ML20245A651
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| Site: | Three Mile Island  |
| Issue date: | 04/12/1989 |
| From: | Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-320 THREE MILE ISLAND NUClTAR STATION, UNIT NO. 2 AMENDMENT TO FACILITf OPERATING LICENSE Amendment No. 33-License No. DPR-73
- 1. The Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) has found that:
A. The application for amendment by GPU' Nuclear Corporation (the licensee) dated April 4, 1988 complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act),
and the Comission's rules and regulations set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I; B. The facility will operate in conformity with the application, the' provisions of the Act, and the rules and regulations of the Ccmmission; C. There is reasonable assurance (i) that the activities authorized by this amendment can be conducted without endangering the health and safety of the public, and (ii) that such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Comission's regulations; D. The issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the comon defense and security or to the health and safety of the public; and
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E. The issuance of this amendment 1s in accordance with 10 CFR Part 51 of the Comission's regulations and all applicable requirements have been satisfied.
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- 2. Accordingly, the license is amended by changes to the Technical Specifications. as indicated in the attachment to this license amendment, and paragraph 2.c.(2) of Facility Operating License No. DPR-50 is hereby amended to read as follows:
(2) Technical Specifications The Technical. Specifications contained in Appendices A and B, as revised through Amendment No. 33, are hereby incorporated in the license. GPU Nuclear Corporation shall operate the facility in accordance with the Technical Specifications.
- 3. This license amendrent is' effective as of its date of issuance, to be implemented within 30 days of issuance.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMt11SS10N
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Attachment:
Changes to the Technical Specifications Date of Issuance: April 12, 1989 I
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e ATTACHMENT TO LICENSE AMENDMENT NO. 33 FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. DPR-73 DOCKET NO. 50-320 Replace the following pages of the Appendix B Technical Specifications with the attached pages. The revised pages are identified by amendment number 33 and
.contain vertical lines indicating the area of change.
Remove Insert Page 1-1 Page 1-1 Page 1-2 Page 1-2 Page 1-3 Page 1-3 Page 2-3 Page 2-3 Page 2-10 Page 2-10 I Pace 2-15a Page 2-15a Page 2-15c Page 2-15c I
.1.0 D'efinitions
-Accuracy: Refers to the deviation of a result obtained by a particular method from the value accepted as true.
. Aerial Remote Sensing: The measurement or acquisition from aircraft or space-craf t of information on some property of an object or phenomenon by a recording device that is not in physical or -intimate contact with the object or phenomenon under study. The technique employs such devices as the camera, radio frequency receivers, and radar systems.
Batch Release: A batch release is the discharge of fluid wastes of a discrete Volume.
Calibration: An instrument or device calibration shall be the adjustment, as necessary, of the output such that it responds with the necessary range and !
accuracy'to known values of the parameter (s) which the instrument sensor or j device monitors. The calibration shall encompass the entire circuit including j the sensor, indicatory control feature, alarm and/or trip function (s), and j shall include the Channel Functional Test. The calibration may be performed by _l. 1
.any series of sequential, overlapping or total circuit steps such that the }
entire circuit is calibrated as specified.
Channel Check: A qualitative assessment of channel behavior during operation by observation. This determination should include, where possible, comparison of the channel. indication and/or status with other indication and/or status
-derived from independent instrument channels measuring the same parameter.
(NOTE: .For radioactive effluent monitors this shall include a verification
,which provides a qualitative assessment of channel response when the channel senser is exposed to a radioactive source.)
Channel Functional Test:
- a. Analog Channels - the injection of a simulated signal into the channel as close to the primary sensor as practicable to verify OPERABILITY including alarm and/or trip functions.
- b. Bistable Channels - The injection of a simulated signal into the channel sensor to verify OPERABILITY including alarm and/or trip functions.
Closed Cycle Cooling: The condenser cooling method in which the circulating water, af ter passing through cooling towers, is recirculated back to the condenser intake with the exception of the blowdown which is discharged to the receiving water body.
Combined Available Chlorine: Chlorine existing in water in chemical combination with ammonia or organic nitrogen compounds.
Composite Sample: A combination of individual samples obtained at regular in-tervals over a time period. Either the volume of each individual sample is proportional to the low rate discharge at the time of sampling or the number of equal volume samples is proportional to the time period used to produce the composite.
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MontinuousRelease: A continuous release is the discharge of fluid waste of a non-discrete volume, e.g., from a volume or system that has an input flow du' ring the' continuous release.
Daily Average Concentration: Daily aJerage concentration means the arithmetic average of all. daily determinations of concentration made during a calendar
' month. Daily. determinations of concentration using a composite sample shall '
be the concentration of the composite sample. When grab samples are used, the
-daily determination of concentration shall be the arithmetic average of all the samples collected during that calendar day.
