ML20087C105
| ML20087C105 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 05200001, 05200002 |
| Issue date: | 08/04/1995 |
| From: | Brinkman C ABB COMBUSTION ENGINEERING NUCLEAR FUEL (FORMERLY |
| To: | Hoyle J NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| FRN-60FR17902, RULE-PR-52 60FR17902-00010, 60FR17902-10, NUDOCS 9508090043 | |
| Download: ML20087C105 (2) | |
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Proposed Rule: Standard Design Certification for the General Electric Advanced Boiling Water Reactor Design (60 Fed. Ret 17902. Aoril 7.1995).
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Dear Mr. Hoyle:
Combustion Engineering Inc. (ABB-CE), a design certification applicant whose System 80+" Standard Plant Design was noticed for proposed design certification i
rulemaking on the same day as that for General Electric Company's ABWR, has reviewed the proposed rule for the ABWR and concurs fully in the comments filed on i
the above-referenced proceeding by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). ABB-CE participated extensively in the preparation of detailed comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) by NEI.
1 ABB-CE hereby incorporates by reference the NEI comments into this comment. In issuing the final design certification rules for the ABWR and the System 80+
Standard Plant, ABB-CE urges the Commission to modify the proposed rules as recommended by NEl to ensure the stability and certainty of the Part 52 licensing process.
Although ABB-CE is not requesting a hearing on the ABWR NOPR, ABB-CE wishes to participate in such a hearing in the event any other member of the public requests, and is granted, a hearing. In the event of such a hearing, the specific portion of the NOPR on which ABB-CE desires to be heard is that portion of the NOPR upon which the NRC has granted any other hearing requestor's request for hearing. The reasons that would be used by ABB-CE either to support or challenge the NOPR are those articulated in the NEI comments which are incorporated by reference herein, or in ABB-CE's comments submitted separately by ABB-CE on NRC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Design Certification of the System 80+" Standard Plant design, 60 Fed. Reg.17925, April 7,1995.
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o-As a design certification applicant on a parallel rulemaking path, ABB-CE is well acquainted with the substantive and procedural content and provisions affecting the ABWR NOPR. ABB-CE participated with General Electric Company in many of the public meetings and proceedings concerning the ABWR. ABB-CE possesses the requisite technical capability to understand the factual matters and to develop a record on any issue for which any hearing is requested. In addition, ABB-CE and its nuclear regulatory attorneys possess an understanding of NRC's hearing procedures in 10 C.F.R. Part 2.
In the event the NRC grants any hearing request, ABB-CE would strongly prefer that the hearing be conducted in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Charles B. Brinkman Director Nuclear Licenong cc:
Joseph F. Quirk (GE)
Dennis Crutchfield (NRC)
Norman Fletcher (DOE)
Ronald Simard (NEI) i I
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