ML20196D133

Forwards Request for Addl Info Re Review of Application for Amend to License DPR-4,authorizing Removal of Facility Outbuildings & Structures & Reduction of Size of Exclusion Area,Within 90 Days of Ltr Date

ML20196D133
Person / Time
Site:	Saxton File:GPU Nuclear icon.png
Issue date:	02/09/1988
From:	Alexander Adams Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Heward R SAXTON NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL CORP.
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. February 9, 1988 Docket No. 50-146 Mr. R. W. Heward, Jr., President Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation 1 Upper Pond Road Parsippany, New Jersey 07054

SUBJECT:

NRC REVIEW 0F TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AMENDMENT APPLICATION We are continuing our review of your application to Facility Operating License No. DPR-4 for permission to remove facility outbuildings and structures and to reduce the size of the exclusion area. The application was sutmitted by letter dated September 22, 1987. During our review of the information you had submitted, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed Request for Additional Information within 90 days of the date of thi; letter. Following receipt of the additional information we will continue our evaluation of your request. If you have que.stions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 492-1121.

The reperting and/or recordkeeping requirements contained in this letter affect fewer than ten respondents; therefore, OMB clearance is not required under P. L.95-511. g Sincerely, l

original =igned by Alexander Adams, Jr., Project Manager Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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SUBJECT:

NRC REVIEW OF TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AMENDMENT APPLICATION We are continuing our review of your application to Facility Operating License No. DPR-4 for permission to renove facility outbuildings and structures and to reduce the size of the exclusion area. The application was submitted by letter dated September 22, 1987. During our review of the information you had submitted, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed Request for Additional Information within 90 days of the date of this letter. Following receipt of the additional information we will continue our evaluation of ycur reouest. If you have questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 492-1121.

The reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements contained in this letter affect fewer than ten respondents; therefore, OMB clesrance is not required under P. L.95-511.

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Alexander Adams, Jr . P ject Manager Standardization and N -Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects III, IV, Y and Special Projects l Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation ec: Pennsylv6nia Department of Environmental Resources Bureau of Radiation Protection ATTN: Ms. Margaret A. Reilly P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Mr. Jim Tydeman 140? Wall Street Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources Mr. James H. Elder, Chairman Bureau of Water Quality Control Concerned Citizens for SNEC Safety ATTN: Mrf James Flesher Wall Street Ext. One Ararat Boulevard Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 Mr. Ernest Fuller Mr. Don Weaver, Chairman R. D. Liberty < Township Supervisors Six Mile Run, Pennsylvania 16679 R. D. #1 Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Saxton Borough Council ATTN: Ms. Peggy Whited, Secretary 11.S. Army Corps of Engineers 9th and Spring Streets Baltimore District Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 ATTN: S. Snarski/P. Juhle P. O. Bcx 1715 Mr. Joseph Clapper, Chairman Baltimore, Maryland 21203 Bedford County Commissioners County Court House The Honorable Robert C. Jubelirer 203 South Juliana Street President Pro-Team Senate of Bedford, Per1sylvania 15522 Pennsylvania 30th District Mr. Larry Sather, Chairman State Capitol Huntingdon County Commissioners Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 County Court House Huntingdon, Pennsylvania 16652

- Saxton Community Library 911 Church Street Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Carbon Township Supervisors ATTN: Ms. Penny Brode, Secretary i R. D. #1, Box 222-C Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Hopewell Township Supervisors ATTN: Ms. Sally Giornesto, Secretary

! 511 Tenth Street Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Mr. D. Bud McIntyre, Chairman Broad Top Township Supervisors Broad Top Municipal Building Defiance, Pensylvania 16633

. J REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SAXTON NUCLEAR FACILITY DOCKET NO. 50-146

1. Please discuss in detail your future plans for the Saxton Nuclear l Facility with regard to decommissioning.

2. Please explain the apparent transfer of the property that the facility is j situated on from the Saxton Steam Generating Station to the Pennsylvania i Electric Company. l

3. Please justify the discontinuation of beta analysis of water sar:ples obtained from the Containment Vessel.

4. In your Safety Evaluation you refer to the Technical Specifications associated with the Saxton Decomissioning Plan and Final Safeguards Report. These Technical Specifications are not currently approved by the NRC. You state that SNEC will assure that the endpoint criteria of j Regulatory Guide 1.86, "Termination of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Reactors", are met by performing a detailed radiological survey of the outbuildings and structures. However, no levels are stated for radiation fields. The current acceptable criteria used by the staff for release for unrestricted use are either 5 micro-Roentgen / hour above background at 1 meter from the surface or 10 mrem / year above background, considering reasonable proxinity and occupancy. Please state the endpoint criteria to be used for radiation fields at the Saxton Nuclear Facility.

5. Please submit a final survey that in addition to identifying 1 contamination levels in the outbuildings and structures, includes information detailing the following:

radiological characteristics of the site, including gama exposure l rates and neasurements of soil activity; l 1

- identification of all isotopes in the scil, specifying those i attributable to SNEC operations and those naturally occurring;

- identification of soil activity distribution with soil depth;  ;

- evaluation of soil activity for soil located underneath site buildings;

- evaluation of residual activity for soil located in areas of site sumps, drains, or other drainage pathways;

- sarpling records (either recent or historical) to identify soil activity levels in those undergrcund locations where radioactive waste tanks ar.d associated piping were located. Your records should be sufficient to clearly demonstrate that all underground tanks

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- identification of any naturally occurring activity in the soil used as a backfill during the 1973 dismantling work at SNEC.

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6. Your environmental reports over the past several years identify measurable levels of soil activity. Please indicate your intent as to the final disposition of soil with identified activity attributable to SNEC operations. The description of your intent should identify activity cut-off limits if you intend to use them and should include a pathway analysis and projected dose estimates stemning from any residue activity left on site.

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