ML20105A648
| ML20105A648 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Farley  |
| Issue date: | 01/28/1985 |
| From: | Mcdonald R ALABAMA POWER CO. |
| To: | Varga S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| CIVP-A-022, CIVP-A-22, GL-84-24, NUDOCS 8502040437 | |
| Download: ML20105A648 (2) | |
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~M:lling Address Alabama Power Company I
600 North 18th Street j
Post Office Box 2641 Birmingham, Alabama 35291 j
Telephone 205 783-6090
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R. P. Mcdonald Senior Vice President 1
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.n January 28, 1985 Docket Nos. 50-348 50-364 Director, Nuclear Reactor Regulation U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Attention: Mr. -S.
A. _ Varga Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant - Units 1 and 2 Environmental Qualification of Electrical Equipment Response to Generic Letter 84-24 Gentlemen:
Generic Letter 84-24 dated December 27, 1984 requested that Alabama Power Company submit, under oath or affirmation, a certification that:
-(a) an Environmental Qualification' Program is in place and being implemented that satisfies the requirements of 10CFR50.49 within the currently approved schedule for the plant without further extension; (b)
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- the plant has at least one path to safe shutdown using fully qualified equipment, or has submitted a justification for continued safe operation pending full qualification of any equipment not fully qualified; and (c) all other equipment within the scope of 50.49 is either fully qualified or a justification for continued operation has been submitted pending fu111 qualification.
In addition, Generic Letter 84-24 stated that the certification described in (a), (b), and (c) above address IE Bulletins and Information Notices that identify environmental qualification problems.
Alabama Power Company has an Environmental Qualification Program in place that satisfies the requirements of 10CFR50.49 as stated in the NRC Safety Evaluations dated December 13, 1984.
The Farley Nuclear Plant - Units 1 and 2 have at least one path to 10CFR50.49(b)(1) and -(b)y qualified equipment in accordance with safe shutdown using full (2) as-stated in letters dated May 20, 1983 and May 23, 1984 and approved by the NRC Safety Evaluations dated December 13, 1984.. Alabama _ Power Company has. developed Master Lists of equipment
-which require environmental qualification for Farley Nuclear Plant -
Units 1 and 2.. These Master Lists were developed by _a systematic review of_ design and as-built documentation, the FSAR,. Technical Specifications
= and Emergency Operating Procedures to determine the systems required to
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perform a safety-related function which includes equipment required to achieve safe shutdown. All of the equipment identified in the Master Lists have been environmentally qualified and, as a result, a justification for continued operation with unqualified equipment is not required.
The only other equipment within the scope of 10CFR50.49 is defined in Section (b)(3). The scope of 10CFR50.49(b)(3) that is subject to the schedule of 10CFR50.49(g) was discussed with justification for continued operation in a letter to the NRC dated February 22, 1984. This scope of i equipment is either fully qualified or will be qualified by the end of the Unit 1 sixth and Unit 2 third refueling outages but no later than November 30, 1985 and March 31, 1985 respectively. This completion schedule was approved by the NRC in letters dated April 16, 1984 for Unit 1 and October 21, 1983 for Unit 2, and NRC Safety Evaluations dated December 13, 1984.
In respcnse to I.E. Bulletin No. 82-04 dated January 3,1983, Alabama Power Company stated that no Bunker Ramo electrical penetrations are ins +alled or planned to be installed in safety-related systems at Farley Nuclear Plant.
Responses to IE Information Notices are not required to be submitted to the NRC. However, it is Alabama Power Company policy that all notices are reviewed for applicability to Farley Nuclear Plant and formally documented in the plant files for permanent retention.
If there are any questions, please advise.
Yours truly, d
R. P. Mcdonald RPM /DHJ :bdy-D6 SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME cc: _Mr. L. B. Long THIS tstiDAY OF, L,m,1985 Mr. J. P. O' Reilly Mr. E. A. Reeves I M 4 )., MM
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