ML092230181

Meeting Summary, Category 2 Public Meeting Between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Industry Representatives Regarding the NRCs Topical Report Process

ML092230181
Person / Time
Site:	Nuclear Energy Institute, Boiling Water Reactor Owners Group, PROJ0704, PROJ0669, PROJ0700, PROJ0710, PROJ0694
Issue date:	08/25/2009
From:	Tanya Mensah NRC/NRR/DPR/PSPB
To:	Rosenberg S NRC/NRR/DPR/PSPB
Mensah T, NRR/DPR, 415-3610
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TAC MD4832
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August 25, 2009 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 Projects Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

SUMMARY

OF THE JULY 30, 2009, CATEGORY 2 PUBLIC MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES REGARDING THE NRCS TOPICAL REPORT PROCESS (TAC NO. MD4832)

On July 30, 2009, a Category 2 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff and industry representatives at NRC headquarters to discuss issues regarding Topical Report (TR) process improvements. A list of meeting attendees is enclosed and the meeting agenda is contained in the July 30, 2009, public meeting notice available in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) as Accession No. ML091770196.

In summary, the NRC staff and industry representatives provided updates and exchanged perspectives on the following:

A.

The current status of LIC-500, Draft Revision 4 B.

Pre-submittal meetings C.

Implementation of the draft TR prioritization scheme D.

TR issues for future resolution E.

Future monthly TR public meetings Opening remarks were provided by Ms. Stacey Rosenberg, Branch Chief, Special Projects Branch, Division of Policy and Rulemaking (DPR), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR).

Ms. Rosenberg thanked the NRC staff and industry representatives for its continued support of the monthly TR meetings. Going forward, Ms. Rosenberg emphasized that the meetings have been useful to the NRC staff and that the NRC was prepared to move forward with the TR prioritization scheme.

CONTACT: Tanya M. Mensah, NRR/DPR 301-415-3610

S. Rosenberg To open the meeting, Ms. Tanya Mensah, Senior Project Manager, recapped a discussion that occurred during the April 23, 2009, public meeting, regarding pre-submittal TR meetings. To summarize, industry representatives asked that the TR Team consider, for first-of-a-kind/complex TRs, that more than one non-fee billable meeting may be needed to support conceptual development of the TR and planning. After the meeting, Ms. Mensah followed up with the Office of Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) to obtain feedback on this issue. As communicated during the July 30, 2009, public meeting, the OCFO representative, Ms. Rebecca Erickson, provided feedback to NRR in early July 2009, that all pre-submittal meetings to support TR reviews should be fee-billable, in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 170.11.

Overall, it was the agreement of both the NRC staff and industry representatives that the pre-submittal meetings have been valuable, and that they should continue in the future.

However, industry representatives expressed that clarifying guidance should be provided by the NRC in a Regulatory Issue Summary, or some other type of generic guidance. The TR Team agreed to take this recommendation back to the NRR management for additional discussion.

In addition, industry representatives asked the TR Team if they could obtain feedback regarding how pre-submittal meetings in support of license amendments are currently billed.

Ms. Rosenberg took the action to follow up on this item.

After this discussion, Ms. Mensah provided an update to the industry representatives on the near-term priorities that were assigned to DPR. To summarize:

1. 1: DPR should continue its current progress on TR reviews, including its current assessment of LIC-500 by May 30, 2009.

o Current Status: Complete. LIC-500 is in concurrence.

1. 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 the NRR Leadership Team (LT) by May 30, 2009.

o Current Status: Complete. The revised LIC-500 incorporates guidance to support implementation of the prioritization scheme. As discussed during the July 30, 2009, public meeting, industry representatives are now expected to include and address the prioritization factors on the cover memo of each incoming TR. Appendix C, Draft Prioritization Scheme, of LIC-500 was provided during the public meeting (ADAMS Accession No. ML092190887).

1. 3: DPR to reassess TR metrics for timeliness and resource expenditures, based on the new prioritization/valuation scheme. Provide results of metrics assessment to NRR LT for the first and second quarters following prioritization scheme implementation, but no later than January 30, 2010.

o Current Status: In progress. The TR Team will track data for TRs that are prioritized within each branch. The information that will be tracked to form

S. Rosenberg a basis for reassessing the TR metrics will be discussed internally in more detail.

1. 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 a Technical Champion in LIC-500 procedure by May 30, 2009.

o Current Status: Complete. The technical champion process has been integrated into the revised LIC-500.

