ML20137P567
| ML20137P567 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 11/22/1985 |
| From: | Crutchfield D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY CO. |
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| ML20137P555 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8512050052 | |
| Download: ML20137P567 (6) | |
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i UNITED STATES OF ff'EPICA NUCfEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY Docket No. 50-245 COMPANY, ET AL.
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(Millstone Unit 1)
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EXEMPTION I.
The Connecticut Light and Power Company, Western t'assachusetts Electric Company, and Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (the licensees) are the holders of Provisional Operating License No. OPR-21. which authorizes the operation of Millstone Unit 1 (the facility) et the steady-state power levels not in excess of 2011 megawatts thermal. The facility is a pressurized water reactor located at the licensee's site in flew London County, Connecticut.
The license provides, among other things, that it is subject to all rules, regulations and orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Comission) now or hereafter in effect.
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i Section 50.71(e)(3)(ii) of 10 CFR Part 50 requires that those plants iritially subject to the l'PC's systematic evaluation prograr. (SFPI must file a complete updtted final safety analysis report within 24 months after receipt of notif; cation that the SEP has been completed.
Py letter dated March 16,19P3, tte stc#f informed Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (NNECO) that SEP had been completed for Millstone Unit I and that, pursuant to i
10 CFR 50.71(e)(3), the licensee was required to file an updated Final 0512050052 851122 PDR ADOCK 05000245 P
2-Safety Analysis Report (FSAR). By letter dated February 4, 1985 the licensee requested an exemption to defer submittal of the updated FSAR on the bases that ongoing reviews (e.g., the Integrated Safety Assessment Program) wculd directly affect the content of the updated FSAR and that the required submittal would affect the work of the licensee's engineering personnel on issues of higher safety significance.
The NRC staff reviewed the licensee's request and granted the exemption, by letter dated April 11, 1985. However, the staff determined that only a six month exemption from compliance with 10 CFD 50.71 was warranted at that time. As detailed in the April 11, 1985 exemption, any additioral exemptions from compliarce with 10 CFR 50.71 would be granted by the Director of Licensing erly upon review and approval of a program plan containing schedules or milesteres for the submittal of an updated FSAR for Millstone Unit 1.
By letter dated September 13, 1985, the licensee requested an additional e).ccrtion from the schedular recuirements of 10 CFR 50.71 for the submittal detr of an updated FSAR. However, the NRC staff, by letter dated October ?,
1085, informed NNECO that this exemption request was not responsive to the terms ivertified in the exemption granted on April 11, 1985, and therefore, the exemption request was denied.
The denial was based on the licensee's failure to supply the required milestones or schedules, but left open the possibility of further consideration by the staff provided the licensee took certain actions by October 11, 1985.
- By letter dated October 11, 1985, NNECO resubmitted a recuest for an additional exerrtion to the schedular requirements of 10 CFR 50.71 for an updated FSAR.
In that letter, NNEC0 stated that the FSAR update would be based largely or the format of Regulatory Guide 1.70, Revision 3, which would result in a more comprehensive document than would result from mininal 1
conolierce with 10 CFR 50.71. NNEC0 also provided milestones for the subtittel of comperent parts of an updated FSAR and a completion schedule for the entire FSAR update. The following are the commitments made and the scheduled completion dates:
PROGPAM SUBMITTAL DATE 1.
Provide a concise program description and April 30, 1986 current reference to stand alone documentaticn for:
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Radiation Protection b)
Emergency Planrirg c)
Industrial Security d)
Quality Assurance e)
Technical Specifications f)
Radiological Effluent Monitoring and Offsite Dose Calculation Manual and Plant Process Control Program 2.
Provide current systems descriptions and July 1, 1986 instrumentation drawings for all j
safety-related systems and major balance-of-plant systems
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PROGRAM SUBMITTAL DATE 3.
Provide updated FSAP Chapters 1, 2, 4, December 31, 19E6 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 4
4 Provide remaining FSAR Chapters with March 31, 1987 some editing of the earlier submittals J
Pased upon these milestones, the licensee requested relief from the completion date requirement for the updated FSAR until March 31, 1987.
The staff has reviewed the licensee's request for an exemption from the Millstone Unit I updated FSAR submittal date.
The staff finds that the licensee's request meets the requirements identified in the exemption granted on April 11, 1985 and also finds the proposed and completion schedule to be acceptable.
The NRC staff considered safety aspects of the requested exemption from the updated FSAP submittal date.
The proposed exemption affects only the required date for updatirg the FSAR and does not affect the risk of facility accidents. Thus, the granting of the requested exemption will have no significant impact en plant safety.
The public interest will be served by granting the exerption since the licensee can certir.ue to use its personnel to complete other work of higher safety significance sooner than would be the case if personnel or other resources were diverted to update the FSAP immediately.
Based on its review, tha staff concludes that issuance of this exerption will heve nn significant effect on plant safety.
Further, this action is in the public interest and gcod cause has been shown to support the exemption.
Therefore, an exemption until Parch 31, 1987 is being granted by the staff for the submittal of an updated FSAR for Millstone Unit 1.
Any significant deviation from the propcsed ccmpletion schedule (i.e., failure to supply information within 30 days of the scheduled completien datr) will be considered a violatier. cf tFe terms of the exemption and may result in the voiding of the exerption and subsequent enforcement /ccmpliance action.
The Director, Division of Licensing, ONPR, may grant changes to the scheduled milestones if tFe licensee's request is timely and shows good cause for the proposed change.
However, the staff 'till not consider any subsequent exemption reouests beyond the currently scheduled March 31, 1987 completion date.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.32, the Commission has determined that the granting of this exemption will have no significant impact on the envircrment (50 FR 48284, November 22,1985).
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Accordingly, the Commission has determined that, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, an exerption is authorized by law and vill not endanger life or property or the common defense and security and is otherwise in the public interest.
Therefore, the Cerraission hereby approves the follcuing temporary exemption from compliance with E0.71(e).
An updated FSAR containing those original pages of the FSAP that are still erplicable plus updated replacement pages shall be filed under the schedule and conditiens described in Section II above. The final completion f
date for the FS/P update effort shall be March 31, 1987. This updated FSAR l
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- l shall bring the FSAR up to date as of a maximum of 6 months prior to the date j
of filing the updated FSAR, with subsequent revisions no less frequently than annually thereafter.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 22nd day of November 1985.
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FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I
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