[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 98 (Monday, May 23, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-12495]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. STN 50-528, STN 50-529, and STN 50-530]
Arizona Public Service Company, et al.; Palo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3; Issuance of Amendment to
Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 75 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-41, Amendment
No. 61 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-51, and Amendment No. 47
to Facility Operating License No. NPF-74, issued to Arizona Public
Service Company, Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power
District, El Paso Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company,
Public Service Company of New Mexico, Los Angeles Department of Water
and Power and Southern California Public Power Authority (licensees),
which revised the Technical Specifications for operation of the Palo
Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 located in
Maricopa County, Arizona. The amendment is effective as of the date of
issuance.
The amendment modified the Technical Specifications to increase the
pressurizer safety valve (PSV) setpoint tolerance from +/-1 percent to
+3 percent and -1 percent, the main steam safety valve (MSSV) setpoint
tolerance from +/-1 percent to +/-3 percent, reducing the high
pressurizer pressure trip setpoint (HPPT) response time from 1.15
seconds to 0.5 second, and reducing the TS minimum auxiliary feedwater
(AFW) pump flow requirement from 750 gallons per minute (GPM) to 650
GPM.
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 in 10 CFR chapter I, which are set forth in the license
amendment.
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal
Register on December 27, 1990 (55 FR 53220). A request for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice. By
Memorandum and Order dated May, 9, 1991 (LBP-91-19), a petition for
leave to intervene and a request for hearing filed by the intervenors
was granted. However, the intervenors later withdrew that challenge. By
Memorandum and Order dated September 30, 1991 (LBP-91-37A), the
proceeding was terminated.
The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has
concluded that the issuance of this amendment will not have a
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (59 FR
17403).
For further details with respect to the action see (1) The
application for amendment dated November 13, 1990, and supplemented May
27, 1992, May 13, 1993, and November 12, 1993, (2) Amendment No. 75 to
License No. NPF-41, (3) Amendment No. 61 to License No. NPF-51, (4)
Amendment No. 47 to License NO. NPF-74, (4) the Commission's related
Safety Evaluation, and (5) the Commission's Environmental Assessment.
All of these items are available for public inspection at the
Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street
NW., Washington, DC 20555, and at the local public document room
located at Phoenix Public Library, 12 East McDowell Road, Phoenix,
Arizona 85004.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of May 1994.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Theodore R. Quay,
Director, Project Directorate IV-3, Division of Reactor Projects III/
IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 94-12495 Filed 5-20-94; 8:45 am]
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