ML18046A220

Notifies of Interim Rule Suspending Completion Dates for Fire Protection Mods Previously Approved by Nrc.Fr Notice Encl

ML18046A220
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	10/31/1980
From:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Hoffman D CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
References
NUDOCS 8012110303
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.t' As you know, a proposed *sect ion 50~4f3°.and.Appe.ndi x R to io* CFR 50 *has* been

.pending since May 1980~. The *commiss1orf !)as reeently approved a*rev1sed final version of *that*prpposed Section 50.48:andAppendix R to 10 CFR 50 which wtll"be published in the.F*e.deral.Register.shortly and will become.

effective 9.0 days after. publication. This -revised JO-CFR 50.48 will

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contain schedules *for completjon of.all fire pro:tectton modifkatio~s *.

One set:*~of '.schedules \\~ill *be applicable".to feature$ 'covered.bY Appendix R.

A similar set of schedules will.be applicable to all other fire protection modi;ficat fo*ns _that have been approved by the NRC s.taff, in a staff safety evaluation report. This latt.er.set -of *schedules will require. completion,

of modi.f:icatio:ns *not coyered by App~n(,fix 8 by schedules spec-if1ed_ in the.revised rule or by the dates now specified as license cond.ifions, whichever is so,oner;.. unless an extension or.exemption is approved by NRC *

. Some of the completion,dates discussed 1n the SER for your facility may be associated*with mod1ficat1ons for.\\~hich the.NRC staff required additional infonnatton. such as design details or test res*u1tsi1 to:be subsequently~

revfewed and approved by.the NRC.staff prior to* implementatton.

To the extent that there* are. fire protect fan modifications, such as this for your fac1Hty and.the required additional-information has not yet been approved.

by the staff as evidenced in a.staff safety evaluation report, there is no

. present 1mplementqt1on requirement; *consequently, completion of such items

• will be governed by the schedules in the. revised rule.

In the.interim, pending the effect1ve date of the revfsed. rule, th~ Commiss1on has approved a.new Section 50.48.of 10.CfR SO*suspending completion dates for fire protect ion *modif~cations,previotfsly a_pproved by the NRC staff~

This:.new section became effective upon publicat:ioil in the Federal Register on O.ctober 29, 1980. {.45 FR 71569)'.

A copy of the new.rule is enclosed*.,*

for your infonnation~ Th.is rtlle will be St,J;perseded by the revised rule when.

it becomes effectiye~.

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In the near-future, -we plan to* contact you' to i'dent ify specifiqa.l1y which ff re protection features a~ soci ated with your fad 11 ty are c9vered by Appendix R and would thus be* su~ject to one set of schedulese and.

whiCh are P.revfous1y appr.oved items which" are c;overed by a different

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 Mr. David P. Hoffman Nuclear Licensing Administrator Consumers Power Company

• 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michiga~. 49201

Dear Mr. H~ffma~:

October 31, 1980

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As you know, a proposed Section 50.48 and Appendix R to 10 CFR 50 has been pending since May 1980.

The Commission has recently approved a revised final version of that proposed Section 50.48 and Appendix R to 10 CFR 50 which will be published in the Federal Register shortly and will become effective 90 days after publication. This revised 10 CFR 50.48 will.*:.

contain schedules for completion of all fire protection modifications.

One set of schedules will be applicable to features covered by Appendix R.

A similar set of schedules will be applicable to all other fire protection

. modi fi cations that have been app.roved by the NRC staff in a staff safety.

evaluation report. This latter set of schedules will require completion of modifications not covered by Appendix R by schedules specified in the revised rule or by the dates* now specified as license conditions, whichever is sooner, unless an extension or exemption is ipproved by NRC.

Some of the completion dates discussed in the SER for your facility may be associated with modifications for which the NRC staff required additional information, such as design details or test results, to be subsequently reviewed and approved by the NRG.staff prior to implementation.

To the extent that there are fire protection modifications such as this for your facility and the required additional information has not yet been approved by thestaff as evidenced in a staff safety evaluation report, there is no present implementation requirement; consequently, completion of such items will be governed by the schedules in the revised rule *.

In the interim, pending the effective date of the revised rule, the Commission has approved a new Section 50.48 of 10 CFR 50 suspending completion dates for fire protection modifications previously approved*by the NRC staff.

This new section became effective upon publication in the Federal Register on October 29, 1980 (45 FR 71569). A copy of the new rule is enclosed for your information. This rule wil 1 be superseded by the revised rule when it becomes effective.

