[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 3669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1173]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Wisconsin Electric Power Company; Point Beach Nuclear Power
Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Denial of Amendment to Facility Operating
License and Opportunity for Hearing
[Docket Nos. 50-266 and 50-301]
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied
a request by Wisconsin Electric Power Company, the licensee, for an
amendment to Facility Operating Licenses DPR-24 and DPR-27 issued to
the licensee for operation of the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1
and 2, respectively, located in Two Creeks, Wisconsin. Notice of
Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating Licensee
and Opportunity for a Hearing was published in the Federal Register on
September 16, 1994 (59 FR 47656).
The licensee submitted the amendment request to revise Technical
Specification (TS) Section 15.4.2, ``In-Service Inspection of Safety
Class Components,'' by incorporating acceptance criteria to allow steam
generator sleeved tubes with certain upper sleeve parent tube
indications to remain in service as described in Westinghouse Electric
Corporation's report WCAP-14157, ``Technical Evaluation of Hybrid
Expansion Joint (HEJ) Sleeved Tubes With Indications Within the Upper
Joint Zone.''
The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request cannot be
granted because, based on available data, uncertainties in: the
potential locations of cracking; crack growth rates; allowable maximum
crack size; potential leakage rates; and the probability of detection
of cracks are too great to demonstrate that licensing basis criteria
would be satisfied for all normal and postulated accident conditions.
The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of the proposed
change in a letter of
By February 17, 1995, the licensee may demand a hearing with
respect to the denial described above. Any person whose interest may be
affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to
intervene.
A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be
filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Docketing and
Services Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public
Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC,
by the above date.
A copy of any petition should also be sent to the Office of the
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and
Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037, attorney for the
licensee.
For further details on this action, see (1) the application for
amendment of August 26, 1994, as supplemented by letters of September
2, 13, 22, and 29, 1994, October 5, and October 21, 1994, and (2) the
Commission's letter to the licensee of January 11, 1995.
These documents are available for public inspection at the
Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,
NW., Washington, DC, and at the local public document room located at
the Joseph P. Mann Library 1516 Sixteenth Street, Two Rivers, Wisconsin
54241.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January 1995.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leif J. Norrholm,
Project Director, Project Directorate III-3, Division of Reactor
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 95-1173 Filed 1-17-95; 8:45 am]
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