ML17341A671
| ML17341A671 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 11/09/1981 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
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| NUDOCS 8112070088 | |
| Download: ML17341A671 (8) | |
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7590-01 ENCLOSURE 1
NUCLEAR PEGULATORY CO/ tMISS ION In the Matter of FLORIDA POWER AND LiGHT COMPANY (Turkey Point Plant Unit Nos.
3 and 4)
Docket'o.
50-250 and 50-251 EXEMPTION The Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) is the holder of Facility Operating License Nos.
DPR-31 and DPR-41 which authorize operation of the Turkey Point Plant, Unit Nos.
3 and 4.(Turkey Point).
This license
- provides, among other things, that it is subject to all rules, regulations and Orders of the Comission now or hereafter in effect.
The Facility is a pressurized water reactor located at the licensee's site located in Dade County, Florida.
Section III.Aof Appendix R to 10 CFR Part 50 requires "two separate water supplies shall be provided to furnish necessary water volume and pressure to the main fire loop."
In the case of Turkey Point this requires that FPL 'must, at a minimum (1) modify the existing on-site 500,000 gallon water tank by installing a
new standpipe to dedicate a minimum of 300,000 gallons of the capacity of that tank to fire protection purposes; (2) design,
- engineer, procure, and construct a new on-site water tank of 750,000 gallon
- capacity, to include a redundant water supply of at least 300,000 gallons; and (3)-install an automatic starting diesel fire pump to supply the fire systems.
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7590-01 The cost of installing these new compoenents and modifying the existing tank is estimated to be
$1,860,000.
It is FPL's intention to comply fully with the requi rements of Section III.A.
- However, FPL is unable to achieve full compliance with,Section II'I'.A'n the: date required by the rule.
The schedule" se out in 550.48(c}(2) applies to the installation of the modifications do scribed above.
That'chedule requires that those modifications-be, installed nine'months:.after the'ffective date of the rule; or by November 19, 1981.
FPL, despite its best efforts, will be unable to comply fully with Section III.A before March 31, 1984.
The new on-site water tank will be approximately 750,000 gallons capacity.
It is necessary to install a tank of that size in order to both meet the NRC's requirements that a total of 600,000 gallons of water (300,000 gallons from each.of the two on-site tanks) be dedicated for fire protection purposes from two separate, and redundant, sources and to supply the normal needs to the four generating units - two fossil and two nuclear - on the Turkey Point Site.
FPL began the preliminary design and engineering work necessary to meet the requirements of Section III.A promptly following the promulgation of the fi're protection rule.
The procurement process for the new tank as well as'or the diesel fire pumps has begun.
- However, because of the current NRC requirements, pumps of the type necessary to meet these standards are in heavy demand and in short supply throughout the country.
Therefore, FPL cannot get delivery of the required diesel fire pumps until June of 1982.
- Moreover, FPL cannot get delivery of the components necessary to construct the new storage tank until October 1982.
Construction of the new water storage tank and installation of
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7590-01 3-the diese'. fire pump cannot be completed un.il "ctober 1983.
tlodifications
..of the currert ta;nk cannot begin until comple 'on of construction and availa-bility of ihe new tank and'here'fore cannot'- be~completed until March 31, 1984.
The completion date required by the rule for modifications to the fire protection system water supply was intended for the miscellaneous. modifications required by most plants which were much.smaller"in magnitude.
The schedular requirements of the rule were not intended to apply to a modification of this magnitude.
Based on our evaluation we conclude that FPL's request to be exempted from the schedular requirements of Section III.A "Water Supplies for Fire Suppression System" should be granted.
FPL's request for exemption from the schedular requirements of Section III.Aof Appendix R to, 10 CFR Part 50 is hereby approved as described above.
Accordingly, the Commission ha"-determined.that, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, an exemption is authorized by law and will not endanger life or property or the common defense and securit'y and is otherwise in the publ'ic i'nterest.
The NRC staff.has determined that the granting of this exemption will not result in any significant environmental impact and that pursuant to 10 CFR 51.5(d)(4) an environmental impact statement or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be prepared in connection with this action.
For further details with respect to this action see (1) the licensee's request dated
/larch 19, 1981 which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document
- Room, 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D.
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at the Environmental and Urban Affairs Library, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 53199.
FOR -THE'NUCLEAR. REGULATORY, COMMISSION~
c~J'ated at Bethesda,
- Maryland, this 9th day of November 1981 Harold. R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear"Reactor.Regul ation
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