ML030990608

Summary of Meeting with NEI Regarding ESP Issues

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Issue date:	04/14/2003
From:	Ronaldo Jenkins NRC/NRR/NRLPO
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Jenkins R, NRR/NRLPO 415-2985
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April 14, 2003 ORGANIZATION: Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

SUMMARY

OF MEETING WITH THE NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE REGARDING EARLY SITE PERMIT (ESP) ISSUES On March 5, 2003, representatives from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff. The meeting was requested by NEI in order to discuss issues related to ESP applications and reviews. Representatives from Dominion Generation (Dominion), Exelon Generating Company (Exelon) and Entergy Operations, Inc. (Entergy) were in attendance. is a list of the meeting attendees. NRC and NEI provided handouts during the meeting which can be accessed through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). This system provides text and image files of NRCs public documents. The handouts mentioned above may be accessed through the ADAMS system under Accession No. ML030660056. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the handouts located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

Follow-up Items from the January 29th Meeting In response to the action item to consider the development of a Regulatory Guide on the form and content of ESP applications, the staff noted that the appropriate time to develop further regulatory guidance would be after any lessons learned gained by the review of the first ESP applications. Russell Bell of NEI noted that Document NEI-01-02, Industry Guideline for Preparing An Early Site Permit Application - 10 CFR Part 52, Subpart A, will be updated later this year. The staff noted in response to comments from a representative of Greenpeace that more information regarding the ESP generic issues has been placed on the NRC website.

Topics for Next Meeting No meeting is planned between the NRC and the NEI Early Site Permit Task Force (ESPTF) in the near future. The staff discussed other future public meetings in the ESP area.

ESP-2 (ESP Inspection Guidance)

The staff responded to the document Industry Comments on IMC-2501 Nuclear Reactor Inspection Guidance, ESP Phase (See Handouts) which were transmitted via e-mail on February 21, 2003. The staff informed the NEI ESPTF that the inspection procedures will reflect the current and future staff guidance regarding quality assurance as stated in Review Standard (RS)-002, Processing Applications for Early Site Permits. The staff noted that a formal response to the subject comments requires that those comments be submitted in writing in accordance with the public comment procedure for RS-002. NEI stated that applicable

comments will be submitted in accordance with the public comment procedure before the end of the comment period on March 31, 2003.

ESP-4 (NRC nominal review timeline)

NEI questioned the timing of the mandatory hearing process associated with an ESP application and offered to explore, at a later date, methods to reduce the one year assumed in the ESP Review Schedule. The Entergy representative noted that by the first week in May the applicant will know whether there will be any changes in its filing date. The Exelon representative reconfirmed that the Clinton ESP application will be filed in June 2003. The Dominion representative announced that the North Anna ESP application will be filed on September 26, 2003.

ESP-8 (Use of a bounding approach for providing fuel cycle and transportation info required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (Table S-3 and S-4)

The NEI ESPTF submitted a draft issue resolution letter (See Handouts) which was transmitted to the staff via e-mail on February 21, 2003. Due to the agency information protocols, the staff declined to discussed the subject draft letter. NEI agreed to submit a white paper for staff review and further stated that a telephone conference with the staff would be scheduled at a later date to address any further questions or clarifications.

ESP-9 (Criteria for assuring control of the site by ESP Holder)

The NEI ESPTF provided and discussed a briefing sheet (See Handouts) on Topic ESP-9 which was transmitted to the staff via e-mail on February 21, 2003. The staff had no comments on the subject material.

ESP-13 (Guidance for ESP seismic evaluations)

The NEI ESPTF provided and discussed their status update sheet (See Handouts) on the seismic and geotechnical work performed to-date for Topic ESP-13 which was transmitted to the staff on February 26, 2003. It was noted that some areas were not covered in the probabilistic seismic hazards analysis. The staff noted that further discussion on this item should be deferred until after specific ESP application details were available for review.

ESP-19 (Addressing effects of potential new units at an existing site)

The NEI ESPTF provided and discussed a briefing sheet (See Handouts) on Topic ESP-19 which was transmitted to the staff via e-mail on February 21, 2003. The staff had the following comments/observations: (1) existing regulatory requirements for the existing unit must be examined to ascertain the impacts on previous licensing assumptions and commitments (e.g., aircraft hazard analyses assume a given area of risk which becomes larger given the additional unit); and (2) new threats or vulnerabilities to the existing unit may be introduced due to the presence of the new unit (e.g., turbine missiles, intakes interference for control room habitability).

ESP-21 (Understanding the interface of ESP with the COL process)

Both the NEI ESPTF and the staff agreed that the subject ESP Topic would be better addressed by the recently formed Combined License (COL) Task Force. NEI will document this transfer via a letter to the staff at a later date.

ESP-22 (Form and Content of an ESP)

The NEI ESPTF again requested staff feedback on the revised August 21, 2002, Form and Content of an ESP document that was presented at the August 22, 2002, public meeting. The staff responded that it was premature at this time to discuss specifics on the permit structure without consulting the Commission regarding some of the policy-related ESP issues. The staff intends to develop a SECY paper on these ESP policy issues after the receipt of the key NEI resolution letters.

