ML16342D992

Summary of 971222 Meeting W/Pg&E in Rockville,Md Re Sale of Morro Bay Power Plant & Offsite Power Sys Improvements. List of Attendees & Licensee Handouts Encl

ML16342D992
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	02/03/1998
From:	Steven Bloom NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
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NUDOCS 9802240279
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February 3,

1998 LICENSEE:

Pacific Gas and Electric Company FACILITY:

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

SUMMARY

OF MEETING HELD ON DECEMBER 22, 1997 WITH PG&E TO DISCUSS THE SALE OF MORRO BAY POWER PLANTAND THE OFFSITE POWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS The NRC staff met with representatives of PG&E on December 22, 1997 at One White Flint North in Rockville, Maryland to discuss the sale of Morro Bay Power Plant (MBPP) and the offsite power system improvements at Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

Enclosure 1 contains the list of attendees at this meeting. contains the handouts used by the licensee for their presentations.

PG8 E informed the NRC that 2 years ago they had put in place compensatory measures due to not meeting their design basis and margin for the 230 kV system.

The licensee informed the NRC that they performed studies to determine how to correct this problem.

Bechtel Report, "230 kV System Long Term Solutions," October 20, 1995, stated that the best solution was to install startup transformers with auto load tap changers.

At the same time, the State of California informed PG&E about deregulation and the fact that they would have to sell Morro Bay, which was part of the compensatory actions for Diablo Canyon to maintain the proper voltage. The NRC informed the licensee that we believed that the improvements made to the offsite power system may involve a new failure not described in the Final Safety Analysis Report.

ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:

Steven D. Bloom, Project Manager Project Directorate IV-2 Division of Reactor Projects III/IV Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323 Attachments:

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1998 LICENSEE:

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SUMMARY

OF MEETING HELD ON DECEMBER 22, 1997 WITH PG8 E TO DISCUSS THE SALE OF MORRO BAYPOWER PLANTAND THE OFFSITE POWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS The NRC staff met with representatives of PG8 E on December 22, 1997 at One White Flint North in Rockville, Maryland to discuss the sale of Morro Bay Power Plant (MBPP) and the offsite power system improvements at Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

Enclosure 1 contains the list of attendees at this meeting. contains the handouts used by the licensee for their presentations.

PG8 E informed the NRC that 2 years ago they had put in place compensatory measures due to not meeting their design basis and margin for the 230 kV system.

The licensee informed the NRC that they performed studies to determine how to correct this problem.

Bechtel Report, "230 kV System Long Term Solutions," October 20, 1995, stated that the best solution was to install startup transformers with auto load tap changers.

At the same time, the State of California informed PG8 E about deregulation and the fact that they would have to sell Morro Bay, which was part of the compensatory actions for Diablo Canyon to maintain the proper voltage. The NRC informed the licensee that we believed that the improvements made to the offsite power system may involve a new failure not described in the Final Safety Analysis Report.

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NRC Resident Inspector Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant do U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 369 Avila Beach, California 93424 Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Harris Tower 8 Pavillion 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 Arlington, Texas 76011-8064 Dr. Richard Ferguson, Energy Chair Sierra Club California 1100 11th Street, Suite 311 Sacramento, California 95814 Christopher J. Warner, Esq.

Pacific Gas & Electric Company Post Office Box 7442 San Francisco, California 94120 Ms. Nancy Culver San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace P. O. Box 164 Pismo Beach, California 93448 Mr. Robert P. Powers Vice President and Plant Manager Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant P. O. Box 56 Avila Beach, California 93424 Chairman San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Room 370 County Government Center San Luis Obispo, California 93408 Mr. Truman Burns Mr. Robert Kinosian California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness, Room 4102 San Francisco, California 94102 Telegram-Tribune ANN: Managing Editor 1321 Johnson Avenue P.O. Box 112 San Luis Obispo, California 93406 Mr. Gregory M. Rueger Senior Vice President and General Manager Pacific Gas and Electric Company Nuclear Power Generation N9B P.O. Box 770000 San Francisco, California 94177 Mr. Steve Hsu Radiologic Health Branch State Department of Health Services Post Office Box 942732 Sacramento, California 94232 Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee AKIN: Robert R. Wellington, Esq.

