ML18068A601

Forwards Description of Recent Changes Made to Palisades Site Emergency Plan,Excluding Minor & Editorial Changes Not Requiring Further Explanation

ML18068A601
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Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	06/08/1999
From:	Haskell N CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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NUDOCS 9906160277
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A CMS Energy Company Palisades Nuclear Plant Tel: 616 164 2276 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Fax: 616 164 3265 Covert, Ml 49043 Nalbaa L. Haslcell Director. Licensing June 8, 1999 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE DPR PALISADES PLANT SITE EMERGENCY PLAN CHANGES Attached is a description of recent changes made to the Palisades Site Emergency Plan, excluding minor and editorial changes not requiring further explanation.

The changes do not decrease the effectiveness ofthe Palisades Site Emergency Plan and are in compliance with 10 CFR 50.54(q). The Palisades Site Emergency Plan, as changed, continues to meet the standards of 10 CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements of Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50.

SUMMARY

OF COMMITMENTS This letter contains no new co~mitments and no revisions to existing commitments.

Administrator, Region Ill, USNRC (2 copies)

Project Manager, NRR, USNRC NRC Resident Inspector -Palisades Attachment *:' *:; ..* ' . j ' ** ;

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ATTACHMENT CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY PALISADES. PLANT DOCKET 50-255 PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT SITE EMERGENCY PLAN CHANGES 1 Page

• PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT SITE EMERGENCY PLAN CHANGES Palisades Site Emergency'Plan. Section 2. Revision 4 This revision removed the reference to the Emergency Operations Facility Implementing Procedures. These procedures contained information needed to activate and operate the Emergency Operating Facilities (EOFs) for Big Rock Point and Palisades. The EOF Procedures are being canceled because under the approved Big Rock Point Defueled Emergency Plan, Big Rock is no longer required to have an EOF.

The information specific to Palisades has been incorporated into the Palisades Emergency Implementing Procedures.

Palisades Site Emergency Plan. Section 4. Revision 25 The principal change in this revision involves the methods of detection of an Unusual Event for the loss of offsite AC power and the loss of emergency onsite AC power. The wording for the method of detection for the loss of offsite AC power is changed to

~orrespond with the wording in Section 3.7 of the Palisades Technical Specifications.

The method of detection. for loss of emergency onsite AC power is now identified as */

both Emergency Diesel Generators inoperable for greater than two hours (formally one hour) AND PCS temperature greater than 210° F (formally 300° F). These parameter changes are being made to agree with Technical Specification Amendment 180 which.

was approved April 29, 1998. * * *

• Palisades Site Emergency Plan, Section 5, Revision 15 Figure 5.2, "Plant Staffing and Augmentation Guidelines", was revised to remove information from notes located below Figure 5.2 which indicated that on-shift staffing levels may be reduced when the reactor is defueled. This reduction had been approved by the NRC on September. 21, 1990 specifically for the replacement of steam generators. The information was not removed from the Site Emergency Plan when the steam generator replacement outage was completed. This was discovered in August 1998 and a Condition Report Corrective Action was initiated to remove the information_

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Palisades Site Emergency Plan. Section 8, Revision 12 Revision 12 removed the requirement to conduct a monthly communication test with Region Ill Operations Center. This test is required in Section IV.E.9.d of Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50. Consumers Energy requested an exemption from the Appendix. E requirement in a letter dated October 7, 1997. The NRC response to this request, dated April 29, 1998, indicated that an exemption is not needed because the monthly test with the NRC Headquarters Operations Center meets the requirement for testing both Headquarters and Regional Office Operations Centers communications.

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