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| Specifically, the amendments propose to increase certain surveillance requirement intervals from 18 months to 24 months. | | Specifically, the amendments propose to increase certain surveillance requirement intervals from 18 months to 24 months. |
| The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has reviewed DTEs LAR and determined that a regulatory audit would assist in the timely completion of the review. The NRC staff will conduct a regulatory audit to support its review in accordance with the enclosed audit plan. A regulatory audit is a planned activity that includes the examination and evaluation of primarily non-docketed information. | | The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has reviewed DTEs LAR and determined that a regulatory audit would assist in the timely completion of the review. The NRC staff will conduct a regulatory audit to support its review in accordance with the enclosed audit plan. A regulatory audit is a planned activity that includes the examination and evaluation of primarily non-docketed information. |
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| By letter dated November 8, 2019 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML19312A110), DTE Energy Company (DTE) (the licensee) submitted a license amendment request (LAR) regarding revisions to the Technical Specifications (TSs) for Fermi 2. Specifically, the amendment request proposes changes to the TSs to increase certain Surveillance Requirement (SR) intervals from 18 months to 24 months to accommodate a 24-month fuel cycle. | | By {{letter dated|date=November 8, 2019|text=letter dated November 8, 2019}} (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML19312A110), DTE Energy Company (DTE) (the licensee) submitted a license amendment request (LAR) regarding revisions to the Technical Specifications (TSs) for Fermi 2. Specifically, the amendment request proposes changes to the TSs to increase certain Surveillance Requirement (SR) intervals from 18 months to 24 months to accommodate a 24-month fuel cycle. |
| The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has determined the need for a regulatory audit to be conducted in accordance with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office Instruction LIC-111, Regulatory Audits, (ADAMS Accession No. ML19226A274), for the NRC staff to examine the licensee's non-docketed information with the intent to gain a better understanding of the request, to verify information, and to identify information that may require docketing to support the basis of the NRC staffs licensing decision. | | The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has determined the need for a regulatory audit to be conducted in accordance with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office Instruction LIC-111, Regulatory Audits, (ADAMS Accession No. ML19226A274), for the NRC staff to examine the licensee's non-docketed information with the intent to gain a better understanding of the request, to verify information, and to identify information that may require docketing to support the basis of the NRC staffs licensing decision. |
| 2.0 REGULATORY AUDIT BASIS The NRC staff (i.e., audit team) will perform the audit to support its evaluation of whether the licensees request meets the requirements of Section 50.36(c)(3), Surveillance requirements, of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulation and continue to meet the plant-specific principal design criteria as described in the Fermi 2, Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. | | 2.0 REGULATORY AUDIT BASIS The NRC staff (i.e., audit team) will perform the audit to support its evaluation of whether the licensees request meets the requirements of Section 50.36(c)(3), Surveillance requirements, of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulation and continue to meet the plant-specific principal design criteria as described in the Fermi 2, Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. |
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April 8, 2020 Mr. Peter Dietrich Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer DTE Electric Company Fermi 2 - 260 TAC 6400 North Dixie Highway Newport, MI 48166
SUBJECT:
FERMI 2- AUDIT PLAN IN SUPPORT OF THE REVIEW OF LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO REVISE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS TO CHANGE SURVEILLANCE INTERVALS TO ACCOMMODATE A 24-MONTH FUEL CYCLE (EPID L-2019-LLA-0249)
Dear Mr. Dietrich:
By letter dated November 8, 2019 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML19312A110), DTE Energy Company (DTE) submitted the license amendment request (LAR) for Fermi 2, regarding revisions to the technical specifications.
Specifically, the amendments propose to increase certain surveillance requirement intervals from 18 months to 24 months.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has reviewed DTEs LAR and determined that a regulatory audit would assist in the timely completion of the review. The NRC staff will conduct a regulatory audit to support its review in accordance with the enclosed audit plan. A regulatory audit is a planned activity that includes the examination and evaluation of primarily non-docketed information.
The audit will be conducted to increase the NRC staffs understanding of the LAR and identify information that will require docketing to support the NRC staffs regulatory findings. The audit will be conducted from April 13, 2020, through April 24, 2020, using an online portal (also known as electronic portal, ePortal, electronic reading room) established by DTE. The enclosed audit plan was discussed with your staff on March 30, 2020.
If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-1421 or at Surinder.Arora@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Surinder S. Arora, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-341
Enclosure:
Audit Plan cc: Listserv
REGULATORY AUDIT PLAN TO SUPPORT REVIEW OF THE LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO REVISE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS TO CHANGE SURVEILLANCE INTERVALS TO ACCOMMODATE A 24-MONTH FUEL CYCLE FERMI 2 DOCKET NO. 50-341
1.0 BACKGROUND
By letter dated November 8, 2019 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML19312A110), DTE Energy Company (DTE) (the licensee) submitted a license amendment request (LAR) regarding revisions to the Technical Specifications (TSs) for Fermi 2. Specifically, the amendment request proposes changes to the TSs to increase certain Surveillance Requirement (SR) intervals from 18 months to 24 months to accommodate a 24-month fuel cycle.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has determined the need for a regulatory audit to be conducted in accordance with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office Instruction LIC-111, Regulatory Audits, (ADAMS Accession No. ML19226A274), for the NRC staff to examine the licensee's non-docketed information with the intent to gain a better understanding of the request, to verify information, and to identify information that may require docketing to support the basis of the NRC staffs licensing decision.