Legal Counsel 857 Cass Street, Suite D Monterey, California 93940

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PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY HANDOUTS DECEMBER 22, 1997 MEETING

Offsite Power System Improvements Diablo Canyon Power Plant DECEMBER 22, 1997

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~ Opening remarks

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~ Licensing and Design Basis

~ History of Offsite Power at DCPP

~ Electric Industry Restructuring - California Assembly Bill 1890

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~ Status of Improvements at DCPP

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History of Offsite Power at DCPP

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Construction permit for DCPP, 1968 Los Padres load approximately 200 MW

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SER 0 issued October 15, 1974

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SLUR relays installed 1978

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Commercial operation of Unit 1, 1985

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Discovered 230 kV system needed MBPP operation during week days, July, 1995 Los Padres load approximately 400 IVlW

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Reported condition to the NRC and committed to improve 230 kV system, LER 95-007

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Bechtel Report, "230 kV System Long Term Solutions" October 20, 1995

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25/1 2 kV AuxiliaryTransformer 1-1 fails during 1R7, October 1995

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Unit 1 starts up on 230 kV for 12 kV power, November 1995

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Preliminary management approval to install load tap changing (LTC) transformers to replace startup transformers (SUT),

February 1996

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Final approval for LTC SUT and decision made to install grid capacitors to replace VARsupport of MBPP, June 1996

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Major western grid disturbance, August 10, 1996

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California Legislature passes AB 1890 to restructure the electric power industry in California, September 23, 1996

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PG&E met with NRC on July 22, 1997, to discuss grid stability, effects of restructuring, ISO operation and planned improvements

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PG&E announces sale of MBPP to Duke Energy Services, November 1997

E!ectri'c Industry Restructuring Under AB 1S90 PGKE and SCE required to sell at least 50'io of their fossil fired power plants to decrease market dominance.

Operation under an independent system operator (ISO) and a power exchange (PX) begin January 1, 1998 DCPP is a "must take" Unit beginning January 1,

1998 MBPP operated on a competitive basis beginning January 1, 1998 DCPP willoperate on a competitive basis in 2001

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230 kVOffsite Power System Im rovements - Goal

~ Prepare for competition

~ DCPP offsite power is operable as long as grid is within industry voltage guidelines of+5'/o to -10'/0

~ Ensure either 230 kV line to DCPP capable of meeting accident loads

~ Improve short circuit withstand capability of Startup Transformers

230 kVOffsite Power System DCPP Im rovements

~ Improve Plant response to offsite voltage fluctuations Install 230/1 2 kV LTC SUTs

~ Enhance load voltage margin Retap 4 kV to 480 VAC vital load center transformers and 25 to 4 kV Unit auxiliary transformer

~ Improve load transfer on a Unit trip Fast transfer only one Circulating Water Pump Trip heater P2 drain pump Prevent start of standby condensate/booster pump when grid degraded

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~ Improve voltage control 50 MVARs of capacitor banks installed at DCPP and Mesa switchyards by April 1998

~ Goals of program met by April 1998 before summer peak load

~ Based on current load studies-Good for projected load growth to 2001

~ In 2001, add another capacitor bank at Mesa to ensure capability to 2007

Status ofDCPP improvements

~ Unit 1 completed in May 1997

~ Unit 2 LTC SUT installed on-line in November 1997 Interim operation as manual LTC transformer, January to February 15, 1998

~ Unit 2 automatic LTC functions and other modifications will be completed in February 1998

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~ Communication primarily between Diablo Canyon Switching Center and DCPP control room

