ML060410716
| ML060410716 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Clinton  |
| Issue date: | 02/24/2006 |
| From: | Jabbour K Plant Licensing Branch III-2 |
| To: | Crane C AmerGen Energy Co |
| Jabbour K, NRR/DLPM, 415-1496 | |
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| TAC MC6249 | |
| Download: ML060410716 (9) | |
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February 24, 2006 Mr. Christopher M. Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, Illinois 60555
SUBJECT:
CLINTON POWER STATION, UNIT 1 - ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT RE: DELETION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENT IN FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE (TAC NO. MC6249)
Dear Mr. Crane:
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued the enclosed Amendment No. 172 to Facility Operating License (FOL) No. NPF-62 for the Clinton Power Station, Unit 1.
The amendment is in response to your application dated February 25, 2005.
The amendment deletes the reporting requirement in the FOL related to reporting violations of other requirements in the operating license.
A copy of the Safety Evaluation is also enclosed. The Notice of Issuance will be included in the Commission's next biweekly Federal Register notice.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Kahtan N. Jabbour, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-461
Enclosures:
- 1. Amendment No. 172 to NPF-62
- 2. Safety Evaluation cc w/encls: See next page
Mr. Christopher M. Crane, President February 24, 2006 and Chief Executive Officer AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, Illinois 60555
SUBJECT:
CLINTON POWER STATION, UNIT 1 - ISSUANCE OF AN AMENDMENT RE: DELETION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENT IN FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE (TAC NO. MC6249)
Dear Mr. Crane:
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued the enclosed Amendment No. 172 to Facility Operating License (FOL) No. NPF-62 for the Clinton Power Station, Unit 1.
The amendment is in response to your application dated February 25, 2005.
The amendment deletes the reporting requirement in the FOL related to reporting violations of other requirements in the operating license.
A copy of the Safety Evaluation is also enclosed. The Notice of Issuance will be included in the Commission's next biweekly Federal Register notice.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Kahtan N. Jabbour, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-461
Enclosures:
- 1. Amendment No. 172 to NPF-62
- 2. Safety Evaluation cc w/encls: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
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Clinton Power Station, Unit 1 cc:
Senior Vice President of Operations AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Illinois Emergency Management Agency Division of Disaster Assistance &
Preparedness 110 East Adams Street Springfield, IL 62701-1109 Vice President - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Manager Licensing - Dresden, Quad Cities, and Clinton AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Regulatory Assurance Manager - Clinton AmerGen Energy Company, LLC Clinton Power Station RR3, Box 228 Clinton, IL 61727-9351 Director - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Document Control Desk - Licensing AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Site Vice President - Clinton Power Station AmerGen Energy Company, LLC Clinton Power Station RR 3, Box 228 Clinton, IL 61727-9351 Clinton Power Station Plant Manager AmerGen Energy Company, LLC Clinton Power Station RR 3, Box 228 Clinton, IL 61727-9351 Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission RR #3, Box 229A Clinton, IL 61727 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Suite 210 2443 Warrenville Road Lisle, IL 60532-4351 Assistant General Counsel Exelon Generation Company, LLC 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 R. T. Hill Licensing Services Manager General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue, M/C 481 San Jose, CA 95125 Chairman of DeWitt County c/o County Clerks Office DeWitt County Courthouse Clinton, IL 61727 J. W. Blattner Project Manager Sargent & Lundy Engineers 55 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603
AMERGEN ENERGY COMPANY, LLC DOCKET NO. 50-461 CLINTON POWER STATION, UNIT 1 AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE Amendment No. 172 License No. NPF-62 1.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has found that:
A.
The application for amendment by AmerGen Energy Company, LLC (the licensee), dated February 25, 2005, complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I; B.
The facility will operate in conformity with the application, the provisions of the Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commission; C.
There is reasonable assurance (i) that the activities authorized by this amendment can be conducted without endangering the health and safety of the public, and (ii) that such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Commission's regulations; D.
The issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public; and E.
The issuance of this amendment is in accordance with 10 CFR Part 51 of the Commission's regulations and all applicable requirements have been satisfied.
2.
Accordingly, the Facility Operating License is amended by deletion of paragraph 2.G as indicated in the attachment to this license amendment.
3.
This license amendment is effective as of the date of its issuance and shall be implemented within 60 days of the date of issuance.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
/RA/
Mindy S. Landau, Acting Chief Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Attachment:
Change to the Facility Operating License Date of Issuance: February 24, 2006
ATTACHMENT TO LICENSE AMENDMENT NO. 172 FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. NPF-62 DOCKET NO. 50-461 Replace the following page of the Facility Operating License with the attached revised page.
The revised page is identified by an amendment number and contains a line in the margin identifying the area of change.
