ML20198E253
| ML20198E253 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/17/1998 |
| From: | Bradley Jones NRC OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER |
| To: | Liberatori L WESTINGHOUSE OPERATING PLANTS OWNERS GROUP |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20198E258 | List: |
| References | |
| PROJECT-686 TAC-M97762, NUDOCS 9812240006 | |
| Download: ML20198E253 (2) | |
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o, December 17, 398 Mr. Louis F. Liberatori, Jr., Chairman Westinghouse Owners Group P.O. Box 355 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355
Dear Mr. Liberatori:
I am responding to your September 10,1998, letter requesting a clarification of invoice RLO471i98 issued to th,e Westinghouse Owners Group (WOG). Invoice RLO471-98 includes the costs incurred by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff for the review of your March 1997 Topical Report WCAP-14422, Rev. 2, " License Renewal Evaluation: Aging i
Management for Reactor Coolant System (RCS) Supports."
Your letter states that the WOG had an understanding that the review of Rev. 2 had been completed and that they had developed a draft Safety Evaluation Report (SER) by November 1997. According to the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) staff the draft SER for WCAP-14422, Rev. 2 is currently under review. The NRR staff reviewed the hours charged on invoice RLO471-98 for WCAP-14422 under the Technical Assignment Control (TAC) number M92937 and determined the time charged to be accurate.
Item two of your September 10,1998, letter requests a reduction in fees associated with the WOG Generic Technical Reports for Liconse Renewal concerning the November 7,1996, letter from Scott Newberry. The November 7,1996, letter states:
"The NRC staff has reviewed your request and determined that it meets the criteria delineated in 10 CFR 171.21 footnote 4 criterion 2. This determination was based on the staff's conclusion that the reviews of the license renewal GTRs will assist in the development of the standard review plan guidance by establishing aging effects and aging management programs that are specific to the Westinghouse Nuclear Steam Supply System, as well as providing additionalinformation to address a number of generic aging issues. As a result of the staff's determination, a partial fee waiver is granted for the remainder of the WCAP-14422 and WCAP-14574 review and any future liranse renewal GTRs the staff deems beneficial to the development of generic license renewal regulatory guidance such as the standard review plan. However, for reasons discussed below the staff denies your request to recoup any fees already assessed to the review of WCAP-14422 or WCAP-14574."
Our records indicated that we have invoiced the WOG for 38.0 hours0 days <br />0 hours <br />0 weeks <br />0 months <br /> out of a total of 160.5 hours5.787037e-5 days <br />0.00139 hours <br />8.267196e-6 weeks <br />1.9025e-6 months <br /> spent reviewing WCAP-14574. Therefore, there would be no funds for you to recoup conceming that review.
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Mr. L. Liberatori, Jr. December 17, 1998 Regarding the review of WCAP-14422, you have asked for an explanation of how the partial fee waiver is incorporated into your invoice RLO471-98. The following is a clarification of the process described in the November 7,1996, letter from Scott F. Newberry.
NRR began a two-TAC system 'o track the review time of WCAP-14422. Each reviewer decided which portion of the review supported the development of the generic standard review plan guidance; they charged that portion of time to the generic TAC M97762. Each reviewer charged the remainder of time to TAC M92937 that is billable to the WOG pursuant to 10 CFR Part 170. Your invoice reflects only those charges billable to WOG and does not include time spent on the generic standard review plan guidance. The generic costs associated with the review of WCAP-14422 are charged to TAC M97762 and these costs are attributed to those licen. sees that pay 10 CFR Part 171 annual fees.
For the period covered by invoice RLO471-98 dated July 20,1998, (March 29,1998 through June 20,1998) 101.0 hours0 days <br />0 hours <br />0 weeks <br />0 months <br /> were charged to TAC No. M92937 and 101.0 hours0 days <br />0 hours <br />0 weeks <br />0 months <br /> were charged to TAC No. M97762.
The NRC reaffirms that the charges reflected on invoice RLO471-98 for the review of Topical Report WCAP-14422, Rev. 2 are appropriate and we made no adjustments. Full payment for Invoice RLO471-98 was received August 3,1998.
If you have any questions, please contact M. Ellen Poteat at 301-415-6392.
Sincerely, Beverly S.
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