ML050490142

Summary of January 13, 2005, Meeting Between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) on Updating the License Renewal Guidance Documents

ML050490142
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Site:	Arkansas Nuclear, Summer, Ginna, Farley, Cook
Issue date:	02/17/2005
From:	Mark Lintz NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLEP
To:	Nuclear Energy Institute
Lintz M, NRR/DRIP/RLEP/301-415-4051
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February 17, 2005ORGANIZATION:Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

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OF JANUARY 13, 2005, MEETING BETWEEN THEU.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) AND NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE (NEI) ON UPDATING THE LICENSE RENEWAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENTSOn January 13, 2005, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff met with theNuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and utility representatives at the U.S. Nuclear RegulatoryCommission (NRC) Headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. The objective of the meeting was forNEI and NRC staff to discuss the proposed applicability of the draft NUREG-1801 (GALLReport) of January 2005 to utility applications, the use of Table 1 in the application, and toresolve staff comments to NEI 95-10, Revision 4. The meeting was classified as a Category 1 meeting. A listing of meeting participants is provided in Enclosure 1. Following is a summary of the discussions.

!NEI Question on the Applicability of Draft GALL Report to July ApplicationsNEI proposed that utilities that applied for license renewal during the interim periodbefore the publication of the approved GALL Report in September 2005 be able to base submittals on the draft GALL Report of January 2005 vice the current GALL Report.

Staff did not object to the use of this option, but stated that it included a risk. Staff plansto review the applications that use the above option against the September 2005 GALLReport. The applicant would be responsible to review the September 2005 GALL Report and to supplement its application as needed, based on the changes between the January 2005 and the September 2005 GALL reports.

!NEI Presentation on the Use of Table 1NEI presented a proposal to eliminate Table 1 from subsequent license renewal applications and to rely only on Table 2. Staff stated that Table 1 provided neededguidance to reviewers and that the removal of this table might result in a more cumbersome review. Thus, the proposal to eliminate Table 1 was not acceptable to the staff. However, staff welcomed the industry to plan for such a submittal on a pilot basis on an application during 2006.

!Resolution of Staff Comments to NEI 95-10, Revision 4NEI presented the industry response to staff comments to NEI 95-10, draft 4. Based on the presentation and subsequent discussion, staff accepted the majority of the industryresponses. However, staff took exception to the following items:*The use of an alternative to identifying a seismic anchor or an equivalent anchorthat supports the safety-related and nonsafety-related piping interface in the 10 CFR 54.4(a)(2) scoping criteria. Staff stated that this alternative wouldcomplicate the application and noted that the applicant would then have toprovide a complete justification, for staff approval, of the acceptability for theplant specific application of these alternatives. *The use of exposure duration as a screening criteria. Staff was of the opinionthat such usage was not in compliance with 10 CFR Part 54 requirements.NEI welcomed the option to use the January 2005 GALL Report and the idea of a future pilotapplication submittal that eliminated Table 1. NEI stated that a clean copy of NEI 95-10 wouldbe made available to staff, but could not satisfy staff concerns of the above two items. Staff stated that it would endorse NEI 95-10, but would take exception to the above-noted items./RA/Mark Lintz, Project ManagerLicense Renewal Section B License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor RegulationDocket Nos. 50-244, 50-395, 50-348, 50-364, 50-368, 50-315 and 50-316

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S. Duraiswamy Y. L. (Renee) Li RLEP Staff LIST OF PARTICIPANTS LICENSE RENEWAL MEETINGLICENSE RENEWAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT UPDATECOMMISSIONER'S HEARING ROOMJANUARY 13, 2005(9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)ParticipantsAffiliationKurt CozensU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)Greg GallettiNRC Jit VoraNRC Jim DavisNRC Adam WilsonNRC Dan MerzkeNRC Ken ChangNRC Y.l. (Renee) LiNRC Sam LeeNRC Arnold LeeNRC Thomas ChengNRC Jake ZimmermanNRC David JengNRC Jim MedoffNRC Amar PalNRC Kamal NaiduNRC Cayatano SantosNRC Jerry DozierNRC Chang-Yang LiNRC Robert HsuNRC Peter WenNRC Peter KangNRC Fred EmersonNuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Massoud TafazzoliAREVA David WoottenDominion Charles SorrellDominion Resources Mike SemmlerDuke Jacque LingenfelterEntergy Garry YoungEntergy Alan CoxEntergy Fred PolaskiExelon Kazunobu SakamotoJNES Steve PopeISL Jon WoodfieldISL Steven DolleyMcGraw-Hill Darrel TurnerNMC Patrick BurkeNMC LIST OF PARTICIPANTS LICENSE RENEWAL MEETINGLICENSE RENEWAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT UPDATECOMMISSIONER'S HEARING ROOMJANUARY 13, 2005(9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)ParticipantsAffiliationLannie ThornsberryNMCEric BlocherParsons Michael B. DetamorePPL, Susquehanna, LLC Roger StewartProgress Energy Deann RaleighScientech Mike MacfarlaneSouthern Nuclear Arden AldridgeSTARS NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE Project No. 690

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Mr. Joe Bartell U.S. Department of Energy NE-42 Washington, DC 20585Ms. Christine S. Salembier CommissionerState Liaison Officer Department of Public Service 112 State St., Drawer 20 Montipelier, VT 05620-2601Mr. Fred Emerson Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I St., N.W., Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708Mr. William CorbinVirginia Electric & Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Blvd.

Glen Allen, VA 23060Mr. Frederick W. PolaskiManager License Renewal Exelon Corporation 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348Peter A. MazzaferroSite Project Manager - License Renewal Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC

P.O. Box 63 Lycoming, NY 13093Mr. David LochbaumUnion of Concerned Scientists 1707 H St., NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006-3919Mark AckermanProject Manager, License Renewal FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company

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Shippingport, PA 15077Mr. Paul GunterDirector of the Reactor Watchdog Project Nuclear Information & Resource Service

1424 16 th St., NW, Suite 404Washington, DC 20036Mr. Hugh JacksonPublic Citizen's Critical Mass Energy &

Environment Program 215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Washington, DC 20003Mary OlsonNuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast Office P.O. Box 7586 Asheville, NC 28802 Talmage B. ClementsManager - License Renewal Nuclear Engineering Services CP&L 410 South Wilmington St.

Raleigh, NC 27602Mr. Charles R. PierceManager - License Renewal Southern Nuclear Operating Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201Mr. Garry G. YoungManager, License Renewal Services 1448 SR 333, N-GSB-45 Russellville, AR 72802Richard J. GrumbirProject Manager, License Renewal Indiana Michigan Power Company Nuclear Generation Group 500 Circle Drive Buchanan, MI 49107 NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE Project No. 690

cc:- 2 -Mr. Timothy E. Abney, ManagerLicensing and Industry Affairs Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Decatur, AL 35609