Turkey Point, Units 3 and 4; Application and Amendment to Facility Operating License Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination, 5505-5508 [2013-01585]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket Nos.: 50–250 and 50–251; NRC–
2013–0015]
Turkey Point, Units 3 and 4;
Application and Amendment to Facility
Operating License Involving Proposed
No Significant Hazards Consideration
Determination
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463 as amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Site Visit review of the Materials
Research Science and Engineering Center
(MRSEC) at Yale University, also called
Center for Research on Interface Structures
and Phenomena, by NSF Division of
Materials Research (DMR) #1203
Dates and Times: February 20, 2013 7:45
a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Place: Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Type of Meeting: Part-open.
Contact Person: Dr. Charles Bouldin,
Program Director, Materials Research Science
and Engineering Centers Program, Division of
Materials Research, Room 1065, National
Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Arlington, VA 22230, Telephone (703) 292–
4920.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and
recommendations concerning further support
of the MRSEC at Yale University.
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Comments must be filed by
February 25, 2013. A request for a
hearing must be filed by March 26,
2013.
DATES:
Proposal Review Panel for Materials
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Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: License amendment request;
opportunity to comment, request a
hearing and petition for leave to
intervene.
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4:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Closed—Executive
Session
Reason for Closing: The work being
reviewed may include information of a
proprietary or confidential nature, including
technical information; financial data, such as
salaries and personal information concerning
individuals associated with the proposals.
These matters are exempt under 5 U.S.C.
552b(c), (4) and (6) of the Government in the
Sunshine Act.
Dated: January 18, 2013.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
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and comment submissions related to
this document, which the NRC
possesses and are publicly available, by
searching on https://www.regulations.gov
under Docket ID NRC–2013–0015. You
may submit comments by any of the
following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0015. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and
Directives Branch (RADB), Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
• Fax comments to: RADB at 301–
492–3446.
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For additional direction on accessing
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Accessing Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tracy J. Orf, Project Manager, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301–
415–2788; email: Tracy.Orf@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013–
0015 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may access
information related to this document,
which the NRC possesses and are
publicly available, by any of the
following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0015.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
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select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and
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2012, is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML12251A249.
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enters the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not edit
comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
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submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
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their comment submissions that they do
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II. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of amendments to Renewed
Facility Operating License Nos. 50–250
and 50–251, issued to Florida Power &
Light Company (the licensee), for
operation of the Turkey Point plant
located in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
The proposed amendments would
reduce the minimum sodium tetraborate
basket loading to 7,500 pounds mass
(lbm) in order to lessen the long term
sump pH profile, recover design margin,
and facilitate sodium tetraborate basket
loading and maintenance activities.
Before issuance of the proposed
license amendments, the Commission
will have made findings required by the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(the Act), and the Commission’s
regulations.
The Commission has made a
proposed determination that the
amendment request involves no
significant hazards consideration. Under
the Commission’s regulations in section
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 amendments 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. Do the proposed amendments involve a
significant increase in the probability or
consequences of an accident previously
evaluated?
No. The proposed amendments do not
affect any precursors to any accident
previously evaluated. The proposed
amendments do affect the passive
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recirculation pH control system consisting of
ten stainless steel baskets loaded with NaTB
[sodium tetraborate] but do not adversely
affect the system performance or its
contribution to the mitigation strategy for a
design basis large break loss of coolant
accident (LBLOCA). The proposed TS
[technical specification] change, when
implemented, will reduce the minimum
required NaTB basket loading from 11,061
lbm to 7,500 lbm in TS 3/4.6.2.3. This change
will also lessen the long term sump pH
profile, allow recovery of design margin and
facilitate NaTB basket loading and
maintenance activities.
Therefore, the proposed amendments do
not involve a significant increase in the
probability or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated.
2. Do the proposed amendments create the
possibility of a new or different kind of
accident from any accident previously
evaluated?
No. The proposed amendments do not
directly or indirectly affect any recognized
accident initiators. The proposed
amendments do affect the passive
recirculation pH control system consisting of
ten stainless steel baskets loaded with NaTB
but do not adversely affect the system
performance or its contribution to the
mitigation strategy for a design basis
LBLOCA. The proposed TS change, when
implemented, will reduce the minimum
required NaTB basket loading from 11,061
lbm to 7,500 lbm in TS 3/4.6.2.3. This change
will lessen the long term sump pH profile,
allow recovery of design margin to upper pH
limits and facilitate NaTB basket loading and
maintenance activities while it continues to
ensure that the design basis minimum sump
pH of 7.0 is maintained throughout the
recirculation phase of a LOCA.
Therefore, the proposed amendments do
not create the possibility of a new or different
kind of accident from any accident
previously evaluated.
3. Do the proposed amendments involve a
significant reduction in the margin of safety?
No. The proposed amendments will reduce
the minimum required NaTB basket loading
from 11,061 lbm to 7,500 lbm in TS 3/4.6.2.3.
This change, when implemented, will also
lessen the long term sump pH profile, allow
recovery of design margin to upper pH limits
and facilitate NaTB basket loading and
maintenance activities. This change
continues to assure that containment sump
pH reaches 7.0 by onset of containment spray
recirculation phase in response to a LBLOCA
and lessens the peak and long-term sump pH
such that post-accident chemical precipitate
generation and the potential for stainless
steel stress corrosion cracking is reduced.
Therefore, the proposed amendments do
not involve a significant reduction in the
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
amendment request involves no
significant hazards consideration.
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The Commission is seeking public
comments on this proposed
determination. 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 amendments until the
expiration of 60 days after the date of
publication of this notice. The
Commission may issue the license
amendments before expiration of the 60day period provided that its final
determination is that the amendments
involve no significant hazards
consideration. In addition, the
Commission may issue the amendments
prior to the expiration of the 30-day
comment period should circumstances
change during the 30-day comment
period such that failure to act 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;
Petition for Leave To Intervene
Within 60 days after the date of
publication of this notice, any person(s)
whose interest may be affected by this
action may file a request for a hearing
and a petition to intervene with respect
to issuance of the amendments to the
subject facility operating licenses.
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 person(s) should consult a
current copy of 10 CFR 2.309, which is
available at the NRC’s PDR, located at
O1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first
floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852. The
NRC regulations are available
electronically from the NRC Library on
the NRC’s Web site at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/cfr/. If a request for a hearing
or petition for leave to intervene is filed
by the above date, the Commission or a
presiding officer designated by the
Commission or by the Chief
Administrative Judge of the Atomic
Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will
rule on the request and/or petition; and
the Secretary or the Chief
Administrative Judge of the Atomic
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Safety and Licensing Board will issue a
notice of a hearing or an appropriate
order.
As required by 10 CFR 2.309, 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 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
petition must also identify the specific
contentions which the requestor/
petitioner seeks to have litigated at the
proceeding.
Each contention must consist of a
specific statement of the issue of law or
fact to be raised or controverted. In
addition, the requestor/petitioner shall
provide a brief explanation of the bases
for 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 requestor/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. The
petition must include 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 amendments
under consideration. The contention
must be one which, if proven, would
entitle the petitioner to relief. A
requestor/petitioner who fails to satisfy
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.
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
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determination is that the amendment
request involves no significant hazards
consideration, the Commission may
issue the amendments and make them
immediately effective, notwithstanding
the request for a hearing. Any hearing
held would take place after issuance of
the amendments. 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
the amendments.
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 EFiling 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 ten 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 NRCissued digital ID certificate). Based upon
this information, the Secretary will
establish an electronic docket for the
hearing in this proceeding if the
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 https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/
apply-certificates.html. System
requirements for accessing the ESubmittal server are detailed in the
NRC’s ‘‘Guidance for Electronic
Submission,’’ which is available on the
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NRC’s public Web site at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.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 Webbased submission form, including the
installation of the Web browser plug-in,
is available on the NRC’s public Web
site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.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 the NRC
guidance available on the NRC’s public
Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/sitehelp/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 EFiling 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 https://
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submittals.html, by email to
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call to 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 https://
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. 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.
