ML18016A145

Fort Calhoun Station - Acknowledgement of Planned Actions for Design and Licensing Basis Reconstitution Project

ML18016A145
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Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	02/22/2018
From:	Shaffer M R Division of Nuclear Materials Safety IV
To:	Fisher M J Omaha Public Power District
R. Browder
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February 22, 2018

Ms. Mary J. Fisher, Vice President Energy Production and Nuclear Decommissioning Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station Mail Stop FC 4 9610 Power Lane Blair, NE 68008

SUBJECT:

FORT CALHOUN STATION - ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PLANNED ACTIONS FOR DESIGN AND LICENSING BASIS RECONSTITUTION PROJECT On April 12, 2017, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) closed the open commitments associated with Fort Calhoun Station's Confirmatory Action Letter based on Omaha Public Power District's proposed commitment to complete either one of the following options by December 29, 2017: 1) design and licensing basis reconstitution actions that directly support the spent fuel pool, spent fuel pool cooling, and associated structures, systems and components; or 2) submit a license amendment request for an independent spent fuel cooling system. The NRC Inspection Report 05000285/2017-012 (Agencywide Documents Access Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML17311A326) documented that you were implementing the design and licensing basis reconstitution efforts in lieu of a license amendment request. This decision was based on your evaluation of activities to support SAFSTOR and the schedule to complete the movement of all spent fuel to the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation by the end of 2020. The commitment to complete the reconstitution efforts was entered into Fort Calhoun Station's corrective action program as Condition Report 2017-00842, and was tracked in Fort Calhoun Station's commitment tracking database under Action Request 66950.

On December 14, 2017, you provided a revised commitment letter (ADAMS Accession No. ML17348A383) requesting the removal of Option 2 above, and requesting a change to the commitment completion date for Option 1 from December 29, 2017 to June 25, 2018. You stated the reason for this decision was that the anticipated completion date for transferring spent fuel to the Independent Spent fuel Storage Installation was by the end of 2020, which made the economics for installing a new spent fuel cooling system unfavorable. The revised commitment letter also provided information on the specific activities required to complete the design and licensing basis reconstitution. These activities described the specific sections of the Defueled Safety Analysis Report that were being evaluated and analyzed to ensure compliance with NRC requirements. Our continued inspections of the spent fuel pool systems, structures, and components have not identified any safety concerns, and you have demonstrated continued operability and provided reasonable assurance that the systems will provide cooling and makeup water to support spent fuel safety. Therefore, we accept the revised commitment date requested in your December 14, 2017 letter.

UNITED STATESNUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION IV 1600 E. LAMAR BLVD. ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511 M. Fisher 2 We request that a discussion item be added to our bi-weekly calls to provide the status of the actions taken to fulfill your commitment to complete the design and licensing basis reconstitution project by June 25, 2018. If there are any plant modification packages, then those dates and the dates when post-modification testing is expected to occur, should also be provided during our bi-weekly calls. We will continue to review the implementation of your actions captured under Condition Report 2017-00842 during future inspections.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Agency Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or ADAMS, accessible from the NRC's website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Mr. Ray Kellar, Branch Chief, Fuel Cycle and Decommissioning Branch at 817-200-1191.

Sincerely, /RA/

Mark R. Shaffer, Director Division of Nuclear Materials Safety Docket: 50-285 License: DPR-40

FORT CALHOUN STATION - ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PLANNED ACTIONS FOR DESIGN AND LICENSING BASIS RECONSTITUTION PROJECT DATED FEBRUARY 22, 2018 DISTRIBUTION: KKennedy, RA SMorris, DRA MShaffer, DNMS LHowell, DNMS RKellar, DNMS RBrowder, DNMS REvans, DNMS CSteely, DNMS SAnderson, DNMS SKirkwood, RIV OGC VDricks, ORA BWatson, NMSS JParrott, NMSS JKim, NRR JWeil, OCA AMoreno, RIV/CAO JBowen, RIV/ETA BMaier, ORA

cc: Mr. Bradley H. Blome Director Licensing and Regulatory Assurance Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station Mail Stop FC 4 9610 Power Lane Blair, NE 68008 Mr. Timothy S. Uehling Senior Director Fort Calhoun Station Decommissioning Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station Mail Stop FC 1 9610 Power Lane Blair, NE 68008 Mr. Tyson R. Smith Winston & Strawn 101 California Street, 35th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111-5840 Ms. Julia Schmitt, Manager Radiation Control Program Nebraska Health & Human Services, R & L Public Heath Assurance P.O. Box 95026 Lincoln, NE 68509-5026 Chairman, Washington County Board of Supervisors (Clerks Office) 555 Colfax Street Blair, NE 68008 ADAMS ACCESSION NUMBER: ML18016A145 SUNSI Review By: RSB ADAMS: Yes No Sensitive Non-Sensitive Non-Publicly Available Publicly Available Keyword NRC-002 OFFICE DNMS/FCDB FCDB C:FCDB D:DNMS NAME RSBrowder CSteely RLKellar MRShaffer SIGNATURE /RA/ /RA/ LEB for /RA/ /RA/ DATE 1/9/18 1/17/18 1/18/18 2/22/18 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY