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proceeding, a petitioner shall file a

supplement to the petition to intervene

which must include a list of the

contentions which are sought to be

litigated in the matter. Each contention

must consist of a specific statement of

the issue of law or fact to be raised or

controverted. In addition, the petitioner

shall provide a brief explanation of the

bases of the contention and a concise

statement of the alleged facts or expert

opinion which support the contention

and on which the petitioner intends to

rely in proving the contention at the

hearing. The petitioner must also

provide references to those specific

sources and documents of which the

petitioner is aware and on which the

petitioner intends to rely to establish

those facts or expert opinion. Petitioner

must provide sufficient information to

show that a genuine dispute exists with

the applicant on a material issue of law

or fact. Contentions shall be limited to

matters within the scope of the

amendment under consideration. The

contention must be one which, if

proven, would entitle the petitioner to

relief. A petitioner who fails to file such

a supplement which satisfies these

requirements with respect to at least one

contention will not be permitted to

participate as a party.

Those permitted to intervene become

parties to the proceeding, subject to any

limitations in the order granting leave to

intervene, and have the opportunity to

participate fully in the conduct of the

hearing, including the opportunity to

present evidence and cross-examine

witnesses.

If a hearing is requested, the

Commission will make a final

determination on the issue of no

significant hazards consideration. The

final determination will serve to decide

when the hearing is held.

If the final determination is that the

amendment request involves no

significant hazards consideration, the

Commission may issue the amendment

and make it immediately effective,

notwithstanding the request for a

hearing. Any hearing held would take

place after issuance of the amendment.

If the final determination is that the

amendment request involves a

significant hazards consideration, any

hearing held would take place before

the issuance of any amendment.

A request for a hearing or a 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. Where petitions are filed

during the last 10 days of the notice

period, it is requested that the petitioner

promptly so inform the Commission by

a toll-free telephone call to Western

Union at 1-(800) 248–5100 (in Missouri

1-(800) 342–6700). The Western Union

operator should be given Datagram

Identification Number N1023 and the

following message addressed to Phillip

F. McKee: petitioner’s name and

telephone number, date petition was

mailed, plant name, and publication

date and page number of this Federal

Register notice. A copy of the petition

should also be sent to the Office of the

General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555, and to Lillian M. Cuoco,

Esquire, Northeast Utilities Service

Company, Post Office Box 270, Hartford

CT 06141–0270, attorney for the

licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for

leave to intervene, amended petitions,

supplemental petitions and/or requests

for hearing will not be entertained

absent a determination by the

Commission, the presiding officer or the

presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board that the petition and/or request

should be granted based upon a

balancing of the factors specified in 10

CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).

For further details with respect to this

action, see the application for

amendment dated June 20, 1996, which

is 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

Exeter Public Library, Founders Park,

Exeter, New Hampshire.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day

of June 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Albert W. De Agazio, Sr.

Project Manager, Northeast Utilities Project

Directorate, Division of Reactor Projects—I/

II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 96–16269 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket No. 50–397]

Washington Public Power Supply

System; Notice of Consideration of

Issuance of Amendment to Facility

Operating License and Opportunity for

a Hearing

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of an amendment

to Facility Operating License No. NPF–

21, issued to Washington Public Power

Supply System (the licensee), for

operation of the Washington Nuclear

Project No. 2 (WNP–2), located in

Benton County, Washington.

The proposed amendment, requested

by the licensee by letter of December 8,

1995, would represent a full conversion

from the current Technical

Specifications (TS) to a set of TS based

on NUREG–1434, ‘‘Improved BWR/6

Technical Specifications,’’ Revision 1,

April 1995. NUREG–1434 has been

developed through working groups

composed of both NRC staff members

and the BWR/6 owners and has been

endorsed by the staff as part of an

industry-wide initiative to standardize

and improve TS. As part of this

submittal, the licensee has applied the

criteria contained in the Final NRC

Policy Statement on Technical

Specification Improvements to the

current WNP–2 Technical

Specifications utilizing BWR Owners’

Group (BWROG) report NEDO–31466,

‘‘Technical Specification Screening

Criteria Application and Risk

Assessment,’’ (and Supplement 1) as

incorporated in NUREG–1434.

The licensee has categorized the

proposed changes into four general

groupings. These groups are

characterized as administrative changes,

relocated changes, more restrictive

changes, and less restrictive changes.

Administrative changes are those that

involve reformatting, renumbering and

rewording of the existing TS. The

reformatting, renumbering and

rewording process reflects the attributes

of NUREG–1434 and do not involve

technical changes to the existing TS.

Such changes are administrative in

nature and do not impact initiators of

analyzed events or assumed mitigation

of accidents or transient events.

Relocated changes are those involving

relocation of requirements and

surveillances for structures, systems,

components or variables that do not

meet the criteria of inclusion in TS as

identified in the Application of

Selection Criteria to the WNP–2 TS. The

affected structures, systems,

components or variables are not

assumed to be initiators of analyzed

events and are not assumed to mitigate

accident or transient events. The

requirements and surveillances for these

affected structures, systems,

components or variables will be

relocated from the TS to

administratively controlled documents.

Changes to these documents will be

made pursuant to 10 CFR 50.59. In

addition, the affected structures,

systems, components or variables are

addressed in existing surveillance

procedures which are subject to 10 CFR

50.59 and subject to the change control
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provision in the Administrative

Controls Section of the TS. These

proposed changes will not impose or

eliminate any requirements.

More restrictive changes are those

involving more stringent requirements

for operation of the facility. These more

stringent requirements do not result in

operation that will alter assumptions

relative to mitigation of an accident or

transient event. The more restrictive

requirements continue to ensure process

variables, structures, systems and

components are maintained consistent

with the safety analyses and licensing

basis.

Changes characterized as less

restrictive have been subdivided into

four additional subcategories. They

include:

a. Relocating details to TS Bases, the

Updated Safety Analysis Report

(USAR), or procedures. The

requirements to be transposed from the

TS to the Bases, USAR or procedures are

the same as those currently included in

the existing TS. The TS Bases, USAR

and procedures containing the relocated

information are subject to 10 CFR 50.59

and are subject to the change control

provisions in the Administrative

Controls section of the TS.

b. Extension of instrumentation

surveillance test intervals (STIs) and

allowed outage times (AOTs). The

proposed changes affect only the STIs

and AOTs and will not impact the

function of monitoring system variables

over the anticipated ranges for normal

operation, anticipated operational

occurrences, or accident conditions.

However, the changes are expected to

reduce the test related plant scrams and

test induced wear on the equipment.

General Electric Topical Reports GENE–

770–06–1 and GENE–770–06–2 showed

that the effects of these extensions of

STIs and AOTs, which produced

negligible impact, are bounded by

previous analyses. Further, the NRC has

reviewed these reports and approved

the conclusions on a generic basis.

c. Relocation of instrumentation only

requirements (which provide no postaccident function). These requirements

are part of the routine operational

monitoring and are not considered in

the safety analysis. Changes made to the

Bases, USAR, and procedures

containing the relocated information

will be made in accordance with 10 CFR

50.59 and are subject to the change

control provisions in the Administrative

Controls section of the TS. These

proposed changes will not impose or

eliminate any requirements.

d. Other less restrictive changes.

Additional changes that result in less

restrictions in the TS are discussed

individually in the licensee’s submittal.

In addition to the changes solely

involving the conversion, changes are

proposed to the current Technical

Specifications or as deviations from the

Improved BWR/6 Technical

Specifications (NUREG–1434) as

follows:

1. Surveillance frequency changed

from 18 months to 24 months for all

surveillances normally performed at

refueling outages.

2. LCO 3.1.4 and SR 3.1.4—change to

average scram time of 2x2 array of

control rods with allowance for ‘‘slow’’

rods.

3. LCO 3.3.6.1—delete isolation

function of RHR shutdown cooling

suction flow rate high.

4. LCO 3.3.7.1—change proposed

ACTION for inoperable control room

emergency filtration system (CREFS)

radiation monitors.

5. LCO 3.3.8.1—reduce number of

required loss of voltage channels.

6. LCO 3.3.1.1—revise Standard

Technical Specification (STS) ACTION

for loss of one manual trip function to

increase allowable outage time (AOT)

from 1 hour to 12 hours.

7. SR 3.3.1.2.5—note added which

provides SR 3.0.1 exception for signalnoise ratio.

8. LCO 3.3.3.1—post accident

monitoring (PAM) function surveillance

requirement (SR) frequencies.

Application of NEDO–30851–P–A to

adopt a 6 hour AOT for required

surveillances.

9. LCO 3.3.3.2—delay entry into TS

ACTION for up to 6 hours to perform

surveillance.

