ML19318C161
| ML19318C161 | |
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| Site: | Haddam Neck File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png |
| Issue date: | 06/10/1980 |
| From: | Crutchfield D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Counsil W CONNECTICUT YANKEE ATOMIC POWER CO. |
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June 10,1980 Docket No. 50-213 Mr. W. G. Counsil Nuclear Engineering and Operations Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company Post Office Box 270 Hartford, Connecticut 06101
Dear Mr. Counsil:
RE: HADDAM NECK PLANT I am enclosing for your information a final rule published in the Federal Register on May 9,1980 (45 FR 30614), which becomes effective July 22, 1980. This regulation amends Section 50.71 of 10 CFR Part 50 by adding a new paragraph (e), which requires periodic updating of Final Safety Analysis Reports.
Note that the licensees participating in the Systematic Evaluation Program are not required to comply with the provisions of this rule until you are notified by a letter from us that the Systematic Evaluation Program has been completed for your facility (ies).
Sincerely, C/
$V Dennis M. Crutchfield, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #5 Division of Licensing
Enclosure:
As stated THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS P00R QUALITY PAGES 8007010lh e
Mr. W. G. Counsil June 10,1980 cc Day, Berry & Howard U. S. Environmental Protection
. Counselors at Law Agency One Constitution Plaza Region I Office Hartford, Connecticut 06103 ATTN:
EIS COORDINATOR JFK Federal. Building Superintendent Boston, Massachusetts 02203 Haddam Neck Plant RFD #1 Post Office Box 127E East Hampton, Connecticut 06424
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Mr. James R. Himmelwright Northeast Utilities Service Company P. O. Box 270 Hartford, Connecticut 06101 Russell Library 119 Broad Street
- Middletown, Connecticut 06457 Board of Selectmen Town Hall Haddam, Connecticut 06103 Connecticut Energy' Agency ATTN:
Assistant Director Research and Policy Development Department of Planning and Energy Policy 20 Grand Street Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Director, Technical Assessment Division Office of Radiation Programs-( AW-459)
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Crystal Mall 12 Arlington, Virginia 20460 i
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- Fed:r:1 Register / Vol. 45. N2. 92 / Friday. May 9.1980 / Ruhs and R:gulati:ns sWPPLEMsNTARY INFORMATI0ec On which the NRC staffis making a November 8.1976, the Nuclear systematic safety evaluation of eleven Reguletary Commission published in the (11) nuclear power facilities licensed for Federal Register (41 FR 49123) a notice operation before 1972. The purpose of of proposed rule making inviting written this systematic evaluation program suggestions or comments on the (SEP)is to determine and document the proposed rule by December 23.1978. A degree to which the eleven (11) facilities notice of correction and extension of meet current licensing requirements for comment period was published in the new plants. Of the five (5) plants Federal Register on December 27.1976 licensed prior to January 1,1963 that are (41 FR 56204)in which the comment stilllicensed to operate. three (3) are period was extended to January 28,1977. Included in the SEp.ne remaining two ne notices concerned proposed (2) plants ' which presently are shut amendments to to CFR Part 50.
down, will be subject to the provisions.
"Ucensing of Production and Utilization of the rule as long as theirlicenses Facilities." to require each applicant for, authorize operation.
or holder of. a power reactor operating ne licemus participan$n b SEP license which would be or was issued probably will be requested to supply a after January 1.1963 to submit considerable amount ofinformation periodically to the Commission revised. during the program. Requiring them, in pages for its Final Safety Analysis addition, to update their FSARs could Report (FSAR).These revised pages prove to be excessively burdensome and would indicate changes made in the could result in duplication of reports.
facility or the procedures for its
%e information generated during the operation ar.d any analyses affected by pmgram and the manner in which H is NUCLEAR REGUI.ATORY these changes. Thirty.one persons collated will usult it. a completed FSAR COMMISSION submitted comments regarding the at the conclusion of the program.For pro sed amendments. He commenters bse masons Heensen oMacWUn 10 CFR Part 50 be roughly divided into three cou e
' PPo Period c Updating of Final Safety gup w s
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,n eleven se to sis Reports the rule, and three neutral. Copies of the be mquired to comply with the Acenen U.S. Nuclear Regulatory comments received may be examined in provisions of thl's rule until they are Co.nmission.
the Commission's Public Locument notified by letter by the NRC's Director acmc Finalmle.
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- n. D egula o at, or eir p c at SUMMaAn ne Nuclear Regulatory De substantive areas of comment can facility, the program has been Commission is amending its regulations be categorized generally as follows:
completed.Because of the nsiderations just mentioned, that part 1
to require each personlicensed to
- 1. Clarification of Rule of the proposed rule which limited the operate a nuclear power reactor to
- 2. Applicability of Rule applicability to facilities licensed after submit periodicauy to the Commission
- 3. Content of PSAR revised pages for its Final Safety
- 4. Scope of Rule January 1.1963 has been deleted and the Analysis Report (FSAR).Wese revised 5.Tta ing of Sut>mittals rule will apply to all power reactors pages will indicate changes which have e.Reistion of amie to Other Rules and, licensed to operata.
