ML083040049
| ML083040049 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nuclear Energy Institute, Boiling Water Reactor Owners Group, PROJ0669, PROJ0700, PROJ0694 |
| Issue date: | 11/10/2008 |
| From: | Tanya Mensah NRC/NRR/DPR/PSPB |
| To: | Rosenberg S NRC/NRR/DPR/PSPB |
| Tanya Mensah, 415-3610 | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML083080583 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC MD4832 | |
| Download: ML083040049 (11) | |
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November 10, 2008 MEMORANDUM TO: Stacey L. Rosenberg, Chief Special Projects Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM:
Tanya M. Mensah, Senior Project Manager /RA/
Special Project Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF THE OCTOBER 21, 2008, CATEGORY 2 PUBLIC MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES REGARDING THE NRCS TOPICAL REPORT (TR) PROCESS (TAC NO. MD4832)
On October 21, 2008, a Category 2 public meeting was held between the NRC staff and industry representatives at NRC headquarters to discuss issues regarding TR process improvements. A list of meeting attendees is enclosed and the meeting agenda is contained in the October 21, 2008, public meeting notice available in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) as Accession No. ML082540204 In summary, the NRC staff and industry representatives exchanged perspectives on the process to prioritize future TR submittals, discussed data obtained by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) which compared the use and referencing of NRC-approved TRs by licensees, and discussed future revisions to LIC-500, Revision 3, Processing Requests for Reviews of Topical Reports (ADAMS Accession No. ML081190403). In prior public meetings, the NRC staff shared a draft version (redline/strikeout format) of LIC-500, Revision 4, with industry representatives. During the meeting, the NEI provided a markup of LIC-500, Revision 4, with additional comments for NRC staff consideration.
Opening remarks were provided by Mr. Michael Case, Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking (DPR), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). Mr. Case thanked the NRC staff and industry representatives for its dedication in supporting the monthly TR meetings. In addition, Ms. Stacey Rosenberg, Branch Chief, Special Projects Branch, informed industry representatives of the NRC staffs near-term priorities to improve the prioritization of future TR submittals and to improve the coordination/resolution of complex technical issues that cross multiple disciplines.
CONTACT: Tanya M. Mensah, NRR/DPR 301-415-3610 Ms. Rosenberg highlighted the importance of the TR monthly public meetings to share NRC staff progress and obtain external feedback on these near-term priorities. The first presentation, led by Ms. Tanya Mensah, Senior Project Manager, provided more detail to industry representatives on the near-term priorities that were assigned to DPR. Specifically, Ms. Mensah discussed the following recommendations:
- 1: DPR should continue its current progress on TR reviews, including its current assessment of LIC-500. (Due 5/30/09)
- 2: DPR should develop a prioritization/valuation scheme for TRs, including consideration of internal and external views. A draft prioritization scheme developed with implementation plan and presented to LT by 5/30/09. (Due 5/30/09)
- 3: DPR to reassess TR metrics for timeliness and resource expenditures, based on the new prioritization/valuation scheme. Provide results of metrics assessment to LT for the first and second quarters following prioritization scheme implementation, but no later than 1/30/10. (Due 1/30/10)
- 4: DPR should establish a process for the assignment of a Technical Champion for the more technically challenging TRs. Include attributes for decision to have Technical Champion in LIC-500 procedure by 5/30/09. (Due 5/30/09).
With regard to recommendation #1, industry representatives provided additional comments on LIC-500 for NRC staff consideration during the public meeting. Specifically, the NEI meeting handout identified text within LIC-500, Revision 4, that may need additional clarification. The NRC staff agreed to consider the comments, make revisions where appropriate, and provide a copy of the revised draft LIC-500, Revision 4, to the NEI prior to the next TR monthly public meeting scheduled for November 20, 2008. Although most of the comments identified by the NEI during the public meeting were resolved in the meeting, both the NRC staff and industry representatives agreed that the following topics should be placed on the agenda for future public meetings:
Conditions and Limitations (Section 4.27 of LIC-500).
Pilot Plant License Amendment Submitted in Parallel with the TR (Section 4.13 of LIC-500).
NRC Review of the Approved Version of the TR (Section 4.2.10 of LIC-500).
With regard to recommendations #2 and #3, industry representatives provided information in their meeting handout which compared the industry use of NRC-approved TRs. The NRR TR Team members that will focus on these recommendations identified during the meeting that their next step is to develop a draft prioritization scheme. As part of that process, the NRR TR Team will consider what industry information would be useful to support NRRs ability to prioritize future TR submittals and to coordinate its TR reviews with other workload priorities. Some factors that need to be considered by the NRR TR Team, as discussed during the meeting, include prioritizing TRs against license amendment requests (LARs), consideration of the timing of the TR and LAR submittals, NRC staff availability/resources, and the order in which TRs are reviewed and evaluated. During the meeting, Mr. Case emphasized the importance of being able to assign a value to each TR to support the draft prioritization scheme. Mr. Case recommended using the significance determination process as an example to support prioritization of future TRs. The NRC staff took an action to provide industry with its information needs by the November 20, 2008, public meeting. In addition, the NRR TR Team will be meeting internally to begin developing the draft prioritization scheme.
