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Ms. Nina Bell Assistant Director Nuclear Information and Resource Service 1346 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 4th Floor IN RESPONSE REFER Washington, DC 20036 TO F0IA-85-363 8
Dear Ms. Bell:
This is in further response to your letter dated May 8, 1985, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), eight separate categories of records which you identified in your letter.
By letter dated June 24, 1985, we provided a partial response to your request and informed you that the staff was searching for additional records. At this time, we are responding to the remaining four categories of your request.
Enclosed appendices C and D are lists of additional documents relating to seismic design and earthquake research.
Many of the records listed on Appendix C are of such a general nature that several categories may be appropriate; therefore, no effort was made by the staff to correlate the records with the subject categories. These records are being placed in the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20555, in file folder F01A-85-363 for your inspection ~and copying. The records listed on Appendix D are Advisory Comittee on Reactor Safeguards meeting descriptions and letter and consultant reports, which also relate to the various categories of your letter. These records have
.previously been made available for inspection and copying at the PDR. Access to these various records may be acquired by referring to the accession number listed by each of these records.
In addition, the staff identified the two records listed on enclosed Appendix E
.which also have previously been made publicly available at the PDR. The record listed at number one, although not directly related to your F0IA request, may be of interest to you. The second record listed on Appendix E is an additional record which relates to category three. Please refer to the accession numbers listed by these records if you wish to inspect them at the PDR.
This completes NRC's action.on your request.
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Enclosures:
As stated
Re: F01A-85-363 APPENDIX C 1.
01/31/77 Letter to Myer Bender from Ben C. Ru' sche, subject: Request for Interpretation of the Committee Coments on North Anna Power Stations, Units 1 and 2.
(3 pages)
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02/11/77-North Anna Environmental Coalition, re: VEPC0 Reactors 40%
Deficient in Design, (2 pages) 3.
04/20/77 Letter to Mr. Ernest Volgenan from North Anna Environmental Coalition (5 pages) 4.
05/20/77 Letter to Frederic J. Coufal, Chairman, from North Anna
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Environmental Coalition (3 pages) 5.
06/08/77 Letter to Dr. David Okrent, Chairman, from North Anna Environmental Coalition (6 pages) 6.
06/21/77 Lettee to Ragnwald Muller from North Anna Environmental Coalition (2pages) 7.
07/21/77 Letter to Dr. Richard Savio from W. F. Bennet, w/ attachment (13 pages) 8.
01/04/78 Letter to Myer. Bender from North Anna Environmental Coalition (7 pages) 9.
01/23/78 Letter to Ragnwalk Muller from E. A. Baum, w/ attachments (13 pages)-
- 10. 03/01/78 Letter to Raymond F. Fraley from L. P. Crocker w/ enclosures (8 pages)
- 11. 03/08/78 Letter to Raymond F. Fraley from L. P. Crocker w/ enclosures (5 pages)
- 12. 03/14/78 Letter'to P. M. Allen from R. F. Fraley (2 pages) 13.03/16/78 Letter to L. V. Gossick from Stephen Lawroski (1 page)
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Memorandum for Dr. Stephen Lawroski from Edson G. Case, 06/14/78 subject: North Ann Power Station Units 1 and 2 Seismic Design Margin (4 pages)
- 15. 01/04/79 Memo to ACRS Member from R. L. Wright w/ attachments (3 pages) i i
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- 16. 01/22/79 Memo to James P. Knight from Raymond F. Farley, subject: ACRS Comments of Guidelines for Determining Seismic Margins at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Unit No. 1 (2 pages)
- 17. 01/30/79 Memorandum for Raymond F. Farley from James P. Knight, subject:
Guidelines for Detemining Siesmic Margins at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Unit 1. (9 pages)
- 18. 06/28/79 Letter to Bob Jackson from Ellis L. Krinitzsky, w/ enclosure (3 pages)
- 19. 07/02/79 Memo to ACRS Members, re: NRC Comissioners' Briefing on Seismic Design Capability of Operating Reactors and Responses to 0IE Bulletin on Seismic Analysis--Mr. Darrell Eisenhut, Deputy Director, NRC/ DOR (18 pages)
- 20. 03/13/80 Memo to Dave Okrent from Paul Shewmon, subject: Piping Behavioe During Earthquakes (9 pages) 21.05/01/80 Memorandum for R. F. Farley from Gary G. Zech, subject: Seismic Design Margin Evaluation of Systems and Equipment Required for Safe Shutdown-North Anna Power Station, Units 1 and 2 (NA-1&2)
(1 pages) e
- 22. 07/30/80 Memorandum for P. G. Shewmon and D. Okrent from H. Etherington, subject: Seismic Design (4 pages) 23, 12/08/81 Memorandum from Morton W. Libarkin from Richard Savio, subject:
December 3,1981 Letter from Comissioner Gilinsky to J. C.
