ML20247L049

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-73 & Proposed NSHC Determination & Opportunity for Hearing.Amend Modifies Tech Specs by Deleting Prohibition on Disposal of Accident Generated Water

ML20247L049
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	09/11/1989
From:	Masnik M Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-320 NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE i The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued Amendment No. 35 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-73 issued to GPU Nuclear Corporation (the licensee), which revised the Technical Specifications for operation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2 located in Dauphin County,-Pennsylvania. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.

The amendment modifies Appendix A Technical Specifications by deleting the prohibition on disposal of the accident generated water (AGW) at the plant. In 1986 the licensee submitted a plan to dispose of the AGW by forced evaporation and atmospheric release of the 2.3 million gallons of AGW resulting from the March 28, 1979 accident at TMI-2. The NRC staff updated the 1981 Progransnatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) in June 1987 with the publication of the final Supplement 3 to the PEIS dealing with disposal of 1

the AGW, l On February 25, 1987 the licensee requested a change to the Technical Specifications deleting the prohibition for disposal of the AGW. This request to amend the license was revised on April 13, 1987.

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-.r The application for the 'anendment complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Comission's rules and regulations. The Comission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Comission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment.

Notice of Cons 6deration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on July 31,1987 (52 FR 28626). A hearing before an Atomic Safety and Licensing Boarc Panel (ASLBP) was held in November 1988. On February 2, 1989 the ASLBP issued a final initial decision finding in favor of the licensee in all relevant matters and recommending that the requested amendment to the license be authorized. On April 13, 1989 the Comission affirmed the Licensing Board's February 3, 1989 decision and determined that the licensee's application for an operating license. amendment , when issued by the staff, should become effective imediately. The Comission found no reason to stay the effectiveness of the -Licensing Board's decision pending completion of the appeals process.

Based upon the findings of Supplement 2 to the PEIS, the ASLBP final initial decision and the staff's safety evaluation, the Comission has concluded that the issuance of this amendment will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

For further details with respect to the action see (1) the application for amendnent dated February 25, 1987, revised April 13,1987,(4) Amendment flo. 35 to Licente No. DPR-73, which includes the NRC staff's Safety Evaluation

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(2) the. Commission's related evaluation of this amendment is contained in l

Supplement 2 to the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement dated June 1987 E- ' and a' Safety Evaluation dated September 11, 1989, and (3) the Commission's Environmental Assessment dated August 31, 1989 published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on September 11, 1989 (54 FR 37517). All of these items are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street N.W., Washington, D.C. and at the Government Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Walnut Street and Commonwealth Avenue,-

Box 1601, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105. A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Projects -

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Dated at Rockville, Maryland this lith day of September 1989.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Michael T. Masnik, Project Manager Project Directorate I-4 Division of Reactor Projects - 1/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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