ML18096A608

Advises That NRC Planning to Conduct fact-finding Visits to Number of Licensees to Determine How Licensees Responding to Requirement in 10CFR50.71 for Annual Updates to Fsar. Requests Meeting on 920406 to Discuss Subj

ML18096A608
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Site:	Salem
Issue date:	03/31/1992
From:	Stone J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Miltenberger S Public Service Electric & Gas Co, of New Jersey
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TAC-M81263 NUDOCS 9204020111
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 Docket Nos. 50-272 and 50-311 Mr. Steven E. Miltenberger March 31, 1992 Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Public Service Electric and Gas Company Post Office Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey 08038

SUBJECT:

FINAL SAFETY ANALYSIS REPORT UPDATE:

FACT-FINDING VISITL SALEM NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 (TAC NO. M81263)

In November 1991, the Commission directed the staff to determine how licensees are responding to the requirement in 10 CFR 50.71 for annual updates to the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), to ensure that the information included in the FSAR contains the latest material developed, and to determine whether and how the annual updates to the FSAR fall short of describing the li~ensees' current licensing basis (CLB).

The staff is utilizing the definition of CLB from 10 CFR 54.3. Although set out in Part 54, that definition represents the staff's understanding of the scope of the CLB and should be applicable to all reactor licensees.

The staff will accomplish the Commission's directive by conducting fact-finding visits to a number of licensees that represent a good cross section of the industry.

Our selection of plants includes those licensed from 1970 through 1987, all reactor vendor types, plants from all regions, and plants with known computerized systems for tracking commitments and those without such systems.

We will visit each site and discuss your plant-specific programs for updating the FSAR by following the resolution of selected issues through the update process.

We would also like to take advantage of our visit to your facility to observe whatever systems you employ to track commitments, search data for CLB type information, or record your FSAR for easy update, search, and/or retrieval.

We have chosen a number of issues which came about as the result of new regulations or staff interpretations of regulations so that the licensing basis for plants was expanded or further defined.

Some or all of the issues also required facility modifications or new systems which may be described in the FSAR.

For our fact-finding visit, we will not focus on the technical adequacy of the issue. Our objective is to understand your methodology and processes for updating the FSAR so that we will be able to advise the Commission on industry practices.

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Mr: Steven March 31. 1992 For Salem, we have chosen the following issues for discussion:

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GSI 67.3.3, Improved Accident Monitoring, Regulatory Guide 1.97,

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GSI 75, Salem, ATWS Item 4.3, Automatic Actuation of Shunt Trip Attachment, Generic Letter (GL) 83-28,

3)

TMI Item I.D.2, Safety Paremeter Display System, GL 89-06,

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TMI Item II.F.2, Instrumentation for Detection of Inadequate Core Cooling, and

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USI A-9, ATWS, Rule 50.62 We will bring the initiating documents such as Generic letters with us, and it is requested that you have available for discussion your responses to the identified concerns, our acceptance letters and inspection reports that formed the CLB for the issues, and any other docketed correspondence such as your response to an enforcement action or licensee event report that, through new commitments, modified the CLB for that issue.

We can then follow the process from initiation through implementation and finally the latest FSAR update.

In addition, it is requested that you identify one issue from your last FSAR update that included new licensing basis and/or plant modifications and be able to show how your latest update was accomplished. This should reveal how or if your update process has evolved over time.

The staff has committed to respond to the Commission with a report in the June 1992 time period.

With your help, we believe we can meet this schedule with an accurate representation of the industry practice on FSAR updates and their relation to the CLB.

We would like to meet with your staff that is responsible for your FSAR updates on April 6, 1992.

Please let me know if this schedule is acceptable.

We believe a half day should be appropriate to obtain the information we need on FSAR update; the remaining time can be spent on discussions and demonstration of your systems to track or retrieve the CLB type information.

The Commission in its November 1991 direction to the staff also established a pilot program for voluntary participation by licensees to compile their CLB.

On March 19, 1992, NRC issued Generic Letter 92-03 on this subject, and we will be glad to answer questions on the Generic Letter.

Our visit should not be construed as soliciting participation in the pilot program.

The objective of our request is to determine the facts about FSAR update and to obtain information on your current licensing basis tracking and documentation systems. There is no request for information and no new information is to be developed for our discussions.

The information that we have requested be made available for the discussion should be readily accessible from your files. Therefore, no OMB clearance is deemed warranted.

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Mr.-Steven March 31, 1992 If you have questions about this or any other matter 9n our request, please let us know.

I am available to answer questions or you may address generic questions to Dave Wigginton at (301) 504-1301.

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Mr: Steven March 31, 1992 If you have questions about this or any other matter on our request, please let us know.

I am available to answer questions or you may address generic questions to Dave Wigginton at (301) 504-1301.

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Mark J. Wetterhahn, Esquire Winston & Strawn 1400 L Street NW Washington, DC 20005-3502 Richard Fryling, Jr., Esquire Law Department - Tower SE 80 Park Place Newark, NJ 07101 Mr. Calvin A. Vondra General Manager - Salem Operations Salem Generating Station P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. S. LaBruna Vice President - Nuclear Operations Nuclear Department P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey 08038 Mr. Thomas P. Johnson, Senior Resident Inspector Salem Generating Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Drawer I Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Dr. Jill Lipoti, Asst. Director Radiation Protection Programs NJ Department of Environmental Protection CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625-0415 Maryland People's Counsel American Building, 9th Floor 231 East Baltimore Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Maryland Mr. J. T. Robb, Director Joint Owners Affairs Philadelphia Electric Company 955 Chesterbrook Blvd., SlA-13 Wayne, PA 19087 Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2 Richard Hartung Electric Service Evaluation Board of Regulatory Commissioners 2 Gateway Center, Tenth Floor Newark, NJ 07102 Regional Administrator, Region I U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406 Lower Alloways Creek Township c/o Mary 0. Henderson, Clerk Municipal Building, P.O. Box 157 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Frank X. Thomson, Jr., Manager Licensing and Regulation Nuclear Department P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. David Wersan Assistant Consumer Advocate Office of Consumer Advocate 1425 Strawberry Square Harrisburg, PA 17120 Mr. J. A. Isabella MGR. - Generation Department Atlantic Electric Company P.O. Box 1500 1199 Black Horse Pike Pleasantville, NJ 08232 Carl D. Schaefer External Operations - Nuclear Delmarva Power & Light Company P.O. Box 231 Wilmington, DE 19899 Public Service Commission of Engineering Division ATTN:

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