ML19346F119

NRR E-mail Capture - Acceptance Review: Fermi 2 - LAR to Revise Technical Specification Surveillance Intervals to Accommodate a 24-Month Fuel Cycle

ML19346F119
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Site:	Fermi
Issue date:	12/12/2019
From:	Booma Venkataraman NRC/NRR/DORL/LPL3
To:	Offerle M DTE Electric Company
References
L-2019-LLA-0249
Download: ML19346F119 (3)

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From:

Venkataraman, Booma Sent:

Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:23 AM To:

Margaret M Offerle Cc:

Salgado, Nancy

Subject:

ACCEPTANCE REVIEW: Fermi 2-LAR to Revise Technical Specification Surveillance Intervals to Accommodate a 24-Month Fuel Cycle (EPID: L-2019-LLA-0249)

Expires:

Monday, February 10, 2020 12:00 AM Ms. Offerle, By letter dated November 8, 2019 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML19312A110), DTE Electric Company (the licensee) submitted a license amendment request in accordance with 10 CFR 50.90 to make changes to the Technical Specifications (TS) to increase certain Surveillance Requirement (SR) intervals from 18 months to 24 months. Most of the TS SR intervals were relocated to a licensee controlled program governed by TS 5.5.15, Surveillance Frequency Control Program by a previous license amendment in accordance with TS Task Force Traveler 425, Revision 3 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15155B416). The proposed modification to TS 5.5.15 would review the requested SR interval increases in accordance with NRC Generic Letter (GL) 91-04.

The purpose of this e-mail is to provide the results of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staffs acceptance review of the above request. The acceptance review was performed to determine if there is sufficient technical information in scope and depth to allow the NRC staff to complete its detailed technical review. The acceptance review is also intended to identify whether the application has any readily apparent information insufficiencies in its characterization of the regulatory requirements or the licensing basis of the plant.

The NRC staff has reviewed your submittal and concluded that it does provide technical information in sufficient detail to enable the staff to proceed with its detailed technical review and make an independent assessment regarding the acceptability of the license amendment request in terms of regulatory requirements and the protection of public health and safety and the environment. Given the lesser scope and depth of the acceptance review as compared to the detailed technical review, there may be instances in which issues that impact the NRC staffs ability to complete the detailed technical review are identified despite completion of an adequate acceptance review. You will be advised of any further information needed to support the NRC staffs detailed technical review by separate correspondence.

Based on the information provided in your submittal, the NRC staff has estimated that the license amendment request will take approximately 835 hours0.00966 days <br />0.232 hours <br />0.00138 weeks <br />3.177175e-4 months <br /> to complete. The NRC staff expects to complete the review of the licensing action by December 2020. If there are emergent complexities or challenges in our review that would cause changes to the initial forecasted completion date or significant changes in the forecasted hours, the reasons for the changes, along with the new estimates, will be communicated during the routine interactions with the assigned project manager.

These estimates are based on the NRC staffs initial review of the application and they could change, due to several factors including requests for additional information, unanticipated addition of scope to the review, and review by NRC advisory committees or hearing-related activities. Additional delays may occur if the submittal is provided to the NRC in advance or in parallel with industry program initiatives or pilot applications.

If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-2934.

Sincerely, Booma Booma Venkataraman, P.E.

Project Manager, NRR/DORL/LPL3

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Booma.Venkataraman@nrc.gov 301.415.2934

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