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Notice of Public Meeting, with Northern States Power Company, to Discuss the Significance Associated with an Apparent Violation Involving the Licensee'S Prairies Island Plant Shipment of Radioactive Material in October 2008
ML090620293
Person / Time
Site: Prairie Island  Xcel Energy icon.png
Issue date: 03/02/2009
From: Steven Orth
Division of Reactor Safety III
To:
References
EA-08-349, IR-08-009
Download: ML090620293 (3)


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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 March 2, 2009 EA-08-349 NOTICE OF SIGNIFICANT LICENSEE MEETING THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE Name of Licensee: Northern States Power Company, Minnesota Name of Facility: Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 Docket No: 05000282; 05000306 Time and Date: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (CDT), Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Location: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III Office 2443 Warrenville Road, Suite 210 Lisle, Illinois 60532

Purpose:

This is a meeting between the NRC and Northern States Power Company, Minnesota to discuss the significance associated with an apparent violation involving the licensees Prairie Island Plant shipment of radioactive material in October 2008. The apparent violation is discussed in Inspection Report 05000282/2008009; 05000306/2008009 and the preliminary significance appears to be of substantial safety significance (Yellow).

The NRCs Policy Statement, Enhancing Public Participation in NRC Meetings, effective May 28, 2002, applies to this meeting. The policy statement may be found on the NRC website, www.nrc.gov, and contains information regarding visitors and security.

Meeting Category: This is a Category 1 Meeting. The public is invited to observe this meeting and will have one or more opportunities to communicate with the NRC after the business portion, but before the meeting is adjourned.

Interested members of the public can participate in this meeting via a toll-free audio teleconference. For details, please call the NRC meeting contact listed on the NRC website or call the NRCs toll-free number, 1-800-368-5642, and ask the operator to be connected to the meeting contact Steven K. Orth.

NRC Attendees: M. Satorius, Regional Administrator, Region III K. OBrien, Enforcement/Investigations Officer, RIII J. Heck, Regional Counsel, RIII S. West, Director, Division of Reactor Safety, RIII S. Orth, Branch Chief; Division of Reactor Safety/Plant Support Team, RIII

Notice of Significant Licensee Meeting Licensee Attendees: D. Koehl, Chief Nuclear Officer M. Wadley, Prairie Island Site Vice President S. Northard, Prairie Island Plant Manager R. Hite, Prairie Island Radiation Protection Manager J. Anderson, Prairie Island Regulatory Affairs Manager Note:

Attendance at this meeting by NRC personnel, other than those listed above, should be made known to Steven K. Orth at 630-829-9827 by Close of Business on Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

Seating may be limited and will be available on a first-come basis. Inform the NRC meeting contact of your intention to attend by Close of Business on Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

This step will ensure that sufficient copies of meeting materials are available.

The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this meeting, or need this meeting notice or the transcription or other information from the meeting in another format (e.g., Braille, large print), please notify the NRCs meeting contact.

Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Meeting

Contact:

Name: Steven K. Orth

Title:

Branch Chief, DRS/PST Phone No: 630-829-9827 Email: steven.orth@nrc.gov Distribution:

C. Carpenter, Director, Office of Enforcement C. Marco, Assistant General Counsel for Materials Litigation and Enforcement, OGC M. Ashley, Enforcement Coordinator, NRR OEMAIL OEWEB C. Pederson, Director, Division of Reactor Projects, RIII S. West, Director, Division of Reactor Safety, RIII G. Shear, Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Projects, RIII A. Boland, Acting Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Projects, RIII J. Yerokun, Acting Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Safety, RIII J. Giesner, DRP Branch Chief K. Stoedter, SRI, Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant K. OBrien, Enforcement/Investigations Officer, RIII A. Barker, Regional State Liaison Officer, RIII PMNS (Meeting Notices only)

Notice of Significant Licensee Meeting Distribution cont:

V. Mitlyng, RIII Public Affairs P. Chandrathil, RIII Public Affairs T. Tomczak, ORA P. Buckley, ORA DOCUMENT NAME: G:\DRS\Work in Progress\Prairie Island Public Meeting Notice MJP.doc 9 Publicly Available 9 Non-Publicly Available 9 Sensitive 9 Non-Sensitive To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the concurrence box C = Copy without attach/encl; E = Copy with attach/encl N = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII RIII NAME MPhalen RLerch for JGiesner KOBrien SOrth DATE 02/26/09 02/27/09 02/27/09 03/02/09 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY