ML20002A479
| ML20002A479 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Yankee Rowe |
| Issue date: | 02/22/1978 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8011170333 | |
| Download: ML20002A479 (3) | |
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v SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION
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, SUPPORTING' AMENDMENT NO. 45 TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. DPR-3
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Introduction
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Regulatory Guide 1.16, " Reporting of Operating Infonnation - Appendix 1
A Technical Specifications", is the' basis for reporting requirements found in Technical Specifications today.
When these Technical Specifications were issued we requested that licensees use the formats
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in the guide for the Licensee Event Report (LER) and Monthly Operating Report.
In some cases licensees' use of these formats was required by a reference to Regulatory Guide 1.16 in the Technical Specifications.
Af ter two years of experience with the reporting requirements identified in this guide we /eviewed the scope of information licensees are re-quired to submit in the LER, Annual Operating Report, Monthly Operating Report and Startup Report.
Based on our-review of LER's we developed a modified format for the LER to make this document more useful for evaluation purposes.
By letters sent in July and August 1977, we infonned ' licensees of the new LER font.at and requested that they use it.
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who reference Regulatory Guide 1.16 in their Technical Specifications 1.1 we also requested that they propose a change which would replace this M
reference with appropriate words from the guide and which would delete mandatory use of the reporting foms contained in the guide.
From our review of all li:ensee reports we detennined that much of the infonnation found in the Annual Operating Report either is addressed in the LER's or Monthly Operating Reports, which are submitted in a more
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timely manner, cr could be included in these reports with only a slight augmentation of the information already supplied. Therefore we concluded. that the Annual Operating Report could be deleted as a Technical Specification requirement if certain additional infonnation
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were provided in the~ Monthly Operating Reports.. As a result we sent
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letters during September 1977 to licensees infonning them that a ij
- revised and improved format for Monthly Operating Reports was
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,1".b'.b change deleting this reference, discussed above, would be necessary.
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In addition, licensees were informed that if they agreed to use the revised format.they should submit a change request to delete _the.
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requirement for an Annual Operating Report except that occupational
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exposure data must still be submitted.
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By letter dated October 31, 1977, Yankee Atomic Electric Company
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(licensee) proposed an amenoment to the Yankee-Rowe facility operating license. This amendment would. modify. the Technical Specifications to permit use of LER and Monthly Operating Report fomats different than those contained in Regulatory Guide 1.16' and delete the requirement for an Annual Operating Report. '
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The licensee has proposed to delete all but one of the four specified
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items in the Annual Operating Report.
The report which tabulates
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occupational ~ exposure on an. annual basiL s needed and therefore, the i
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l requirement to submit this information has been retained. We have
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determined that the failed fuel examination infomation does not need N
l to be supplit d routinely by licensees because this type of. historical data can be abtained in a compiled form from fuel vendors when needed.
4 The infomation concerning forced reductions in power and outages will be supplied in the revised Monthly Operating Reports and the narrative summary of operating experience will be provided on a monthly basis in the Monthly Operating Report rather than annually.
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committed to use the revised Monthly Operating Report format beginning with their report for January 1978 as requested.
We have concluded that all needed information will be provided and deletion of the
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,j Annual Operating Report'is acceptable.
1 Environmental Consideration We have determined that this amennent does not' authorize a change in effluer,t types or total amounts nor an increase in power level and will not result in any significant environmental impact. Having made this determination, we have further concluded that the amendment involves an action which is insignificant from the standpoint of environmental impact, and pursuant to 10 CFR 551.5(d)(4) that an environmental impact statement, or negative. declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be
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prepared in connection with the issuance of this ' amendment.
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We have concluded, based on the considerations discussed above, that:
- E (1);because the amendment does not involve a significant increase in the probability'or consequences of accidents previously' considered
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amendment'does not involve a significant hazards ' consideration, (2) e there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public
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the comon defense and' security or to the health and safety of the
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Dated:
February 22, 1978
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