ML20235Q761

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amends to Licenses NPF-10 & NPF-15 & Opportunity for Hearing on 881230 Request Re Revising Tech Spec 3/4.3.3.1, Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation & Tech Spec 3/4.3.2, ESF Actuation..

ML20235Q761
Person / Time
Site:	San Onofre
Issue date:	02/16/1989
From:	Knighton G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:
Shared Package
ML13316B994	List: IR 05000206/1988028 ML20235Q761 ML20235S799
References
NUDOCS 8903030025
Download: ML20235Q761 (5)

Text

_ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _

,* e l 7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDIS0N COMPANY, ET AL.

DOCKET N05. 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 Commission) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-10 and NPF-15 issued to Southern California Edison Company (SCE), San Diego Gas and Electric Company, the City of Riverside, California and the City of Anaheim, California (the licensees), for operation of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3 located in San Diego County, California. The request for amendments was submitted by letter dated December 30, 1988 and identified as Proposed Change PCN-266.

The proposed change would revise Technical Specification 3/4.3.2, " Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Instrumentation," Table 4.3-2, Item 12.c; and Technical Specification 3/4.3.3.1, " Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation," Table 4.3-3, Item 1.b. Radiation monitoring instruments provide two trains of continuous monitoring, recording, and indication of containment area radiation (Gamma) levels.

These systems also provide alarm annunciation and Containment Purge Isolation trip initiation signals whenever technical specification limits for area radiation levels are approached or exceeded.

o c.

gg Surveillance Requirement 4.3.2.1, Table 4.3-2, Instrument 12.c, and 8lj Surveillance Requirement 4.3.3.1, Table 4.3-3, Instrument 1.b, state that each 88 ge containment purge isolation area monitor shall be demonstrated operable by the performance of a Channel Calibration at least once per 18 months. The proposed change would revise this interval from at least once per 18 months to at least once per refueling.

? ". ".

)

Before issuance of the proposed license amendments, the Commission will l have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's regulations.

By March 27 , 1989 the licensees may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendments to the subject facility operating l

l 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 filed by the above date, the Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and j 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 for leave to intervene shall set l

forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and I 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

=

s 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 schedule in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first pre-hearing 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 4 sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set l

forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters l l

within the scope of the amendments under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement which satisfies these requirements with respect i 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

~s -

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 Comission, 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 I' I

representative for the petitioner promptly inform the Commission by a toll-free i

s- ,

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

The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed 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 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 petitlcnn, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained l absent a determination by the Commission, the presiding officer or the l 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 1.0 l CFR2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v)and2.714(d).

1 If a request for hearing is received, the Commission's staff may issue l the amendment after it completes its technical revicw 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. I l

l

, For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendments which is available for public inspection at the Commission'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 16th day of February,1989.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION A

C4 George . Knighton Director i Project Directorate V Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects i

_ __ _____ _ - _