ML20151Y752

Environ Assessment & Finding of No Significant Impact Re Util 871228 Request for Exemption from 10CFR55.59 to Eliminate Requirement That Operator Requalification Program Cover Plant Protection Sys & ESFs

ML20151Y752
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	08/23/1988
From:	Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMISSION GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-320 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR 55.59, Operators' Licenses, Requalification relative to Facility Operating License No. DPR-73, issuedtoGPUNuclearCorporation(thelicensee),for+,heThreeMileIsland Nuclear Station Unit 2 (TMI-2), located in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. By Order for Modification of License, dated July 20, 1979, the licensee's authority to operate the facility was suspended and the licensee's authority was limited to maintenance of the facility in the present shutdown cooling mode (44 FR 45271). By further Order of the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, dated February 11, 1980, a new set of formal license requirements was imposed to reflect the post-accident condition of the facility and to assure the continued maintenance of the curre:.t safe, stable.

l long-term cooling condition of the facility (45 FR 11292). The license provides, among other things, that it is subject to all rules, regulations and Orders of

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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Identification of Proposed Action:

The actions being considered by the Commission are exemptions from requirements of 10 CFR 55.59 pertaining to the Licensed Operator Requalification Program. The licensee has requested, in a letter dated December 28, 1987, that the requirements of 10 CFR 55.59(c)(2), subsections (iv) and (v) and 10 CFR 55.59(c)(3)(i), items (A) through (AA) be eliminated.

Specifically, 10 CFR 55.59(c)(2), subsections (iv) and (v) require that the licensee's operators' requalification program include lectures covering plant protection systems and engineered safety systems, respectively. Items (A) through (AA) of 10 CFR 55.59(c)(3)(i) require that the operators' requalification program include, as part of on-the-job training, control manipulations for an identified list of conventional reactor evolutions.

1 The Need for the Proposed Action:

TMI-2 is currently in a post-accident, cold shutdown, long-term recovery mode, with sufficient dec:.y heat removal assured by direct heat loss from the reactor coolant system (RCS) to the reactor building atmosphere. The present unconventional configuration of the TMI-? plant does not allow the conventional evolutions normal to an operating facility. As such, the staff does not considertheevolutionslistedin10CFR55.59(c)(3)(i) items (A)through(AA) applicable for TMI-2. Since conventional events are not applicable for TMI-2, conventional plant protection systems and engineered safety systems are not required by TMI-2 and are in fact disabled.

Therefore, training lectures on conventional plant protection systems and engineered safety systems would be irrelevant to TMI-2. Similarly, conventional

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manipulations, such as listed in 10 CFR 55.59(c)(3)(1) items (A) through (AA) would not be applicable to the present TMI-2 configuration. As such, exercises attempting these manipulations would not be relevant to the THI-2 operating staff.

Environmental Impact of the Proposed Action:

The staff has evaluated the proposed exemptions and concludes that in light of the current and future condition of the facility described above, there are no significant radiological or nonradiological impacts to the environment as a result of this action. The exemptions remove the specific training requirements which are no longer applicable to the THI-2 configuration.

Alternative Use of Resources:

This action does not involve the use of resources not previously considered in connection with the Final Programatic Environmental Impact Statement for TMI-2, dated March 1981.

Agencies and Persons Consulted The NRC staff reviewed the licensee's request. No other agencies or persons were consulted.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The Comission has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed exemption. Based upon the foregoing environmental assessment, we conclude that this action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

For further details with respect to this action see the letter from GPUN dated December 28, 1987 which is available for public inspection at the Corsnission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W3, Washington, D.C., and

the State Library of Pennsylvania, Government Publications Section, Education Building, Comonwealth and Walnut Streets. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of August 1988.

F R THE NUCLEAR RE LATORY COMMISSION iloh F. Stolz, Dire t r Pr ject Directorate -4 ivision of Reactor Projects I/II

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