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[FR Doc No: 94-18113]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366]
Georgia Power Company; Denial of Amendments to Facility Operating
Licenses and Opportunity for Hearing
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied
a request by the Georgia Power Company (the licensee) for amendments to
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 issued to the licensee
for operation of the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2,
located in Appling County, Georgia. A Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of this amendment was not published in the Federal Register.
The licensee's application of June 7, 1994, requested temporary
changes to the Operating Licenses and Appendices A to Hatch, Units 1
and 2, that would allow the planned testing at Plant Hatch to
demonstrate the capability to operate the plant up to a core power
level of 2558 MWt. This testing is part of the overall power uprate
program and is intended to evaluate the physical effects of increasing
the licensed plant power level. The total duration time above the
current operating limit for the testing on each unit is not to exceed
30 cumulative days. Specifically, the proposed Technical Specification
(TS) changes are:
1. Revise the Unit 1 and 2 operating licenses and the Unit 1 TS
Bases for limiting safety system settings to allow each unit to be
operated above the current license limit for the maximum steady state
reactor core thermal power level of 2436 MWt. This change will allow
testing of the plant to be performed up to 2558 MWt, 105% of the
current maximum steady state power level.
2. Revise the high pressure scram TS 2.2A.1.a limiting safety
system setting and TS 3.1.A (Table 3.1-1, Item 4) limiting condition
for operation (LCO) for Unit 1 and TS 2.2.1 (Table 2.2.1-1, Item 3)
limiting safety system setting for Unit 2 from a maximum of 1054 psig
to a maximum 1065 psig. The cumulative total of time spent with each
unit operating with the revised high pressure scram setpoint is not to
exceed 35 days.
3. Revise the average power range monitor rod block TS 3.2.G (Table
3.2-7, Item 3) LCO for Unit 1 and TS 3.3.5 (Table 3.3.5-2, Item 1.a)
LCO for Unit 2 from a maximum of 0.58W + 50%-0.58 delta W to a maximum
of 0.58W + 53%-0.58 delta W. The cumulative total of time spent with
each unit operating with the revised average power range monitor rod
block setpoint is not to exceed 35 days.
4. Revise the low low set safety/relief valve arming TS 3.2.N
(Table 3.2-14, Item 1) LCO and TS 4.6.H.2 surveillance requirement for
Unit 1 and TS 3.3.3 (Table 3.3.3-2, Item 5.a) LCO and TS 4.4.2.2
surveillance requirement for Unit 2 from a maximum of 1054 psig to a
maximum of 1065 psig. The cumulative total of time spent with each unit
operating with the revised low low set safety/relief valve arming
setpoint is not to exceed 35 days.
The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request cannot be
granted. The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of the
proposed amendment by letter dated July 20, 1994.
By August 26, 1993, 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, 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 petitions should also be sent to the Office of the
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555, and to Ernest L. Blake, Jr., Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and
Trowbridge, 2300 N. Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037, attorney for the
licensee.
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the
application for amendments dated June 7, 1994, and (2) the Commission's
letter to the licensee dated July 20, 1994.
These documents 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 the Appling County Public Library, 301 City Hall Drive,
Baxley, Georgia 31513. A copy of item (2) may be obtained upon request
addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555, Attention: Document Control Des.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of July 1994.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Herbert N. Berkow,
Director, Project Directorate II-3, Division of Reactor Projects--I/II,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 94-18113 Filed 7-25-94; 8:45am]
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