ML20128B600

Requests Notification When Insp of 80% of All safety-related Raceways in Category I Bldgs Complete & 80% of Scheduled Bldg Turnover Accomplished to Accomodate Fuel Load Schedule, Per Const Insp Program New Initiatives

ML20128B600
Person / Time
Site:	River Bend
Issue date:	05/10/1985
From:	Denise R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	William Cahill GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
References
NUDOCS 8505240595
Download: ML20128B600 (2)

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MAY 101985 In Reply Refer To:

Docket: 50-458 Gulf States Utilities ATTN: William J. Cahill, Jr.

Senior Vice President River Bend Nuclear Group P. O. Box 2951 Beaumont, Texas 77704 Gentlemen:

The NRC has developed and is implementing a Construction Inspection Program New Initiatives effort; this program is directed at those reactor facilities that are close to licensing. The aim of the program is to reinspect selected aspects of the construction activities that our experience indicates are the most likely problem areas. The concept of the program is for these new initiative inspections to be conducted in the selected areas when they reach th.e "as-built" status; (i.e., after essentially all construction efforts have been completed and all contemplated quality control and engineering inspections have been performed). We have already started the new initiative inspections in the areas of structural steel and HVAC installations.

There are, however, two important areas for which the status of your activity does not support final inspection. These areas are the quality control inspections of electrical raceway systems for completeness and compliance with separation criteria and the general engineering / quality control inspection to detect various interferences as described in your Construction Site Instruction 8.1.1. Although these efforts are well underway, their completion status is substantially less than must be achieved in order for us to complete our final inspections.

In order that we may accommodate your schedule for fuel load in the River Bend reactor with the most efficient utilization of our resources, you are requested to inform this office when you have achieved at least the following status:

1. The inspection of eighty aercent of all safety-related raceway in your Category I buildings has Jeen completed, and the inspected raceways have been accepted as meeting all applicable criteria.

2. Eighty percent of the scheduled building turnover, excluding the fuel building and the cooling tcwers, have been accomplished and the requirements of Construction S e Instruction 8.1.1 have been satisfied.

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9 Gulf States Utilities I Completion of final inspections in each of the above activities may result in I outstanding work items. These could result in controlled corrective rework at I some later date. These items should be described in your documentation with I sufficient specificity so that they may be readily undarstood by your personnel and our inspectors. These outstanding items, if of reasonable type and number, I will not deter our new initiatives inspections.  ;

1 It is important that you keep us informed of your progress in the above work i so that we can plan for inspections to start as soon as possible after you reach the specified completion points.

Sincerely, l Onglnal 51&"1 Cy:

Rich u d P, DenE l

R. P. Denise, Director Division of Reactor Safety and Projects i cc: '

Gulf States Utilities ATTN: J. E. Booker, Manager-Engineering, Nuclear Fuels & Licensing i P. O. Box 2951  !

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