ML003696960
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| Issue date: | 03/27/2000 |
| From: | Hoffman S NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLSB |
| To: | Walters D Nuclear Energy Institute |
| Hoffman S, NRR,415-3245 | |
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March 27, 2000 ORGANIZATION:
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF LICENSE RENEWAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING WITH THE LICENSE RENEWAL WORKING GROUP The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRCs) License Renewal Steering Committee (LRSC) met with the NEI License Renewal Working Group on March 8, 2000, to discuss the status of the license renewal applications and generic license renewal activities. The agenda for the meeting is provided in Attachment 1. Attendees are listed in Attachment 2. Following is a summary of the topics discussed at the meeting:
1.
Status of applications a.
Calvert Cliffs The Commission is currently evaluating the NRC staffs recommendation regarding issuance of the renewed license. There was no additional discussion of Calvert Cliffs application.
b.
Oconee The NRC staff issued the final safety evaluation report on February 3, 2000, ahead of the scheduled February 12 date. The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards visited the Oconee site on February 23 - 24, 2000, and a public subcommittee meeting was held in the vicinity of the site on February 24, 2000. The full committee met on March 2, 2000, and its report to the Commission regarding issuance of the license was later issued on March 13, 2000. The third inspection was underway at the time of the meeting and was completed on March 3, 2000. Duke Energy submitted its revised supplement to the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report on February 14, 2000, and the staff is currently reviewing it. The staff subsequently met with Duke on March 9, 2000, to discuss the form and content of the renewed license.
c.
Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 (ANO-1)
The ANO-1 license renewal application was received by the NRC on February 1, 2000. By letter dated February 28, the staff notified Entergy Operations, Inc., that it found the application acceptable for docketing and provided a copy of the Federal Notice of indicating the NRCs acceptance of the application and notifying the public of the opportunity for hearing. A review schedule for the application was issued by letter dated March 7.
d.
Hatch The Hatch license renewal application was received on March 1, 2000, and the staff was performing the acceptance review for docketing. The Hatch application is the first renewal application received for which the NRC approved submittal of only one signed paper copy of the application with the additional required copies provided on CD-ROMs.
e.
Generic Lessons Learned The NRC staff and industry agreed on the need to identify efficiencies and lessons learned from the experience gained from past and ongoing application reviews. This topic will be included as a routine agenda topic for future meetings between the LRSC and NEI.
2.
License Renewal Interest was provided to illustrate the NRCs budget planning assumptions regarding receipt of renewal applications. The NRCs budget and planning process now projects receipt of applications by fiscal year quarter and the moving of an application between quarters or the receipt of an unannounced application has significant impact on the staffs process. The industry was again encouraged to inform the NRC when applications are planned to be submitted.
In response, NEI stated that letters were sent to the chief nuclear operating officers emphasizing the importance of informing the NRC early of their intent to submit a renewal application. Using input from the licensees, NEI plans to compile a list of plants planning to submit renewal applications between now and the year 2010. The names of the applicants will be kept confidential unless the licensee has made a public disclosure. The first version of the list will be sent to the NRC in April 2000 and updated approximately quarterly.
The NRC is also considering the need to formalize and inform the industry of its process for reviewing renewal applications. Questions were raised regarding the order of review if, for example, an unannounced application is received before one where the licensee had informed the NRC of a submittal date. The NRCs intent for order of review is to follow its budgeting and planning process to focus on those applications for which the NRC was notified of submittal dates to allow the applications to be incorporated into the planning process. Applications received that are not in the planning process will be evaluated and handled to the extent practical on a case-by-case basis.
3.
Active License Renewal Issues Status An action from the December 9, 1999, meeting between the LRSC and NEI was to review the unresolved generic license renewal issues to determine which ones will not be addressed by development of the Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) report and license renewal standard review plan (SRP). A summary of the NRC staffs assessment is contained in. The 16 issues not addressed by these reports or ongoing work by NEI, are contained in Attachment 5.
Agreement was reached that the existing inventory of generic renewal issues would be abandoned in lieu of a process for resolving comments on the draft GALL report and the SRP (see discussion under Item 4). Renewal Issues that are close to resolution will be completed.
A public meeting will be held between the staff and NEI to discuss the issues not addressed by the GALL report and the SRP.
4.
License Renewal Implementation Guidance Development NEI explained that they have several hundred comments on the draft GALL report and they offered to prepare those comments in a form that includes a comment, justification, and proposed alternative report language. NEI is close to compiling their comments on the electrical section of the GALL report and will submit the comments in early April 2000.
Comments on the structural section will follow with comments on the mechanical section, the largest section, last. It was agreed that the staff would meet with NEI and other interested stakeholders to discuss the industry comments. The staff also agreed to provide NEI with a cut-off date for submitting their comments to support the staffs schedule. Attachment 6 provides the schedule for completing development of license renewal implementation guidance.
The staff is continuing to improve the draft GALL report and complete sections of the updated SRP-LR. In a February 3, 2000, letter to NEI, the staff provided a template for preparing the SRP based on a method of referencing the GALL report in a license renewal application. In addition, by a March 6, 2000, letter to NEI, the staff has provided the first 5 sections of the draft SRP-LR for preliminary review and comment by interested stakeholders.
5.
Status of Environmental Activities a.
Rulemaking Petition Regarding Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives (SAMAs)
NEI submitted a petition dated July 13, 1999, to delete the requirement to address SAMAs in the environmental reviews for license renewal. The staff is preparing a draft Commission paper with its recommendations on the disposition of the NEI petition for a rulemaking. The staffs schedule is to resolve the petition within 12 months of publishing the notice of receipt in the Federal Register (64 FR 48117; September 2, 1999). (Note: At the meeting, the schedule was incorrectly stated as 12 months from the receipt of the petition.)
b.
