ML20034C569

Requests Response to Concern Expressed by Constituent, B Geismar,Re Util Request to Convert License to Full Power

ML20034C569
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Site:	San Onofre
Issue date:	04/03/1990
From:	Packard R HOUSE OF REP.
To:	Carr K NRC
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Honorable Kenneth M. Carr One White Flint North Building 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD -20852

Dear Chairman carr:

I am contacting you on behalf of one of my constituents, Mrs. Betty Geismar, of Mission Viejo, CA.

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Geismar would.like to know why Southern California Edison, Co.

has requested that the NRC convert their Provisional Operation License No. DPR-13 on Unit 1 to-a full-term operating license.

Your prompt response would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for you attention and assistance with this matter.

Sincerely, A

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Docket-No. 50-206 u

Mr. Harold 8. Ray.

Vice President Southern California Edison Company Irvine Operations Center 23 Parker street Irvine, California' 92718 t

SUBJECT:

ORDER CONFIRMING LICENSEE COMMITMENTS ON FULL-TENM OPERATINGl

-LICENSE OPEN ITEMS --SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STAT 10N,

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UNIT 1 (TAC NO. 11232) the Comission-has issued the enclosed order confirming your commitment to implement the full-term operating license open items set torth in your letter i

of October 2,1989, for which the NRC staff requested completion in the next j

two refueling outages.

The order references your letter and, in its attachments..contains lists of the open items:t. hat.are required to De implemented in accordance with the schedules provided in your letter.

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.In confirming your schedules this order modifies th'e Commission's previous:

order dated May'10. 1989,!to now. require that the reactor vessel-level-indication system be installed during the-cycle 12 refueling outage instead of-the cycle 11 refueling outage, as described in your letter. Also consistent-with your schedules the order confirms your request to conduct the upcoming steam generator tube inspection-during the cycle 11 refueling outage commencing-

- June 30,1990, rather than by March 7.1990.

A copy of-this orcer is being. filed.with the Office of the. Federal-Register for publication.

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Sincerely.

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I George. Knight

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Division of Reactor Projects - III.

IV,'Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Heactor Regulation

Enclosure:

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Mr. Harold B. Ray San Onofre Nuclear Generating Southern California Edison Company Station, Unit No. I cc-David R. Pigott Nr. F. 8. Marsh, Project Manager Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 8echtel Power Corporation 600 Montgomery Street P. 0. Box 60860 San Francisco, California 94111 Teminal Annex Los Angeles, California 90060 Mr. Robert G. Lacy Manager, Nuclear Mr. Phil Johnson -

San Diego Gas & Electric Company U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 1831 Region Y San Utego, California 92112 1450 Maria Lane, Suite 210 Walnut Creek, California 94596, Resident inspector / San Onofre NPS U.S. NRC P. O. Box 4329 San Clemente, California 92672 i

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City of San Clemente j

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1 Chairman Board of Supervisors County of San Diego 1600 Pacific Highway Room 335 San Diego, California 92101 Regional Administrator, Region V 2

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission I

1450 Maria Lane, Suite 210 Walnut Creek, California 94596 i

Mr. John Mickman Senior Health Physicist EnvironmentaI Radioactive Management Unit Environmental Management Branch State Department of Health Services 714 P Street, Room 616 Sacramento, California 95814 i

l Mr. Don Womeldorf Chief Environmental Management California Department of Health 714 P Street, Room 616 I

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75'90-01 UNITED STATES-0F AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION j

In the Matter of Docket No. 50-206 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-EDISON COMPANY License No. DPR-13 SAN DIEGO GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY l

l San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. )ll Unit No. 1 ORDER CONFIRMING LICENSEE COMMITMENTS ON FULL-TERM OPERATING LICENSE OPEN ITEMS I.

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Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (the licensees) are the holders of Provisional Operating License No. DPR-13, which authorizes the licensees to operate San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Unit I, at power levels up to 1347 regawatts thermal (rated power).

The facility is a pressurized water reactor located on the licensees' site in San Diego County, California. The license-is subject to all applicable provisions of the rules, regulations, and orders of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cormission (NRC).

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-On May 1, 1989, the NRC staff met with the licensees to discuss-the NRC requirementsforconverhionofProvisionalOperatingLicenseNo.DPR-13toa full-term operating license and additional actions needed to resolve NRC-concerns with respect to broken bolts on the reactor vessel thermal shield.

The NRC staff explained that, for a variety of reasons, certain safety-signifi-cant improvements due to be made to the facility had been unacceptably delayed over the years and that a firm, integrated schedule must be developed to Wau7de x S P' P

2-r complete these actions in the next two refueling outages.. These actions consist of Three Mile Island Action Plan items, NRC generic letter items, and action items resulting from the integrated plant safety assessment for San l

Onofre Unit 1 (NUREG-0829). Collectively, these actions'are referred to as the full-term operating license (FTOL) open items and are identified in Attachments I and 2.

