PNO-III-86-079, on 860807,Region III Authorized Restart, Lifting 860602 Hold on Operation Imposed Due to Reactor Water Level Switch Problem.On 860806,IE Decision Issued in Response to Seneca,Il 2.206 Petition Re Emergency Plan

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PNO-III-86-079:on 860807,Region III Authorized Restart, Lifting 860602 Hold on Operation Imposed Due to Reactor Water Level Switch Problem.On 860806,IE Decision Issued in Response to Seneca,Il 2.206 Petition Re Emergency Plan
ML20205B807
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Site: LaSalle Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 08/08/1986
From: Guldemond W, Wright G
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
To:
References
2.206, PNO-III-86-079, PNO-III-86-79, NUDOCS 8608120154
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1 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-III-86-79 Date August 8, 1986 D 11 1 1 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety cr public interest nignificance. The information is as initially received without ,GW\

v;rification or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region III staff on this date.

Facility: Commonwealth Edison Company Licensee Emergency Classification:

LaSalle Unit 2 Notification of an Unusual Event Marseilles IL 61341 Alert Site Area Emergency Docket No: 50-374 General Emergency XX Not Applicable

Subject:

RESTART OF UNIT 2 R gion III (Chicago) authorized restart of Unit 2 on August 7, 1986, lifting the hold on operations imposed by a Confirmatory Action Letter issued June 2,1986, after the reactor water level switch problem occurred (reference PN0-III-86-52, 52A, and 52B).

The licensee began pulling control rods on August 8, 1986.

During the outage, the Village of Seneca, Illinois, announced it was withdrawing from emerg;ncy planning activities for the LaSalle site and filed a petition under 10 CFR 2.206, se: king to prevent the restart of the plant. On August 6, 1986, the Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, issued a decision, finding that no immediate action was n:c:ssary to suspend the operation of LaSalle, but that certain emergency planning issues would be reviewed further.

Tha resident inspectors will monitor the licensee's startup activities and the testing of the reactor water level switch efficacy.

The State of Illinois will be informed.

There has been news media interest in the startup decision.

This inform curre t as of 12 n ust 8, 1 .

CONTACT: .

h* mond FTS 388-5695 FTS 388-5574 DISTRIBUTION:

H. St. E00 NRR E/W Willste Mail: ADM:DMB Chairman Palladino PA IE NMSS D0T:Trans only Comm. Zech ELD OIA RES Comm. Bernthal AE0D Comm. Roberts Comm. Asselstine SP M,30 Regional Offices ACRS SECY INP0/).'g> NSAC [8/)

CA RIII Resident Office PDR Licensee: /.' S3 (Corp. Office - Reactor Lic. Only)

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