ML20059N071

Requests Util to Provide within 45 Days of Receipt of Ltr Listing of All Commitments Made to Justify Restart of Plant

ML20059N071
Person / Time
Site:	Sequoyah
Issue date:	10/02/1990
From:	Hebdon F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Kingsley O TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
References
TAC-R00419, TAC-R00420, TAC-R419, TAC-R420, NUDOCS 9010100024
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_ October 2, 1990 Docket Nos. 50-327 and 506328 Mr. Oliver D. Kingsley, Jr.

4 Senior Vice President, Nuclear Pcwer Tennessee Valley Authority 6 N 38A Lockout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

CHANGES IN TVA COMMITMENT' COMPLETION DATES (TAC N05. R00419/R00420) -

SEQUOYAH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS-1 AND ?-

We are concerned about your recent letters revising dates for implementation of comitments made to the NRC by the Tennessee Valley' Authority (TVA) to justify the restart'of the Sequoyah units in 1988. Two letters dated July 2, 1990 have revised the completion dates for the following important Sequoyah.

(1) the Q-list of critical structures, systems, and components; and 1ssues:

(2) the completion of the TVA welding project program.

For the Q-list, as discussed-in Inspection Report 50-327, 50-328/86-11 dated April 22, 1986, the original comitment was to have the document issued and implemented within three months of the restart of the units. The staff con-cluded that the Q-list was not a requireiwent for the restart and operation-of the units, in part because the implementation of the Q-list would soon follow the restart of the units. Since then, there has been a~ succession of revisions to the original comitment culminating in your letter dated July 2, 1990. In that letter, you discussed the problems that you concluded would-a cause unnecessary and costly delays in replanning maintenance, modification, outage-related activities and associated unnecessary revision of procedures if-the Q-list were implemented as it presently exists.

For the TVA welding project program, the original' Phase I and Phase II of the program have been ompleted at Sr uoyah.

In your letter dated August 25, 1989 which submitted thiTVA Welding Project Final Report, you identified a new Phase III in the Report which included the consolidation of-this )rogram into a corporate standard to provide a unified TVA welding program and t1e issuance of site implementing procedures.

In the August 25, 1989 letter, you committed to this consolidation into a corporate. standard by January 15, 1990 and the issuance of site implementing procedures within 90 days as required thereafter in accordance with corporate standards program procedures. The Janu <y 'i5, 1990 comitment was changed to March 30, 1990 in your letter dated January 12, 1990 and, althcugh the corporate. standard was completed by March 30, 1990, the site implementing procedures were not issued within 90 days as required by you+

corporate procedures. Although Phase III was not specifically cart of the comitments made to restart the Sequoyah units, the staff does consider thr..n 9010100d2'4 901002 PDR ADOCK 05000327 P

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part of.the resolution of the welding concerns raised at Sequoyah that the-TVA

-welding project program is' addressing. -Therefore, Phase III needs:to bet completed as soon as' practicable.

In the July 2, 1990 letter, you did.not provide any details why the site implementing procedures which will contain the=

-i rceaining attributes of the TVA Welding Project Final Rcport may be issued as j

. late as-January 2,1991.

Octh of these issues are important to the' staff.

Your original commitments-I were to have the Q. List and the Weldin Project Final Report site implementing-

i procedures completed by February 1989 i.e., three months after the Unit 1 I

restart in November 1988) and April 1990 (i.e., 90 days' after the Januery 15,

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~1990), respectively, but revisions to these completion dates have now delayed completion of the conmitments to January 2,1991 for.the implementation date of; the Welding Project Final Report and January 4,1991 for the:implen.entation of H

the Q. list.

You are requested to provide within 45 day', of rece'et of this letter a; listing of all the commitments which TVA made to justify the restart of Units l'and 2 in 1988 that have not been completed to date.

In the-listing, please provide i

the following information:

(1) the connitment, (2) the original committed-to.

completion date, (3) the status of these commitments, and (4) the. current i

expected completion date. You are also requested to provide the reasons why the site implen.enting procedures for the TVA Welding Project Final: Report have not yet been issued.

1 The reporting and/or recordkcaping requirements contained in-this letter affect fewer than ten respondents; therefore, OMB clearance for the request for infor-i mation in this letter is not required under P.L.17 511.

Please call Jack Donohew at (301) 492-1308 if you have any questions 'concerning this matter.

Sincerely, i

Original signed'by Frederick J. Hebdon, Director Project Directorate 11 4 Division of Rt. actor Projects - I/II Office Of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i

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Mr. Marvin Runyon, Chairman Pr. Joseph Bynum, Acting Site Director i

Tennessee Valley Authority Sequoyah_ Nuclear Plant ET 12A 7A Tennessee Valley Authority 400 West Sumit Hill Drive P. O. Box 2000-

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Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Soddy Daisy, Tennessee '37379 Mr. Edward G. Wallace _

Mr. Mark J. Burzynski Manager, Nuclear Licensing Site Licensing Manager and Regulatory Affairs Sequoyah' Nuclear Plant l

Tennessee Valley Authority P. O. Box 2000 i

SN 157B Lookout Place Soddy Daisy, Tennessee 37379; Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801 Mr. John B. Waters, Director County Judge Tennessee Valley Authority Hamilton County Courthouse ET 12A 9A Chattanooga,-Tennessee 37402 400 West Sumit Hill Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Re.onal Administrator, Region II s

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Mr.. W. F. Willis 101 Marietta Street, N.W.

CFief Operating Officer Atlanta, Georgia 30323 rr 12B 10B 400 West Summit Hill Drive Mr. Paul E. Harmon Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Senior Resident Inspector Sequoyah Nuclear Plant General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission j

Tennessee Valley Authority 2600 Igou Ferry-Road a00 West Sumit Hill Drive-Soddy Daisy, Tennessee 37379 ET 118 33H l

Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Mr. Michael H. Mobley, Director Division of Radiological Health Mr. Dwight Nunn T.E.P..R. A. Building, 6th Floor Vice President, Nuclear Engineering 150 9th Avenue North t

Tennessee Valley Authority Nashville, Tennessee 37219-5404 6N 38A Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Tennessee Valley Authority Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801 Rockville Office 11921 Rockville Pike Dr. Mark 0. Medford Suite 402 Vice President and Nuclear Rockville, Maryland 20852 Technical Director Tennessee Valley Authority 6N 38A Lookout Place Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801

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