ML20206B454
| ML20206B454 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 04/03/1987 |
| From: | Sylvester E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Utley E CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8704090156 | |
| Download: ML20206B454 (3) | |
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April;3, 1987.
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Dockets Nos. 50-325/324-Mr. E. E. Utley-u Senior Executive Vice President
' Power Supply & Engineering & Construction Carolina Power & Light Company P.O. Box.1551 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602
Dear Mr. Utley:
SUBJECT:
INSERVICE TEST RELIEF REQUEST - EXCESS FLOW CHECK VALVES RE:
Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 By letter dated May 2,1985 as supplemented July 5,1985, you requested relief from certain inservice testing requirements of the ASME Code pursuant to 10 CFR50.55a(g). Relief was requested from the requirements for exercising and leak rate testing of reactor instrument protection excess flow check valves on instrument lines penetrating primary containment.
In lieu of_the testing required by the Code, you propose to stroke these _ valves closed 'and verify '
closure on an 18-month interval.in accordance with Technical Specification 4.6.3.4.
The proposed surveillance would be a vacuum-type-leak test using a
" rapid decrease in initial flow" as the acceptance criterion.
By letter dated February 14, 1986, we' granted the requested relief on an interim basis until a more detailed evaluation of your proposal'was completed by the NRC staff. Subsequently, by letter dated October 23, 1986, you submitted for NRC approval the updated inservice testing program for thel Brunswick Steam Electric-Plant, Units 1 and 2.
This program covers the second ten-year testing interval'which began, for both units, on July.10, 1986.
Included in the relief requests for the second interval was a re-iteration of the relief request for the excess flow check valves. We therefore will continue our review of that relief request as part of our review of the second.
interval inservice test program. The. interim relief granted by our February 14, 1986 letter will continue to be in effect until our review of that program is completed.
Sincerely, Ernest D. Sylvester BWR Project Directorate #2:
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Mr. P. W. Howe Mr. C. R. Dietz Vice President Plant General Manager Brunswick Nuclear Project Brunswick Nuclear Project Box 10429 Box 10429 Southport, North Carolina 28461 Southport, North Carolina 28461 Thomas A. Baxter, Esquire Mr. H. A. Cole Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Special Deputy Attorney General 2300 N Street, N. W.
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20037 Post Office Box 629 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Mr. D. E. Hollar Associate General Counsel Mr. Robert P. Gruber Carolina Power & Light Company Executive Director Post Office Box.1551 Public Staff - NCUC Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Post Office Box 29620 Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0520 Mr. Christopher Chappell, Chairman Board of Comissioners Post Office Box 249 Bolivia, North Carolina 28422 Mrs. Chrys Baggett State Clearinghouse tsudget and Management 116 West Jones Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 Resident Inspector U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Star Route 1 Post Office Box 208 Southport, North Carolina 28461 Regional Administrator, Region II U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Mr. Dayne H. Brown, Chief Radiation Protection Branch Division of Facility Services N. C. Department of Human Resources 701 Barbour Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27603-2008
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