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Status of Review of Application for License Amendment to Extend the Completion Time for Restoration of Service Water Train to Operable Status
ML051380005
Person / Time
Site: Palisades Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 05/19/2005
From: Jaffe D
NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD3
To: Domonique Malone
Nuclear Management Co
Jaffe D, NRR/DLPM, 415-1439
References
TAC MC6544
Download: ML051380005 (4)


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May 19, 2005 Mr. Daniel J. Malone Site Vice President Palisades Nuclear Plant Nuclear Management Company, LLC 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043-9530

SUBJECT:

PALISADES PLANT - RE: APPLICATION FOR LICENSE AMENDMENT TO EXTEND THE COMPLETION TIME FOR RESTORATION OF A SERVICE WATER TRAIN TO OPERABLE STATUS (TAC NO. MC6544)

Dear Mr. Malone:

The purpose of this letter is to inform you of the status of our review of your licensing amendment request dated April 1, 2005. Your proposed amendment would provide a one-time extension to the completion time for restoration of a service water train to operable status in Technical Specification (TS) 3.7.8, Service Water System (SWS). You requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) complete its review and issue its approval by September 1, 2005. Your requested target date provides only 5 months for our review time.

While the NRC will endeavor to complete its review consistent with your requested schedules, we cannot commit ourselves to complete our review by the requested time period and that you should make appropriate contingency plans.

More significantly, the NRC expects that licensees will be able to operate consistent with its TSs, including completion times, or propose permanent changes to the TS. The NRC expects that one-time only changes to the TS are rare and involve unanticipated conditions that are not reasonably expected to recur and a compelling need for the proposed change is clearly demonstrated. Based on our review of your request, we understand that the in-service testing (IST) data for service water pump (SWP) 7C has been showing a steady decline in performance since the 2001 timeframe. Further, it is our understanding that the current IST trending information for SWP-7C indicates that the pump may become inoperable as soon as September 2005, but might remain operable until the next refueling outage that is scheduled for the spring 2006. Prudent management of the use of SWP-7C until the next refueling outage in spring 2006, may avoid the need for a one-time amendment to perform on-line repair of the pump.

D. Malone Given these considerations, there is no adequate justification at this time for completing our review for a proposed one-time change to the TS by September 1, 2005. Therefore, we will delay the completion of our review of your application until such time as a need for this amendment is clarified. Your proposal has already been noticed in the Federal Register and thus, should there be a need for the amendment to effect a repair to the SWP, we could reinitiate our review as appropriate.

Sincerely,

/RA/

David H. Jaffe, Acting Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate III Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-255 cc w/encls: See next page

ML051380005 OFFICE PDIII-1/(A)PM PDIII-1/LA PDIII-1/SC NAME DJaffe THarris LRaghavan DATE 05/19/05 05/18/05 5/19/05 Palisades Plant cc:

Robert A. Fenech, Senior Vice President Michigan Department of Attorney General Nuclear, Fossil, and Hydro Operations Special Litigation Division Consumers Energy Company 525 West Ottawa St.

1945 Parnall Rd. Sixth Floor, G. Mennen Williams Building Jackson, MI 49201 Lansing, MI 48913 Arunas T. Udrys, Esquire Manager, Regulatory Affairs Consumers Energy Company Nuclear Management Company, LLC 1 Energy Plaza 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Jackson, MI 49201 Covert, MI 49043 Regional Administrator, Region III Director of Nuclear Assets U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Consumers Energy Company 801 Warrenville Road Palisades Nuclear Plant Lisle, IL 60532-4351 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043 Supervisor Covert Township John Paul Cowan P. O. Box 35 Executive Vice President & Chief Nuclear Covert, MI 49043 Officer Nuclear Management Company, LLC Office of the Governor 700 First Street P. O. Box 30013 Hudson, WI 54016 Lansing, MI 48909 Jonathan Rogoff, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Vice President, Counsel & Secretary Resident Inspector's Office Nuclear Management Company, LLC Palisades Plant 700 First Street 27782 Blue Star Memorial Highway Hudson, WI 54016 Covert, MI 49043 Douglas E. Cooper Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Senior Vice President - Group Operations Waste and Hazardous Materials Division Palisades Nuclear Plant Hazardous Waste and Radiological Nuclear Management Company, LLC Protection Section 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Nuclear Facilities Unit Covert, MI 49043 Constitution Hall, Lower-Level North 525 West Allegan Street P.O. Box 30241 Lansing, MI 48909-7741 October 2003