ML20072T348

Ack Receipt of Re Tera Corp QA & Engineering Plans for Independent Design & Const Verification Program. HVAC Sys Adequacy Determination Methodology Requested.Info Distribution Requirements Should Be Clarified

ML20072T348
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	03/25/1983
From:	Garde B GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
To:	Hood D NRC
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NUDOCS 8304080048
Download: ML20072T348 (1)

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. OVERNMENT ACCOUNTAD!LITY PROJECT Institute for Poher Studies i

1901 Que Street N.\V., \Voshington, D.C. 20009 (202)234 0382

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March 25, 1983 Mr. Darl Hood U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cor. ai ssion Washington, D.C. 20535

Dear Mr. Hood:

I am in receipt of your March 21, 1983 letter SC30ECT:

TERA CORPORATION'S PROJECT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND ENGINEERING

PROGRAM PLANS FOR THE MIDLAND INDEPENDENT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION VERIFICATION PROGRAM. The attached March 18, 1983 TERA letter includes a request for a public meeting between TERA and the NRC staff.

I also understand, through Mr. Darrell Eisenhut's March 23, 1983 letter that TERA has been requested to expand the two initially required systems to include an independent design verification (IDV) of that part of the Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) equipment that directly affects the control room. This decision is extremely significant, and I am anxious to review any detailed methodology plans by either the TERA Corporation or the NRC which will determine the adequacy of the HVAC system.

Finally, I note that the TERA letter of March 18, 1983 indicates that ". . .the Midland IDVC program has progressed to the point where confirmed items have been identified." It appears that the confirmed items have not been reported to the NRC at this time, and that TERA is asking for guidance about when to report these confirmed items. We are deeply distressed tha t the confirmed items have not been identified as of yet to the NRC. It wa s our understanding that all communication would be given simultaneously to the NRC and Consumers Power Company, yet obviously that has not occurred. In our March 7 ,

1983 letter to Mr. Darrell Eisenhut we pointed out that there-had been an admission tha t TERA had provided Consumers with a report that the NRC had not yet received, (Public Meeting, Midland, Michigan, February 8, 1983). Now TERA has." confirmed items" which it has not reported to the NRC.

Please clarify for TERA, as well as for us, the details of the requirement that information be provided to the NRC and to Consumers at the same time.

Your response will be appreciated in the near future.

Sincerely, 8304080048 830325 '" ~rt PDR A ADOCK 03000329 ~" _

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