ML20153G134

Corrected Ltr Forwarding Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-6 & Opportunity for Hearing on 880707 Request

ML20153G134
Person / Time
Site:	Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png
Issue date:	08/23/1988
From:	Scott W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Berry K CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
References
TAC-68890, NUDOCS 8809080046
Download: ML20153G134 (3)

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, August 23, 1988 Docket No. 50-155 r

Mr. Kenneth W. Berry Director, Nuclear Licensing Consumers Power Company 1945 West Parnall Road Jackson, Michigan 49201

SUBJECT:

BIG ROCK POINT PLANT (TAC NO. 68890) .

Enclosed is a "Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License and Opportunity for Hearing" concerning your application for amendment dated July 7,1988. This Notice was forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

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Wayne E. Scott, Jr., Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V

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SUBJECT:

BIG ROCK POINT PLANT (TAC NO. 68890)

Enclosed is a "Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License and Opportunity for Hearing" concerning your application for amendment dated July 7,1988. This Notice was forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely, b

Wayne E. Scott, Jr., Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V

& Special Projects

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/ enclosure:

See next page

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Mr. Kenneth W. Berry

. Consumers Power Company Big Rock Point Plant cc: Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary Consumers Power Company i 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire -

Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201  :

Mr. Thomas W. E1 ward Plant Manager '

Big Rock Point Plant 10269 U.S. 31 North i Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Mr. Bud Heeres County Commissioner 303 Sheridan i

Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 l Office of the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building -

Lansing Michigan 48913 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health P. O. Box 30035 I'

Lansing, Michigan 48909 I

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission '

j. Resident Inspector Office Big Rock Point Plant '

10253 U.S. 31 North  !

Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 I i i

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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-155 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO '

FACILITY 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. DPR-6 issued to the Consumers Power Company (the licensee), for operation of the Big Rock Point Plant located in Charlevoix County, Michigan.

In accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated

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July 7,1988, the proposed amendment would modify Big Rock Point Technical i

Specifications by replacing the requirement to partial-stroke test the Reactor Depressurization System depressurizing valves quarterly with a requirement to full-stroke test all four depressurizing valves each refueling outage.

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 Act) and the Commission's regulations. I i

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By Sept. 22, 1988, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amenc%ent to the subject 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 hearing and a petition for leave to intervene. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave ts intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Comission's "Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2. If a request for a hetring or petition for leave to intervene is filed i

by the above date, the Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, i 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 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

[ particular reference to the following factors: (1) the nature of the petitioner's

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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 ,

l specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which I

petitioner wishes to iiitervene.

Any person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without j l

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.

Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled 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 litigated in the matter and the bases for each contention set forth with reason-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 opportunity z 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 must be filed i with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 00555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be i delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, NW.,

Washington, DC, by the above date. Where petition. are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner f promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union j at 1-800-325-6000 (in Missouri 1-800-342-6700). The Western Union operator l

should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message l addressed to Martin J. Virgilio: (petitioner's name and telephone number);

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(date petition was mailed); (plant name); and (publication date and page number

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s 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 Judd L. Bacon, Esq. , Consumers Power Cnspany, 212 West Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201, 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 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 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).

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

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated July 7, 1988, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Doce.cnt Room, 17'7 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 20555, and at the North Car tral P.f chigan College,1515 Howard Street, Petoskey, Michigan 49770.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of August.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY CO M ISSION

). 04 Marti J. Y r1 lio, Director Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - 111, IV, V

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