ML20207J858

Advises That 860724 Proposed Tech Spec Change Deleting Values of Differential Pressure from Surveillance Requirements 4.7.1.2.a.1 & 4.7.1.2.a.2 for Motor & turbine- Driven Auxiliary Feedwater Pumps Unacceptable

ML20207J858
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Site:	Sequoyah
Issue date:	01/06/1987
From:	Youngblood B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	White S TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
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ML20207J863	List: ML20207J858 ML20212F042
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TASK-2.E.1.2, TASK-TM GL-83-37, NUDOCS 8701080625
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• $DocketFileW PAD #4 Reading MDuncan January 6, 1987 JHolonich DOCKET NO.s 50-327 50-328 Rules and Procedures Branch MEMORANDUM FOR: Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration .

j FROM: Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation susJECT: Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Unita 1 and 2 (TENNESSEE VAI.LET AUTHORITT) l One signed original of the Federal Register Notice identified below is enclosed for your transmittal to the Office of the Federal Register for publication. Additional conformed copies ( 5 ) of the Notice are enclosed for your use.

Notice of Receipt of Application for Construction Permit (s)and Operating License (s).

Notice of Receipt of Partial Application for Construction Permit (s)and Facility License (s): Time for Submission of Views on Antitrust Matters.

Notice of Consideration of issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License.

Notice of Receipt of Application for Facility License (s); Notice of Availability of Applicant's Environmental Report; and Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Facility License (s) and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing.

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Subject:

Secuoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 - Denial of Technical Specification Change Concerning the Ooerability of the Auxiliary Feedwater Purps Ey letter dated July 24, 1986, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) proccsed changirg the Technical SDecifications for Sequoyah Units 1 and 2 to delete the values of differential pressure f rom Surveillance Requircrents 4.7.1.2.a.1 and 4.7.1.2.a.2. These values prcve operability of the motor driven and steam turbine drhen auxiliary feedwater (AFW) pumps. The TVA proposal was promoted by a change in differential pressure when two pressure control valves on the discharge side of the motor-driven AFW purros were removed due to maintenance problems and replaced with cavitating venturis, ar;d a desire to maintain the prescribed differential pressure values in appropriate plant instructions rather than the plant Technical Srecifications.

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The staff has reviewed the TVA request and concludes that the proposal dces rot follow appropriate recuirements. It is the staff's position that the ditferential pressure values should be retained in the Technical Specifications in accordance with Part 50.36(c)(3) of Title 10 of the Cooe of Federal Regulations. In particular, 50.36(c)(3) defines the Surveillance Re-quirements as necessary to ensure the quality 7f systerrs and cor.conents is maintained. Surveillance Requirements 4.7.1.2.a.1 and 4.7.1.2.a.2 are in-tended to prove the operability of the AFW purros.

Acd1tional staff guidance is giver in NUREG-0737, " Clarification of TM1 Action Plan Requirerrents," Iter II.E.1.2 and Generic Letter P3-37 Therefore, the staff finds the preposed amendment unacceptable.

Mr. S. A. White Enclosed is a copy of a rebted notice which has been forwared to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

If you reoufre additional information, please contact the appropriate project manager, Joe Holonich at (301) 492-7270.

Sincerely, W\

B. J. Youngblood, Director PWR Project Directorate #4 Division of PWR Licensing-A

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Tennessee Departoent of Public Regional Administrator, Region II Health U.S. Nuclear Pegulatory Commission, ATTN: Director, Bureau of 101 Marietta Street, N.l'. , Seite 2900 Environmental Health Services Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Cordell Hull Buildino Nashville, Tennessee ~ 37219 J. A. Kirkebo ATTN: D.L. Williams Mr. Michael H. Mobley, Director Tennessee Valley Authority Division of Radiological Health 400 West Summit Hill Drive, W12 A12 T.E.R.R.A. Building Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 ISC 9th Avenue North s-f!ashville. Tennessee 37203 Mr. Ecb Faas Westinghouse Electric Corp. County Judce P.O. box 355 Hamilton County Courthouse Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402 R. L. Grioley Tennessee Valley Authority EN 1578 Lookout Place Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2001 M. R. Harding Tennessee Valley Authority Sequoyah Nuclear Plant P.O. Eox 2000 Soddy Daisy, Tennessee 37379

- Resident Inspector /Sequoyah hPS c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cornission 2600 Igou Ferry koad Soddy Daisy, Terressee 37379 H.L. Abercrombie Tennessee Valley Authority Sequoyab Nuclear Plant P.O. Box 2000 Soddy Ccisy, Tennessee 37379 l

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7590-01 Ut!!TED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION TEt*ESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY DOCKET NOS. 50-327 AND 50-328 DENIAL OF AMENDl4ENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) has cenied a re-quest by the licensee for amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-77 and DDR-79 issued to the Tennessee Valley Authority (the licensee) for operation of the Sequcyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (the facility), located in Hamilten County, Tennessee.

The proposed amendments would have deleted the differential pressure values tron Surveillance Requirements 4.7.1.2.a.1 and 4.7.1.2.a.2. These values wculd have been placed in the appropriate plant instructions where changes would have to be evaluated against the criteria given in 10 CFR 50.F9(a)(2). Notice of consideratier of issuance of these amendnents was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 27, 1986 (51 FR 30582). The licensee's apolicttien for the arer.drerts was dated July 24, 1986.

Tre request was found unacceptable since the proposal does not reet the requirementsof10CFR50.36(c)(3). The differential pressure values should be retained in the Technical Spcrifications in accordance with 50.56(c)(3) in order to prove the operability of the auxiliary feedwater pump.

The licensee was notified of the Comission's denial of this request by letter dated January 6, 1987

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By Feb 11,1987,the licensee may demand a hearing with respect to the denial described above and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene.

I i A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervere must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Connission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W.,

Washington, D. C., by the above date.

A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of General Counsel-Bethesda, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Coranission, Washington, D. C. 20555, and to Lewis E. Wallace, Acting Gereral Counsel, Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 Comerce Avenue, E11B33, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902, attorney for the licensee.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendments dated July 24,1986, and (2) the Commission's letter to Tennessee Valley Authority dated Jan 6, 1987 , which are 'available for public inspection at the Connission's Public Document Poca,1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial' Library,1001 Broad Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401. Acopyofiten(2) may be cbtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of PER Licensing-A.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 6th day of January 1987.

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