~ Operability checks

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~ Manual operation of load tap changer

~ Procedurally Controlled

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~ Installation of Unit 1 LTC SUT-Rev 0 December 27, 1996, Rev 1 December 10, 1997

~ Installation of Unit 2 LTC SUT On-line - May 2, 1997

~ FSAR change for ISO operation, MBPP sale and manual tap changing on Unit 2 - December 10, 1997

Automatic Load Tap Changing LTC Transformer

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Improved reliability over old transformer Short circuit withstand capability seismic capability

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Better voltage to Class 1E loads LTC automatically adjusts to grid variations and disturbances Increase margin of safety due to higher initial 4kV voltage Eliminates "double sequencing" for design basis scenarios

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LTC Transformers are highly reliable Used extensively on transmission grids throughout the US Extensive nuclear applications, original design and 50.59 backfits

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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis shows no new malfunction effects on safety analysis

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Fully meets DCPP design and licensing basis

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Circuit Switcher allows maintenance without loss of 230kV

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~ Maintain same grid reliability

~ Committed to WSCC and NERC requirements

~ California Legislature mandates grid reliability

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~ MBPP not discussed in SER 0

~ MBPP primarily used as a synchronous condenser for voltage control

~ VAR support of grid replaced by capacitor banks

~ Capacitor banks are more reliable than MBPP

~ MBPP added in FSAR Update, Rev. 11 as a compensatory measure

~ MBPP removed from living FSAR Update with completion of 230 kV improvements

Interim Unit 2 Manual Tap Chan e

~ Approximately six weeks in 1998

~ Moves manual voltage control from MBPP to DCPP

~ Ensures adequate standby voltage to Class 1E loads in advance of any unit trip or accident

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~ PG&E identified and reported the problem with offsite power in 1995

~ PG8 E committed to improve offsite power in 1995

~ PG&E has communicated its plans to improve offsite power to the NRC

~ PG8 E has applied the best available technology to improve offsite power

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Item: ADAMS Document Library: ML ADAMS"HQNTAD01 ID: 003690290:1

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Diablo Canyon Safety Culture Survey Results and Alleged Discrimination (2000-ERA-3).

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February 25, 2000 PG8 E Letter DCL-00-031 Gregory M. Rueger 77 Scale Street,32nd Boor Senior Vice President and San Francisco, CA 94105 General Mana9er Mai%ng Address Nuclear Power Generation Mail Code B32 P.O. Box 770000 San Francisco, CA 94177 415.973.4684 Fax: 415.973.2313 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555-0001 Docket No. 50-275, OL-DPR-80 Docket No'. 50-323, OL-DPR-82 Diablo'Canyon Units 1 and 2 Diablo Can on Safet Culture Surve Results and Alle ed Discrimination 2000-ERA-3

Dear Commissioners and Staff:

This is in response to the your letter dated January 14, 2000, regarding recent events related to a November 2, 1998, discrimination complaint brought by Mr. Neil J. Aiken.

'our letter indicated that the NRC has reviewed a November 19, 1999, preliminary determination by the Regional Administrator of OSHA regarding the complaint, and that the NRC has reaffirmed its determination that Mr. Aiken's complaint was not substantiated..However, your letter indicated a concern about the potential negative effect on the safety conscious work environment at Diablo Canyon that may occur as a result of OSHA's determination and the December 13, 1999, termination of Mr. Aiken's employment.

Therefore, you requested that the NRC be informed of any actions PG8E has taken to prevent these events from having a negative effect on the willingness of other employees to raise safety concerns, and that PG8 E provide information on a recent survey regarding the safety conscious work enviro'nment, at Diablo Canyon..

PG8 E agrees with the NRC's determination that Mr. Aiken's discrimination complaint cannot be substantiated and is confident that the hearings we have requested before a Department of Labor administrative law judge will result in the same conclusion.

