ML15244A218
| ML15244A218 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 03/26/1987 |
| From: | Pastis H Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Tucker H DUKE POWER CO. |
| References | |
| GL-85-06, GL-85-6, NUDOCS 8704070132 | |
| Download: ML15244A218 (3) | |
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March 26, 1987 Docket Nos.:
50-269, 50-270 and 50-287 Mr. Hal B. Tucker Vice President - Nuclear Production Duke Power Company P.O. Box 33189 422 South Church Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28242
Dear Mr. Tucker:
SUBJECT:
OCONEE UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 SCHEDULE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THEATWS RULE The purpose of this letter is to provide you information concerning implementation schedules for compliance with the requirements of the ATWS rule (10 CFR 50.62).
The specific requirements are listed in paragraphs (c)(1)' through (c)(5) of the rule. Paragraph (d) of the rule addresses implementation schedules.
The ATWS rule was published in the Federal Register on June 26, 1984. Quality Assurance (QA) guidance for non-safety related ATWS equipment was issued by Generic Letter (GL) 85-06 -dated April 16, 1985. Therefore, plant specific schedules for meeting the requirements of the ATWS rule were required to be submitted to NRR by October 15, 1985 (180 days after issuance of the QA guidance). Many utilities responded by stating that final schedules for meeting the requirements of the rule could not be determined until the staff completed its reviews of generic ATWS designs. The generic reviews have either only recently been completed or are still ongoing. Delays incurred in preparation of the QA guidance, and the extensive time and effort required to resolve complex issues associated with the development of review criteria, interpretation of supplementary information published with the rule, and the review of generic ATWS designs have all impacted utility schedules. Because of the cumulative effect of these delays, and in recognition that a sound and thorough engineering approach to resolve ATWS concerns is preferred to a rushed effort forced by schedular constraints, the NRC has decided to extend the deadline for implementation of the ATWS rule. The revised schedule allows you to delay implementation of ATWS rule requirements to no later than the third refueling outage after July 24, 1984. A request for a delay beyond the third outage will be handled on a case-by-case basis if it is presented in a timely fashion, and can be adequately justified.
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Please contact me within 30 days of receipt of this letter regarding implementation schedules at Oconee Units 1, 2 and 3 using the guidance provided above.
Sincerely,
/S/
Helen N. Pastis, Project Manager PWR Project Directorate No. 6 Division of PWR Licensing-B cc:
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Mr. H. B. Tucker Oconee Nuclear Station Duke Power Company Units Nos. 1, 2 and 3 cc:
Mr. A. V. Carr, Esq.
Duke Power Company Duke Power Company.
P. 0. Box 33189 Post Office Box 33189 422 South Church Street 422 South Church Street Charlotte, North Carolina 2824?
Charlotte, North Carolina.2P242 J. Michael McGarry, III, Esq.
Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036 Mr. Robert B. Borsum Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division Suite 220, 7910 Woodmont Avenue Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Manager, LIS NUS Corporation 2536 Countryside Boulevard Clearwater, Florida 33515 Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Route 2, Box 610 Seneca, South Carolina 29678 Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, N.W.
Suite 3100 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Mr. Heyward G. Shealy, Chief Bureau of Radiological Health South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office of Intergovernmental Relations 116 West Jones Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 Honorable James M. Phinney County Supervisor of Oconee County Walhalla, South Carolina 29621