ML091980297

BC Input to Oc 2008-07, NRC License Renewal Follow-Up IR 05000219-08-007

ML091980297
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	06/17/2009
From:	Division of Reactor Safety I
To:	Pardee C Exelon Generation Co
References
FOIA/PA-2009-0070
Download: ML091980297 (3)

See also: IR 05000219/2008007

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BC Input to OC 2008-07 TdýE 410 F]~~~IN ~COVER LETTER Mr. Charles G. Pardee Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO) and Senior Vice President Exelon Generation

Company, LLC 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 SUBJECT: OYSTER CREEK GENERATING

STATION -NRC LICENSE RENEWAL FOLLOW-UP

INSPECTION

REPORT 05000219/2008007

Dear Mr. Pardee On December 23, 2008, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) completed

an inspection

at your Oyster Creek Generating

Station. The enclosed report documents

the inspection

results, which were discussed

on December 23, 2008, with Mr. T. Rausch, Site Vice President, Mr. M. Gallagher, Vice President

License Renewal, and other members of your staff.The inspection

examined activities

conducted

under your license as they relate to safety and compliance

with the Commission's

rules and regulations

and with the conditions

of your license.In addition, an appeal of a licensing

board decision regarding

the Oyster Creek application

for a renewed license is pending before the Commission.

The NRC staff concluded

Oyster Creek should not enter the extended period of operation

without directly observing

continuing

license renewal activities

at Oyster Creek. Therefore, the NRC staff performed

an inspection

using Inspection

Procedure (IP) 71003 "Post-Approval

Site Inspection

for License Renewal" and observed Oyster Creek license renewal activities

during the last refuel outage prior to entering the period of extended operation.

IP 71003 verifies license conditions

added as part of a renewed license, license renewal commitments, selected aging management

programs, and license renewal commitments

revised after the renewed license was granted, are implemented

in accordance

with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFP Part 54, "Requirements

for the Renewal of Operating I icn.,P.s fnr Nuclear Power Plants."[_ (b)(5)(b)(5)(b)(5) )"he inspectors

reviewed selected procedures

ana recoras, ooserveo activities, and intervie ed personnel.

The enclosed report records the inspector's

observations, absent any conclusions

of adequacy, pending the final decision of the Commissioners

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BC Input to OC 2008-07 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS IR 05000219/2008007;

10/27/2008

-12/23/2008;

Exelon, LLC, Oyster Creek Generating

Station; License Renewal Follow-up The report covers a multi-week

inspection

of license renewal follow-up

items. It was conducted by five region based engineering

inspectors

and the Oyster Creek resident inspector.

The inspection

was conducted

in accordance

with Insoection

Procedure

71003 "Post-Approval

Site In.-ni.r.tinn

fnr I ir.pnse Renewal.'E (b)(5)(b)((5)(b)(5) "]In accordance

with the NRC's agreement

with the State of New Jersey, state engineers-bbserved

portions of the NRC's staff review. The report documents

inspection

observations, absent any conclusions

of adequacy, pending the final decision of the Commissioners

on the appeal of the renewed license.

BC Input to OC 2008-07 BODY OF REPORT -- SAMPLE SELECTION

PROCESS 1. Inspection

Sample Selection

Process This inspection

was conducted

in order to observe AmerGen's

continuing

license renewal activities

during the last refueling

outage prior to Oyster Creek (OC) entering the extended period of operation.

The inspection

team selected a number of inspection

samples for review, using the NRC accepted guidance based on their importance

in the license renewal a~j~lication

process, as an opportunity

to make observations

on license renewal activitie

s( (b)(5)(b)(5) -Accordingly, the inspectors

recorded observations, without any assessment

of implementation

adequacy or safety significance.

Inspection

observations

were considered, in light of pending 10 CFR 54 license renewal commitments

and license conditions, as documented

in NUREG-1875, "Safety Evaluation

Report (SER) Related to the License Renewal of Oyster Creek Generating

Station," as well as programmatic

performance

under on-going implementation

of 10 CFR 50 current licensing

basis (CLB)requirements.

The reviewed SER proposed commitments

and license conditions

were selected based on several attributes

including:

the risk significance

using insights gained from sources such as the NRC's "Significance

Determination

Process Risk Informed Inspection

Notebooks," revision 2; the extent and results of previous license renewal audits and inspections

of aging management

programs;

the extent or complexity

of a commitment;

and the extent that baseline inspection

programs will inspect a system, structure, or component (SSC), or commodity

group.For each commitment

and on a sampling basis, the inspectors

reviewed supporting

documents

including

completed

surveillances, conducted

interviews, performed

visual inspection

of structures

and components

including

those not accessible

during power operation, and observed selected activities

described

below. The inspectors

also reviewed selected corrective

actions taken as a consequence

of previous license renewal inspections.

At the time of the inspection, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC was the licensee for Oyster Creek Generating

Station. As of January 8, 2009, the OC license was transferred

to Exelon Generating

Company, LLC by license amendment

No. 271 (ML082750072).