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Response to Generic Letter 2003-01, Control Room Habitability Commitment Date Change
	ML072150228
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	07/26/2007
From:	Natale T; Progress Energy Co
To:	; Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
	GL-03-001, HNP-07-103
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Progress Energy Serial: HNP-07-103 JUL 2 6 2007 10 CFR 50.90 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attention:

Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555-0001 SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNIT NO. 1 DOCKET NO. 50-400/LICENSE NO. NPF-63 RESPONSE TO GENERIC LETTER 2003-01, "CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY" COMMITMENT DATE CHANGE

Reference:

1. Letter from James Scarola to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Serial: HNP 03-089) "Generic Letter 2003-01, 'Control Room Habitability' Sixty-Day Response" dated August 11, 2003 2. Letter from Terry C. Morton to United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Serial: HNP 03-139) "180-Day Response to Generic Letter 2003-01, 'Control Room Habitability"'

dated December 09, 2003 Ladies and Gentlemen:

On June 12, 2003, the NRC issued Generic Letter 2003-01, "Control Room Habitability", which requested licensees to submit information demonstrating that control rooms comply with the current licensing and design bases, and applicable regulatory requirements.

In addition, information was requested to ensure that suitable design, maintenance and testing control measures are in place for maintaining this compliance.

Carolina Power and Light Company, doing business as Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., provided a 180-day response to this Generic Letter on December 09, 2003.In this response, Harris Nuclear Plant (HNP) committed to the following: "HNP will submit a proposed license amendment request that will include a new Technical Specification surveillance requirement to determine inleakage in accordance with a CRE Integrity Program. A new section will be added to Technical Specification Section 6.8 'Procedures and Programs' that will specify the scope of the CRE Integrity Program. The CRE Integrity Program will rely on the use of tracer gas inleakage testing." Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.Harris Nuclear Plant P. 0. Box 16527, New Hill, NC 27562 A&1je.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Serial: HNP-07-103 Page 2 The due date for this commitment was "within six months following TSTF-448 approval or associated CLIIP approval, whichever is later." Since the "Notice of Availability of Technical Specification Improvement to Modify Requirements Regarding Control Room Envelope Habitability Using the Consolidated Line Item Improvement Process" was published as approved on January 17, 2007 (Federal Register Vol. 72, No. 10), the HNP commitment date was July 17, 2007.During development of this License Amendment Request (LAR), HNP identified that its Technical Specifications do not include a Bases Control Program, which is integral to NRC's approved TSTF-448 model Safety Evaluation (SE). An LAR requesting such a change to HNP's TS to include the Bases Control Program was submitted to the NRC in accordance with the standard review process on June 15, 2007 (Serial: HNP-07-005).

However, since evaluation of a proposed Control Room Envelope (CRE) habitability LAR by the NRC under the Consolidated Line Item Improvement Process (CLIIP) is performed on an accelerated (six month) schedule, a revised date for submittal of HNP's CRE habitability TS requirement is prudent. Discussions with the NRC Project Manager for HNP, Lisa Regner, confirmed that a delay in submitting the CRE habitability LAR would allow for review of both amendments (TS Design Bases Control Program and CRE habitability) in the necessary sequence.Therefore, via this correspondence, HNP is notifying the NRC of a revised commitment date for its respective CRE habitability LAR submittal.

Under this revised commitment, HNP will submit the TSTF-448 related LAR, in accordance with the CLIIP guidelines, by January 16, 2008. This revised submittal date is still within the timeframe typically requested (one year) for TS changes published in the Federal Register using the CLIIP process.Please refer any question regarding this submittal to Mr. Dave Corlett, Supervisor

-Licensing/Regulatory Programs, at (919) 362-3137.Sincerely T. J. tale Manager, Support Services Harris Nuclear Plant W" U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Serial: HNP-07-103 Page 3 TJN/kms Encl: Attachment 1 cc: Mr. P. B. O'Bryan, NRC Senior Resident Inspector Ms. B. 0. Hall, N.C. DENR Section Chief Ms. L. M. Regner, NRC Project Manager Dr. W. D. Travers, NRC Regional Administrator v" Attachment 1 to SERIAL: HNP-07-103 Page 1 of 1 Control Room Habitability Commitment Date Change LIST OF REGULATORY COMMITMENTS The actions committed to by Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (PEC) in this document are identified below. Any other actions discussed in this submittal represent intended or planned actions by PEC, described only for the NRC's information and are not regulatory commitments.

Committed Item Date Due HNP will submit a proposed license amendment request that January 16, 2008 will include a new Technical Specification surveillance requirement to determine inleakage in accordance with a CRE Integrity Program. A new section will be added to Technical Specification Section 6.8 "Procedures and Programs" that will specify the scope of the CRE Integrity Program. The CRE Integrity Program will rely on the use of tracer gas inleakage testing.