ML15106A748

Projected Schedule for Completion of the Safety and Environmental Evaluations

ML15106A748
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	04/16/2015
From:	Lindell J NRC/OGC
To:	Gary Arnold, Paul Ryerson, Nicholas Trikouros Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
50-275-LR, 50-323-LR, ASLBP 10-900-01-LR-BD01, RAS 27526
Download: ML15106A748 (3)

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April 16, 2015 In the Matter of PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1 and 2)

Docket Nos. 50

-275-LR and 50-323-LR RE: Projected Schedule for Completion of the Safety and Environmental Evaluations

Dear Administrative Judges:

Pursuant to the Board's Revised Scheduling Order of November 19, 201 2, this letter informs the Board of the NRC Staff's current milestone schedule for the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 license renewal safety evaluation and environmental review.

PG&E's April 14, 2015 status report indicates that the milestone schedule is unchanged since PG&E's last submittal on March 10, 2015. It also states that PG&E will inform the NRC of the timing of any updated coastal consistency review filings when a schedule is established.

PG&E submitted updates to the environmental report, including the severe accident mitigation alternatives (SAMA) analysis, in February. PG&E also submitted updates to the DCPP seismic hazard in March 2015 in response to NRC letter dated March 12, 2012, regarding the 10 CFR 50.54(f) request for information pursuant to a post Fukushima Near-Term Task Force r ecommendation. The cover letter to PG&E's February submittal explains that PG&E is currently scheduled to complete an evaluation of the 2015 seismic hazard results on the SAMA analysis by June 2015.

Based on PG&E's submittals, the Staff is reassessing its schedule for the completion of the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) and the final SEIS, and will provide the Board with further information next month.

In terms of the Staff's safety evaluation, the safety evaluation report (SER) was issued on June 2, 2011, and it will be supplemented as necessary to include any new information provided in PG&E's December 2014 and February 2015 update s or relevant from operating Administrative Judge Paul S. Ryerson, Chair Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T

-3F23 Washington, DC 20555-001 Administrative Judge Dr. Gary S. Arnold Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T

-3F23 Washington, DC 20555

-0001 Administrative Judge Nicholas G. Trikouros Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T

-3F23 Washington, DC 20555-0001 experience, and information relevant to Diablo Canyon submitted in response to the staff's updated guidance since 2011. The Staff is currently reassessing when it will finalize its safety review, including supplements to the SER, and will provide the Board with further information next month

. Respectfully submitted

, /Signed (electronically) by

/ Joseph A. Lindell Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop

- O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415

-1474 E-mail: joseph.lindell@nrc.gov Date of signature:

April 16, 201 5 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of

) ) PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

) Docket Nos. 50

-275-LR/ 50-323-LR ) (Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, ) ASLBP No. 10

-900-01-LR-BD01 Units 1 and 2)

) CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to 10 C.F.R § 2.305 , I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing letter regarding the Projected Schedule for Completion of the Safety and Environmental Evaluations

, dated April 16 , 201 5, has been served upon the following by the Electronic Information Exchange, the NRC's E-Filing System, in the above captioned proceeding, this 1 6 th day of April, 201 5:

/Signed (electronically) by/

Joseph A. Lindell Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop

- O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-1474 E-mail: joseph.lindell@nrc.gov Date of signature

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