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2016.
David Michaels,
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 052–00025 and 052–00026;
NRC–2008–0252]
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units
3 and 4
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application;
opportunity to comment, request a
hearing, and petition for leave to
intervene.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an amendment to Combined
Licenses (NPF–91 and NPF–92), issued
to Southern Nuclear Operating
Company, Inc. (SNC), Georgia Power
Company, Oglethorpe Power
Corporation, MEAG Power SPVM, LLC.,
MEAG Power SPVJ, LLC., MEAG Power
SPVP, LLC., and the City of Dalton,
Georgia (together ‘‘the licensees’’), for
construction and operation of the Vogtle
Electric Generating Plant (VEGP), Units
3 and 4, located in Burke County,
Georgia.
Submit comments by April 1,
2016. Requests for a hearing or petition
for leave to intervene must be filed by
May 2, 2016.
ADDRESSES: 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: 301–415–3463;
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
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section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Chandu P. Patel, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–000; telephone:
301–415–3025; email: Chandu.patel@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
SUMMARY:
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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2008–
0252 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action 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 obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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
application for amendment, dated
February 6, 2015, and supplemented by
letter dated September 15, 2015, is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15037A715 and ML15258A555,
respectively.
• 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 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 https://
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
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II. Introduction
The NRC is considering issuance of an
amendment to Facility Operating
License Nos. NPF–91 and NPF–92,
issued to SNC and Georgia Power
Company for operation of the Vogtle
Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4,
located in Burke County, Georgia.
The proposed changes would revise
the Combined Licenses (COLs) by
changing the Updated Final Safety
Analysis Report in the form of
departures from the incorporated plant
specific Design Control Document Tier
2 information and by making related
changes to COL Appendix C
information, with corresponding
changes to the associated plant-specific
Tier 1 information related to hydrogen
igniters. Because, these proposed
changes require a departure from Tier 1
information in the Westinghouse
Advanced Passive 1000 Design Control
Document (DCD), the licensee also
requested an exemption from the
requirements of the Generic DCD Tier 1
in accordance with 52.63(b)(1).
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 § 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:
ignition subsystem does not affect any safetyrelated equipment or function. The hydrogen
ignition subsystem is designed to mitigate
beyond design basis hydrogen generation in
the containment. The hydrogen ignition
subsystem changes do not involve any
accident, initiating event or component
failure; thus, the probabilities of the
accidents previously evaluated are not
affected. The modified system will maintain
its designed and analyzed beyond design
basis function to maintain containment
integrity. The maximum allowable leakage
rate specified in the Technical Specifications
is unchanged, and radiological material
release source terms are not affected; thus,
the radiological releases in the accident
analyses are not affected.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does
not involve a significant increase in the
probability or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated.
2. Does the proposed amendment create
the possibility of a new or different kind of
accident from any accident previously
evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed addition of hydrogen igniters
and clarifying changes to the hydrogen
ignition subsystem will maintain the beyond
design basis function of the hydrogen
ignition subsystem. The hydrogen igniter
subsystem changes do not impact its function
to maintain containment integrity during
beyond design basis accident conditions,
and, thus does not introduce any new failure
mode. The proposed changes do not create a
new fault or sequence of events that could
result in a radioactive release. The proposed
changes would not affect any safety-related
accident mitigating function.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does
not create the possibility of a new or different
kind of accident.
3. Does the proposed amendment involve
a significant reduction in a margin of safety?
Response: No.
The proposed addition of hydrogen igniters
and clarifying changes to the hydrogen
ignition subsystem will maintain the beyond
design basis function of the hydrogen
ignition subsystem. The proposed changes do
not have any effect on the ability of safetyrelated structures, systems, or components to
perform their design basis functions. The
proposed changes do not affect the ability of
the hydrogen igniter subsystem to maintain
containment integrity following a beyond
design basis accident. The hydrogen igniter
subsystem continues to meet the
requirements for which it was designed, and
continues to meet the regulations.
No safety analysis or design basis
acceptance limit/criterion is challenged or
exceeded by the proposed changes, thus no
margin of safety is reduced.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does
not involve a significant reduction in a
margin of safety.
1. Does the proposed amendment involve
a significant increase in the probability or
consequences of an accident previously
evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed addition of hydrogen igniters
and clarifying changes to the hydrogen
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
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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.
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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 60day 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 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
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 https://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
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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,
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including the opportunity to present
evidence and to submit a crossexamination 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 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.
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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 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/
getting-started.html. System
requirements for accessing the ESubmittal server are detailed in the
NRC’s ‘‘Guidance for Electronic
Submission,’’ which is available on the
agency’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 NRC guidance
available on the NRC’s public Web site
at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html. A filing is considered
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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/esubmittals.html, by email to
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree 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 firstclass 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
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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. 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 February 6, 2015, as
supplemented by letter dated September
15, 2015.
Attorney for licensee: Mr. M. Stanford
Blanton, Balch & Bingham LLP, 1710
Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, AL
35203–2015.
NRC Branch Chief: John McKirgan
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day
of February 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John McKirgan,
Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division
of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New
Reactors.
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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT
CORPORATION
Sundhine Act Cancellation Notice—
OPIC’s March 9, 2016 Annual Public
Hearing
OPIC’s Sunshine Act notice of its
Annual Public Hearing was published
in the Federal Register (Volume 81,
Number 7, Pages 1449–1450) on January
12, 2016. No requests were received to
provide testimony or submit written
statements for the record; therefore,
OPIC’s Annual Public Hearing
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scheduled for 1 p.m., March 9, 2015 has
been cancelled.
