ML20070T350

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Notifies That Util Will Request Relief from Specific Staff Position in 10CFR50.62 Re Alternate Rod Injection Implementation
ML20070T350
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 03/29/1991
From: J. J. Barton
GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
To:
NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
C321-91-2075, TAC-56126, TAC-59122, NUDOCS 9104040120
Download: ML20070T350 (1)


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OPU Nuclear Corporation 4 Nuclear = t r >88 forked R!ver. New Jorsey 0873103B8 609 971-4000 Wnter's D:fo0f Dial Numter, March 29,1991 C321-91-2075 TAC Nos. 59122 56126 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission Attn Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 Gentlemen Subjects Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNOS) l Docket No. 50-219 Alternato Rod Injection Implementation at OCNOS per 10 CFR 50.62 (ATWS Rule)

Your letter dated January 24, 1991 and received on January 30, 1991 requested a sixty (60) day response confirming that Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station complied with the Staff's position regarding diversity of trip units between the Alternate Rod Injection System and Reactor Trip System. The purpose of this letter is to respond to your request and notify you that we intend to request relief from this specific Staff Position in accordance with 10 CFR 50.12.

GPU Nuclear will submit a relief request within 90 days of the date of this letter. Special circumstances are present which would allow the Connission to deviatw from the generic position. Such circumstances were recognized by the Staff in their response to CROR, as noted in the CRGR meeting minutes of Hecting No. 189, on June 27, 1990. In Enclosure 3 to your letter (page 4, paragraph 5), the Staff acknowledged that a basis may exist for the licensee to request relief on a plant specific btais due to the " extraordinary difficulty and great expense in implementing the (Staff's generic) position..." This is the case for Oyster Creek. Our submittal, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.12, will address these issues in detail.

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