They are so called because their implementation is considered a prerequisite to conversion of Provisional Operating 1.icense No. DPR-13 to an FTOL.

j The licensees were requested to finalize and document the schedules discussed at the meeting in a letter to the NRC, and to include their rationale for the schedules.

With respect to the thermal shield, the licensees proposed a mid-cycle inspection by net later than June 30, 1990, and a vibration monitoring and action plan to resolve the staff's concerns. These comitments were sub-secuently confirmed in Amendment No.127 issued on May 15, 1989.

l The schedular request pertaining tc the FTOL open items was subsequently confirmed in an NRC letter to licensees dated August 17,1989, which reiterated the NRC staff's desire to have the FTOL open items completed in the next two refueling outages, even if the outages had to be extended in order to finish them. The letter' stated that the NRC staff understood that its request did involve sigr.ificant comitments that would require some time for evaluation, but requested the licensees to give the matter. priority and to respond by the end of September 1989.

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On October 2, 1989, the licensees responded with an integrated schedule (showninAttachments1and2)foraccomplishingtheFTOLopenitemsinthenext

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two refueling outages. The plan calls for' completing _or resolving 18 open items in the next refueling outage (fuel cycle 11) and 21 open items in the second refueling outage (fuel cycle 12) - a total of 39 items.. The H

schedule shows significant improvements in both scheduling and activity. The reactor vessel thermal shield would be repaired in the outage beginning June-30,1990, rather than inspected and repair deferred until September 1991.

r Also, the licensees, having determined that significant safety improvement will be achieved by upgrading the recirculation portion of the safety injection system as well as the injection portion, have included these improvements in the schedule for the cycle 12 outage. The licensees also have comitted to install a plant-specific reference simulator for operator training. Taken as a -

whole, the licensees have made significant' comitments that involve substantial safety improvements to the facility and that are responsive to-the NRC staff's request.

To suppert this schedule as proposed, the licensees propose to combine the fuel cycle 11 refueling with repair of the thermal shield and inspection of l

thesteamgeneratortubesinoneextendedoutage(June 30, 1990, to about December 2,1990) (Attachment 3).

The licensees are currently required to install a reactor vessel level indicating system and upgrade the core exit thermocouples by not later than l

startup for fuel cycle 11 in response to TMI Action plan Item !!.F.2 "Inadequ-l l

ateCoreCoolingInstrumentation"(NRCorderdatedMay 10,1989). Because the j

fuel cycle ll refueling would start much earlier than previously scheduled (June 30,1990, rather than September 17,1991), the licensees do not have

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existing designs must be modified for installation at San Onofre Unit 1 (l'icensees' amendment request dated November 1,.1989). The licensees propose to install the reactor vessel'1evel monitor and upgrade the core exit thermo-couples at the same time by not later than fuel cycle 12, and submit specific implementation plans by December 1, 1990. This would entail a relatively' minor change in schedule that would involve an additional 9 months of plant cperation before implementation and is acceptable.

The second schedular change involves the inspection schedule for the steam generator tubes which would be required to be inspected by March 7, 1990 (licensees' amendrent request dated October 31,1989). The licensees request that'this inspectien be coordinated with-the long outage beginning June 30, 1990. This revised schedule for inspection is acceptable, since the licensees have shewn that steam generator' tube corrosion has stabilized, and this is i relatively modest 4-month extension of a 24-month inspection interval.

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n I find that the licensees' comitments collectively represent significant l

safety improvements to the facility and are acceptable.

In view of the fore-going I have determined that the public health and safety require that the licensees' comitments contained in their letter of October 2,1989, be confirmed by order.

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 103,161b and 1611 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the Comission's regulations in 10 CFR 2.204 and 10 CFR Part 50. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that provisional Operating License No.

DPR-13 be modified as follows:

Licensees shall implement the schedular comitments contained in their letter of October 2,1989, as sumarized in Attachments 1, 2, and 3 t

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' hereto with respect to *he specific activities to be conducted at outages for fuel cycles Il and 12 (exact dates of the outages may be revisedfromtimetotime). Specific plans for implementation of Item II.F.2, " Inadequate Core Cooling Instrumentation System"'(Generic-Letter 82-28), shall be submitted to the NRC for approval by no later than December 1, 1990.

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The licensees or any person who has an interest adversely affected by ~

this order may request a hearing within 30 days of the date of publication of 4

this order in the FEDERAL REGISTER. A request for hearing must'be addressed to the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C. 20555, with copies to the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement at the same. address.

If.a person other than the licensees requests a hearing, that person shall set forth.with particularity the manner in which the petitioner's interest is adversely affected by this 1

croer and should address the criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.714(d).

If a hearing is requested, the Comission will-issue an order designating the time and place of the hearing.

If a hearing is held, the issue to be censidered shall be.whether this order should be sustained. Upon the failure to answer or request a hearing within the specified time, this order shall be final without further proceedings.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION f

JJ Thomas E. Murley, Director

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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville. Maryland this 2nd day of January,1990 Attachments:

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2. ' SONGS 1 Cycle 12 FTOL Projects l

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