80 FR 53336 - Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of an amendment to Combined Licenses (NPF-93 and NPF-94), issued to South Carolina Electric and Gas (SCE&G) and South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) (the licensee), for construction and operation of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station (VCSNS), Units 2 and 3 located in Fairfield County, South Carolina. The proposed amendment departs from Tier 2* and associated Tier 2 information in the VCSNS Units 2 and 3 Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) (which includes the plant specific Design Control Document Tier 2 information) to demonstrate that the mechanical weldable couplers to structural steel weld capacity required by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) 349-01 is satisfied using the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) N690-1994 analysis and testing provisions.

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 052-00027 and 052-00028; NRC-2008-0441]

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; opportunity to comment, request
a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an amendment to Combined Licenses (NPF-93 and NPF-94),
issued to South Carolina Electric and Gas (SCE&G) and South Carolina
Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) (the licensee), for
construction and operation of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station
(VCSNS), Units 2 and 3 located in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
The proposed amendment departs from Tier 2* and associated Tier 2
information in the VCSNS Units 2 and 3 Updated Final Safety Analysis
Report (UFSAR) (which includes the plant specific Design Control
Document Tier 2 information) to demonstrate that the mechanical
weldable couplers to structural steel weld capacity required by the
American Concrete Institute (ACI) 349-01 is satisfied using the
American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) N690-1994 analysis and
testing provisions.

DATES: Submit comments by October 5, 2015. Requests for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene must be filed by November 2, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0441. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Kallan, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;
telephone: 301-415-2809; email: Paul.Kallan@nrg.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0441 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0441.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
application for amendment, dated August 24, 2015, is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML15236A344.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One

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White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

B. Submitting Comments

Please include Docket ID NRC-2008-0441 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

II. Introduction

The NRC is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF-93 and NPF-94, issued to SCE&G and Santee
Cooper for operation of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2
and 3, located in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
The proposed amendment would revise the plant-specific Design
Control Document (DCD) Tier 2 and involved Tier 2* material
incorporated into the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR), by
revising the requirement to utilize American Welding Society (AWS)
D1.1-1992, Structural Welding Code--Steel, when meeting the American
Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) N690-1994 requirements. The
change is to demonstrate that the mechanical weldable couplers to
structural steel weld capacity required by ACI 349-01 is satisfied
using AISC N690-21994 analysis and testing provisions.
Before any issuance of the proposed license amendment, the NRC will
need to make the findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended (the Act), and NRC's regulations.
The NRC has made a proposed determination that the license
amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration. Under
the NRC's regulations in Sec. 50.92 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), this means that operation of the facility in
accordance with the proposed amendment would not (1) involve a
significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or
different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or
(3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety. As required
by 10 CFR 50.91(a), the licensee has provided its analysis of the issue
of no significant hazards consideration, which is presented below:

