ML20052B020

Requests Assistance in Developing NRC Procedure Re Imposition of New Requirements on Nuclear Industry

ML20052B020
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	04/12/1982
From:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Pilant J NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT
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NUDOCS 8204290579
Download: ML20052B020 (5)

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Dear Mr. Pilant:

For sone tine, there has been a growing awareness of the need to reexanine the rethods by which we impose new requirements on the nuclear industry.

As you know, a significant step in this direction has been taken with the establishnent of the Comittee to Review Generic Requirerents t. bat reports to the Executive Director for Operations. We believe that the extra neasure of review that will be provided by this comittee will help ensure that future new requirenents strike a proper balance between potential safety enhancenent and potential inpacts.

One inportant element in our decision-making process for new requirenents is the determination of the appropriate tine-scale for when the requirenent should be inplemented.

We have learned through several recent exanples that the establishaent of a single industry-wide date for implenenting a new requirenent is often not the best way to proceed, particularly for itens for which an imediate, highest-priority response is not needed.

Sinila rly, to inpose arbitrary corpletion dates on all itens could lead, and nay have already led, to situations where utilities, in an effort to be responsive.

either divert engine' ring resources fron other work which nay be nore safety significant in the long run, or to a less than adequate engineering job in order to reet the toposed deadlines.

We are, therefore, considering deternining inglenentation schedules on a plant-specific basis rather than attempting to ippose industry-wide inplementation dates.

To further explore this approach, we solicit your assistance. We would like to work with a few licensees over the next few weeks to develop a practical procedural approach that can then be applied to all licensees. As a first step in the effort, we believe that we need to develop a nutually understood inventory of the workload facing you that constitutes a denand on your resources or requires plant shutdown time. He recognize that this inventory includes itens fron several sources, including, NRC-inposed post-licensing requirenents (either direct or inplied) and your own plans for special plant naintenance or design nodifications.

Enclosed is a copy of NUREG-0748, which contains a listing of all of the itens for which NRR is tracking progress. Also enclosed is a listing of the IE Bulletins that have not yet been closed out on sore plants. You are requested to review this material, confirn its 8204290 FM o mc.,

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In deciding on what kind of itens should be listed, we recognize the need for some threshold criteria that would eliminate the smaller, less consequential tasks.

Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Upon receipt of your response, which should include a total inventory of what you see facing you in the next ouple of years, including resources and plant shutdown impact, we would like to meet with you to explore ways in which this workload, as well as future new requirements, can be scheduled in a manner consistent with safety needs and in a manner that will make the most effective use of both your and our resources. The system ultinately adopted, or course, will have to be periodically updated to maintain its accuracy.

The end product of this effort will be a program that we plan to initiate industry-wide to bring better control and predictability to our regulatory process as it affects operating reactors. Your participation in this developmental'qffort is vital to its success.

Your prorpt response including suggestions to enhance the efficiency and usefulness of the data collection and utilization, would be appreciated.

Sincerely, X jut.

Darrell G. Eisenhut, Dire or Division of Licensing

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