ML20112D721
| ML20112D721 | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley |
| Issue date: | 12/31/1984 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8501140446 | |
| Download: ML20112D721 (2) | |
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SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELATED TO AMENDMENT NO. 87 TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. DPR-66 DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY OHIO EDISON COMPANY PENNSYLVANIA POWER COMPANY BEAVER VALLEY POWER STATION, UNIT NO. I f
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. Introduction 4
By letter dated June 25, 1984, Duquesne Light Company applied for an amendment to Operating License DPR-66 to change, specification 4.6.1.2.,
" Containment Leakage Surveillance Requirements.
The staff's review and evaluation of the application is as follows.
1 Discussion and Evaluation Section III.D.1(a) of Appendix J, 10 CFR 50, states that "... a set of three Type A tests shall be performed, at approximately equal intervals during 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 (iii practice, 40 10 month intervals, with the third one in each set perfomed 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 Boiler and Pressura Vessel Code (See letter,
- S. A. Varga of NRC to J. J. Carey of DuqWsne Light Company, May 21,1984).
It is, therefore, no longer possible to p5rfom the third CILRT within 40 10 months after the second one, and during inservice inspection shutdown.
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 perfomed in conjunction with the inservice inspection shutdown. The staff has reviewed the request and concluded that since the CILRT need not be perfomed during the inservice inspection shutdown, the licensee's request is acceptable. An exemption was issued on December 5, 1984. The licensee will continue to perfom the CILRTs at interval of 40 210 months but will not need to perfom them in conjunction with inservice inspections.
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Environmental Consideration This amendment involves a change in administrative procedures and requirements. Accordingly, this amendment meets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR Sec 51.22(c)(10). Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b) no environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this amendment.
Conclusion We have concluded, based on the considerations discussed above, that:
(1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the proposed manner, and (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Comission's regulations and the issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the comon defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Dated:
December 31, 1984 Principal Contributor:
J. Guo
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