ML20043A581

Grants 900213 Request for Exemption from Requirements of 10CFR55 Re Simulation Facility or Use of Simulation Facility to Grant or Maintain Operator Licenses at Facility Due to Current Defueled Plant Condition & Continued Closure

ML20043A581
Person / Time
Site:	Rancho Seco
Issue date:	05/16/1990
From:	Larkins J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Keuter D SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
Shared Package
ML20043A582	List: ML20043A581 ML20043A584
References
TAC-75520, NUDOCS 9005220276
Download: ML20043A581 (3)

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Docket No. 50-312 DISTRIBUTION EDocketJ11en$

NRC Local PDRs PD5 Reading T. Murley.

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Mr. Dan R. Keuter

'S. Reynolds S. Peterson Assistant General Manager G. Kalman

-OGC Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station E. Jordan G. Hill (4) i 14440 Twin Cities Road ACRS(10)

GPA/PA Herald, California 95638-9799 OC/LFMB S. Brown P. Erickson j

SUBJECT:

EXEMPTION RELATED TO 10 CFR PART 55 - REQUIREMENTS FOR A SIMULATION FACILITYANDSIMULATORTRAINING(TACNO.75520) t In response to your letter dated February 13, 1990, the Commission has issued i

the enclosed Exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR 55.45(b), including the requirement to use a simulation facility 'in satisfying the requirements of 10CFR55.59(a)(2)and(c)(3)and10CFR55.33(a)(2). The exemption is from the requirements for a simulation facility or the use of a simulation' facility to grant or maintain operators licenses at Rancho Seco due to current defueled:

i plant conditions and continued closure.

We have concluded, based on the considerations' discussed in the Exemption,.

that:

(1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and-safety of the l;

public will not be endangered by this action, and (2) such activities will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public, i

The exemption is being forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication. The related Notice of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact was published in the' Federal Register on l

A copy is enclosed for your information, a

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May.16 1990

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Mr.: Dan ' R. Keuter Assistant General' Man 6ger-Rancho-Seco Nuclear Generating Station

-14440 Twin Cities Road Herald,: California 95638-9799

SUBJECT:

EXEMPTION-RELATED'TO:10 CFR PART-55 -. REQUIRE'MENTSLFOR-A' SIMULATION-FACILITY AND SIMULATOR TRAINING (TAC NO. 75520)'

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In response to your letter dated February 13, 1990,.the Commission has issued the enclosed Exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR 55.45(b). including-

. the requirement to.use a simulation; facility in satisfying:the: requirements of:

10CFR55.59(a)(2)and(c)(3)'and10CFR55.33(a)(2).'The'exemptionisfromthe-requirements for.a simulation facility or the use of a. simulation 1 facility-to grant or maintain operators licenses at Rancho Seco due to; current defueled-plant conditions and continued closure, a

We have concluded, based on the considerations discussed in the' Exemption,;

that:

(1) there'is reasonable-' assurance that the health and' safety'of the public will-not be enhngered by. this action, and (2):such activities will not:

i be-inimical to the common defense and security or.to the' health and-safety of 4

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The exemption is being forwarded to'the 0ffice of the Federal Register for.

l publication.- The related Notice of Environmental Assessment and Finding _'of.No.

Significant Impact was published in the Federal Register on A copy'is enclosed for your information.

Sincerely, i

John T. Larkins,: Acting Director -

Project: Directorate-V' Division ~of' Reactor-Projects - III

-IV, Y and Special Projects._

Office of Nuclear' Reactor Re0ulation

Enclosures:

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Mr. Dan R. Keuter Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station cc:

Mr. David Boggs, General Manager Mr. John Bartus 1

Sacramento Municipal Utility District Ms. JoAnne Scott 6201 S Street Federal Energy Regulatory Comission P.O. Box.15830 825 North Capitol Street, N. E.

Sacramento, California 95813

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Thomas A. Baxter, Esq.

Ms. Helen Hubbard Shaw, Pittran, Potts & Trowbridge P. O. Box 63 2300 N Stre:et, N.W.

Sunol, California 94586 Washington, D.C.

20037 Environmental. conservation Mr. Steven Crunk-Organization S

Manager, Nuclear Licensing Suite 320

. Sacramento Municipal Utility District 101. First Street Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station Los Altos, California 94022 14440 Twin Cities Road Herald, California 95638-9799 Ms. Jan Schori, General Counsel Sacramento Municipal Utility District Mr. Robert B. Borsum, Licensing 6201 S Street Representative P.O. Box 15830 Babcock & Wilcox Sacramento, California 95813 Nuclear Power Division 1700 Rockville Pike - Suite 525 Rockville, Maryland 20852 Resident Inspector / Rancho Seco c/o U. S. N. R. C.

14440 Twin Cities Road Herald, California 95638 Regional Administrator, Region V U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1450 Maria Lane, Suite 210 Walnut Creek, California 94596 Mr. John Hickman Senior Health Physicist Environmental Radioactive Management Unit Environmental Management Branch State Department of Health Services 714 P Street, Room 616 Sacramento, California 95814 Sacramento County Board of Supervisors 700 H Street, Suite 2450 Sacramento, California 95814 (12)