ML20148B965

Informs That No Future Action Required Re 870908 Response to NRC Bulletin 87-001, Thinning of Pipe Walls at Nuclear Power Plants

ML20148B965
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	03/17/1988
From:	Crocker L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Head G GEORGIA POWER CO.
References
IEB-87-001, IEB-87-1, TAC-67433, TAC-67434, TAC-67443, TAC-67444, NUDOCS 8803220209
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March 17, 1988 Docket Nos.: 50-321 DISTRIB TION 50-366 # UocteteFile # TChan PD II-3 Reading JStone Mr. George.F. Head HATCH FILE EJordan Senior Vice President MRood LCrocker Georgia Power Company local PDR P.O. Box 4545 ACRS (10)

Atlanta, GA- 30302 PRC System OGC-WF

Subject:

NRC Bulletin 87-01, "Thinning of Pipe Valls at Nuclear Power Plants", (TAC Nos. : 67433 and 67434)

On July 9, 1987, NRC Bulletin 87-01 was issued and requested that licensees submit information concerning their programs for monitoring the thickness of pipe walls'in high-energy single-phase and two-phase carbon steel piping systems. Georgia Power Company provided its response to the Bulletin in a letter dated September 8, 1987.

The inforriation that you provided is being used to determine the extent of industry participation and implementation of erosion / corrosion inspection '

programs, and to obtain data on observed pipe wall thinning. The staff does not plan to determine the adequacy or the acceptability of your current program at this time. As such, no further plant specific action with respect to NRC Bulletin 87-01 is required.

You will be notified should there he any future action that may be required regarding the subject of pipe wall thinning.

Sincerely.

Original signed by:

Lawrence P. Crocker, Project Manager Project Directorate II-3 Division of Reactor Projects, I/II cc:

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O Mr. George F. Head Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Georgia Power Company Units Nos. 1 and 2 Cc G. F. Trowbridge, Esq.

Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, N. W.

Washington, D.C. ?0037 Mr. L. T. Gucwa Engireering Department Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 4545 Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Nuclear Safety and Compliance Manager Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 44?

Baxley, Georgia 31513 Mr. Louis B. Long Southern Company Services, Inc.

P. O. Box 7625 Birmingham, Alabama 35202 Resident Inspector U.S. Fuclear Regulatory Comission Route 1. Box 725 Baxley, Georoia 31513 Regional Adninistrator, Region II U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission 101 Marietta Street, Suite ?900 Atlanta, Georiga 303?.3 Mr. Charles H. Badger Office of Planning and Budget Room 610 270 Washington Street, S.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Mr. J. Leonard Ledbetter, Comissioner Department of Natural Resources

?70 Washington Street, N.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Chairman Appling County Comissioners County Courthouse Baxley, Georgia 31513

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