ML20236W917

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-50 & Opportunity for Prior Hearing on 870915 Application for Amend to Tech Specs Re post-accident Monitoring Instrumentation

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Issue date:	11/24/1987
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7590-01 IIFITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION-

'GPU NUCLEAR' CORPORATION?

DOCKET NO. 50-289 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION 0F ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT' TO FACILITY CPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PRIOR HEARING The United States Nuclear. Regulatory Comission (the.Comission) is i

considering' issuance of an amendment to-Fecility Operating License No. DPR-50 issued to General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation, for operation of

~Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 located in Middletown, PA.

j The amendment would revise the provisions in the Technical Specifications-l relating to post-accident monitoring instrumentation to satisfy Regulatory Guide 1.97 indication requirements..

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1 Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will l

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.have made findings reouired by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. as amended (the j

' Act) and the Comission's regulations.

By January 4,1987:

, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the sub,iect 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 j

petitions for leave'to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Comission's ' Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR i

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If a request. for _a hearing or ; petition for leave to intervene is j

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filed by the-above date..the Comission or an Atomic Safety. and Licensing l

Board, desigrated by the Commission or by the Chaiman of the-Atomic Safety 1

!and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on.the request and/or petitiorfanc the' j

' Secretary or the designated Atomic Safety and, Licensing Board will issue a

.l notice of hearing or.an appropriate order.

. As' required by 10 CFP 7.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set j

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 petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular! reference to the following factors:

(1)thenature of the petitioner's right under.the Act to be made a party to the proceeding;-

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.(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 I

be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should 1

also identify the specific. aspects of the subject matter of the proceeding 1

as-to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for~ leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition rnust satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

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n 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 nust include a list of the contentions which are

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Esought 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 secpe of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who; fails

~ to file.such a' supplement which satisfies these requirements with respect to i

at least one contention will not be permitted to participate as a party.

O Those permitted to' intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any

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. limitations'in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity

,to; participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity j

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to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses..

.A reouest.for a hearing or a. petition for leave to intervene shall be filed with the Secretary.of the Comission, United States Nuclear Regulatory, I

l Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, j

.s by the above date. Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that-the petitioner or representative for 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 j

Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the followino message addressed to John Stolz: (petitioner's name and telephone q

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. 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 Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Ernest L. Blake, Jr., Esq. Shaw, Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, 2300 N Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037, attorney

for.the licensee.

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' LNontimely filings of petitionsfor leave to intervene, amended petitiotis,

. supplemental petitiers(and/or request for. hearing will not be' entertained

. absent:a ; determination by the Comission, the presiding' officer or the:

. presiding' Atomic' Safety and Licensing Board..that the petition'and/or request a

should'be; granted based upon a balancing of factors specified in 10 CFR:

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-2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v)and2.'714(d)

For further: details:with respect to this action', see the application for' anendnent ' dated September 15, 1987, which is available for public' inspection at the, Commission's Public' Document-Room, 1717 H Street', NW, Washington',

DC.and at the. State Library of Pennsylvania,-Government Publications Section Education Building ~,- Harrisburg,:PA.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION' f $ Ob4 Gordon E. Edision, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate I-4 Division of Reactor Projects I/II l

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' This letter dated at.Bethesda, MD.on'the 24th of November 1987.

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