ML20128F695
| ML20128F695 | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 12/18/1992 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML20128F694 | List: |
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| GL-89-01, GL-89-1, NUDOCS 9302110510 | |
| Download: ML20128F695 (4) | |
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December 18, 1992 SAFETY EVALUATION BY 11[E OFFICL0E NUCLEAR REA(10R REGULATIM RELATED TO AMENDMENT NO.154 TO FACILITY OPERATING LLCUISE NO. DPR-20 CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY PALISADES PLANT DOCKET NO. 50-2H 1.0 INTRODUCTIM By letter dated October 13, 1989, Consumers Power Company (CPCo or the licensee) proposed to incorporate programatic controls for radiological effluents and radiological environmental monitoring in the Administrative Controls Section of the Technical Specification (TS) consistent _with the requirements of 10 CFR 20.106, 40 CFR Part 190, 10 CFR 50.36a, and Appendix l-to 10 CFR Part 50. At the same time, the licensee proposed to transfer the procedural details of the Radiological Effluent Technical Specifications (RETS) from the TS to the Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (0DCM) or to the Process Control Program (PCP) for solid radioactive wastes as appropriate.
With these changes, the specifications related to RETS reporting requirements were simplified.
Finally, changes to the definitions of the ODCM and PCP were proposed consistent with these changes.
Guidance on these )roposed changes was provided to all power reactor licensees and applicants )y Generic Letter (GL) 89-01 dated January 31, 1989. Additional clarifications wern provided in-a letter dated August 27, 1992.
2.0 EVALVATIDff The licensee's proposed changes to the TS are in accordance with the guidance provided in GL 89-01 and are addressed below.
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The licensee has proposed to incorporate programmatic controls for radioactive effluents and radiological environmental monitoring in S accification 6.8.4, " Procedures and Programs," of the TS as noted in tie guidance provided in GL 89-10. The programmatic controls ensure that programs sre established, implemented, and mintained to ensure that operating procedures are provided to control radioactive effluents consistent with the requirements of 10 CFR 20.106, 40 CFR Part 190, 10 CFR 50.36a, and Appendix ! to 10 CFR Part 50.
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The licensee has confirmed that the detailed procedural requirements addressing Limiting Conditions for Operation, their applicability, remedial actions, associated surveillance requirements, or reporting requirements for the following specifications have been prepared to implement the relocation of procedural details to the 00CM or PCP.
These chenges to the ODCH and PCP have been prepared in accor<1ance with 9302110510 921210 PDR ADOCK 05000255 P
4 the new Administrative Controls Section in the TS on changes to the ODCM and PCP so that they will be implemented in the ODCH or PCP when this amendment is issued.
SPECIFICATION lilLE 3/4.24.1 RADIDACTIVE LIQUID EFFLUENT MON 110 RING INSTRUMENTATION j
3/4.24.2 RADIOACTIVE GASE0US EFFLUENT MONITORING INSTRUMENTATION 3/4.24.3 LIQUID EFFLUENTS CONCENTRATION 3/4.24.4 LIQUID EFFLUENTS DOSE 3/4.24.5 GASEOUS EFFLUENTS DOSE 3/4.24.5.1 GASEOUS EFFLUENTS DOSE: - DOSE RATE 3/4.24.5.2 GASEOUS EFFLUENTS DOSE:
NOBLE GASES 3/4.24.5.3 GASE0US EFFLUENTS DOSE:
DOSE - 10 DINE-131, 10 DINE-123,
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TRITIUM, AND RADIONUCLIDES IN PARilCULATE FORM 3/4.24.6 GASE0US WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM 3/4.24.7 SOLID RADI0 ACTIVE WASTES 3/4.24.8 TOTAL DOSE 4.11 RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 4.11.1 RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING:
MONITORING PROGRAM 4.11.3 RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING:
LAND USE CENSUS 4.11.5 RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING:
INTERLABORATORY COMPARIS0N PROGRAM 6.9.3.1B ANNUAL RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL OPERATING Ri?0RT 6.9.3 lA SEMIANNUAL RADI0 ACTIVE EFFLUENT RELEASE REPORT 6.20 MAJOR MODIFICATIONS TO RADIOACTIVE LIQUID, GASE0US, AND SOLID WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS The above procedural details that have been removed from the TS are not required by the Commission's regulations to be included in the TS.
They have been prepared for incorporation in the ODCH or PCP upon issuance of this license amendment and may be subsequently changed by-
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the licensee without prior NRC approval.
Changes to the ODCH and PCP are documented and will be retained for the duration of the operating license in accordance with Specification 6.10.2.o.
In addition to relocating TS 6.20 (Standard Technical Spscification (STS) 6.15), major modification to radioactive liquid, gaseous, and solid waste treatment systems, to the ODCH and the PCP, changes have been made to the reporting requirement.
Present TS 6.20 requires special reporting to the NRC within six months of the time a safety evaluation for a majcr modification to the radwaste system was reviewed by the Plant heview Committee (PRC). The revised reporting requirement, now in the ODCH and PCP, no longer specifies a special report but instead requires the reporting of a major modification pursuant to 10 CfR_50.59. This change (found in ODCH Appendix A section V.A.1) meets the requirements of Enclosure 1 to GL 89-01 as it follows the requirements of new Specifications 6.19a(1) and (2) for changes to the ODCH and to the PCP.
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The licensee has proposed replacing the existing specifications in the Administrative Controls Section of the TS for the Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Report, Specification 6.9.3.1B, for the Radioactive Effluent Release Report, Specification 6.9.3.lA, for the PCP, Specification 6.19, and for the ODCH, Specification 6.18 with the updated specifications that were provided in GL 89-01.
In addition, the October 13, 1989, submittal included a request for an exemption to the 60-day reporting requirement of 10 CFR-50.36(a)(2).
During discussions with the NRC staff, the licensee was informed that this exemption request could not be approved.- Consequently, by letter dated August 27, 1992, the licensee withdrew its request for the-exemption to the 60-day reporting requirement of 10 CFR 50.36.(a)(2).
On the basis of the above, the staff finds that the changes included in the proposed-TS amendment request are consistent with the guidance.
provided in GL 89-01.
Because the control of radioactive effluents continues to be limited in accordance with operating procedures that must satisfy the regulatory requirements of 10 CFR 20.106, 40 CFR Part 190, 10 CFR 50.36a, and Appendix ! to 10 CFR Part 50, the NRC staff' concludes that this change is administrative in nature and there is no impact on plant safety as a consequence. Accordingly, the staff finds the proposed changes acceptable.
3.0 SJETE CONSULTATIDH In accordance with the Commission's regulations, the Michigan State official was notified of the-proposed issuance of the amendment. The State officf al had no comments..
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4.0 [NVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION 1he amendment changes a requirement with respect to the installation or use of a facility component located within the restricted area as defined in 10 CFR Part 20 and changes in a surveillance requirement. The staff has determined that the amendment involves no significant increase in the amounts, and no significant change in the types, of any effluents that may be released offsite, and that there is no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure. The Commission has previously issued a proposed finding that the amendment involves no significant hazards-consideration and there has been no public comment on such finding (55 FR 4262).
Accordingly, the amendment meets the eligibility criteria'for categorical, exclusion ;st forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(9).
Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental imaact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection wit 1 the issuance of the amendment.
5.0 CQNCLUSION 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 3roposed manner, (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with tie Commission's regulations, and (3) the issuance of the amendment will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Principal Contributor:
T. Dunning i
M. Gamberoni Date: December 18, 1992 3
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