Follow-up Discussion on NRC responses to NEI Issue Resolution Letters The NEI ESPTF provided and discussed briefing sheets (See Handouts) posing further questions and comments on the staff responses to the NEI Issue Resolution Letters for Topics ESP-3, ESP-6, ESP-7, ESP-11 and ESP-12 which were transmitted to the staff via e-mail dated February 21 to March 4, 2003. The staff responded to the NEI questions and comments with a written presentation (See Handouts). Due to the short time frame associated with the e-mail transmittal of applicable briefing sheet, NEI agreed to participate in a future telephone conference with the staff to address any questions or clarifications for Topic ESP-12.

/RA/

Ronaldo V. Jenkins, Senior Project Manager New Reactor Licensing Project Office Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Project No. 689

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Meeting With the Nuclear Energy Institute March 5, 2003 Attendance List NRC Nuclear Energy Institute Marsha Gamberoni, NRR Russell Bell Ronaldo Jenkins, NRR Ronald Simard Tom Foley, NRR Ellen Anderson Kaz Campe, NRR Charles Hinson, NRR Goutam Bagchi, NRR Other Attendees James Lyons, NRR Joe Hegner, Dominion Jennifer Davis, NRR Stefan Doerffer, AECL Ken Heck, NRR Stephen Routh, Bechtel Stephen Koenick, NRR Mike Bourgeois, Entergy Barry Zalcman, NRR George Zinke, Entergy Bruce Musico, NRR Eddie Grant, Exelon Jay Lee, NRR Thomas P. Mundy, Exelon Kevin Coyne, NRR Bill Maher, Exelon Gene Imbro, NRR Mike Case, Framatome/ ANP Thomas Kenyon, NRR Mike Schoppman, Framatome/ Rockville Jerry Wilson, NRR Herbert Feinroth, Gamma Engineering Rebecca Karas, NRR Guy Cesare, Enercon Doug Pickett, NRR Mike Cambia, Parsons E & C Cliff Munson, NRR Patricia Campbell, Winston & Strawn Paul F. Prescott, NRR Andrew J. Murphy, RES Jocelyn Mitchell, RES Antonio Fernandez, OGC Janice Moore, OGC Cassie Bray, OGC Brooke G. Smith, OGC Enclosure 1

ESP-Generic Mr. Eddie Grant Exelon Generation cc: 200 Exelon Way, KSA3-E Kennett Square, PA 19348 Mr. David Lochbaum Union of Concerned Scientists Mr. James F. Mallay, Director 1707 H Street, NW Regulatory Affairs Suite 600 FRAMATOME, ANP Washington, DC 20006-3919 3315 Old Forest Road Lynchburg, VA 24501 Mr. Paul Gunter Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project Mr. Ernie H. Kennedy Nuclear Information & Resource Service Vice President New Plants 1424 16th Street, NW, Suite 404 Nuclear Plant Projects Washington, DC 20036 Westinghouse Electric Company 2000 Day Hill Road Mr. Ron Simard Windsor, CT 06095-0500 Nuclear Energy Institute Suite 400 Dr. Regis A. Matzie 1776 I Street, NW Senior Vice President and Washington, DC 20006-3708 Chief Technology Officer Westinghouse Electric Company Mr. Russell Bell 2000 Day Hill Road Nuclear Energy Institute Windsor, CT 06095-0500 Suite 400 1776 I Street, NW Mr. Gary Wright, Manager Washington, DC 20006-3708 Office of Nuclear Facility Safety Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety Mr. Thomas P. Miller 1035 Outer Park Drive U.S. Department of Energy Springfield, IL 62704 Headquarters - Germantown 19901 Germantown Road Mr. Vince Langman Germantown, MD 20874-1290 Licensing Manager Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Mr. James Riccio 2251 Speakman Drive Greenpeace Mississauga, Ontario 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300 Canada L5K 1B2 Washington, DC 20001 Mr. David Ritter Rod Krich Research Associate on Nuclear Energy Vice President, Licensing Projects Public Citizens Critical Mass Energy Exelon Nuclear and Environmental Program 4300 Winfield Road 215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Warrenville, IL 60555 Washington, DC 20003 Patricia Campbell Mr. Tom Clements Winston & Strawn 6703 Guide Avenue 1400 L Street, NW Takoma Park, MD 20912 Washington, DC 20005

Mr. Edwin Lyman Dr. Glenn R. George Nuclear Control Institute PA Consulting Group 1000 Connecticut Avenue, NW 130 Potter Street Suite 410 Haddonfield, NJ 08033 Washington, DC 20036 Arthur R. Woods Mr. Jack W. Roe Enercon Services, Inc.

SCIENTECH, INC. 500 TownPark Lane 910 Clopper Road Kennesaw, GA 30144 Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Mr. Thomas Mundy Dr. Gail H. Marcus Director, Project Development U.S. Department of Energy Exelon Generation Room 5A-143 200 Exelon Way, KSA3-E 1000 Independence Ave., SW Kennett Square, PA 19348 Washington, DC 20585 Ms. Marilyn Kray Vice President, Special Projects Exelon Generation 200 Exelon Way, KSA3-E Kennett Square, PA 19348 Mr. Joseph D. Hegner Lead Engineer - Licensing Dominion Generation Early Site Permitting Project 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060 Mr. George Alan Zinke Project Manager Nuclear Business Development Entergy Nuclear M-ECH-683 1340 Echelon Parkway Jackson, MS 39213 Mr. Charles Brinkman Westinghouse Electric Co.

Washington Operations 12300 Twinbrook Pkwy., Suite 330 Rockville, MD 20852 Mr. Ralph Beedle Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Nuclear Energy Institute Suite 400 1776 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-3708