ML20081F506

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Requests Exemption from 10CFR50.44(c)(iii),requiring RCS Vent Installation/Operation by Outage Beginning 820701. Concurrent Implementation of RCS Vent Procedures & Training & Revised Emergency Operating Procedures Planned
ML20081F506
Person / Time
Site: North Anna  Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 10/28/1983
From: Stewart W
VIRGINIA POWER (VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO.)
To: Harold Denton, John Miller
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
614, NUDOCS 8311030109
Download: ML20081F506 (2)


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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND Power COMPANY Y [ RIcIrwoxn, VIRGINIA 202G1 w L.srsw4mr A

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' NORTH ANNA POWER STATION UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2

' REACTOR COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS i s In your letter dated September 9, 1983, it was-indicated that the requirements of 10 CFR 50.44(c)(3)(iii) should be . followed in relation to the reactor coolant system (RCS) vents. Further, your letter states that the RCS vents shall be installed, operational, procedures shall be established and personnel shall be , trained in accordance with the schedule provided in the rule. An exemption'would be necessary if the specific design or schedular requirements

- of 10 CFR 50.'44(c)(3)(111)lcannot be ccIrplied with.

-The requirements of 10 CFR 50.44(c)(3)(iii) require that the RCS vents must be installed and > operational' by the first scheduled outage of sufficient duration

'beginning after July.1, 1982. North Anna bnit Nos. 1 and 2 have complied with the rule by having the RCS vents installed and operational by the first outage of sufficient duration beginning after. July 1, 1982. The RCS vents have been

~g functionally tested but currently are electrically disconnected. In the event f'._ of an emergency,,the RCS vents could be energized and they could be used with the guidance of the gene' tic procedures. Vepco does not intend on testing and providing formal' procedures for the RCS vents until the revised emergency E operating procedures' are 'imolemented.

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^ During ae telephone conversation with your Staff, on October 19, 1983, it was determined that North' Anna Unit Nos. I and 2 did not currently comply with 10

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CFR'50.44(c)(3)(iii) because Vepco did not interpret the rule as stating that interim procedures and training were necessary to fully meet the rule.' Vepco g had planned to implement procedures and training for the RCS vents with the implementation of the revised emergency' operating procedures.

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vsassau EE.DCTBBC AND Powan Cowrawr to Harold R. Denton Due to. this misunderstanding in the intepretation of the rule, Vepco requests an exemption from 10 CFR.50.44(c)(3)(iii) for North Anna Unit Nos. 1 and 2.

. Vepco rcquests that ' the procedures' and training related to the RCS vents be implemented with 'the implementation 'of the- revised emergency operating procedure instead of providing interim procedures and training.

Very truly yours, 3

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W. L. Steva m

cc: Mr.' James P. O'Reilly

- Regional Administrator

. Region II

- Mr. M. B. Shymlock N"C Resident Inspector

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