ML20248D027
| ML20248D027 | |
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| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 09/22/1989 |
| From: | Swenson W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8910040100 | |
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7590-01 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY, ET AL.
DOCKET NO. 50-440 NOTICE OF DENIAL OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied in part'a request by the licensees for amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-58, issued to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, Duquesne. Light Company, Ohio Edison Company, Pennsylvania Power Company and Toledo Edison Company (the licensees), for operation of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Unit No 1 (the facility) located in Lake County, Ohio.
The amendment, as proposed by the licensees, would consist of the following changes to the Technical Specifications (Appendix A to Facility Operating License No. NPF-58):
(1) Technical Specification (TS) 3.3.7.7 describes Limiting Conditions for Operation (LCO) of the Traversing In-Core Probe (TIP) System.
The licensees proposed to modify TS 3.3.7.7 to allow one or more TIP measurement locations to be inoperable with data replaced by that location's synnetric counterpart if that location is operable and provided the reactor core is operating in a type A control rod pattern and the total core uncertainty for the present cycle has been determined to be less than 8.7 percent (standard deviation).
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(2) There are also minor changes combining current paragraphs a. and
- b. and adding the footnote of applicability paragraph b. to paragraph a.
(3) The corresponding bases page has also been changed.
The licensees' application for the amendment was dated August 23, 1989. Notice of consideration of issuance of the amendment was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 30,1989(54FR35955).
The portion of the application which proposed unlimited substitution of data for inoperable TIP locations was denied. The staff determined that although no significant loss of accuracy would likely be involved by the licensees' proposed TS change, inoperable channels would decrease the information supplied by the measurement system and if abnormal power distributions developed, excessive substitution might make them difficult to recognize. Unrestricted substitution would allow as much as 44 percent of the TIP information to be missing. This would be undesirable for abnormal situations. Therefore, the staff has limited substitution to a maximum of 10 of the 41 TIp channels.
The licensees were notified of the Commission's denial of this request by letter dated September 22,198S. All other changes requested by the licensees' applic stion have been approved by Amendment No. 25 Notice of issuance of Amendment No. 25 will be published in the Comission's regular biweekly FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
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I l-By-- October. 30, 1989, the-licensees may demand a hearing with respect to the denial described above and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may' file a written petition for leave to intervene.
A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room,.
Gelman Building, 2120 L-Street N.W., Washington, D.C., by the above date.
A copy of the petition should also be sent to the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C.120555, and to Jay Silberg, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, N. W.,
Washington, D.C.
20037, attorney for the licensees.
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application fnr amendment dated August 23,1989, and (2) the Comission's Safety Evaluation issued with Amendment No. 25 to NPF-58 dated September 22,1989 which are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Perry Public Library, 3753 Main Street, Perry, Ohio 44081. A copy of item
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4 (2) nmy be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555, Attention: Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y & Special Projects.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd-ay of September,1989.
OR THE NUCLEAR GULATORY COMMISSION
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en H. Swenson, Project Manager i
Project Directorate III-3 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i
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