ML19211A671

Plans to Perform Inaccessible Areas Insp Required by IE Bulletins 79-02 & 79-14 During 791125 Refueling Outage

ML19211A671
Person / Time
Site:	Quad Cities
Issue date:	11/09/1979
From:	Peoples D COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO.
To:	James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
References
IEB-79-02, IEB-79-14, IEB-79-2, NUDOCS 7912200404
Download: ML19211A671 (2)

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< Commonwealth Edison One Arst National Plaza. Chicago. lilinois

, . Address Reply to: Post Office Box 767 Chicago. litinois 60690 Nove iber 9,1979 Mr. James G. Keppler, Director Directorate of Inspection and Enforcement - Reglon IiI U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Subj ect : quad-Cities Station Unit 2 Schedule for Completion of IE Bulletins 79-02 and 79-14 NRC Docket No. 50-265 Ref erence (a) . D. L. Peoples letter to J. G. Keppler dated November 2, 1979

Dear Mr. Keppler:

Ref erence (a) provided informa tion indicating that the schedule for inaccessible hanger and anchor bolt inspections on Quad-Ci ties Uni t 2 was being changed to November 25, 1979 due to a delay in starting the re-fueling outage.

The letter incorrectly indicated that at that time, no dis-crepancies had been detected in the accessible areas inspections which would have caused any safety-related systems to be considered inoperable.

Due to an oversight in transmitting reports of discrepancy evaluations, we were unaware at the time Reference (a) was transmi tted that two dis-crepancies on the common Standby Gas Treatment System had caused that system to be declared incperable. In both cases, repairs were made in approximately sixteen hours and the system was again declared operable.

Although significant discrepancies have been reporte.d, our con-clusion in Reference (a) that delay of the inaccessible areas inspections on Quad-Cities Unit 2 will have no adverse effect on the health and safety of the public remains unchanged. The number of significant discrepancies is small when compared to the total number of supports involved (approxi-mately 1000). Also, even though support or system safety factors less than 2 may have existed, the safety factors always remained greater than 1 and satisfactory system functioning is expected to have been maintained.

Based on the above, we intend to perform the inaccessible areas inspections required by IE Bulletins 79-02 and 79-14 during the upcoming Quad-Cities Unit 2 refueling outage scheduled for November 25, 1979 1634 059 MOV141979 7912200 L/C)y

Commonwealth Edison NRC Docket No. 50-265 Mr. James G. Keppler: -

2- November 9, 1979 Please address any questions you may have concerning this matter to this office.

Very truly yours, h5W

[L D. L. Peoples Director of Nuclear Licensing RFJ:mae cc: Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement Director, Division of Operating Reactors ow 1634 060