ML20129D654

Discusses Plant Unit 2 Second l0 Yr Interval Inservice Insp Program Plan Request for Relief 94-05.Response Requested

ML20129D654
Person / Time
Site:	Catawba
Issue date:	09/25/1996
From:	Tam P NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Mccollum W DUKE POWER CO.
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TAC-M95255, NUDOCS 9609300155
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September 25, 1996 Mr. William R. McCollua i Site Vice President Catawba Nuclear Station Duke Power Company.

4800 Concord Road York, South Carolina 29745-9635

SUBJECT:

CATAWBA NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 2 - SECOND 10-YEAR INTERVAL INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM PLAN, REQUEST FOR RELIEF 94-05 (TAC NO. M95255)

Dear Mr. McCollum:

The staff, with assistance from its contractor, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, is reviewing your second 10-year interval inservice inspection program plan and the associated requests for relief (e.g., use of Code cases) from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,Section XI requirements.

Code cases that the NRC has approved for use are listed in Regulatory Guide 1.147, Inservice Inspection Code Case Acceptability, with any additional conditions the.NRC may have imposed. Similarly, Code cases awaiting approval and subsequent listing in Regulatory Guide 1.147 may be adopted by a licensee only if the staff authorizes their use and on any additional conditions the staff may impose.

In Request for Relief 94-05, Rev.1, you requested to implement the alternative to Code requirements contained in Code Case N-521, Alternative Rules for Deferral of Inspections of Nozzle-to-Vessel Welds, Inside Radius Section, and Nozzle-to-Safe End Welds of a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)

Vessel. The staff will impose the condition'that when deferring nozzle inspections-to the end of the interval, there will be no more than 10 years between inspections, except where the length ~of a 10-year interval is adjusted in accordance with IWA-2430. A written commitment is needed that you will comply with this condition.

Please respond within 30 days.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

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SUBJECT:

CATAWBA NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 2 - SECOND 10-YEAR INTERVAL l INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM PLAN, REQUEST FOR RELIEF 94-05 j i

(TAC NO. M95255)

Dear Mr. McCollum:

The staff, with assistance from its contractor, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, is reviewing your second 10-year interval inservice inspection program plan and the associated requests for relief (e.g., use of Code cases) from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,Section XI requirements.

Code cases that the NRC has approved for use are listed in Regulatory Guide 1.147, Inservice Inspection Code Case Acceptability, with any additiona1 conditions the NRC may have imposed. Similarly, Code cases awaiting approval and subsequent listing in Regulatory Guide 1.147 may be adopted by a licensee only if the staff authorizes their use and on any additional conditions the staff may impose. .

In Request for Relief 94-05, Rev.1, you requested to implement the alternative to Code requirements contained in Code Case N-521, Alternative Rules for Deferral of Inspections of Nozzle-to-Vessel Welds, Inside Radius Section, and Nozzle-to-Safe End Welds of a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)

Vessel. The staff will impose the condition that when deferring nozzle inspections to the end of the interval, there will be no more than 10 years between inspections, except where the length of a 10-year interval is adjusted in accordance with IWA-2430. A written commitment is needed that you will comp 1y with this condition.

Please respond within 30 days. l Sincerely, -

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Peter S. Tam, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 11-2 Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-414 cc: See next page i

1 Mr. W. R. McCollum Duke Power Company Catawba Nuclear Station cc:

Mr. M. S. Kitlan North Carolina Electric Membership Regulatory Compliance Manager Corporation Duke Power Company P. O. Box 27306 4800 Concord Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27611 York, South Carolina 29745 Senior Resident Inspector Mr. Paul R. Newton 4830 Concord Road Legal Department (PB05E) York, South Carolina 29745 Duke Power Company 422 South Church Street Regional Administrator, Region II Charlotte, North Carolina 28242-0001 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, NW. Suite 2900 J. Michael.McGarry, III, Esquire Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Winston and Strawn 1400 L Street, NW Max Batavia, Chief Washington, DC 20005 Bureau of Radiological Health South Carolina Department of North Carolina Municipal Power Health and Environmental Control Agency Number 1 2600 Bull Street 1427 Meadowwood Boulevard Columbia, South Carolina 29201 P. O. Box 29513 Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0513 Mr. G. A. Copp Licensing - EC050 Mr. Peter R. Harden, IV Duke Power Company Account Sales Manager 526 South Church Street Westinghouse Electric Corporation Charlotte, North Carolina 28242-0001 Power Systems Field Sales P. O. Box 7288 Saluda River Electric  !

Charlotte, North Carolina 28241 P. O. Box 929 County Manager of York County l York County Courthouse Ms. Karen E. Long j York, South Carolina 29745 Assistant Attorney General 4

North Carolina Department of Justice

Richard P. Wilson, Esquire P. O. Box 629 -

Assistant Attorney General Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

South Carolina Attorney General's i Office Elaine Wathen, Lead REP Planner

] P. O. Box 11549 Division of Emergency Management j Columbia, South Carolina 29211 116 West Jones Street i Raleigh, North Carolina 27603-1335 d

Piedmont Municipal Power Agency 121 Village Drive Dayne H. Brown, Director Greer, South Carolina 29651 Divisic.iof Radiation Protection l j N.C. Department of Environment, j Mr. T. Richard Puryear Health and Natural Resources Owners Group (NCEMC) P. O. Box 27687 Duke Power Company Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 4800 Concord Road York, South Carolina 29745 i

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