ML20057E718
| ML20057E718 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Grand Gulf  |
| Issue date: | 09/21/1993 |
| From: | Ebneter S NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Hutchinson C ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9310130083 | |
| Download: ML20057E718 (4) | |
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50-416 License No.: NPF-29 N0E0 93-2-005 Entergy Operations, Inc.
ATTN: Mr. C. R. Hutchinson, Vice President Operations - Grand Gulf Entergy Operations, Inc.
1 P. O. Box 756 Port Gibson, MS 39150 f
Gentlemen:
SUBJECT:
NOTICE OF ENFCRCEMENT DISCRETION FOR GRAND GULF UNIT 1 By letter dated September 21, 1993, you referred to your request for the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to exercise discretion not to enforce compliance with the required actions in surveillance requirement 4.4.1.2.2 which demonstrates operability of the jet pumps within 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> after entering OPERATIONAL CONDITION 2.
This discretion would permit continued operation in Mode 2 for a period of seven days vice the 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> specified in T.S. 4.4.1.2.2 to permit flushing of the jet pump instrumentation sensing lines. By telephone calls on September 20, 1993, you advised the NRC that you would not be in compliance with T.S. 3.4.1.2 which requires the plant to be in hot shutdown by 1928 hours0.0223 days <br />0.536 hours <br />0.00319 weeks <br />7.33604e-4 months <br />, CST on September 20, 1993. Your basis for the request was to permit use of reactor pressure as the motive force for the flushing activities.
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compensatory actions, you proposed that every four hours you would determine the difference to lower plenum diffuser pressures with criteria to initiate a twelve-hour limit to be in HOT SHUTDOWN should a paired set of jet pumps be outside accepted limits.
Based on our review of your justification, including the compensatory measures identified above, we conclude that this course of action involves minimum safety impact, and we are clearly satisfied that this exercise of discretion is warranted from a public health and safety perspective.
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enforce compliance with T.S.
3.4.1.2 for the period 1928 hours0.0223 days <br />0.536 hours <br />0.00319 weeks <br />7.33604e-4 months <br /> CST on September 20,1993, to 1928 hours0.0223 days <br />0.536 hours <br />0.00319 weeks <br />7.33604e-4 months <br /> CST on September 24, 1993. This discretion was granted verbally by a phone call from E. W. Herschoff, NRC, to C. R. Hutchinson, Entergy Operations, Inc., on September 20, 1993.
However, we will consider enforcement action, as appropriate, for the conditions that led to the need for 3
this exercise of enforcement discretion.
Sincerely, Original _ signed by:
Luis A.
Reyes/for 9310130003 930921 PDR ADOCK 05000416 Stewart D. Ebneter P
PDR Regional Administrator cc:
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Mr. H. W. Keiser, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Entergy Operations, Inc.
P. O. Box 31995 Jackson, MS 39286-1995 General Manager Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Entergy Operations, Inc.
P. O. Box 756 Port Gibson, MS 39150 M. J. Meisner, Director Nuclear Safety and Regulatory Affairs Entergy Operations, Inc.
P. O. Box 756 Port Gibson, MS 39150 Mike Morre, Attorney General Frank Spencer, Asst. Attorney General State of Mississippi P. O. Box 22947 Jackson, MS 39225 J. R. McGaha Vice President, Operations Support Entergy Operations, Inc.
P. O. Box 31995 Jackson, MS 39286-1995 R. B. McGehee, Esq.
Wise, Carter, Child, and Caraway P. O. Box 651 Jackson, MS 39205 l
N. S. Reynolds, Esq.
Winston & Strawn 1400 L Street, NW, 12th Floor Washington, D. C.
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l F. E. Thompson, Jr., M.D.
State Health Officer State Board of Health P. O. Box 1700 Jackson, MS 39205 (cc cont'd - See page 3) y
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The Honorable William J. Guste, Jr.
Attorney General Department of Justice State of Louisiana P. O. Box 94005 Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9005 Office of the Governor State of Mississippi Jackson, MS 39201 Sam Mabry, Chief Hazardous Waste Division Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality P. O. Box 10385 Jackson, MS 39209 President Clairborne County Board of Supervisors Port Gibson, MS 39150 K. G. Hess Vice President Bechtel Power Corporation P. O. Box 2166 Houston, TX 77252-2166 W. W. Watson Project Manager Bechtel Power Corporation P. O. Box B08 4600 W. Main Russellville, AR 72801 bec:
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