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Letter Withdrawal of Amendment Request to Revise Technical Specification 3/4.3.2 to Relocate Surveillance Frequency Requirements for Engineered Safety Feature Actuation System
ML19009A362
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Site: Waterford Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 01/24/2019
From: April Pulvirenti
Plant Licensing Branch IV
To:
Entergy Operations
Pulvirenti A
References
EPID L-2017-LLA-0403
Download: ML19009A362 (4)


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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 January 24, 2019 Site Vice President Entergy Operations, Inc.

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 17265 River Road Killona, LA 70057-3093

SUBJECT:

WATERFORD STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNIT 3 - WITHDRAWAL OF AMENDMENT REQUEST TO REVISE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 3/4.3.2 TO RELOCATE SURVEILLANCE FREQUENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR ENGINEERED SAFETY FEATURE ACTUATION SYSTEM SUBGROUP RELAYS TO THE SURVEILLANCE FREQUENCY CONTROL PROGRAM (EPID L-2017-LLA-0403)

Dear Sir or Madam:

By letter dated December 6, 2017 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML17340B321 ), as supplemented by letter dated June 29, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18180A271 ), you applied for an amendment to the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, Facility Operating License No. 50-382. The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification 3/4.3.2 Table 4.3-2, "Engineered Safety Features Actuation System [ESFAS] Instrumentation Surveillance Requirements." The amendment would have removed from Note 3 of the table the exemption from testing ESFAS relays K114, K305, and K313 at power. Subsequently, by letter dated December 20, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18354B283), you withdrew the amendment request. Your letter states that the amendment request was withdrawn due to procurement delays to implement the plant modification required by the proposed amendment.

Before this license amendment request was withdrawn, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff had conducted a partial review of the technical aspects of the request.

This review is documented in an internal memorandum, which is located under ADAMS Accession No. ML18362A312 (not publicly available). Should you resubmit this license amendment request at a later date, it is advisable to refer to this withdrawal acknowledgement letter in your application so that staff may access the documentation of this partial review.

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

If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-1390 or via e-mail at April. Pulvirenti@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

~i.. f,J.-J-April L. Pulvirenti, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch IV Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-382

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc: Listserv

ENCLOSURE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE

[7590-01-P]

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-382; NRC-2018-0021)

Entergy Operations, Inc.; Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the request of Entergy Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee), to withdraw its application dated December 6, 2017, as supplemented by letter dated June 29, 2018, for a proposed amendment to the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (Waterford 3), Facility Operating License No. 50-382. The proposed amendment would have revised the Waterford 3 Technical Specifications (TS) 3/4.3.2 Table 4.3-2, "Engineered Safety Features Actuation System [ESFAS] Instrumentation Surveillance Requirements."

Specifically, the proposed amendment would have removed Note 3 of the table, the exemption from testing ESFAS relays K114, K305, and K313 at power.

DATES: [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0021 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly-available information related to this document using any of the following methods:

  • Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0021. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Krupskaya Castellon; telephone: 301-287-9221; e-mail:

Krupskaya.Castellon@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

  • NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select "Begin Web-based ADAMS Search." For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS ace:ession number for each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document.
  • NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room 01-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: April L. Pulvirenti, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1390, e-mail: April.Pulvirenti@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC has granted the request of Entergy to withdraw its application dated December 6, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML173408321 ), as supplemented by letter dated June 29, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18180A271 ), for a proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-38 for the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

The proposed amendment would have revised TS 3/4.3.2 Table 4.3-2, "Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Instrumentation Surveillance Requirements." The amendment would have removed from Note 3 of the table, the exemption from testing ESFAS relays K114, K305, and K313 at power. Implementation 2

of the amendment would have required a modification to plant circuitry to allow testing for these relays while at power.

The Commission has previously issued a proposed finding that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2018 (83 FR 6222). However, by letter dated December 20, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18354B283), the licensee requested to withdraw the proposed amendment.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of January 2019.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

IRA/

  • April L Pulvirenti, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operator Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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