ML031830495

Letter Dated 07/01/2003 to L. Myers, Firstenergy Nuclear Operating Company Transmittal of Davis-Besse Oversight Panel Restart Checklist, Revision 3

ML031830495
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Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	07/02/2003
From:	Dyer J Region 3 Administrator
To:	Myers L FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
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July 2, 2003 Mr. Lew Myers Chief Operating Officer FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760

SUBJECT:

DAVIS-BESSE OVERSIGHT PANEL RESTART CHECKLIST, REVISION 3

Dear Mr. Myers:

By our letter dated April 29, 2002, we informed you of our planned actions to provide focused and coordinated regulatory oversight of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station as a result of the reactor pressure vessel head degradation discovered on March 6, 2002. We enhanced NRC monitoring of corrective actions at Davis-Besse, as described in NRC Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0350, Oversight of Operating Reactor Facilities in a Shutdown Condition with Performance Problems. NRC Region III Manager, John A. Grobe, was assigned as the Chairman of the NRCs Davis-Besse Oversight Panel.

The Oversight Panel for Davis-Besse was implemented to enhance the agencys strategic goals of maintaining safety, enhancing public confidence, increasing efficiency and effectiveness, and minimizing unnecessary regulatory burden by coordinating and focusing agency resources. In accordance with IMC 0350, the Davis-Besse Oversight Panel developed a Restart Checklist, which is a listing of issues requiring resolution before the Oversight Panel could consider a recommendation for facility restart. The Restart Checklist was issued on August 16, 2002. The Restart Checklist was subsequently revised on October 30, 2002, adding issues concerning the containment sump modification and the radiation protection program and January 28, 2003, adding an issue concerning the processes for ensuring completeness and accuracy of required records and submittals to the NRC.

The Davis Besse Oversight Panel has the responsibility to modify the Restart Checklist to address issues of significance that emerge during its ongoing oversight. Accordingly, the Oversight Panel is adding two issues identified as Item 2.e, High Pressure Injection Pump Internal Clearance Debris Resolution, and 6.g, Request to Relocate High Pressure Injection and Low Pressure Injection Subsystems Flow Balance Testing from Technical Specifications 4.5.2.h to Updated Safety Analysis Report Technical Requirements Manual, to the attached Restart Checklist. The first issue is being added because a preliminary significance determination of the issues documented in LER 50-346/2003-002 indicates a finding of greater than very low significance resulting in the need for further evaluation to determine the significance. The details of this significance determination will be documented in IR 50-346/2003-015. The second issue is being added, based on your submittal dated May 21, 2003 and your request for approval of this license amendment prior to restart.

This Checklist will continue to be reevaluated and revised, if necessary, by the Davis-Besse Oversight Panel, based on the results of NRC inspections and your continuing implementation of recovery activities.

L. Myers IMC 0350 directs the suspension of the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) with the initiation of the Oversight Panel. The inspection program for Davis-Besse will be directed by the oversight panel utilizing existing inspection procedures to the maximum extent practicable and the Panel will use the significance determination process and action matrix as guidance for determining agency response to identified performance problems. You should continue to monitor and submit appropriate performance indicators consistent with the facility configuration. The NRCs inspections will be focused on resolving the issues contained in the Restart Checklist and scheduled consistent with your completion of work in each area.

If you have questions regarding the NRC actions discussed above, please contact John A.

Grobe at 630/829-9637 or Christine A. Lipa at 630/829-9619.

Sincerely,

/RA/

J. E. Dyer Regional Administrator Docket No. 50-346 License No. NPF-3

Enclosure:

Restart Checklist, Revision 3 See Attached Distribution

L. Myers IMC 0350 directs the suspension of the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) with the initiation of the Oversight Panel. The inspection program for Davis-Besse will be directed by the oversight panel utilizing existing inspection procedures to the maximum extent practicable and the Panel will use the significance determination process and action matrix as guidance for determining agency response to identified performance problems. You should continue to monitor and submit appropriate performance indicators consistent with the facility configuration. The NRCs inspections will be focused on resolving the issues contained in the Restart Checklist and scheduled consistent with your completion of work in each area.

If you have questions regarding the NRC actions discussed above, please contact John A.

Grobe at 630/829-9637 or Christine A. Lipa at 630/829-9619.

