ML20207E413

Forwards 860711 Form 8-K, Current Rept, Issued Per Section 13 or 15(d) of 1934 Securities Exchange Act,For Info.Svc List Encl.Related Correspondence

ML20207E413
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	07/14/1986
From:	Wooldridge R WORSHAM, FORSYTHE, SAMPELS & WOOLRIDGE (FORMERLY
To:	Bloch P, Jordan W, Mccollom K Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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CON-#386-022, CON-#386-22 OL, NUDOCS 8607220331
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Elizabeth B. Johnson Dr. Walter H. Jordan Oak Ridge National Laboratory Administrative Judge P. O. Box X, Building 3500 881 West Outer Drive Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Re: Texas Utilities Electric Company, et al (Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 & 2); Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446 -d C

Dear Administrative Judges:

For your information, enclosed is a copy of Form 8-K, Current Report, of Texas Utilities Electric Company, dated July 11, 1986, and filed with the SEC today, reporting on matters relating to Applicants' Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station.

l This information is being sent to keep the Board apprised as to matters of possible interest.

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SERVICE LIST Mr. Peter B. Bloch, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission +

Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Kenneth A. McCollom ..

1107 West Knapp i Stillwater, Oklahoma 74075 -

Elizabeth B. Johnson u.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box X, Building 3500 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Dr. Walter H. Jordan 881 West Outer Drive Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Mrs. Juanita Ellis '

President, CASE 1426 South Polk Street Dallas, Texas 75224 Renea Hicks, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division '

P. O. Box 12548, Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esq. .

William A. Horin, Esq.

Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds ,

1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20036 Mr. W. G. Counsil Executive Vice President Texas Utilities Generating Company Skyway Tower,25th Floor 400 N. Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201 -

Mr. Thomas G. Dignan, Jr.

\ir. R. K. Gad, III William S. Eggeling Ropes & Gray "

225 Franklin Street '

Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Mr. Roy P. Lessy, 3r.

\iorgan, Lewis & Bockius 1800 M Street, N.W. ,

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Robert D. Martin Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, Texas 76011 Lanny A. Sinkin Christic Institute-1324 North Capitol Street Washington, D.C. 20002

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'?. - Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. William L. Clements Docketing & Service Branch U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Stuart A. Treby, Esq.

Office of the Executive Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Ms. Ellen Ginsberg, Esq.

, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 4350 East / West Highway,4th Floor Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Billie Pirner Garde Citizens Clinic Director Government Accountability Project 1555 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Suite 202 Washington, D.C. 20036 Nancy Williams Cygna Energy Services, Inc.

101 California Street Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94111 David R. Pigot Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 600 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94111 Mr. Shannon Phillips Resident Inspector Comanche Peak SES c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 38 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 Anthony Roisman, Esq. <

Executive Director Trial Lawyers for Public Justice 2000 P. Street, N.W., Suite 611 Washington, D.C. 20036 F Y ~

Robdrt A. Wooldridge '

Date: July 15,1986 i

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o SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED - JUNE 26, 1986 TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTR!C COMPANY f.R.S. Employer A Texas Commission File No. 75-1837355 Corporation No. 0-11442 2001 BRYAN TOWER, DALLAS, TEXAS 75201 (214) 653-4600

e ITEM 5 OTHER EVENTS.

Reference is made to the Registrant's 1985 Form 10-K in item i under Fuel Supply-Nuclear and Regulation and Rates-Regulation, in item 2 under Construction Program and in item 8 under Note 9 to Financial Statements. Reference is also made to the Registrant's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended Ma.ch 31, 1986 in Part 11, item 5, and the Registrant's Forms 8-K dated June 6, 1986 and July 1, 1986.

The Registrant, a subsidiary of Texas Utilities Company, is constructing two nuclear-fueled generating units at the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station. On June 26, 1986, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), designated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to address intervenor contentions relating to the Registrant's application for an operating license for Comanche Peak, issued a Memorandum which addresses " Board Concerns" about the adequacy of the Registrant's Comanche Peak Response Team program (CPRT). The Memorandum states that, based upon the ASLB's current knowledge of the program, after having reviewed the first results reports and the NRC Staff's Supplemental Safety Evaluation Report on the CPRT program, the ASLB continues to have concerns expressed in earlier memorandums, as described in the documents referenced above. The ASLB also raised additional concerns about how findings in one area of the reinspection effort may affect the Registrant's programs in other areas, whether sufficient attention is being paid to problems of quality assurance and quality control regarding design, the adequacy of the CPRT sampling program, and perceived oversights in one of the results reports recently issued.

The Registrant is addressing these concerns and will respond to the ASLB within the next few weeks.

The Registrant has previously reported that modifications would be required on approximately thirty percent of the pipe supports in Unit I and that containment electrical penetrations would be replaced. It now appears that more corrective actions will be required than was anticipated at that time. In the course of the design reviews being performed at Comanche Peak, additional problems have recently been discovered in several areas of the

! Some of these discoveries will result in design of the plant.

additional corrective actions which include reanalysis, revision or updating of existing design calculations, reinspection, and, in some cases, physical rework. These developments will further extend the time needed to perform corrective action and to obtain l an operating license from the NRC and will increase the cost for i

this generating facili ty. Due to uncertainties regarding further l- reanalysis, reinspections and rework and the nature and extent of l the hearing process before the ASLB thereaf ter, the Registrant is l unable at this time to predict how much additional time will be l

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i required to obtain license approval to permit the operation of Unit 1. The reanalysis, reinspection and corrective action and the hearing process before the ASLB cannot be completed in time for l' commercial operation of Unit I for the Registrant's peak load in the summer of 1988 and the Registrant is, therefore, making other arrangements to obtain additional power supplies for such time.  ;

, SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY Date: July 11, 1986 By /s/ H. Jarrell Gibbs H. Jarrell Gibbs Treasurer and Assistant Secretary d

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