ML20148E885

Notice of Granting Relief from ASME Section 11 Inservice Insp (Testing) Requirements

ML20148E885
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Site:	Yankee Rowe
Issue date:	03/13/1978
From:	Ziemann D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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F UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-29 -

_ YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY 5 NOTICE OF GRANTING OF RELIEF FROM ASME SECTION XI INSERVICE INSPECTION (TESTING) REQUIREMENTS The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Commission) has granted relief from certain requirements of the ASME Code, Section'XI, " Rules for -

Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components" to Yankee Atomic

.j Electric Company. The relief relates to the inservice inspection (testing) ,

program for the Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Yankee-Rowe) (the facility) located in Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts. The ASME Code require-ments are incorporated by reference into the Commission's rules and h g

regulations in 10 CFR Part 50. The relief is effective as of its. date of issuance.

Relief is granted, on an interim basis, pending completion of a more detailed review, from compliance with certain inservice inspection and testing requirements determined to be. impractical' for the facility because E.

4 compliance would result in hardships and unusual difficulties without a -

compensating increase in the level of quality or safety.

E i The request for relief complies with the standards and requirements

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of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Comission's rules and regulations.  :

The Comission has made appropriate findings as F required a'y the Act and the Comission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR  !

t Chapter I, which are set forth in the letter granting relief. Prior public notice of this action was not required since the granting of this relief

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from ASME Code requirements does not involve a significant hazards p y

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The Coninission has determined that the granting of this relief hp will not result in any significant environmental impact and that pursuant [ ,

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to 10 CFR 551.5(d)(4) an environmental impact statement or negative (

declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be prepared in [

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For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the licensee's I;. ;

submittal dated December 19,1977,(2) the request for relief dated .

( .5 y t February 16,1978, and (3) the Comission's letter to the licensee dated y i

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l March 1,3,1978 . All of these items are available for public inspection b E

at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, NW., Washington, I,i j

DC, and at the Greenfield Public Library, 422 Main Street, Greenfield, {

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l i Massachusetts 01581. A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon ,

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', request addressed to tne U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington. -

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DC 20555, Attention

Director, Division of Operating Reactors.

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• Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 13th day of March 1978. U, FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION  ?

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