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~r. David P. Hoffman cc M. I. Miller, Esquire Isham, Lincoln & Beale Suite 4200 One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60670 Mr. Paul A. Perry, Secretary Consumers Power Collllany 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power CorrqJany 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Myron M. Cherry, Esquire Suite 4501 One IBM Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60611 Ms. Mary P. Sinclair Great lakes Energy Alliance

. 5711 Summerset Drive Midland, Michigan 48640 Kalamazoo Public Library 315 South Rose Street Kalamazoo, Michi~an 49006 Township Supervisor Cove rt Township Route 1, Box 10 Van Buren County, Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor (2)

Room 1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913

• Director, Technical Assessment Division Office of Radiation Programs (t.W-459)

U. s. Environmental Protection Agency Crystal Ma 11 #2 Arlington, Virginia 20460

• October 31, 1980 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Federal Activities Branch Regi o.n V, Office.

ATTN:

EIS COORDINATOR 230 South Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 60604 Charles Bechhoefer, Esq ** Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Cormiission Washington, D. c.

20555 Dr. George c. Anderson Department of Oceanography University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 Dr. M. Stanley Livingston 1005 Ca 11 e Largo Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Resident Inspector c/o U. S. NRC P. O. Box 87 South Haven, Michigan 49090 Palisades Plant ATTN:

Mr. J. G.

Le~'liS Plant Manager Covert, Michigan 49043 William J. Scanlon, Esquire 2034 Pauline Boulevard Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103

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• -.. ~**Fderal *Register / VoL_ 4,5. Nc:t. 211 / Wednesday,.October 29, 1980 / RuiE:-s anJ Regulatioc.s 71569 published on October l, 1980. 45 FR 64949. The corrected I 0.91 is published ti'elow.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 18. 1980.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert P. De Young. Private Radio Bureau, (202) 632.,-7175.

ADDRESS: Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. 20554.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:.

.* In the Matter of amendment of Part O to transfer authority for common canier matters irivolving public coast stations to the Private Radio Bureau.

Released: Auguat 19, 1980.

1. In the Order in the above-captioned matter. FCC 80-179 released April 7, 1980. Section 0.91 of the rules was amended to reflect a transfer of function from the Common Carrier Bureau to the Private Radio Bureau (45 FR 25399, April 15.1980).

. 2. Section 0.91 of the rules was also amended by Order, FCC 79-882, released March 7, 1980, to reflect the reorganization of the Common Carrier.

Bureau. Through inadvertence, our Order of April 7, amended the language or the rule prior to its having been amended by our Order of March 7, 1980 (45 FR 16191, March 13. 1980).

. '3. To correct this situation. Section 0.91 is amended as set forth in the

• attached appendix, to amend the

• ciu;rently effective language of the rule.

• . Federal Communications Commission.

(Secs:4, 303. 48 Stal, a& amended. 1066. 1082; 4; u.s.c. _154, 303).

• * \\\\~illiam J. Tricarico, Seqetary.

Part O of Chapter I of Title 47 of the CQde of Federal Regulations is "amended as follows:

Ip I 0.91 the introductory text is reVised to read as follows:

I 0.91 Functions of the Bureau.

The Common Carrier Bureau develops, recommends and administers poHcies and programs for the regulation of services, facilities, rates and practices or entities (excluding public coast stations in the maritime mobile service) which furnish interstate or foreign communications service for hire--

"*h'elher by wire, radio, cable or satellite facilities-and of ancillary operations related to the provisions or use of such services. The Bureau also regulates the rates. terms, and conditions for cable television and pole attachments, where such attachments are not regulated by a state and not provided by railroads or go\\*emmentally--or cooperatively ov.*ned utilities. The Bureau also performs the following specific functions:

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CLEARREGULATORY MMtSSION Ftre Protection Schedules for Operating Nuclear Power Plants AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACT10N: Fi.rial rule.

SUMMARY

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its '.

regulations to temporarily suspend completion schedules for certain fire protection features in operating nuclear.

plants pending completion of its ongoing comprehensive fire protection rulemaking. This suspension is necessary because some NRC licensees are unable to ineet fire protection

• implementation deadlines contained in licensed conditions. The Commission has found that fire protection measures already implemented give reasonable assurance of safety, and that no health*

and safety interest would be served by forcing certain licensees to shut down during the brief period between the license condition deadlines and the effectiveness of the final fire protection rule.

EFFECT1VE DATE: October 29, 1980.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Shields, Office of Executive Legal Dfrector, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory.

Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555.

phone 301-492~.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 29, 1980, the Commission published in '

the Federal Register (45 FR 36082) a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled

. "Fire Protection Program for Nuclear Plants Operating Prior to January l, 1979." The proposed rule provided that all fire protection modifications except alternate or dedicated shutdown capability would be required to be implemented by November 1, 1980, unless the Commission approve an extension for good cause. This deadline was also stated in the Commission's May 27, 1980 Memorandum and Order on the Union o! Concerned Scientists Petition for Emergency and Remedial Action. 11 NRC 707, 719.

Many of the commenters on the proposed rule contended that the November 1 deadline was unachievable.

