ML20031E371
| ML20031E371 | |
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| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 10/13/1981 |
| From: | Treby S NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Bloch P, Kline J, Paxton H Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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G October 13, 1981 Peter B. Bloch, Chairraan Dr. Hugh C. Paxton Administrative Judge Adainistrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1229 - 41st Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Coumission Los Alamos New Mexico 87544 Washington, D.C.
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Dear Administrative Judges:
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During the October 9, 1931 on-the-record telephone conference, the Chairman of the Licensing Board requested Staff Counsel to advise the Licensing Board whether the Staff intended to review and.act upon the proposed demonstration prograra which was the subject of Wisconsin Electric Power Compar1y's (WE or Licensee) Motion for Authorization of Interim Operation of Unit I with Steam Generator Tubes Sleeved Rather than Plugged, dated September 28, 1981.
Tr. at 106.
I have consulted with the technical staff and can advise the Licensing Board that the Staff will review and act upon the proposed deuonstration program.
For the purpose of developing a full record on this matter, it is appropriate to indicate the Staff's concern with the procedures originally recoramended by the Licensee and the currently estinated schedule of the Staff's review of tne proposed demonstration program.
WE's license currently requires it to plug tubes in its steam generator when the walls of the tubes have been degraded by more than 40 percent of the norainal tube wall thickness.
Technical Specification 15.4.7..A.5(a) Plugging Linit. On July 2,1981. WE filed an application to amend its operating licenses for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant Units 1 ar.d 2 to provide that the corrective acasures for degraded tubes could be either plugging the tubes or repairing then by a process such as sleeving. As noted by Counsel for the Licensee during the September 16, 1981 on-the-record telephone conference, careful examination of the requested anendment discloses that approval of the auendment would result in a change to the technical specification for the two units at the Point Beacn Nuclear Plant so that the licensee could sleeve (rather than plug) pO7 as uaqy degraded tubes as necessary for both units. Tr. at 9-10.
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Id. For the Staff to have imposed such a limitation upon approval of the proposed technical specification would have been a modification of the license requiring that the provisions of 10 C.F.R. 6 2.204 be complied witn.
However, now that the licensee has modified its request for a technical specification change to provide for the demonstration program (See attached letter to Harold R. Denton from Sol Burstein dated October 12,1981), this Staff concern has been removed.
The Licensee has indicated that it desires to conduct the sleeving demonstration program at Point Beach Unit I during the fall of 1981 refueling outage scheduled for the period October 9 through November 11, 1981. As Staff Counsel indicated during the October 9,1981 telephone conference, the Staff's review of the proposed demonstration program will involve the efforts of six separate staff technical review branches.
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The priorities and resources of these technical review branches have been changed to accommodate the tight schedule in this matter.
The Staff will make its best efforts to complete its review within 15 calendar days from today (or by October 28,1981) including the issuance of its safety evaluation report and any appropriate environmental determination.
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