Mark on Siesmic Design of Nuclear Power Plants (1 page)
- 24. 01/27/82 Memorandum for R. F. Fraley from J. F. Donoghue, subject:
Commissioner Gilinsky request for review of changes-in seismic design methodology as proposed by P. C. Jennings (5 pages)
- 25. 02/02/82 Memorandum for Dr. D. Okrent from Mr. J. MacEvoy, subject:
Control Room Indications During and Following Earthquakes (3pages)
- 26. 03/04/82 Memorandum for ACRS Members from R. Savio, subject: Possible Relocation of Design Controlling Earthquakes in the Eastern U.S. (1 page)
- 27. 03/24/82 Memorandum for ACRS Members from R. Savio, subject: ACRS Coments on Dr. Paul Jennings Proposal on Seismic Design Criteria (5 pages)
Re: F01A-85-363 APPENDIX C (Continued)
- 28. 05/27/82 Memorandum for ACRS Members from R. Savio, subject:
June 3-5, 1982 ACRS Discussion on Dr. Paul Jennings Proposal on Seismic Design Criteria (113 pages)_
- 29. 06/03/82 Memorandum for H. R. Denton from Robert B. Minogue, subject:
Seismic Hazards and Seismic Safety Margin Research Programs (3 pages)
- 30. 06/05/82 Letter to Dr. Mihailo D. Trifunac from David Okrent w/ attachment (24 pages)
- 31. 06/15/82 Memorandum for D. Okrent and C. P. Siess from R. Savio, subject: Transmittal of March 23, 1982 letter from C. A. Cornell, to L. Beratan, dated 3/23/82.
(5 pages)
- 32. 07/08/82 Memorandum for Dr. David Okrent from Mr. John MacEvoy, subject:
Effects of Non-Seismic Category 1 System Failures During Seismic Events (45 pages)
- 33. 09/01/82 Memorandum for Chairman Palladino, and Comissioners Gilinkwy, Ahearne, Roberts and Asselstine, from Dennis Rathburn, subject: ACRS Interest in Siesmic Reanalysis (13 pages) 34, 12/03/82 Memorandum for ACRS Members from R. Savio, subject: Discussion on Siesmic Design Mothodology (2 pages) 35.
12/21/82 Memorandum for E. Goodwin, from R. Savio, subject: Seismic Design of Nuclear Plants (45 pages)
- 36. 04/04/83 Memorandum for Commission Ahearne from William J. Dircks, subject: ACRS Coments on Seismic Design Margins (8 pages)
- 37. 04/07/83 Memorandum for J. J. Ray, from Harold R. Denton,
Subject:
ACRS Comments of Seismic Design Margins (2 pages)
- 38. 07/07/83 Memorandum for Chairman Palladino and Comissioners Gilinsky, Roberts and Asselstine from John E. Zerbe, subject:
OPE Comment on the Status of the Charleston Earhtquake Issue (3 pages) 39.
10/28/83 Memeorandum for Richard H. Vollmer from James P. Knight, subject: NRR Task Group-Quantification of Seismic Design Margins (14 pages)
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Re: F01A-85-363 APPENDIX C (Continued)
- 40. 04/12/84 Memorandum for Jesse C.'Ebersole, from William J. Dircks, subject: Quantification of seismic Design Margins (5 pages) 41.