1. Does the proposed change involve a significant increase in
the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed change does not affect the operation of any systems
or equipment that initiate an analyzed accident or alter any
structures, systems, and components (SSC) accident initiator or
initiating sequence of events. The change revises how analysis and
testing are used to demonstrate the capacity of partial joint
penetration (PJP) welds with fillet weld reinforcement joining
weldable rebar couplers to structural steel to meet the strength
requirements of American Concrete Institute (ACI) 349-01, ``Code
Requirements for Nuclear Safety Related Concrete Structures,'' and
to establish a minimum fillet reinforcement size for the C2/C3J
couplers.
The change has no adverse effect of the design function of the
mechanical couplers or the SSCs to which the mechanical couplers are
welded. The probabilities of the accidents evaluated in the Updated
Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) are not affected.
The change does not impact the support, design, or operation of
mechanical and fluid systems. There is no change to plant systems or
the response of systems to postulated accident conditions. There is
no change to the predicted radioactive releases due to normal
operation or postulated accident conditions. The plant response to
previously evaluated accidents or external events is not adversely
affected, nor does the proposed change create any new accident
precursors.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does not involve a significant
increase in the probability or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated.
2. Does the proposed change create the possibility of a new or
different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed change does not affect the operation of any systems
or equipment that may initiate a new or different kind of accident,
or alter any SSC such that a new accident initiator or initiating
sequence of events is created. The proposed change specifies how the
analysis and testing requirements of ACI 349-01 are applied to
demonstrate the capacity of combined PJP welds with fillet weld
reinforcement joining rebar couplers to structural steel and to
establish a minimum fillet reinforcement size for the C2/C3J
couplers.
The proposed change does not adversely affect the design
function of the mechanical couplers, the structures in which the
couplers are used, or any other SSC design functions or methods of
operation in a manner that results in a new failure mode,
malfunction, or sequence of events that affect safety-related or
non-safety-related equipment. This activity does not allow for a new
fission product release path, result in a new fission product
barrier failure mode, or create a new sequence of events that result
in significant fuel cladding failures.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does not create the
possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident
previously evaluated.
3. Does the proposed change involve a significant reduction in a
margin of safety?
Response: No.
The proposed change maintains existing safety margin and
provides adequate protection through continued application of the
existing requirements in the UFSAR and clarifying the existing
requirements in ACI 349-01 for welds of mechanical couplers joining
rebar to structural steel. The proposed change satisfies the same
design functions in accordance with the same codes and standards as
stated in the UFSAR. This change does not adversely affect any
design code, function, design analysis, safety analysis input or
result, or design/safety margin. No safety analysis or design basis
acceptance limit/criterion is challenged or exceeded by the proposed
change.
Because no safety analysis or design basis acceptance limit/
criterion is challenged or exceeded by this change, no significant
margin of safety is reduced.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does not involve a significant
reduction in a margin of safety.

The NRC staff has reviewed the licensee's analysis and, based on
this review, it appears that the three standards of 10 CFR 50.92(c) are
satisfied. Therefore, the NRC staff proposes to determine that the
license amendment request involves a No Significant Hazards
Consideration.
The NRC is seeking public comments on this proposed determination
that the license amendment request involves no significant hazards
consideration. Any comments received within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice will be considered in making any final
determination.
Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendment until the
expiration of 60 days after the date of publication of this notice. The
Commission may issue the license amendment before expiration of the 60-
day notice period if the Commission concludes the amendment involves no
significant hazards consideration. In addition, the Commission may
issue the amendment prior to the expiration of the 30-day comment
period should circumstances change during the 30-day comment period
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in a timely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of
the facility. Should the Commission take action prior to the expiration
of either the comment period or the notice period, it will publish in
the Federal Register a notice of issuance. Should the Commission make a
final No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination, any hearing
will take place after issuance. The Commission expects that the need to
take this action will occur very infrequently.

III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing and Petition for Leave To
Intervene