License Renewal Supplements to the Standard Review Plan and Regulatory Guide The final Supplement 1 to NUREG-1555, Standard Review Plans for Environmental Reviews for Nuclear Power Plants, Operating License Renewal, was issued on February 23, 2000. A notice of availability was subsequently published in the Federal Register on March 14, 2000, (65 FR 13798).
The final Supplement 1 to Regulatory Guide 4.2, Preperation of Supplemental Environmental Reports for Applications to Renew Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licenses, is currently in the concurrence process. Review by the Committee to Review Generic Requirements is still required. The staff anticipates issuing the final supplement in approximately one month.
6.
Resolution of GSI-190 Fatigue Evaluation of Metal Components for 60-Year Plant Life NEI indicated that the industry's concern regarding the need to address environmental effects on fatigue for license renewal remained, in spite of the staff's closure of GSI-190 requiring no generic regulatory action. NEI and the Electric Power Research Institute are reviewing the NRC contractors report used to resolve the GSI. It was agreed that a technical meeting
between the staff and NEI will be scheduled to discuss this issue further. NEI stated that no action is needed by the LRSC at this time. However, this issue may be raised to the LRSC in the future depending on the outcome of the technical meeting.
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Stephen T. Hoffman, Senior Project Manager License Renewal and Standardization Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Project No. 690 Attachments: As stated cc w/attach: See next page
NRC contractors report used to resolve the GSI. It was agreed that a technical meeting between the staff and NEI will be scheduled to discuss this issue further. NEI stated that no action is needed by the LRSC at this time. However, this issue may be raised to the LRSC in the future depending on the outcome of the technical meeting.
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Stephen T. Hoffman, Senior Project Manager License Renewal and Standardization Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Project No. 690 Attachments: As stated cc w/attach: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
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AGENDA NRC LICENSE RENEWAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING WITH THE NEI LICENSE RENEWAL WORKING GROUP MARCH 8, 2000 1.
Status of applications a.
Calvert Cliffs b.
Oconee c.
Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 d.
Hatch 2.
License renewal interest 3.
Active license renewal issues status 4.
License renewal implementation guidance development Generic Aging Lessons Learned Report, standard review plan, regulatory guide, &
industry implementation guideline (NEI 95-10) 5.
Status of Environmental Activities
- a. Rulemaking petition regarding severe accident mitigation alternatives
- b. License renewal supplements to the standard review plan and regulatory guide ATTENANCE LIST NRC LICENSE RENEWAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING WITH THE NEI LICENSE RENEWAL WORKING GROUP MARCH 8, 2000 NAME ORGANIZATION STEVE HOFFMAN NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB STEPHEN BURNS NRC\\OGC MICHAEL MAYFIELD NRC\\RES\\DET SCOTT NEWBERRY NRC\\NRR\\DRIP JACK STROSNIDER NRC\\NRR\\DE LOUIS LONG SOUTHERN NUCLEAR LESLIE HARTZ DOMINION MIKE TUCKMAN DUKE RANDY HUTCHINSON ENTERGY DOUG WALTERS NEI GREG ROBISON DUKE ENERGY ROBERT GILL DUKE ENERGY TONY PIETRANGELO NEI DONALD FERRARO WINSTON & STRAWN STEVE HALE FPL BOB JASINSKI NRC\\OPA LYNN CONNOR DSA, INC FRED POLASKI PECO ENERGY CHARLES PIERCE SOUTHERN NUCLEAR NOEL DUDLEY ACRS JIM LANG EPRI TERRY PICKENS NORTHERN STATES POWER CO.
DAVID LEWIS SHAW PITTMAN NATALIE MOSHER EOI\\ANO GARRY G. YOUNG ENTERGY OPERATIONS\\ANO NANCY CHAPMAN SERCH\\BECHTEL STEVE ULM FLORIDA POWER CORP.
BILL CORBIN VIRGINIA POWER DON PALMROSE NUS-LIS THOMAS KENYON NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB BROOKE POOLE NRC\\OGC JOE SEBROSKY NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB WILLIAM BURTON NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB SAM LEE NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB WINSTON LIU NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB DAVID SOLORIO NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB DON CLEARY NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RGEB KIM LEIGH NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RGEB BARRY ZALCMAN NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RGEB JIM STRNISHA NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RGEB BOB PRATO NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB JIT VORA NRC\\RES\\DET\\MEB P.T. KUO NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB ROBERT WEISMAN NRC\\OGC JANICE MOORE NRC\\OGC STEPHEN KOENICK NRC\\NRR\\DRIP\\RLSB DWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN*
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Mr. Dennis Harrison U.S. Department of Energy NE-42 Washington, D.C. 20585 Mr. Richard P. Sedano, Commissioner State Liaison Officer Department of Public Service 112 State Street Drawer 20 Montipelier, Vermont 05620-2601 Mr. Douglas J. Walters Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, N.W., Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 DJW@NEI.ORG National Whistleblower Center 3233 P Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007 Mr. Garry Young Entergy Operations, Inc.
Arkansas Nuclear One 1448 SR 333 GSB-2E Russellville, Arkansas 72802 Mr. Robert Gill Duke Energy Corporation Mail Stop EC-12R P.O. Box 1006 Charlotte, NC 28201-1006 Mr. Charles R. Pierce Southern Nuclear Operating Co.
40 Inverness Center Parkway BIN B064 Birmingham, AL 35242 Carl J. Yoder Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant 1650 Calvert Cliffs Parkway NEF 1st Floor Lusby, Maryland 20657 Chattooga River Watershed Coalition P. O. Box 2006 Clayton, GA 30525 Mr. David Lochbaum Union of Concerned Scientists 1616 P. St., NW Suite 310 Washington, DC 20036-1495