ML20084P094

Comments on Status of Eddleman Contention 9 Re Noncompliance on Environ Qualification of Electrical Equipment.Contention Too Broad to Be Decided Through Hearing.Related Correspondence

ML20084P094
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	05/16/1984
From:	Baxter T CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE
To:	Bright G, Carpenter J, Kelley J Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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May 16, 1984 WRtTER S DIRECT D4AL hwMSER James L. Kelley, Esquire Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. Glenn O. Bright Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. James H. Carpenter Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 In the Matter of Carolina Power & Light Company and North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency (Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2)

Docket Nos. 50-400 and 50-401 OL Administrative Judges Kelley, Carpenter and Bright:

This is a report to the Board on the status of one of the admitted safety contentions in this proceeding -- Eddleman 9.

In its Memorandum and Order (Reflecting Decisions Made Follow-ing Prehearing Conference), LBP-82-119A, 16 N.R.C. 2069, 2091 (1982), the Board stated as follows:

i l Eddleman 9 alleges that Applicants have not shown compliance with the NRC's reg-ulations on environmental qualification l l of electrical equipment and that Appli-I cants' equipment does not meet those 8405170408 840516 DR ADOCK 05000

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SHAW, PITTMAN, PoTTs & TROWBRIDGE l A PARmEMMay or PROFEMHCmAL ComponATH3NS Atomic Safety and Licensing Board May 16, 1984 Page 2 standards. Applicants admit that they have not yet amended their FSAR to show compliance with NUREG-0588, which was adopted by the Commission in Petition for Emergency and Remedial Action, CLI-80-21, 11 N.R.C. 705 (1980) as the standards meeting General Design Criteria of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A.

Applicants assert, however, that this will be done as a matter of course, and therefore suggest that the contention be dismissed. We find this approach unpersuasive. Applicants have admitted a deficiency in their FSAR and do not reply that their equipment in fact meets the appropriate standards. If and when that deficiency is corrected, Applicants may move for partial summary disposition on this contention. We therefore accept that portion of Eddleman 9 that alleges a deficiency in the FSAR. We do not ac-cept the part of the contention that Ap-plicants' equipment is not environ-mentally qualified. This part of the contention is not sufficiently specific.

After Applicants amend their FSAR to re-flect the qualification of their equip-ment, Mr. Eddleman can submit conten-j tions of any specific inadequacies in i

qualification or noncompliance with the regulations based on that new material.

As subsequently codified, Eddleman 9 states:

FSAR 3. llc does not establish compliance j

, with NUREG-0588 or NRC's rules on Envi- l

ronmental Qualification of Electrical Equipment for the Harris Plant.

Memorandum and Order (Addressing Applicants' Motion for Codifi-cation) at 3 (Jan. 17, 1983); Applicants' Motion for Codifica-tion of Admitted Contentions at 6 and A-14 (Dec. 17, 1982).

Since Eddleman 9 was admitted, Applicants have amended the FSAR to provide additional information on the environmental qualification of electrical equipment under 10 C.F.R. S 50.49, d

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1 SHAw, PirrMAN. PoTTs & TROWBRIDGE A PARTNtagMap OF PROFESteONAL COmpOm4TIONS Atomic Safety and Licensing Board May 16, 1984 Page 3 and a further FSAR amendment addressing this subject will be filed in the near future. Applicants and Mr. Eddleman have conducted discovery of each other, in 1984, on Contention 9.

In addition, a meeting was held between Mr. Eddleman and Appli-cants' counsel and experts to present to Mr. Eddleman, on an informal basis, the information which will be included in the upcoming FSAR amendment. It was the hope of Applicants and Mr.

Eddleman that through these informal discussions a settlement of Contention 9 would result prior to the May 16, 1984 deadline for filing motions for sumraary disposition of safety conten-tions. This has not occurred.

It is Applicants' position that in its current form Eddleman 9 is too broad to be decided through a hearing, since it arguably encompasses the entire program for demonstrating compliance with section 50.49. Mr. Eddleman is continuing to review the information on this program provided by Applicants, and further informal discussions may take place.

At this point, Applicants have agreed to forego the oppor-tunity to file a motion for summary disposition of Eddleman 9 (unless there is a postponment of more than two months in the hearing on safety issues), in exchange for Mr. Eddleman's com-mitment to negotiate in good faith to reach a settlement of the contentions or, in the alternative, to reach agreement with Ap-plicants and the Staff on a more specific statement of the con-tention. If this is not achieved by the end of June, Appli-cants will have to go to the Board to seek its assistance in resolving the differences among the parties. (Testimony on safety contentions must be filed by August 9, 1984.)

Respectfully submitted, m .

Thomas A. Baxter, P.C.

Counsel for Applicants cc: Service List