ML15217A037

NRR E-mail Capture - PRB Initial Recommendation for Sace 2.206 Petition Regarding St. Lucie Unit 2 Steam Generator Replacement

ML15217A037
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Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	08/04/2015
From:	Farideh Saba Plant Licensing Branch II
To:	Curran D Harmon, Curran, Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, LLP
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NRR-PMDAPEm Resource From: Saba, Farideh Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 11:43 AM To: 'dcurran@harmoncurran.com' Cc: Galvin, Dennis; Helton, Shana; Banic, Merrilee; Mensah, Tanya; Monteith, Emily; Chereskin, Alexander

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PRB Initial Recommendation for SACE 2.206 Petition regarding St. Lucie Unit 2 Steam Generator Replacement Importance: High Ms. Diane Curran Harmon Curran Spielberg &Eisenberg LLP Counsel for SACE

Dear Ms. Curran,

This is a follow up to my voice mail that I left for you today, in reference to the petition you submitted on behalf of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) on March 10, 2014, regarding St. Lucie plant, Unit 2 steam generators replacement. You initially filed the petition as a request for a hearing. However, the Commission, by a Memorandum and Order (CLI-14-11) dated December 19, 2014, referred your request to the Executive Director for Operations for disposition under Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 2.206.

The NRC has established a Petition Review Board (PRB) to review your petition. The PRB met internally on March 25, April 29, and May 20, 2015, to discuss your petition with respect to the criteria for review and rejection described in Management Directive (MD) 8.11, Review Process for 10 CFR 2.206 Petitions. Based upon that review, the PRB initially recommended that your request partially meets the criteria for review under 10 CFR 2.206.

The parts of the petition that met the criteria for rejection per MD 8.11 rejection criterion 2 are the concerns related to the inspection of the replacement Steam Generators (SGs), as well as the concerns regarding the effects of the extended power uprate on SG tube inservice inspection and flow-induced effects on the SG internals. These items do not meet the criteria for review under 10 CFR 2.206 since they have already been reviewed and evaluated by the NRC staff. However, the PRB determined that part of your petition that addresses SACEs concerns regarding the licensees application of the 50.59 process with respect to the change in a methodology as described in the Updated Final Safety Evaluation Report meets the criteria for acceptance of a petition under 10 CFR 2.206. The NRC staff is currently reviewing the licensees 50.59 evaluation of SG replacements.

Per MD 8.11, we are offering you another opportunity to address the PRB, if you have additional information in support of your petition for the PRB to consider. Please notify me by August 7, 2015, with your availability, if you wish to address the PRB in a public meeting or via a recorded conference call. If I have not heard from you by August 7th, the PRB's recommendation will become the final recommendation and we will proceed with processing your request as recommended by the PRB. Further details regarding the PRB's final recommendation and the NRCs future actions will be provided to you in an acknowledgement letter.

I also would like to inform you that Mr. Dennis Galvin will be assigned as the petition manager for the SACE petition in September. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Mr. Galvin, if you have any questions or comments.

Regards, Farideh 1

Farideh E. Saba, P.E.

Senior Project Manager NRC/ADRO/NRR/DORL 301-415-1447 Mail Stop O-8G9A Farideh.Saba@NRC.GOV Dennis Galvin Project Manager NRC/ADRO/NRR/DORL 301-415-6356 Dennis.Galvin@NRC.GOV Tracking:

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'dcurran@harmoncurran.com' Galvin, Dennis Read: 8/4/2015 12:30 PM Helton, Shana Banic, Merrilee Mensah, Tanya Read: 8/4/2015 11:53 AM Monteith, Emily Chereskin, Alexander Read: 8/4/2015 11:55 AM 3

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PRB Initial Recommendation for SACE 2.206 Petition regarding St. Lucie Unit 2 Steam Generator Replacement Sent Date: 8/4/2015 11:43:25 AM Received Date: 8/4/2015 11:43:00 AM From: Saba, Farideh Created By: Farideh.Saba@nrc.gov Recipients:

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