ML13282A538

Status of Review of National Fire Protection Association Standard 805 Application

ML13282A538
Person / Time
Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	10/09/2013
From:	Thomas Wengert Plant Licensing Branch III
To:	Jeffery Lynch Northern States Power Co
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References
TAC ME9734, TAC ME9735
Download: ML13282A538 (3)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 October 9, 2013 Mr. James E. Lynch Site Vice President Northern States Power Company - Minnesota Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant 1717 Wakonade Drive East Welch, MN 55089-9642

SUBJECT:

PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2-STATUS OF REVIEW OF NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION STANDARD 805 APPLICATION (TAC NOS. ME9734 AND ME9735)

Dear Mr. Lynch:

By letter dated September 28, 2012 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12278A405), Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation (NSPM, the licensee), doing business as Xcel Energy, submitted a license amendment request (LAR) to transition its fire protection licensing basis at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, from paragraph 50.48(b) of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) to 10 CFR 50.48(c), National Fire Protection Association Standard NFPA 805 (NFPA 805).

By letters dated November 8, 2012, and December 18, 2012 (ADAMS Accession Nos*.

ML12314A144 and ML12354A464, respectively), NSPM provided supplemental information in support of its application. By letter dated January 2, 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13002A209), the NRC informed NSPM that it had accepted the application for review.

Subsequent to the acceptance of the application, NSPM staff verbally informed the NRC staff that, in preparation for the NRC Audit of the PINGP NFPA 805 LAR, it had identified a number of issues associated with the Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) that NSPM had determined to affect the risk values identified in the September 28, 2012, application and the December 18, 2012, supplemental letter. Subsequently, by letter dated May 3, 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13126A115), NSPM informed the NRC that a revision to the PRA was necessary and provided a commitment to provide a supplement to the NFPA 805 LAR with revised Fire PRA results by May 1, 2014.

On October 8, 2013, during a telephone call between the NSPM staff and the NRC staff, it was agreed that:

1. The NRC staff will not resume the review of the PINGP NFPA 805 application until the licensee provides the supplemental information as described in its May 3, 2013, letter.

2. The licensee will provide the NRC staff with a schedule and interim milestones for submitting the supplement to the NFPA 805 LAR within 14 days from the date of this letter.

J. E. Lynch 3. The NRC will conduct monthly conference calls with NSPM to discuss the progress of NSPM's supplement development with respect to the milestone schedules.

If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-4037 or via e-mail at thomas. wengert@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, (f"~J thomas J. Wengert, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-282 and 50-3.06 cc: Distribution via ListServ

J. E. Lynch 3. The NRC will conduct monthly conference calls with NSPM to discuss the progress of NSPM's supplement development with respect to the milestone schedules.

If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-4037 or via e-mail at thomas.wengert@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RAJ Scott P. Wall for Thomas J. Wengert, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-282 and 50-306 cc: Distribution via ListServ DISTRIBUTION: ,

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