ML20100N172
| ML20100N172 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley |
| Issue date: | 11/30/1984 |
| From: | Miraglia F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | DUQUESNE LIGHT CO. |
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| ML20100N174 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8412120617 | |
| Download: ML20100N172 (3) | |
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76, 7590-01 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of Docket No. 50-334 DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY OHIO EDIS0N COMPANY PENNSYLVANIA POWER COMPANY
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(Beaver Valley Power Stati,on.
Unit No. 1)
EXEMPTION I.
The Duquesne Light Company, Ohio Edison Company and Pennsylvania Power Company (the licensees), are the holder of Facility Operating License No.
DPR-66 (the license) which authorizes operation of the Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit No. 1.
The license provides, among other things, that it is subject to all rules, regulations and Orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Comission) now and hereafter in effect.
.The facility comprises a pressurized water reactor at the licensee's site located at Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
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By letter dated June 25, 1984, Duquesne Light Company applied for an amendment to Operating License DPR-66 to change certain provisions of the Technical Specifications. The change would require an exemption from the Comission's regulation, described as follows:
Section III.C.1(a) of Appendix J, 10 CFR 50, states that "... a set of three Type A tests shall be perforr.ed, at approximate equal intervals during B4'1I120617 841205 PDR ADOCK 05000334
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, each 10-year service period. The third test of each set shall be conducted when the plant is shutdown for the 10-year plant inservice inspections." This requires that containment integrated leak rate tests (CILRTs) be performed at approximately 40-month intervals (in practice, 40 10 month intervals, with the third one in each set performed coincident with performance of the 120-month inservice inspection).
Due to an extended shutdown of eleven months and twenty-one days, the inservice inspection interval has been extended, per the requirements of Section XI of the ASME Boil 9r and Pressure Vessel Code (See letter, S. A. Varga of NRC to J. J. Carey of Duquesne Light Company, Mary 21,1984).
It is, therefore, no longer possible to perform the third CILRT within 40 !
10 months after the second one, and during inservice inspection shutdown, i
Duquesne Light Company has requested that Technical Specification 4.6.1.2 be changed, and an exemption from Section III.D.1(a) of Appendix J be granted such that the third of each set of three CILRTs need not be performed in conjunction with the inservice inspection shutdown.
The staff has reviewed the request and concluded that since the CILRT need not be performed during the inservice inspection shutdown, the licensee's request is acceptable.
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licensee will continue to perform the CILRTs at intervals of 40+10 months but will not need to perform the.m in conjunction with inservice inspections.
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Accordingly, the Commission has determined that, pursuant to 10 CFR l
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property or the common defense and security and is otherwise in the public l
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- interest and hereby grants an exemption with respect to the requirements of 10 CFR 50, Appendix J, Section III.D.1(a):
The Beaver Valley Unit 1 Technical Specifications may be amended to require that the CILRTs be performed solely according to the 40 i 10 month frequency, not in conjunction with the inservice inspection shutdown.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.32, the Commission has determined that the issuance of the Exemption will have no significant impact on the environment (49 FR 32134, August 10, 1984-).
This Exemption is effective upon issuance.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION G4
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.FrankMira6)ia,CuepugDirector Office of Nuclear ReIctor Regulation e
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 30th day of November 1984.
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