL 0F AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Comission) has denied a request by the licensees for an amendment to facility Operating License Nos.
s NPF-10 and NPF '15, issued to the Southern California Edison Company, San Diego Gas and Electric Company, the City of Riverside, California and the City of Anaheim, California for operation of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3 (SONGS 2 & 3) in San Diego County, California. The notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments was published in the Federal Register on October 7,1987(52F.R.37553).
The amendments, as proposed by the licensees, would change the Unit 2 and 3 Technical Specifications (TS) by deleting the requirement to monitor and report the toxic gas cargo traffic on Interstate 5 (1-5). The requirement to monitor and report explosive and flammability hazard cargo on I-5 and hazardous cargo traffic on the AT & SF railen would remain in effect. The licensees contend that the nearby traffic of hazardous cargo on I-5 is suffi-ciently low so that the risk of control room operator incapacitation is acceptably low.
Furthermore, the licensees state that the same traffic is likely to remain unchanged for the duration of their facility licenses.
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Hence, t ey propose that the.need for periodic surveying of the traffic.is unnecessary The NRC-staff has reviewed the. licensees' risk assessment and finds that there is no basis-for expecting that the hazardous cargo traffic on:
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1-5 neat SONGS l2 & 3 will remain unchanged for.the duration of the facilities' j
l licenses. The licensees' conclusions are based primarily on the application t
of. nationally averaged spill data to the description of potential spills near SONGS 2 & 3.
Nationally averaged data intrinsically are insensitive to local variations. The' risk et SONGS 2 & 3 is derived from local potential events
.(i.e.,-: pills'within a few miles of the plant). Hence, in the absence of 1
supporting data, we conclude that there is no basis for the proposed TS elimination.. Therefore, the proposed Technical Specification change is not adceptable..
By December 8, 1987 the licensees.may demand c hearing with respect to the denial described above and any person whose interest may be affected by this
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. proceeding may file a written petition for leave'to intervene.
A request for a hearing or petition for'ieave to intervene must-be filed with the Secretary for the Commission, U.S. Nuclear RegJlatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C., by the above date.
l A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Executive Legal a,
Director, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Ccmission, Washington, D.C.
20555, and to l.
lI Charles R. Kocher, Esq., Southern California Edison Company, 2244 Walnut Grove
' Avenue, P.O. Box 800, Rosemead, California 91770 and Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, Attention: David R. Pigott, Esq., 600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California 94111, attorney for the licensees.
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u For further: details with respect.to this action, see (1) the application:
for amendments' dated July 31,~1987, and~(2) the Commis'sio'n's Safety Evaluatior,
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' forwarded to the licensees by letter dated October 30, 1987, which are available for'p'ublic' inspection atLthe' Commission's Public Document Room,'1717 3 Street, I
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Washington', D.C., and at-the General Library,' University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California. 92713. A copy of Item (2) may be obtained upon-
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' request addressed to'the U.S. Nuclear' Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: ' Director, Division of Reactor Projects III IV, V ar,d Special Projects.-
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' Dated et Bethesda, Maryland, this 30th day of October,1987.
FOR THE hUC1. EAR REGUL ATORY COMMISSION j
QI Harry Rood., Ssnior Project Manager 3
Project Directorate V'
' Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects 6
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