Contact Person for Information:
Information on the hearing cancellation
may be obtained from Catherine F. I.
Andrade at (202) 336–8768, or via email
at Catherine.Andrade@opic.gov.
Dated: February 26, 2016.
Catherine F.I. Andrade,
OPIC Corporate Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016–04657 Filed 2–29–16; 11:15 am]
BILLING CODE 3210–01–P
POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. CP2015–80; Order No. 3101]
New Postal Product
Postal Regulatory Commission.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Commission is noticing a
recent Postal Service filing concerning
an amendment to Priority Mail Contract
123 negotiated service agreement. This
notice informs the public of the filing,
invites public comment, and takes other
administrative steps.
DATES: Comments are due: March 4,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
electronically via the Commission’s
Filing Online system at https://
www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit
comments electronically should contact
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section by
telephone for advice on filing
alternatives.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
202–789–6820.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Notice of Filings
III. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction
On February 25, 2016, the Postal
Service filed notice that it has agreed to
an amendment to the existing Priority
Mail Contract 123 negotiated service
agreement approved in this docket.1 In
support of its Notice, the Postal Service
includes a redacted copy of the
amendment and a certification of
compliance with 39 U.S.C. 3633(a), as
required by 39 CFR 3015.5. Notice at 1.
The Postal Service also filed the
unredacted amendment and supporting
financial information under seal. Id. The
1 Notice of United States Postal Service of Change
in Prices Pursuant to Amendment to Priority Mail
Contract 123, February 25, 2016 (Notice).
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10920-10923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04620]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 052-00025 and 052-00026; NRC-2008-0252]
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4
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-91 and NPF-92),
issued to Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. (SNC), Georgia Power
Company, Oglethorpe Power Corporation, MEAG Power SPVM, LLC., MEAG
Power SPVJ, LLC., MEAG Power SPVP, LLC., and the City of Dalton,
Georgia (together ``the licensees''), for construction and operation of
the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP), Units 3 and 4, located in
Burke County, Georgia.
DATES: Submit comments by April 1, 2016. Requests for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene must be filed by May 2, 2016.
ADDRESSES: 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: 301-415-
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: Chandu P. Patel, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-000;
telephone: 301-415-3025; email: Chandu.patel@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0252 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0252.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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
application for amendment, dated February 6, 2015, and supplemented by
letter dated September 15, 2015, is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15037A715 and ML15258A555, respectively.
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 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 https://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
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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-91 and NPF-92, issued to SNC and Georgia
Power Company for operation of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant,
Units 3 and 4, located in Burke County, Georgia.
The proposed changes would revise the Combined Licenses (COLs) by
changing the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report in the form of
departures from the incorporated plant specific Design Control Document
Tier 2 information and by making related changes to COL Appendix C
information, with corresponding changes to the associated plant-
specific Tier 1 information related to hydrogen igniters. Because,
these proposed changes require a departure from Tier 1 information in
the Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 Design Control Document (DCD),
the licensee also requested an exemption from the requirements of the
Generic DCD Tier 1 in accordance with 52.63(b)(1).
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 amendment involve a significant increase in
the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed addition of hydrogen igniters and clarifying
changes to the hydrogen ignition subsystem does not affect any
safety-related equipment or function. The hydrogen ignition
subsystem is designed to mitigate beyond design basis hydrogen
generation in the containment. The hydrogen ignition subsystem
changes do not involve any accident, initiating event or component
failure; thus, the probabilities of the accidents previously
evaluated are not affected. The modified system will maintain its
designed and analyzed beyond design basis function to maintain
containment integrity. The maximum allowable leakage rate specified
in the Technical Specifications is unchanged, and radiological
material release source terms are not affected; thus, the
radiological releases in the accident analyses are not affected.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does not involve a significant
increase in the probability or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated.
2. Does the proposed amendment create the possibility of a new
or different kind of accident from any accident previously
evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed addition of hydrogen igniters and clarifying
changes to the hydrogen ignition subsystem will maintain the beyond
design basis function of the hydrogen ignition subsystem. The
hydrogen igniter subsystem changes do not impact its function to
maintain containment integrity during beyond design basis accident
conditions, and, thus does not introduce any new failure mode. The
proposed changes do not create a new fault or sequence of events
that could result in a radioactive release. The proposed changes
would not affect any safety-related accident mitigating function.
Therefore, the proposed amendment does not create the
possibility of a new or different kind of accident.
3. Does the proposed amendment involve a significant reduction
in a margin of safety?
Response: No.
The proposed addition of hydrogen igniters and clarifying
changes to the hydrogen ignition subsystem will maintain the beyond
design basis function of the hydrogen ignition subsystem. The
proposed changes do not have any effect on the ability of safety-
related structures, systems, or components to perform their design
basis functions. The proposed changes do not affect the ability of
the hydrogen igniter subsystem to maintain containment integrity
following a beyond design basis accident. The hydrogen igniter
subsystem continues to meet the requirements for which it was
designed, and continues to meet the regulations.
No safety analysis or design basis acceptance limit/criterion is
challenged or exceeded by the proposed changes, thus no 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
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 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 https://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
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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
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/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 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 NRC guidance
available on the NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered
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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-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
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.
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 February 6, 2015, as
supplemented by letter dated September 15, 2015.
Attorney for licensee: Mr. M. Stanford Blanton, Balch & Bingham
LLP, 1710 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203-2015.
NRC Branch Chief: John McKirgan
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of February 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John McKirgan,
Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of New Reactor Licensing,
Office of New Reactors.
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