Nonetheless, PG8 E is aware of the indirect potential effect events surrounding Mr. Aiken's situation might have on groups of our employees, particularly those in Shift Operations who worked closely with Mr. Aiken, and we recognize the importance of maintaining a strong safety conscious work environment at Diablo Canyon.

As a result, in addition to the many general work environment and safety culture enhancement actions we have taken over the

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Letter DCL 00-031 last year, PGSE has taken the following specific actions to ensure that Diablo Canyon's safety culture remains open and positive in light of the publicity surrounding recent events associated with Mr. Aiken.

First, plant management held a meeting with Operations Department shift managers on December 17, 1999, after the OSHA preliminary determination became public knowledge and Mr. Aiken's employment with PG&E was officiallyterminated.

Among the topics covered at this meeting were a description of the status of the legal proceedings and government agency investigations surrounding Mr. Aiken. In addition, the importance of taking actions to maintain an open and positive safety culture was discussed.

In particular, the need for supervisors to actively encourage and assist employees to continue to use the various means available to them to raise and resolve safety issues was stressed.

This was done so that the shift managers would be better prepared to proactively answer questions from employees regarding the status of Mr.

Aiken's case, and to reaffirm the importance of their role in helping Diablo Canyon maintain a strong and open safety culture.

Second, on January 7, 2000, the Plant Manager held a meeting with Operations supervision to discuss actions that would promote trust. within the organization, given the ongoing publicity of the Aiken case.

Enhanced trust is conducive to a safety conscious work environment.

Based on this discussion, Operations management will continue to work on various issues of concern to operators, such as watchstation responsibilities and material condition of operator work areas.

Operations management is taking steps to ensure that supervisors are available to Operations employees for the purposes of updating them on important issues and answering questions.

Third, an evaluation was conducted by Employee Concerns Program (ECP) personnel regarding trends in the use of the Corrective Action Program at Diablo Canyon before and after issues associated with Mr. Aiken's plant access surfaced.

This evaluation was undertaken to assess whether indications might exist that the safety culture had been adversely affected over the last year, and to respond to claims made before the NRC by the Union of Concerned Scientists that the significant reduction in employee concerns received by the NRC related to Diablo Canyon in 1999 indicated a "chilling effect" attributable to PG8 E's handling of Mr. Aiken's situation. The evaluation reviewed the one-year time period ending October of 1999 and compared it to the earlier one-year time period ending October 1998. The evaluation concluded that the number of action requests and event trend records written by plant employees over these two time periods remained relatively unchanged, despite a concurrent decrease in the number of plant employees.

There was a decrease in event trend records filed by Operations Department personnel, but ECP believes this decrease was attributable to improved operating performance in refueling outages, rather than any other factor. The overall trend in the Corrective Action Program, taken together with other information reviewed

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Letter DCL 00-031 regarding Employee Concern Investigations and employee contacts through Diablo Canyon's ECP, and NRC allegation statistics, implies an improving rather than declining trend in the safety culture over the last year. We believe this is a direct result of actions PGBE has taken to enhance its safety culture and general employee morale in 1999, and that these actions have been indirectly effective in enhancing Diablo Canyon's employees'illingness to raise safety issues.

Enclosure 1 to this letter summarizes the actions taken in 1999 to improve the morale and safety culture at Diablo Canyon, particularly in Operations and NSSS Maintenance the two departments which contributed the majority of adverse comments on safety culture and work environment issues in the 1998 Diablo Canyon safety culture survey conducted by SYNERGY Consulting Services (SYNERGY).

Fourth, PG8 E continued with the administration of a follow-up safety culture survey targeted at the Diablo Canyon organizations which received the lowest SYNERGY nuclear safety scores in the 1998 survey. Though Diablo Canyon as a whole received 1998 survey scores in the "adequate to good" range and just above the national average, significant variation existed among departments within Diablo Canyon and SYNERGY recommended that we focus our improvement actions on those departments with results in the lowest quartile of the plant. The November 1999 survey was done to provide us with feedback from employees in the lowest quartile organizations to determine ifa "mid-course correction" was in order. These organizations were identified to you in PG8 E's letter of April 19, 1999, which outlined the 2 to 3 year program PG8 E had embarked upon to enhance the safety culture. The OSHA preliminary determination letter concerning Mr. Aiken's issues was received by PG8 E and became common knowledge at the plant about two weeks prior to the response period for this survey closing. The recent survey results have shown that PG8 E has made good progress in improving the safety culture and morale within the 1998 survey lowest scoring organizations, including Operations and NSSS Maintenance. to this letter provides the PG8 E report summarizing the results of the SYNERGY survey conducted by PG8 E in November 1999.

I PG8 E is well aware of the importance of maintaining and enhancing the safety conscious work environment at Diablo Canyon.

The evidence presented in this letter and its enclosures supports our conclusion that recent events involving Mr. Aiken have not adversely affected the Diablo Canyon safety culture, and that in,fact, noticeable improvements in Diablo Canyon's already "adequate to good" safety conscious work environment are being made.

We willcontinue to devote our attention and effort to enhancing our safety culture and ensuring that this culture is not adversely affected by events such as those relating to Mr. Aiken.

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SUBJECT:

INVITATIONTO DISCUSSION OF PILOT PROGRAM RESULTS

Dear Mr. Rueger:

On May 30, 1999, we initiated a pilot of the risk-informed baseline inspection program at Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun Station. The pilot program is scheduled to end November 27. On December 1, 1999, the NRC will meet with Omaha Public Power District and Nebraska Public Power District to discuss their perceptions and lessons learned gathered

,during the pilot program.

You willfind the details of the meeting documented in the enclosed meeting notice.

Although the meeting is between the NRC and members of the pilot plant staffs, we willbe discussing topics that may be of interest to your organization.

This meeting will be open to public observation.

Following the meeting, the discussion willbe opened for comments and questions from observers.

We would entertain and welcome your participation at that time.

Should you have any questions on this inspection plan, please contact Charles Marschall at (817) 860-8185 or David Loveless at (817) 860-8161.

Sincerely, Charles S. Marschall, Chief Project Branch C Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos.:

50-275 50-323 License Nos.: DPR-80 DPR-82

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Dr. Richard Ferguson Energy Chair Sierra Club California 1100 lith Street, Suite 311 Sacramento, California 95814 Nancy Culver San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace P.O. Box 164 Pismo Beach, California 93448 Chairman San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Room 370 County Government Center San Luis Obispo, California 93408 Truman Burns)Mr. Robert Kinosian California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness, Rm. 4102 San Francisco, California 94102 Robert R. Wellington, Esq.

Legal Counsel Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee 857 Cass Street, Suite D Monterey, California 93940 Steve Hsu Radiologic Health Branch State Department of Health Services P.O. Box 942732 Sacramento, California 94234-7320 Christopher J. Warner, Esq.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company P.O. Box 7442 San Francisco, California 94120 David H. Oatley, Vice President Diablo Canyon Operations and Plant Manager Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant P.O. Box 3 Avita Beach, California 93424

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION IV 611 RYAN PLA2A DRIVE, SUITE 400 ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-8064 November 15, 1999 NOTICE OF LICENSEE MEETING Name of Licensee:

Name of Facility:

Docket:.

