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Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amends to Licenses NPF-10 & NPF-15 & Proposed NSHC Determination & Opportunity for Hearing Re 890407 Request to Revise Tech Spec 3/4.4.10, to Extend 18-month Surveillance to Once Per Outage
ML20246F049
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Site: San Onofre  Southern California Edison icon.png
Issue date: 05/05/1989
From: Samworth R
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COPtilSSION j

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDIS0N COMPANY, ET AL DOCKET NOS. 50-361 AND 50-362 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Connission) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-10 and NPF-15 issuedtoSouthernCaliforniaEdisonCompany(SCE),SanDiegoGasandElectric fi Company, the City of Riverside, California and the City of Anaheim, California

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-(thelicensees),foroperationofSanOnofreNuclearGeneratingStation, Units 1

l 2 and 3 located in San Diego County, California. The request for amendments J

was submitted by letter dated April 7,1989 and identified as Proposed Change PCN-291.

The proposed change would revise Technical Specification 3/4.4.10,

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" Reactor Coolant Gas Vent System." This specification requires operability of the Reac :or Coolant Gas Vent System in Modes 1, 2, 3 and 4, which ensures that i

I noncondesible gases which could inhibit natural circulation core cooling can be exhausted from the primary system following a design basis event. This specification also provides actions to be taken should the operability i.

requirements not be met as well as surveillance requirements to periodically demonstrate operability of the system.

l Surveillance Requirement 4.4.10 requires that each reactor coolant system l

vent path be demonstrated operable at least once per 18 months. The proposed change would revise the frequency of this surveillance to at least once per refueling interval.

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I Before issuance of the proposed license amendments, the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the I

Act)andtheCommission' regulations.

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, 1989 the licensees may file a request for a hearing with p

respect to issuance of the amendments to the subject facility operating licenses, 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 hearing and petition for leave to intervene.

Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with 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 i

filed by the above date, the Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel will rule on the request and/or petition, and 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 2.714, a petition fcr leave to intervene shall set i

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; (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 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 pre-hearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

Notlaterthanfifteen(15)dayspriortothefirstpre-hearingconference 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 j

sought 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 scope of the amendments 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 proceeding, subject to a

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any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the f

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 Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC, 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 inform the Commission by a toll-free

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4. 1 telephone call to Western Union at 1-(800)325-6000(inMissouri 1-(800)342-6700).

i The Western Union operator should be given Datagrdm Identification Number 3737 l

-and.the following message aridressed to George W. Knighton: petitioner's name and telephone 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, DC 20555, and to Mr. Charles R. Kocher, Esq., Southern 1

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, attorneys for the licensees.

Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Commission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in the 10 s

I' CFR2.714(a)(1)(1)-(v)and2.714(d).

r If a request for hearing is received, the Commission's staff may issue the amendment after it completes its technical review and prior to the completion of any required hearing if it publishes a further notice for public comment of its proposed finding of no significant hazards consideration in accordance with 10 CFR 50.91 and 50.92.

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,c For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendments which is available for public inspection at the Comission's public Document Room,' 2120 L Street NW, Washington, DC, and at the General Library, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92713.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this day of

, 1989.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION h

a Robert B. Samworth, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate V Division of Reactor Projects III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of. Nuclear Reactor Regulation i

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