ML18066A300

Provides Both Responses to NRC Questions & Any Associated Revs to Pages of 980127 Submittal.Rai Answers,Markups of Previously Submitted Pages & Revised ITS Submittal Pages, Encl

ML18066A300
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Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	09/14/1998
From:	Haskell N CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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ML18066A301	List: ML18066A300 ML18066A302
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RTR-NUREG-1432 NUDOCS 9809300329
Download: ML18066A300 (3)

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..1 CMS Energy Comoany Pa/Jsaaes Nuc1ear P!anr Tei. 676 764 2276 27780 Blue Star Memona/ Highway Fax: 616 764 2490 Coven. Ml 49043

1. • llM* L. H**ll*ll Director, Licensing September 14, 1998 DRMA U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE. DPR PALISADES PLANT - CONVERSION TO IMPROVED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS-RESPONSE TO JULY 27, 1998 REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION On January 26, 1998 Consumers Energy Company submitted a Technical Specifications change request (TSCR) to revise the Palisades Technical Specifications to closely emulate the Standard Technical Specifications for Combustion Engineering Plants, NUREG 1432. On July 27 1998, the NRC requested additional information regarding Section 3.8, Electrical Power Systems, and Section 5.0, Administrative Controls, of that TSCR. This letter provides both responses to the NRC questions and any associated revisions to the pages of our January 27, 1998 submittal.

The following attachments to this letter have been provided:

Attachment 1 contains: a) answers to the Request for Additional Information MlcJJ (RAI) and, b) markups of the previously submitted pages to show where revisions // v I have been made.

Attachment 2 contains revised ITS submittal pages marked to show the proposed editorial revisions. Since these revisions are purely editorial corrections, no individual justification has been provided.

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Attachments 3 and 4 contain revised pages for Sections 3.8, and 5.0 respectively, along with lists of revised pages and instructions for page replacement. These revised pages reflect changes resulting from our response to the RAI questions and other changes identified below. Each revised page is dated for identifi~ation.

In addition to the revisions made in response to the RAI, the following additional revisions were made to the submitted pages:

Several typographical errors were corrected, mostly in the bases for Section 3.8.

These revisions are shown on marked up pages in Attachment 2, and are included in the revised pages presented in Attachment 3. Most of these corrections were identified during the final review of our Electrical TSCR prior to its issue as Amendment 180. That issuance occurred after submittal of our ITS conversion request.

The proposed Primary Coolant Pump Flywheel Surveillance Program, Specification 5.5.6, has been revised to reflect the requirements issued by Amendment 182. When that amendment was issued, the inclusion of proposed statement that "The provisions of Surveillance Requirement 4.0.2 are applicable to the Flywheel Testing Program." was denied. The equivalent Improved Technical Specification statement, 5.5.6b, has been retained, but in a revised form to clarify that the provisions of SR 3.0.2 are not applicable to flywheel testing. This revision is included in the revised pages presented in Attachment 4.

Specification 5.5. 7 has been revised to include the change made to ISTS by TSTF-279. That TSTF was approved by the NRC after Section 5.0 of our January 26, 1998 conversion request was prepared. This revision and the accompanying DOC and JFD are included in the revised pages presented in Attachment 4.

The changes being submitted herein do not alter the conclusions of the No Significant Hazards Considerations contained in our January 29, 1998 submittal.

SUMMARY

OF COMMITMENTS This submittal contains no new commitments and no revisions to existing commitments.

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athan L. Haskell

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.CC irector, Licensing Administrator, Region Ill, USN RC Project Manager, NRR, USNRC NRC Resident Inspector- Patisades Attachments

CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY RESPONSE TO JULY 27, 1998 RAI To the best of my knowledge, the content of this response to the NRC Request for Additional Information of July 27, ~ 998 concerning Sections 3.8 and 5.0 of our January 26, 1998 License Amendment request for conversion to Improved Technical Specifications, is truthful and complete.

1 athan L. Haskell

/Director, Licensing Sworn and subscribed to before me this /.J/ d day of ~~?VJ 1998.

Alora M. Davis, Notary Public Berrien County, Michigan (Acting in Van Buren County, Michigan)

My commission expires August 26, 1999