ML041330367

Catawba - NRC Staff Second Supplemental Response to Bredl'S First Discovery Request

ML041330367
Person / Time
Site:	Catawba
Issue date:	05/11/2004
From:	Uttal S NRC/OGC
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
Byrdsong A T
References
50-413-OLA, 50-414-OLA, ASLBP 03-815-03-OLA, RAS 7747
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RELATED CORRESPONDENCE May 11, 2004 RAS 7747 DOCKETED 05/12/2004 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION ) Docket Nos. 50-413-OLA, 50-414-OLA

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(Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2) )

NRC STAFF SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO BREDLS FIRST DISCOVERY REQUEST __

On April 14, 2004, the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Staff), filed a response to Blue Ridge Environmental Defense Leagues First Set of Discovery directed to the NRC Staff (BREDLs First Discovery Request), filed March 31, 2004. The NRC Staff (Staff) filed its objections to BREDLs Request on April 12, 2004. The Staff hereby reiterates and renews each of its objections to BREDLs Request set forth in the Staffs Objection. Without waiving any previously made objections to BREDLs first discovery request, the Staff hereby files this supplemental response to BREDLs First Discovery Request.

GENERAL DOCUMENT PRODUCTION REQUESTS GENERAL REQUEST NO. 2: All documents in your possession, custody or control relevant to each BREDL admitted contention, and to the extent possible, segregated by contention and separated from already produced documents.

STAFF RESPONSE: The staff provides the following additional documents in response to General Request No. 2. The following documents are publicly available at the locations listed. By providing documents in response to this request or any other portion of BREDLs Request, the Staff is not conceding that any of the answers or documents provided are material to the admitted contentions.

The Staff reserves the right to object to the introduction of any of these documents at hearing on the grounds that they are immaterial, irrelevant or outside the scope of the proceeding.

1. Regulatory Guide 1.4, "Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential Radiological Consequences of a Loss of Coolant Accident for Pressurized Water Reactors." (ML003739614)

2. Regulatory Guide 1.77 "Assumptions Used for Evaluating a Control Rod Ejection Accident for Pressurized Water Reactors."

(ML003740279)

3. Regulatory Guide 1.183, "Alternative Radiological Source Terms for Evaluating Design Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power Reactors."

(ML003716792)

4. NUREG-0800, Standard Review Plan, Chapter 15.3.3 / 15.3.4, "Reactor Coolant Pump Motor Seizure and Reactor Coolant Pump Shaft Break." nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff.

5. NUREG-0800, Standard Review Plan, Chapter 15.4.8, "Spectrum of Rod Ejection Accidents (PWR)." nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff.

6. NUREG-0800, Standard Review Plan, Chapter 15.6.5, "Loss-of-Coolant Accidents Resulting from Spectrum of Postulated Piping Breaks Within the Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary."

nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff.

7. SECY-94-300, "Proposed Issuance of Final NUREG-1465, "Accident Source Terms for Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants," 12/15/1994.

Public Document Room.

8. SECY-94-302, "Source Term-Related Technical and Licensing Issues Pertaining to Evolutionary and Passive Light-Water-Reactor Designs," 12/19/1994. Public Document Room.

9. SECY-98-154, "Results of the Revised (NUREG-1465) Source Term Rebaselining f or Operating Reactors," 6/30/1998.

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/secys/1998.

10. Federal Guidance Report No. 11, "Limiting Values of Radionuclide Intake and Air Concentration and Dose Conversion Factors for Inhalation, Submersion, and Ingestion," EPA-520/1-88-020.

Available from the EPA.

11. "Manual of Protective Action Guides and Protective Actions for Nuclear Incidents," EPA-400-R-92-001. Available from the EPA.

Respectfully submitted,

/RA/

Susan L. Uttal Counsel for NRC Staff Dated in Rockville, Maryland This 11th day of May 2004.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION ) Docket Nos. 50-413-OLA

) 50-414-OLA

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(Catawba Nuclear Station )

Units 1 and 2) )

CORRECTED CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of NRC STAFF SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO BREDLS FIRST DISCOVERY REQUEST in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class; or as indicated by an asterisk (*), by deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions internal mail system; and by e-mail as indicated by a double asterisk (**), this 12th day of May, 2004.

Ann Marshall Young, Chair * ** Office of the Secretary * **

Administrative Judge ATTN: Docketing and Service Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Panel Mail Stop: O-16C1 Mail Stop: T-3F23 Washington, D.C. 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (E-mail: HEARINGDOCKET@nrc.gov)

Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: AMY@nrc.gov) Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication*

Anthony J. Baratta * ** Mail Stop: O-16C1 Administrative Judge U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Washington, D.C. 20555 Panel Mail Stop: T-3F23 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Panel Washington, DC 20555-0001 Adjudicatory File*

(E-mail: AJB5@nrc.gov) U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop: O-16C1 Thomas S. Elleman ** Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Diane Curran, Esq. **

Panel Harmon, Curran, Spielberg 5207 Creedmoor Rd. #101 & Eisenberg, L.L.P.

Raleigh, NC 27612 1726 M Street, N.W., Suite 600 (E-mail: elleman@eos.ncsu.edu) Washington, DC 20036 (E-mail: dcurran@harmoncurran.com)

Lisa F. Vaughn, Esq ** David A. Repka, Esq. **

Legal Department Anne W. Cottingham, Esq. **

Mail Code - PB05E Mark Wetterhahn, Esq. **

Duke Energy Corporation Winston & Strawn LLP 426 S. Church Street (EC11X) 1400 L Street, N.W.

Charlotte, NC 28201-1006 Washington, D.C. 20005-3502 (E-mail: lfVaughn@duke-energy.com) (E-mail: drepka@winston.com acotting@winston.com)

/RA/

Antonio Fernández Counsel for NRC Staff