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(Public) Hope Creek Generating Station - Request for Additional Information Regarding Request for Extended Power Uprate
ML080250041
Person / Time
Site: Hope Creek PSEG icon.png
Issue date: 01/25/2008
From: John Lamb
NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLI-2
To: Levis W
Public Service Enterprise Group
Lamb John G./NRR/DORL, 415-3100
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TAC MD3002
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OFFICIAL USE ONVLY - PROPRIETARY INFORMATlON R* RE(*u4 0

UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 January 25, 2008 Mr. William Levis President A Ch if Nuclear Officer PSEG Nuclear LLC-N09 Post Office Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

SUBJECT:

HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING REQUEST FOR EXTENDED POWER UPRATE (TAC NO. MD3002)

Dear Mr. Levis:

By letter dated September 18, 2006, as supplemented by letters dated October 10 and October 20, 2006, February 14, February 16, February 28, March 13 (2 letters), March 22, March 30 (2 letters), 'April 13, April 18, April 30, May 10, May 18 (3 letters), May 24, June 22, July 12, August 3, August 17 (2 letters), August 27, August 31, September 11, October 10, October 23, November 15, November 30, and December 31, 2007, January 14, January 15, January 16, and January 18, 2008, PSEG Nuclear, LLC (PSEG or the licensee) submitted an amendment request for an extended power uprate (EPU) for the Hope Creek Generating Station (Hope Creek). The proposed amendment would increase the authorized maximum power level by approximately 15 percent, from 3,339 megawatts thermal (MWt) to 3,840 MWt.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has been reviewing the submittal and has determined that additional information is needed to complete its review. The specific questions are found in the enclosed request for additional information (RAI). The questions were sent by e-mail to your staff on January 23, 2008, and were discussed on a phone call on January 22, 2008, to ensure that the questions were understandable, the regulatory basis was clear and to determine if the information was previously docketed. The NRC staff has determined that the RAI contains proprietary information pursuant to Section 2.390 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). As such, we have enclosed non-proprietary and proprietary versions of the RAI (Enclosures 1 and 2, respectively).

Mr. Paul Duke of your staff agreed to respond by January 25, 2008, to questions RAI 14.79 -

third follow-up and RAI 14.120(f) - second follow-up and will get back to the staff with a date for RAI 14.120(e) - second follow-up. transmitted herewith contains Official Use Only - Proprietary Information. When separated from, this document is decontrolled.

,FFICIAL USE GLY -

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OFFICIAL USE ONLY PROrRIETARY INFORMATION~

W. Levis Please note that if you do not respond to this letter within the prescribed response times or provide an acceptable alternate date in writing, we may reject your application for amendment under 'the provisions of 10 CFR, Part 2, Section 2.108. If you have any questions, I can be reached at (301) 415-3100.

'fl. Lamb, Senior Project Manager rt Directorate 1-2 ion of Operating Reactor Licensing a of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-354

Enclosures:

1. Non-proprietary RAI
2. Proprietary RAI cc w/encl. 1 only: See next page 1%01P....

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Hope Creek Generating Station Mr. Thomas Joyce Senior Vice President - Operations PSEG Nuclear P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Dennis Winchester Vice President - Nuclear Assessment PSEG Nuclear P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Carl Fricker Vice President - Operations Support PSEG Nuclear P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. John Perry Plant Manager - Hope Creek PSEG Nuclear P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. James Mallon Manager - Licensing PSEG Nuclear P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Jeffrie J. Keenan, Esquire PSEG Nuclear - N21 P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 cc:

Mr. Michael Gaffney Manager - Hope Creek Regulatory Assurance PSEG Nuclear P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Township Clerk Lower Alloways Creek Township Municipal Building, P.O. Box 157 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Paul Bauldauf, P.E., Asst. Director Radiation Protection Programs NJ Department of Environmental Protection and Energy CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625-0415 Mr. Brian Beam Board-of Public Utilities 2 Gateway Center, Tenth Floor Newark, NJ 07102 Regional Administrator, Region I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 1.9406 Senior Resident Inspector Hope Creek Generating Station U.S. Nuclear-Regulatory Commission Drawer 0509 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. William Levis President & Chief Nuclear Officer PSEG Nuclear LLC - N09 P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

Package: ML080250018 Non-Public Letter: ML080250035; Public Letter ML080250041 : ML080250067 : ML080250074 OFFICE LPL1-2/PM LPL1-2/LA EMCB/BC LPL1-2/BC NAME JLamb ABaxter (SLittle KManoly HChernoff concurred for via e-mail)

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DATE 01/25/08 01/25/08 01/25/08 01/25/08