Dail'y Maximum Concentration: Daily maximum concentration means the maximum concentration recorded for any calendar day.
Free Available Chlorine: Chlorine existing in water as hypochlorous acid and hypochlorite ions.
Grab Sample: A: grab sample is an individual sample collected in less than fifteen minutes.
Ground Truth or Ground Data Survey: Supporting data collected on the ground and information derived therefrom, as an aid to the interpretathn of remotely-recorded survey, such as aerial imagery, etc. Generally, this should be per-formed concurrently with the airborne surveys.
H_e_rbicides: Chemicals that kill plants or inhibit their normal growth.
Infrared, Photographic: Pertaining to or designating the portion of the 1 electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum; generally defined as from 0.7 to about 1.0 um, or the useful limits of f % sensitivities. ,
Lake Frederic: Formerly York Haven Reservoir. ;
Manner of Herbicide Application
- a. Basal injection in which' selected individual trees receive herbicide injections beneath the bark;
- b. Basal application in which individual plants are treated with pellets or sprays applied to soil at the base of the plant;
- c. Selective foliar spray (spot treatments or directed spray) in which individual plants are sprayed with ground-based equipment;
- d. Broadcast application in which herbicide is distributed either as pellets or spray uniformly over the entire predetermined area of
-land;
! e. Aerial application in which entire segments of the corridor are treated primarily by broadcast applications employing various types l' of aircraft.
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. Multispectral or Multiband Photographs: A color picture produced by assigning a color to a particular spectral band.
N_ormal Operation: Operation of either unit at the station at greater than 2%
of rated thermal power.in other than a safety or power emergency situation.
NPDES Permit: NPDS Permit is the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit No. PA0009920 issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to Metropolitan Edison Company. This pern,it authorizes Metropolitan Edison Company to discharge from TMINS, controlled waste water into the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Precision: Relates to the reproducibility of measurements within a set, that is, to the scatter or dispersion of a set about its central value.
Protected Areas: Ecological areas designated by the staff to receive special mitigative actions such as selected vegatative communities bordering rivers or streams which are not to receive herbicidal applications, etc.
Sampling Frequency: The frequency of sampling specified for the performance of surveillance requirements shall correspond to the intervals defir.ec in Table 1.1.
Scale: The ratio of a distance on a photograph or map to its corresponding distance on the ground.
Spectral Band: A width, generally expressed in wavelength or frequency of a particular portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. A given sensor (e.g.,
radiometer detector or camera film) is designed to measure or be sensitive to energy received from that part of the spectrum.
Station and Unit: Station refers to TMI Units 1 and 2. Unit refers only to TMI-1 or TMI-2, as defined by its usage. Reference to specific instrumentation will be indicated by placing each unit's instrument number in parentheses, Unit 1 preceding Unit 2. Only the individual unit's instrument is applicable to specifications applied to that unit. J t
Total' Residual Chlorine: (residual chlorine) chlorine existing in water as either hypochlorous acid, hyhypochlorite or in chemical combination with ammonia or organic nitrogen compounds.
Surveillance Requirements: Each Surveillance Requirement shall be performed j within the specified time interval with:
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- a. A maximum allowable extension not to exceed 25% of the surveillance '
interval, and
- b. A total maximum combined interval time for any 4 consecutive tests not to exceed 3.25 times the specified surveillance interval.
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i LIMITING CONDITIONS FOR OPERATION 2.0 MONITORING REQUIREMENTS-l Specification (Cont'd) Specification (Cont'd)
"For the purposes of this E. Radioactive liquid waste specification, the MPC* sampling Ci/ml.(168 hour0.00194 days <br />0.0467 hours <br />2.777778e-4 weeks <br />6.3924e-5 months <br />) and activity analysis forXe-333is5x103 m shall be performed in accordance The MPC with Table 2.3-1. Prior to the 1 x 10 3mci (168
/ml".hour) for Xe-135 is release of each batch of liquid effluent, a sample shall be taken from that batch and analyzed for
- f. The dose or dose commitment the concentration of each sig-from liquid effluents shal~ tt nificant gamma emitter to less than or equal to 3 mrem demonstrate compliance with total body and less than or equal Specification "a" using the flow to 10 mrem to any organ for the into which the effluent is calendar year. discharged.
F. The liquid effluent radia-tion mo,'itor WDL-R-131 shall be calibrated at least quarterly by means of a known radioactive source. WDL-R-131 shall also have a Channel Functional Test monthly and a Channel Check prior to each discharge to verify that the read-out device is indicating as expected.