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HeMAR required to be updated by been made to reflect information and the mle is the originaMAR submined analyses submitted to the Commission a Coet/
t or prepared as a result of Commission as part of the application for the requirement.ne amendment is being la response to the comments received, operating license. it would not include made to provide an updated aference the Commission is modifying the mle to the subsequent supplements and document to be used in recurnng safety (a) extend its applicability to all power amendments to the FSAR or the license analyses performed by the licensee, the reactors licensed to operate. (b) exclude that may have been submitted elbr in Commission.and otherlaterested
- pplicants for operating licenses. (c) response to NRC questions or en the parties.
clarify the wording of the rule. (d) applicant's or licensee's own initiative arracnvr paTE: July 22.1980.
nduce its impact on power mactor followmg the original submittal.nese beensees by relaxing some of the tim *. various supplements and amendments
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q i ments, and (e) requi the initial must be appropriately incorporated into,.
Co on as su r i this rule to the revisi n to be a complete FSAR.
the original FSAR to create a single, Coc:ptroller General for such review as may When the proposed rule was complete and integral document.The be appropriate under the Federal Reports Act. as amended. 44 U.S.C. 3512.The date on published for public comment. Its initial revision to be filed should contain which the reporting requirement of this rule applicability was limited to those plants those pages from the originally becomes eHective unless advised to the licensed after January 1.1963 in order to submitted FSAR that are still applicable contrary accordingly reflectsinclusionof the exempt five (5) older facilities. The plus new replacement pages that
- [ "k"D$'[j'j;*llow8 for Commission believed that it wculd not appropriately incorporate the etTeets of be feasible for these licensees to supplements. amendments and other Fon runTHan :NPORMATION CONTACn implement the rule because there is no changes that have been made. nis will l
Mr. Morton R. Fleishman. Office of integrated document comparable to an result in a single, complete document l
Standards Development. U.S. Nuclear FSAR for their facilities.Since Regulatory Commission. Washington, publication of the proposed rule. the im two r.cititi...,e indi.n point tJni: No. :
D.C. 20555, telephone 301. 443-5921.
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Federal Register / Vol. 45. No. 92 / Friday May 9.1980 / Rales and Requ!ntions 3061S bring filed. that can then sene as the be at least the same as originally oflicense amendments and technical beseline for future changes.
provided. Minor differences between specification changes are independent Commenters have asked about the actual and projected population figures of the FSAR updating process and once
. proper format to be used when rnaking or other such changes in the site approved would not.be subject *o the FSAR submittal. Since the format of environment need not be reported further consideration simply because the the FSAR is not covered by regulation, unless the conclusions of safety HAR is updated.This. of coune, does the rule does not specify a particular analyses relative to public health and not preclude the reevaluation of formst.ne NRC staff has provided safety are affected and the licensee has previous positions based on new guidance for the preparation of FSARs prepared new analyses as a result of information or new considerations.ne
" Standard Format and Content of Safety. NRC requiremen.s.
material submitted may be reviewed by in Regulatory Guide 1.70. Revision 2.
Commenters have questioned the the NRC staff but will not be formal!y Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power relation of the proposed FSAR updating approved.The new pages will be Plants." However, many FSARs were requirements to other reporting accepted as representing the licensee's d:veloped prior to any specific guidance requirements such as the Annual position at the time of submittal and will en format.De format to be used for the Operating Report and i 50.59(b) be utilized in any subsequent reviews or FSAR revisions is the option of the reporting. It is not the Commission's NRC staff activities concerning that licensee. but the Commission expects intention to require submittal of facility.
that the format will probably be the duplicative reports.The Commission is After consideration of the coranents s:me as the format of the originalFSAR. eliminating the requirement for the that were received and other factors.the No analyses other than those already Annual Operating Report.nis win Commission has adopted the prepared or submitted pursuant to NRC reduce significantly the reporting burden amendment to Part 50 as set forth requirements (either originaUy with the oflicensees, nere has been no below.
- application, or as part of the operating requirement that i 50.59(b) reporting be Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of.
license review process. or as required by part of thelicensee's AnnualOperating 1954, as amended, the Energy I 50.59 or other NRC requirement or to Report.His information generally has.
Reorganization Act of1974, as amended, support license amendments) are been included in the Annual Operating and section 553 cf title 5 of the United r: quired to be performed by the licensee Report as a convenience, but it could States Code, the following amendment because of this rule.However. analyses have been submitted separately and the to to CFR Part sois published as a existing in the FSAR which an known licensee stiU would have complied with document subject to codification.
to be inaccurate or in error as a result of I!O.59(b) which merely requires PART 50-DOMESTIC 1.lCENSING OF new analyses performed by the Ticensee reporting " annually or at such shorter PRODlJCTION AND UTILIZATION pursuant to NRC requirements, would intervals as may be specified in the FACILITIES have to be revised. Specialized studies license." Furthermore. the report provided in the FSAR. such as on "9"i"d und I (b)18 u1 "* bri*f Section 50J1is amended by adding a Y
4 volcanic hazards or quality assurance, descript2on of such changes, tests, and new paragraph (e) to read as foHows:
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NRC requirements.New analyses (Le I 50.59(b) reporting may not be detailed
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analyses not previously included in sufficiently to be considered adequate to fulfill the FSAR updating requirement.
