ML17158B117
| ML17158B117 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 02/23/1996 |
| From: | Stolz J NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Byram R PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
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| ML17158B118 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-M92585, TAC-M92586, TAC-M93282, TAC-M93283, NUDOCS 9602270354 | |
| Download: ML17158B117 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 February 23, 1996 Mr. Robert G.
Byram Senior Vice President-Nuclear Pennsylvania Power and Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Al 1 entown, PA 18101
SUBJECT:
SAFETY EVALUATION OF RELIEF REQUESTS FOR VALVE INSERVICE TESTING (IST),
REVISION NOS.
12 FOR UNIT 1
AND 9 FOR UNIT 2, SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION (SSES),
UNITS 1
AND 2 (TAC NOS.
- M92585, H92586,
- M93282, AND M93283)
Dear Hr. Byram:
By letter, dated May 30,
- 1995, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (PP&L) submitted a revision to its Inservice Inspection Program for Pump and Valve Operational Testing for SSES Units 1 and 2.
The revision added three manual valves to the licensee's existing Refueling Outage Test Justification No.
21 (ROJ-21),
and made editorial changes to the licensee's Second 10-year IST program.
- Also, by letter dated August 4,
- 1995, the licensee provided its response to the staff's Safety Evaluation (SE) dated April 26, 1995.
The response included a revision to the licensee's Refuel Outage Test Justification (ROJ)
No.
20 "Containment Isolation Excess Flow Check Valves (EFCVs),"
and Relief Request 23 (RR-23) which provides the details of the licensee's request for an alternate testing frequency for certain EFCVs.
The NRC staff concludes that the licensee should review and revise ROJ-21 to ensure that it contains only manual valves that are impractical to test in accordance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (ASHE Code).
Other manual valves should be tested in accordance with the Code or the licensee should request that an alternative to the Code testing requirements be authorized by the NRC.
For RR-23, the licensee's proposed alternative to the Code testing frequency (i.e., to test these EFCVs at power immediately before each refueling outage) is denied, in
- part, because PP&L has not adequately justified why these valves should be tested at power.
However, the licensee is granted relief from the quarterly Code testing requirements for the subject EFCVs provided the licensee tests these valves during refueling outages.
If PP&L still desires to request
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Details of our review are provided in the enclosed SE.
Sincerely,
/s/
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Mr. Robert G.
Byram Pennsylvania Power
& Light Company Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1
& 2 CC:
Jay Silberg, Esq.
- Shaw, Pittman, Potts
& Trowbridge 2300 N Street N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20037 Bryan A. Snapp, Esq.
Assistant Corporate Counsel Pennsylvania Power
& Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 Mr. J.
M. Kenny Licensing Group Supervisor Pennsylvania Power
& Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 Mrs. Maitri Banerjee Senior Resident Inspector U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O.
Box 35 Berwick, Pennsylvania 18603-0035 Mr. William P. Dornsife, Director Bureau of Radiation Protection Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources P. 0.
Box 8469 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105-8469 Mr. Jesse C. Tilton, III Allegheny Elec. Cooperative, Inc.
212 Locust Street P.O.
Box 1266 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108-1266 Regional Administrator, Region I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Mr. Harold G. Stanley Vice President-Nuclear Operations Susquehanna Steam Electric Station Pennsylvania Power and Light Company Box 467 Berwick, Pennsylvania 18603 Mr. Herbert D. Woodeshick Special Office of the President Pennsylvania Power and Light Company Rural Route 1,
Box 1797 Berwick, Pennsylvania 18603 George T. Jones Vice President-Nuclear Engineering Pennsylvania Power and Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsyl vani a 18101 Dr. Judith Johnsrud National Energy Committee Sierra Club 433 Orlando Avenue State College, PA 16803 Chairman Board of Supervisors 738 East Third Street
- Berwick, PA 18603