G. The ability of WDL-V-99 to close automatically on receipt of a high radiation alarm signal from WDL-R-1311 shall be checked annually.
Bases Bases Liquid radioactive waste release Specifications A, B, and C, levels to unrestricted areas should above require that suitable be kept "as low as practicable" and equipment to monitor the are not to exceed the concentration release of radioactive limits specified in 10 CFR 20. The materials in liquid effluents specifications provide reasonable are operating during any period assurance that the resulting annual these releases are taking place.
exposure to an individual in off site areas will not exceed the The surveillance requirements design objectives of Appendix I given in the remaining specifi-to 10 CFR Part 50, which were cations provide assurance that established as requirements liquid wastes are properly for the cleanup of TMI-2 in controlled and monitored during
.the NRC's Statement of Policy of any planned release of April 27, 1981. This assurance is radioactive materials in liquid based on the fact that the effluents.
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i LIMITING CONDITIONS FOR OPERATION- 2. 0 MONITORING REQUIREMENTS Specification (Cont'd)
F. During power operation, the condensor vacuum pump discharge shall be continuously monitored for gross gaseous activity.
The monitor shall not be inoperable for more than a week. Whenever this monitor is inoperable, a grab sample shall be taken daily and analyzed for gross radioactivity. (p y).
G. Facility records shall be maintained of radioactive con-centration, release ratio and volume of each batch of gaseous effluents released and the length of time over which release occurred. Estimates of the error associated with each reported value should be included in facility records.
H. At least annually, auto-matic initiation and closure of the Waste Gas Decay Tank Discharge valve on alarm of (Unit 2: WDG-R-1480) shall be verified.
I. The Unit Vent monitors for TMI-2 (HP-R-219, HP-R-219A, HP-R-225, HP-R-226), respec-tively, shall be calibrated at least every eighteen months by means of a known radioactive source. These detectors shall have a Channel Functional Test at least monthly, and a Channel Check at least daily, to verify that the read-out device is indicated as expected.
Bases Bases The specified levels provide Specification A. through I.,
76&sonable assurance that the above, require that suitable resulting annual exposure equipment to monitor the rate from noble gases at any radioactive gaseous releases location at the site boundary are operating during any will not exceed 10 millirems period these releases are taking per year. At the same place.
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LIMITING CONDITION FOR OPERATION The' radioactive gaseous effluent monitoring instrumentation channels shown in Table 2.1-3a shall be.0PERABLE.
APPLICABILITY: As shown in Table 2.1-3a.
. Action:
'With less than the minimum number of ra'dioactive gaseous effluent monitoring instrumentation channels OPERABLE, take the' ACTION shown in Table 2.1-3a.
I SURVEILLANCE REQUIREMENTS Each radioactive gaseous effluent monitoring instrumentation channel shall be demonstrated OPERABLE by performance of the CHANNEL CHECK, CHANNEL CALIBRATION and CHANNEL FUNCTIONAL TEST operations at the . frequencies shown in Table 2.1-3b
.(per occupational exposure considerations and detector sensitivity in ambient
-radiation areas).
. BASES The radioactive'gaseou> effluent instrumentation is provided to monitor and control, as applicable, the releases of radioactive materials in gaseous effluents during actual or potential releases of gaseous effluents. The 0PERABILITY and use-of this-instrumentation is consistent with the requirements
-of General Design Criterion 64 of Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 50.
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TABLE.2.1-3b RADI0 ACTIVE GASEOUS EFFLUENT MONITORING INSTRUMENTATION SURVEILLANCE REQUIREMENTS CHANNEL I CHANNEL CHANNEL FUNCTIONAL INSTRUMENT _ CHECK CALIBRATION TEST
- 10. EPICOR-II VENTILATION SYSTEM
- a. Noble Gase Activity Monitor D R(3) Q(2)
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- c. Particulate Sampler W N. A. N.A.
- e. Sampler Flow Rate Monitor D SA SA TABLE NOTATION (2) CHANNEL FUNCTIONAL TEST shall also demonstrate that control room alarm annunication occurs if any of the following conditions exist.
- 1. Instrument indicates measured levels above the alarm setpoint.
- 2. Circuit failure (alarm function only).
- 3. Instrument indicates a downside failure (alarm function only).
- 4. Instrument controls not set in operate mode or the switch position-administratively monitored and controlled (3) The initial CHANNEL CALIBRATION shall be performed using one or inore of the referenced standards certified by the National Bureau of Standards or using standards that have been obtained from suppliers that participate in measurement assurance activities with NBS. These standards'shall permit calibrating the system over its intended range of energy and measurement range. For subsequent CHANNEL CALIBRATION, sources that have been related to the initial calibration shall be used.
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