ML062700009

NRC Response to Letter of Intent to Adopt Title 10 of the Code of Regulations, Part 50, Section 50.48(c) for McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2

ML062700009
Person / Time
Site:	Mcguire, McGuire
Issue date:	09/26/2006
From:	Catherine Haney Plant Licensing Branch III-2
To:	Peterson G R Duke Power Co
Dinh T Q, NRR/DRA, 415-2149
References
RIS-05-007
Download: ML062700009 (4)

See also: RIS 2005-07

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September 26, 2006Mr. G. R. PetersonVice President

McGuire Nuclear Station

Duke Power Company LLC

12700 Hagers Ferry Road

Huntersville, NC

28078SUBJECT:NRC RESPONSE TO LETTER OF INTENT TO ADOPT TITLE 10 OF THECODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, PART 50, SECTION 50.48(c) FORMCGUIRE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2Dear Mr. Peterson:I am writing in response to your letter dated April 18, 2006 (Agencywide Documents Accessand Management System Accession No. ML061150375), in which you informed the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC) that Duke Power Company LLC intends to adopt National FireProtection Association (NFPA) Standard 805, "NFPA 805, Performance-Based Standard for

Fire Protection for Light-Water Reactor Electric Generation Plants," 2001 edition, pursuant toSection 50.48(c) of Part 50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 50.48(c)), atthe McGuire Nuclear Station (MNS), Units 1 and 2.In your April 18, 2006 letter, you informed us that the transition to the performance-basedstandard for fire protection at MNS, Units 1 and 2 has commenced. In addition, you have

identified a need for extending the previously estimated transition time of 2 years as stated in

the June 8, 2005, letter to the

NRC (ML050670305) to 3 years. You expect to be completedwith the submission of the McGuire License Amendment prior to December 31, 2008. On April 18, 2006, the

NRC published in the Federal Register (71 FR 19905) a revision to itsenforcement policy extending the NFPA 805 transition discretion period from 24 to 36 months.

Therefore, your request for the extended discretion period for MNS, Units 1 and 2 is granted. The NRC considers the discretion period for MNS, Units 1 and 2 to begin on April 18, 2006 andwill expire on April 18, 2009. The enforcement discretion period will continue beyond April 18,2009, while the NRC staff is reviewing your request for the license amendment.Please note that in order to receive enforcement discretion, you must: (a) evaluate the risksignificance of all noncompliances to assure that they do not constitute "Red" (or a Severity

Level I) findings under the NRC's Reactor Oversight Process, (b) enter them into yourcorrective action program, and (c) implement and maintain appropriate compensatory

measures until the NRC staff approves your license amendment request and issues its safety evaluation. You should refer to

NRC Regulatory Issue Summary 2005-07, "CompensatoryMeasures to Satisfy the Fire Protection Program Requirements," for additional NRC staffguidance on appropriate compensatory measures.

G. R. Peterson- 2 -In response to requests made by a number of licensees, which are not pilots for NFPA 805, formeetings with the NRC staff to discuss their transition issues, the NRC staff plans to hold

periodic workshops on NFPA 805 implementation issues at the regional offices or onsite at

units transitioning to the new standard. The staff will inform the nuclear plant licensees of theschedules of these workshops.If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact John F. Stang, ProjectManager, at (301) 415-1345 or JFS2@nrc.gov

.Sincerely,/RA/Catherine Haney, DirectorDivision of Operating Reactor Licensing

Office of Nuclear Reactor RegulationDocket Nos. 50-369 and 50-370

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McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 & 2

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Ms. Lisa F. VaughnDuke Energy Corporation

526 South Church Street

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Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1006County Manager of Mecklenburg County720 E. Fourth St.

Charlotte, NC 28202Mr. C. Jeffrey Thomas Regulatory Compliance Manager

Duke Energy Corporation

McGuire Nuclear Site

12700 Hagers Ferry Road

Huntersville, NC

28078Senior Resident Inspectorc/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

12700 Hagers Ferry Road

Huntersville, NC

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