ML18046A704

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Forwards IE Insp Rept 50-255/81-06,on 810401-0502 & Notice of Violation
ML18046A704
Person / Time
Site: Palisades 
Issue date: 05/20/1981
From: Heishman R
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
To: Dewitt R
CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
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Download: ML18046A704 (2)


See also: IR 05000255/1981006

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION Ill

Docket No. 50-255

Consumers Power Company

ATTN:

Mr. R. B. DeWitt

Vice President

Nuclear Operations

212 West Michigan Avenue

Jackson, MI

49201

Gentlemen:

799 ROOSEVELT ROAD

GLEN ELLYN, ILLINOIS 60137

May 20, 1981

This refers to the routine safety inspection conducted by Messrs.

B. 1. Jorgensen and J. K. Keller of this office on April 1 - May 1, 1981,

of activities at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant author~zed by NRC

Provisional Operation License No. DPR-20 and to the discussion of our

findings with Mr. R. W. Montross and others of your staff at the conclusion

of the inspection.

The enclosed copy of our inspection report identifies areas examined during

the inspection.

Within these areas, the inspection consisted of a selective

examination of procedures and representative records, *observations, and

interviews with personnel.

During this inspection, certain of your activities appeared to be in non-

compliance with NRC requirements, as specified in enclosed Appendix A.

A

written response, submitted under oath or affirmation, is required.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the Commission's regulations, a copy

of this letter, the enclosures, and your response to this letter will be

placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

If the enclosures contain any

information that you or your contractors believe to be exempt from dis-

closure under 10 CFR 9.5(a)(4), it is necessary that you (a) notify this

office by telephone within seven (7) days from the date of this letter of

your intention to file a request for withholding; and (b) submit within

twenty-five (25) days from the date of this letter a written application

to this office to withhold such information.

Section 2.790(b)(l) requires

that any such application must be accompanied by an affidavit executed by

the owner of the information which identifies the document or part sought

to be withheld, and which contains a full statement of the reasons on the

basis which it is claimed that the information should be withheld from

public disclosure.

This section further requires the statement to address

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May 20, 1981

with specificity the considerations listed in 10 CFR 2.790(b)(4).

The

information sought to be withheld shall be incorporated as far as possible

into a separate part of the affidavit. If we do not hear from you in this

regard within the specified periods noted above, a copy of this letter, the

enclosures, and your response to this letter will be placed in the Public

Document Room.

We will gladly discuss any questions you have concerning this inspection.

Enclosures:

1.

Appendix A, Notice

of Violation

2.

IE Inspection Report

No. 50-255/81-06

cc w/encls:

D. P. Hoffman, Nuclear

_ Licensing Administrator

R. W. Montross, Manager

Central Files

Reproduction Unit NRC 20b

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Resident Inspector, RIII

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Ronald Callen, Michigan

Public Service Commission

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R. F. Heishman, Acting Director

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