ML20033C662

Notice of Issuance & Availability of Amend 56 to License DPR-24

ML20033C662
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Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	11/10/1981
From:	Clark R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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.7590-01 UNITED STATES-NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-266 WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY N0TICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY

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OPERATING LICENSE AND NEGATIVE DECLARATION The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (the Commission) has issued Amendment No. 56 to Facility Operating License No. OPR-24 issued to Wisconsin Electric Power Company (the licensee), which revised Technical Specifications for operation of. Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Unit No.1 (the facility) located in the Town of Two Creeks, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.

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The amendment authorizes power operation of Unit 1 with up to six tubes in one steam generator having degradation exceeding the plugging limit provided these tubes have been repaired by insertion of sleeves to bridge the degraded or defective portion of the tube.

It also establishes an additional plugging limit for the six repaired tubes of 35% degradation of the sleave nominal wall thickness.

The application for the amendment complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the' Commission's rules and regulations 3

in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment.

Notice of Proposed Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License in connection with this action was published in the Federal Register on e

l August 7, 1981 (46 FR 40359). A Petition to Intervene was filed on July 20, 1981 as amended by letter dated August 31,1981,by Wisconsin's Environment' l a

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2 Decade. Hearings were held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 29 and 30,1931.

.The Board ruled that the NRC staff was authorized to issue the amendment.

The Commission has prepared an environmental impact appraisal of the action being authorized and has concluded that an environmental impact state.

ment for this particular action is not warranted because there will be no environmental impact attributable to the action significantly greater than that which has already been predicted and described in the Comnission's Final Environmental Statement for the facility dated May,1972 and the action will not significantly affect the quality of the human erivironment.

Therefore the Commission has determined that the issuance of a negative declaration to this effect is appropriate.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the app 1ication

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for amendment dated July 2,1981 as modified by letter dated October 12,

1981, (2) Amendment No. 56 to License Nos. DPR-24, (3) the Conmission's related Safety Evaluation, (4) tne Commission's Environnental Impact Appraisal and (5) the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's Memorandum and Order dated November 5, 1981. All of these items are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, Dec. 20555, and at the Joseph Mann Library, 1516 16th Street, Two Rivers,

. Wisconsin 54241. A copy of items (2), (3) and (4) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washingtcn, D.C.

20555, Attention: Director, Division of Licensing.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 10th day of-November,1981 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORf COMMISSION M

Robert A. Clark, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #3 Division of Licensing