ML18057A779
| ML18057A779 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 03/06/1991 |
| From: | Marsh L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Slade G CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML18057A780 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC-79444, NUDOCS 9103140049 | |
| Download: ML18057A779 (3) | |
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'f Docket No. 50-255 Mr. Gerald B. Slade Plant General Manager Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company March 6, 1991 DISTRIBUTION j' DOCKET FI LEV NRC & LOCAL PDRs CCARPENTER TMURLEY/FMIRAGLIA JPARTLOW BHOLIAN OGC 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 CROSS I BBOGER PD31 R/F EJORDAN GHILL(4)
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Dear Mr. Slade:
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SUBJECT:
REQUESTED RELIEF FROM REQUIREMENTS OF SPECIFIC ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL CODE REQUIREMENT - CONTAINMENT AIR COOLER LEAKAGE (TAC NO. 79444)
By letter dated January 16, 1991, as amended February 11, and February 27, 1991, Consumers Power Company requested relief from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,Section XI, Table IWD-2500-1 Examination Category D-B, Item No.
D2.10, and IWA-5250 as clarified by Inquiry Number 89-017, for the 5/8-inch tubing sections of Containment Air Coolers VHX-1, 2, ~and 4.
Based on our review, we have determined that the testing for which this relief has been requested is impractical to perform and that the alternative requirement for monitored leakage not to exceed a total of 4 gpm is authorized by law and will not endanger life or property or the common defense and security and is otherwise in the public interest.
In making this determination, we have given due consideration to the burden that could result if the zero leakage requirements were imposed on your facility.
The relief is granted effective immediately and shall expire upon the completion of refueling outage No, 9 (or April 30, 1992, whichever occurs first}, pursuant to 10 CFR Part 50.55a(g)(6)(i).
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Mr. Gerald B. Slade Plant General Manager Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043
Dear Mr. Slade:
March 6, 1991
SUBJECT:
REQUESTED RELIEF FROM REQUIREMENTS OF SPECIFIC ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL CODE REQUIREMENT - CONTAINMENT AIR COOLER LEAKAGE (TAC NO. 79444)
By letter dated January 16, 1991, as amended February 11, and February 27, 1991, Consumers Power Company requested relief from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,Section XI, Table IWD-2500-1 Examination Category D-B, Item No..
D2.10, and IWA-5250 as clarified by Inquiry Number 89-017, for the 5/8-inch tubing sections of Containment Air Coolers VHX-1, 2, 3; and 4.
Based on our review, we have determined that the testing for which this relief has been requested is impractical to perform and that the alternative requirement for monitored leakage not to exceed a tota 1. of 4 gpm is authorh.ed by law and will not endanger life or property or the common defense and security and is otherwise in the public interest.
In making this determination, we have given due consideration to the burden that could result if the zero leakage requirements were imposed on your facility.
The relief is granted effective immediately and shall expire upon the completion of refueling outage No. 9 (or April 30, 1992, whichever occurs first), pursu~nt to 10 CFR Part 50.55a(g)(6)(i).
Enclosure:
Safety Evaluation cc w/enclosure:
See next page Sincerely,
/&!Jiz--f L. B. Marsh, Director Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects III/IV/V Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Mr. Gerald B. Slade Consumers Power Company cc:
M. I. Miller, Esquire Sidley & Austin 54th Floor One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 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, Illinois 60137 Jerry Sarno Township Superv1sor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 Mr. David J~ *vandewalle
. Director, Safety and Licensing Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Hwy.
Covert, Michigan 49043 Resident Inspector c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Hwy.
Covert, Michigan 49043 Pal_isades Plant Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Sect ion Off ice Division of Radiol~gical.
Health P.O. Box 30035 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Gerald Charnoff, P.C.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts &
Trowbridge 2300 N. Street, N.W..
Washington, D.C.
20037 Mr. David L. Brannen Vice President Palisades Generating Pla~t c/o Bechtel Power Corporation 15740 Shady Grove Road Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877