ML042510017
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| Site: | Dresden, Arkansas Nuclear, Summer, Ginna, Farley, Cook, Quad Cities  |
| Issue date: | 09/02/2004 |
| From: | NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLEP |
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| Lintz M, NRR/DRIP/RLEP/301-415-4051 | |
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September 2, 2004 ORGANIZATION:
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, THE NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, AND THE THREE PILOT PROGRAM LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICANTS HELD ON JUNE 3, 2004, TO DISCUSS GENERIC LICENSE RENEWAL TOPICS AND LESSONS LEARNED ON THE PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE NEW LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (LRA) REVIEW PROCESS The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff (the staff) met with Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and utility representatives on June 3, 2004, to discuss the progress review on the lessons learned on the pilot program on the new LRA process. A list of meeting attendees is provided in Enclosure 1. The meeting agenda and a copy of the presentation slides used by the NRC staff is provided in Enclosure 2. Following is a summary of the discussions.
1.
Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives (Sama) Review for License Renewal Industry representatives at the meeting said that, in reviewing the past applicants experience, requests for additional information (RAI) were largely related to SAMA analysis, and that SAMA analyses are generally a significant part of the license renewal cost. Staff responded that applicants are still not hitting the mark in their SAMA analyses and, if applicants would provide a better quality submittal, it would substantially reduce staff review effort and thus result in fewer RAIs. Currently, the staff experience with the submittals is not satisfactory. It was decided to set up a focus group meeting to discuss this item and to learn the staff expectations.
2.
Status of Interim Staff Guidances Staff provided a status update of the current ISGs (Enclosure 2) to the industry representatives. The staff indicated that they are planning to issue their comments on Industry Guidance 95-10, Revision 4, which is ISG-13, by August 30, 2004. The staff is also in the process of issuing two guidances (ISG-17 and ISG-20), for public comments in the form of Federal Register Notices.
3.
Lessons Learned from the Pilot Audits This was second of such meetings. The objective was to do a preliminary review and to evaluate the lessons learned from the pilot plants that have been completed. The industry expressed satisfaction with the progress on these pilot plants. Frank Gillespie, Deputy Director, DRIP, said that the principal objective of the agency is to reduce the cost to the applicant. The efficiency of the process is demonstrated by the vastly reduced number of RAIs. However, he did not have any quantitative data to share with the industry at that time.
He assured them that the staff will make an effort in the near future to provide cost figures of a full review of an application. This data will be provided to the industry.
4.
GALL Document Update During the meeting, the staff discussed their plans to update the license renewal guidance documents, i.e., the Generic Aging Lessons Learned Report and the Standard Review Plan for License Renewal (Enclosure 2). Jerry Dozier said that the staff plans to release preliminary draft revisions of these two documents, Phase I, by September 30, 2004, a date he stressed as having very strong management commitment. The draft will include consolidations, reformatting, correction of errors, and incorporation of approved staff positions. More complex changes will be addressed in Phase 2 of the revision process. The final Standard Review Plan and GALL Report are expected to be ready for use by early 2006.
Tentative Schedule It was decided that the next focus group meeting on Topics 2, 3, and 4 will be scheduled for August 3, 2004. It was tentatively decided that the focus group meeting on the SAMA analysis will be scheduled for early October 2004. These will be public meetings.
/RA/
Mark Lintz, Project Manager License Renewal Section B License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-244, 50-395, 50-238, 50-249, 50-254, 50-265, 50-348, 50-364, 50-368, 50-315 and 50-316
Enclosures:
As stated cc w/encls: See next page He assured them that the staff will make an effort in the near future to provide cost figures of a full review of an application. This data will be provided to the industry.
4.
GALL Document Update During the meeting, the staff discussed their plans to update the license renewal guidance documents, i.e., the Generic Aging Lessons Learned Report and the Standard Review Plan for License Renewal (Enclosure 2). Jerry Dozier said that the staff plans to release preliminary draft revisions of these two documents, Phase I, by September 30, 2004, a date he stressed as having very strong management commitment. The draft will include consolidations, reformatting, correction of errors, and incorporation of approved staff positions. More complex changes will be addressed in Phase 2 of the revision process. The final Standard Review Plan and GALL Report are expected to be ready for use by early 2006.
Tentative Schedule It was decided that the next focus group meeting on Topics 2, 3, and 4 will be scheduled for August 3, 2004. It was tentatively decided that the focus group meeting on the SAMA analysis will be scheduled for early October 2004. These will be public meetings.
