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02i16i99 09:45 HARMON,CURRAN,SPI -~ 919 644 0246 N0.093 D03 .~_ § 51.25, the Staff must prepare an Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") or an Envimnmentai Assessment ("EA'7 prior to issuing the proposed license amendment. Finally, the issuance of a ficense amendment prior to the conduct of a heazing in this case exceeds the ~ purpose and authority granted by Congress in passing the 5holly amendment to the Atomic Energy Act. In the event that the NRC Staff rejects these comments and decides to go ahead with a 5nal finding that the license amendment poses no significant haaazds considerations, Orange County requests the Staff to stay the effectiveness of the proposed license amendment for ten days, in order to maintain the status quo while the County appeals the Staff s decision. F:~CTUAL BacKCROUND Cazolina Power & Light ("CPBcL'~ has applied for a license amendment that would allow it to increase the spent fuel storage capacity at the Harris plant, by adding rack modules to spent fuel pools C and D and placing the pools in service.' Pools C and D were part of the original Hams design, intended to serve the plant's Units ?and 3. Unit 2 and 3 were cancelled, and therefore the pools have remained empty. Now CP&L seeks co use the pools for storing spent fuel from the Farris reactor, as well as the Brunswick and Robinson reactors. CP&L seeks modifications to the plant's design to allow it to install racks and store up to 8,x05 spent fuel assemblies in Pools C and D. In order to meet NRC safety requirements, the plant's design would have to be modified to provide cooling by the component cooling water ("CCW ~ system for Unit ~ 1. Because the CCW system has a limited heat load capacity, CP&L would alter its tech specs to impose administrative limits on the heat load in pools C and D, such 'For a more detailed description of the proposed license amendment, see Thompson Declaration, section E.