ML19029B339

NRC Audit of NFPA 805 and 10 CFR 50.69 Amendment Requests - Draft Request for Additional Information

ML19029B339
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	01/23/2019
From:	Randy Hall Plant Licensing Branch II
To:	Coleman J Southern Nuclear Operating Co
Hall J, 415-4032
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From: Hall, Randy To: JAMIEMCO@SOUTHERNCO.COM Cc: Joyce, Ryan M. (RMJOYCE@southernco.com); Burns, Pamela Diane (PDBURNS@SOUTHERNCO.COM)

Bcc: Williams, Shawn

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Hatch Units 1 and 2 - NRC Audit of NFPA 805 and 10 CFR 50.69 Amendment Requests - Draft Request For Additional Information Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 1:28:00 PM Attachments: Hatch 805 and 50.69 Audit Draft RAIs 01222019.docx January 23, 2019 Ms. Jamie M. Coleman Licensing Manager Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Dear Ms. Coleman,

By separate applications dated April 4, 2018 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML18096A936), and June 7, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18158A583), Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) submitted two license amendment requests (LARs) for the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant (HNP), Unit Nos. 1 and 2. In the first LAR, dated April 4, 2018, SNC proposed to adopt National Fire Protection Association Standard 805 (NFPA 805), Performance-Based Standard for Fire Protection for Light Water Reactor Electric Generating Plants, 2001 Edition (ADAMS Accession No. ML010800360), as incorporated into Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, Section 50.48(c). In the second LAR, dated June 7, 2018, SNC proposed to adopt 10 CFR 50.69, Risk-Informed Categorization and Treatment of Structures, Systems and Components for Nuclear Power Reactors.

To support the review of the proposed license amendments, an audit team consisting of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff from the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation will be conducting a regulatory audit at the HNP site the week of March 18, 2019, as previously agreed upon with your staff. The audit plan will be sent to SNC shortly via separate correspondence.

The NRC staff has developed the attached draft request for additional information (RAI) in support of its review of the subject LARs, and in preparation for the onsite audit. The NRC staff will use this draft RAI to focus discussions with SNC staff during the audit, and to identify further information to be docketed by the licensee that will be needed by the NRC staff to make final regulatory decisions on the subject LARs. No formal response is requested at this time; however, it is expected that SNC will prepare initial responses to the draft RAI questions for discussion with the NRC audit team during the onsite audit.

Following the audit, the NRC staff will issue a final RAI and SNC will be requested to submit a formal response on the docket within 60 days.

The NRC staff would like to schedule a conference call with your staff during the week of February 4, 2019, to discuss the audit plan and the attached draft RAI. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Randy Hall, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch II-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation USNRC (301) 415-4032 Randy.Hall@nrc.gov