ML18052A912
| ML18052A912 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 03/23/1987 |
| From: | Wambach T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Berry K CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
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Dock~t No. 50-255 Mr. Kenneth W. Berry Director, 'Nuclear Licensing Consumers Power Company -
1945 We~t* Parnall Road Ja.ckson, *Michigan. 4Q201
Dear Mr;. Berry:
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SUBJECT:
.. PALISADES PLANT SERVICE WATER TEMPERATURE LIMIT
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. This. -~_etter is.in partial* respons.e to your*.De~_einber 2, 1.986 app l i catj on.**
Thi_s*a*p.plication proposes.to (1) delete the.existing Spec:ification 3.. 4.1.c._:
.: *.*which.is a redundant.requirement to Spec"ificat*ions 3.4.4, 3.3.1.e and 3.3.1.g;
- -*".(2.)add a *new Specification 3.4.1.c placing a limit on.the service water inlet temp~rature; and (3) add a new surveillance Specification 4.6:4 requi~ing'.
p~riodic mc;rnitoring of the service water _ihlet temperature. Additional
- information in su~prirt 6f these-~equests was submitted by letters dated
- Decembe.r 1, 1986 and January 28 and February 25, 1987.
ln the February* 25, 1987 submittal, you withdrew that p~rt of the.request associated with your N6vember*24; 1980 submittal~ In addition~ you presented te~t results that.,J
- justified substitu~ing--_1solafii:>>n. of *serViCe wa.ter flow to containment in* lie~*
- of rel"iance on additional flow from the fire water pumps... Therefore, we have deferred adding the fire wat,r ~umps as.a requirement for containment cooling
- until it is* determined whether* they are needed to: support *operation at a higher
.-,,.::service water 1 n let temperature.
Ukewi se*,- we: accept the* withdrawal of your :
December *2, 1986 commitment to operate_ the plant by, incorporating the* diesel fire pump operab'ility proposed change.. request.as:an.adrilinistrative -control.
We.have found the 53°~. temperat~re-limit for*s~rvice ~ater inlet temperature
- a.nd the per'i odi c monitoring of.service water. t~mperature, as. committed to i*n * * *
- '.*' *'your D~cember *2, 1Q86 letter, acceptable.
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~* However, we uncjerstand that you will *be. revising or* wi thdrawi:ng that.
.... app l i'cat ion pri.or to operation" with servi ce"yi~ter.inlet temperature i fl _excess of 53°F.
- The.. refore, we*a*re* not proceeding with.the change to t'he Technical Spetificati"oris untfl.we. receive* that revision. *"Our Safety*E"v~luatio.r1 of the
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acceptabil,i~Y. of the 53~F. temperature.-1.imit.. is enclose.d.
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Mr. Kenneth W. Berry Consumers Power Company cc:
M. I. Miller, Esquire Isham, Lincoln & Beale.
.5lst Floor Three First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60602 Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary Consumers Power Company
- 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201
-Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illtnois 601~7 Jerry Sarno Township Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert; Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building L~nsing, Michigan 48913 Palisades Plant ATTN:
Mr. Joseph F. Firlit Plant General Manager 27780 Blue Star Memorial Hwy.
Covert, Michigan 49043 Resident Inspector c/o U.S. NRC Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Hwy.
Covert, Michigan *49043 Pali sades Pl ant Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health P.O. Box 30035 Lansing, Michigan 48909