ML17179B048

Advises That NRC Has No Technical Objection to Licensee 930521 Request to Change Frequency of Meetings W/Fuel Vendors from Once Per Reload Design to Once Yearly

ML17179B048
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Site:	Dresden, Byron, Braidwood, Quad Cities, Zion, LaSalle
Issue date:	08/09/1993
From:	Dyer J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Farrar D COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO.
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NUDOCS 9308260158
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August 9, 199~

D6c~et Nos. STN 50-456, STN 50-457, STN 50-454, STN 50-455,

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,and 50-295, 50-304 Mr. D. L. Farrar Manager, Nuclear Regulatory Services

• Commonwealth Edison Company Executive Towers West III, Suite 500 1400 OPUS Place Downers Grove,. Illinois 60515

Dear Mr. Farrar:

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NUCLEAffFUEL SERVICES *::- FUEL VENDOR REVIEW MEETINGS By letter dated May 2li 1993, CECo stated it would like to change'its commitment of having the Nucleai Fuels Services (NFS) group cbnduct meetings.

with the fuel vendors on each reload design (approximately eight meetings per year) to having NFS coriduct meetings with the fuel vendors on a yearlY basis.*

The staff reviewed your proposed*c~ange *and h~s no technical objectio~.

provided, as stated in your* letter, that meetirigs are conducted more often if

'technical issues warrant'.it.

• An example of such a.technical issue.might be the evoJving fuel rod fretting wear problem recently..observed at Palisad~.s. *...,*

CECo's continued participation in the BWR and PWR Owners' *Group committees and

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their d,aily review. o*f plant st,atus reports shoul<.f.assure that NFS is. kept aware of technical.issues so that they' can take corrective actions in a. 'timely_* -*,*-<<'

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Mr. William P. Poirier Westinghouse Electric Corporation Energy Systems Business Unit Post Office Box 355, Bay 236 West Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Joseph Gallo, Esquire Hopkins and Sutter 888 16th Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, D.C.

20006 Regional Administrator U. S. NRC, Region III 799 Roosevelt Road, Bldg. #4 Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Ms. Bridget Little Rorem Appleseed Coordinator 117 North Linden Street Essex, Illinois 60935 Mr. Edward R. Crass Nuclear Safeguards and Licensing Division Sargent & Lundy Engineers 55 East Monroe Street Chicago, Illinois 60603 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspectors Office Rural Route #1, Box 79 Braceville, Illinois 60407 Mr. Ron Stephens, Director

• .. Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 110 East Adams Street Springfield, Illinois 62706 Robert Neumann Office of Public Counsel State of Illinois Center 100 W. Randolph, Suite 11-300 Chicago, Illinois 60601 EIS Review Coordinator Environmental Protection Agency Region V*

230 S. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 60604 Attorney General 500 South 2nd Street Springfield, Illinois 62701 Conuno~alth Edison Company U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Byron Resident Inspectors Office 4448 North German Church Road Byron, Illinois 61010-9750 Ms. Lorraine Creek Rt. 1, Box 182 Manteno, Illinois 60950 Mrs. Phillip B. Johnson 1907 Stratford Lane Rockford, Illinois 61107 Douglass Cassel, Esquire 17 East Monroe Street, Suite 212 Chicago, Illinois 60603 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Coinmission Resident Inspectors Office 105 Shiloh Blvd.

Zion, Illinois 60099 George L. Edgar Newman & Holtzinger, P.C.

1615 L Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20036 Commonwealth Edison Company Byron Station Manager 4450 North German Church Road Byron, Illinois 61010 Illinois Dept. of Nuclear Safety

.Offi.ce of Nuclear Facility Safety 1035 Outer Park Drive Springfield, Illinois 62704 Commonwealth Edison Company Braidwood Station Manager. ~

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• Chairman, Ogle County Board Post Office Box 357 Oregon, Illinois 61061 Chairman Will County Board of Supervisors Will County Board Courthouse Joliet, Illinois 60434

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Michael I. Miller, Esquire Sidley and Austin One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60690 Mr. G. Spedl Plant Manager Dresden Nuclear Power Station 6500 North Dresden Road Morris, Illinois 60450-9765 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspectors Office Dresden Stat ion 6500 North Dresden Road Morris, Illinois 60450-9766 Chairman Board of Supervisors of

• Grundy County Grundy County Courthouse Morris, Illinois 60450 Phillip P. Steptoe, Esquire Sidley and Austin One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 Assistant Attorney General 100 West Randolph Street Suite 12

• Chicago, 111 inois 60601 Resident Inspector/LaSalle, NPS U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rural Route No. 1 P. 0. Box 224 Marseilles, Illinois 61341 Chairman LaSalle County Board of Supervisors LaSalle County Courthouse Ottawa, Illinois 61350 Dr. Cecil Lue-Hing Director of Research and Development Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago 100 East Erie Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 Robert Cl!shing Chief, Public Utilities Division Illinois Attorney General's Office 100 West Randolph Street Chicago, Illinois 60601 Mr. G. Diederich LaSalle Station Manager LaSalle County Station Rural Route 1 P. 0. Box 220 Marseilles, Illinois 61341 Chairman Illinois Commerce Commission Leland Building 527 East Capitol Avenue Springfield, Illinois 62706 Mr. Stephen E. Shelton Vice President Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company P. 0. Box 4350 Davenport, Iowa 52808 Mr. Richard Bax Station Manager Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station 22710 206th Avenue North Cordova, Illinois *61242 - -

Resident Inspector U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 22712 206th Avenue North Cordova, Illinois 61242 Chairman Rock Island County Board of Supervisors 1504 3rd Avenue*

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Rock Island, Illinois 61201 Mayor of Zion Zion, Illinois 60099