Sincerely, J. E. Dyer Regional Administrator Docket No. 50-346 License No. NPF-3

Enclosure:

Restart Checklist, Revision 3 See Attached Distribution DOCUMENT NAME: C:\ORPCheckout\FileNET\ML031830495.WPD To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box:"C" = Copy without enclosure "E"= Copy with enclosure"N"= No copy OFFICE RIII NRR RIII NRR RIII NAME CLipa/klg WRuland/per JGrobe /RA JDyer email Borchardt JGrobe/ acting for/SCollins/

per email CLipa/

DATE 06/26/03 06/27/03 06/27/03 07/01/03 07/02 /03 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

L. Myers cc w/encl: The Honorable Dennis Kucinich B. Saunders, President - FENOC Plant Manager Manager - Regulatory Affairs M. OReilly, FirstEnergy Ohio State Liaison Officer R. Owen, Ohio Department of Health Public Utilities Commission of Ohio D. Lochbaum, Union Of Concerned Scientists S. Arndt, President, Ottawa County Board of Commissioners C. Emahiser, Ottawa County Sheriff J. P. Greer, Director, Ottawa County Emergency Management Agency H. Barlos, President, Lucas County Board of Commissioners J. Telb, Lucas County Sheriff B. Halsey, Director, Lucas County Emergency Management Agency G. Adams, Village Administrator, Genoa The Honorable John Weber The Honorable Lowell C. Krumnow The Honorable Joseph Verkin The Honorable Thomas Leaser The Honorable Jack Ford The Honorable Thomas Brown The Honorable Joe Ihnat, Jr.

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U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Manual Chapter 0350 Oversight Panel Davis-Besse Restart Checklist, Revision 3 Item Number/ Description Cornerstone*

1. Adequacy of Root Cause Determinations 1.a Penetration Cracking and Reactor Pressure Vessel Corrosion IE 1.b Organizational, Programmatic and Human Performance Issues IE

2. Adequacy of Safety Significant Structures, Systems, and Components 2.a Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Replacement IE 2.b Containment Vessel Restoration Following Reactor Pressure BI Vessel Head Replacement 2.c Structures, Systems, and Components Inside Containment IE, MS, BI 2.c.1 Emergency Core Cooling System and Containment Spray MS, BI System Sump 2.d Extent-of-Condition of Boric Acid in Systems Outside IE, MS, BI Containment 2.e High Pressure Injection Pump Internal Clearance/Debris MS, BI Resolution

3. Adequacy of Safety Significant Programs 3.a Corrective Action Program ALL 3.b Operating Experience Program ALL 3.c Quality Audits and Self-Assessments of Programs ALL 3.d Boric Acid Corrosion Management Program IE, MS, BI

3.e Reactor Coolant System Unidentified Leakage Monitoring IE, MS, BI Program 3.f In-Service Inspection Program IE, MS, BI 3.g Modification Control Program ALL 3.h Radiation Protection Program ORS, PRS 3.i Process for Ensuring Completeness and Accuracy of Required ALL Records and Submittals to the NRC

4. Adequacy of Organizational Effectiveness and Human Performance 4.a Adequacy of Corrective Action Plan ALL 4.b Effectiveness of Corrective Actions ALL

5. Readiness for Restart 5.a Review of Licensees Restart Action Plan ALL 5.b Systems Readiness for Restart IE, MS 5.c Operations Readiness for Restart IE 5.d Test Program Development and Implementation IE, MS, BI

6. Licensing Issue Resolution 6.a Verification that Relief Requests A8 and A12 regarding the IE, BI Shell to Flange Weld (previously submitted by letter dated September 19, 2000) is not Impacted by the Midland RPV Head 6.b American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code Relief IE, BI Request for Failure to Maintain Original Radiographic Tests of the Midland Head to Flange Weld (Planned Relief Request A26)

6.c ASME Code Relief Request for Inability to Radiographically Test IE, BI 100% of the Midland Reactor Pressure Vessel Head to Flange Weld (Planned Relief Request A27) 6.d Resubmit Relief Request A2 (previously submitted by letter dated IE, BI September 19, 2000) for ASME Code for Inability to Perform 100% volumetric and surface examination of Head to Flange Weld 6.e Reconciliation Letter that Demonstrates How the New Reactor IE, BI Pressure Vessel Head Correlates With the ASME Code and QA Index for Section III and Section XI - Commitments 6.f Verification Letter of Technical Specification IE, BI Pressure/Temperature Curves for New Vessel Head -

Commitment 6.g Request to relocate High Pressure Injection and Low Pressure MS, BI Injection Subsystems Flow Balance Testing fromTechnical Specifications 4.5.2.h to Updated Safety Analysis Report Technical Requirements Manual

7. Confirmatory Action Letter Resolution 7.a Verification that Confirmatory Action Letter Items are Resolved, ALL Including a Public Meeting to Discuss Readiness for Restart

• Cornerstones:

IE - Initiating Events MS - Mitigating Systems BI - Barrier Integrity EP- Emergency Preparedness ORS - Occupational Radiation Safety PRS - Public Radiation Safety PP - Physical Protection ALL - Affects all cornerstones