ML25013A308
| ML25013A308 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 01/13/2025 |
| From: | James Drake NRC/RGN-IV/DORS/EB2 |
| To: | Heflin A Arizona Public Service Co |
| References | |
| IR 2025012 | |
| Download: ML25013A308 (1) | |
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January 13, 2025 Adam C. Heflin, Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Arizona Public Service Company P.O. Box 52034, MS 7602 Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034
SUBJECT:
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF POST-APPROVAL SITE INSPECTION FOR LICENSE RENEWAL AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (05000528, 05000529, 05000530/2025012)
Dear Adam C. Heflin:
During the weeks of March 3 and March 17, 2025, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will begin a Post-Approval Site Inspection, Phase 2, for License Renewal for your facility.
Four inspectors will perform this two-week inspection in accordance with NRC Inspection Procedure 71003. This inspection focuses on activities associated with license renewal:
implementation of aging management programs, regulatory commitments, as well as any tests or inspections of structures, systems, or components.
To minimize the inspection impact on the site and to ensure a productive inspection for both parties, we have enclosed a request for information needed for the inspection. It is important that all these documents are up to date and complete to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the on-site portions of the inspection.
Please provide this information electronically to the lead inspector. The information request has two groups:
The first group lists information necessary for our initial inspection scoping and in-office preparation activities. During the in-office preparation activities, the team will identify as much as possible the information and activities to be reviewed during the inspection. This information should be provided to the lead inspector by January 24, 2025.
The second group includes additional information required for the team to review the selected activities. This information should be available to the team on February 13, 2025. It is also requested that corrective action documents and/or questions developed during the inspection be provided to the lead inspector as the documents are generated.
The schedule for the inspection is as follows:
Offsite Preparation Week: February 24 - March 1, 2025 Onsite Inspection Weeks: March 3 - 7 & March 17-22, 2025
A. Heflin 2
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT This letter contains mandatory information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved these information collections (approval number 3150-0011). Send comments regarding this information collection to the Information Services Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Mail Stop: T6 A10M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by e-mail to Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0011) Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
PUBLIC PROTECTION NOTIFICATION The NRC may not conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document displays a currently valid OMB control number.
This letter, its enclosure, and your response (if any) will be made available for public inspection and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document Room in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.
Sincerely, Jim Drake, Senior Reactor Inspector Engineering Branch 2 Division of Operating Reactor Safety Docket Nos: 05000528, 05000529, and 05000530 License Nos: NPF-41, NPF-51 and NPF-74
Enclosure:
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License Renewal Phase 2 Document Request cc w/ encl: Distribution via LISTSERV Signed by Drake, James on 01/13/25
SUNSI Review X
Non-Sensitive Sensitive X
Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available OFFICE SRI:DORS:EB2 NAME JDrake SIGNATURE
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DATE 01/13/25
Enclosure License Renewal Phase 2 Document Requests Inspection Report:
05000528, 05000529, 05000530/2025012 Onsite Inspection Dates:
March 3 - 7, 2025 March 17-22, 2025 Inspection Procedure:
IP 71003 Post-Approval Site Inspection for License Renewal Phase 2 The documents and information requested below should generally be made available to the inspection team for the team's use both on-site and off-site. Electronic format is the preferred media, preferably in a searchable format. Electronic media should contain descriptive names and be indexed and hyperlinked to facilitate ease of use. Information in lists should contain enough information to be easily understood by someone who has knowledge of light water reactor technology. If electronic media is made available via an internet based remote document management system, then the remote document access must allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the NRC's office. Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hard copy) are acceptable. At the end of the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be retained.
This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such, this document request is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all of the listed documents. In addition, your plant specific document titles may vary from the document titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below.
A.
Documents requested by January 24, 2025 (prior to on-site inspection)
- 1. Provide the complete commitment closure notebooks for license renewal. This information should contain your license renewal commitments, associated aging management programs, closure documentation, implementing documents/procedures, and CRs. For those activities not yet complete, please provide an estimated completion date.
- 2. Provide copies of the program basis document for each aging management program.
- 3. Provide current management and license renewal organizational charts, electronic copies of Appendix A of the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report, Technical Specifications, Technical Specifications Bases, and Licensee Controlled Specifications.
- 4. Provide copies of any internal/external self-assessments, gap analyses, and associated corrective action documents generated in preparation for the inspection.
- 5. A list of FSAR updates performed since the last license renewal inspection (performed in October 2024).
- 6. A list of License Amendment Requests submitted since the last license renewal inspection (performed in October 2024).
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- 7. A list of license renewal commitment changes since the last license renewal inspection (performed in October 2024).
- 8. A list of any documents associated with 10 CFR 54.37(b), if unique from requests #5 -
- 7 above.
B.
Documents requested for on-site inspection
- 1. Contact information for selected inspection samples to facilitate inspector observations and questions.
C.
Documents requested through the inspection
- 1. Copies of any corrective action documents generated because of the teams questions or queries during this inspection.
- 2. Copies of the list of questions submitted by the team members and the status/resolution of the information requested (provide daily during the inspection to each team member).
If you have questions regarding the information requested, please contact the lead inspector.
Inspector Contact Information:
Jim Drake (Lead)
Senior Reactor Inspector 817-200-1558 James.Drake@nrc.gov Nnaerika Okonkwo Reactor Inspector 817-200-1114 Nnaerika.Okonkwo@nrc.gov Andrew Saunders Reactor Inspector 817-200-1275 Andrew.Saunders@nrc.gov Marlone Davis Reactor Inspector 301-415-7447 Marlone.Davis@nrc.gov Mailing Address:
U.S. NRC, Region IV Attn: First Last Name 1600 East Lamar Blvd.
Arlington, TX 76011-4511