ML20140C478

Forwards SER Supporting Listed Requests for Relief from ASME Code Section XI Re Inservice Insp Requirements.One Relief Request Not Granted.Technical Evaluation Rept Also Encl

ML20140C478
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Site:	Arkansas Nuclear
Issue date:	01/13/1986
From:	Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Jeffery Griffin ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT CO.
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ML20140C483	List: ML20140C478 ML20140C767 ML20140C780
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NUDOCS 8601280257
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Docket No. 50-313 DISTRIBull0R a w L PDR Ringram Mr. John Griffin PBD-6 Rdg GVissing Senior Vice President FMiraglia CMcCracken of Energy Supply 0 ELD Gray File Arkansas Power and Light Company ACRS-10 EBrach P. O. Box 551 Edordan H0rnstein Little Rock, Arkansas 72203

Dear Mr. Griffin:

Section 10 CFR 50.55a(g) of the Commission's regulations requires ASME Code Class 1, 2 and 3 components (including supports) of a boiling or pressurized water-cooled nuclear power facility to meet the requirements set forth in Section XI, Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components, of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Each facility is required to have an inspection program plan which is updated every ten years to meet the requirements of the latest approved edition and addenda of Section XI. This program plan is submitted to the NRC for review of the licensee's compliance with the regulation which entails verifying that the program plan is based on the correct Code edition and addenda, verifying that the correct systems, sampling plans, and non-destructive examination methods have been incorporated, and evaluating the efficacy of proposed alternative examinations and tests to be performed in lieu of the requirements.

By letters dated August 27, 1984, January 31, 1985, February 4, 1985, March 8, 1985, and June 24, 1985, you submitted to the NRC the Inservice Inspection (ISI) Plan, requests for relief from those examination requirements determined to be impractical and additional information for the second ten-year interval (December 19, 1984 to December 19,1994) for Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 (ANO-1). The plan was reviewed and evaluated with technical assistance from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). We have reviewed the Tc hnical Evaluation Report (TER) prepared by SAIC on requests for relief from those examination requirements determined to be impractical to perform at ANO-1. We have enclosed our Safety Evaluation (SE) on the conclusions and recommendations by SAIC based on your requests, supporting information and proposed alternative examinations or tests. The TER is enclosed as an attachment to our Safety Evaluation. The SE sets forth our findings with respect to our approval of the requests for relief.

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Mr. John Griffin We have determined that the examinations for which relief has been requested and approved are impractical, the alternate methods to be performed will provide adequate assurance of the piping and component pressure boundary and

! support structural integrity and pursuant to 10 CFR Part 50.55a(g)(6)(i),

3 that the granting of relief is authorized by law and will not endanger

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life or property or the common defense and security and is otherwise in the public interest. In making this determination, we have given due consideration to the burden that could result if these requirements were imposed on your facility.

l You will note that we have not granted one relief requested as noted in Table 4 of the attached SE.

We, therefore, have determined that the ISI Program and other information submitted on August 27, 1984, January 31, 1985, February 4, 1985, March 8, 1985, and June 24, 1985, together with granting of the reliefs by this letter to be

! acceptable for the ten-year interval, December 19, 1984 to December 19, 1994.

Sincerely, f

John F. Stolz, Director PWR Project Directorate #6 Division of PWR Licensing-B

Enclosure:

Safety Evaluation cc w/ enclosure:

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Mr. J. M. Griffin Arkansas Power & Light Company Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 cc:

Mr. J. Ted Enos, Manager Licensing Arkansas Power & Light Company '

P. O. Box 551 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 Mr. James M. Levin'e, General Manager Arkansas Nuclear One P. O. Box 608 jRussellville, Arkansas 72801 l Mr. Nicholas S. Reynolds Bishop. Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Mr. Robert B. Borsum Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division Suite 220, 7910 Woodmont Avenue Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Resident inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 2090 Russellville, Arkansas 72801 Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Executive Director for Operations 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, Texas 76011 Mr. Frank Wilson, Director Division of Environmental Health Protection Department of Health Arkansas Department of Health 4815 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 -

Honorable Ermil Grant Acting County Judge of Pope County Pope County Courthouse Russellville, Arkansas 72801

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