ML20199F232

Forwards Request for Addl Info Re Amend to License DPR-4. Responses Requested to Be Provided within 30 Days of Dtd Ltr

ML20199F232
Person / Time
Site:	Saxton File:GPU Nuclear icon.png
Issue date:	01/27/1998
From:	Alexander Adams NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Kuehn G GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
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TAC-M97155, NUDOCS 9802030106
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i O L4 January 27, 1998 Mr. G. A. Kuehn, Jr.

Program Director SNEC Facility GPU Nuclear, Inc.

2574 Interstate Drive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (TAC NO. M97155)

Dear Mr. Kuehn:

We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Amended Facility License No. DPR-4 for the GPU Nuclear, Inc., and Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation, Saxton Nuclear Experimental Facility submitted on November 25,1996, as supplemented. During l

our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require additionalinformation and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additionalinformation within 30 days of the date of this letter. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation. Following receipt of the additionalinformation, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.

Sincerely, Ale $nNdir ihr.,$5nior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-146

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Program Director SNEC Facility GPU Nuclear, Inc.

2574 Interstate Drive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FAC NO. M97155)

Dear Mr. Kuehn:

We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Amended Fecility License No. DPR-4 for the GPU Nuclear, Inc., and Saxton Nuclear Experimental C

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If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 4151127.

Sincerely.

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Program Director SNEC Facility GPU Nuclear, Inc.

2574 Interstate Drive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (TAC NO. M97155)

Dear Mr. Kuehn:

We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Amended Facility License No. DPR-4 for the GPU Nuclear, Inc., and Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation, Saxton Nuclear Experimental Facility submitted on November 25,1996, as supplemented. During our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require additionalinformation and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additionalinformation within 30 days of the date of this letter, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation. Following receipt of the additionalinformation, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.

Sincerely, 4241M Alexander Adams, Jr., Seni r P Ject Manager Non Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-146

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County Court House Mr. William G. Heysek Huntingdon, Pennsylvania 16652 Licensing Department TMl Nuclear Station Saxton Community Library P. O. Box 480 Front Street Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 Mr. Manuel Delgado Mr. Arthur Rone 2799 Battlefield Road Vice President Nuclear Fishers Hill, Virginia 22626 Safety and Technical Services GPU Nuclear Inc.

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ENCLOSURE j

I REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORfn,4 TION 4

SAXTON NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY OOCKET NO. 50-146 1.

Section 2.C. of the license reads in part:

"...Section 50.54 of Part 50,10 CFR Chapter 1, and to all applicable..."

In responsa to a request for additionalinformation from NRC you replied to question 3 on May 30,1997, changing your propcsed wording to:

"... Sections 50.54, and 50.59 of 10 CFR Chapter 1, and to all applicable..."

It appears that you removed the words "of Part 50," from the license conditiun.

Please clarify the wording of this license condition.

2.

In your letter of August 21,1997, you submitted proposed revised technical specifications (TSs) as attachment 5. Figure 1 appears to be missing from the proposed TSs. Please clarify.

3.

In proposed TS 3.8, you discuss making reports to the Region i Administrator. Due to an internal reorganization of responsibility within NRC, the inspection program for the SNEF is the responsibility of the Non Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate in Headquarters. Please update your proposed TSs to reflect this. You may also want to consider updating submitting reports by telegraph to submitting reports by f acsimile to reflect advances in technology.

4.

Section 1.3.2.15 of the SAR discusses the Decommissioning Support Facility (DSF) which appears to consist of the Decommissioning Support Building (DSB), Material Handling Bay (MHB) (Figure 1 refers to this as the Material Handling Building) and Personnel Access Facility (PAF). Your TSs only define and refer to the DSB. Should the definition be for the DSF or should the reference to DSB include all three structures? For example, TS 1.1.3.2 requires the DSB to have an intrusion alarm. Are there any entrances from the outside to the MHB or PAF that need to be alarmed?

Section 2.1 of the TSs discusses CV/DSB activities and ventilation system. Should this reference be to the DST? Please discuss.

5.

In your proposed TS 1.1.3 for exclusion area controls it is poss; ole to leave the DSB and CV unlocked when the site is not manned because the proposed TS requirement is for the intrusion alarms to be activated. Please add a requirement to the TSs to secure the CV and DSB whenever the site is not manned or justify why securing the CV and DSB need not be a TS requirement. If an alternate method is used to provide equivalent security, please include this in the proposed TSs or justify why it is not needed.

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In your reply dated May 30,1997, to our request for additionalInformation concerning the quality assurance program, you propostd several changes to the program that you would incorporate if the proposed changes were acceptable to NRC. To allow NRC to review a complete program, please submit a revision to the program that incorporates your proposed changes.

7.

Please provide a person rem estimate of the dose to the public from decommissioning activities. Discuss this dose as compared to the estimates in NUREG 0586, " Final Generic EnvironmentalImpact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities" (GEIS). Your environmental report estimates that the amount of radioactive waste from decommissioning will be 12 per cent of the GEIS values. Whet is the estimate of person rem dose to the public from waste shipments? Discuss this dose as compared to the estimates in the GEIS. Please estimate the amount of land area that would be

.used at the weste burial sites to dispose of radioactiva waste. Discuss the comparison with the land use in the GEIS. Discuss the dose to the maximum exposed individual from accidental radionuclide release during decommissioning and compare that dose with the GEIS Discuss and compare to the GEIS the total occupational dose from decommissioning activities.

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