12/24/84 Memorandum for Chairman Palladino and Comissioners Roberts, Asselstine, Bernthal and Zech from William J. Dircks, subject: Progress Report and Schedule Change in NRC Program Plan Relating to Clarification of U.S. Geological Survey Position Regarding Seismic Design Earthquakes in_the Eastern Seaboard of.the United States (2 pages)
- 42. 02/22/85 Memorandum for Raymond F. Farley from J. E. Richardson and J.
P. Knight, subject: Status of NRC and Industry Activities on Seismic Design Margins (4 pages)
- 43. 02/26/85 Memorandum for D. Okrent, R. Axtmann, M. Carbon, H. Etherington, H. Lewis, P. Shewmon, D. Ward,
from Richard Savio, subject: Transmittal of Report on the NRC Staff's Seismic Design Margins (1 page) 44.
06/15/83 itemorandum for Raymond F. Fraley from Samuel J. Chilk, subject: July 8 Commission fleeting with ACRS (1 page)
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ACRS DOCUMENTS IN THE PDR ACRS MEETINGS Date Description ACRS Accession Numbers Minutes Transcripts 010577 North Anna Units 182 ACRS-1400 ACRST-1400 0210-1277 202nd ACRS Meeting 1411 0423/0424 (N. Anna Seismic Design Margins (SDM))
070677 North Anna Unit s 182 1444 0466 1006-0877 210th ACRS Meeting (N. Anna SDM) 1486 0514 0209-1178 214th ACRS Meeting (
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1520 0551 0309-1078 215th ACRS Meeting (
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1524A 0557 0406-0778 216th ACRS Meeting 1532 0564 (Seismic Monitoring on Eastern Seaboard) 0207-0980 238th ACRS Meeting (Wolf Creek SDM) 171/
0731 0226-2781 VC Summer Station 1832 0829 031181 VC Summer Station 1836 0834 0806-0881 256th ACRS Meeting (VC Summer 50) 1888 0993 0128-2982 Extreme External Phenomena Sbete 1947 1049 070782 2010 1115 081182 2019 1123 1021-2282 2035 1142 1104-0582 271st ACRS Meeting 2042 1149 1
i 1209-1182 272nd ACRS Meeting 2057 1164 121582 Reliability & Probabilistic Assessment (RPA) 8 Extreme External Phenomena (EEP) Sbctes 2058 1165 041383 RPA & EEP Sbetes 2091 1196 051183 RPA & EEP Sbctes 2104 1208 101283 Extreme External Phenomena Sbete 2146 1251 1208-0983 2164 1269 042684 EEP/ Structural Engineering / Seismic Design of Piping Shctes 2203 1304 052494 Diablo Canyon 8 EEP Sbctes 1313 032185 EEP/Diablo Canyon / Structural Engrg Sbctes 2296 1391 LETTER REPORTS 061080 Plesset ltr to Dircks, Factoring of ACRSR-0882 Quantitative Estimates into Seismic Safety Evaluation 06088:
Shewmon~ ltr to Gilinsky, re Paul Jennings ACRSR-0980 Ltr on Proposed Changes in Seismic Design Methodology i
011183 Ray ltr to Palladino, Quantification of ACRSR-1011 Seismic Design Margins (continued)
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ACRS DOCUMENTS IN THE PDR (Cont'd) 6-071283 Libarkin memo to Dircks, Comments on Pilot ACRSR-1036 Program to Utilize Seismic Experience Data for Seismic Qualification 011884 Ebersole ltr to Palladino, Quantification ACRSR-1072 of Seismic Design Margins 041785 Ward Itr to Dircks, Comments on NRC Programs ACRSR-ll30 for Quantification of Seismic Design Margins 011283 Letter to ilunzio J. Palladino from J. J. Ray, ACRSR-10ll subject: Quantification of Seismic Design ila rgins 061783 Letter to !!unzio J. Palladino from J. J. Ray, ACRSR-1032 w/ attachments, subject:
Comments on the i4RC Safety Research Program Budget for Fiscal Years 1935 and 1986.