The NRR TR Team will provide the current status of this recommendation during the November 20, 2008, public meeting.
With respect to recommendation #4, the industry representatives agreed with the concept of a Technical Champion. The NRR TR Team members will begin developing criteria that would provide guidance on when to invoke the use of a Technical Champion during the review of technically-challenging, multi-discipline reviews. In addition, the NRR TR Team will be meeting internally to begin developing the criteria, which would eventually be incorporated into LIC-500.
The NRR TR Team will discuss current status during the next public meeting.
The NRC presentation slides are available in ADAMS as Accession No. ML083040391. The industry presentation slides are available in ADAMS as Accession Nos. ML083080047 and ML083080048.
The next TR public meeting is currently planned for November 20, 2008. A meeting notice will be issued with additional detail.
No members of the public were in attendance. No public meeting feedback forms were received.
Project Nos. 669, 689, 691, 694, and 700
Enclosure:
List of Attendees cc w/encl: See next pages
November 10, 2008 The NRR TR Team will provide the current status of this recommendation during the November 20, 2008, public meeting.
With respect to recommendation #4, the industry representatives agreed with the concept of a Technical Champion. The NRR TR Team members will begin developing criteria that would provide guidance on when to invoke the use of a Technical Champion during the review of technically-challenging, multi-discipline reviews. In addition, the NRR TR Team will be meeting internally to begin developing the criteria, which would eventually be incorporated into LIC-500.
The NRR TR Team will discuss current status during the next public meeting.
The NRC presentation slides are available in ADAMS as Accession No. ML083040391. The industry presentation slides are available in ADAMS as Accession Nos. ML083080047 and ML083080048.
The next TR public meeting is currently planned for November 20, 2008. A meeting notice will be issued with additional detail.
No members of the public were in attendance. No public meeting feedback forms were received.
Project Nos. 669, 689, 691, 694, and 700
Enclosure:
List of Attendees cc w/encl: See next pages DISTRIBUTION:
See attached page Package Accession Number: ML083080583 Meeting Notice Accession Number: ML082540204 Meeting Handout Accession Numbers: ML083040391, ML083080047, ML083080048 Meeting Summary Accession Number: ML083040049 NRC-001 OFFICE PSPB/PM PSPB/LA PSPB/BC NAME TMensah DBaxley SRosenberg DATE 11/ /08 11/ /08 11/ /08 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
Memo to Stacey L. Rosenberg from Tanya M. Mensah dated November 10, 2008
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF THE OCTOBER 21, 2008, CATEGORY 2 PUBLIC MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES REGARDING THE NRCS TOPICAL REPORT PROCESS DISTRIBUTION:
PUBLIC PSPB Reading File RidsNrrAdro RidsNrrDpr RidsNrrDprPspb RidsNrrLADBaxley RidsNrrPMTMensah RidsOpaMail RidsNrrDe MCase RJanski CGratton KKarwoski CSchulten EBowman RElliott MCase SRosenberg WReckley JKaiser TBlount MRubin TMendiola HCruz GCranston JDonoghue TFord SPhilpott WRuland MHoncharik VPerin CTucci RidsOgcMailCenter RidsAcrsAcnwMailCenter External Email:
mas@nei.org Frederick.emerson@ge.com Gayle.elliott@areva.com
List of Meeting Attendees for October 21, 2008 Tim Abney GE Hitachi Charles Brinkman Westinghouse Eric Bowman NRC Dennis Buschbaum PWROG/Luminant Mike Case NRC Jin Chung MNES Douglas Coleman BWROG/Energy Northwest Gayle Elliott AREVA Tanya Ford NRC Chris Gratton NRC Chad Holderbaum Westinghouse/PWROG Ken Huffman EPRI Ken Karwoski NRC Alan Levin AREVA Tony Mendiola NRC Tanya Mensah NRC Steve Philpott NRC Stacey Rosenberg NRC Bill Ruland NRC Mike Schoppman NEI Carl Schulten NRC Rob Sisk Westinghouse Russ Wells Areva Charles Wirtz FENOC (BWRVIP Tech Chair)
ENCLOSURE
Nuclear Energy Institute Project No. 689 Electric Power Research Institute Project No. 669 cc:
Mr. Anthony Pietrangelo, Vice President Regulatory Affairs Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 arp@nei.org Mr. Jack Roe, Director Operations Support Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 jwr@nei.org Mr. Charles B. Brinkman Washington Operations ABB-Combustion Engineering, Inc.
