ML18058A980
| ML18058A980 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/15/1992 |
| From: | Marsh L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Slade G CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML18058A230 | List: |
| References | |
| GL-89-04, GL-89-4, TAC-M81064, NUDOCS 9207310093 | |
| Download: ML18058A980 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON. D.C. 20566 Docket No. 50-255 Mr. Gerald B. Slade Plant General Manager Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043
Dear Mr. Slade:
July 15, 1992
SUBJECT:
PALISADES PLANT - INSERVICE TESTING (IST) PROGRAM RELIEF REQUESTS, GENERIC LETTER 89-04 (TAC NO. M81064)
By letter dated June 28, 1991, Consumers Power Company submitted a revised Palisades IST program: The submittal superseded all previous revisions, reflected modifications made during the 1990 refueling outage and indicated that compliance with Generic Letter (GL) 89-04 guidance has been achieved.
The NRC staff, with assistance from Brookhaven National Laboratory. has reviewed and evaluated your response to GL 89-04 and the IST program relief requests included in the June 28, 1991, letter.
The results of our review are provided in the enclosed Safety Evaluation (SE) as supplemented by the attached Technical Evaluation Report (TER).
Relief is granted from the testing requirements which we have determined would be impractical to perform, where compliance would result in a hardship without a compensating increase in. safety, or where the proposed alternative testing provides an acceptable level of quality and safety.
The TER, Section 5.0, identifies items you should address and respond to within one year of the date of this letter or by the end of the next refueling outage, whichever is later.
You are required to comply with the IST program defined in Revisions EM-09-02 (valves) and EM-09-04 (pumps) where relief has been granted by GL 89-04 and the enclosed SE.
Inservice Testing program changes such as additional relief requests or changes to approved relief requests should be submitted for staff review, but should not be implemented prior to review and approval by the NRC.
New or revised relief requests meeting the positions in GL 89-04 should be submitted to the NRC staff, but can be implemented provided the guidance in GL 89-04, Section D, is followed.
Inservice-Testing program changes that involve additions or deletjons ~f components from the IST program should be provided to the NRC.
The review performed for the TER did not include verification that all pumps and valves within the scope of 10 CFR 50.55a and Section XI of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and applicable addenda are contained in the IST program.
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July 15, 1992 requirements were identified for the components included in the IST program.
Therefore, you are requested to provide the NRC with a description of the process used in developing the IST program.
The submittal should include, as a minimum, details of the documents used, the method of determining if a component requires inservice testing, the basis for the testing required, the basis for categorizing valves, and the method or process used for maintaining the program current with design modifications or other activities performed under 10 CFR 50.59.
If a description of this process is not already available from existing documentation, the. staff envisions that this request could be answered in two to four pages.
This description should be incorporated into the IST program in appropr_i ate secti~ns. We request this information be submitted ~ithin one year of the date of this letter, or by the end of the next refueling outage, whichever is later.
This action completes our review under TAC *Number M8l064.
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure:
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Mr. G. July 15, 1992 requirements were identified for the components included in the IST program.
Therefore, you are requested to provide the NRC with a description of the process used in developing the IST program.
The submittal should include, as a minimum, details of the documents used, th~
method of determining if a component requires inservice testing, the basis for the testing required, the basis for categorizing valves, and the method or process used for maintaining the program current with design modifications or other activities performed under 10 CFR 50.59.
If a description of this process is not already available from existing documentation, the staff envisions that this request could be answered in two to four pages. This description should be incorporated into the IST program in appropriate sections.
We request this information be submitted within one year of the date of this letter, or by the end of the next refueling outage, whichever is later.
This action completes our review under TAC Number M81064.
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure:
See next page Sincerely,
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- Mr*. Gercil d B. Slade e 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 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 Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 Mr. Patrick M. Donnelly 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 Palisades Plant Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health Depa 1rtment of Public Health 3423 N. Logan Street P. 0. Box 30195 Lansing, Michigan 30195 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 Company c/o Bechtel Power Corporation 15740 Shady Grove Road Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877 Roy W. Jones Manager, Strategic Program Development Westinghouse Electric Corporation 4350 Northern Pike Monroeville, Pennsylvania 15146
' Mr. G. B. Slade
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July 15, 1992 requirements were identified for the components included in the IST program.
Therefore, you are requested to provide the NRC with a description of the process used in developing the IST program.
The submittal should include, as a minimum, details of the documents used, the method of determining if a component requires inservice testing, the basis for the testing required, the basis for categorizing valves, and the method or process used for maintaining the program current with design modifications or other activities performed under 10 CFR 50.59.
If a description of this process is not already available from existing documentation, the staff envisions that this request could be answered in two to four pages.
This description should be incorporated into the IST program in appropriate sections.
We request this information be submitted within one year of the date of this letter, or by the end of the next refueling outage, whichever is 1 ater.
This action completes our-review under TAC Number M81064.
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure:
See next page DISTRIBUTION
-Docket-. File NRC & LPDRs PD31 Rdg File BBoger JZwolinski LMarsh AMasciantonio MShuttleworth OGC PCampbell 7 /D/23 ACRS(lO)
Palisades P/F WShafer RI II OFFICE LA: PD3 l NAME DATE y ~ /92
- SEE PREVIOUS CONCURRENCE Sincerely, John ~tang/for Ledyard B. Marsh, Director Project Directorate 111-1 Division of Reactor Projects -111/IV/V Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations OGC*
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