ML15302A013

Ltr 10/29/15 Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant - Information Request for an NRC Triennial Permanent Modifications and 10 CFR 50.59 Baseline Inspection 05000263/2016008 (Akd)

ML15302A013
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	10/29/2015
From:	Robert Daley Engineering Branch 3
To:	Gardner P Northern States Power Co
References
IR 2016008
Download: ML15302A013 (7)

See also: IR 05000263/2016008

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUIT

E 210 LISLE, IL 60532

-4352 October 29, 2015

Mr. Peter A. Gardner

Site Vice President Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant

Northern States Power Company, Minnesota

2807 West County Road 75

Monticello, MN 55362

-9637 SUBJECT: MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT

- INFORMATION REQUEST FOR AN NRC TRIENNIAL

PERMANENT MODIFICATIONS AND 10 CFR 50.59

BASELINE INSPECTION 05000263/2016008

Dear Mr. Gardner: On February 29, 2016 , the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will begin a MOD/50.59 Baseline Inspection at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant. This inspection

will be performed

in accordance

with the NRC Baseline Inspection Procedure 71111.17T. The onsite portion of the inspection will take place on February 29 - March 4, 2016, and March 14 - 1 8 , 2016. Experience has shown that these baseline inspections are extremely resource intensive, both for the NRC inspectors and the licensee staff. In order to minimize the inspection impact on the site , and to ensure a productive inspection for both parties, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for the inspection. These documents have been divided into three groups.

The first group of information is necessary to ensure that the inspection team is adequately

prepared for the

inspection. This information should be made available via compact disc and delivered to the regional

office no later than December 17, 2015. The inspection team will review this information and, by January 15, 2016, will request

specific items that should be provided for review in the regional office by February 12, 2016

. The second group of requested documents contains additional items that the team will review, or need access to, during the inspection. Certain documents contained within Group II (i.e., Item [1]), will be requested for review in the regional office prior to the inspection by February 12

, 2016, as identified above. The remaining documents should be available by the first day of

the onsite inspection, February

29, 201 6. The third group lists information necessary to aid the inspection team in tracking issues identified as a result

of the inspection. It is requested that this information be provided to the lead inspector as the information is generated during the inspection. It is important that all of these documents are up

-to-date and complete in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection.

P. Gardner

-2- The lead inspector for this inspection is Mr. Alan Dahbur. We

understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection is

Mr. Andy Kouba

of your organization. If there are any questions about the inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector at (630) 829-9810 , or via e-mail at Alan.Dahbur@nrc.gov

. This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection

requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, Control Number 3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or 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 Office of Management and Budget Control Number. In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations

(10 CFR) 2.390, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding," of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy

of this letter, its enclosure, and your response (if any) will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC's Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS)

component of the NRC's Agencywide

Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading

-rm/adams.html

(the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, /RA/

Robert C. Daley, Chief

Engineering Branch 3

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50

-263 License No. DPR

-22 Enclosure:

Modification and 50.59 Inspection Document Request

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Enclosure Inspection Report : 05000263/2016008

Inspection Dates

February 29 - March 4, 2016

, and March 14

- 18, 2016 Inspection Procedure

Inspection

Procedure 71111.17 T , "Evaluation

s of Changes, Tests, and Experiments and Permanent Plant Modifications

" Lead Inspector

Alan Dahbur

(630) 829-9810 Alan.Dahbur@nrc.gov

I. Information Requested for In

-Office Preparation Week

The following information is requested by

December 17, 2015 , or sooner, to facilitate the selection of

specific items that will be reviewed during the onsite inspection week. The inspection team will select

specific items from the information requested below

, and submit a list to your staff by

January 15, 2016

. We will request that certain items

be made available to the regional office prior to the inspection by

February 1

2, 2016. We request that the remaining items selected from the lists be available and ready for review on the

first day of inspection. All requested information should identify the associated system and cover the time frame from the receipt of information for the last MOD/50.59 inspection November 4, 2013

, to the present. The required information identified below should be provided on compact disc (CD). Please provide three copies of each CD submitted (i.e., one for each inspector). The preferred file format is a searchable "pdf" file. The CDs should be indexed

and hyper-linked to facilitate ease of use, if possible.

If you have any questions regarding this information, please call the inspection team leader as soon as possible.

(1) List of "permanent plant modifications" to systems, structures or components that are field work complete. (For the purpose of this inspection, permanent plant modifications include permanent: plant changes, design changes, set point changes, equivalency

evaluations, suitability analyses, and commercial grade dedications.)

The list should contain the number of each document, the title, the revision (or date), and the affected system. In addition to the list, please provide a description of each modification

and a list of associated calculations and affected procedures.