Moreover, much more time than was earlier anticipated has been reqiinld to prepa~ a final rule on rare prote:ticm.

Although the final rule Is nea completion, and will inco:pon1te an

• implementation schedule differe:t from that in the proposed rule, it has IOt yet been published and in any enn: wolllld not be effective' until 90 days afte:

publication.

Certain NRC licensees, ho-*ever, are at present operating under license conditions or technical specificafons

• thereto which include the Nave~ 1 1

deadline or other dates which will precede the effective date of the mull

• rule. To the extent that these lice:sees have been unable to complete all ofthe fire protection measures to wh.icl these deadlines apply, continued opera:ion would violate the license conditicm.

• The violation would extend o::lly :ntil the final rule becomes effecti'"e, Dee the implementation schedule co~d in the final rule will supersede inconsistent license conditions.

The Commission has detetmine::!.

based upon a review of the entire record in this rulemaking, that relief f:ro.c these license conditions is appropriate pending promulgation of the fi:ial :ule on fire protection applicable to aD t.'R.C licensees. Extensive fire protectia:i measures have already been implemented at all operating plallls. 'Ihe implementation schedule of the fu:al rule will be uniform and co::ipreheosn*e, and will apply to all operating pla:ts

• including those with different schedules contained in license conditions.. N~

public health and safety interest wo!Wi be served by forcing only those licensees unable to meet deadline1 preceding the effectiveness of the fna] *

. rule to shut down for the brief inte:im..

To the contrary. the fire protec:ioi:

measures already implementee gil'I!

reasonable assurance that all ope:atiag nuclear plants may continue to o~te safely even though the final rule "~

require additional fire protection

• measures at many plants.

the Administrative Procedure A::t provides that 8 rule may be efiec~

upon publication when that rule**~

or recognizes an exception o:- relieTeS a restriction." 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1). ~rule relieves certain NRC licensees froc.

license conditions or technical specifications thereto in regard 20 f:re protection implementation deadlims.

and will therefore be effectiY'e c::po:. the date of publication in the Federal Register. *Furthermore, as noted above.

the proposed rule stated that extemicms from the November 1, deadline wotld be considered for good caus*c. Exte:nsiTe.

public comment was received to tht effect that the deadline was anreallstic

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.and should be revised. Under these cirCwnsl*a:nces the.commissiota'belie~es

• ~at the~e :is good cause for an,exteniion of the license condition schedules penc!ins' ~fiectiveness of the final rule on

• ~ prot,e,ction.

. The r¥Je provides that all cpiµpliance dates.cqntained in licepse con~.tions.or

• techruc~I specifics lions.for reqµired fll'.e protectiqn measures are suspended pending, further action by the Commission: As is clear from the above Piseussi~n;1, that fµrther action ~ill be

.promulg~tion of*the finlil rule on fire

• prote.ction, The Commission in~e,nds that

licensee~ af:::cted by this rule s:hould use }>est.efforts to complete !ill,-equir:ed meas~s as soon as possible*de,spite

.tbe susp;~,nsion of the deadlines :for Ws.

brief.pei:iod.

Pµrsuant.to the Atomic Energy Act *of

. 1954,as ta~ended. the Energy *

.~eorganJzation Act of 1974, as :a.µiende.d, and Sections 552 and 553 of Title 5 of the Uriited !)tales Code. notice is hereby -

f~ven that *the following amendmenMo Title 10,*Chapter I, Code of.Fed~~)

. Regµlatii)llS. Part 50, is publisl)ed as;a

.doClµilent subject *lo codification.

!P,ART SO-DOMESTIC *LICENSING OF PRODUCTION ANO UTILIZATION

,f~Cl.UTIES

1. A new Section 50.48 is added to*

• read as fol)ow.s:

1*50.48 Fire prot~ction schedules.

'. To µie extent that any facility's.

license conditions or technical

• specifications incorpprate compliance

• dates for modifications neceis*an* to pro,;de fke prote.ction featlJJ'es *

,prqposed by a lic~nsee and accepted by

,Lie ~"RC staff as satisfying the pro\\isipns of Appendix A to Branch

'Technical Position BTP/APCSB 9;5-1 and *reflected in NRC staff Fire

.Pf9tection Safety.Evaluation Reports-issued prior*to the effective date of this 1r:µle,,those dates ~re hereby suspended pen~ further a~tion by the cComn:iJssioo.

<(Sec.16lb. Pub. Law 83-703. 68 Stal fU8:;Sec.

~;Pub. Law 93-43s. ss Stat. 1~42.1*2 u.s:c.

ZZolfb). 5841))

• Dated *~t Washington. D.C. this 27th day.0f.

Pctqber.1980 For the Nuclear.Regulatory Commission..

'Samuel C. Chilk, Se~re:cry ofthe CoriJmission.

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