ML20148D162

Forwards NRC Restart Action Plan for Maine Yankee.Rap Contains List of Issues NRC Will Inspect to Assess Licensee Compliance W/Applicable Regulatory Requirements & Conformance W/Facility Design & Licensing Bases.W/O Encl

ML20148D162
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Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	05/23/1997
From:	Cowgill C NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Sellman M Maine Yankee
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l May 23, 1997 Mr. Michael B. Sellman President Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company 329 Bath Road Brunswick, Maine 04011

SUBJECT:

NRC RESTART ACTION PLAN FOR MAINE YANKEE

Dear Mr. Sellman:

1 Enclosed is the NRC's Restart Action Plan (RAP) for Maine Yankee. We consider this RAP to be a subset of the ongoing activities undertaken by the staff to ensure that Maine Yankee implements effective long term performance improvements. You should continue with the preplanned activities articulated in your Restart Readiness Plan (RRP) dated March l 7,1997 and Supplements. We have noted that your extent of condition review is not j complete at this time. Your extent of condition review may identify additional issues that  !

l need to be resolved before restart of the unit. The staff considers your efforts to understand the extent of condition at Maine Yankee to be an integral activity necessary to ,

provide assurance that the facility conforms with its design and licensing bases as well as i complies with applicable regulatory requirernents.

The RAP contains a list of issues the NRC willinspect to assess the licensee's compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and conformance with the facility design and licensing bases. Inspection of the items listed will provide the NRC with a base of information necessary to judge whether Maine Yankee has made sufficient progress to support return to operation. Emergent issues arising during the implementation of the plan may result in issues being added. In such cases, the NRC's Maine Yankee Assessment

! Panel (MYAP) will revise this plan as appropriate.

The NRC will meet with you in the near future to discuss this plan. At this meeting, we also plan to discuss your implementation of the Maine Yankee RRP submitted on March 7, 1997, as revised by letter dated May 15,1997. If you have any questions or comments on the RAP, please contact me (610) 337-5233.

i Sincerely, Original Signed By:

Curtis J. Cowgill, Ill, Chief Projects Branch 5 30000g Diyision of Reacto, P,ojects t

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NRC Restart Action Plan Docket No. 50-309

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L. Diehl, Manager of Public and Governmental Affairs J. A. Ritsher, Attorney (Ropes and Gray) I P. Dostie, State Nuclear Safety Inspector P. Brann, Assistant Attorney General U. Vanags, State Nuclear Safety Advisor  ;

' C. Brinkman, . Combustion Engineering, Inc.

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