ML19319E309
| ML19319E309 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 07/05/1979 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| To: | OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8004040616 | |
| Download: ML19319E309 (1) | |
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%, o'.w. *' *,o July 5,1979 CPFICE OF THE SECRETARY Director Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service Washington, D. C.
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Dear Sir:
Enclosed for publication in the Federal Register are an original and two certified copies of a document entitled:
SACRAMEtiTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT Docket No. 50-312 i
Notice of Authorization to Resume Operation l
Please publish on Tuesday, July 10, 1979.
This material is to be charged to requisition number E-125.
Si ncerely,
Samuel J. Chilk Secrecary of the Commission
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UN.:.0 STATES NU LEAR REGULATORY CC2.ISSION
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NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION TO RESUME OPERATION The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an Order on May 7,' 1979 (44 F.R. 27779, May 11,1979), to Sacramento Municipal Utility District (the licensee), holder of Facility Operating License No. DPR-54, fo'r the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station (Rancho Seco), confinning that the' licensee accomplish a series of actions, both immediate and long tenn, to increase the capability and reliability of Rancho Seco to respond to various.
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transient events.- In addition, the Order confimed that the licensee would
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shut down Rancho Seco on April 28, 1979, and maintain the plant in a shutdown condition until the following actions had been satisfactorily completed:
(a) Upgrade the timeliness and reliability of delivery frcrn the t
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Auxililary Feedwater System by carrying out actions as identified
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in Enclosure l'of the licensee's letter of April 27, 1979.
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-(b) Develop and implement. operating procedures for ' initiating and controlling auxiliary feedwater independent of Integrated Control System control.
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Implement a hard-wired control-grade reactor trip that would be actuated on loss of main feedwater and/or turbine trip.
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(d) Complete analyses for potential small breaks and develop and implement' i
operating instructions _to define -operator. action.
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(1). Provide for one Senior Licensed Operator assigned to the control room who has had Three Mile Island Unit No. 2 (TMI-2) training on the B&W simulator.
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By submittal of May 14, 1979, seven letters dated May 22, 24, 29, 30(3) and (June 6,* 1979, the licensee has documented the actions taken in response to the May 7 Order.
Notice is hereby given that the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (the Director) has reviewed this submittal and has concluded that the license'e has satisfactorily completed the actions prescribed in items (a) through (e) of paragraph (1) of Section IV of the Order, that the specified analyses are acceptable and the specified implementing procedures are appropriate.
Accordingly,
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by letter dated June 27, 1979, the Director has authorized the licensee to resume operation of Rancho Seco.
The bases for the Director's conclusions are more fully set forth in a Safety Evaluation dated June '27,1979.
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Copies of (1) the licensee's letters dated May 14, 1979, and seven letters dated May 22,24,29,30(3) and June 6,1979,(2) the Director's letter dated l
June 27,1979 and-(3) the Safety Evaluation dated June ~27,1979, are available l
for inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room at 1717' H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
20555, and are being placed in the Commission's local public
. document room in the Business and Municipal Department, Sacramento City-County Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, California 9581,4. A copy of items (2) and.(3) may be obtained upon ' request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D..C.. 20555, Attention:
Director, Division of Operating Reactors.-
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 46 s
Robert W. Reid, Chief
~0perating Reactors ' Branch (4
- Division of Operating Reacto_rs Dated a-Ea:hesda, Mary 1hnd,
.this 27:h day.of June-1979.
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