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Informs Commission of Status of Open Issues & Progress of Specified Facilities Toward Decommissioning
ML20128C964
Person / Time
Site: Rancho Seco
Issue date: 02/02/1993
From: Taylor J
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:
References
CON-#293-13606 DCOM, SECY-93-023, SECY-93-23, NUDOCS 9302040245
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POLICY ISSUE SECv-93-023 February 2, 1993 (Information)

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The Commissioners from:

James M. Taylor Executive Director for Operations Sub.iec t :

QUARTERLY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF PREMATURELY SHUT DOWN PLANTS furpose:

To inform the Commission of the status of open issues and the progress of the specified facilities toward decommissioning.

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In COMJC-92-002 of March 23, 1992, the Commission directed the staff to submit quarterly reports on the status of prematurely shut down plants.

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The following is the status of plants in the decommissioning process.

1.

SHOREHAM Price-Anderson Exemption The staff and the Office of the General Counsel (0GC) are reviewing this issue and expect to make recommendations for resolution by February 1993.

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RANCHO SEC0 A,

Decommission 1na Plan The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) in its order (LBP-92-23, 35 NRC) of August 20, 1992, denied the Petitioner, Environmental and Resources Conservation Organization (ECO), standing in its NOTE:

TO BE MADE PUBLICLv AVAILABLE UPON ISSUANCE.

THIS PAPER WILL BE SERVED ON THE PARTIES TO CONTAC1:

ONGOING DECOMMISSIONING S. Weiss, ONDD/NRR

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request for a hearing on the decommissioning plan.. On September 8, 1992, ECO filed an appeal of the ASLB ruling with the Commission for its consideration.

The staff has nearly completed reviewing the licensee decommissioning plan. The staff schedule for action on the licensee decommissioning plan will depend on the Commission action on the ECO appeal.

B.

Decommissionina Fundina Plan The staff has evaluated the Rancho Seco funding plan and will include its findings in the safety evaluation supporting the Rancho Seco decommissioning order.

C.

Price-Anderson Exemotion 1

The staff and OGC are reviewing this issue and expect i

to make recommendations for resolution by February 1993.

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FORT ST. VRAIN A.

Decommissionina Plan in an order of November 23, 1992, the Commission ~

authorized the decommissioning (DECON option) of the i

Fort St. Vrain facility (FSV). The Commission also-issued Amendment 85 to establish the decommissioning technical specifications (TS).

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of Colorado is dismantling FSV in accordance with.the plan.

B.

Transfer of Responsibility In a memorandum of December--17, 1992, the staff transferred the regulatory responsibility of licensing-a'nd project management for the Fort St. Vrain (FSV).

facility from the Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate _of the' Office of-Nuclear Reactor Regulation. (NRR) to the -

Decummissioning and_ Regulatory _lssues Branch of the.

t Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS). The transfer is consistent with the agreement.

between NRR and NMSS,'as documented in a memorandum of-March ;1,- 1988, from Thomas E. Murley' and -

Hugh:L.-Thompson,.Jr., to Victor Stello.

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Vodates Discontinued Unless new issues arise on Fort St. Vrain which should be brought to the attention of the Commission, this is the last update in the quarterly report for matters related to Fort St. Vrain. This is in accordance with COMJC-92-002.

IV.

YANKEE R0WE A.

Decommissionina Plan The licensee is now scheduled to submit the decommis-sioning plan in the f all of 1993.

The staff estimates needing one year to review the plan, with approval by fall of 1994.

B.

Completed Actions The staff issued six license amendments and five exemptions and approved a Certified Fuel Handler Program.

The major amendments and exemptions dealt-with 10 CFR Part 50 Appendix J, emergency planning, the FSAR Update Rule, operator staffing, the fire protection program, radiological effluent technical specifications, and the safeguards program.

The staff also reviewed miscellaneous administrative changes for the permanently shut down condition.

C.

Actions ir vroaress The staff is processing (1) exemption requests for property insurance onder 10 CFR 50.54(w), (2) the Price-Anderson indemnity agreement under 10 CFR Part 140, and (3) two license amendment requests for wate chemistry and "defueled" technical specifications. On the Price-Anderson indemnity issue, the staff and 0GC expect to make iecomnendations for resolution by February 1993.

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Public Interest The NRC received two letters from the Citizen's Awareness Network, a local group, expressing concern that local residents did not have a voice in the decision making process for issuing the license.

amendments and exemptions. The Network requested that the NRC rescind the _ exemptions and hold a public hearing on decommissioning issues.

The NRC has

The Commissioners,

responded to both letters and has proposed a public meeting near the site in early 1993 to discuss the Yankee Rowe decommissioning process.

E.

Etmoval of larae Comoonents Under 10 CFR 50.52 in a letter of flovember 25, 1992, Yankee described its proposed program to remove the four steam generators, the pressurizer, and reactor vessel internals from the site to Barnwell prior to tiRC approval of the decommissioning plan for Yankee.

At a meeting with the licensee on December 8,1992, the staff requested further information on pre-decommissioning activities.

The staff documented these questions in a meeting summary of December 23, 1992, and responses were received on January 12, 1993.

Further guidance on activities which might be performed prior to approval of a decommissioning plan was received from the Commission in a staff requiraments memorandum of January 14, 1993.

The staff will review the licensee proposed actions using this guidance.

V.

SAti OfiOFRE, UtilT 1 A.

Epssession-Only license On 0ctober 23, 1992, the staff issued a possession-only license for San Onofre liuclear Generating Station, Unit 1 (50t4GS-1).

The possession-only license will not become effective until the licensee certifies that all fuel has been removed from the core and stored in the_ spent fuel pool.

The licensee permanently shut down 5014GS-1 on tiovember 30, 1992.

As allowed by the existing license, the licensee has begun removing spent fuel from the Unit I spent fuel pool to the Unit 3 pool to make room for the Unit I core.

The licensee expects that the Unit I core will be transferred to the spent fuel pool by March 30, 1993.

B.

ESAR Update Exemotien On October 1, 1992. the Commission promulgated a rule change to 10 CFR 50.71(e) which extended the interval between submissicns of FSAR updates, Therefore, the exemption requested by the licensee is no longer necessary.

Accordingly, the licensee has withdrawn its request for an exemption.

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TROJAN TerminatiRD of Ontrations On January 4,1993, officials at Portland General Electric Company announced that they will permanently cease operation of the Trojan Nuclear Plant.

Trojan has been shut down since November 9, 1992, because of steam generator tube leaks that resulted from an improperly sleeved tube.

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INDIAN P0lt(T 1 AND DRESDEN 1 After issuing the Fort St. Vrain decommissioning order, the staff was able to apply resources to continue reviewing the decommissioning plans for Indian Point Unit 1 and Dresden Unit 1.

The staff anticipates completing both reviews by the spring of 1993.

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