(2) List of all Title 10 , Code of Federal Regulations

(CFR), Part 50.59 completed evaluations involving

(a) calculations

(b) procedure revisions

(c) changes to the facility (modifications); (d) non-routine operating configurations

or (e) departures in methods of analyses. This

list should include 50.59

evaluations

for the following:

a. Changes that have been made under the provisions of 10

CFR 50.59 that have been updated in accordance with 10

CFR 50.71(e)(4) since the last MOD/50.59 inspection

2 b. Modifications that are field work complete; and

c. Changes to calculations (or initiation of new calculations) that have been

issued. The list should contain the number and title of each document, a brief description of the change, and the corresponding number and type of the affected document (i.e., the modification or procedure to which the evaluation applies). The list should NOT i

nclude any evaluations in which prior U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

approval was sought and obtained. (3) A list of all 10

CFR 50.59 changes that have been screened out as not requiring

a full evaluation involving: (a)

calculations; (b)

procedure revisions; (c) changes to the facility (modifications); (d)

non-routine operating configurations; or (e) departures in methods of analyses.

The list should contain the number and title of each document, a brief description of the change, and the corresponding number and type of the affected document (i.e., the modification or procedure to which the evaluation applies).

(4) A list of any modifications, procedure revisions, or Updated Final Safety Analysis

Report (UFSAR) changes where it was determined that 10

CFR 50.59 did not apply. (5) A list of calculation changes that have been issued for use.

(6) A list of corrective action documents (open and closed) that address permanent plant modifications or 10 CFR 50.59 issues, concerns, or processes. These documents should also inclu

de the corrective action documents associated with the modification and the 50.59 change implementation.

The list should contain the number, title and revision (or date) of each document,

the affected system and corresponding documentation (if applicable), and should be sorted in order of significance.

(7) Copies of procedures addressing the following: modifications, design changes,

set point changes, equivalency evaluations or suitability analyses, commercial grade dedications, post

-modification testing, 10

C FR 50.59 evaluation

s and screenings, and UFSAR updates.

(8) UFSAR updates submitted in accordance with 10

CFR 50.71(e)(4). Provide copies of the complete submittal.

(9) Copy of the UFSAR change log or a synopsis of the changes. This should include all of the changes made to the UFSAR that were incorporated in the last

10 CFR 50.71(e)(4) submittal.

(10) Electronic copy of the UFSAR

and Technical Specifications

(TSs), if available.

(11) Name(s) and phone number

(s) for the regulatory and technical contacts.

(12) Current management

and engineering organizational chart.

3 II. Information Requested to be Available Prior to Inspection

. Request s will be M ade for Specific Item (1) Documents by

January 15, 2016

, for Availability of

Requested Item (1) Documents in Regional Office by

February 12, 2016, and Items (2), (3)

, and (4) Documents on

First Day of Inspection (February 29, 2016) (1) Copies of all selected items from Section I. This includes copies of associated

documents such as calculations, post

-modification test packages, 10 CFR 50.59 evaluations or screenings, and any corrective action documents.

(2) Copies of these documents do not need to be solely available to the inspection team as long as the inspectors have easy and unrestrained access to them.

a. UFSAR, if not previously provided

b. Original Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR)

Volumes; c. Original Safety Evaluation

Reports and Supplements;

d. FSAR Question and Answers;

e. Quality Assurance

(QA) Plan; f. TSs, if not previously provided

g. Latest Individual

Plant Examination

/Probabilistic

Risk Assessment Report; h. Vendor Manuals; and

i. The latest 10 CFR 50.59

UFSAR Update Submittal.

(3) Please ensure that other supporting documents for the selected items have been

located and are readily retrievable as the inspection team will likely be requesting these documents during the inspection. Examples of supporting documents are:

a. Drawings supporting the modifications;

b. Procedures affected by the modifications; and

c. UFSAR change papers generated due to a 10 CFR 50.59

evaluation.

(4) Assessment and Corrective Actions:

a. The most recent MOD/50.59 QA audit and/or self

-assessment; and

b. Corrective action documents (e.g., condition reports, including status of corrective actions) generate as a result of the most recent MOD/50.59 QA audit and/or self

-assessment.

4 III. Information Requested to be provided throughout the inspection

(1) Copies of any corrective action documents generated as a result of the

inspection

team's questions or queries during this inspection.

(2) Copies of the list of questions submitted by the inspection team members and the status/resolution of the information requested (provide daily during the inspection to each inspection team member).

If you have any questions regarding the information requested, please contact the inspection team leader.

P. Gardner

-2- The lead inspector for this inspection is Mr. Alan Dahbur. We

understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection is

Mr. Andy Kouba

of your organization. If there are any questions about the inspection or the material

requested, please contact the lead inspector at (630) 829-9810 , or via e-mail at Alan.Dahbur@nrc.gov

. This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection

requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, Control Number 3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or 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 Office of Management and Budget Control Number. In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations

(10 CFR) 2.390, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding," of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy

of this letter, its enclosure, and your response (if any) will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC's Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide

Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading

-rm/adams.html

(the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, /RA/

Robert C. Daley, Chief

Engineering Branch 3

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50

-263 License No. DPR

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Modification and 50.59 Inspection Document Request

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