ML20136G199

Suppls 850321 Response to 841126 Request for Determination Re Util Possible Matl False Statement to ASLB Concerning U-bolt Supports.Based on Listed Technical Considerations,No Matl False Statements Exist.No Enforcement Action Needed

ML20136G199
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	07/19/1985
From:	Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:	Noonan V NRC - COMANCHE PEAK PROJECT (TECHNICAL REVIEW TEAM)
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ML20136F556	List: ML20136F552 ML20136G199 ML20137A035 ML20137C368 ML20137C403 ML20137C427 ML20137C447 ML20137D123
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NUDOCS 8507310381
Download: ML20136G199 (1)

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ME80RANDUM FOR: Vincent S. Noonan, Director i Comanche Peak Task Force FROM: James M. Taylor, Director Office of Inspection and Enforcement

SUBJECT:

POSSIBLE MATERIAL FALSE STATEMENT CONCERNING U-BOLT SUPPORTS AT COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION Your memorandum dated November 26, 1984 requested my consideration of whether Texas Utilities Electric Company (" Applicants") had made a " material false statement" warranting enforcement action in a statement Applicants made to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board concerning U-bolt supports at the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station. My memorandum dated March 21, 1985 informed you that the statement could be viewed as a material false statement but that additional information was needed to detemine what enforcement action, if any, is appropriate.

Since then, the Comanche Peak staff has concluded that while the Applicant's sample was not random in the pure statistical use, it was reasonably representative and that the applicant's characterization of their field survey as " random" and " representative" is not technically important from the standpoint of safety with respect to stability o/ the pipe supports and stresses and in the U-bolts and supported piping. (Your memorandum dated June 28,1985.) In light of this technical conclusion concerning the statement, my staff has detemined that the statement is not a material false statement within the meaning of Section 186 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended.

l T-J es M. Tay1 , Director ffice of Inspection and Enforcement cc:

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