ML20148T030

Weekly Info Rept for Wk Ending 880122

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Issue date:	01/27/1988
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The Comissioners From:

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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JANUARY 22, 1988 I

A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Cornissioners

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Contents Administration and Resources Management A

t Nuclear Reactor Regulation B

l Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C

Nuclear Regulatory Research D

AnalysisandEvaluationofOperationalData(CRGRActivities)

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Governmental & Public Affairs F

General Counsel G*

Personnel H

j Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights l

Special Projects J*

l Enforcement K*

I Consolidation L

Regional Offices M

Executive Director for Operations N*

Items Addressed by the Comission 0*

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Meeting Notices P

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Meeting with Washington State on Mixed Waste i

Staff members of LLWM met with repmsentatives of Washington State, US Ecology (USE) and EPA in Olympia, Washington, on January 12, 1988. The meeting was scheduled to discuss the hazardous waste permitting process at the Hanford LLW site. USE made a short presentation identifying three problem areas:

sampling, technology and permitting. After the USE presentation, Washington NRC and EPA met separately to discuss follow-up actions.

It was State,lly agreed that Washington State would take the lead and draft a response genera to USE's proposal for a mixec weste pemit at Hanford. MRC will provide com-i ments on the draft.

1 Meetino with Japanese on Safeguards and Transportation Issues 19, 1988 with Japanese officials free industry i

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l and government to discuss the present status of shipsing casks, especially the acceptance criteria, and safeguards concerns about tie U$/ Japan Agnement and i

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t the Safeguards Concepts Paper.

l the concepts paper, the Japanese initiat' ve with the IAEA to develop key tech-nology for safeguarding large reprocessing plants, NRC's letter to the President, j

NRC's concern about advance approval for large plants where safeguards tech-1 niques are not developed and parameters are not specified, our role as a technical agency, and the December 16, 1987 House hearing on the Agreement.

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The USNRC has awarded a contract to MPR Associates, Inc. to recove not less than eight nor more than twenty metallurgical specimens from the bottom head inner wall of the damaged THI 2 reactor. Wall, penetration, and wel kent l

i specimens will be about three inches wide, three inches deep and five inches j

i long. Sample removal is targeted for October 15 to December 1,1988, Samples must be suitable for use in measuring local peak temperatures, erosion, cracking and distortion. The data will then be used to detemine j

1) how close the vessel head was to failure, 2) the kinds of damage th6t i

occurred. 3) possible prediction of damage progression in other severe accidents and, 4)possiblecorrectivemeasures.

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1 OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION AND RES0URCES MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 0F THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS - 1988 For 4-Day Period of January 15, 1988 - January 21, 1988 Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision i

Received This Week 17 0

Ceepleted This Week 18 2

i Carryovers From 1987 157 33 Received In 1988 46 5

l Granted In 1988 35 3

Denied In 1988 11 3

Pending 157 32 I

ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Barry Smith, Requests records related to the promulpation of 10 CFR 1

Tourte110tte, 50.57(d) published in final form on Ju y 13, 1982.

Ross and Gray (88-30)

Gregory Bergman, Requests access to NRC files or unpublished reports Rockingham County pertaining to low power testing slated to begin at the Newspapers, Inc.

the Seabrook nuclear power plant on February 10, 1986.

(88-31)

I Gregory Bergman, Requests access to NRC records relating to unanticipated i

i Rockingham County costs and difficulties of decossissioning a large plant i

Newspapers, Inc.

the size of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, j

(88-32) j (An individual Requests records maintainei in the NRC on himself.

requesting inforsation about himself)

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Melody Johnson Requests siiswers to questions concerning six listed (88 34) companies.

Christopher Holthaus Requests cepies of disciplinary actions against Combustion j

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Engineering or its subsidiaries frem 1972 to the present.

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Received. Cont'd Lori Ann Thwaits, Requests a list of plant managers.

Humanoid Systems (88 36)

Ophelia Williams, Requests hearing transcripts and depositions for the l

J/R/A Associates Comanche Peak nuclear power plant for the period i

(88-37)

October 14-16, 1987.

D. Wesley Newhouse, Requests records reflarding release of radioactive Lane, Alton &

materials at specif<ed sites at Battelle Memorial Horst Institute Columbus Laboratories from March 1, 1951, (88-38) to November 30, 1983.

