ML20151W586

Safety Evaluation Supporting Amend 104 to License DPR-36

ML20151W586
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Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	04/26/1988
From:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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'J ;E WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 SAFETY EVALVATION RY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELATED TO AMENDMENT N0.104 TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE N0. DPR-36 MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER PLANT DOCKET N0. 50-309

1.0 INTRODUCTION

By letter dated March 1,1988, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (NYAPCO) requested changes in Section 5.2 "Organization" of the Technical Scecifications for the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Plant. The requested changes revise the corporate organization, depicted on Technical Specification Figures 5.2-1 and 5.2-2.

DESCRIPTION The proposed changes would update Figure 5.2-1 and Figure 5.2-2 in Technical Specification o.2 "Organization" depicting the Company's offsite and facility organization, respectively.

In Figure 5 2-1, Offsite Organization, the following changes are proposed:

a. The Executive Vice President will succeed the current President of the Company, who will in turn become the new Chairman of the Board of the Company. The position of Executive Vice President will be eliminated.

b. The position of Manager, Coality Assurance will be called the Manager, Ouality Prograns to reflect the corporate functional responsibility for the assessment and effectiveness of Quality Performance, as well as the traditional functions of Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

The Manager, Quality Prog'ans will report to the Vice President, Quality Programs and Engineering, formerly called the Vice President, Engineering,

c. With the elimination of the position of Executive Vice President, the Vice President, Operations and the Vice President, Quality Programs and Engineering will report to the President.

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7 The following changes are proposed for Figure 5.?-2, Facility Organization:

a. Quality Assurance will be called Quality Programs,

b. The title Manager, Quality Assurance will be changed to Manager, Quality Programs (in the Functional Reporting foo tr.ote ) .

EULUATION The changes to Maine Yankee's organization reflects the successional evolution of the Maino Yankee corporate organization while maintaining the significant naragement strengths established at both the corporate and plant levels.

Maine Yankee believes this change provides for more effective use of upper level management, enhancing the capability of the corporate organization which results in a net increase in the safety of operations. These proposed changes in no way diminish the raquisite authority and organizational freedom of the Quality Programs organization to carry out its required functions.

Overall, we find that the changes proposed by the licenree add to the ef#ectiveness of the Maine Yankee corporate and site organizations and that the resulting organizations at both the plant and corporate levels are in accordance with the Standard Review Plan.

We have reviewed these proposed changes and find that they are administrative in nature, that they do not adversely affect the support to plant operations, and that the resulting organization meets the guidelines of Section 13.1.1 of the Standard Review Plan, NUREG-0800.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION .

This amendment involves a change to recordkeeping, reporting or administrative precedures or requirements. The staff has determined that the amendment involves no significant increase in the amounts, and no significant change in the types, of any effluents that may be released offsite, and that there is no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation ex:osure. The Commission has previously issued a prc,'osed finding that this amendment involves no significant hazards consideratio. and there has been no public coment on such finding. Accordingly, this amendment meets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR Section

51. 22(c)(10) . Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b) na environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this amendment.

CONCLUSION The staff has concluded, based on the considerations discussed above, that (1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the proposed manner, and (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Conmission's regulations, and the issuance of the amendment will not be inimical to the cornon defense and security or to the health and safety of the public. Accordingly, we conclude that the proposed changes are acceptable.

Principal Contributer: Patrick Sears Da.ed: Aoril 26, 1988