ML042430672
| ML042430672 | |
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 08/30/2004 |
| From: | Joel Munday NRC/RGN-II/DRP/RPB3 |
| To: | Stall J Florida Power & Light Co |
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August 30, 2004 Florida Power and Light Company ATTN: Mr. J. A. Stall, Senior Vice President Nuclear and Chief Nuclear Officer P. O. Box 14000 Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420
SUBJECT:
MID-CYCLE PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND INSPECTION PLAN - ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT
Dear Mr. Stall:
On August 3, 2004, the NRC staff completed its mid-cycle plant performance assessment of the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant. The mid-cycle review for St. Lucie involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance for the first half of the calendar year 2004 assessment cycle. The process included a review of performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results over the previous twelve months. 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. This will allow you an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities. This performance review and the enclosed inspection plan do not include physical protection information. A separate mid-cycle performance review letter, designated and marked as Proprietary Information in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1), will include the physical protection review and a resultant inspection plan.
Plant performance for the most recent quarter was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only baseline inspections at your facility through March 31, 2006. However, we also plan on conducting several inspections which are not part of the routine baseline inspection program regarding the reactor pressure vessel head and vessel head penetration nozzles, reactor head replacement activities and your response to NRC Bulletin 2004-01: Inspection of Alloy 82/182/600 Materials Used in the Fabrication of Pressurizer Penetrations and Steam Space Piping Connections at Pressurized-Water Reactors.
The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, less those related to physical protection, scheduled through March 31, 2006. 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 twelve months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the end-of-cycle review meeting.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 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
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Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs 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).
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 me at (404) 562-4560 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Joel T. Munday, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 3 Division of Reactor Projects Docket No(s). 50-335, 50-389 License No(s). DPR-67, NPF-16
Enclosure:
St. Lucie Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl:
William Jefferson, Jr.
Site Vice President St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution G. L. Johnston Plant General Manager St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Terry L. Patterson Licensing Manager St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution David Moore, Vice President Nuclear Operations Support Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Rajiv S. Kundalkar Vice President - Nuclear Engineering Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution
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cc w/encl: Continued see page 3 cc w/encl: Continued M. S. Ross, Managing Attorney Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Marjan Mashhadi, Senior Attorney Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution William A. Passetti Bureau of Radiation Control Department of Health Electronic Mail Distribution Craig Fugate, Director Division of Emergency Preparedness Department of Community Affairs Electronic Mail Distribution J. Kammel Radiological Emergency Planning Administrator Department of Public Safety Electronic Mail Distribution Douglas Anderson County Administrator St. Lucie County 2300 Virginia Avenue Ft. Pierce, FL 34982 Institute of Nuclear Power Operations 700 Galleria Parkway SE Atlanta, GA 30339-5943
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