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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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