ML061110358

DB Withdrawal of an Amendment Request for OTSG Tube Inspections TAC No. MC7049

ML061110358
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	05/25/2006
From:	Shawn Campbell Plant Licensing Branch III-2
To:	Bezilla M FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
Banerjee M, NRR/ADPT, 415-2277
References
TAC MC7049, TAC MC8517, TAC MC8518
Download: ML061110358 (7)

Text

May 25, 2006 Mr. Mark B. Bezilla Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Mail Stop A-DB-3080 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760

SUBJECT:

DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST TO ADOPT ALTERNATE REPAIR CRITERIA FOR AXIAL TUBE END CRACKING INDICATIONS IN STEAM GENERATOR TUBES (TAC NO. MC7049)

Dear Mr. Bezilla:

By letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) dated May 22, 2005, you applied for an amendment to the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (DBNPS), Unit 1, Facility Operating License No. NPF-3. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TS) pertaining to a qualified alternate repair criteria for axial tube end cracking indications in the DBNPS once through steam generator tubes. Specifically, the proposed amendment would revise the TS surveillance requirements for the steam generator inservice inspection to include tube end cracking alternate repair criteria.

By letter to the NRC dated February 16, 2006, in response to Generic Letter 2006-01, ?Steam Generator Tube Integrity and Associated Technical Specifications, you committed to submit a license amendment application by May 31, 2006, proposing to amend the DBNPS TS to be consistent with TS Task Force (TSTF)-449, ?Steam Generator Tube Integrity, Revision 4.

Since this new license application will be incompatible with the changes proposed in the earlier license amendment application, by letter dated April 20, 2006, you withdrew the May 22, 2005, amendment request and indicated your plans to resubmit the license amendment application at a later date.

M. Bezilla The Commission has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Stephen J. Campbell, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-346

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page

M. Bezilla The Commission has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Stephen J. Campbell, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-346

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page DISTRIBUTION:

PUBLIC LPL3-2 r/f RidsNrrDorlLpl3-2 RidsNrrLADClarke SCampbell RidsOgcRp RidsAcrsAcnwMailCenter RidsRgn3MailCenter RidsNrrDorlDpr ADAMS Accession Number: ML061110358 OFFICE LPL3-2/PM LPL3-2/LA LPL3-2/BC NAME SCampbell:ca DClarke DCollins DATE 5/25/2006 5/25/2006 5/25/2006 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 cc:

Manager - Regulatory Affairs State of Ohio FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Public Utilities Commission Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station 180 East Broad Street 5501 North State - Route 2 Columbus, OH 43266-0573 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Attorney General Director, Ohio Department of Commerce Office of Attorney General Division of Industrial Compliance 30 East Broad Street Bureau of Operations & Maintenance Columbus, OH 43216 6606 Tussing Road P.O. Box 4009 President, Board of County Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-9009 Commissioners of Ottawa County Port Clinton, OH 43252 Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission President, Board of County 801 Warrenville Road Commissioners of Lucas County Lisle, IL 60523-4351 One Government Center, Suite 800 Toledo, OH 43604-6506 Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission The Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich 5503 North State Route 2 United States House of Representatives Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Washington, D.C. 20515 Barry Allen, Plant Manager The Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company United States House of Representatives Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station 14400 Detroit Avenue 5501 North State - Route 2 Lakewood, OH 44107 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Gary R. Leidich Dennis Clum President and Chief Nuclear Officer Radiological Assistance Section Supervisor FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Bureau of Radiation Protection Mail Stop A-GO-19 Ohio Department of Health 76 South Main Street P.O. Box 118 Akron, OH 44308 Columbus, OH 43266-0118 Joseph J. Hagan Carol OClaire, Chief, Radiological Branch Senior Vice President of Operations and Ohio Emergency Management Agency Chief Operating Officer 2855 West Dublin Granville Road FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Columbus, OH 43235-2206 Mail Stop A-GO-14 76 South Main Street Zack A. Clayton Akron, OH 44308 DERR Ohio Environmental Protection Agency David W. Jenkins, Attorney P.O. Box 1049 FirstEnergy Corporation Columbus, OH 43266-0149 Mail Stop A-GO-18 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 cc:

Danny L. Pace Senior Vice President, Fleet Engineering FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GO-14 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308 Manager, Fleet Licensing FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GHE-107 395 Ghent Road Akron, OH 44333 Manager, Site Regulatory Compliance FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Mail Stop A-DB-3065 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Jeannie M. Rinckel Vice President, Fleet Oversight FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GO-14 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FIRSTENERGY NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY AND FIRSTENERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION CORP.

DOCKET NO. 50-346 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company and FirstEnergy Nuclear Generation Corp. (FENOC) to withdraw its May 22, 2005, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-3 for the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (DBNPS), Unit 1, located in Ottawa County.

The proposed amendment would have revised the technical specifications pertaining to a qualified alternate repair criteria for axial tube end cracking indications in the DBNPS once through steam generator tubes. Specifically, the proposed amendment would revise the TS surveillance requirements for the steam generator inservice inspection to include tube end cracking alternate repair criteria.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on July 5, 2005 (70 FR 38720). However, by letter dated February 16, 2006, in response to Generic Letter 2006-01, ?Steam Generator Tube Integrity and Associated Technical Specifications, FENOC committed to submit a license amendment application by May 31, 2006, proposing to amend the DBNPS TS to be consistent with TS Task Force (TSTF)-449, ?Steam Generator Tube Integrity, Revision 4. Since this new license application will be incompatible with the changes proposed in the earlier license

amendment application, by letter dated April 20, 2006, FENOC withdrew the May 22, 2005, amendment request. FENOC plans to resubmit the license amendment application at a later date.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated May 22, 2005, and the licensees letter dated April 20, 2006, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by email to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this day of May 2006.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Stephen J. Campbell, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation