ML20137P595
| ML20137P595 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 05/23/1996 |
| From: | Charemagne Grimes NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Wiens L NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| ML20137P228 | List: |
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| FOIA-96-485 NUDOCS 9704090279 | |
| Download: ML20137P595 (1) | |
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9 From: Christopher Grimes , Afgjt, l To: WNP3. LAW Leonard Wiens, NRR
-Date: 5/23/96 10:20am
Subject:
TS POLICY QUESTION -Reply i
. Various parts of the Inspection Manual, inspection Guidance (Section 9900 of the manual). I and the Enforcement Manual direct the inspector to determine that (1) if the plant.is operating "outside the design basis" ' in a manner that is not explicitly addressed by the j tech specs, the licensee is expected to enter 3.0.3 and shutdown the plant or (2) if, during i the normal course of updating the design and procedures, the licensee' finds that the license l requirements (including TS) are not adequate and need to be more conservative, but thev otherwise are coeratino the olant in arenrdance with the TS and the more conservative ;
conditions, they can institute an admin procedure to ensure the more restrictive conditions continue to be satisfied until.a timely application for a license amendment can be .
processed. My explanation is a little different than yours, because I would differentiate the "outside design basis" condition. I believe this explanation can be derived from the existing inspection procedures; but I don't want.to take the time to research all that *
.' material to identify all the different ways it is addressed. If Mr. Miller, or anyone else
-in the Region prone to more explicit literal compliance instructions, believes that this point is not described adequately in those procedures, they may want to consider a formal -
TIA that would compel PIPB and TSB to add these details to the inspection procedures.
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