041433 Letter to Professor llilliam Kerr from CT-1565 Paul W. Pomeroy l
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. CONSULTANTS REPORTS 063077 Seed CT-0818 030778 Pa 9e 0955 030878 Philbrick 0949 030878 Thompson 0956 030978 Wilson 0950 072878 Maxwell 1020 080679 Zudans 1163 120179 Maxwell 1199 061080 Pa9e 1253 061080 Thompson 1252 061480 Ma xwell 1254 06?080 Zudans 1259 021681 Maxwell 1316A 062481 Pome roy 1353 032982 Zudans 1431 092482 Zudans 1507 041683 Davis 1582 082483 Luco 1650 121983 Luco 1702 121983 Maxwell 1703 052984 Page 1749 053084 Thonpson 1750 061184 Luco 1751 061484 Trifunac 1752 061684 Maxwell 1753 040585 Trifunac 1806 042085 Maxwell 1809 050785 Pomeroy 052585 Scavuzzo 1805 e
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Re: F01A-85-363 APPENDIX E 1.
11/09/83 Inspection report 50-220/83-24 to G.K. Rhode, Niagara Mohawk from R. Starostecki, NRC. Accession No. 8311280407.
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07/02/84 Inspection Report 50-277/84-15 and 50-278/84-13 to S.L.
Daltroff, Philadelphia Electric, from R. Starostecki, NRC.
Accession No. 8407230358.
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,ACL REQUf4L May 8, 1985 For A-B5-%3 James M.
Felton, Director M,
g)g)g Division of Rules and Records I
Office of Adminstration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 PREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REOUEST
Dear Mr. Felton:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 522, as amended, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service requests the following documents regarding seismic design and earthquake research.
Please consider " documents" to include reports, studies, test results, correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, meeting minutes, working papers, graphs, charts, diagrams, notes i
and summaries of conversations and interviews, computer records, and any other forms of written communication, including internal NRC Staff memoranda.
The documents are specifically requested I
from, but not limited to, the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Re-search (Research); Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) ;
l Generic Issues Branch of the Division of Safety Technology, NRR; and the Operating Reactors Branches of the Division of Licensing.
In your response, please identify which documents correspond to which requests below.
Pursuant to this request, please provide all documents prepared or utilized by, in the possession of, or routed through the NRC related to:
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Preliminary results from the New Madrid Seismotectonic Program; 2.
Draft reports of the " Engineering Characterization of Ground Motion" research program, related briefings and correspondence and schedules for finalization of research reports; l
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The April 22, 1984 carthquake near Lancaster, Pennsylvania and August 17, 1984 carthquake near Charlottesville, Virginia, and microcarthquakes near Mineville, New York; 4.
" Earthquake-Hazard Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants," in the June 1984 issue of Encrav & Technolony Review (published by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and NRC Staff
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The perceived need for research contracts on the seismic potential of regions of the country (e.g. " Charleston
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Research Program" RS-RES-84-128 and " Northwestern U.S.
Neotectonic Research" RS-RES-84-116);
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Possible need for reassessment of the appropriate Safe Shutdown Earthquake, including responses to a January 17, 1977 letter from M. Bender ACRS Chairman to M.A. Rowden, NRC Chairman regarding a minimum SSE of 0.29 for plants in the Eastern United States; 7.
Analyses of the potential for operator error during a seismic event; and 8.
Recommendations made by the United States Geological Survey to NRC that the Charleston earthquake be postulated up and down the Eastern coastal region.
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search charges, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
552 (a) (4) ( A) "because r
furnishing the information can be considered as primarily benefiting the general public."
The Nuclear Information and j
Resource Service is a non-profit organization serving local organizations concerned about nuclear power and providing infor-mation to the general public.
Information required by 10 CFR 9.14a was provided by letter dated August 3, 1984.
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sincerely, lc adL2 Nina Bell Assistant Director cc File l
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