After discussion of the near-term TR priorities, the industry representatives discussed the following issues:

Pilot License Amendment Requests In Conjunction With TR Reviews Industry representatives asked if the TR Team could provide an update at the next TR public meeting regarding the next steps to support development of a process which would permit the review of a TR, in parallel with the review of a pilot license amendment request (i.e., a pilot plant). The NRC TR Team took an action to provide an update/status during the next public meeting.

Development Of A Process Similar to 10 CFR 50.59 For Screening/Evaluation Changes To Approved TRs Industry representatives plan to propose an approach during a future TR public meeting, to support the development of a process (similar to 10 CFR 50.59) which would allow vendors to modify an NRC-approved TR for changes that are not significant, without obtaining NRC approval. The NRC TR Team provided feedback that when that discussion occurs, it will require the involvement of the NRCs legal, policy, and technical experts to discuss and evaluate the industry proposal.

TR Metrics Compared to LAR Metrics Industry representatives discussed their future efforts to re-evaluate their own TR metrics. They expressed that the NRC metrics for TRs and license amendment requests should also be identical. The NRC TR Team stated that based upon the data collected as a result of the draft prioritization, the NRC may have justification to support changes to the current metrics (Yellow Ticket Item #3).

Lessons Learned From TR Reviews on LIC-500 The Pressurized Water Reactor Owners Group (PWROG) provided a couple of examples of TRs that experienced significant delays during the acceptance review phase. The industry representatives and NRC staff discussed the lessons learned from the examples provided by the PWROG. In addition, the NRC TR Team identified that in the future, if the staff can not complete the acceptance review in 60-days, that the TR would be prioritized in accordance with the TR prioritization scheme.

S. Rosenberg Future Public Meetings:

A public meeting is currently being planned for September 9, 2009. A meeting notice will be issued with additional detail.

The industry handout is available in ADAMS as Accession No. ML092190886.

The NRC handouts are available in ADAMS as Accession Nos. ML092190887 and ML092190888.

Members of the public were present and provided feedback during the public comment portion of the meeting regarding:

Ensuring that the linkage between 10 CFR Part 52 and Part 50 for the TR process are consistent.

Path forward to ensure that incoming TRs are captured in ADAMS by the NRC Document Control Desk in a timely manner.

No public meeting feedback forms were provided.

Project Nos.: 669, 689, 691, 694, and 700, 704, 710

Enclosure:

List of Attendees cc w/encl: See next pages

ML (Package);

ML091770196 (Notice);

ML092190886, ML092190887, ML092190888 (Handouts);

ML092230181 (Summary)

NRC-001 OFFICE PSPB/PM PSPB/LA PSPB/BC PSPB/PM NAME TMensah DBaxley SRosenberg (TMensah for)

TMensah (HCruz for)

DATE 8/13/09 8/13/09 8/25/09 8/25/09 Memo to Stacey L. Rosenberg from Tanya M. Mensah dated August 25, 2009

SUMMARY

OF THE JULY 30, 2009, CATEGORY 2 PUBLIC MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES REGARDING THE NRCS TOPICAL REPORT PROCESS (TAC NO. MD4832)

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ENCLOSURE List of Meeting Attendees for July 30, 2009 George Bacuta NRC Charles Brinkman Westinghouse Sheryl Burrows NRC Dennis Buschbaum PWROG/Luminant Patricia Campbell GE Hitachi Jin Chung Mitsubishi Douglas Coleman BWROG/Energy Northwest Holly Cruz NRC Jacklyn Dorn NRC Galye Elliott AREVA NP Rebecca Erickson NRC Chad Holderbaum Westinghouse/PWROG Tom Houghton NEI Mike McCoppin NRC Anthony Mendiola NRC Tanya Mensah NRC Steve Philpott NRC Stacey Rosenberg NRC Ed Schrull GE Hitachi Nuclear Ram Subbaratnam NRC

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 Security 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, Acting Vice President for Nuclear Operations Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 am@nei.org Mr. John Butler, Director Operations Support 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 cblarsen@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 dsteinin@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. 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 rich.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, Vice Chair Regulatory Response Group BWR Owners= Group DTE Energy-Fermi 2 200 TAC 6400 N. Dixie Highway Newport, MI 48166 conenj@dteenergy.com Dennis Madison, Hatch Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Co.

11028 Hatch Parkway North Baxley, GA 31515-2010 drmadiso@southernco.com Frederick Emerson BWROG, Project Manager Frederick.emerson@ge.com Mr. Ken A. McCall, Program Manager GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy M/C F12 3901 Castle Hayne Road Wilmington, NC 28401 kenneth.mccall@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 Mr. Ted Schiffley Vice Chairman, BWROG Exelon Generation Co., LLC.

Cornerstone II at Cantera 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 frederick.schiffley@exeloncorp.com Mr. Randy C. Bunt, Chair Regulatory Response Group Southern Nuclear Operating Company 40 Inverness Center Parkway/Bin B057 Birmingham, AL 35242 rcbunt@southernco.com 8/6/08

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

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas Project No. 710 cc:

Mr. James F. Harrison GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC Vice President - Fuel Licensing P.O. Box 780, M/C A-55 Wilmington, NC 28401-0780 james.harrison@ge.com Ms. Patricia L. Campbell Vice President, Washington Regulatory Affairs GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 9th Floor Washington, DC 20004 patricia.campbell@ge.com Mr. Andrew A. Lingenfelter Vice President, Fuel Engineering Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas, LLC P.O. Box 780, M/C A-55 Wilmington, NC 28401-0780 Andy.Lingenfelter@gnf.com Edward D. Schrull GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC Vice President - Services Licensing P.O. Box 780, M/C A-51 Wilmington, NC 28401-0780 Edward.schrull@ge.com Mr. Richard E. Kingston GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC Vice President, ESBWR Licensing PO Box 780, M/C A-65 Wilmington, NC 28401-0780 rick.kingston@ge.com 08/03/09

BWRVIP Project No. 704 cc:

Randy Stark, EPRI BWRVIP Integration Manager Raj Pathania, EPRI BWRVIP Mitigation Manager Ken Wolfe, EPRI BWRVIP Repair Manager Larry Steinert, EPRI BWRVIP Electric Power Research Institute 3420 Hillview Ave.

Palo Alto, CA 94304 rstark@epri.com rpathani@epri.com kwolfe@epri.com ldsteine@contractor.epri.com Bob Geier, Technical Chairman BWRVIP Assessment Committee Exelon Corporation Cornerstone II at Cantera 4300 Winfield Rd.

Warrenville, IL 60555 robert.geier@exeloncorp.com Dennis Rickertsen, Technical Chairman BWRVIP Mitigation Committee Southern Nuclear Operating Company P. O. Box 1295 (M/S B234)

Birmingham, AL 35201-1295 ddricker@southernco.com Paul J. Davison, Executive Chairman BWRVIP Assessment Committee PSEG Nuclear, LLC Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Station 11 Yubas Ave.

Burlington, NJ 08016 paul.davison@pseg.com Denver Atwood, Chairman BWRVIP Repair Focus Group Southern Nuclear Operating Co.

Post Office Box 1295 40 Inverness Center Parkway (M/S B031)

Birmingham, AL 35242-4809 dgatwood@southernco.com Rich Ciemiewicz, Chairman BWRVIP Inspection Focus Group Exelon Corporation 200 Exelon Way, Suite 210 (M/S KSA 2-N)

Kennett Square, PA 19349 richard.ciemiewicz@exeloncorp.com Charles J. Wirtz, Technical Chairman BWRVIP Integration Committee FirstEnergy Corp.

Perry Nuclear Power Plant (M/S A250) 10 Center Road Perry, OH 44081 cjwirtz@firstenergycorp.com Oscar Limpias, Executive Chairman BWRVIP Integration Committee Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Echelon One 1340 Echelon Parkway.

Jackson, MS 39213-8202 olimpia@entergy.com Joe Donahue BWRVIP Vice Chairman V. P., Nuclear Engineering & Services Progress Energy, Inc.

410 S. Wilmington St. (M/S PEB6)

Raleigh, NC 27601-1849 joe.w.donahue@pgnmail.com Richard Anderson BWRVIP Executive Oversight Committee Site Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold Duane Arnold Energy Center 3277 DAEC Road Palo, IA 52324-9785 rich.anderson@nexteraenergy.com Robert Carter, EPRI BWRVIP Assessment Manager Jeff Landrum, EPRI BWRVIP Inspection Manager EPRI NDE Center P.O. Box 217097 1300 W. T. Harris Blvd.

Charlotte, NC 28221 bcarter@epri.com jlandrum@epri.com Dennis Madison, Executive Chairman BWRVIP Mitigation Committee Site Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Co.

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