ML091530544
| ML091530544 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 06/02/2009 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Division of License Renewal |
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| Download: ML091530544 (5) | |
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1 IPRenewal NPEmails From:
Andrew Stuyvenberg Sent:
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:11 PM To:
Gray, Dara F Cc:
IPRenewal NPEmails
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May 11, 2009, NRC-Entergy Telecon Summary Attachments:
IP Telecon Summary 5-11-09.doc Dara - Attached, for your review, is a summary of our May 11 teleconference regarding fish data. Please review it for factual accuracy and let me know by COB tomorrow (Wednesday, June 3) whether you would propose any changes.
Please call me if you have any questions or concerns.
- Best, Drew DrewStuyvenberg U.S.NuclearRegulatoryCommission 3014154006 Andrew.Stuyvenberg@nrc.gov
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ENCLOSURE 1 TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING UNIT NOS. 2 AND 3 LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION LIST OF PARTICIPANTS MAY 11, 2009 PARTICIPANTS AFFILIATIONS Dennis Logan Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Drew Stuyvenberg NRC Briana Balsam NRC Jeffrey Ward NRC Valerie Cullinan NRC Dara Gray Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy)
Jill Legace Entergy Mark Mattson Entergy Lawrence Barnthouse Entergy
ENCLOSURE 1 TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING UNIT NOS. 2 AND 3 LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION TELECONFERENCE
SUMMARY
MAY 11, 2009 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the staff) and representatives of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., (Entergy) held a telephone conference call on May 11, 2009 to discuss shortnose sturgeon impingement data, as well as to determine whether Entergy can provide additional information that will be responsive to information needs identified by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in its February 12, 2009 letter regarding Endangered Species Act Consultation.
NRC staff indicated that they had identified the first information need as resolution of apparent discrepancies in shortnose sturgeon impingement data Entergy reported to NRC. The data Entergy sent to NRC as part of its comments on NUREG-1437, Supplement 38, were internally inconsistent, inconsistent with numbers Entergy reported earlier, and inconsistent with numbers reported by NMFS. Specifically, NRC staff noted that it found that Entergys impingement count data from certain years appeared to be multiplied by the days of sampling in those years.
Entergy staff indicated that this appeared to be an error and that NRC could correct its sturgeon impingement data by dividing the numbers that Entergy reported to NRC in certain years by the numbers of days sampled in those years. Entergy staff said that the same correction should be applied to impingement of other species as well and that the error did not extend to other types of data, such as entrainment.
NRC staff indicated that the second information need was to identify the days on which shortnose sturgeon had been impinged and the length, weight, and condition of each impinged fish in the historical impingement data, if possible. Entergy reiterated that previous plant owners had captured sturgeon in some years both as part of the fish sampling program conducted on random days as well as outside the sampling program. Sturgeon captures were recorded by previous plant owners in a sturgeon log. Entergy staff indicated they would attempt to produce the records from the sturgeon log as well as the electronic data files and indicated that they would provide NRC with a table of actual sturgeon impingement as well as estimated impingement based on sampling results in various years.
In addition to a table of actual and estimated sturgeon impingements, Entergy indicated that they would supply several other data items to address requests from NMFS. These include:
- 1. Entergy will provide data on levels of effort for sturgeon sampling.
- 2. Entergy indicated that they will provide data for years when no sturgeon were impinged that will indicate whether the results were due to Entergys predecessors not monitoring for sturgeon or whether the monitoring program didnt find any sturgeon.
- 3. Entergy indicated it would attempt to find data on the specific dates of sturgeon impingements.
- 4. Entergy indicated that it would attempt to find data on the size and condition of impinged sturgeons. Where such data are not in the electronic data files, the plants sturgeon log likely contains this information.
ENCLOSURE 1 NRC staff confirmed that Entergy has no impingement or entrainment data collected more recently than 1990. Entergy committed to deliver all information to NRC by mid-June 2009, and indicated that NRC would not need to formally request the