ML17223B070
| ML17223B070 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 01/24/1991 |
| From: | Berkow H Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Goldberg J FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
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| ML17223B071 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-76118, TAC-76119, NUDOCS 9102010167 | |
| Download: ML17223B070 (5) | |
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UNITEDSTATES NUCLEAR REGULATORYCOMMISSION WASHINGTON, O. C. 20555 January 24, 1991 Docket Nos.
50-335 and 50-389 Mr. J.
H. Goldberg President - Nuclear Division Florida Power and Light Company Post Office Box 14000 Juno Beach, Florida 33408-0420
Dear Mr. Goldberg:
SUBJECT:
DENIAL OF AMENDMENT REQUEST ON FULL LENGTH CONTROL ELEMENT ASSEMBLY (CEA) SURVEILLANCE TESTING - ST.
LUCIE UNITS I AND 2 (TAC NOS.
76118 AND 76119)
By letter dated February 12, 1990, Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) submitted proposed changes to the Technical Specifications (TS) for St. Lucie Units 1 and 2
concerning the frequency of control eIement assembly (CEA) operability testing at power.
Specifically, the current TS 4.1.2.1.2 requirement that each full-length CEA which is not fully inserted shall be moved a short distance into the core and back to its starting position "at least once per 31 days" would be changed to "at least once per 92 days."
Additionally, the frequency of functional testing of the CEA block circuit (TS 4.1.2.1.3, 4.1.2.1.4a) performed as part of the CEA operabil'ity test, would be similarly changed from "once per 31 days" to "once per 92 days."
The proposed amendment-would adopt a portion, but not all, of new Standard Technical Specifications (STS), which the staff has developed under the Technical Specifi-cation Improvement Program (TSIP).
During discussions with the industry on the implementation of the TSIP, the staff addressed the issue of whether a licensee could select, as you propose, only certain portions of the new STS,rather than the complete set.
A January 22, 1988, letter from Thomas E. MuI'ley, Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, to Mr. Joe F. Colvin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NUMARC, stated that:
..., the licensee may choose to either retain his current specification in its entirety or adopt the new specification in its entirety....
This approach is necessary because the new STS were developed in such a way that the definitions, limiting conditions for operation, surveillance requirements,
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are closely related.
Selecting just one requirement and incorporating this requirement into another set of TS may not result in the desired level of protection or may not result in satisfying the original intent of the requirement in the new STS.
In addition, NRC's approach minimizes the expenditure of both industry and NRC resources.
Of,course, an exception to this position is accept-able when such a change is necessary for safety reasons.
Review of your submittal does not reveal any safety reasons associated with your request.
Therefore, your present request is denied.
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H. Goldberg January 24, 1991 The TSIP makes provisions for line-item improvements to the TS for items generic to one or more vendor-type plant which would be available to licensees in
-advance of the new STS.
Line-item improvements are proposed changes to existing TS which may be made independent of the new STS.
In addition to those line-item improvements proposed by the staff, the owners groups have also proposed issues to be treated as line-item improvements (for example, changes to surveillance test intervals and allowed outage times for safety-related instrumentation).
If a licensee desires a change which is generic in nature, the licensee should propose this change to the respective owners group.
That owners group would then propose the change to the NRC staff and support its review.
Upon acceptance by the NRC staff, the change would be made available to all licensees in a generic letter as a line-item improvement.
The staff attempts, in these generic letters, to present the item in a manner which will require the least review when requested by individual licensees.
It appears that the changes you have requested should be proposed to your owners group as a line-item improvement, if you desire these items prior to your request for the new STS.
A copy of the Notice of Denial of Amendments to be published in the pedenai-
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Sincerely,
Enclosure:
As stated Original signed by Herbert N. Berkow, Director Project Directorate II-2 Division of Reactor Projects-I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation cc w/enclosure:
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H. Goldberg Florida Power 5 Light Company St. Lucie Plant CC:
Mr. -Jack Shreve Office of the Public Counsel Room 4, Holland Building Ta 1 1 aha ssee, F 1ori da 32304 Senior Resident Inspector St. Lucie Plant U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 7585 S.
Hwy AIA Jensen Beach, Florida 33457 State Planning 5 Development Clearinghouse Office of Planning
& Budget Executive Office of the Governor The Capitol Building Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Harold F. Reis, Esq.
Newman 5 Holtzinger 1615 L Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036 John T. Butler, Esq.
- Steel, Hector and Davis 4000 Southeast Financial Center Miami, Florida 33131-2398 Administrator Department of Environmental Regulation Power Plant Siting Section State of Florida 2600 Blair Stone Road Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Mr. James V. Chisholm, County Administrator St.
Lucie County 2300 Virginia Avenue, Room 104 Fort Pierce, Florida, 33450 Mr. Charles B. Brinkman, Manager Washington Nuclear Operations Combustion Engineering, Inc.
12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 330 Rockvi lie, Maryland 20852 Mr. Jacob Daniel Nash Office of Radiation Control Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services 131?
Winewood Blvd.
Tal 1 ahassee, Flot ida 32399-0700 Regional Administrator', Region II U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street N.W., Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323