ML20154B813

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amend to License DPR-34 & Opportunity for Hearing.Amend Modifies Setpoints Used in Plant Protective Sys

ML20154B813
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Site:	Fort Saint Vrain
Issue date:	04/28/1988
From:	Calvo J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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. ,1 7590.-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0i44ISSION PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO DOCKET NO. 50-267

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NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-34, issuedtoPublicServiceCompanyofColorado(thelicensee),foroperationof theFortSt.VrainNuclearGeneratingStation(FSV)locatedinWeldCounty, i Colorado.

The amendment would modify the setpoints used in the FSV Plant Protective

( ' System (PPS). It would bring the method of determining those setpoints into compliance with IST Standard S67.04-1982, "Setpoints for Nuclear Safety-Related Instrumentation Used in Nuclear Power Plants". The licensee has sumarized this matter in Attachment 3 to the amendment application, dated February 8,1988(P-88025).

The methodology developed by the licensee allows the PPS instrumentation setpoints to account for potential inaccuracies in the instrumentation.

Inaccuracies can arise frori several factors. These are:

- Accuracy of components not tested when the setpoint is measured M

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- Accuracy of test equipment, and

- Environmental effects on equipment accuracy.

A separate safety evaluation has been provided for each parameter in the proposed Technical Specification changes. These are:

- Primary Coolant Pressure - High and Low

- Low Superheat Header Temperature and High Differential Tempera'ture --

between Loop 1 and Loop 2

- Circulator Speed Low

- Loss of Circulator Bearing Water and

- CirculatorSpeedHigh-Steam (Drive)

Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Comission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.

By June 8,1988 , the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating l

i 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 a hearing and a petition for leave to intervene. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to 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 hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Comission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Cocinission or by the Chaiman 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 62.714, 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)thenature of tee 7e~titioner'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 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 l

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 prehearing conference scheduled in the proceedings, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.

( Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference l 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 sought to be litigated in the matter, end the bases for each centention set l

forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails i to file such a supplement which satisfies these requirements with respect to at least one contention will not be pemitted to participate as a party.

Those pennitted to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the

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 Comission, United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch.

--or may-be delivered to the Corzission's Public Document Ro<n,1717 H Street. .

N.W., Washington, D.C. by the above date. Where petitio':s are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner or representative for the petitioner promptly so infonn the Cornission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at 1-800-325-6000 (in Missouri 1-800-342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Datagram identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to Jose A. Calvo: 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 Coneission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Kelly, Stansfield & 0'Donnell, Room 900, 550 15th Street, Denver, Colorado 80202, attorney for the licensee.

Montimely filings cf petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a detennination by the Comission, 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)and2.714(d).

. o If a request for hearing is received, the Commission's staff may issue the amendment after it completes its technical review 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.

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For further details with respect to this action, see the application for '

amendment dated February 8,1988, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

and at the Greely Public Library, City Complex, Greely, Colorado.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 28th day of April,1988.

FOR THE NUCLEAR PEGULATORY COMMISSION

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l Jose A. Calvo, Director Project Directorate - IV Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation l

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