10. LCO 3.3.6.1—delete ** Modes for

reactor building exhaust radiation-high

isolation signal for primary

containment.

11. LCO 3.3.6.1—delete certain

containment isolation functions.

12. LCO 3.3.6.2—delete fuel handling

sweep radiation monitor.

13. LCO 3.7.1—increase SW system

AOT.

14. LCO 3.3.6.1—delete Mode 2 for

shutdown cooling (SDC) isolation on

pump room high temperature and area

ventilation delta T.

15. LCO 3.3.7.1—delete requirement

to isolate remote air intake if one of two

radiation monitors is inoperable.

16. LCO 3.3.7.1—restore inoperable

air intake radiation monitor in 30 days

vice CTS AOT of 7 days.

17. LCO 3.3.8.1—changes to current

technical specifications (CTS) allowable

values.

18. LCO 3.3.8.2—changes to CTS

allowable values and new condition and

applicability statements.

19. SR 3.4.8—note added to Table to

allow a channel to be inoperable for 6

hours solely for performance of required

SRs.

20. LCO 3.5.1—extended AOTs for

one low pressure emergency core

cooling system (ECCS) subsystem, two

low pressure ECCS subsystems, high

pressure core spray (HPCS) concurrent

with one low pressure coolant injection

(LPCI) subsystem, and one automatic

depressurization system (ADS) valve

concurrent with one low pressure ECCS

subsystem out of service.

21. SR 3.6.1.2.2—decrease airlock

interlock verification from 6 months to

24 months.

22. Current TS 3/4.6.1.6—deletion of

entire specification for drywell and

suppression chamber pressure.

23. Current TS 4.6.2.2.b—remove

surveillance test of residual heat

removal (RHR) pump recirculation flow

through RHR HX and suppression pool

sparger to plant controlled document.

24. LCO 3.6.2.3—add allowance of 8

hours to restore one RHR suppression

pool cooling subsystem to OPERABLE

with both inoperable.

25. SR 3.6.2.3.2—reduce required

flow from 7450 gpm to 7100 gpm.

26. LCO 3.8.1—increase AOTs for

diesel generators (DGs).

27. SR 3.8.1—increase start and load

times for DGs from 10 to 15 seconds.

28. LCO 3.8.2—increase in restoration

completion time for DG–3 from 72 hours

to 7 days.

29. SR 3.8.3.5—decrease frequency of

water check in diesel oil from 31 days

to 92 days.

30. SR 3.8.4.2 and 5—move resistance

limits on connections to battery

terminals to BASES.

31. SR 3.8.4.6—reduce length of

battery charger load test from 4 to 1.5

hours.

32. SR 3.8.4.1—reduce battery

terminal voltage from 258 to 252 volts

and from 129 to 126 volts.

33. LCO 3.3.2.1—adds ‘‘and with no

peripheral control rod selected’’ to RBM

operability.

34. LCO 3.3.3.1—delete note to

Condition C and Condition D for H2

monitors.

35. LCO 3.3.4.2—reduce frequency of

reactor vessel pressure high ATWS–RPT

function channel calibration from

quarterly to 18 months.

36. LCO 3.4.7—change reactor coolant

system (RCS) pressure isolation valve

(PIV) test pressure from 935 ± 10 psig to

1035 psig.

37. LCO 3.4.1—move power-to-flow

map from LCO to the Core Operating

Limits Report (COLR).

38. LCO 3.5.1—change in pressure for

ADS operability from 128 psig to 150

psig.
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39. LCO 3.5.2—change in suppression

pool level requirement in Modes 4 and

5 from 30 ft. 93⁄4 in. to 18 ft. 6 in.

40. 4.0—change in water level

requirement for spent fuel pool from

605 ft. 7 in. to 583 ft. 11⁄4 in.

Before issuance of the proposed

license amendment, the Commission

will have made findings required by the

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended

(the Act) and the Commission’s

regulations.

By July 26, 1996, the licensee may file

a request for a hearing with respect to

issuance of the amendment to the

subject facility operating license and

any person whose interest may be

affected by this proceeding and who

wishes to participate as a party in the

proceeding must file a written request

for a hearing and a petition for leave to

intervene. Requests for a hearing and a

petition for leave to intervene shall be

filed in accordance with the

Commission’s ‘‘Rules of Practice for

Domestic Licensing Proceedings’’ in 10

CFR Part 2. Interested persons should

consult a current copy of 10 CFR 2.714

which is available 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 Richland

Public Library, 955 Northgate Street,

Richland, Washington 99352. If a

request for a hearing or petition for

leave to intervene is filed by the above

date, the Commission or an Atomic

Safety and Licensing Board, designated

by the Commission or by the Chairman

of the Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board Panel, will rule on the request

and/or petition; and the Secretary or the

designated Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board will issue a notice of hearing or

an appropriate order.

