ML20058A202
| ML20058A202 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 11/19/1993 |
| From: | Carpenter C Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Mccoy C GEORGIA POWER CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20058A205 | List: |
| References | |
| RTR-REGGD-01.097, RTR-REGGD-1.097 GL-82-33, NUDOCS 9311300155 | |
| Download: ML20058A202 (4) | |
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50-424 and 50-425 Mr. C. K. McCoy Vice President - Nuclear Vogtle Project Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201
Dear Mr. McCoy:
SUBJECT:
INSTRUMENTATION TO FOLLOW THE COURSE OF AN ACCIDENT (REGULATORY GUIDE 1.97) - V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 Section 6.2 of Generic Letter 82-33 requested licensees to provide a report on their implementation of Regulatory Guide 1.97 (Revision 2), including methods for complying with the Comission's regulations and supporting technical justification for any proposed alternatives or deviations. A large number of exception requests were received from pressurized water reactor licensees asking that the environmental qualification requirement for accumulator level and pressure monitoring instrumentation be relaxed from Category 2 to Category 3, which would allow comercial grade instruments to be used. Prior to 1987, these requests were denied by the staff. Since then, these exceptions have been considered as an open item until a generic resolution can be found.
The staff has now reviewed the bases for these exceptions and has concluded that no operator action is based on this post-accident instrumentation and that it does not perform a safety function.
Since this instrumentation does not perform any post-accident safety function, its qualification requirements can be reduced to Category 3.
A copy of our Safety Evaluation is enclosed.
You have already installed Category 2 instrumentation to monitor accumulator level and pressur'.
You are no longer bound by this comitment, and may, at your discretion, replace this instrumentation with Category 3 instrumentation.
Pleate notify me of the actions you plan to take and the schedule for implementation.
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Mr. C. K. McCoy November 19, 1993 If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact me at (301) 504-1465.
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C. E. Carpenter, Jr., Acting' Project Manager Project Directorate II-3 Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/ enclosure:
See next page
Mr. C. K. McCoy Georgia Power Company Vogtle Electric Generating Plant cc:
Mr. J. A. Bailey Harold Reheis, Director Manager - Licensing Department of Natural Resources Georgia Power Company 205 Butler Street, SE. Suite 1252 P. O. Box 1295 Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 Attorney General Mr. J. B. Beasley Law Department General Manager, Vogtle Electric 132 Judicial Building Generating Plant Atlanta, Georgia 30334 P. O. Box 1600 Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 Mr. Alan R. Herdt Project Branch #3 Regional Administrator, Region II U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, NW. Suite 2900 101 Marietta Street, NW., Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Mr. Dan H. Smith, Vice President Office of Planning and Budget Power Supply Operations Room 615B Oglethorpe Power Corporation 270 Washington Street, SW.
2100 East Exchange Place Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Tucker, Georgia 30085-1349 Office of the County Commissioner Charles A. Patrizia, Esquire Burke County Commission Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 12th Floor 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW.
Mr. J. D. Woodard Washington, DC 20036 Senior Vice President -
Nuclear Operations Arthur H. Domby, Esquire Georgia Power Company Troutman Sanders P. O. Box 1295 NationsBank Plaza Birmingham, Alabama 35201 600 Peachtree Street, NE.
Suite 5200 Atlanta, Georgia 30308-2216 Resident Inspector U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 572 Waynesboro, Georgia 30830
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Mr. C. K. McCoy November 19, 1993 If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact me at (301) 504-1465.
Sincerely,
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C. E. Carpenter, Jr., Acting Project Manager Project Directorate 11-3 Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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