ML20247M392

Informs That Initial Review of Decommissioning Funding Assurance Program Completed.Comments on Util Reponse Encl Need to Be Resolved in Order for NRC to Determine That Terms of Commission Decision Met

ML20247M392
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	03/31/1989
From:	Varga S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Ellen Brown PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
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NUDOCS 8904060046
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p I March 31,1989 l7 k-Docket Nd. 50-443 Mr. Edward Brown President & Chief Executive Officer New Hampshire Yankee Division l Public Service Company of New l Hampshire  !

Post Office Box 300 l Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874

SUBJECT:

DECOMMISSIONING FUNDING ASSURANCE We have completed our initial review of your decommissioning funding assurance program provided by your letter dated March 20, 1989. This was in response to the Comission decision (CLI-88-10), dated December 21, 1988, requiring the applicants to provide assurance that $72.1 million be available to meet the decommissioning costs for Sehbrook Station Unli: 1 in thr event a full power operating license is not granted after low-power testing has been performed.

The Commission decision required the Staff to notify the Commission after the applicants have satisfied the Staff that all the decommissioning terms of the Commission decision are met. The Staff has concluded, based on its review of your March 20, 1989 submittal, that the matters presented in the enclosure need to be resolved by the Applicants in order for the Staff to determine that the terms of the Comission decision are met.

We would be pleased to schedule a meeting should you wish to discuss this matter with the Staff. Please contact Victor Nerses, the Seabrook Pro,iect Manager (301-492-1441), if you have any questions.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

Steven A. Varga, Acting Associate Director for Proiects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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, ENCLOSURE STAFF COMMENTS ON APPLICANTS' RESPONSE TO CLI 88-10

1. The Commission's funding requirements in CLI-88-10 were based upon values expressed in 1988 constant dollars (see CLI-88-10 pp 14, 15). The Commission adopted the Applicants' response to CLI-88-07, "The Plan", to develop its estimate of decommissioning and fuel storage costs. Section 3, Table 2, Note 1 of "The Plan" states "All VALUES ARE IN 1988 DOLLARS." Table 2 presented the estimated costs associated with returning Seabrook Unit 1 to unrestricted use and termination of the NRC license in the event low power testing had been completed and a full power license was not granted.

The Surety does not state that the expenditure amounts that appear in the Surety are in 1988 constant dollars.

2. The language of the Surety does not appear to address contingencies other than denial of a full power license, e.g., where the Applicants withdraw their application for a full power license subsequent to operation in accordance with a low power license or where the Applicants are granted a license for operation at power levels above 5% but less than full power.

The Surety, or whatever assurance mechanism is used, should make clear that funds as reauired by CLI-88-10 will be available in all cases "in the event that low-power operation has occurred and a full power license is not granted" CLI-88-07, 28 NRC at 273, CLI-88-10, 28 NRC , p. 4.

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