ML20214F528

Requests Schedule for plant-specific Implementation of USI A-46, Seismic Qualification of Equipment in Operating Plants No Later than 871201,per Encl Granting 870410 Request for Schedular Relief

ML20214F528
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades, Big Rock Point, 05000000
Issue date:	05/14/1987
From:	Hall J, Wambach T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Berry K CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
References
TASK-A-46, TASK-OR GL-87-02, GL-87-2, NUDOCS 8705260133
Download: ML20214F528 (2)

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E 1 4 1987 Docket Nos. 50-155 50-255 Mr. Kenneth W. Berry Director, Nuclear Licensing Consumers Power Company 1945 West Parnall Road Jackson, Michigan 49201

SUBJECT:

RELIEF FROM 60-DAY REPORTING REQUIREMENT OF GENERIC LETTER 87-02 Generic Letter 87-02, issued on February 19, 1987 to all utilities required to implement the requirements of USI A-46, " Seismic Qualification of Equipment in Operating Plants," required all affected utilities to respond within 60 days.

Subsequently, the Seismic Qualification Utilities Group (SQUG) formally requested an extension of the 60-day reporting requirements for utilities who are members of the SQUG. The extension was granted by the enclosed letter dated April 28, 1987, from Thomas E. Murley, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, to Neil P. Smith, Chairman, SQUG.

Please note that you should provide the schedule for plant-specific implementation no later than December 1, 1987. The NRC staff will review and evaluate the generic procedures by October 1, to allow each utility 60 days to prepare their replies to the generic letter.

Sincerely, U/

Thomas V. Wambach, Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V

& Special Projects A S/ X (Ll4M{ $fCl} W James R. Hall, Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V

& Special Projects

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Mr. Kenneth W. Berry Big Rock Point Plant and Consumers Power Company Palisades Plant cc Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary Jerry Sarno Consurers Power Company Township Supervisor 212 West Michigan Avenue Covert Township Jackson, Michigan 49201 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power Company Palisades Plant 212 West Michigan Avenue ATTN: Mr. David P. Hoffmar Jackson, Michigan- 49201 Plant General Mar. aper 27780 Blue Star Memoriai Hwy, M. I. Miller, Esquire Covert, Michigan 4S 43

. Isham, Lincoln, & Beale Sist Floor Resident Inspector Three First National Plaza c/o USNRC Chicago, Illinois 60602 Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Rwy.

Big Rock Point Plant Covert, Michigan 49043 ATTN: Mr. Thomas V. E1 ward Plant Superintendent 10269 U.S. 31 North Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Mr. Bud Heeres County Commissioner -

303 Sheridan Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Office of the Governor Room ~1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector Office Big Rock Point Plant 10253 U.S. 31 North Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health P. O. Box 30035 Lansing, Michigan 48909

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' \, * * * * * / APR 2 81987 Mr. Neil P. Smith Chairman Seismic. Qualification Utility Group 801 18th Street, N.W.

Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20006,

Dear Mr. Smith:

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I have received ~your letter dated April 10, 1987 requesting clarification' of the 60-day reporting provisions of Generic Letter 87-02. -In Generic Letter 87-02, the staff requested that each licensee subject to the USI A-46 equipment seismic adequacy verification requirements provide a schedule for implementation of the seismic verification within 60 days of receipt of the Generic Letter.

In your letter you stated that licensees who belong to the Seismic Qualification Utility Group (SQUG) will be unable to provide a schedule for implementation at this time because the generic implementation procedures are still under development by the SQUG and will not be finalized until the completion of several trial plant reviews.

The staff hatfreviewed your request and concluded that it is appropriate to

. extend the 60-day reporting provisions of-Generic Letter 87-02 for SQUG

!~ licensees until the generic implementation procedures are better defined and the trial plant reviews are completed. It is my understanding that the SQUG generic implementation procedutts should be essentially complete before October 1, 1987. By that date at least two trial plant reviews will have been completed and the generic implementation procedures sufficiently defined and reviewed by NRC staff so that licensees can plan and schedule their plant specific reviews.

All licensees participating in the USI AM6 SQUG implementation prcgram should provide the schedule for plant specific implementation no laterithan December 1,1987. The NRC staff will review and evaluate the generic procedures by October 1, to allow each utility 60 days to prepare their replies to the generic letter.

Sincerely, Thomas E. Murley, 06wr Office. of Nuclear Reactor Regulation qsd g

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