IR 05000255/1996004

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Provides Revised Commitment of Insp Rept 50-255/96-04 Re Schedule for MOV Repairs
ML18065B027
Person / Time
Site: Palisades Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 10/24/1996
From: Bordine T
CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To:
NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
IEIN-92-018, IEIN-92-18, NUDOCS 9611010004
Download: ML18065B027 (2)


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consumers Power Palisades Nuclear Plant: 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway, Covert, Ml 49043 * October 24, 1996 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 DOCKET 50-255 -LICENSE DPR-20 -PALISADES PLANT Thomas C. Bordine Manager. licensing REQUEST FOR CONFIRMATION OF SCHEDULE FOR MOV REPAIRS IDENTIFIED BY INFORMATION NOTICE 92-18 On September 12, 1996, Consumers Power Company (CPCo) replied to a Notice of Violation for deficiencies identified in NRC Inspection Report No: 50-255/96004(DRS)

dated_ May 20, 1996. In that letter, Consumers Power Company committed to modify nineteen motor-operated valves (MOVs) identified as susceptible to damage by the failure mechanism described by Information Notice 92-18, "Potential for loss of . Remote Shutdown Capability During a Control Room Fire." These modifications were to be completed during the 1996 refueling outage, if practiq31, or no later than the 1998 refueling outage. By letter dated October 2, 1996, the NRC requested CPCo to reconsider its proposed schedule to complete all MOV modification * *cPCo has re-evaluated the schedule to *complete the MOV modifications amj has -concluded that the modifications of all nineteen MOVs can be completed prior to startup from the 1996 refueling outage. Therefore, this letter revises the previous commitment on the subject to state that all nineteen MOVs identified as susceptible to damage by the failure mechanism identified by Information Notice 92-18 will be modified by the end of the 1996 refueling outage. 9611010004 961024 PDR ADOCK 05000255 0 PDR A CMS ENER5Y COMPANY SUMMARY OF COMMITMENTS This letter contains one revised commitmen The revised commitment is: All motor-operated valves which have been identified susceptible to damage by the failure mechanism identified by Information Notice 92-18 will be modified by the end of the 1996 refueling outage. This revised commitment supersedes the previous commitment which stated that all motor-operated valves which have been identified susceptible to damage by the failure* mechanism identified by Information Notice 92-18 will be modified by the end of the 1998 refueling outag Thomas C. Berdine Manager, Licensing CC Administrator, Region Ill, USNRC Project Manager, NRR, l.J'SNRC NRC Resident Inspector-Palisades James Lieberman, Director, Office of Enforcement'