ML20214F619

Safety Evaluation Supporting Amend 129 to License DPR-50

ML20214F619
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	05/14/1987
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SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION.

i' SUPPORTING AMENDMENT NO.1pg TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. OPR-50 METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY JERSEY CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY PENNSYLVANIA ELEUIRIC CNPANY GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION l

l THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR STATION. UNIT NO. I DOCKET NO. 50-289.

INTRODUCTION By letter dated May 12, 1986, as supplemented September'11, 1986, GPU Nuclear 1

Corporation, (GPU or the licensee) requested amendment to the Technical Specifications (TSs) appended to Facility Operating License No. DPR-50 for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1 (TMI-1). The proposed amendment

+.oild revise notification and reporting requirements, as requested by NRC i

Ger.eric Letter 83-43 dated December 19, 1983, to be consistent with the new 4

requirements in 10 CFR Parts 50.72 and 50.73.

In addition, certain adminis-l trative changes affecting the same and other pages have been incorporated in this request, which serve to clarify the existing Technical Specifications (TSs) and include additional elements of the Standard Technical Specifications (STS).

EVALUATION i

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Currently, Administrative Control Specification 6.9.2 " Reportable Occurrences"

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requires the licensee to report certain types of events either by prompt

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notification (with written follow-up) or in thirty day written reports. The proposed revisions bring the Three Mile Island, Unit No. 1 Technical Specifications into conformance with new requirements in 10 CFR Parts 50.72 and 50.73. The changes include (1) adding Definition 1/21 " Reportable Events"; (2) deleting unnecessary and conflicting references to reporting i

requirements in the Limiting Conditions for Operations and Surveillance l

Requirements sections or otherwise revising previous " Unique Reporting Requirements" into these sections, and (3) revising the Administrative Controls sections to reference 10 CFR Part 50.73 and to delete the previous j

reporting requirements, now unnecessary or conflicting.

i The proposed TS changes also make certain additional revisions to the 1

Technical Specifications as follows:

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Deletion of the requirement for certain reports or information deleted from STS (NUREG-047?, Revision 3). This information, although no longer receired to be reported, will be available at the site for NRC review.

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Clarification of TS 6.10.2 to distinguish between the records which are to be retained for the duration of the operating license and those which are required to be retained for at least five years. This change is only to eliminate confusion and does not modify the requirements for record retention.

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Deletion of TS 6.10.2n concerning the retention of equipment qualification records. These requirements are adequately addressed by regulation in 10 CFR 50.49.

Furthermore, this specification referenced TS 6.15 which has been deleted by Amendment No. 102.

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Deletion of the reference to Regulatory Guide (RG) 10.1 from TS 6.9.1.c.

NRC requested distribution of Monthly Operating Reports is not consistent with the guidance specified in RG 10.1, thus this reference is no longer appropriate.

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Other changes to correct format, gramar, misspellings, other errors from previous amendments, and the addition of language consistent with the Standard Technical Specifications. These changes do not alter any requirements; they serve only to improve the clarity of the specifications.

The staff has evaluated the proposed changes to the TSs and concludes for the reasons stated above that these changes:

(1) are in accordance with the changes requested by Generic Letter No. 83-43, (2) are in accordance with the 1anguage in the STS, (3) correct existing errors in the current TS,and (4)

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serve to clarify certain sections. Therefore, these changes are acceptabic.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION This amendment involves changes which are administrative in nature in that 1

they change reporting requirements, delete errors in the existing Technical Specifications, and serve to improve and clarify certain sections, i

Accordingly, this amendnent meets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(10). Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this amendment.

CONCLUSION We have concluded, based on the considerations discussed above, that: (1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the proposed manner, and (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Comission's regulations and the issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the comon defense and security or to the boalth and safety of the public.

Dated: May 14,1987 Principal Contributors: Walter Baunack, R. Struckmeyer, and M. Miller

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