Petitions for leave to intervene must
be filed no later than 60 days from
January 25, 2013. Requests for hearing,
petitions for leave to intervene, and
motions for leave to file new or
amended contentions that are filed after
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the 60-day deadline will not be
entertained absent a determination by
the presiding officer that the filing
demonstrates good cause by satisfying
the following three factors in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1): (i) The information upon
which the filing is based was not
previously available; (ii) the information
upon which the filing is based is
materially different from information
previously available; and (iii) the filing
has been submitted in a timely fashion
based on the availability of the
subsequent information.
For further details with respect to this
action, see the application for
amendments dated September 6, 2012.
Attorney for licensee: James Petro,
Managing Attorney—Nuclear, Florida
Power & Light, P.O. Box 14000, Juno
Beach, Florida 33408–0420.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day
of January 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tracy J. Orf,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II–
2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units
3 and 4; Application and Amendment
to Combined Licenses Involving
Proposed No Significant Hazards
Consideration Determination
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: License amendment request;
opportunity to comment, request a
hearing and petition for leave to
intervene.
AGENCY:
Comments must be filed by
February 25, 2013. A request for a
hearing must be filed by March 26,
2013.
DATES:
You may access information
and comment submissions related to
this document, which the NRC
possesses and are publicly available, by
searching on https://www.regulations.gov
under Docket ID NRC–2008–0252. You
may submit comments by any of the
following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2008–0252. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
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• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and
Directives Branch (RADB), Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
• Fax comments to: RADB at 301–
492–3446.
For additional direction on accessing
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Accessing Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ravindra Joshi, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–6191; email:
ravindra.joshi@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2008–
0252 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may access
information related to this document,
which the NRC possesses and are
publicly available, by any of the
following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2008–0252.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly
available documents online in the NRC
Library at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/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
ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced in this notice (if
that document is available in ADAMS)
is provided the first time that a
document is referenced. The application
for amendment, dated January 15, 2013,
is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML13016A169.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2008–
0252 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos.: 50-250 and 50-251; NRC-2013-0015]
Turkey Point, Units 3 and 4; Application and Amendment to
Facility Operating License Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards
Consideration Determination
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License amendment request; opportunity to comment, request a
hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
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DATES: Comments must be filed by February 25, 2013. A request for a
hearing must be filed by March 26, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available,
by searching on https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2013-
0015. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0015. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracy J. Orf, Project Manager, Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301-415-2788; email:
Tracy.Orf@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0015 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses
and are publicly available, by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0015.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC
Library at https://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 ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced. The application for amendments, dated September 6, 2012, is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML12251A249.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0015 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed. The NRC posts all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as
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enters the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not 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 in their comment submissions
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should
state that the NRC will not 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 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of amendments to Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. 50-
250 and 50-251, issued to Florida Power & Light Company (the licensee),
for operation of the Turkey Point plant located in Miami-Dade County,
Florida.
The proposed amendments would reduce the minimum sodium tetraborate
basket loading to 7,500 pounds mass (lbm) in order to lessen the long
term sump pH profile, recover design margin, and facilitate sodium
tetraborate basket loading and maintenance activities.
Before issuance of the proposed license amendments, the Commission
will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended (the Act), and the Commission's regulations.
The Commission has made a proposed determination that the amendment
request involves no significant hazards consideration. Under the
Commission's regulations in section 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 amendments 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. Do the proposed amendments involve a significant increase in
the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated?
No. The proposed amendments do not affect any precursors to any
accident previously evaluated. The proposed amendments do affect the
passive recirculation pH control system consisting of ten stainless
steel baskets loaded with NaTB [sodium tetraborate] but do not
adversely affect the system performance or its contribution to the
mitigation strategy for a design basis large break loss of coolant
accident (LBLOCA). The proposed TS [technical specification] change,
when implemented, will reduce the minimum required NaTB basket
loading from 11,061 lbm to 7,500 lbm in TS 3/4.6.2.3. This change
will also lessen the long term sump pH profile, allow recovery of
design margin and facilitate NaTB basket loading and maintenance
activities.
Therefore, the proposed amendments do not involve a significant
increase in the probability or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated.
2. Do the proposed amendments create the possibility of a new or
different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated?
