ML19347D178

Forwards Equipment Evaluation by Ofc of Nuclear Reactor Regulation for Met Ed,TMI-1, Partial Review.Written Response Requested

ML19347D178
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Site:	Crane
Issue date:	02/25/1981
From:	Novak T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Hukill H METROPOLITAN EDISON CO.
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SUBJECT:

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALIFICATION OF SAFETY-RELATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPME RE: THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT NO. 1

Reference:

Order for Modification of License Concerning the Environmental Oualification of Safety-Related Electrical Equipment, October 24, 1980.

This letter transmits the preliminary results of our review of' environmental qualifications of safety-related electrical equipment at your facility.

This evaluation was based on your submittals received over the past months, but does not include the results of our review of your submittal of January 30, 1981, which has not yet been completed.

The facility license was modified by the referenced Order of October 24, 1980, f

to require that all safety-related electrical equipment be qualified to specified requirements not later than June 30, 1982. In addition, the Order noted that a licensee is obligated to modify or replace inadequate equipment promptly.

The staff's review of your submittals has resulted in our identifying a number of potential equipment deficiencies involving a lack of proper documentation, inadequate justification of assumed environmental conditions l

following an accident, and/or inadequate environmental testing of equipment, such that confomance to the DDR guidelines, as required by the Order, cannot be demonstrated. You are requested to review our identified deft-l ciencies, and their ramifications, and provide us your overall finding I

Accord-regarding safe operation of your facility in the event of restart.

ingly, in order to determine whether your license should be modified, you are

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required pursuant to 10 CFR 50.54(f), to provide within 10 days of receipt of this letter, a written statement, sigred under oath or affirmation sup-porting the safe operation of your facility, that takes into account the NRC staff's preliminary list of deficiencies.

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Mr. Henry D. Hukill,

The purpose of this statement is to provide tha NRC with needed assurance by the licensee regarding the safety of the facility in the event authort-zation to restart' precedes the time at which you can provide an item-by-item reevaluationin 6 detailed documented manner. A negative finding on your

, part concerning the safety of operat on s ould be reported as a Licensee i

h Event Report (LER) within twenty-four (24) hours of the determination to the appropriate NRC Regional Office. Include in the LER the actions you have taken for the immediate resolution of the mhtter. A copy of any such LER should be sent to the Director, Division of Licen',ing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,.,

Please submit 'a copy of your reply to us via telecopy.

Sincerely, 7 o c-Thomas M. Novak, Assistant Director for Operating Reactors Division of Licensing

Enclosure:

Evaluation Report cc w/ enclosure:

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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, Per.nsylvania 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 Comm.

John E. Minnich, Chaiman Box 3265 Dauphin Co. Board of Cemissioners Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Daupnin 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., Penr.sylvania 17110 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 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 Commission Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Washington, D. C.

20555 Ms. Marjorie M. Aamodt

• Docketing and Service Section R.D. #5 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 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.

20006 Chauncey Kepford Earl B. Hoffman Judith H. Johnsrud Daup.in' County Commissioner Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power Dau',hin County Courthouse 433 Orlando Avenue Frwt and Market Streets State College, Pennsylvania 16801 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 Ms. Frieda Berryhill, Chairman Ms. Ellen R. Weiss. Esq.

Coalition for Nuclear Power Plant Sheldon, Harmon & Weiss Postponement 1725 I Strdet, N.W.

2610 Grendon Drive Suite 506 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 Washington, D. C.

20006 Mrs. Rhoda D. Car.r Mr. Steven C. Sholly 1402 Marene Drive linion of Concerned Scientists Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17109 1725 I Street, N. W., Soite 601 Washington, DC 20006

Metropolitan Edisor Company Mr. Thomas Gerusky Ms. Jane Lee Bureau of Radiation Protecticn R.D. 3, Box 3521 Department of Environmental Resources Etters, Pennsylvania 17319 P. O. Box 2003 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Karin W. Carter, Esq.

505 Executive House P. O. Box 2357 Mr._G. ' P. Miller Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Mr. R. R. Wilson Honorable Mark Cohen Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 512 0-3 Main Capital Building Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 G. F. Trowbridge, Esq.

Dauchin 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 De:artment of Environmental Resources Licensing Manager GPU Service Corporation ATith Director, Office of Radiologict.1 Health 100 Interpace Parkway Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Mr. R. W. C nrad Vice Pres. cent, Generation Director, Criteria and Standards Pennsylvania Electric Company Division Office of Radiation Prograns (ANR 460) 1C07 Broad Street Jchnstown, Pennsylvania 15907 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D. C.

20460 Vs. Virginia Southard, Chairman Citizens for a Safe Environment 2E' >l alton Street Mr. Robert B. Borsum Lsr:yne, Pennsylvania 17043 Babcock & Wilcox Sc.ernment Publications Section Nuclear Power Generation Divisior St!.e Library of Pennsylvania Suite 420, 7735 Old Georgetov., Rond Ec.i 1601 (Education Building)

Betnesda, 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 Commission Lor.donderry Township Washington, D. C.

20555 F.:y 1 - Geyers Church Raod Micdietown, Pennsylvania 17057 Ms. Kathy McCaughin Three Mile Island Alert, Inc.

L. S. Environmental Protection Agenc'y 23 South 21st street Ee; ion III Office Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17104 AO:

EIS COORDINATOR Curtis Building (Sixth Floor)

Mr. L. W. Harding Eth and Walnut Streets Supervisor of Licensing Fr.iladelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Metropolitan Edison Company P. G. Box 480 u,,

J. G. Herbein Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Sirector, Nuclear Assurance Metropolitan Edison Company P. 0. Box 480 Middletown, PA' 17057

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Mitropolitan Edison Company Mr. R. J. Toole Allen R. Cari.er, Chairman Manager THI-1 Joint Legislative Conenittee on Energy i

Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 142 P. O. Box 480 Suite 513 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Senate Gressette Building Cofunbia, South Carolina 29202 Mr. W. E. Potts Radiological Controls Manager, TMI-1 Daniel M. Pell, Esq.

ANGRY Metropolitan Edison Company 32 South Beaver Street P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 York, Pennsylvania '17401 Mr. I. R. Finfrock, Jr.

William S. Jorden ID, Esq.

Jersey Central Power & Light Company Harinon & Weiss Madison Avenue at Punch Bowl Raod 1725 I Street, NW, $;f n E06 Morristown, New Jersey 07950 Washington, DC 20006 J. B. Lieberman, Esq.

General Counsel Berlock, Israel & Liberman Federal Emergency Management Agency ATTN: Docket Clerk i

26 Broadway New York, NY 10004 1725 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20472 Mr. J. J. Colitz Plant Engineering Manager, TMI-1

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Edison Company tietropolitan Edison Compary Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Mid le n

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. Donald R. Haverkamp P. O. Box 480 Senior Resident Inspector (Tlil-1)

Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 U.S.N.R.C.

'P. O. Box 311 Mr. B. Elam Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Manager, Plant Engineering, Unit 2 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 l

Mr. Richard Roberts The Patriot 812 Market Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Governor's' Office of State Planning and Development Mr. R. W. Heward ATTN: Coordinator, Pennsylvania Manager, Radiological Control, Unit 2 Metropolitan Edison Company State Clearinghouse P. O. Box 1323 4

P. 0.. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

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