ML15112A599
| ML15112A599 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 04/09/1998 |
| From: | Labarge D NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Mccollum W DUKE POWER CO. |
| References | |
| TAC-M99912, TAC-M99913, TAC-M99914, NUDOCS 9804140477 | |
| Download: ML15112A599 (4) | |
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Mr. W. R. McCollum Vice President, Oconee Site Duke Energy Corporation P. 0. Box 1439 Seneca, SC 29679
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION IMPROVED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS SUPPLEMENT 1 (TAC NOS. M99912, M99913, AND M99914)
Dear Mr. McCollum:
By letter dated October 28, 1997, you submitted proposed amendments requesting to convert the Oconee Nuclear Station Unit 1, 2, and 3 Technical Specifications to the Improved Technical Specifications. By letter dated March 26, 1998, you submitted Supplement 1 to the amendments request. The staff has review this supplement and determined that additional information is needed as described in the enclosure.
Sincerely, ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:
David E. LaBarge, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 11-2 Division of Reactor Projects - 1/11 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-001 April 9, 1998 Mr. W. R. McCollum Vice President, Oconee Site Duke Energy Corporation P. 0. Box 1439 Seneca, SC 29679
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION IMPROVED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS SUPPLEMENT 1 (TAC NOS. M99912, M99913, AND M99914)
Dear Mr. McCollum:
By letter dated October 28, 1997, you submitted proposed amendments requesting to convert the Oconee Nuclear Station Unit 1, 2, and 3 Technical Specifications to the Improved Technical Specifications. By letter dated March 26, 1998, you submitted Supplement 1 to the amendments request. The staff has review this supplement and determined that additional information is needed as described in the enclosure.
Sincerely, David E. LaBarge, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 11-2 Division of Reactor Projects - III Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287
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Oconee Nuclear Station cc:
Mr. Paul R. Newton Mr. J. E. Burchfield Legal Department (PBOSE)
Compliance Manager Duke Energy Corporation Duke Energy Corporation 422 South Church Street Oconee Nuclear Site Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 P. 0. Box 1439 Seneca, South Carolina 29679 J. Michael McGarry, Ill, Esquire Winston and Strawn Ms. Karen E. Long 1400 L Street, NW.
Assistant Attorney General Washington, DC 20005 North Carolina Department of Justice.
Mr. Robert B. Borsum P. 0. Box 629 Framatome Technologies Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Suite 525 1700 Rockville Pike L. A. Keller Rockville, Maryland 20852-1631 Manager - Nuclear Regulatory Licensing Manager, LIS Duke Energy Corporation NUS Corporation 526 South Church Street 2650 McCormick Drive, 3rd Floor Charlotte, North Carolina 28242-0001 Clearwater, Florida 34619-1035 Mr. Richard M. Fry, Director Senior Resident Inspector Division of Radiation Protection U. S. Nuclear Regulatory North Carolina Department of Commission Environment, Health, and 7812B Rochester Highway Natural Resources Seneca, South Carolina 29672 3825 Barrett Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27609-7721 Regional Administrator, Region II U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atlanta Federal Center 61 Forsyth Street, S.W., Suite 23T85 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Max Batavia, Chief Bureau of Radiological Health South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 County Supervisor of Oconee County Walhalla, South Carolina 29621
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION IMPROVED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS (ITS)
SUPPLEMENT 1 The modifications to Specifications 2.1.1.1 and 2.1.1.2 should have resulted in some corresponding change to update the Bases. However, no changes to the Bases were submitted with Supplement 1. It is incumbent upon Duke Energy Corporation to keep the Bases up-to-date now and subsequently after the ITS are issued. Bases Section 2.1.1 should be updated to reflect the Supplement 1 changes to the specifications noted above.
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The change to Limiting Condition for Operation (LCO) 3.1:8 Applicability poses-the question that if a physics test is initiated in Mode 3, and during the test Mode 2 is entered, the LCO would not apply since the test was not initiated in Mode 2. This means that the exceptions that are permitted by the LCO would not apply, and consequently, more restrictive requirements of the excepted list of LCOs would apply.
Is this really what is desired by the wording of the Applicability as "initiated" during Mode 2? Does the Bases make this situation clear?
- 3.
The change to Surveillance Requirement (SR) 3.2.1.3 is not consistent with the preceding SRs, which state "within the limit as specified" not "within the limit specified."
Consistent wording should be used. (Since this is a minor edit, the staff suggests that you only change the ITS.)
- 4.
Specification 4.2.2 defines the acronym CRA as "CONTROL ROD Assemblies (CRA)."
The correct form should be CONTROL ROD Assemblies (CRAs) so that the singular form can used as "One CRA was..." and has the correct tense in not meaning, by substitution of the acronym, "One CONTROL ROD Assemblies was..."
- 5.
On revised ITS page 5.0-22, the strike-out parenthesis should have been removed.
- 6.
Should the first paragraph under Specification 5.5.12 include the penetration room ventilation system as well as the control room ventilation system Booster Fan Trains as complying to the testing frequencies specified in Regulatory Guide 1.52, Revision 2?
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