Within 60 days after the date of publication of this Federal
Register notice, any person whose interest may be affected by this
proceeding and who desires to participate as a party in the proceeding
must file a written request for hearing or a petition for leave to
intervene specifying the contentions which the person seeks to have
litigated in the hearing with respect to the license amendment request.
Requests for hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be
filed in accordance with the NRC's ``Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure'' in 10 CFR part 2. Interested person(s) should consult a
current copy of 10 CFR 2.309, which is available at the NRC's PDR. The
NRC's regulations are accessible electronically from the NRC Library on
the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/.
As required by 10 CFR 2.309, a request for hearing or petition for
leave to intervene must 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 hearing request or petition must
specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted,
with particular reference to the following general requirements: (1)
The name, address, and telephone number of the requestor or petitioner;
(2) the nature of the requestor's/petitioner's right under the Act to
be made a party to the proceeding; (3) the nature and extent of the
requestor's/petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the
proceeding; and (4) the possible effect of any decision or order which
may be entered in the proceeding on the requestor's/petitioner's
interest. The hearing request or petition must also include the
specific contentions that the requestor/petitioner seeks to have
litigated at the proceeding.
For each contention, the requestor/petitioner must provide a
specific statement of the issue of law or fact to be raised or
controverted, as well as a brief explanation of the basis for the
contention. Additionally, the requestor/petitioner must demonstrate
that the issue raised by each contention is within the scope of the
proceeding and is material to the findings that the NRC must make to
support the granting of a license amendment in response to the
application. The hearing request or petition must also include a
concise statement of the alleged facts or expert opinion that support
the contention and on which the requestor/petitioner intends to rely at
the hearing, together with references to those specific sources and
documents. The hearing request or petition must provide sufficient
information to show that a genuine dispute exists with the applicant on
a material issue of law or fact, including references to specific
portions of the application for amendment that the petitioner disputes
and the supporting reasons for each dispute. If the requestor/
petitioner believes that the application for amendment fails to contain
information on a relevant matter as required by law, the requestor/
petitioner must identify each failure and the supporting reasons for
the requestor's/petitioner's belief. Each contention must be one which,
if proven, would entitle the requestor/petitioner to relief. A
requestor/petitioner who does not satisfy these requirements for 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 with respect to resolution of that person's admitted
contentions, including the opportunity to present evidence and to
submit a cross-examination plan for cross-examination of witnesses,
consistent with NRC regulations, policies, and procedures. The Atomic
Safety and Licensing Board will set the time and place for any
prehearing conferences and evidentiary hearings, and the appropriate
notices will be provided.
Hearing requests or petitions for leave to intervene must be filed
no later than 60 days from the date of publication of this notice.
Requests for hearing, petitions for leave to intervene, and motions for
leave to file new or amended contentions that are filed after the 60-
day deadline will not be entertained absent a determination by the
presiding officer that the filing demonstrates good cause by satisfying
the three factors in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-(iii).
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, then any hearing
held would take place before the issuance of any amendment unless the
Commission finds an imminent danger to the health or safety of the
public, in which case it will issue an appropriate order or rule under
10 CFR part 2.

IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)

All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or
other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a
request for hearing or petition to intervene, and documents filed by
interested governmental entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c),
must be filed in accordance with the NRC's E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139;
August 28, 2007). The E-Filing process requires participants to submit
and serve all adjudicatory documents over the internet, or in some
cases to mail copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not
submit paper copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption in
accordance with the procedures described below.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should contact the
Office of the Secretary by email at hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by
telephone at 301-415-1677, to request (1) a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-Submittal
server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise
the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a request or
petition for hearing (even in instances in which the participant, or
its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-issued digital ID
certificate). Based upon this information, the Secretary will establish
an electronic docket for the hearing in this proceeding if the

