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Informs That on 990812,NRC Completed three-day Licensing Review of Activities Associated with Usec 990526,certificate Amend Request (CAR) to Reopen Compliance Plan Issues 8,9 & 23 at Portsmouth Plant
ML20211G989
Person / Time
Site: Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Issue date: 08/26/1999
From: Galloway M
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Toelle S
UNITED STATES ENRICHMENT CORP. (USEC)
References
TAC-L32123, NUDOCS 9909010096
Download: ML20211G989 (2)


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SUBJECT:

PORTSMOUTH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT ONSITE LICENSING REVIEW AUGUST 9-12,1999 (TAC NO. L32123)

Dear Mr. Toelle:

On August 12,1999, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed a three-day licensing review of activities associated with United States Enrichment Corporation's (USEC's) May 26, 1999, Certificate Amendment Request (CAR) to reopen Compliance Plan issues 8,9, and 23 at l

the Portsmouth plant. At the conclusion of the onsite review, NRC staff members discussed the J

l findings with both yourself and the Portsmouth staff.

l The purpose of the onsite review was to support NRC's assessment of your CAR to reopen Compliance Plan Issues 8,9, and 23 by determining the acceptability of USEC's proposal to l

reduce the scope of its Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) Corrective Action Plan (CAP) by l

performing only Augmented Quality (AQ)-NCS reviews on 93 Priority 3 Nuclear Criticality Safety l

Approvals (NCSAs)/ Evaluations (Es) identified for additional review, and 42 NCSAs/Es identified 4

l for consolidation or deletion.

The NRC staff determined that to support its review USEC needs to commit to: (1) perform a complete review of the NCSAs/Es identified for additional review, consolidation or deletion; and I

(2) evaluate these NCSAs/Es against robust criteria to determine appropriate action, including revision / upgrading, consolidation into upgraded Priority.1 or 2 NCSAs/Es, consolidation into an

' existing plant NCSA for abandoned equipment, or deletion of the NCSA/E as a nonfissile i

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in response to this request, USEC committed on August 12,1999, to implement draft procedure l

XP2-EG-NS1037, " Review of Non-Priority 1 and 2 NCSAs/Es," and initiating the review process.

l This procedure contains a robust set of criteria for making the determination of the adequacy of l

the NCSA/E. The NRC requests revision to NCS CAP Subtask 3.3 to document this commitment.

The NRC also requs% that USEC commit to a time frame for final disposition of the 42 l

NCSAs/Es identified for consolidation or deletion utilizing the additional review process.

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