ML19312C929
| ML19312C929 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 03/27/1978 |
| From: | Reid R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML19312C923 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8001140588 | |
| Download: ML19312C929 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKETS nos 50-770 AND 50-?R7
_ DUKE POWER COMPANY NOTICE OF GRANTING OF RELIEF FROM ASME SECTION XI INSERVICE INSPECTION (TESTlHG) REQUIREMENTS The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted relief from certain requirements of the ASME Code, Sectiob XI, " Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components" to Duke Power 1
Company. The relicf relates to the inservice inspection (testing)
I program for the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units Nos. 2 and 3, located in Oconee County, South Carolina. The ASME Code requirements are incorporated by reference into the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Part 50.
The relief is effective as of its dat'e of issuance.
The relief is granted, on an interim basis, pending completion of our detailed review, from those inservice inspection and testing require-ments of the ASME Code that the licensee has determined to be impractical within the limitations of design, geometry, and materials of construction of components, because compliance would result in hardships and unusual difficulties without a compensating increase in the level of quality or safety.
The request for relief complies with the standards and requirements of.the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's 0
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requireo by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 C i
Prior public Chapter I, which are set forth in the letter granting relief.
notice of this action was not required since the granting of this relief f rom AS!!E Code requirements does not involve a significant hazards' consideration.
The Commission has determined that the granting of this relief t
will not result in any significant environmental impact and that pursuant h
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to 10 CFR 551.5(d)(4) an environmental impact statement or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal aeed not be prepared in i
connection with this action.
I For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 21, 1977 and thrch 6,1978, requests for relief dated July 8, September 27, 1978.
and (2) the Commission's letter to the licensee dated Itarch These items are available for public inspectidn at the Conmission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, it.W., Washington, D.C. and at the Oconee County Library, 201 South Spring, Walhalla, South Carolina
'A copy of item (2) may be obtained upon request addressed to 29691.
- 20555, the U. S. fluclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
Attention: Director, Division of Operating Reactors.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 27th day of March 1978.
FOR THE ttUCLEAR REGULATORY C0fNISS10ft 4MM.b M Robert W. Reid, Chief Operating Reactors Branch f4 Division of Operating Reactors y
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