96-5364. Northern States Power Company; Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Receipt of Addendum To Petition for Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-282, 50-306]


Northern States Power Company; Prairie Island Nuclear Generating 
Plant Receipt of Addendum To Petition for Director's Decision Under 10 
CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that by letter dated February 19, 1996, the 
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and the Prairie Island 
Coalition request that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
take immediate action with regard to steam generator tube inspections 
at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant. The letter was an 
addendum to an earlier Petition dated June 5, 1995.
    The Petitioners request that the NRC not allow Prairie Island Unit 
1 to be returned to operation until a full-length inspection of all 
steam generator tubes is performed using the Zetec Plus Point probe.
    As the basis for this request, the Petitioners state that in a 
briefing before the Commission on January 31, 1996, the Director of the 
NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation stated that NRC had learned 
of a few isolated cases of free span cracking in steam generator tubes, 
that is, cracks not located within the tube support plate or the tube 
sheet regions.
    This addendum to the Petition is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 
2.206 of the Commission's regulations and has been referred to the 
Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. As provided by 10 
CFR 2.206, appropriate action will be taken on the Petition within a 
reasonable time. By letter dated March 1, 1996, the Director denied the 
request for immediate action to not allow Prairie Island Unit 1 to be 
returned to operation.
    Copies of the addendum to the Petition and the Director's letter 
are available for inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room 
at 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC, and at the Local Public Document 
Room, Minneapolis Public Library, Technology and Science Department, 
300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of March 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William T. Russell,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-5364 Filed 3-6-96; 8:45 am]
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