12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 330 Rockville, MD 20852 brinkmcb@westinghouse.com Mr. James Gresham, Manager Regulatory Compliance and Plant Licensing Westinghouse Electric Company P.O. Box 355 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355 greshaja@westinghouse.com Ms. Barbara Lewis Assistant Editor Platts, Principal Editorial Office 1200 G St., N.W., Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005 Barbara_lewis@platts.com Mr. Alexander Marion, Executive Director Nuclear Operations & Engineering Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 am@nei.org Mr. John Butler, Director Safety-Focused Regulation Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 jcb@nei.org Mr. James H. Riley, Director Engineering Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-3708 jhr@nei.org Mike Melton, Senior Project Manager 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 man@nei.org Mr. Chris Larsen Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer EPRI 3412 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304-1338 dblarsen@epri.com Mr. David J. Modeen Director, External Affairs EPRI 1300 W. T. Harris Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28262-8550 dmodeen@epri.com Dr. Sean Bushart EPRI 3412 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304-1338 sbushart@epri.com Mr. Kurt Edsinger EPRI 3412 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304-1338 kedsinge@epri.com
Mr. Ken Canavan EPRI 1300 W.T. Harris Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28262-8550 kcanavan@epri.com Mr. Greg Selby EPRI 1300 W. T. Harris Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28262-8550 gselby@epri.com Mr. David Steininger EPRI 3412 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304-1338 dstenin@epri.com Mr. Neil Wilmshurst EPRI 1300 W. T. Harris Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28262-8550 nwilmshu@epri.com
BWR Owners= Group Project No. 691 Mr. Doug Coleman Vice Chair, BWR Owners= Group Energy Northwest Columbia Generating Station Mail Drop PE20 P.O. Box 968 Richland, WA 99352-0968 DWCOLEMAN@energy-northwest.com Mr. Richard Libra Executive Vice Chair, BWR Owners= Group Exelon Generation Co, LLC 200 Exelon Way Mail Code KSA 2-N Kennett Square, PA 19348 Rick.libra@exeloncorp.com Mr. Richard Anderson BWROG, Executive Chair FPL Energy (DAEC)
Duane Arnold Energy Center 3277 DAEC Road Palo, IA 52324 richard_l_anderson@fpl.com Mr. James F. Klapproth GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy M/C A50 3901 Castle Hayne Road Wilmington, NC 28401 james.klapproth@ge.com Mr. Joseph E. Conen Regulatory Response Group Chair BWR Owners= Group DTE Energy-Fermi 2 200 TAC 6400 N. Dixie Highway Newport, MI 48166 conenj@dteenergy.com Frederick Emerson BWROG, Project Manager Frederick.emerson@ge.com Mr. J. A. Gray, Jr.
Regulatory Response Group Vice-Chair BWR Owners= Group Entergy Nuclear Northeast 440 Hamilton Avenue Mail Stop 12C White Plains, NY 10601-5029 JGray4@entergy.com Mr. Ken A. McCall, Program Manager GE Energy M/C F12 3901 Castle Hayne Road Wilmington, NC 28401 kenneth.mccall@ge.com Mr. Tim E. Abney GE Energy M/C A-16 3901 Castle Hayne Road Wilmington, NC 28401 tim.abney@ge.com Oscar Limpias Entergy Nuclear Northeast 1340 Echelon Parkway.
Jackson, MS 39213-8202 olimpia@entergy.com Joe Donahue Progress Energy Inc.
410 S. Wilmington St.
PEB 6A Raleigh, NC 27601-1849 joe.w.donahue@pgnmail.com Paul J. Davison Hope Creek Generating Station P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 paul.davison@pseg.com Dennis Madison, Hatch Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Co.
11028 Hatch Parkway North Baxley, GA 31515-2010 drmadiso@southernco.com
PWR Owners Group Project No. 694 Westinghouse Electric Project No. 700 cc:
Mr. James A. Gresham, Manager Regulatory Compliance and Plant Licensing Westinghouse Electric Company P.O. Box 355 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355 greshaja@westinghouse.com Mr. Gordon Bischoff, Manager Owners Group Program Management Office Westinghouse Electric Company P.O. Box 355 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355 gordon.c.bischoff@us.westinghouse.com
GHNE Project No. 710 cc:
Mr. George B. Stramback GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC 1989 Little Orchard Street M/C HME San Jose, CA 95125-1030 george.stramback@ge.com Mr. James F. Harrison GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC Project Manager - Fuel Licensing P.O. Box 780 M/C A45 Wilmington, NC 28401 james.harrison@ge.com Ms. Patricia L. Campbell Washington Regulatory Affairs Director GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 9th Floor Washington, DC 20004 patricia.campbell@ge.com Mr. Andrew A. Lingenfelter Manager, GNF Fuel Engineering P.O. Box 780 M/C F12 Wilmington, NC 28401 andy.lingenfelter@gnf.com Rick Kingston GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC Project Manager, Methods Licensing 3901 Castle Hayne Road PO Box 780 Wilmington, NC 28401-0780 rick.kingston@ge.com James A Ross Vice President GE - Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC Washington Regulatory Affairs 1299 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20004 james2.ross@ge.com Mr. Robert E. Brown Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC P. O. Box 780, M/C A-30 Wilmington, NC 28401 Bob.Brown@ge.com