ML16152A296
| ML16152A296 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 02/14/1984 |
| From: | Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Tucker H DUKE POWER CO. |
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| ML16152A297 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8402230202 | |
| Download: ML16152A296 (2) | |
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February 14, 1984 Dockets Nos. 50-269, 50-270 DISIRIMIION and 50-287 JTaylor WJones Edordan NRC PDR DBrinkman L PDR RDiggs Mr. H. B. Tucker ORB#4 Rdg RIngram Vice President -
Steam Production DEisenhut JSuermann Duke Power Company OELD Gray File+4 P. 0. Box 33189 CMiles B.D. Liaw 422 South Church Street LHarmon Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 ACRS-10 TBarnhart-12
Dear Mr. Tucker:
We have reviewed your October 4, 1982 (as supplemented on November 23, 1982, February 17, April 20 and July 6, 1983) request for relief from Inservice Inspection (ISI) requirements of Section XI of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (the Code) for the Oconee Nuclear Station. Based on the findings of our review contained in the enclosed Evaluation of Relief Request, we agree that the specified requirements are impractical and that relief should be granted.
Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.55a(g)(6)(i), relief is granted from the current 10-year interval hydrostatic tests (as addressed in the evaluation) required by the ASME Code (1974 Edition through the Summer of 1975 Addenda).
We grant this relief where we determined that the Code examination requirements are impractical and where your proposed alternative nondestructive examinations (volumetric, surface and visual methods, as applicable) will provide adequate assurance of weld integrity. We have further determined that the relief is authorized by law and will not endanger life or property or the common defense and security, and is in the public interest giving due consider ation to the burden upon Duke Power if the requirements were imposed.
We wish to bring to your attention the fact that this granting of relief is valid only for the interval requested and not for the life of the plants.
A renewal of this relief request, if applicable, for succeeding ISI intervals must be resubmitted (see 10 CFR 50.55a(g)(5)(iv)) for our review.
A copy of Notice of Granting Relief is also enclosed.
Sincerely, John F. Stolz, Chief Operating Reactors Branch No. 4 Division of Licensing
Enclosures:
- 1. Evaluation
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Duke Power Company cc w/enclosure(s):
Mr. William L. Porter Duke Power Company P. 0. Box 33189 422 South Church Street Office of Intergovernmental Relations Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 116 West Jones Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 Honorable James M. Phinney County Supervisor of Oconee County Walhalla,-South Carolina 29621 Mr. James P. O'Reilly, Regional Administrator U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region II 101 Marietta Street, Nl, Suite<2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Heyward G. Shealy, Chief Bureau of Radiological Health South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Regional Radiation RepresentativeBull Street ERegion Raito epeettv Columbia, South Carolina 29201 EPA Region IV 345 Courtland Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Mr. J. C. Bryant Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Route 2, Box 610 Seneca, South Carolina 29678 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 J. Michael McGarry, III, Esq.
DeBevoise & Liberman 1200 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036