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<br />02i16i99 09:45 HARMON,CURRAN.SPI -~ 919 644 0246 <br />UNITED STATES OF AMERICA <br />NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION <br />BEFORE THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION <br />In the Matter of ) <br />CAROLINA POWER 8t LIGHT ) Docket No. 50-400 <br />(Shearon Harris Nuclear } <br />Power Plant) ) <br />ORANGE COUNTY'S <br />REQUEST FOR HEARING AND <br />PETITION TO INTERVENE <br />I. INTRODUCTION <br />N0.093 D14 <br />February 12, 1999 <br />Pursuant to the notice of opportunity to request a hearing turd petition to intervene. <br />published in the Federal Register on January 13, 1999, 64 Fed. Reg. 2,237, the Board of <br />Commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina, hereby requests a hearing and petitions to <br />intervene in the license amendment proceeding regarding expansion of the spent fuel pool <br />storage capacity at the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant. <br />II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND <br />Carolina Power & Light ("CP&L"} has applied for a license amendment that would allow <br />it to increase the spent fue! storage capacity at the Harris plant, by adding rack modules to spent <br />fuel pools C and D and placing the pools in service. Pools C and D were port of the original <br />Hams design, intended to serve the plant's Units 2 and 3. Units 2 and 3 were canceled, and <br />therefore the pools have remained empty. Now CP&L seeks to use the pools for storing spent <br />fuel from the Harris reactor, as well as the Brunswick and Robinson reactors. <br />CP&L seeks modifications to the plant's design to allow it to install racks and store up to <br />8,405 spent fuel assemblies in Pools C and D. In order to meet NRC safety requirements, the <br />