ML19345F098
| ML19345F098 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/28/1981 |
| From: | Jacobs R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8102060706 | |
| Download: ML19345F098 (8) | |
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January 28, 1981gdAQg Docket No. 50-289
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FACILITY:
4 LICENSEE: Metropolitan Edison Company (Met Ed)
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF MEETING WITH GPU/ METROPOLITAN EDI COMPANY OF JANUARY 16, 1981, CONCERNING PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO THE COMMISSIONS AUGUST 9, 1979 ORDER AND RESTART REQUIREMENTS Introduction The licensee requested this meeting to present concerns to the staff that they have regarding the requirements of the August 9,1979 Order and its impact on the schedule being followed leading to the restart of TMI-1.
Specifically, the licensee plans to propose a modification of the August.9 Order, which presently requires the plant to remain in cold shutdown. The modification would allow plant heatup using pump heat to conduct hot furctional testing.
With regards to the restart requirements, Met Ed is concerned about the amount of flexibility that the Director of NRR has to modify NUREG-0737,
" Clarification of TMI Action Plan Requirements", implementation schedules for TMI-1. The concern is that after the hearing record is closed, the provisions of the August 9 Order may effectively freeze the current NUREG-0737 implementation schedules even though events after the close of the hearing may justify relaxation of these schedules.
In addition, Met Ed desired to determine the staff position on whether TMI-l will l
betreatedasanOperatingReactor(OR)orNearTermOperatingLicense l
(NT0L) with regards to NUREG-0737.
A further concern embodies the post hearing procedures spelled out in
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the August 9 Order. The order specifies a 35 day period for review of the l
Licensing Board's recomended decision as to restart authorization.
Under the order, the 35 days do not start until the Director of NRR has certified to the Comission that all pre-restart requirements have been completed.
l Since the Director's certification could be a time consuming affair, Met Ed proposes modifying the order to have the Comission begin its 35 day review with any restart authorization to be subject to the l
Director's certification that all pre-restart requirements have been completed.
A list of meeting attendees is included in Enclosure 1.
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2 Discussion The licensee stated that the process of going to a hot shutdown condition using pump heat will require a modification of the August 9 Order and they desired the staff's position on this subject. The Director of NRR stated that he had no objection, in principle, to allowing the licensee to heat up the plant with pump heat subject to any legal restrictions and suggested that the licensee reauest the modification and propose the conditions for such mod 1fication.
The licensee wanted to know whether TMI-l is regarded as an OR or NT0L since the implementation schedules in NUREG-0737 differs for these conditions, thereby affecting the requirements for restart. The li;ensee stated that the primary emphasis of their actions on TMI-l since the accident has been non-hardware related and they have implemented major changes in software areas such as management, training and procedures. The licensee pointed out that meeting NT0L requirements is much more difficult for an older generation plant than for a plant which is being licensed for the first time. The director of NRR stated that the philosophy is that THI-l is an NT0L and should meet the same requirements that the NT0Ls which have been licensed after the accident, had to meet.
For additional dated requirements, TMI-l will be considered an OR.
With regard to the flexibility that the Director has to change NUREG-0737 implementation schedules for TMI-1, the Director agreed that TMI-1 should be granted similar flexibility as other NT0L plants.' Since the licensee is concerned that the implementation schedules will be frozen upon completion of the hearing, the Director stated that he believed some type of vehicle can be created to establish a similar -
flexibility with TMI-l as with other NT0Ls.
With regards to the licensee's concern about post hearing procedures, the Director stated that the staff could handle this matter either way, i.e.
waiting until the. Directer certifies all prerequisites for restart are complete before beginning the Commission's review of ASLB recommendations or starting the re/iew before the Director certifies.
Changing the post hearing procedures is a legal question and the licensee would ha'e to v
get relief from the Comission.
The subject of the December 11, 1980 letter of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) to the Commission was discussed.
It was pointed out that the letter recomended that the licensee perform a Risk Assessment and System Interaction study, although these Studies should not be condition for restart.
In addition, the subject of DC power supplies is an unresolved safety issue. The staff stated that additional work may be required in this area prior to restart. Met Ed made no comitmentiwith:iregards to therrecommendations of the ACRS letter.
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. t The rest of the meeting was devoted to reviewing the licensee's comitments to all items specified in NUREG-0737.
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Enclosure:
List of attendees i
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LIST OF ATTENDEES MEETING WITH MET ED JANUARY 16, 1981 PROPOSED MODIFICATION TO AUGUST 9, 1979 ORDER NRC-NRR NRC-0 ELD NRC-I&E NRC-ACRS H. Denton*
J. Tourtellotte*
D. Haverkamp R. Major D. Ross*
J. Gray
- F. Young D. Eisenhut*
P. McKee T. Novak j
R. Reid H. Silver R. Capra D. Dilanni S. Wookey R. Jacobs GPU/ Met Ed R. Arnold P. Clark T. Tipton E. Wallace G. Trowbridge~
D. Slear J. Colitz
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MEETING SumARY DISTRIBUTION Licensee: Henry Hukill
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- Copies also sent to those people on service (cc) list for subject plant (s).
Docket File BGrimes, DEP NRC PDR SSchwartz, DEP L PDR SRanos, EPDB TERA FPagano, EPLB NSIC 0RB.Rdp HDenton ECase DEisenhut RPurple RTedesco TNovak Glainas RReid TIppolito SVarga DCrutchfield RAClark ORE Project Panager Licensing Assistant OELD AE0D - JHeltemes IE-3 SShowe (PWR) or CThayer (BWR), IE Meeting Sunmary File-0RB RFraley, ACRS (16)
Program Support Branch G2ech JRoe NRC Participants o
D. Ross H. Silver R. Capra D. Dilanni S. Wookey J. Tourtellotte J. Gray R. Major F. Young P. McKee D. Haverkamp t
Metropolitan Edison Company ccw/ enclosure (s):
Mr. Marvin I. Lewis Dr. Walter H.' Jordan 6504 Bradford Terrace 881 W. Outer Drive Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149 Oak Ridge. Tennessee 37830 Walter W. Cohen, Consumer Advocate Dr. Linda W. Little Department of Justice 5000 Hemitage Drive Strawberry Square,14th Floor Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17127 Holly S. Keck Robert L. Knupp, Esq.
Anti-Nuclear Group Representing Assistant Solicitor York Knupp and Andrews 245 W. Philadelphia Street P. O. Box P York, Pennsylvania 17404 407 N. Front Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 John Levin. Esq.
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Com.
John E. Minnich, Chairman Box 3265 Dauphin Co. Board of Comissioners Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Dauphin County Courthouse Front and Market Streets Jordan D. Cunningham, Esq.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 Fox, Farr and Cunningham 2320 North 2nd Street Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington,-D. C.
20555 Theodore A. Adler, Esq.
WID0FF REAGER SELK0WITZ & ADLER Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel P. O. Box 1547 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,17105 Washington, D. C.
20555 Ms. Marjorie M. Aamodt Docketing and Service Section R.D. #5 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320 Washington, D. C.
20555 Ms. Karen Sheldon Robert Q. Pollard Sheldon, Harmon & Weiss 609 Montpelier Street 1725 I Street, N.W. - Suite 506 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Washington, D. C.
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l Chauncey Kepford Earl B. Hoffman l
Judith H. Johnsrud Dauphin County Commissioner l..
Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power Dauphin ~ County Courthouse 433 Orlando Avenue Front and Market Streets State College, Pennsylvania 16801 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 b
l Ms. Frieda Berryhill, Chaiman Ms. Ellen R. Weiss, Esq.
l Coalition for Nuclear Power Plant Sheldon, Hamon & Weiss l
Postponement 1725 I Street, N.W.
l 2610 Grendon Drive Sttite 506 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 Washington, D. C.
20006 Mrs. Rhoda D. Carr Mr. Steven C. Sholly 1402 Marene Drive 304 South Market Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17109 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055
Metropolitan Edison Company Mr. Thomas Gerusky Ms. Jane Lee Bureau cf Radiation Protection R.D. 3, Box 3521 Department of Environmental Resources Etters, Pennsylvania 17319 P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Karin W. Carter, Esq.
505 Executive House P. 0.' Box 2357 Mr. G. P. Miller Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 g
Mr. R. R. Wilson Metropolitan Edison Company Honorable Mark Cohen P. O. Box 480 512 0-3 Main Capital Building Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 G. F. Trowbridge, Esq.
Dauphin County Office Emergency Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Preparedness 1800 M Street, N.W.
Court House, Room 7 Washington, D. C.
20036 Front & Market Streets Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 Mr. E. G. Wallace Licensing Manager Department of Environmental Resources GPU Service Corporation ATTN: Director Office of Radiological 100 Interpace Parkwhj Health Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Mr. R..W. Conrad Vice P' resident, Generation Director, Criteria and Standards Pennsylvania Electric Company
- Divisior, 1007 Broad Street Office of Radiation Programs (ANR-460)
Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15907 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D. C.
20460 Miss Mary V. Southard, Chairperson Citizens for a Safe Environment P. O. Box 405 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 Mr. Robert B. Borsum Babcock & Wilcox Government Publications Section Nuclear Power Generation Division State Library of Pennsylvania Suite 420, 7735 Old Georgetown Road Box 1601 (Education Building)
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126
- Ivan W. Smith, Esq.
Mr. David D. Maxwell, Chairman Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel Board of Supervisors U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Londonderry Township Washington, D. C.
20555 RFD!1 - Geyers Church Raod Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Ms. Kathy McCaughin Three Mile I: land Alert, Inc.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency 23 South 21st street Region III Office Harrisburg,' Pennsylvartia 17104 ATTN: EIS C0ORDINATOR Curtis Building (Sixth Floor)
Mr. L. W. Harding 6th and Walnut Streets Supervisor of Licensing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Mr. J. G. Herbein Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Director, Nuclear Assurance Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 4S0 Middletown, PA 17057
Metropolitan Edison Company r Mr. R. J. Toole Allen R. Carter, Chainnan Manager, TMI-l Joint Legislative Committee on Energy Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 142 P. O. Box 480 Suite 513 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Senate Gressette Building Columbia, South Carolina 29202 Mr. W. E. Potts Radiological Controls Manager, TMI-l Daniel M. Pell, Esq.
Metropolitan Edison Company ANGRY P. O. Box 480 32 South Beaver Street Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 York, Pennsylvania ~ 17401 Mr. I. R. Finfrock, Jr.
William S. Jordan, III Esq.
Jersey Central Power & Light Company Harmon & Weiss Madison Avenue at Punch Bowl Raod 1725 I Street, fN, Suite 506 Morristown, New Jersey 07950 Washington, DC 20006 J. B. Lieberman, Esq.
General Counsel Berlock, Israel & Liberman Federal Emergency Management Agency 26 Broadway ATTN: Docket Clerk New York, NY 10004 1725 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20472 Mr. J..J. Colitz Mr. J. J. Barton Plant Engineering Manager, TMI-l
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Manager, Site Operations TMI-2 Metropolitan Edison Company tietropolitan Edison Compar.y P. O. Box 480 P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 1.7057 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057
' York College of Pennsylvania Mr. E. D. Fuller Country Club Road TMI-2 Licensing Supervisor York, Pennsylvania 17405 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Mr. G. K. Hovey Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Director, TMI-2 Metropolitan Edison Company Mr. Tony Fasano, Chief, Operations Sec.
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ennsylvania 17057 Middletown, Pennsylvania 19475 Mr. B. Elam
.Mr. Donald Haverkamp Manager, Plant Engineering, Unit 2 Metropolitan Edison Company U. S. N. R. C. TMI Site P. O. Box 480 P. 0. Box 311 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Middletown, Pennsylvania 19475 Mr. Richard Roberts
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The Patriot cc w/ enclosure (s) & incoming dtd.:
812 Market Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Governor's Office of State Planning' Mr. R. W. Heward and Development ATTN: Coordinator, Pennsylvania Manager, Radiological Control, Unit 2 Metropolitan Edison Company State Clearinghouse P. O. Box 480 P. O. Box 1323 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120
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