ML051220393

E-Mail from Qualls to Schin, Hatch Denial of NCV - Additional Information

ML051220393
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	10/23/2003
From:	Qualls P Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Schin R NRC/RGN-II
References
FOIA/PA-2004-0277
Download: ML051220393 (2)

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'1 From: Phil Qualls To: Robert Schin En Date: 10/23/03 1:59PM

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>>> Robert Schin 10/23/03 01 :53PM >>>

Phil, Thanks for the May 16, 2002 letter. I noticed that it states that one circumstance under which manual actions are allowed is:

- manual operation of normally operated manual switches and valves Could locally manually turning switches to repower the battery chargers after a LOOP be in this category? (Hatch says they normally do this action after a LOOP.) Or does 'normally operated' exclude during accidents and transients?

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>>> Robert Schin 10/23/03 11:26AM >>> -

Right. But have we communicated this to the nuclear industry by some other form than the words in Appendix R.? I ask because apparently many licensees have In the past made this error. So it must have come up before.

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>>> Robert Schin 10/23/03 11:09AM>>>

41irai Mgjk" flQiq03 1dg information received today, Hatch contends that the local manual 9 acco=dane wJ OM Freedom of Informaton 69

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'maintain hot shtonconditions from eithlerthe` ciontrol 'roomn or emergency control station(s) iedmg.

freo atchiclaimis that h local manual actio6ns are considered to be 'emergency tations as peritted b Il.1.

control DoesiheNRChave anything in writing stating that 'emergency control stations' are not applicable toII.G.2 ire areas?

CC: Alex Klein; Mark Salley; Ray Gallucci; Sunil Weerakkody

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