ML20126D258
| ML20126D258 | |
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| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 05/30/1985 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION SUPPORTING AMENDMENT NO. 84 TO PROVISIONAL OPERATING LICENSE NO. DPR-16 GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION AND JERSEY CENTRAL POWER A LIGHT COMPANY OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION DOCKET NO. 50-219
1.0 INTRODUCTION
By letter dated October 22, 1984, GPU Nuclear Corporation (GPUN)
(the licensee) requested an amendment to Provisional Operating License No. DPR-16 for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS).
This amendment would add definitions listed in Section I, Definitions, that were previously approved by the Commission but were not and should be listed in the Table of Contents and the new reporting requirements of 10 CFR 50.72 and 50.73. These are changes to the Table of Contents, Section 1 Definitions, and Section 6 Administrative Controls of the Oyster Creek Appendix A Technical Specifications (TS).
A Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to License and Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination and Opportunity for Hearing related to the requested action was published in the Federal Register on February 27, 1985, (50 FR 7989). No public comments or requests for hearing were received.
2.0 DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION In Amendment No. 75 dated August 27, 1984, to Provisional Operating License No. DPR-16 for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS), the Commission added the following tems to Section 1 Definitions, of the OCNGS TS:
Fraction of Limiting Power Density (FLPD), Maximum Fraction of Limiting Power Densit of Rated Power (FRP) and Top of Active Fuel (TAF)y (MFLPD), Fraction These tems should have also been listed in the Table of Contents of the OCNGS TS in the amendment but they were not. Page i of the Table of Contents is being revised to include these four terms.
In Generic Letter (GL) 83-43, dated December 19, 1983, the Commission stated that Section 50.72 of Title 10 of the Code of the Federal Regulations was revised and a new Section 50.73 was added, effective hDR 19 P
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. January 1, 1984. Section 50.72 revises the imediate notification requirement for operating nuclear power reactors and Section 50.73 provides for a revised Licensee Event Report System.
The Comission requested licensees to propose revisions to the
" Administrative Controls" and " Definitions" sections of their plant's i
TS to implement the 50.72 and 50.73 regulation changes. The Commission also stated that there may be other changes to the TS required to reflect the revised reporting reouirements (e.g., TS requiring a Licensee Event Report instead of a Special Report).
The licensee proposed to add the following definition to Section 1 Definitions, and to the Table of Contents of the TS: Reportable Event, a REPORTABLE EVENT shall be any of those conditions specified in Section 50.73 to 10 CFR Part 50. This definition is the one that the Commission requested to be added to the OCNGS TS and is, therefore, acceptable to the staff.
The Comission requested in bl 83-43 that the licensee add the review of all reportable events to the responsibilities of those units of the organization, defined in Section 6.0, Administrative Controls, of the OCNGS TS, that (1) advise the Vice President and Director of OCNGS on matters related to nuclear safety and (2) provide an independent review and audit of specific designated plant activities.
At OCNGS, the Independent Onsite Safety Review Group (IOSRG) described in TS Section 6.5.4 provides an onsite safety revfew of operationally oriented activities by engineers who report outside the operational chain to fulfill the function of the independent safety engineering group in NIMEG-0737 (Clarification of TMI Action Plan Requirements)
Item I.B.I.2.
The IOSRG advises the Vice President and Director of OCNGS on safety matters through the Manager Nuclear Safety and prepares l
reports of evaluations and assessments that are given to the Nuclear SafetyAssessmentDirector,VicePresidentNuclearAssurance(offsite) and the management positions responsible for the areas reviewed.
An independent safety review for OCNGS is provided by the Vice President of each division within GPU Nuclear. As described in TS Section 6.5.2, they i
i provide the independent safety review of the specific designated plant activities listed in TS Section 6.5.2.3.
l Therefore, the Commission requested in GL 83-43 that the licensee add the review of all reportable events to the responsibilities of (1) the IOSRG and (2) the independent safety review of the Vice Presidents of each division within GPU huclear. The licensee did not provide a basis for i
the staff to conclude that this review by the above two groups was not needed or warranted at OCMGS. Therefore, the staff requests that the licensee add the review of "all Reportable Events" to the responsibili-ties of these two groups.
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The Commission requested in GL 83-43 that the licensee revise TS Section 6.6., Reportable Event Action, to implement the reculation changes to 10 i
CFR 50.72 and 50.73. The licensee proposed words which are consistent with guidance in GL 83-43 for this section except that the licensee did not include requirements that the results of the review of each Reportable Event shall be submitted to the 10SRG. The staff accepts the words proposed by the licensee for TS Section 6.6 and requests that the licensee
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add the phrase that copies of all such reports on Reportable Events shall be also submitted to the 10SRG.
j The Commission requested in GL 83-43 that the licensee delete TS Section 6.9.2, Reportable Occurrences, with its references to prompt notification with written followup and thirty-day written reports. The licensee has L.
proposed to delete this section and replace it with a new TS Section 6.9.2, j
Reportable Events stating that "the submittal of Licensee Event Reports shall be accomplished in accordance with the requirements set forth in 10
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CFR 50.73." This new sect.on was not requested by the Commission in GL 83-43 but it is a correct statement and is acceptable to the staff.
Finally, the Commission requested in GL 83-43 that TS Section 6.10.1, Record Retention, item c, be revised to state "All Reportable Events."
This was requested to maintain the new nomenclature of Reportable Events of 10 CFR 50.72 and 50.73 throughout the OCNGS TS. The licensee did not request this change to the TS and did not provide a basis for the staff to conclude that the change was not needed or
_ warranted. The staff requests that the licensee revise TS Section -6.10.1, item c, to state "All Reportable Events"'instead of the existing but out-of-date " Reportable occurrence reports."
Based on the above, the staff concludes that the changes proposed by licensee to add four definitions to the Table of Contents and to i
revise TS Section 6 to implement the 50.72 and 50.73 regulation changes are acceptable. The staff also requests that the licensee propose the following changes to TS Section 6.0:
(1) add the review of all Reportable Events to the responsibilities of the 10SRG (TS Section of each division within GPU Nuclear (y review of the vice p(residents 2) add the 6.5.4.3) and of the independent safet TS Section 6.5.2.5),
requirement that copies of the reports of each Reportable Event shall be submitted to the 10SRG (TS Section 6.6.1.bi and (3) revise TS Section 6.10.1, item c, Record Retention, to state "All Reportable Events."
3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION
This amendment changes recordkeeping, reporting, and adninistrative for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.?2(c)gibility criteria procedures. Accordingly, this amendment meets the eli (10).
e 4-Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b) no environmental impact statement or environ-mental assessment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this amendment.
4.0 CONCLUSION
The staff has 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 Commission's regulations and the issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
5.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This evaluation was prepared by J. Donohew.
Dated: May 30,1985
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