[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 195 (Monday, October 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52471-52472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25626]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-424 and 50-425]


Georgia Power Company, et al.; Notice of Issuance of Amendments 
to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 96 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-68 and Amendment 
No. 74 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-81 issued to Georgia Power 
Company, et al. (the licensee), which revised the Technical 
Specifications and associated Bases for operation of the Vogtle 
Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in Burke County, 
Georgia.
    The amendments are effective as of the date of issuance and shall 
be implemented within 150 days from the date of issuance. 
Implementation shall include the relocation of Technical Specification 
requirements to the appropriate licensee-controlled document as 
identified in the licensee's application dated May 1, 1995, as 
supplemented by letters dated August 3 and 9, September 22, November 
20, and December 21, 1995, January 26 and 30, February 19 and 29, March 
5 and 12, May 6, June 17, August 23, and September 13, 1996, and 
reviewed in the staff's Safety Evaluation dated
    The amendments replaced, in its entirety, the current Technical 
Specifications and associated Bases with a set based on NUREG-1431, 
``Standard Technical Specifications, Westinghouse Plants,'' Revision 1, 
dated April 1995.
    There are three specific items in the licensee's application that 
are still being reviewed by the staff. Two of these items are the 
allowed outage time (AOT) for the emergency diesel generators (EDGs) 
and the AOT for the containment spray system. In accordance with 
supplements to the initial application, these two items are being 
addressed in the license amendments by retaining the provisions of the 
licensee's current licensing basis. New licensing actions are being 
initiated as a means for continuing the staff evaluation of the AOT 
proposals. Appropriate license amendments will be issued when those 
reviews are completed.
    The third item concerns the staff evaluation of the licensing basis 
for containment isolation valves in closed systems. The licensee's 
current licensing basis is being retained pending the resolution of an 
unresolved inspection item. Any changes needed to Technical 
Specification 3.6.3 as a result of that review will be addressed in a 
future licensing action. The licensee will be kept informed of the 
status of that review in separate correspondence.
    All other issues in the licensee's application for Technical 
Specification conversion are resolved in the license amendments.
    The application for the amendments, dated May 1, 1995, as 
supplemented by letters dated August 3 and 9, September 22, November 
20, and December 21, 1995, January 26 and 30, February 19 and 29, March 
5 and 12, May 6, June 17, August 23, and September 13, 1996, 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 amendments.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with 
this action was published in the Federal Register on September 7, 1995 
(60 FR 46633) and on January 10, 1996 (61 FR 734). No request for a 
hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following these 
notice.
    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 the amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (61 FR 
8308).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendments dated May 1, 1995, as supplemented by 
letters dated August 3 and 9, September 22, November 20, and December 
21, 1995, January 26 and 30, February 19 and 29, March 5 and 12, May 6, 
June 17, August 23, and September 13, 1996, (2) Amendment No. 94 to 
License No. NPF-68 and Amendment No. 72 to License No. NPF-81, (3) the 
Commission's related Safety Evaluation dated September 25, 1996, and 
(4) the Commission's Environmental Assessment dated February 27, 1996.
    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, and at the local public document room located at 
the Burke County Library, 412 Fourth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of September 1996.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Louis L. Wheeler,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate II-2, Division of Reactor 
Projects - I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-25626 Filed 10-4-96; 8:45 am]
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