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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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