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Secretary has not already established an electronic docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. System requirements for accessing
the E-Submittal server are detailed in the NRC's ``Guidance for
Electronic Submission,'' which is available on the agency's public Web
site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants
may attempt to use other software not listed on the Web site, but
should note that the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted
software, and the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer
assistance in using unlisted software.
If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the NRC
in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file the
document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In order to
serve documents through the Electronic Information Exchange System,
users will be required to install a Web browser plug-in from the NRC's
Web site. Further information on the Web-based submission form,
including the installation of the Web browser plug-in, is available on
the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a
docket has been created, the participant can then submit a request for
hearing or petition for leave to intervene. Submissions should be in
Portable Document Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance
available on the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered complete at the time the
documents are submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system
no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of
a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email notice confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email notice that provides access
to the document to the NRC's Office of the General Counsel and any
others who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to
participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the
documents on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and
other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for
and receive a digital ID certificate before a hearing request/petition
to intervene is filed so that they can obtain access to the document
via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System
Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's public
Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by email to
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll-free call at 1-866-672-7640. The
NRC Meta System Help Desk is available between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.,
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail
addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth
Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. Participants
filing a document in this manner are responsible for serving the
document on all other participants. Filing is considered complete by
first-class mail as of the time of deposit in the mail, or by courier,
express mail, or expedited delivery service upon depositing the
document with the provider of the service. A presiding officer, having
granted an exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a
participant or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer
subsequently determines that the reason for granting the exemption from
use of E-Filing no longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in the
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at
http://ehd1.nrc.gov/ehd/, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
Commission, or the presiding officer. Participants are requested not to
include personal privacy information, such as social security numbers,
home addresses, or home phone numbers in their filings, unless an NRC
regulation or other law requires submission of such information.
However, in some instances, a request to intervene will require
including information on local residence in order to demonstrate a
proximity assertion of interest in the proceeding. With respect to
copyrighted works, except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose
of the adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use
application, participants are requested not to include copyrighted
materials in their submission.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for license amendment dated August 24, 2015.
Attorney for licensee: Ms. Kathryn M. Sutton, Morgan, Lewis &
Bockius LLC, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004-2514.
NRC Branch Chief: Lawrence Burkhart.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of August 2015.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian Hughes,
Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of New Reactor Licensing,
Office of New Reactors.
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White Flint North, 11555 Rockville the facility in accordance with the The proposed change does not adversely
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. proposed amendment would not (1) affect the design function of the mechanical
involve a significant increase in the couplers, the structures in which the
B. Submitting Comments couplers are used, or any other SSC design
probability or consequences of an functions or methods of operation in a
Please include Docket ID NRC–2008– accident previously evaluated; or (2) manner that results in a new failure mode,
0441 in your comment submission. create the possibility of a new or malfunction, or sequence of events that affect
The NRC cautions you not to include different kind of accident from any safety-related or non-safety-related
identifying or contact information that accident previously evaluated; or (3) equipment. This activity does not allow for
you do not want to be publicly involve a significant reduction in a a new fission product release path, result in
disclosed in your comment submission. margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR a new fission product barrier failure mode, or
The NRC posts all comment create a new sequence of events that result
50.91(a), the licensee has provided its
submissions at http:// in significant fuel cladding failures.
analysis of the issue of no significant Therefore, the proposed amendment does
www.regulations.gov as well as entering hazards consideration, which is not create the possibility of a new or different
the comment submissions into ADAMS. presented below: kind of accident from any accident
