ML19345C480

Informs of Interim 10CFR50.48 Suspending Completion Dates for Previously Approved Fire Protection Mods.Revised 10CFR50.48 Will Contain Schedules for Completion of All Fire Protection Mods

ML19345C480
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	11/17/1980
From:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Dunn C DUQUESNE LIGHT CO.
References
TAC-11111, NUDOCS 8012050197
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Dear Mr. Dunn:

As you know, a proposed Section 50.48 and Appendix R to 10 CFR 50 has been pending since May 1980. The Commission has recently approved a revised final version of that proposed Section 50.48 and Appendix R to 10 CFR 3 which will be published in the Federal Recister sho-O and will becoce effective 90 days after publication.

This revised n JFR 50.48 will centain schedules for completion of all fire protection modifications.

One set of schedules will be aoplicable to features covered by Appendix R.

A similar set of schedules will be aoplicable to all other fire protection mcdifications that have been ap; roved by the NRC staff in a staff safety evaluation report. This latter set ci schedules will require completion of. modifications not covered by Ap andix R by schedules specified in the revised rule or by the dates aov specified as license conditions, whichever is sooner, unless an exte :sion or exemption is approved by NRC.

Scme of the comoletion dates discussed in the SER for your facility may be associated with modifications for which the NRC staff required additional inf:rmation, such as design details or test results, to be subsequently reviewed and approved by the

• RC staf f prior to implementation. To the extent that there are fire protection modifications such as this for your facility and the required additional inforStion has not yet been approved by the staff as evidenced in a staff safety evaluation report, there is no present implementation requirement; consecuently, completion of such items will be governed by the schedules in the revised rule.

In the interim, pending the effective date of the revised rule, the Commission has approved a new Section 50.42 of 10 CFR 50 suspending completion dates for fire protection modifications previously approved by the NRC staff.

This new section became effective upon publication in the Federal Recister on October 29, 1980 (45 FR 71569). A copy of the new rule is enclosed for your information. This rule will be superseded by the revised rule when.

it becomes effective.

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In the near future, we plan to contact you to identify specifically which fire protection fea:ures associated with your facility are covered by Appendix R and would thus ba subject to one set of schedules, and whicn are previously approved items which are coverea by a different i

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Enclosure:

As stated cc: w/ enclosure:

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tiovember 17, 1980 Duquesne Light Cogany i

f cc: Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Mr. James A. Werling Jay E. Silberg, Esquire Plant Superintendent Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge Beaver Valley Power Station 1800 M Street, N.W.

P. O. Box 4 Washington, D. C.

20036 Shippingport, Pennsylvania 15077 Karin Carter, Esquire Mr. John A. Levin Special Assistant Attorney General Public Utility Comission Bureau of Administrative Enforcement P. O. Box 3265 Sth Floor, Executive House Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Harrbburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Mr. J. D. Sieber, Superintendent Mr. Roger Tapan of Licensing and Compliance

' Stone and Webster Engineering Duquesne Light Co@any Corporation Post Office Box 4 P. O. Box 2325 Shippingport, Pennsylvania 15077 Boston, Massachusetts 02107 Irwin A. Pocowsky, Esquire Mr. F. Noon Office of Consumer Advocate R & D Center 1425 Strawberry Square Westinghouse Electric Corporation Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17123 Building 7-303 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Mr. Charles E. Thomas, Esquire Thomas and Thomas B. F. Jones Memorial _ Library 212 Locust Street 663 Franklin Avenue ~

Box 999 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania 15001 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 Mr. John Carey, Director Resident Inspector Nuclear Operations U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Duquesne Light Company Post Office Box 298 435 Sixth Avenue Shippingport, Pennsylvania 15077 Pitts burgh, Pennsyl vania 15219 Mr. R. E. Martin Duquesne Light Co@any 435 Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 Marvin Fein Utility Counsel City of Pittsburgh 313 City-County Building Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 e

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prepare a final rule on fue p ote=iess.

Although the final rule is near Emcnyt DATt April 18,1980.

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rule.To the extent that-these lice =3ees have been unable to comp'ete EU of'the 1.In the Or'/rin the above. captioned Acnox: Final rule.

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Pa : o of Chapter I of Tit!c 47 of the I.egal Director. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory rule to shut down for the b:ief bie.r:

E Code of Fedetal Regulations is'a= ended Com=ission. Wa shington. D.C. 20553.

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in i c.S1 the introductory textis suPPczutN rART INFoRMAT1oN:On May reasonable assurance that all ope sting E

revised to read as follows:

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nudear plants may continue to oprate E

the Federal Register (45 FR 38082) a safely even though the finalrule w I E

I C.91 Funetsons of trie hareau.

Notica of Proposed Rule =aking entitled require additional fi.vprotection E

Le Co men Carrier Bureau

." Fire Protection Program for Nuclear measures at many plants.

E d:velops.re:o== ends and administers Plants Operating Pnor to January 1.

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poli:les and programs for the regulation 1979."The preposed rule provided that provides that a rule may be efectin 5

cf services. facilities, rates and practices au fire protection modifications except. upon. publication when that rule "g ants E

cf entitiertercluding public coast alternate or dedicated shutdown stati:ns in de maritime mobile service) capability would be required to be or recognizes an exception er niiens a E

restriction." 5 U.S.C. 553(d)!1). - nir rule 5

wnicn furnish interstate or foreign Implemented by Novemberl.1980.

relieves certain NRClicensees fre:

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.urdess the Co:nmissien approve an license conditions or technical E

whethe ' ywire. radio, cable or satellite extension for good cause.This deadline - spe:1!! cations thereto in re 5

c facilities--and of ancillary operations war also stated in the Commission's protection implementation dead;mes.

E related to the provisions or use of such May::7.1980 Me=orandum and Order and will therefore be effectin cper.the 5

services.The Becau also regulates the on the Union nf Concerned Scientists

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rares. te=s.and conditions for cable Petition for Emergency and Remedial -

Register.Furthermore.as noted abeve.

35 te evision a::d pole attachments, where Action.11 NRC 707. 719.

the proposed rule stated that extensio=s

.s4:ch attac' n=en:s are not regulated by a *. Many of the commenters on the from the November 1 deadhe wo-/d be h

5 state and not ; ovided by railroads or proposed rule contended that the censidered for good cause.Exte= sin fcVemmentaliy--or cooperatively November i deadline was unschievable. public comment was received to the EE

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prote:tien.Tae Cc==ission intends that EE licassees a.G::ed by this rule should EE us2 best ef-r:s to co=plete all required EE_

=casures as soc: as possible despite

!EE the suspensio: cf the deadlines for this brief period.

E:5 p ::sua.:t to the Atc=l: Energy Act of

• EE 1954. as a= ended, the Energy iEE Re::aar.ization Act of1974. as a= ended.

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Five: Sat de foHow-; g a=end=ent to i::

Title 10. Chap:::L Code of Federa!

!EE Regu!ati::s. Par: SC. is published a: a

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1. A new Se tics 50.44 is added to read as follows:

{ 50.48 Fire protection senedwies.

Tc de exten: Sat a:y facility's.

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prep: sed by a li:ensee and a::epted by Se.W.C s:aff as satisfying the p ensi:ns :f A;penix A to Stan:h

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