No. The proposed amendments do not directly or indirectly affect
any recognized accident initiators. The proposed amendments do
affect the passive recirculation pH control system consisting of ten
stainless steel baskets loaded with NaTB but do not adversely affect
the system performance or its contribution to the mitigation
strategy for a design basis LBLOCA. The proposed TS change, when
implemented, will reduce the minimum required NaTB basket loading
from 11,061 lbm to 7,500 lbm in TS 3/4.6.2.3. This change will
lessen the long term sump pH profile, allow recovery of design
margin to upper pH limits and facilitate NaTB basket loading and
maintenance activities while it continues to ensure that the design
basis minimum sump pH of 7.0 is maintained throughout the
recirculation phase of a LOCA.
Therefore, the proposed amendments do not create the possibility
of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously
evaluated.
3. Do the proposed amendments involve a significant reduction in
the margin of safety?
No. The proposed amendments will reduce the minimum required
NaTB basket loading from 11,061 lbm to 7,500 lbm in TS 3/4.6.2.3.
This change, when implemented, will also lessen the long term sump
pH profile, allow recovery of design margin to upper pH limits and
facilitate NaTB basket loading and maintenance activities. This
change continues to assure that containment sump pH reaches 7.0 by
onset of containment spray recirculation phase in response to a
LBLOCA and lessens the peak and long-term sump pH such that post-
accident chemical precipitate generation and the potential for
stainless steel stress corrosion cracking is reduced.
Therefore, the proposed amendments do not involve a significant
reduction in the 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
amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration.
The Commission is seeking public comments on this proposed
determination. 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 amendments until the
expiration of 60 days after the date of publication of this notice. The
Commission may issue the license amendments before expiration of the
60-day period provided that its final determination is that the
amendments involve no significant hazards consideration. In addition,
the Commission may issue the amendments prior to the expiration of the
30-day comment period should circumstances change during the 30-day
comment period such that failure to act 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; Petition for Leave To Intervene
Within 60 days after the date of publication of this notice, any
person(s) whose interest may be affected by this action may file a
request for a hearing and a petition to intervene with respect to
issuance of the amendments to the subject facility operating licenses.
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 person(s)
should consult a current copy of 10 CFR 2.309, which is available at
the NRC's PDR, located at O1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland 20852. The NRC regulations are available
electronically from the NRC Library on the NRC's Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/. If a request for a hearing
or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the
Commission or a presiding officer designated by the Commission or by
the Chief Administrative Judge of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition; and the Secretary or
the Chief Administrative Judge of the Atomic
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Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of a hearing or an
appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR 2.309, 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 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 petition must
also identify the specific contentions which the requestor/petitioner
seeks to have litigated at the proceeding.
Each contention must consist of a specific statement of the issue
of law or fact to be raised or controverted. In addition, the
requestor/petitioner shall provide a brief explanation of the bases for
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
requestor/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.
The petition must include 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
amendments under consideration. The contention must be one which, if
proven, would entitle the petitioner to relief. A requestor/petitioner
who fails to satisfy 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.
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
amendments and make them immediately effective, notwithstanding the
request for a hearing. Any hearing held would take place after issuance
of the amendments. 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 the amendments.
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
ten 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 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 https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. System requirements for accessing
the E-Submittal server are detailed in the NRC's ``Guidance for
Electronic Submission,'' which is available on the NRC's public Web
site at https://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 https://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 the NRC guidance
available on the NRC's public Web site at https://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 https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-
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submittals.html, by email to MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll-free
call to 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
https://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. 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.
Petitions for leave to intervene must be filed no later than 60
days from January 25, 2013. 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 following three factors in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1): (i) The information upon which the filing is based was not
previously available; (ii) the information upon which the filing is
based is materially different from information previously available;
and (iii) the filing has been submitted in a timely fashion based on
the availability of the subsequent information.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendments dated September 6, 2012.
Attorney for licensee: James Petro, Managing Attorney--Nuclear,
Florida Power & Light, P.O. Box 14000, Juno Beach, Florida 33408-0420.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of January 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tracy J. Orf,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-2, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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