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Purpose of Meeting:

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Licensee Attendees:

Nebraska Public Power District Omaha Public Power District Cooper Nuclear Station Fort Calhoun Station 50-285 50-298 December 1, 1999 1 -3 p.m. (CDT)

Fort Calhoun Station Auditorium Hwy. 75 - North of Fort Calhoun Fort Calhoun, Nebraska Discussion of the licensee's perceptions and lessons learned from the pilot inspection program K. Brockman, Director, Division of Reactor Projects C. Marschall, Chief, Branch C, Division of Reactor Projects A. Madison, Transition Task Force Leader, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation W. Jones, Senior Reactor Analyst, Division of Reactor Safety L. Wharton, FCS Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation L. Burkhart, CNS Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation D. Loveless, Senior Project Engineer, Branch C, Division of Reactor Projects W. Gary Gates, Vice President, Fort Calhoun Station S. Gambhir, Division Manager, Nuclear Operations J. Chase, Division Manager, Nuclear Assessments M. Tesar, Division, Manager, Nuclear Support Services R. Phelps, Division Manager, Nuclear Engineering J. Solymossy, Manager, Fort Calhoun Station M. Frans, Manager, Nuclear Licensing R. Jaworski, Manager, Revised Reactor Oversight Project B. Hansher, Supervisor, Station Licensing

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Nebraska Public Power District Omaha Public Power District H. Hackerott, Supervisor, Systems Analysis J. McDonald, Plant Manager, Cooper Nuclear Station P. Caudill, General Manager, Technical Services G. Smith, Nuclear Projects Manager

. J. Sumpter, Licensing Supervisor D. Robinson, QA Assessment Manager R. Wachowiak, Risk Management Supervisor NOTE:

(1) This meeting is open to attendance by members of the general public.

(2) NRC personnel, not listed above, that desire to attend this meeting should notify C. S.

Marschall at 817/860-8185 by COB on November 19, 1999.

(3) A comment session willbe conducted at the end of the meeting for participation of all Region IVoperating reactor licensees.

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Approved By:

Charles S. Marschall, Chief Project. Branch C Division of Reactor Projects CC:

G. R. Horn, Senior Vice President of Energy Supply Nebraska Public Power District 1414 15th Street Columbus, Nebraska 68601 John R. McPhail, General Counsel Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 499 Columbus, Nebraska 68602-0499 B. L. Houston, Nuclear Licensing and Safety Manager Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 98 Brownville, Nebraska 68321

Nebraska Public Power District Omaha Public Power District Dr. William D. Leech Manager - Nuclear MidAmerican Energy 907 Walnut Street P.O. Box 657 Des Moines, Iowa 50303-0657 Ron Stoddard

'incoln Electric System 1040 0 Street P.O. Box 80869 Lincoln, Nebraska 68501-0869 Michael J. Linder, Director Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality P.O. Box 98922 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-8922 Chairman Nemaha County Board of Commissioners Nemaha County Courthouse 1824 N Street Auburn, Nebraska 68305 Cheryl K. Rogers, Program Manager Nebraska Health and Human Services System Division of Public Health Assurance Consumer Services Section 301 Centennial Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-5007 Ronald A. Kucera, Director of Intergovernmental Cooperation Department of Natural Resources P.O. Box 176 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Jerry Uhlmann, Director State Emergency Management Agency P.O. Box 116 Jefferson City, Missouri 65101

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Nebraska Public Power District Omaha Public Power District Vick L. Cooper, Chief Radiation Control Program, RCP Kansas Department of Health and Environment Bureau of Airand Radiation Forbes Field Building 283 Topeka, Kansas 66620 Mark T. Frans, Manager Nuclear Licensing Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

P.O. Box 399 Hwy. 75 - North of Fort Calhoun Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023-0399 James W. Chase,'Division Manager Nuclear Assessments Fort Calhoun Station P.O. Box 399 Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023 J. M. Solymossy, Manager - Fort Calhoun Station Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-1-1 Plant P.O. Box 399 Hwy. 75-North of Fort Calhoun Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023 Perry D. Robinson, Esq.

Winston 8 Strawn 1400 L. Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005-3502 Chairman Washington County Board of Supervisors Washington County Courthouse P.O. Box 466 Blair, Nebraska 68008 Cheryl K. Rogers, Program Manager Nebraska Health and Human Services System Division of Public Health Assurance Consumer Services Section 301 Centennial Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-5007

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