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waswiscrow, o.c. osswooi August 23, 1993 Docket No. 50-389 Mr. J. H. Goldberg President - Nuclear Division Florida Power and Light Company P. O. Box 14000 Juno Beach, Florida 33408-0420
Dear Mr. Goldberg:
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SAFETY EVALUATION OF THE INSERVICE TESTING PROGRAM FOR PUMPS AND VALVES - ST. LUCIE PLANT, UNIT 2 (TAC NOS, M84563 AND M85670)
The NRC, with technical assistance from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL),
has reviewed the information concerning the inservice testing (IST) program requests for relief submitted for the St. Lucie Plant, Unit 2, in Florida Power and Light Company's (FPL) letters dated September 15, 1992, and January 13, 1993. A previous Safety Evaluation for the St. Lucie Plant, Unit 2, IST Program was issued for the first 10-year interval in NRC's letter dated January 13, 1986. The second 10-year interval begins August 9, 1993. The September 1992 revised program renumbered the relief requests. You identified several relief requests in Attachment 1 of your September 15, 1992, submittal which you indicated required review and approval by the NRC. The remaining relief requests which were not listed in Attachment I were not reviewed. The relief reauests submitted for the second 10-year program will be reviewed in total.
The staff adopts the evaluations and recommendations for granting relief or authorizing alternatives contained in the attached Technical Evaluation Report (TER) prepared by BNL, as reflected in the enclosed Safety Ezaluation (SE).
3 Relief is granted from or alternatives are authorized to the testing requirements which have been determined to be impractical to perform, where compliance would result in a hardship without a compensating increase in safety, or where the proposed alternative testing provides an acceptable level of quality and safety. Certain relief requests have been approved pursuant to 10 CFR 50.55a(f)(4)(iv) where it has been determined that the proposed alternative is in accordance with the requirements of the 1989 Edition of ASME
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Section XI. A summary of the NRC actions is provided in Table 1 of the enclosed Safety Evaluation.
The IST program relief request > which are granted, authorized, or approved are i
acceptable for implementation provided the action items identified in Section 4 of the IER are addressed within one year of the date of the SE or by the end f}j
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Lucie Plant, Unit 2,10-year interval updated program will be implemented August 9,1993, any interim relief granted by the enclosed SE continues for NRC HLE CENTER COPY aho90_sosW %W Gtf,1
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J. H. Goldberg August 23, 1993 the next interval, if applicable, in order that you have a period of time to address the concerns identified in the TER. Additionally, the granting of relief is based upon the fulfillment of any commitments made by you in the basis for each relief request and the alternatives proposed.
Program changes involving new or revised relief requests should not be implemented prior to approval by the NRC except as authorized by GL 89-04.
New or revised relief requests that meet the positions in GL 89-04, Attachment 1, should be submitted to the NRC but may be implemented provided the guidance in GL 89-04, Section D, is followed. Program changes that add or delete components from the IST program should also be periodically provided to the NRC.
This completes our review of this matter and, accordingly, we are closing out TAC Nos. M84563 and M85670.
Sincerely, (Original Signed By)
Herbert N. Berkow, Director Project Directorate 11-2 Division of Reactor Projects - I/II
Enclosure:
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