Harry Lewis, Requests records regarding the operation and management Multinational of any electronic database systems within the NRC.

Monitor (88-39)

Marla Schurder Requests a list of all material pertaining to the (88-40) accident in April 1979 at the Zion nuclear power plant.

Lynn Connor, Requests cosies of the Comanche Peak Senior Review Team Doc Search repert on tie performance of Region !Y in inspecting the Associates Comanche Peak nuclear power plant and related ricords.

(88-41)

Lynn Connor, Requests copies of Y. Ste11o's June 25, 1985, memorandum Doc-Search on assessment of regional office performance and all Associates assessment reports written since 1980.

(88 42)

Gregory Bergman, Requests records on a reported leak from Comissioner Rockingham County Rcberts' office relating to quality assurance problems Newspapers, Inc.

at the Waterford nuclear power slant and records relating (88-43) to the investigation of the leac by the Office of Investigations.

Catherine Beath.

Requests copies of investiflation reports and other C. R. Bard. Inc.

records related to inspect'ons at C. R. Bard, Inc.,

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Billerica, Massachusetts.

I Lynn Connor, Requests copies of nine specified Reac'or Vessel Doc Search Material Reports.

Associates (88-45)

Wilhelmina Bell-Requests (1) list of current contracts, (2) information

Taylor, concerning NRC's FY 88 procurenent budget, and (3) NRC's Dynamic Concepts FY 88 budget.

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JANUARY 22, 1988 ENCLOSURE A

3 Granted Marvin Resnikoff, In response to a request for records in 1986 and 1987 i

Radioactive regarding the design, testing and certification of a Waste Management plutonium air transport or PAT-3 container, made Associates available four records.

(87-722)

Robert 8elair, In response to a referral from the FEMA of 11 records Kirkpatrick &

relating to a request for records relating to the final Lockhart rule, "Evaluation of the Adequacy of Off-$1te Emergency (87-823)

Planning for Nuclear Power Plants at the Operating License Review Stage Where State and/or Local Governments Decline to Participate in Off-Site Emergency Planning," made available the 11 records.

Kenneth Mokcena.

In response to a request for records relating to the The National U.S. supply of enriched uranium to the South African Security Archive Safari Tuclear Research Reactor between 1979 and 1982, (87-843) made available three records.

Informed the requester that two additional records subject to this request are already available at the PDR.

Drew Engel, In response to a request for records submitted to or Crowell &

produced by NRC when asbestos-containing building Moring sreducts were evaluated for compatibility with Government (87-850) suilding specifications for buildings constructed between 1940 and 1975, informed the requester that the NRC located no agency records subject to this request.

Lynn Connor, In response to a request for records relating to four Doc-Search ssecified memoranda on TVA, informed the requester that Associates tie NRC located no agency records subject to this (87-855) request.

Lynn Connor, In response to a request for records regarding NRC Doc-Search Senior Management Team referenced in the Coenission Associates briefing on TVA on September 12, 1985, inferned the (87 856) requester that the NRC located no agency records subject to this request.

Charles Ingebretson, In response to a referral from the FEMA for records Hunton & Williams provided under FOIA-87-823 from the law firm of (87 864)

Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, informed the requester that the records released under F0!A-87-823 are available at the PDR, open pool irradiation facilities, (2)g of (1) large, In response to a request for a listin Thomas Petersen, agreement states Kline & Company (87-874) and (3) large, open pool irradiation facilities in agrecoent states, nde available the reuuested record.

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t Granted, Cont'd Kenneth Soley In response to a request for records that provide Critical Mass information on the levels of education attained by (88-4) current unlicensed operators, informed the requester f

that the NRC located no agency records subject to this request.

Lynn Connor, In response to a request for all SES rank and bonus Doc-Search awards announcements from the beginning of the SES l

Associates bonus award progran through 1987, made available fiva L

(88-6) records.

Patricia Stevenson, In response to a request for a copy of the purchase r

Information order issued to Appalachian Computer Services for the Control Systems keying of exposure data, made available one record, f

Corporation j

(88-11) t Prabakar Modur In response to a request for a list of licensees under f

(88-12) program code 20300, made available the requested record.

l T. A. Stafford In response to a request for a copy of O! report I-85-019 (88-14) and all exhibits regarding the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant, informed the requester that the requested record is already available at the PDR.