As required by 10 CFR 2.714, a

petition for leave to intervene shall set

forth with particularity the interest of

the petitioner in the proceeding, and

how that interest may be affected by the

results of the proceeding. The petition

should specifically explain the reasons

why intervention should be permitted

with particular reference to the

following factors: (1) The nature of the

petitioner’s right under the Act to be

made a party to the proceeding; (2) the

nature and extent of the petitioner’s

property, financial, or other interest in

the proceeding; and (3) the possible

effect of any order which may be

entered in the proceeding on the

petitioner’s interest. The petition should

also identify the specific aspect(s) of the

subject matter of the proceeding as to

which petitioner wishes to intervene.

Any person who has filed a petition for

leave to intervene or who has been

admitted as a party may amend the

petition without requesting leave of the

Board up to 15 days prior to the first

prehearing conference scheduled in the

proceeding, but such an amended

petition must satisfy the specificity

requirements described above.

Not later than 15 days prior to the first

prehearing conference scheduled in the

proceeding, a petitioner shall file a

supplement to the petition to intervene

which must include a list of the

contentions which are sought to be

litigated in the matter. Each contention

must consist of a specific statement of

the issue of law or fact to be raised or

controverted. In addition, the petitioner

shall provide a brief explanation of the

bases of the contention and a concise

statement of the alleged facts or expert

opinion which support the contention

and on which the petitioner intends to

rely in proving the contention at the

hearing. The petitioner must also

provide references to those specific

sources and documents of which the

petitioner is aware and on which the

petitioner intends to rely to establish

those facts or expert opinion. Petitioner

must provide sufficient information to

show that a genuine dispute exists with

the applicant on a material issue of law

or fact. Contentions shall be limited to

matters within the scope of the

amendment under consideration. The

contention must be one which, if

proven, would entitle the petitioner to

relief. A petitioner who fails to file such

a supplement which satisfies these

requirements with respect to at least one

contention will not be permitted to

participate as a party.

Those permitted to intervene become

parties to the proceeding, subject to any

limitations in the order granting leave to

intervene, and have the opportunity to

participate fully in the conduct of the

hearing, including the opportunity to

present evidence and cross-examine

witnesses.

A request for a hearing or a 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. Where petitions are filed

during the last 10 days of the notice

period, it is requested that the petitioner

promptly so inform the Commission by

a toll-free telephone call to Western

Union at 1–(800) 248–5100 (in Missouri

1–(800) 342–6700). The Western Union

operator should be given Datagram

Identification Number N1023 and the

following message addressed to William

H. Bateman, Director, Project Directorate

IV–2: petitioner’s name and telephone

number; date petition was mailed; plant

name; and publication date and page

number of this Federal Register notice.

A copy of the petition should also be

sent to the Office of the General

Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, and to M. H. Philips, Jr., Esq.,

Winston & Strawn, 1400 L Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20005–3502, attorney

for the licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for

leave to intervene, amended petitions,

supplemental petitions and/or requests

for hearing will not be entertained

absent a determination by the

Commission, the presiding officer or the

presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board that the petition and/or request

should be granted based upon a

balancing of the factors specified in 10

CFR 2.714(a)(1) (i)–(v) and 2.714(d).

If a request for a hearing is received,

the Commission’s staff may issue the

amendment after it completes its

technical review and prior to the

completion of any required hearing if it

publishes a further notice for public

comment of its proposed finding of no

significant hazards consideration in

accordance with 10 CFR 50.91 and

50.92.

For further details with respect to this

action, see the application for

amendment dated December 8, 1995,

which is 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 Richland Public Library, 955

Northgate Street, Richland, Washington

99352.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day

of June 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Timothy G. Colburn,

Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate

IV–2, Division of Reactor Projects III/IV, Office

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 96–16267 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket Nos. 50–275 and 50–323]

Pacific Gas and Electric Company,

Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1

and 2; Environmental Assessment and

Finding of No Significant Impact

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of an exemption

from certain requirements of its

regulations for Facility Operating

License Nos. DPR–80 and DPR–82,