(e) Each person licensed to operate a n erat n f unn ds ty ne degree of detail required for nuclear power reactor pursuant to the questions ' technical specification updating the PSAR will be generally provtssons of I sn.21 or i 50.22 shall changes. cr other licensing questions.
greater than a "brief description and a update periodically, as provided in may be incorporated as appendices or
" summary of Q safety evah2ation.
paragraphs (e)(31 and (e)(4) of this ctherwise appropriately inserted within Howeyer, there is nothing that precludes section, the final safety analysis report th FSAR.
submitting the i 50.59(b) report along (FSAR) originaDy submitted as part of Program type material that is with the FSAR update submittal and the application far the operating license.
- referenced by the FSAR. such as the thus satisfy 150.59(b) along with to assure that theinformation included Quality Assurance Program or the i 50J1(e). Parts of the FSAR submittal in the FSAR en=*= tris the latest material Emergency Plan. should be referenced may be refennced by the i 50.59(b) developed. %is submittal shall contain accurately. If such materialhas been all the changes necessary to reflect revised or amended. the latest revision Mport.
thould be refereoced. A description of Several commenters have raised legal information and analyses submitted to physical changes to the facility should questions conceming the proposed rule the Commission by the licensee or be included in the update after the including questions relative to the prepared by the licensee pursuant to changes have been approved for use and spurpose of the rule, the implication Commission requirement since the concerning re-reviews u atatus of submission of the original FSAR or, as cre operable. The level of detail to be maintained in the updated F3AR should co=pleted hearings, and,,:for license appropriate, the last updated FSkt. The approvals. The rule is only a reporting updated FSAR ahall be rev. sed to
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require =ent to insure that an updated include the effects of: all changes made j
int = apenmeni han be deemed to involve an FSAR will be available. Submittal of in the facility or procedures as i
unmwed sare y question (i) tr the probability or updated FSAR pages does not constitute described in the FSAR: all safety
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a li:ensing action but is only intended to evaluations performed by the licensee l
provide information. It is not intended
. either in suppcrt of requested license s$y e a Ie#' YuSety d in i ys s report may be mcreased;or(11]If a possibility for an for the purpose of re-reviewing plants.
Amendments orin support of amdent or mal'unenon at a d mni type than any Matters which have been considered conclusions that changes did not involve evaluated previces!y a the safety analysis report previously during hearings will not be an unreviewed safety question: and all 4,'r'IdItse baIeY[IE reconsidered as a result of the FSAR analyses of new safety issues performed ca o.
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submittals. Rus, for example, approvals by or on behalf of the licensee at b red.oed.-
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30616 Federal Re:;ister / Vol. 45. No. 92 / Friday. May 9.1980 / Rules and Regulations Commission request.The updated (Sec.161b, Pub. Law awo3. es Stat. sea, Sec.
Information shall be appropriately 201. Pub. La w 93-438, as Stat.1242 (42 U.SC located within the FSAR.
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(1) Revisions containing updated Dated at Washinston. Dr. this tot day of information shall be submitted on a May tem replacement.page basis and shall be For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
accompanied by a list which identifies samm!J. Chilk.
the current pages of the FSAR following Secretmyofthe Commission.
page replacement. One signed original ya on. m.mm en.d s+an mes -i and 12 additional copies of the required ama.me caos rses es-as information shall be filed with the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Wa shington. D.C. 20555.
(2) The submittal shallinclude (i) a certification by a duly authorized officer cf the licensee that either the information accurately presents changes made since the previous submittal, necessary to reflect information and rnalyses submitted to the Commission
. or prepared pursuan to Commission
' requirement. or that no such changes were made: and (ii) an identification of s
changes made under the provisions of i 50.59 but not previously submitted to the Commission.
(3][i) A revision of the original FSAR containing those original pages that are still applicable plus new replacement pages shall be filed within 24 months of cither July 22.1980, or the date of issuance of the operating license, whichever is later, and shall bring the FSAR up to date as of a maximum of 6 months prior to the date cf filing the revision.
e (ii) Not less than 15 days before i 50.71(e) becomes effective 11 e Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation shall notify by letter the licensees of those nuclear power plants initially subject to the NRC's systematic evaluation program that they need not comply with the provisions of this section while the program ~is being cinducted at their plant The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation will notify by letter the licensee of each 1
nuclear power plant being evaluated i
when the systematic evaluation program
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his been completed. Within 24 months after receipt of this notification. the licensee shall file a complete FSAR which is up to date as of a maximum of 6 months prior to the date of filing the revision.
(4) Subsequent revisions shall be filed no less frequently than annually and shall reflect all changes up to a maximurs of 6 months prior to the date cf filing' h replacement page shall (5) Eac include both a change indicator for the area changed. e.g a bold line vertically drawn in the mart n adjacent to the i
portion actually changed. and a page change identification (date of change or change number or both).
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