ML032400039

Mid-Cycle Performance Review & Inspection Plan - Surry Power Station

ML032400039
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Site:	Surry
Issue date:	08/27/2003
From:	Mccree V Division Reactor Projects II
To:	Christian D Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO)
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August 27, 2003 Virginia Electric and Power Company ATTN.: Mr. David A. Christian Sr. Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Innsbrook Technical Center - 2SW 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711

SUBJECT:

MID-CYCLE PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND INSPECTION PLAN - SURRY POWER STATION

Dear Mr. Christian:

On August 11, 2003, the NRC staff completed its mid-cycle plant performance assessment of the Surry Power Station. The mid-cycle review for the Surry Power Station involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the first half of the current assessment cycle, January 1 - December 31, 2003. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities.

Plant Performance at Surry Unit 1 and Unit 2 for the most recent quarter was within the Regulatory Response column of the NRCs Action Matrix based on a White PI, Safety System Unavailability - Emergency AC Power, in the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone. The White PI on both units was discussed in our Annual Assessment Letter, dated March 4, 2003. Based upon the results of a Supplemental Inspection conducted in 2002 and the continuing acceptability of your ongoing corrective actions, we plan no additional special inspection for this White PI.

Therefore, we plan to conduct baseline inspections at your facility through September 30, 2004.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through September 30, 2004.

Included in the inspection plan are inspection activities associated with your Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation and the Unit 2 reactor vessel head replacement outage. The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature.

The inspections in the last six months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the end-of-cycle review meeting.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

VEPCO 2 If circumstances arise which cause us to change the inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact Mr. Kerry Landis at 404 562-4510 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Victor M. McCree, Acting Director Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos.: 50-280, 50-281 License Nos.: DPR-32, DPR-37

Enclosure:

Surry Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl.:

Chris L. Funderburk, Director Lillian M. Cuoco, Esq.

Nuclear Licensing and Senior Counsel Operations Support Dominion Resources Services, Inc.

Virginia Electric & Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Attorney General Richard H. Blount, II Supreme Court Building Site Vice President 900 East Main Street Surry Power Station Richmond, VA 23219 Virginia Electric & Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Virginia State Corporation Commission Division of Energy Regulation P. O. Box 1197 Richmond, VA 23209

VEPCO 3 Distribution w/encl.:

C. Gratton, NRR RIDSNRRDIPMLIPB PUBLIC Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)

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