ML20245A774

Notice of Denial of Amends to Licenses DPR-24 & DPR-27. Amends Would Have Revised Tech Specs to Modify Inservice Testing Program Requirements

ML20245A774
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Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	04/07/1989
From:	Hannon J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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GL-89-04, GL-89-4, NUDOCS 8904250381
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY DOCKET N05. 50-266 AND 50-301 NOTICE OF DENIAL OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING'

. The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied a request by Wisconsin Electric Power Company,'(licensee) for 'an amendment to-Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27, issued to the licensee for operation of the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Unit Nos. I and 2, located in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the Technical Specifications (TS) to modify the inservice testing program requirements.

The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request cannot be granted. The licensee was notified of the Comission's denial of the

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proposed change by letter dated April 7, 1989. The Commission has issued guidance regarding the inservice testing program for light water reactor operating licenses. This guidance is found in Generic Letter 89-04, entitled " Guidance on Developing Acceptable Inservice Testing Programs," and is dated April 3, 1989. As a result, the Comission will not entertain any proposed change to the Point Beach technical specifications for the inservice testing program until such time as the Point Beach inservice testing program is in compliance with'the Generic Letter 89-04. At that time, should the licensee require modifications to the technical specifications, the Comission will entertain a new application.

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' By May 15, 1989 the licensee may demand a hearing with respect to the dental described above. Any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene.

A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C., 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service I

Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., by the above date.

A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.

20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esq, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20037, attorney for the licensee.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendment dated February 17, 1977 as supplemented November 27, 1978, and (2) the Comission's letter to the licensee dated April 7,1989.

These documents are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and at the Joseph P. Mann Library,1516 1

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,a c Sixteenth Street..Two Rivers, Wisconsin. A copy of Item (2) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555, Attention: Document Control Desk.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this : 7th day of April 1989 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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John N. Hannon, Director Project Directorate III-3 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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