ML20101S507

Commits to Resolve Listed Concerns Re Fuel Surveillance Activities in Response to .Proposed Tech Spec Changes & Fuel Surveillance Program Document Will Be Submitted for Approval by 850501

ML20101S507
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Saint Vrain
Issue date:	01/18/1985
From:	Lee O PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF COLORADO
To:	Johnson E NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
References
P-85005, TAC-57625, NUDOCS 8502050448
Download: ML20101S507 (2)

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                                                                      ..                     _y ATTN: Mr. E. H. Johnson Docket No. 50-267

SUBJECT:

Fort St. Vrain Fuel Element Inspection Program

REFERENCE:

1) PSC letter, Warembourg to Johnson, dated 7/31/84 (P-84246)

2) NRC letter, Johnson to Lee, dated 10/19/84 (G-84400)

Dear Mr. Johnson:

In response to the NRC positions stated in Reference 2, the Public i Service Company of Colorado hereby makes the following commitments to resolve the NRC's concerns regarding Fort St. Vrain fuel surveillance activities:

1. PSC will develop and submit for NRC approval a new Section 7.0, Administrative Controls, Technical Specification which will require: (1) that PSC develop and implement a Fuel Surveillance Program, (2) that PSC cbtain NRC approval of the Fuel Surveillance Program, including changes ~thereto prior to undertaking changes in Fuel Surveillance Program activities, and (3) that PSC report the results of Fuel Surveillance Program activities to the NRC.

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                               -          2.: -PSC will- develop- - Jand^. submit ,for =NRC . approval the
            ',                                        aforementioned Fue! Surveillance- Program document. The Fuel

~ ~ Surveillance EProgram document will' consolidate all-previous

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encompass. the fuel . surveillance . activities stated in ! . Reference-1, which' were previously- proposed for direct ' ! incorporation. into ;the. Fort -St. Vrain- Technical O Specifications. 3.- The:. proposed ' Technical' Specification change and the Fuel

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l Surveillance Program-document will be submitted to the~ NRC " for approv'al by May 1,1985.. In _the propo' sed Fuel: Surveillance Program document, PSC'will attempt

                                 -to. clearly 1 distinguish. between::                                                         (1).PSC- fuel                        surveillance                                   i coinnitments that- are responsive to Fort St.; Vrain fuel safety                        .

! concerns, and (2) fuel surveillance activities of a -research and development' nature . -whose! - performance may be , subject to the. i availability of DOE funding. An example of the latter: type of fuel surveillance . activity is the . Post Irradiation ~ Examination of 4 nonreference' forms of fuel in the Fuel Test Elements. While the' NRC-l has expressed interest in how nonreference foms of fuel perform, PSC ] 'does not agree to fund examinations of fuel forms whose . performance 4 is not vital. to the verification of Fort St. Vrain. fuel ' safety.

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J you- have- any questions on this -matter, please contact  ; Mr. M. H. Holmes.at (303) 571-8409. - 1 ! Very truly yours, r i f ,

0. . Lee, Vice President r Electric Production i e

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