(An individual In response to a request for records maintained in the requesting NRC on himself, informed the requester that the NRC has I

information about no records pertaining to him in its document control or l

himself) the security systems of records.

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(88 33) i Denied Stevi Stephens, In response to a request for records regarding the Wolf Nuclear Awareness Creek nuclear power plant related to (1) O! cases Network regarding investigations which have occurred and/or l

(87-668) closed between May 8, 1986 and the present, and (2)

I Quality First Files er portions of files, made available nine records.

Informed the requester that one record subject to this request is already available at the PDR. Denied portions of five records, disclosure of which would result in a clearly unwarranted invasion I

of personal privacy.

Lyle Graber, In respense to a request for copies of enclosures to NUS Corporation four specified letters, made available two records.

(87-742)

Inforred the requester that one record will be placed in the PDR when received from Cosenonwtalth Edison Ceepany. Denied portionr of one record, disclosure of which would result in a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

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Associates Peter Stockton and Bruce Chafin, m de available eight (87-783 and records.

Inform d the requester that additional records87-858) subject to this recuest are available at the PDR in file F0!A 87-728. Deniet portions of one record, disclosure of which would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange cf ideas essential to the deliberative process.

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In response to ar, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the l

Linda Bauman, 4

.i Governunt release of 14 records denied in their entirety relating j

Accountability to a request for records concerning the NRC hiring i

i Project Howard Belle n of Wisconsin to facilitate and m J1ste (87-A 101-87-660) the procedural rules of licensing procedure process as a neutral party, u de available two records.

Informd the requester that one denied record is a personal j

record rather than an agency record. Denied portions of i

one record containing confidential business proprietary i

inforn tion. Denied six records in their entirety and portions of four records, disclosure of which would l

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JAhTARY 22, 1988 ENCLOSURE A

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WEEr1Y INFORMATION REPORT l

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CONTRACT AWARDED j

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Ensure that NRC's mission for international cooperation is q

fulfilled by translating nuclear research and technology i

reports that are generated by 22 countries currently under i

contract agreements into English or English into Germanic,

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Romance, Oriental and Cyrillic languages.

Period of Performance: Twenty-four months Sponsor: Office of Administration and Resources Management l

Status: A fixed price requirements type Contract No. NRC 39-88-166 was awarded to SCITRAN in the amount of $183,598.56 effective January l

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Items of Interest yeekEndingJanuary 22, 1988 SAFEGUARDS a

j Domestic NRC/00E Comparability Rule f

The NRC held a public meeting with Category I fuel cycle licensees to discuss the proposed NRC/ DOE compara6ility rule or physical security and associated I

i guidance on January 19, 1988. A Public Meeting Notice was published in the Federal Register on January 14,1988 (53 FR 972)I however, no members of the i

public were present at the meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss j

implementation guidance on the six corparability measures included in the pro-posed rule. These measures are: night firing qualification for guards, posting 1

l armed guards at MAA portals,100% search at protected area portals, double i

srotected area barriers, vehicle barriers, and tactical response exercises.

14eeting attendees included representatives from the four fuel cycle facilities j

(GA, NFS, UNC, and B&W), Regions I and !!, NRR, NMSS and NRC contractors.

International Meetine with Japanese on Safecuards and Transportation issues A meeting was held on January 19, 1988 with Japanese officials from industry and government to discuss the present status of shipping casks, especially the

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acceptance criteria, and safeguards concerns about the US/ Japan Agreement and 1

the $sfeguards Concepts Paper. The safeguards discussion included the role of 1

the concepts paper, the Japanese initiative with the IAEA to develop key tech-i nology for safeguarding large reprocessing plants, NRC's letter to the President, NRC's concern about advance approval for large plants where safeguards tech-4 nicues are not developed and parameters are not specified, eur role as a l

technical agency, and the December 16, 1987 House hearing on the Agreement.

INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL NUCLEAR SAFETY Dry Spent Fuel Storage

.l On January 19,1988, hM55 staff ret with Nuclear Assurance Corporation (NAC).

MAC hat prepared a topical repert for a modified design of its stainless steel and lead NAC $/T dry spent fuel storage cask. The modified design has a storage j

capacity of 56 corsolidated FTP. spent fuel assemblies with a decay of at least 10 years. Submittal of the r.ew topical report is scheduled for next week.

l This design is expected to be associated with a Part 72 licensing action for Virginia Fewer's Surry Fewer Station site.

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l West Valley Dem nstration Project A monitoring team from Region ! conducted a preoperational assessmnt of the Superratant Treatment System at West Valley during the week of January 4,1988.

At the close-out meeting with DOE and its West Valley contractor, coments and suggestions were inade in the areas of quality assurance, fire vulnerability of the site power supply and environmental monitoring. Of artmary concern was the fact that the quality assurance for the radiography of tie supernatant transfer line did not meet code in all respects. DOE ls conducting an investigatien of this matter and will infom NRC of its findings.

Meeting of the Advisory Cemittee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI)

The ACMUI meeting on quality assurance in medical use and alternatives for improved regulatory oversight of medical licensees will be held at 9:00 am at the Fethesda Holiday Inn, January 26, 1988.

Briefing books have been distributed to ACMUI members.

Five persons have asked to speak at the meeting.

I LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT Low level Waste Dispetal Meetine with Washington State on Mixed Waste Staff members of LLWM ret with representatives of Washington State. US Ecology (USE) and EPA in Olyrpia, Washington, on January 12, 1988. The meeting was scheduled to discuss the hazardous waste permitting process at the Hanford LLW site. USE made a short presentation identifying three problem areas:

sampling. technology and permitting. Af ter the USE presentation, Washington State. NRC and EPA ret separately to discuss follcw up actions.

It was generally agreed that Washington State would take the lead and draft a response to USE's proposal for a mixed waste pemit at Hanford.

NRC will provide com-rents on the draft.

New Jersey and Conmeeticut Siting Plans Siting plans were filed by the States of New Jersey and Connecticut to meet the January 1.1988 Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Arendments Act milestone.

Each State plans to site a facility, rather than siting one facility in one of the States for the Northeast Ccepact, and they expect NRC to license the sites.

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Week Ending January 22. 1988 i

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The A 44 Statien Blackout final rule package was modified in accordance with

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discussions with the EDO staff. 0GC, and CRGR staff and sent to the EDO at J

C.O.B. January 15. 1988.

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PREVENT CORE DAMAGE 1

RELAPS RELAPS is one of the principal thermal hydraulic pressurized water reactor codes used by NRR to audit licensee submittals and analyre unresolved safety l

issue. RELAPS is also used by NRR for safety analysis through the use of the Nuclear Plant Analyzer interactive graphics display.

An agreement was reached in December 1987, on the improvements to be incorporated into RELAP5/M003. A collaboratiYe effort Will be Pade involving several member countries of the International Code Assessment i

Program (ICAP) group.

l The RELAP5/H002 models and correlations draft document was issued at the end 3

of Decer.ber 1987 for review and comments. A counter current flow limiting l

1 (CCFL) model and an improved interfacial drag model for rod bundles have

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assessment. An updated method was developed and provided to users that extends the old restart / plot file rather than the entsting pethod of reading I

the old file and writing a new one. This was dor,e to conserve disk space on I

the !NEL CRAY coeputer.

Human Faeters Coordination with NRR ORPS and NRP/DLPQE managerent met to discuss the status of RES plans to support NRR's huran factors user needs identified in the November 10, 1987 remo frne Purley to BeeU erd. RES technical staff have ret with their counterparts in NRR to get further clarification en most of the 12 research topics identified t

in Merley's remo.

RES will centinue to coordinate with NRR. However, because of a heavy werkload and limited steff in LHFB/0LF0E the LHFB Branch Chief said j

that his staff has rot, and will not be able to sp+nd much tire en this. RHF8 l

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2 Cherne'oyl Implications Report A draf t response to coments on sections 1.1,1.2,1.5 and 1.6 of the Chernobyl Implications Report, hUREG-1251, has been completed and provided for branch review.

CONTAINMENT PERFORMANCE AND PROTECTION FROM RADIATION Examination of the Bot, tom Head of the Damaged TMI-2 Reactor The USNRC has awarded a contract to MPR Associates, Inc. to remove not less than eight nor more than twenty metallurgical specimens from the bottom head inner wall of the damaged TMI-2 reactor. Wall, penetration, and weldment specimens will be about three inches wide, three inches deep and five inches long. Sample removal is targeted for October 15 to December 1, 1988.