/RA/
Mark Lintz, Project Manager License Renewal Section B License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-244, 50-395, 50-238, 50-249, 50-254, 50-265, 50-348, 50-364, 50-368, 50-315 and 50-316
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S. Duraiswamy Y. L. (Renee) Li RLEP Staff C. Julian M. Modes J. Vora L. Kozak Attendance List For The Public Meeting to Discuss Updating of License Renewal Guidance Documents June 3, 2004 (1:00 p. m. - 3:45 p. m.)
Participants Affiliation Richard Grumbir American Electric Power Massoud Taffazzoli AREVA Paul Crawley Arizona Public Service Mark Orr ATL Tony Grenci Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (CEG)
Peter Mazzaferro CEG Paul Aitken Dominion Bill Watson Dominion Mike Semmler Duke Jacque Lingenfelter Entergy Fred Polaski Exelon Kim Green Informational Systems Laboratories (ISL)
Steve Pope ISL Bruce Mrowla ISL Steven Dolby McGraw Hill Fred Emerson Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
Patrick Burke Nuclear Management Company (NMC)
Jim Knorr NMC (Point Beach)
Darrel Turner NMC Bob Palla U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Jerry Dozier NRC Tilda Liu NRC Rich Emch NRC Greg Cranston NRC Kurt Cozens NRC Johnny Eads NRC Jack Cushing NRC Sam Lee NRC Peter Kang NRC Steve Hoffman NRC Maurice Heath NRC Tomeka Terry NRC Thomas Kenyon NRC Stewart Bailey NRC Ram Subbaratnam NRC Ken Chang NRC Steve West NRC Al Baione Parallax Eric Blocher Parsons Mike Heath Progress Energy
Attendance List For The Public Meeting to Discuss Updating of License Renewal Guidance Documents (Cont.)
June 3, 2004 (1:00 p. m. - 3:45 p. m.)
Participants Affiliation Talmage Clements Progress Energy Dave Flyte PPL Susquehanna, LLC Nancy Chapman Serch/Bechtel Charles Pierce Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC)
Jan Fridrichsen SNC Ken Brune Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Tim Abney TVA Gary Adkins TVA AGENDA LICENSE RENEWAL MEETING GENERIC TOPICS AND THE STATUS OF THE LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REVIEW PROCESS June 3, 2004 Welcome/Introduction S. West, NRC 1:00 - 1:05 p.m.
Severe accident mitigation alternatives NEI and NRC 1:05 - 1:30 p.m.
review for license renewal Status of Interim Staff Guidance NRC and NEI 1:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Lessons learned on the new license NRC and NEI 1:45 - 2:15 p.m.
renewal process License renewal boundary drawings NRC and NEI 2:15 - 2:35 p.m.
License renewal guidance documents NRC and NEI 2:35 - 3:05 p.m.
update and industry proposal General discussion NRC and NEI 3:05 - 3:20 p.m.
Public comment Participants 3:20 - 3:35 p.m.
Summary Steve West, NRC 3:35 - 3:45 p.m.
NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE Project No. 690 cc:
Mr. Joe Bartell U.S. Department of Energy NE-42 Washington, DC 20585 Ms. Christine S. Salembier Commissioner State Liaison Officer Department of Public Service 112 State St., Drawer 20 Montipelier, VT 05620-2601 Mr. Fred Emerson Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I St., N.W., Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 Mr. William Corbin Virginia Electric & Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Blvd.
Glen Allen, VA 23060 Mr. Frederick W. Polaski Manager License Renewal Exelon Corporation 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 George Wrobel Manager, License Renewal R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant 1503 Lake Rd.
Ontario, NY 14519 Mr. David Lochbaum Union of Concerned Scientists 1707 H St., NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006-3919 Ronald B. Clary Manager, Plant Life Extension V.C. Summer Nuclear Station Bradham Blvd.
P.O. Box 88 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Mr. Paul Gunter Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project Nuclear Information & Resource Service 1424 16th St., NW, Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036 Mr. Hugh Jackson Public Citizens Critical Mass Energy &
Environment Program 215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Washington, DC 20003 Mary Olson Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast Office P.O. Box 7586 Asheville, NC 28802 Talmage B. Clements Manager - License Renewal Nuclear Engineering Services CP&L 410 South Wilmington St.
Raleigh, NC 27602 Mr. Charles R. Pierce Manager - License Renewal Southern Nuclear Operating Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201 Mr. Garry G. Young Manager, License Renewal Services 1448 SR 333, N-GSB-45 Russellville, AR 72802 Richard J. Grumbir Project Manager, License Renewal Indiana Michigan Power Company Nuclear Generation Group 500 Circle Drive Buchanan, MI 49107 Mr. Timothy E. Abney, Manager Licensing and Industry Affairs Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Decatur, AL 35609