Remove Page Insert Page 8
8
1 License Condition 2.G in the FOL for Clinton is similar to the standard language.
SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELATED TO AMENDMENT NO. 172 TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. NPF-62 AMERGEN ENERGY COMPANY, LLC CLINTON POWER STATION, UNIT 1 DOCKET NO. 50-461
1.0 INTRODUCTION
By application dated February 25, 2005, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC (the licensee) requested changes to the Facility Operating License (FOL) for Clinton Power Station, Unit 1 (Clinton). The proposed amendment would delete Section 2.G of the FOL that requires reporting of violations of the requirements in Section 2.C of the FOL. A notice announcing the availability of this proposed change using the consolidated line item improvement process (CLIIP) was published in the Federal Register on November 4, 2005 (70 FR 67202). The staff used the licensees application in the development of the CLIIP notice, and has evaluated the application using that process even though the application predates the notice of availability.
2.0 REGULATORY EVALUATION
A section or a license condition (typically Section 2.G) was included in the FOLs issued to some nuclear power plants requiring the licensees to make reports to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding violations of other sections of the operating license. A typical license condition reads as follows:1 Except as otherwise provided in this license and its appendices, the Licensee shall report any violations of the requirements contained in Section 2.C of this license in the following manner: initial notification shall be made within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> to the NRC Operations Center via the Emergency Notification System with written followup within thirty days in accordance with the procedures described in 10 CFR 50.73 (Licensee event report system).
In addition to the information provided to support licensing decisions, the NRC obtains information about plant operation, licensee programs, and other matters using a combination of inspections and reporting requirements. Routine or scheduled reports that are required to be submitted to the NRC are defined in the related regulations, specific license condition, technical specification, or an NRC-approved program document. The reporting of emergencies, unplanned events or conditions, and other special cases may also be addressed within such documents by the inclusion of reporting thresholds and are also the focus of the reporting requirements in 10 CFR 50.72, Immediate notification requirements for operating nuclear power reactors, and 10 CFR 50.73, Licensee event report system. Changes to the reporting regulations in 10 CFR 50.72 and 50.73 became effective in January 2001 (see Federal Register notice on October 25, 2000 (65 FR 63769)) and included extending the allowable reporting times for licensee event reports (LERs) from 30 days to 60 days.
3.0 TECHNICAL EVALUATION
Section 2.G of the FOL for Clinton requires the licensee to report any violations of the requirements of Section 2.C of the FOL and defines the method and allowable time periods for such reports. The reporting threshold (i.e., a violation) for some of the conditions included in Section 2.C of the FOL duplicates those defined in 10 CFR 50.72 and 10 CFR 50.73. However, the requirements in the FOL may have different deadlines than those defined in the regulations (following a rule change in 2001). This difference in reporting requirements has led to variations in reporting since many facility operating licenses do not contain the subject condition. For those licensees with a 30-day reporting requirement in the FOL, the condition has decreased the benefits of the rulemaking. For those cases where the current FOL requirement to report violations is also reportable in accordance with the regulations defined in 10 CFR 50.72 and 10 CFR 50.73, the NRC staff finds that the regulations adequately address this issue and the elimination of the duplicative requirement in the FOL is acceptable.
Some of the conditions addressed in Section 2.C of the FOL may address the maintenance of particular programs, administrative requirements, or other matters where a violation of the requirement would not result in a report to the NRC in accordance with 10 CFR 50.72 or 10 CFR 50.73. In most cases, there are requirements for reports to the NRC related to these conditions in other regulations, the specific license condition or technical specification, or an NRC-approved program document. In other cases, there are reports to other agencies or news releases that would prompt a report to the NRC (in accordance with 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(xi)).
The NRC staff also assessed violations of administrative requirements that could be reportable under the current License Condition but that may not have a duplicative requirement in a regulation or other regulatory requirement. The NRC staff finds that the requirements to report such problems within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> with written reports to follow using the LER process is not needed. The NRC staff is confident that the information related to such violations that is actually important to the NRCs regulatory functions would come to light in a time frame comparable to the 60-day LER requirements. The information would become available to the appropriate NRC staff through the inspection program, updates to program documents, resultant licensing actions, public announcements, or some other reliable mechanism.
The NRC staff finds that the elimination of Section 2.G of the FOL for Clinton will not result in a loss of information to the NRC that would adversely affect either its goal to protect public health and safety or its ability to carry out its various other regulatory responsibilities.
4.0 STATE CONSULTATION
In accordance with the Commission's regulations, the Illinois State official was notified of the proposed issuance of the amendment. The State official had no comments.
5.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION
The amendment changes recordkeeping, reporting, or administrative procedures or requirements. Accordingly, the amendment meets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(10). Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of the amendment.
6.0 CONCLUSION
The Commission has concluded, based on the considerations discussed above, that: (1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the proposed manner, (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Commission's regulations, and (3) the issuance of the amendments will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Principal Contributor: W. Reckley Date: February 24, 2006