ML19345C997

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

ML19345C997
Person / Time
Site:	Farley
Issue date:	11/17/1980
From:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Clayton F ALABAMA POWER CO.
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NUDOCS 8012080753
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Dear Mr. Clayton:

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 50 v:hich will be published in the Federal Register shortly and will become effective 90 days af ter publication. This revised 10 CFR 50.48 will contain schedules for completion of all fire protection modifications.

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

A similar set of schedules will be applicable to all other fire protection rodifications that have been approved by the NRC staff in a staff safety i

evaluation report. This latter set of schedules will require completion of modifications not covered by Appendix R by schedules specified in the revised rule or by the dates now specified as license conditions, whichever is sooner, unless an extension or exemption is approved by NRC.

Some of the completion dates discussed in the SER for your facility may be associated with modifications for which the NRC staff required additional information, such as design details or test results, to be subsequently reviewed and approved by the NRC staff prior to implementation.

To the extent that there are fire protection modifications such as this for your facility and the required additional information has not yet been approved by the staff as evidenced in a staff safety evaluation report, there is no present implementation requirement; consequently, 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 50.48 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 Register 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 This rule will be superseded by the revised rule when it becomes effective.

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Mr. F. L. Clayton 2-November 17, 1980 Alabama Power Company In the near future, we plan to contact you to identify specifically which fire protection features associated with your facility are covered by Appendix R and would thus be subject to one set of schedules, and which are previously approved items which are covered by a different set of schedules.

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prepare a final rde on fire prote:nce.

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comp!etion, and will in:c.porate an frnplementation schedule difen:t from FoR FURTHER INFORW ATION CoNTAC atwi c cooe sman.#

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NpCLEAR REGU!ATORY not be effective until so days alte Co==ission. Washington. D.C. 20554.

N!SSION publication.

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0 CFR Part 50 '

at present operating underli:ense In the Matter of amendment of Pa:t 0 conditions or technical speciSaJoss to transfer authonty for ce= mon carrier Fire Protection Schedules for thereto which include the Nove=her 1 j

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Part o of Chapter I of Title 47 of the Legal Dire: tor. U.S. Nuclear Regdate y rule to shut down for the bdef i:te-i=.

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5 reasonable assurance %eme:te.d give In 10.91 the introductory textis SUPPt.EM ENTARY INFoRMATroN:On May that an operating revised to read as follows:

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

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policies and progrr.. s for the regulation 19 3.'Tae proposed rule provided that provides that a rule may be e5e.:ttre 5

cf sarvices fa:11!ues, rates and practices au fire protection modifications except upon. publication when tlist rt.M ' c ants E

of entitiertexcluding public coast altemate or dedicated shutdown or recognizes an exception er rehens a E'

stations is the maritime mobile service) capability would Web sired to be restriction." 5 U.S.C. 553[d) :). -:is rule 5i which fumish interstate or foreign i=Nemented b* 4 i 4 en.ptr 1.1SBO.

relieves certain NRClicensees 5:

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related to the provisions or use of such May2 % v. yandum and Order and will therefore be effeedve =po:the 5

suvices.Le Bureau also regulates the on the t; Mien of Cenc ted Scientists

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stste and est p.ovided by railroads or proposed rule contended that the considered for good cause.Exte= sin 15,

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cf the lice:se c ndition sehedules pending eI~ectiveness of the finalrule on 6'0 D (Laj q

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pending h-&er action by the Co==issics. As is clear from the above EE discussio:. that further a etion will be premdgati:: of the final rule on Sie E

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Pursaar: to the Atomic Energy Act of EE 1954, as a= ended. the Energy Rao ga.i:ation Aet of1974.as amended.

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rule. these dates are hereby suspended pendi.; hrther a: tion by the li i:E Co--a ic s

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