ML20137F273

Informs of Recent Rev to Licensee Restart Assessment Plan. Revised Plan Encl

ML20137F273
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Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	03/24/1997
From:	Travers W NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Kenyon B NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY CO.
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 30666 4001 o%...../

March 24,1997 Mr. Bruce Kenyon President and Chief Executive Officer Northeast Nuclear Energy Company P.O. Box 128 Waterford, CT 06385-0128

SUBJECT:

RESTART ASSESSMENT PLAN

Dear Mr. Kenyon:

This letter is to inform you of a recent revision to the NRC's Millstone Restart Assessment Plan. This will be the second revision to the plan since it was initially issued. The Restart Assessment Plan was initially issued in September 1996, and subsequently revised in December 1996, to reflect an NRC reorganization which had established a Special Projects Office for Millstone oversight. The Restart Assessment Plan was revised to make the plan applicable to all three Millstone units rather than just Unit 3 and was based on your decision to allow all three units to focus on restart in parallel, rather than the previous circumstances in which most resources were applied to a Unit 3 restart. The revised Restart Assessment Plan is enclosed to this letter.

The NRC Manual Chapter (MC)--0350, " Restart Approval" checklist, will be the same for  ;

all three Millstone units. However, in addition to the Unit 3, the Significant items List (SIL) '

for Unit 3, which was already in the Restart Assessment Plan, SIL have been added for '

Units 1 and 2. Also, the Unit 3 SIL has been revised by the addition of more items to the list, and to show what items have already been addressed and closed by the NRC through our inspection process. Editorial changes were mado to each SIL to allow for cross referencing between the SIL and the MC-0350 " Restart Approval" checklist. The SILs for each unit are living documents and will be periodically revised. We willinform you by letter when there are significant revisions to each SIL.

t inspection of items listed in the Restart Assessment Plan will require significant NRC '

resources. So that we may efficiently schedule the use of our resources to verify that items listed on the plan have been completed, we request that your staff carefully review i the enclosed plan and provide to our staff scheduled completion dates for each item. In addition, you should give us sufficient advance notice of your readiness for restart of each unit so that we may plan the use of our resources for other planned NRC inspections, as noted in the Restart Assessment Plan.

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1 Mr. Bruce Kenyon 2 If you have any, questions please contact Mr. Wayne D. Lanning at 610-337-5126 or

Mr. Jacque P. Durr at 610-337-5224.

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Sincerely, 1 -

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! William D. Travers, Director i Special Projects Office 3 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 1

Enclosure:

i Restart Assessment Plan, dtd March 1997

!. Docket Nos. 50-245, 50-336, and 50-423 i cc w/ enclosure

! N. S. Carns, Senior Vice President and Chief Officer R. T. Laudenat, Acting Director - Regulatory Affairs for Millstone Station

M. H. Brothers, Vice President - Millstone, Unit 3  ;

J. McElwain, Unit 1 Recovery Officer M. Bowling, Jr., Unit 2 Recovery Officer l

D. M. Goebel, Vice President, Nuclear Oversight J. K. Thayer, Recovery Officer, Nuclear Engineering and Support '

P. D. Hinnenkamp, Director, Unit Operations

! J. F. Smith, Manager, Operator Training F. C. Rothen, Vice President, Work Services L. M. Cuoco, Esquire

,i J. R. Egan, Esquire j V. Juliano, Waterford Library Department of Public Utility Control

S. B. Comley, We The People

State of Connecticut SLO Designee Citizens Awareness Network T. Concannon, NEAC E. Woollacott, NEAC 1

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Mr. Bruce Kenyon 3 Distribution w/ encl:

NRC Docket Room (with concurrences)

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SPO R/F l W. Lanning, Deputy Director of Inspections, SPO, RI e M. Kalamon, SPO, RI '

J. Anderson, PM, SPO, NRR P. McKee, Director, Deputy Director of Licensing, SPO, NRR G. Imbro, Deputy Director of ICAVP Oversight, SPO, NRR  !

L. Plisco, Chief, SPO, NRR S. Dembek, PM, SPO, NRR D. Mcdonald, SPM, SPO, NRR Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC) l l

Distribution w/enci (VIA E-MAIL): )

D. Screnci, PAO l N. Sheehan, Field-Public Affairs Officer, RI W. Dean, OEDO M. Callahan, OCA  :

R. Correia, NRR  !

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