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Notifies of Appointment of Ej Hanrahan as Contact to Assist in Contingency Planning in Event of Oil Shortfall Emergency, in Response to 801103 Request.Info Re Nuclear Facility Licensing Procedures Encl
	ML19345E893
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Issue date:	01/19/1981
From:	Ahearne J; NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	House B; ENERGY, DEPT. OF, ECONOMIC REGULATORY ADMINISTRATION
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Dear Mr. House:

This is in response to your letter of November 3,1980 requesting that -

the Commission establish an individual as a contact to assist in contincency planning in the event of an oil shortfall emergency. The Comission's,

contact is Mr. Edward J. Hanrahan, Director, Office of Policy Evaluation (Telephone: 634-1417).

In addition, you requested answers to specific questions connected to various nuclear power plant licensing strategies.

These are provided in the enclosure.

You should be aware that the Commission is reviewing what changes in the law might be desirable to permit interim operation of nuclear plants in the event of a national emergency. We will apprise the Department of Energy of the result of this review.

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Actions to revise the scheduling of nuclear unit outages (maintenance or physical modification) may require the coordination with neighbor-ing utilities and the involvement of the NRC. What steps would the NRC be able and willing to take to assist with outage rescheduling?

A.

The NRC does not have any role in the scheduling of outages for normal maintenance or physical modifications and consequently we are not in position to assist with outage rescheduling. We would not want to see maintenance deferred to the extent of a significant adverse impact on safety. However, on occasion the Commission has taken the power supply situation in a given power supply region into account when ordering shutdowns (e.g., the sequential shutdown of Oconee 1, 2, and 3 to effect TMI-2 related modifications) and would be prepared to consider this approach if power shortages were likely as a result of an oil shortfall emergency.

Q.

Actions to expedite startup of new plants would necessarily involve the NRC. What steps could the NkC take to expedite the startup of new plants? How would these steps change as the severity of the oil shortfall increased?

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As a matter of policy the Commission has directed that high priority within the reactor licensing activities of its Office of Nuclear l

Reactor Regulation be given to operating license reviews. Major emphas1s is placed on the applications of those utilities whose plants are closest to completion of construction.

I On the basis of current information, of 58 plants under construction a

and expected to be in operation by 1985, we estimate that only five plants will be physically completed and ready to operate prior to an NRC decision on issuance of an operating license (see Table 1 l

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m attached). This assessment is based on *RC's latest projections of comp'etion of construction and assumptions concerning the length of time required for public hearings and subsequent Commission actions on these plants.

There are three basic reasons for the delays in the five plants:

heavily contested hearings; lack of NRC technical staff to deal with the nur.crous seismic issues; lack of compliance with NRC requirements.

NRC will continue to give priority review to plants nearing completion of construction. The Commission is also examining the issue of what changes in the law might be desirable to permit interim operating licenses in the event of a national emergency.

Q.

Operating restrictions imposed by the NRC licensing process can be an impediment to achieving full power output from a nuclear unit.

Can the NRC issue license amendments to individual units to relieve these restrictions? In what time frame and through what mechanism could this be accomplished?

A.

Operating restrictions are imposed either to protect the public or to protect the environment. Furthermore, we are not aware of operating restrictions on any plants which would have significance i

in terms of oil substitution.

License amendments to individual units could be issued to relieve restrictions, if necessary. The recent Sholly decision requires the Commission to hold a hearing prior to issuing an effective licensu amendment, if a request' for a

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hearing is filed. This decision is being appealed, the Commission taking the position that the Atomic Energy Act does not require a pre-effective hearing where a license amen (ment poses no significant hetith or safety problem.

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safety questions, the Atomic Energy Act, irrespective of the Sholly decision, requires the NRC to hold a hearing prior to amending the license. The impact of the Sholly decision is not yet clear, and in general the Commission believes that support can be found for the position that a national emergency of sufficient significance would justify issuing an effective license amendment prior to holding a hearing.

Q.

Are there licensing changes that could assist various nuclear power plant strategies, as discussed, that could be accomplished through a change in Federal regulations? Does NRC have the _uthority to make these changes?

A.

There are three nuclear " strategies" implicit in your questions:

outage rescheduling; expedited startup; and removal of operating restrictions.

It is not within the current NRC role, nor does the NRC have the expertise to coordinate normal maintenance outages with other utilities in order to maximize oil savings. This would be more appropriate for ERA.

Startups might be expedited if legis-lation were enacted to permit start of operation in parallel with hearirgs, provided certain health and safety findings had been made by the Commission. As for the removal 'of operating restrictions, I

l the Commission does not believe that lifting such restrictions would have any significant impact on oil savings.

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How could the license changes that require the performance of fuel l

and accident analysis on the part of the utilities be expedi'ed?

c A.

To our knowledge these analyses have never significantly affected the annual capacity factor of operating nuclear plants.

If the license changes due to fuel reload are determined not to involve an unreviewed safety issue, no NRC appaval is required (see 10 CFR 50.59),

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What changes to Federal regulation of nuclear power will be warranted or possible by various levels and durations of an oil import inter-ruption emergency?

A.

In general, the review of operating license applications proceeds in parallel with construction.

the NRC gives highest priority to applicants whose plants are nearing completion.

It has no ability to expedite actual construction and is required by the Atomic Energy Act to grant a license only if it finds that the public health and safety will be adequately protected. Any changes to Federal regulations to expedite reactor operation should recognize that there is a risk associated with granting an interim operating license which must be balanced against the risks posed by an oil shortfall emergency.

Q.

In cases where nuclear plant outages involve maintenance of safety-related equipment or NRC-ordered inspections and testing, what actions can be taken to reduce the duration of such outages?

A.

providing extensions to the time allowed for completing NRC required inspections, tests or modifications could improve plant availability for the interval of an oil availability crisis.

Some overall gains in plant availability may also be possible by granting extensions to a subsequent refueling outage through improved outage planning.

In such cases substantial extensions of a year or more would have to be weighed carefully in terms of the risk of operation during the interim until the inspections, tests or modifications are completed.

In our view there are no significant improvements to be gained in plant availability within the licensing basis of each facility related to outages for maintenance of safety-related equipment.

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Are any mechanisms in place which would permit operating nuclear units at increased power levels in the event of an emergency?

If not, would it be appropriate to do so?

A.

For plants that are not licensed to operate at their ultimate power level, licensees can submit an analysis of operating at the increased power level for staff review. Upon completion of staff review and any hearing which might be requested operation at the higher power level can be authorized.

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E Denotes estimated date Date entered is for last suoplement to SER/FES issued.

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Where two entries are made, first entry concerns radiological safety I

matters and second concerns environmental matters.

A single entry indicates Hearing and/or ASLB decision considered both radiological and safety matters.

The applicant's estimates for. construction coc:pletion are based on i

responses to the NRC request in a letter to all applicants dated

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July 11, 1980.

The difference in estimates for construction completion.

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between the applicant and NRC, is attributable to an independent assessment by the NRC staff of factors affecting construction completion.-

Generally, the NRC staff estimates are more conservative, (i.e., later completion dates) and are based upon actual experience in constructing similar plants.

Second unit of a dual unit facility is usually completed about 18 months after first unit.

(LP)

Denotes low power (Fp)

Denotes full power (1)

Environmen't reviews for Sequoyah 1 and 2 were cenducted under a lead agency agreement with TVA. TVA's final environmental statements (FES) incorporated and addressed the AEC's coments on the respective draft statements. The FES's were then accepted as the NEPA statements for the project.

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Schedule shown for McGuire 1&2 assumes hearing record will not be reopened for TMI-2 issues.

If ASLB reopens record, full power OL issuance may be delayed.

(3)

TVA's FES for Watts Bar 1 and 2 we e considered to be the environmental report submitted to NRC.

NRC then issued its own DES and FES for the project.

For the environmental review, the following increments were used in developing

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schedules:

A.

DES to FES S months t

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FES to start of environmental hearing 2 months C.

Duration of hearing 2 months D.

End of hearing to Decision 2 months Schedules for near tem OL's were adjusted on a plant specific basis.. -

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ASSUMPTIONS USED FDR PROJECTING TARGET SCHEDULES Target schedules were develeped beginning with the NRC estimate for construction completion date. This completion date was assumed to coincide with the operating license issue date.

From this date, the schedule was developed using the following increments:

A.

SER to ACRS meeting

.1 month B.

ACRS to SSER issued 2 months C.

SSER to start of hearing,for a plant with...

(1)

No hearing O month (2)

Moderately contested hearing 1 month (3)

Heavily contested hearing 2 months D.

Hearing duration (1)

No hearing 0 month (2)

Moderately contested hearing 2 months (3)

Heavily contested hearing 4 r.onths E.

End of hearing td ASLB Decision (1)

No hearing 0 month (2)

Moderately contested hearing 2 months (3)

Heavily contested hearing 3 months F.

Decision to Commission action (1)

No hearing 1 months (2)

Moderately contested hearing 2 months (3)

Heavily contested hearing 3 months m

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Deparnnent of Energy Washington, D.C. 20461 3 Nov 1935 MEMORANDUM FOR John Ahearne Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission FROM:

Barton R. House w C">

Deputy Administrator

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Operations and Emergency Management Economic Regulatory Administration

SUBJECT:

Contingency Planning The vulnerability of the U. S.

to an energy emergency requires that the Department of Energy (DOE) achieve a state of prepared-ness that will allow the Government to respond to energy emergencies in a coordinated and timely manner.

To facilitate this, a comprehensive planning process has been undertaker. to prepare specific contingency plans for each of a variety of generic energy emergencies.

To provide a centralized focus for the development of contin-gency plans within the Department, we have established the Office of Energy Contingency Planning (OECP) within the Economic Regulatory Administration (ERA).

It is intended that the OECP functica within the Department as the core staff for the preparation cf ;ontingency response plans and that effective lines of communication and authority be developed between the OECP and other program offices which may have operational responsibilities during an emergency.

The ability to generate electricity by nonpetroleum means 'to offset the use of fuel oil during petroleum fuel interruptions is significant, and nuclear power generation is an important segnent of this ability.

The contingency plans being formulated to mitigate or reduce the impact of oil shortfalls call for less utilization of oil-fired electricity generation.

The reductions in the use of oil must be largely offset by the use of non-oil produced power, which includes nuclear power plants.

It is important that we receive your assistance if accurate nuclear-based contingency planning strategies are to be produced.

DOE, of course, will ask that you concur on any completed strategies.

Biml& D!n-tu

2 Initially, your assistance is requested in providing us with information that will enable us to ascertain the practicality and feasibility of nuclear power plant strategies.

In this regard, I would appreciate your response to the attached questions.

In addition, to formulate viable contingency plans, it is important that a clear channel of communication be established between the DOE and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Previously, communication and a high level of cooperation have been achieved between the NRC and the Power Supply and Reliability Division of ERA's Office of Utility Systems within the DOE.

The contacts within NRC include Commission staff, operating reactor staff and licensing staff, we believe that these should be encouraged to continue while being supple-mented by contacts at a policy making level.

Such cooperation and communication could result, in the event of an oil shortfall emergency, in swift identification of those actions that would produce the most inmediate oil displacement. This is essential if the contingency plans ever need to be implemented.

The ERA contact for questions on this communication and similar matters is Mr. Richard E. Weiner, Director, Division of Power Supply and Reliability, ERA, at 653-3899.

Your assistance in this important program is essential, and your prompt reply will be appreciated.

Attachment a

Nuclear Contingency Planning Attachment o Actions to revise the scheduling of nuclear unit outages (maintenance or physical modification) may require the coordination with neighboring utilities and the involvement What steps would the NRC be able and willing of the NRC.

to take to assist with outage rescheduling?

o Actions to expedite startup of new plants would necessarily What steps could the NRC take to speed involve the NRC.

the startup of new plants?

How would these steps change as the severity of the oil shortfall increased?

o Operating restrictions imposed by the NRC licensing process can be an impediment to achieving full power output from a nuclear unit.

Can the NRC issue license amendments to In what individual units to relieve these restrictions?

time frame and through what me-hanism could this be accomp-lished?

o Are there licensing changes that could assist various nuclear power plant strategies, as discussed, that could be accomp-Does the lished through a change in Federal regulations?

NRC have the authority to make these changes?

o How could the license changes that require the performance of fuel and accident analysis on the part of the utilities be expedited?

o What changes to Federal regulation of nuclear power will be warranted or possible by various levels and durations of an oil import interruption emergency?

o In cases where nuclear plant outages invcive maintenance of safety related equipment or NRC-ordered inspections and testing, what actions can be taken to reduce the duration l

of such outages?

o Is there any current mechanism in place which the NRC uses l

to expedite consideration and issuance of operating license for nuclear units?

Does the NRC intend to expedite its l

current procedures?

o Are any mechanisms in place which would permit operating nuclear units at increased power levels in the event of If not, would it be appropriate to do so?

an emergency?

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