ML20214C899
| ML20214C899 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 02/18/1986 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20214C858 | List: |
| References | |
| 2.206, OL, NUDOCS 8602210319 | |
| Download: ML20214C899 (3) | |
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[7590-01]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[DocketNos. 50-528,50-529] ,
ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, ET AL
[Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units Nos.1 & 2) ~
Receipt of Requests for Action under 10 CFR 2.206 Notice is hereby given that, by a Petition dated January'17, 1986 and supplemented January 21, 1986, and February 1, 1986, Barbara Bush and Myron
. Scott, on behalf of the Coalition for Responsible Energy Education (CREE),
requested that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suspend the low power operat-ing license for Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS) Unit 2 of the Arizona Public Service Co., et al (Licensee) and defer any further licensing action with respect to Unit 2 pending resolution of a number of issues raised by the Petitioner. The Petitioner alleges that management incompetence and schedular pressure in the PVNGS Nuclear Program calls into question the safe conduct of start-up operations and power ascension at PVNGS Unit 2. Relief I requested includes a hearing to resolve the issues raised in the Petition of
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.. January 17, 1986, as supplemented January 21, 1986, and initiation of a special NRC Inspection and Oversight Team to closely monitor the Licensees' activities i
in the future.
A second Petition dated February 3,1986 alleges that the containment leak test of PVNGS Unit I was not conducted in accordance with the applicable NRC regulations. Relief requested includes immediate shu'tdown of t e reactor, retest of the containment using test procedares complying with all ipplicable S
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2-NRC requirements, and placement of all test data associated with containment leak rate testing at PVNGS into the public domain. [_
The Petitions are being handled as requests for action pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 and, accordingly, appropriate action will be taken on the Petitions within a reasonable time.
Copies of the Petitions are available for public inspection and the Commis-sion's Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555 and at the Phoenix Public Library, Business, Science and Technology Depart-
. , ment , 12 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ 85004 Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 18th day of February 1986.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l m Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ,
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F3-e Mr. E. E. Van Brunt, Jr.
Arizona Nuclear Power Project Palo Verde cc: .
Arthur C. Gehr. Esq. Kenneth Berlin, Esq. .
Snell & Wilmer Winston & Strawn 3100 Valley Center Suite 500 Phoenix, Arizona 85073 2550 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Mr. James M. Flenner, Chief Counsel Arizona Corporation Commission Ms. Lynne Rernahei 1200 West Washington Government Accountability Project Phoenix, Arizona 85007 of the Institute for Policy Studies 1901 Oue Street, NW Charles R. Kocher, Esq. Assistant Washington, DC 20009
. Council James A. Bneletto, Esq.
Southern California Edison Company Ms. Jill Morrison
. P. O. Box 800 522 E. Coloate Rosemead, California 91770 Temoi, Arizona 85238
-- Mr. Mark Ginsberg Mr. Charles B. Brinkman, Manager Energy Director Washington Nuclear Operations Office of Economic Planning Combustion Engineering, Inc.
and Development 7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 1310 1700 West Washington - 5th Floor Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Phoenix, Arizona 85007 Mr. Wayne Shirley Mr. Ron Rayner Assistant Attorney General P. O. Box 1509 Bataan Memorial Building Goodyear AZ 85338 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503 Mr. Roy Zimmerman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission -
P. O. Box 239 '
.. Arlington, Arizona 85322 Ms. Patricia Lee Hourihan 6413 S. 76th Street Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Regional Administrator, Region V U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1450 Maria Lane '
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Walnut Creek, California 94596 -
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