Samples must be suitable for use in measuring local peak temperatures, erosion, cracking and distortion. The data will then be used to detemine

1) how close the vessel head was to failure, 2)thekindsofdamagethat occurred, 3) possible prediction of damage progression in other severe accidents and, 4) possible corrective naosures.

INTRAVAL Project On January 18-19, 1988, the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate Staff, representing the INTRAVAL Project Sacretariat, met with the U.S. modeling teams in Rockville, Md., to decide on the technical details of their test case proposals for the INTRAVAL project. The recently initiated INTRAVAL Project is an international study which is investigating the validity of groundwater flow and transport theories related to performance assessments of radioactive waste disposal facilities. Active laboratory and field experiments to be investigated by the U.S. modeling teams were selected.

Computer codes and models to be utilized to simulate the observed data also were determined. Documentation of the INTRAVAL tests cases is available from T. J. Nicholson, WMB, RES, the USNRC representative to INTRAVAL, and Vice-Chair of INTRAVAL,

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T. Nicholson, WMB, RES, Ext. 23856 JANUARY 22, 1988 ENCLOSURE D L

3 Geophysical Monograph 42 The Ancrican Geophysical Union (AGV) has recently published Geophysical i

Monograph 42 entitled Flow and Transport Through linsaturated Fractured Rock.

The monograph is a collection of refereed technical papers presented at a special symposium at the December 1986 AGU meeting held in San Francisec, and represents the state of knowledge on unsaturated fracture hydrology and contaminant transport. The publication of this definitive monograph is particularly timely, coinciding as it does with Congressional direction to DOE to concentrate investigations for a high-level radioactive waste repository at the Nevada Yucca mountain site which is an unsaturated fractured medium.

The monograph was edited by Thomas J. Nicholson of the RES staff and Dr. Daniel D. Evans of the University of Arizona, an RES contractor. Copies are available for sale from the AGU at 202-462-6903.

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T. Nicholson, WMB, RES, Ext. 23856 JANUARY 22, 1988 ENCLOSlJRE D

Items of Interest Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data Week Ending January 22, 1908 Director's Office On January 21, the AEOD Director, accompanied by the Director, Congressional Affairs, met with congressional staff representatives to provide information on AEOD responsibilities, functions and products related to the Nuclear Safety Board proposed bill.

Incident Response On January 19, the Incident Response Branch (IRB) staff members held initial discussions with the Division of Contracts and Energy International, Incorporated, concerning the implementation of we',k to be conducted under the Emergency Response Data System (ERDS) contract.

On January 21, the IRB staff presented a tour and briefing of the Operations Center to representatives of Centers Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration who are responsible for coordinating the Health and Human Services response to a radiological accident.

The discussion focused on improving the coordination between the two agencies during a federal response to a nuclear accident.

Diagnostic Evaluation and Incident Investigation Branch On January 22, the AE0D Director, Divisior, of Operational Assessment Director, and the Diagnostic Evaluation and Incident Investigation Branch (DEIIB) Acting Chief along with the Regional Administrator, NRR, ED0 and Region II staff members met with Duke Corporate and McGuire senior management to discuss the results of the McGuire Diagnostic Evaluation. Topics discussed included principal program strengths and weaknesses, specific technical managenent and organizational issues, and overall organizational climate and attitudes.

Initial rough drafts for the tean's report have been submitted to appropriate team leaders for review and comment.

P_reliminary Notifications The following Preliminary Notifications were issued during the past week, a.

PNO-I-87-108A, Philadelphia Electric Company (Peach Bottom) Drug Convictions by the US District Court.

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PNO-I-88-3A, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Incorporated (Indian Point Unit 2), Update PN3-I-88-3A, Steam Generator (SG) Dry-Out Event, 1/3/88.

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2-PNO-I-88-6, Babcock and Wilcox Company (Apollo and Parks Township),

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Protest Demonstration Planned.

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PNO-I-88-GA(Closecut)BabcockandWilcoxCompany(ApolloandParks Township),ProtestDemonstration.

PNO-I-88-7, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (Nine Mile Point Unit 1),

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Extension of Forced Outage, f.

