ML061660200

V. C. Summer Ltr Response to Generic Letter 2006-03, Potentially Nonconforming Hemyc and MT Fire Barrier Configurations.

ML061660200
Person / Time
Site:	Summer
Issue date:	09/20/2006
From:	Martin R NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLII-1
To:	Archie J South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
Martin R, NRR/DORL, 415-1493
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TAC MD1636
Download: ML061660200 (3)

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September 20, 2006 Mr. Jeffery B. Archie Vice President, Nuclear Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88 Jenkinsville, SC 29065

SUBJECT:

NRC RECEIPT OF VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION RESPONSE TO GENERIC LETTER 2006-03, POTENTIALLY NONCONFORMING HEMYC AND MT FIRE BARRIER CONFIGURATIONS (TAC NO, MD1636)

Dear Mr. Archie:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) acknowledges the receipt of your responses to Generic Letter 2006-03, Potentially Nonconforming Hemyc and MT Fire Barrier Configurations. Under oath or affirmation, you have stated that your nuclear power plant does not rely on either the Hemyc or MT fire barrier system. You have submitted documentation under oath or affirmation that other 1 or 3-hour fire barriers that separates redundant safe shutdown trains located within the same fire area have been designed and installed in accordance with current NRC guidance. Based on your responses, dated June 5 and August 4, 2006, the basis for stating that this other fire barriers have been designed and installed in accordance with NRC guidance should be maintained on site, and will be subject to inspection during the normal NRC inspection process.

If you have any questions regarding this response, please contact me at 301-415-1493 or rem@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Robert E. Martin, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch II-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-395 cc: See next page

ML061660200 NRR-106 OFFICE LPL2-1/PM LPL2-1 LPL2-1/LA AFPB/FPE LPL2-1/BC NAME RMartin RJervey CSola D. Frumkin EMarinos DATE 9/11/06 7/07/06 9/11/06 9/04/06 9/20/06 Mr. Jeffrey B. Archie VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION South Carolina Electric & Gas Company cc:

Mr. R. J. White Nuclear Coordinator S.C. Public Service Authority c/o Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88, Mail Code 802 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Resident Inspector/Summer NPS c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 576 Stairway Road Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Chairman, Fairfield County Council Drawer 60 Winnsboro, South Carolina 29180 Mr. Henry Porter, Assistant Director Division of Waste Management Bureau of Land & Waste Management Dept. of Health & Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Mr. Thomas D. Gatlin, General Manager Nuclear Plant Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88, Mail Code 300 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Mr. Robert G. Sweet, Manager Nuclear Licensing South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88, Mail Code 830 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Ms. Kathryn M. Sutton Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

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