The NRC does not routinely edit previously evaluated.
1. Does the proposed change involve a
comment submissions to remove significant increase in the probability or 3. Does the proposed change involve a
identifying or contact information. consequences of an accident previously significant reduction in a margin of safety?
If you are requesting or aggregating evaluated? Response: No.
comments from other persons for Response: No. The proposed change maintains existing
submission to the NRC, then you should The proposed change does not affect the safety margin and provides adequate
inform those persons not to include operation of any systems or equipment that protection through continued application of
initiate an analyzed accident or alter any the existing requirements in the UFSAR and
identifying or contact information that clarifying the existing requirements in ACI
they do not want to be publicly structures, systems, and components (SSC)
accident initiator or initiating sequence of 349–01 for welds of mechanical couplers
disclosed in their comment submission. events. The change revises how analysis and joining rebar to structural steel. The proposed
Your request should state that the NRC testing are used to demonstrate the capacity change satisfies the same design functions in
does not routinely edit comment of partial joint penetration (PJP) welds with accordance with the same codes and
submissions to remove such information fillet weld reinforcement joining weldable standards as stated in the UFSAR. This
before making the comment rebar couplers to structural steel to meet the change does not adversely affect any design
submissions available to the public or strength requirements of American Concrete code, function, design analysis, safety
Institute (ACI) 349–01, ‘‘Code Requirements analysis input or result, or design/safety
entering the comment submissions into margin. No safety analysis or design basis
ADAMS. for Nuclear Safety Related Concrete
Structures,’’ and to establish a minimum acceptance limit/criterion is challenged or
II. Introduction fillet reinforcement size for the C2/C3J exceeded by the proposed change.
couplers. Because no safety analysis or design basis
The NRC is considering issuance of an The change has no adverse effect of the acceptance limit/criterion is challenged or
amendment to Facility Operating design function of the mechanical couplers exceeded by this change, no significant
License Nos. NPF–93 and NPF–94, or the SSCs to which the mechanical margin of safety is reduced.
issued to SCE&G and Santee Cooper for couplers are welded. The probabilities of the Therefore, the proposed amendment does
operation of the Virgil C. Summer accidents evaluated in the Updated Final not involve a significant reduction in a
Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) are not margin of safety.
Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3, located
in Fairfield County, South Carolina. affected. The NRC staff has reviewed the
The change does not impact the support,
The proposed amendment would design, or operation of mechanical and fluid
licensee’s analysis and, based on this
revise the plant-specific Design Control systems. There is no change to plant systems review, it appears that the three
Document (DCD) Tier 2 and involved or the response of systems to postulated standards of 10 CFR 50.92(c) are
Tier 2* material incorporated into the accident conditions. There is no change to satisfied. Therefore, the NRC staff
Updated Final Safety Analysis Report the predicted radioactive releases due to proposes to determine that the license
(UFSAR), by revising the requirement to normal operation or postulated accident amendment request involves a No
utilize American Welding Society conditions. The plant response to previously Significant Hazards Consideration.
(AWS) D1.1–1992, Structural Welding evaluated accidents or external events is not The NRC is seeking public comments
adversely affected, nor does the proposed
Code—Steel, when meeting the change create any new accident precursors.
on this proposed determination that the
American Institute of Steel Construction Therefore, the proposed amendment does license amendment request involves no
(AISC) N690–1994 requirements. The not involve a significant increase in the significant hazards consideration. Any
change is to demonstrate that the probability or consequences of an accident comments received within 30 days after
mechanical weldable couplers to previously evaluated. the date of publication of this notice
structural steel weld capacity required 2. Does the proposed change create the will be considered in making any final
by ACI 349–01 is satisfied using AISC possibility of a new or different kind of determination.
accident from any accident previously Normally, the Commission will not
N690–21994 analysis and testing evaluated?
provisions. Response: No.
issue the amendment until the
Before any issuance of the proposed The proposed change does not affect the expiration of 60 days after the date of
license amendment, the NRC will need operation of any systems or equipment that publication of this notice. The
to make the findings required by the may initiate a new or different kind of Commission may issue the license
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended accident, or alter any SSC such that a new amendment before expiration of the 60-
(the Act), and NRC’s regulations. accident initiator or initiating sequence of day notice period if the Commission
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The NRC has made a proposed events is created. The proposed change concludes the amendment involves no
determination that the license specifies how the analysis and testing significant hazards consideration. In
requirements of ACI 349–01 are applied to
amendment request involves no demonstrate the capacity of combined PJP
addition, the Commission may issue the
significant hazards consideration. Under welds with fillet weld reinforcement joining amendment prior to the expiration of
the NRC’s regulations in § 50.92 of Title rebar couplers to structural steel and to the 30-day comment period should
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations establish a minimum fillet reinforcement size circumstances change during the 30-day
(10 CFR), this means that operation of for the C2/C3J couplers. comment period such that failure to act

