ML20244D903
| ML20244D903 | |
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 06/08/1989 |
| From: | Hebdon F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML20244D903 (4) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-498 AND 50-499 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Cocmiission) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80, issued to Houston Lighting & Power Company (the licensee), for operation of the South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2 (STP-1 and STP-2) located in Matagorda County, Texas.
The amendments would permit the licensee to retain the minimum reactor coolant system (RCS) flow rate of 395,000 gpm in the plants' technical specifi-cations. After the 'icensee identified the presence of a thermal-hydraulic flow instability in STP-1 it fo11cwed with an imediate action to administrative 1y increase the minimum RCS flow to 400,000 gpm to offset any loss of generic DeparturefromNucleateBoiling(DNB) margin. Subsequent reevaluation of the condition concluded that operating at 395,000 gpm would result in only a slight increase in peak cladding temperature (10'F) for the limiting accident.
Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
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, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject 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 request for a hearing and a petition for leave to intervene. Requests fcr a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance uith the Commission's " Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Comission er an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Comission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Peard Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition, ar.d the Secretary or the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR 62.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, ar.d 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; l
(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
' be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest.
The petition should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for leave to interver.e or who has been admitted as a party ney amend the petiticr. without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days n.
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, prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceedings I:ut such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
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 must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the basn for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement which satisfies these requirements with respect to at least one contention will not be permitted to participate as a party.
Those permitted to intervene become parties to the pruceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene shall be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. by the above date. Where petitions are filed during thelastten(10)daysofthenoticeperiod,itisrequestedthatthepetitioner or representative for the petitioner promptly so inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at 1-800-325-6000(inMissouri1-800-342-6700). The Westerr Union operator should be given Datagram identification Number 3737 er.d the following message addressed to Frederick J. Hebdon:
petitioner's name and telephone number; date Petition was mailed; plant name; c'nd publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. A copy
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.. of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C.
20555, and to Newman &
Holtzinger, P.C., 1615 L Street N.W., Washington, D.C.
20036, attorney for the licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained
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absent a determination by the Commission, the presiding officer or the
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presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 30 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v)and2.714(d).
If a request for hearing is received, the Comission's staff may issue
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the amendment after it completes its technical review and prict to the completion of any reoufred hearing if it publishes a further notice for public comment of its proposed finding of no significant hazards consideration in accordance with 20 CFR 50.91 and 50.92.
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated April 18, 1989, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
and at the Wharton Junior College Library, Wharton, Texas 77488.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 8th day of June 1989.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
% L A QIdLL Frederick J. Heb8on, Director Project Directorate - IV Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation a