ML19351E684

Informs of Recently Approved Revised 10CFR50.48 Containing Schedules for Completion of All Fire Protection Mods.No Present Implementation Required as Necessary Addl Info Has Not Yet Been Approved

ML19351E684
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Site:	Haddam Neck, Millstone  File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	11/06/1980
From:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Counsil W CONNECTICUT YANKEE ATOMIC POWER CO.
References
LSO5-80-11-009, LSO5-80-11-9, NUDOCS 8012190015
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November 6,1980 Docket No. 50-213/245 LS05-80-ll-009 Mr. W. G. Counsil, Vice President Nuclear Engineering and Operations Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company

& Northeast Nuclear Energy Company Post Office Box 270 Hartford, Connecticut 06101

Dear Mr. Counsil:

As you know, 'a proposed Section 50.48 and Appendix R to 10 CFR 50 has been pending since May 1980. The Comrission has recently approved a revised final version of that proposed Section 50.48 and Appendix R to 10 CFR 50 which will be published in the Federal Register shortly and will become effective 90 days after 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 modifications that have been approved by the NRC staff in a staff safety 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 infonnation 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 nJ1e, 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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i 2-November 6,1980 Mr. W. G. Counsil 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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Haddam, Connecticut 06103 Director, Technical Assessment Division Northeas' Nuclear Energy Conpany Office of Radiation Prograns t

ATTN: Superintendent (AW-459)

Millstone Plant U. S. Environmental Protection P. O. Box 128 Agency Waterford, Connecticut 06385 Crystal Mall #2

- Arlington, Virginia 20460 Mr. Janes R. Hinmelwright Northeast Utilities Service Company U. S. Environmental Protection P. O. Box 270 Agency Hartford, Connecticut 06101 Region I Office ATTN: EIS C0ORDINATOR Resident Inspector JFK Federal Building c/o U. S. NRC Boston, Massachusetts 02203 P. O. Box Drawer KK Niantic, Connecticut 06357 Superintendent Haddam Neck Plant Waterford Public Library RFD #1 Rope Ferry Road, Route 156 Post Office Box 127E Waterford, Connecticut 06385 East Hanpton, Connecticut 06424 First Selectman of the Town Resident Inspector of Waterford Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Station Hall of Records c/o U.S. NRC 200 Boston Post Road East Haddam Post Office Waterford, Connecticut 06385 East Haddam, Connecticut. 06423 John F. Opeka Systens Superintendent Northeast Utilities Service Company P. O. Box 270 Hartford, Connecticut 06101 Natural Resources Defense Council 917 15th Street, N. W.

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earlier andcipated has been reqdred to below.

p epare a final rule on fire prmw+w Although the finalrule is amar sntcTivr oATE: April 18.1980.

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to transfer authority for common carrier Fire Protection Schedules for thereto which include the Novemaer 2 d

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amended to reflect a transfer of function Comm.ission Ais amendngits would violate the bcense conditiass.

from the Common Carrier Bureau to the. ngulations to temporanly suspenL The violation would extend o=ly:sta Il Private Radio Bureau (45 FR 25399. April completion schedules for certain fire the fmal rule becomes eff e: tire. s:sce 5:

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cf entities fexcluding public coast alternate or dedicated shutdown or recognizes an exception er relieres a Ei stations in the maritime mobile service) capability weald be requfred to be restriction." 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1).'"his rule which fur =ish interstate or foreign implemented by Novemberl.1983, relieves certain NRClicecnes fro:

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related to the provisions or use of such May:7;1980 Memorandum and Order and will therefore be effectin upac the is protection implementation desdhnss.

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EEE Punuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 5221 1954, as amended. the Ene.T E

Rxrganimation Act of1974. as amended.

iE-and Sections $$2 and 553 of Title 5 of the

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given that the following amendment to Title 10. ChapterI. Code of Federal Regulations. part 50. is published as a

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document subject to codi5 cation.

PART 50--DOMESTIC UCENSING OF PRODUCTION AND UT!!!ZATION h

FACIUTtES

1. A new Seetion 50.64 is added to re:d as folicws:

$ 50.48 Fire protectiori schethdes.

To the extent that any facility's.

license conditions or technical specificaticas incorporate compliance dates for medIncations necces'ary to pr: vide fire protection features pt: posed by a. licensee and secepted by the NRC stsif as satisfying the provisions cf Appendix A to Branch Tcchnical position BTp/APCSB 9.5-1 and reflected in NRC staff Fire

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iss ed prior to the effective date of this rule. those dates are hereby suspended pending fu ther action by the Commissic:.

(Sec.1sih. P;b. Law s3-res, as Stat. est: Sec.

2en Pub. Law s:K3a. as Stat.1242 [4:U.S.C.

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