ML12277A366

Withdrawal of Amendment

ML12277A366
Person / Time
Site:	Surry, North Anna
Issue date:	10/10/2012
From:	V Sreenivas Plant Licensing Branch II
To:	Heacock D Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO)
Sreenivas V
References
TAC ME7814, TAC ME7815, TAC ME7816, TAC ME7817
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 October 10, 2012 Mr. David A. Heacock President and Chief Nuclear Officer Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060*6711

SUBJECT:

NORTH ANNA, UNITS 1 AND 2, AND SURRY, UNITS 1 AND 2 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. ME7814, ME7815, ME7816, and ME7817)

Dear Mr. Heacock:

By letter dated October 6, 2011, you applied for an amendment to the Surry Power Station, and North Anna Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, Facility Operating License No. DPR-32 and DPR-37, NPF-4 and NPF-7. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to change the Emergency Action Levels (EALs) for North Anna Power Station (NAPS) and Surry Power Station (SPS). Several changes are proposed to incorporate lessons learned from the safety-related breaker fire that occurred at NAPS on April 22, 2009 (Ref. NRC Event Notification Report 45013). The proposed changes are briefly summarized as follows: 1) revise the definition of "Affecting Safe Shutdown" in the EAL Technical Basis Documents to specifically describe how this applies to NAPS and SPS; 2) revise applicable Hazards EALs to incorporate the intent of the revised definition for "Affecting Safe Shutdown;" in addition, the main dam is added to the Initiating Condition (IC) for HA 1 for NAPS and the low level intake structure is added to the IC for HA 1 for SPS; 3) changing the IC for HA2 and HA3 to replace "a safe shutdown area" with "any Table H-1 Area"; and 4) revise applicable System Malfunctions EAL to include a 15-minute threshold for RCS leaks. Subsequently, by letter dated September 27,2012, you withdrew the amendment request.

The Commission has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

. cerely,

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. Sreenivas, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-280, 50-281, 50-338, and 50-339

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

7590-01-P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY SURRY POWER STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 AND NORTH ANNA POWER STATION UNITS 1 AND 2, NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE

[DOCKET NOS. 50-280 AND 50-281; 50-338 AND 50-339 NRC-20YV-XXXX]

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket 10 <NRC-20YY-XXXX> when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available, using any of the following methods:

• Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket 10 <NRC-20YY-XXXX>. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: CaroI,Galiagher@nrc.gov.

• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):

You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select "ADAMS Public Documents" and then select "Begin Web-based ADAMS Search." For problems with ADAMS,

- 2 please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or bye-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.

• NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room 01-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. V. Sreenivas, Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch 11-1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555; telephone:

301-415-2597; e-mail: V.Sreenivas@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Virginia Electric and Power Company (the licensee) to withdraw its September 29,2012, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. License No. DPR-32 and DPR-37, NPF-4 and NPF-7 for Surry Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, Surry County, Virginia and North Anna Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Mineral, Virginia.

The proposed amendment would have revised the facility technical specifications pertaining to change the Emergency Action levels (EAls) for North Anna Power Station (NAPS) and Surry Power Station (SPS). Several changes are proposed to incorporate lessons learned from the safety related breaker fire that occurred at NAPS on April 22, 2009 (Reference

-3 NRC Event Notification Report 45013). The proposed changes are briefly summarized as follows: 1) revise the definition of "Affecting Safe Shutdown" in the EAL Technical Basis Documents to specifically describe how this applies to NAPS and SPS; 2) revise applicable Hazards EALs to incorporate the intent of the revised definition for "Affecting Safe Shutdown"; in addition, the main dam is added to the Initiating Condition (lC) for HA 1 for NAPS and the low level intake structure is added to the IC for HA 1 for SPS; 3) changing the IC for HA2 and HA3 to replace "a safe shutdown area" with "any Table H-1 Area"; and 4) revise applicable System Malfunctions EAL to include a 15-minute threshold for RCS leaks.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on February 21, 2012 (77 FR 10001).

However, by letter dated September 27, 2012, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated October 6,2011, and the licensee's letter dated September 27,2012, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by email to pdr@nrc.gov.

-4 Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of October, 2012.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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