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Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License NPF-43 & Opportunity for Hearing.Amend Revises Tech Specs to Allow Complete off-loading W/Provisions to Suspend Min Count Rate Requirement for source-range Monitor Channels
ML20246F170
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Site: Fermi DTE Energy icon.png
Issue date: 07/03/1989
From: Yandell L
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DETROIT EDISON COMPANY WOLVERINE POWER SUPPLY COOPERATIVE, INCORPORATED DOCKET NO. 50-341 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILI1Y OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-43, issued to the Detroit Edison Company and Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc.

(the licensees), for operation of Fermi-2 located in Monroe County, Michigan.

In accordance with the licensees' application for amendment dated April 3, 1989,.the amendment would revise the Technical Specifications (TS) relating to the Source Range Monitors (SRM). The change would allow complete core off-loading with provisions to suspend the minimum count rate requirement for the SRM channels to allow removal of the final 16 fuel assemblies. The amendment also increases the signal-to-noise ratio required for a reduced SRM minimum count rate requirement and eliminates a related TS provision which is no longer needed.

Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended -(the l

Act) and the Commission's regulations.

ByA0 gust 10, 1959 respect to issuance of the amendment to the sub. ject 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 g713o241 890703 p

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, hearing and a petition for leave to intervene. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Cotriission'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 l

by the above date, the Comission 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.

l As required by 10 CFR 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set 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 l

particular reference to the following factors:

(1) the nature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature end I

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 l

proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the 1

specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any persen who has filed a petition for leave tg intervene or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without requestir,g leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first pre-heari.ng conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petitiors must l

satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference schedoled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene, which must include a list of the contentions that are sought to be

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' litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with rerson-able specificity.

Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supple-ment 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 any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportun'ty i

to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence end cross-examine witnesses.

A reouest for a Searing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secreta, y 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 recuested that the petitioner promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at 1-800-325-6000 (in Missouri 1-800-342-6700). The Western Union operator sh6uld be j

given Datagram Identification Number 3737 r.id the following message addressed to Lawrence A. Yandell:

petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and put'lication 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 John Flynn, Esq., Detroit Edison Company, 2000 Second Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48226, 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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(v) and 2.714(d).

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 hearino 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 50.02.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for i

amendment dated April 3,1989, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Putlic Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20555, and at the Monroe County Library System, 3700 South Custer Road, Monroe, Michigan 48161.

l Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of July.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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Lawrence A. Yandell, Acting Director Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V & Special Pr'jects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation l

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