PNO-II-88-03, Carolina Power and Light Company (Brunswick Unit 2),

Indications Identified During Routine Ultrasonic Testing.

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PNO-II-88-04 Virginia Electric and Power Company (North Anna Unit 1),

Fifteen Day Maintenance Outage Initiated by Resin Intrusion Into Steam Generator, h.

PNO-II-88-04, Virginia Electric and Power Company (North Anna Unit 1),

Fifteen Day Preplanned Maintenance Outage Initiated by Resin Intrusion Into Steam Generator.

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PNO-II-88-05, Florida Power and Light Company (Turkey Point Unit 3),

Shutdown in Excess of 48 Hours.

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PN0-III-88-03, Detroit Edison Company (Fermi 2), Authorization to Exceed 75 Percent Power.

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PNO-III-88-04, University Hospital of Cleveland (License No. 34-05469-01),

Loss of Radioactive Material.

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PNO-IV-88-04, Northshore X-Ray (Agreement State Licensee) Overexposures to Two Radiographers.

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JANUARY 22. 1988 ENCLOSURE E

b GPA ITEMS OF INTEREST E

WEEK ENDING JANUARY 22, 1988 CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEBRUARY THROUGH MARCH 1988 a

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NRC AUTHORIZATION Sen. Breaux/Simpson Kent 2/3/88 Sub on Nuclear Regulation Com on Environment and Public Works Combs /

2/9/88 TBA COMISSIONERS APPENDIX B &

Rep. Dingell/Bliley Ca11chan SEQUOYAH RESTART Sub on Oversight & Investigations Com on Energy and Cowenerce Fcy/

2/22/88 TBA C0PetISSIONERS NRC AUTHORIZATION /

Sen. Burdick/Stafford Kent BUDGET Com on Environment and Public Works Fey /

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C019tISSIONERS APPROPRIATIONS Rep. Bevill/Myers Kent FY89 Sub on Energy & Water Development Com on Appropriations Fcy/

3/3/88 TBA C0fetISSIONERS NRC AUTHORIZATION /

Rep. Udall/Lujan Kent BUDGET Sub on Energy & the Environment Com on Interior and Insular Affairs l

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b 0FFICE OF PERSONNEL ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending Januar;' 22, 1988 Arrivals and Departures Arrivals and departures, this week, occurred only at Headquarters.

Secretaries Ann-Britt Crosby and Daisy Garcia reported for work in NMSS and ARM, respectively. Student volunteer Jim Bowden started his assignment for GPA.

Geochemist - James Tessoriero left NMSS and two employees left ARM: Alan Pinckner, mail clerk and Anthony Yarborough, driver-messenger.

Executive Leadership Development The Chairman, Executive Resources Board, approved the policy and the process to implement Executive Leadership Developrent. An SES Personal Preference Inventory was developed and approved and will be distributed to all NRC Senior Executives so that they can identify their long-term career goals and personal preferences concerning reassignments.

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ITEMS OF INTEREST Office of Consolidation Week Ending January 22, 1988 1.

NRR is now scheduled to move into One White Flint North beginning with NRR ADP and word processing equipment on January 26, 1988, and concluding with conference room furniture on February 5,1988.

NRR staff in East-West and Air Rights will move on January 28, 1988, and staff in the Phillips Building will move on January 29, 1988.

The schedule for occupancy of the 17th and 18th floors (Commissioners 2.

and staff, Chainnan and staff, ED0 and staff, GPA Director and staff)

The new schedule, made necessary by delays in completion has changed.

of interior finishing and laying of carpet, calls for a move date of March 25 and full occupancy on March 28 of both the 17th and 18th floors.

Tower Construction is scheduled to finish laying carpet on the 18th floor by January 27, 1988, and on the 17th floor by February 3,1988.

Installation of demountable walls and systems furniture is scheduled for completion and inspection by February 29, 1988, for the 18th floor and March 7, 1988, for the 17th floor. Workstation and office tenninations of ADP, broadband, telephone, and electric wiring should be completed within ten working days of completion of the demountable wall and systems furniture installation, or by March 11, 1988, for the 18th floor and by March 18, 1988, on the 17th floor.

Following completion of the wiring there is a five to seven day final trim period to close raceways, touch-up paint, test power in workstations, install and test telephone instruments in workstations, install lateral files and free-standing furniture, install blinds and drapes, and clean all workstation surfaces, carpeting, doors, walls, etc.