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in a timely way would result, for brief explanation of the basis for the If a hearing is requested, the
example, in derating or shutdown of the contention. Additionally, the requestor/ Commission will make a final
facility. Should the Commission take petitioner must demonstrate that the determination on the issue of no
action prior to the expiration of either issue raised by each contention is significant hazards consideration. The
the comment period or the notice within the scope of the proceeding and final determination will serve to decide
period, it will publish in the Federal is material to the findings that the NRC when the hearing is held. If the final
Register a notice of issuance. Should the must make to support the granting of a determination is that the amendment
Commission make a final No Significant license amendment in response to the request involves no significant hazards
Hazards Consideration Determination, application. The hearing request or consideration, the Commission may
any hearing will take place after petition must also include a concise issue the amendment and make it
issuance. The Commission expects that statement of the alleged facts or expert immediately effective, notwithstanding
the need to take this action will occur opinion that support the contention and the request for a hearing. Any hearing
very infrequently. on which the requestor/petitioner held would take place after issuance of
III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing intends to rely at the hearing, together the amendment. If the final
and Petition for Leave To Intervene with references to those specific sources determination is that the amendment
and documents. The hearing request or request involves a significant hazards
Within 60 days after the date of petition must provide sufficient consideration, then any hearing held
publication of this Federal Register information to show that a genuine would take place before the issuance of
notice, any person whose interest may dispute exists with the applicant on a any amendment unless the Commission
be affected by this proceeding and who material issue of law or fact, including finds an imminent danger to the health
desires to participate as a party in the references to specific portions of the or safety of the public, in which case it
proceeding must file a written request application for amendment that the will issue an appropriate order or rule
for hearing or a petition for leave to petitioner disputes and the supporting under 10 CFR part 2.
intervene specifying the contentions reasons for each dispute. If the
which the person seeks to have litigated IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
requestor/petitioner believes that the
in the hearing with respect to the application for amendment fails to All documents filed in NRC
license amendment request. Requests contain information on a relevant matter adjudicatory proceedings, including a
for hearing and petitions for leave to as required by law, the requestor/ request for hearing, a petition for leave
intervene shall be filed in accordance petitioner must identify each failure and to intervene, any motion or other
with the NRC’s ‘‘Agency Rules of
the supporting reasons for the document filed in the proceeding prior
Practice and Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part
requestor’s/petitioner’s belief. Each to the submission of a request for
2. Interested person(s) should consult a
contention must be one which, if hearing or petition to intervene, and
current copy of 10 CFR 2.309, which is
proven, would entitle the requestor/ documents filed by interested
available at the NRC’s PDR. The NRC’s
petitioner to relief. A requestor/ governmental entities participating
regulations are accessible electronically
petitioner who does not satisfy these under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
from the NRC Library on the NRC’s Web
requirements for at least one contention accordance with the NRC’s E-Filing rule
site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
will not be permitted to participate as a (72 FR 49139; August 28, 2007). The E-
doc-collections/cfr/.
As required by 10 CFR 2.309, a party. Filing process requires participants to
request for hearing or petition for leave Those permitted to intervene become submit and serve all adjudicatory
to intervene must set forth with parties to the proceeding, subject to any documents over the internet, or in some
particularity the interest of the limitations in the order granting leave to cases to mail copies on electronic
petitioner in the proceeding and how intervene, and have the opportunity to storage media. Participants may not
that interest may be affected by the participate fully in the conduct of the submit paper copies of their filings
results of the proceeding. The hearing hearing with respect to resolution of unless they seek an exemption in
request or petition must specifically that person’s admitted contentions, accordance with the procedures
explain the reasons why intervention including the opportunity to present described below.
should be permitted, with particular evidence and to submit a cross- To comply with the procedural
reference to the following general examination plan for cross-examination requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
requirements: (1) The name, address, of witnesses, consistent with NRC days prior to the filing deadline, the
and telephone number of the requestor regulations, policies, and procedures. participant should contact the Office of
or petitioner; (2) the nature of the The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board the Secretary by email at
requestor’s/petitioner’s right under the will set the time and place for any hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone
Act to be made a party to the prehearing conferences and evidentiary at 301–415–1677, to request (1) a digital
proceeding; (3) the nature and extent of hearings, and the appropriate notices identification (ID) certificate, which
the requestor’s/petitioner’s property, will be provided. allows the participant (or its counsel or
financial, or other interest in the Hearing requests or petitions for leave representative) to digitally sign
proceeding; and (4) the possible effect of to intervene must be filed no later than documents and access the E-Submittal
any decision or order which may be 60 days from the date of publication of server for any proceeding in which it is
entered in the proceeding on the this notice. Requests for hearing, participating; and (2) advise the
requestor’s/petitioner’s interest. The petitions for leave to intervene, and Secretary that the participant will be
hearing request or petition must also motions for leave to file new or submitting a request or petition for
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include the specific contentions that the amended contentions that are filed after hearing (even in instances in which the
requestor/petitioner seeks to have the 60-day deadline will not be participant, or its counsel or
litigated at the proceeding. entertained absent a determination by representative, already holds an NRC-
For each contention, the requestor/ the presiding officer that the filing issued digital ID certificate). Based upon
petitioner must provide a specific demonstrates good cause by satisfying this information, the Secretary will
statement of the issue of law or fact to the three factors in 10 CFR establish an electronic docket for the
be raised or controverted, as well as a 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(iii). hearing in this proceeding if the

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		License amendment application; opportunity to comment, request a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.
Dates		Submit comments by October 5, 2015. Requests for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed by November 2, 2015.
Contact		Paul Kallan, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2809; email: [email protected]
FR Citation		80 FR 53336