[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 3669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1173]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Wisconsin Electric Power Company; Point Beach Nuclear Power 
Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Denial of Amendment to Facility Operating 
License and Opportunity for Hearing

[Docket Nos. 50-266 and 50-301]
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied 
a request by Wisconsin Electric Power Company, the licensee, for an 
amendment to Facility Operating Licenses DPR-24 and DPR-27 issued to 
the licensee for operation of the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 
and 2, respectively, located in Two Creeks, Wisconsin. Notice of 
Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating Licensee 
and Opportunity for a Hearing was published in the Federal Register on 
September 16, 1994 (59 FR 47656).
    The licensee submitted the amendment request to revise Technical 
Specification (TS) Section 15.4.2, ``In-Service Inspection of Safety 
Class Components,'' by incorporating acceptance criteria to allow steam 
generator sleeved tubes with certain upper sleeve parent tube 
indications to remain in service as described in Westinghouse Electric 
Corporation's report WCAP-14157, ``Technical Evaluation of Hybrid 
Expansion Joint (HEJ) Sleeved Tubes With Indications Within the Upper 
Joint Zone.''
    The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request cannot be 
granted because, based on available data, uncertainties in: the 
potential locations of cracking; crack growth rates; allowable maximum 
crack size; potential leakage rates; and the probability of detection 
of cracks are too great to demonstrate that licensing basis criteria 
would be satisfied for all normal and postulated accident conditions. 
The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of the proposed 
change in a letter of
    By February 17, 1995, 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 20555-0001, 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 petition should also be sent to the Office of the 
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and 
Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037, attorney for the 
licensee.
    For further details on this action, see (1) the application for 
amendment of August 26, 1994, as supplemented by letters of September 
2, 13, 22, and 29, 1994, October 5, and October 21, 1994, and (2) the 
Commission's letter to the licensee of January 11, 1995.
    These documents 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 Joseph P. Mann Library 1516 Sixteenth Street, Two Rivers, Wisconsin 
54241.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January 1995.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leif J. Norrholm,
Project Director, Project Directorate III-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 95-1173 Filed 1-17-95; 8:45 am]
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