ML20247H648

Advises That Staff Determined That 890630 Amend Request Should Be Treated as Category I & Returned W/O Further Review.Basis for Determination Listed

ML20247H648
Person / Time
Site:	Perry
Issue date:	07/18/1989
From:	Colburn T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Kaplan A CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO.
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TAC-73617, NUDOCS 8907310086
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, PDIIL3"r/f MVirgilio JHannon PKreutzer TColburn OGC-WF1 Mr. Alvin Kaplan, Vice President DHagan EJordan Nuclear Group TMeek(4) War.da Jones The Cleveland Electric Illuminating ACRS(10) GPA/PA Company OC/LFMB PDIII-3 Gray Filt.s 10 Center Road CMcCracken Perry, Ohio 44081 j

Dear Mr. Kaplan:

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SUBJECT:

CONTAINMENT PURGE EVALUATION AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION CHANGE REQUEST FOR PERRY UNIT 1 DATED JUNE 30, 1989 (TAC NO. 73617) ort submitted by you in response to l We haveSafety Updated received the Report Analysis subject rep (USAR) Appendix 1B Commitment No. 5.

The report is currently under staff review. With regard to your {

proposed Technical Specification (TS) change request to change the containment purge limit from 1000 hours0.0116 days <br />0.278 hours <br />0.00165 weeks <br />3.805e-4 months <br /> of operation for 365 days to  !

2000 hours0.0231 days <br />0.556 hours <br />0.00331 weeks <br />7.61e-4 months <br /> of operation for 365 days, the staff has determined that 1 your amendment request should be treated as a Category I request and {

returned to you without further staff review. The staff's basis for j this determination is as fellows: I

, 1. There is no adequate basis presented as to why the containment l purge Mmit of 1000 hours0.0116 days <br />0.278 hours <br />0.00165 weeks <br />3.805e-4 months <br /> of operation per 365 days (which l becomes effective 90 days following the date of restart from j the first refueling outage) is inadequate.

2. There is no basis for establishment of 2000 hours0.0231 days <br />0.556 hours <br />0.00331 weeks <br />7.61e-4 months <br /> /365 days as the proper value for containment purge operation es opposed  ;

to some different value thus ensuring that containment purge operations are left to a minimum consistent with yo:m licensing commitment.

3. The safety analysis for the proposed change and significant hazards analysis impro)erly characterize the change as within the acceptability of tie current TS. limit of 3000 hours0.0347 days <br />0.833 hours <br />0.00496 weeks <br />0.00114 months <br /> of operation /365 days without assessing the significance of changing from 1000 hours0.0116 days <br />0.278 hours <br />0.00165 weeks <br />3.805e-4 months <br /> to 2000 hours0.0231 days <br />0.556 hours <br />0.00331 weeks <br />7.61e-4 months <br /> of operation /365 days.

In general, the staff believes your amendment application to be premature until such time as you are able to support the need for the proposed action (such as actual purge operation extrapolating to greater than 1000 hours0.0116 days <br />0.278 hours <br />0.00165 weeks <br />3.805e-4 months <br /> /365 days). Further, the staff will not consider proposed l O

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If you have any questions, please contact me at (301)492-1369.

Sincerely,

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Timothy G. Colburn, Sr.. Project Manager Project Directorate III-3 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor ~ Regulation cc: See next-page l

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Jay E. Silberg, Esq. Mr. James W. Harris, Director Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Division of Power Generation 2300 N Street, N.W. Ohio Department of Industrial Washington, D.C. 20037 Relations P. O. Box 825 David E. Purke Columbus, Ohio 43216 The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company The Honorable Lawrence Logan P.O. Box 5000 Mayor, Village of Perry Cleveland, Ohio 44101 4203 Harper Street y

Perry, Ohio 44081 p Resident Inspector's Office i' U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission The Honorable Robert V. Orosz Parmly at Center Road Mayor, Village of florth Perry Perry, Ohio 44081 North Perry Village Hall 4778 Lockwood Road Regional Administrator, Region III North Perry Village, Ohio 44081 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Attorney General j' Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Department of Attorney General 30 East Broad Street Frank P. Weiss, Esq. Columbus, Ohio 43216 Assistant Prosecuting Attorney 105 Main Street Radiological Health Program Lake County Administration Center Ohio Department of Health Painesville, Ohio 44077 1224 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43212 Ms. Sue Hiatt OCRE Interim Representative Ohio Environmental Protection 8275 Munson Agency Mentor, Ohio 44060 361 East Broad Street Colunbus, Ohio 43266-0558 Terry J. Lodge, Esq.

618 N. Michigan Street Nr. Phillip S. Haskell, Chairman Suite 105 Perry Township Board of Trustees Toledo, Ohio 43624 Box 65 4171 Main Street John G. Cardinal, Esq. Perry, Ohio 44081 Prosecuting Attorney Ashtabula County Courthouse State of Ohio Jefferson, Ohio 44047 Public Utilities Commission 180 East Broad Street Robert A. Newkirk Columbus, Ohio 43266-0573 Cleveland Electric illuminating Company Michael D. Lyster Perry Nuclear Power Plant Cleveland Electric P. O. Box 97 E-210 Illuminating Company Perry, Ohio 44081 Perry Nuclear Power Plant P. O. Box 97 SB306 Perry, Ohio 44081

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