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UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY C0f00SSION DOCKET NOS. 50-254 AND 50-265 COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY AND IOWA-ILLINOIS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (QUAD-CITIES UNITS 1 AND 2)
NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES Notice is hereby given that'the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission) has issued Amendments Nos. 3 and 1 to Facility Operating Licenses Nos. DPR-29 and DPR-30, respectively._ These licenses pre-viously authorized the Commonwealth Edison Company and the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company to possess, use and operate the Quad-Cities Nucicar Power. Station Units 1 and.2 (both single-cycle, boiling water reactors and located in Rock Island County, Illinois) at steady state power levels up to 502 megawatts (thermal) per unit (20% of each Unit's rated power).
The amendments that are the subject of this notice authorize 4
Commonwealth Edison Company _(acting for itself and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company) to operate the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station, during the startup testing program, at power levels up to 2260 megawatts (thermal) when operating a single unit or at power levels up to 2511 megawatts (thermal) when operating b'oth Units 1 and 2 simultaneously.
Af ter completion of the startup testing progra:n, the amendments authorize 8709280412 870921
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operation of.cach Unit singly or simultaneously with the other Unit'
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at. steady state power levels ~up to (1) 620 megawatts (thermal) at any
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. load. dispatcher, total demand is likely to exceed available capacity and other power sources are not available to meet system. load demand; and (3) 2260 megawatts- (thermal), if af ter-exhausting all means reasonably-available, system load demand requires the facility to exceed 1550-megawatts (thermal).
Incorporated.in the licesse amendments and issued-therewith are Nonradiological Technical Specifications which govern activities at the Station related to protection of the environment.
The license amendments for Unit 1 and Unit'2 revise the licenses in their entirety and are effective upon their date of issuance. The amended. licenses will expire on September 15, 1972,- unless extended for good cause shu a or upon the earlier issuance of superseding licensing actions.
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The Commission has found that the applications, as amended, comply-with the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, and has made the remalnder of the findings as set forth in the amendments and has con-cluded that the issuance of these l'icense amendments will'not be inimical
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'Ihe Commission also has found that (1) considering and balancing
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the factors as described in the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, Section D.3, the balance of such f actors warrants L
the issuance of these amendments, and (2) the emergency demands for
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. power in the area served by the Station warrant the issuance of these amendments.
Notice of AEC Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating License for operation of each of the Quad-Cities Units 1 and 2 at 2511 megawatts (thermal), full-power, was published in the Federal Register on March 16,1971 (36 F.R. 5008). However, licenses for full-power have not been issued pending review of the additional environmental considerations, including the balancing of factors, required by the September 9, 1971 revision of Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50.
On March 9, 1972, the Commission's Draf t Detailed Statement on Environmental Con-siderations was published in the Federal Register (37 F.R. 5073), and thereafter on March 24, 1972, a Supplementary Notice of AEC Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating Licenses was published in the Federal R,ogister (37 F.R. 6142). The supplementary notice provided 30 days for intervention on the environmental aspects of the operation of Quad-Cities Units 1 and 2.
No request for a hearing by the applicants or petition for leave to intervene by any interested person have been filed following publication of the Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating Licenses on March 16, 1971, and the publication of the Supplementary Notice on March 24, 1972, thereby permitting the li-censing actions that are herein being noticed.
i For further information concerning these actions, see copies of the following items which are available for public inspection at the i
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Commission's Public Document Room atL1717 H Street,,N. W.', Washington, L
D. C., and at the Holine Public Library at. 504-17th Street, Moline, Illinois 61265:
(1) Amendment No. 3 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-29 and Amendment No.1 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-30,
. (2) the Technical Specifications dated October 1,1971, and Nonradiological
. Technical Specifications, issued as part of Amendments 3 and '1, (3) Common-wealth Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company's applications, as amended, including the letter from Commonwealth Edison Company dated April 12, 1972, and supplement thereto dated April 28, 1972, (4) the Division of Reactor Licensing's' Safety Evaluation for the Quad-Cities Units 1 and 2 dated August 25, 1971, (5) the. report of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards dated March 9, 1971, (6) the Discussion and Conclusions of Environmental Impact by the USAEC
- Directorate of Licensing concerning the Proposed Issuance of Licenses to the Commonwealth Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company for Emergency Operation of Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 dated May 4, 1972, (7) the Discussion and Conclusions pursuant to Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50 dated January 24, 1972, and' supplement 1 thereto dated March 31, 1972, and (8) the Commission's Draf t Detailed Statement of Environmental Considerations dated March 6, 1972. A copy of each of the above items, except for item (3), may be obtained, as supply last, upon request addressed to the Atomic Energy
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Conunission, Washington, D. C.
20545, Attention: Deputy" Director for Reactor Projects, Directorate of. Licensing.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 12th day of May 1972..
POR THE ATOM::C ENERGY COMMISSION l
h) m Nt.*f o A. Giambusso Deputy Director for Reactor Projects Directorate of Licensing i
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