2.0 REGULATORY AUDIT BASIS The NRC staff (i.e., audit team) will perform the audit to support its evaluation of whether the licensees request meets the requirements of Section 50.36(c)(3), Surveillance requirements, of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulation and continue to meet the plant-specific principal design criteria as described in the Fermi 2, Updated Final Safety Analysis Report.
The NRC staff determined an audit to be the most efficient approach toward a timely resolution of questions associated with this LAR review since the staff will have an opportunity to minimize potential requests for additional information (RAIs) and ensure no unnecessary burden will be imposed by requiring the licensee to address issues that are no longer necessary to make a safety determination. The staff is requesting online access to an initial set of documentation to be reviewed remotely. Upon completion of this desk audit, the staff is expected to achieve the following:
Enclosure
- 1. Determine the need for additional documentation.
- 2. Develop a request for additional information as needed.
Any RAIs will be issued soon after the audit with an expected response being delivered by the licensee by an agreed upon date. The information discussed in the audit to be included in the development of the technical NRC staffs safety evaluation will be requested to be submitted on the docket.
3.0 REGULATORY AUDIT SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY The desk audit is being conducted to get a better understanding of the submittals and the availability of the information to make an assessment of the NRC staffs review approach. The area of focus for the regulatory audit is the information that will be requested by the NRC. The staff will review the documentation and generate any RAIs necessary to complete the review.
4.0 INFORMATION AND OTHER MATERIAL NECESSARY FOR THE REGULATORY AUDIT The NRC staff requests the licensee to have the following information readily available and accessible for the staff's review via an internet-based portal:
Applicable surveillance test reports and equipment failure reports for the previous five cycles for systems and components subject to the LAR.
Documentation related to the evaluation of the effect on safety by the surveillance testing interval extension including the methodology used for the evaluation.
Documentation including evaluation and methodology used to confirm that the assumptions in the plant licensing basis would not be invalidated because of the surveillance test interval extensions.
Note: Non-docketed licensee information will not be removed from the audit site by NRC staff.
Based on the review, the NRC staff will determine whether it needs to request any additional documents to be made available on the portal, or additional information needs to be submitted on docket for the staff to complete the review of the LAR.
5.0 TEAM ASSIGNMENTS The audit team will consist of the following NRC staff:
Mr. Derek Scully, Reactor Systems Engineer - Team Leader Mr. Wendell Morton, Electronics Engineer Mr. Khoi Nguyen, Electrical Engineer Mr. Syed Haider, Nuclear Engineer Ms. Caroline Tilton, Safety and Plant Systems Engineer Mr. Surinder Arora, Project Manager
6.0 LOGISTICS The audit will be conducted from April 13, 2020 through April 24, 2020, using an online portal (also known as electronic portal, ePortal, electronic reading room) established by DTE. The audit teams access to the online portal can be terminated at completion of the audit or as otherwise determined.
If necessary, the audit team will conduct a telephone conference with the licensee for the purposes of introducing the team, discussing the scope of the audit, and describing the information to be made available on internet portal. The audit team will also confirm with the licensee if the information made available on the online portal contains any sensitive or proprietary information. The audit team may request that representatives of DTE answer audit team questions during the audit related to information provided on the portal at a mutually agreeable day and time by telephone conference.
The NRC project manager will coordinate any changes to the audit schedule with the licensee.
7.0 SPECIAL REQUESTS The audit team would like access to the documents listed above in Section 4.0 through an online portal (also known as eDocs, electronic reading room, ePortal) that allows the audit team to access documents via the internet. The following conditions associated with the online portal must be maintained throughout the duration that the audit team has access to the online portal:
The online portal will be password-protected, and separate passwords will be assigned to the NRC staff who are participating in the audit.
The online portal will be sufficiently secure to prevent the NRC staff from printing, saving, downloading, or collecting any information on the online portal.
Conditions of use of the online portal will be displayed on the login screen and will require acknowledgement by each user.
User name and password information should be provided directly to the NRC staff. The NRC project manager will provide DTE the names and contact information of the NRC staff who will be participating in the audit. All other communications should be coordinated through the NRC project manager.
8.0 DELIVERABLES An audit summary, which may be public, will be prepared within 60 days of the completion of the audit. If the NRC staff identifies information during the audit that is needed to support its regulatory decision, the NRC staff will issue RAIs to the licensee.
ML20094G814 *by e-mail OFFICE DORL/LPL3/PM DORL/LPL1/LA DEX/EICB/BC* DEX/EEOB/BC*
NAME SArora SRohrer (R) BVenkataraman BTitus DATE 03/25/2020 04/07/2020 03/31/2020 03/25/2020 OFFICE DSS/SNSB/BC* DSS/SCPB/BC* DORL/LPL3/BC* DORL/LPL3/PM NAME JBorromeo BWittick NSalgado SArora DATE 03/25/2020 03/25/2020 04/08/2020 04/08/2020