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Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-289/95-16.Info Will Be Examined During Future Insp

ML20133K838
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	01/14/1997
From:	Lazarus W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	James Knubel GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
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January 14, 1997 Mr. James Knubel Vice President and Director, TMl

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GPU Nuclear Corporation l Three Mile island Nuclear Station P. O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057-0191 SUBJECT: INSPECTION REPORT NO. 50-289/95-16 (REPLY)

Dear Mr. Knubel:

This letter refers to your December 5,1996 correspondence, in response to our October 29,1996 letter.

Thank you for providing us with the information we requested regarding your current ASME Section XIimplementation program. This information will be examined during a future inspection of your licensed program.

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Your cooperation with us is appreciated.

Sincerely,

ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:

William J. Lazarus, Acting Chief Civil, Mechanical, Materials Engineering Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-289 cc:

E. L. Blake, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge (Legal Counsel for GPUN)

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania J. C. Fornicola, Director, Licensing and Regulatory Affairs M. J. Ross, Director, Operations and Maintenance TMI-Alert (TMIA) ,

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U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Attn: Document Control Desk l Washington, D. C. 20555

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Subject: Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit I (TMI-1)

Operating License No. DPR-50

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Docket No. 50-289 ,

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Response to Inspection Repon 50-289/95-16 Reply References: (1) NRC Letter dated March 11,1996, " Notice of Violation l (NRC Inspection Repon No. 50-289/95-16)." j (2) GPU Nuclear Letter 6710-96-2024, dated April 10,1996,

" Response to Notice of Violation."

(3) NRC Letter dated October 29,1996 (received November 6,1996), " Inspection Report 50-289/95-16 Reply."

Attachment I to this letter provides GPU Nuclear's response to your Reference 3 request to provide " ..a specific reference to the section of ASME Section XI that allows the use of engmeenng judgment in lieu of code specified acceptance criteria, and an explanation of how your current ASME Section XI implementation program precludes situations similar to the l RCS drainline."

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I ATTACHMENTI This attachment provides GPU Nuclear's response to your Reference 3 request to provide " ..a specific reference to the section of ASME Section XI that allows the use of engineering judgment in lieu of code specified acceptance criteria, and an explanation of how your current ASME Section XI implementation program precludes situations similar to the RCS drain line." i At the time of the subject violation, the ASME Section XI code of record applicable to TMI was ASME Section XI 1977 Code through the 1978 Summer Addenda. This code version provided no acceptance standards for component supports. GPU Nuclear used engmeering judgment in the evaluation of the RCS drain line supports. Please recognize that at that time no code acceptance criteda or specific code requirements then existed and therefore l engmeenng judgment was not used " ..in lieu of code speciSed acceptance cdteria." GPU l

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Nuclear agrees that no editions of ASME Section XI specify that engineering judgment can be used "in lieu of code specified acceptance criteria." GPU Nuclear reaffirms that engineeringjudgment was not used " ..in lieu of codes specified acceptance criteria."

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The code of record for the current TMI ASME Section XIimplementation program is ASME l Section XI 1986. The 1986 Edition of ASME Section XI, subsection IWF-3410, provides i acceptance standards for inspecting component supports. Therefore, GPU Nuclear will continue to comply with the ' current code of record which requires unacceptable j

conditions to be replaced, repaired, or demonstrated to meet functional requirements through testing or evaluation (IWF-3410)

To clarify GPU Nuclear's position as stated above, the response to Reference 2, Violation B, first paragraph, last sentence, is modified to read: "GPU Nuclear maintains that the use of engincedng judgment to evaluate existing conditions under the TMI ASME Section .U implementation program is acceptable only when no code specified acceptance criteria or specific code requirements exist."

References NRC Letter dated, March 11,1996, " Notice of Violation (NRC Inspection Report No.

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50-289/95-16)."

GPU Nuclear Letter 6710-%-2024, dated April 10,1996," Response to Notice of (2)

Violation."

(3) NRC Letter dated October 29,1996, (received November 6,1996), " Inspection Report 50-289/95-16 Reply."

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" Inspection Report 50-289/95-16 Reply" This letter is submitted in reply to NRC Letter dated October 29,1996, (received November 6, 1996), " Inspection Repon 50-289/95-16 Reply", which requested additional information in reference to NRC Letter dated March 11,1996, " Notice of Violation (NRC Inspection Report No. 50-289/95-16)." All statements contained in this reply have been reviewed, and all such statements made and matters set forth therein are true and correct to the best of my I knowledge. 1

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