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Parsons-Brinckerhoff Maintenance Services, Inc. and the NRC Employee Recreation Association will begin selling parking pennits for the month of February on January 27.

Parking will be $60 per nonth in the One White Flint garage and $50 per month at the satellite lot. Parking at Nicholson Lane will be $35 per month.

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ITEMS OF INTEREST REGION II WEEK ENDING JANUARY 22, 1988 1.

On January 19, the Regional Administrator, accompanied by selected Region II staff and representatives of NRR, was at the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant for a presentation of the Yogtle SALP Board Assessment to representatives of the Georgia Power Company.

He later attended a meeting to discuss the recent operating events and ongoing plant activities being conducted at Yogtle.

On January 20, he toured Unit 2 construction activities and held construction status meeting with Georgia Power Company management.

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Extensive local news media coverage resulted from the issuance of an Order to the Georgia Institute of Technology on January 20, 1988, that required them to cease irradiations due to a contami-nation event and other instances of lack of management controls.

An exit meeting was held on January 22, 1988, by the Deputy Regional Administrator and the Region II/NRR inspection team.

The exit was held with Dr. T. E. Stelson, Vice President for Research, and others.

There was extensive inedia coverage both before and after the meeting.

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r Items of Interest Region IV Week Ending January 22, 1988 The Deputy Regional Administrator and members of the regional staff met with representatives of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation or January 11, 1988, in the regional office. The purpose of the meeting was an enforcement conference concerning the breakdown of administrative and management controls during an outage.

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JANUARY 22, 1988 ENCLOSURE H

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NRR MEETI'dG NOTICES

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• DATE/ TIME NtMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT 1/26/88 675 Landow Bldg.

To discuss Base Line PRA for NRC/CE G. Vissing 9:00 a.m.

7910 Woodmont Ave. System 80+ design CESSAR-DC Bethesda, M) 1/26/88 50-271 NRC Region I Meeting w/ Vermont Yankee NPC to NRC/VYNPC V. Rooney 10:00 a.m.

475 Allendale Rd.

discuss EQ issues raised in VYMPC King of Prussia letter dated 11/03/87.

1/27/88 50-470 Phillips Bldg.

Meeting w/CE to discuss steam NRC/CE G. Vissing 9:00 a.m.

Room P-114 generator vibration issue for System 80 design 1/28/88 Phillips Bldg.

Meeting w/CE Owners Group NRC/CEOG F. Miraglia 9:00 a.m.

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Copies of summaries of these meetings will be made publicly available and placed in the respective docket file (s) in the NRC and local public document rooms.

A listing of these meeting notices can be obtained by calling 492-7424.

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NMSS M ETING NOTICES DIVISION OF LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANMEENT AND DEC009tISSIONING m"

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DATE/ TIE NUPEER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT CONTACT h

1/25-27/88 San Diego CA Participation in State Li.W Forum PLohaus PLohaus OS GRoles DOE Staff EPA' Staff State / Compact Reps.

2/1/88 West Valley, NY Management Meeting Regarding Low-Level MKnapp MKnapp Waste DHurt 1

DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL NUCLEAR SAFETY DOCKET ATTENDEES /

DATE/ TIME NUISER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 1/25-26/88 70-925 Cresent OK Sequoyah Fuels Corp.

PLoysen, NMSS PLoysen 70-1193 review of decossaissioning GFrance RIII activities SFC Reps.

P01sen, GA0 1/27-28/88 WFN 1-Ibs 6-B-11 Discussion with Argonne MHorn, letSS MHorn Rockville MD National Labs. (ANL)

Reps of OGC preparation for final Reps of ANL comunents on DSFES DIVISION OF SAFEGUARDS AND TRANSPORTATION Ep None 0

DIVISION OF HICH-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT None

RIV MEETINGS SCHEDt1ED a.< Janaury 25, 1988 u

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DOCKET g DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES RIV CONTACT 1/2P/88 50-298 RIV Office Rescheduled enforcement conference NPPD/NRC E. Holler to discuss security matters and 8:30a.m.

apparent violation regarding design review.

2/4/88 50-313 RIV Office Management meeting to discuss AP&L/Nkt J. Jaudon 50-368 licensee's corrective action program.

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