ML103430526

Schedule Revision for the Review of the Columbia Generating Station License Renewal Application

ML103430526
Person / Time
Site:	Columbia
Issue date:	01/10/2011
From:	Brian Holian Division of License Renewal
To:	Gambhir S Energy Northwest
doyle, D, NRR/DLR/RPB1, 415-3748
References
TAC ME3121, TAC ME3058
Download: ML103430526 (5)

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• • • • 1' Mr. S.K. Gambhir, Vice President, Engineering Columbia Generating Station Energy Northwest MD PE04 P.O. Box 968 Richland, WA 99352

SUBJECT:

SCHEDULE REVISION FOR THE REVIEW OF THE COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (TAC NOS. ME3058 AND ME3121)

Dear Mr. Gambhir:

Enclosed is the NRC staff's revised safety and environmental review schedule for the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) license renewal application (LRA). This revised schedule was established to accommodate a timely review of your application along with all other concurrent reviews of applications for license renewal. In developing the revised schedule, NRC staff held a telephone conference with your staff on November 11, 2010 (ADAMS Accession Number ML103160226) and took several factors into consideration, including: delays in your responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional information (RAls), additional/follow-on RAls issued after the date included in the original schedule. and an extended outage schedule for CGS. The NRC staff will continue to follow established review procedures and the enclosed schedule to complete the reviews required by Parts 54 and 51 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

We would like to emphasize that the NRC staff will make every effort to meet the revised schedule milestones. To support this effort, your responses to the staff's RAls must be complete and provided in a timely manner. The last set of environmental RAls were dated December 2,2010, and the last set of safety RAls were dated December 27,2010. The revised schedule is largely based on the assumption that Energy Northwest will respond to these RAIs no later than January 28, 2011. After receiving the RAI responses, the staff will review and incorporate the responses into its safety and environmental reviews. The timeliness of your responses is necessary to maintain the schedule, and any delay could result in additional revisions to the enclosed schedule with the potential of leaving milestone schedule dates TBD (to be determined) until responses are received and other factors can be appropriately considered into a new schedule. Any additional RAls that the staff requires beyond the date of this letter will be considered open items for the safety review. We request that you inform the NRC staff as early as possible should potential delays arise in your support of this schedule.

If you have any questions on the revised schedule, please contact Mr. Arthur Cunanan, Project Manager for the review of the CGS LRA, by telephone at 301-415-3897 or bye-mail at arthur.cunanan@nrc.gov.

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Brian Holian, Director Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-397

Enclosure:

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COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION UPDATED REVIEW SCHEDULE Milestone Scheduled Actual Receive license renewal application (LRA) 1/19/10 1/20/10 Publish Federal Register Notice (FRN) - LRA availability 1/26/10 2/2/10 Publish FRN - acceptance/rejection and opportunity for hearing 3/10/10 3/11/10 Publish FRN - Intent to conduct Environmental Scoping 3/10/10 3/11/10 Public Meeting - License Renewal Overview and Environmental Scoping Meeting 4/6/10 4/6/10 Deadline for filing hearing requests and petitions for intervention 5/14/10 5/14/10 Environmental scoping period ends 5/14/10 5/14/10 Audit - Scoping & Screening Methodology 5/14/10 5/14/10 Audit - Aging Management Programs 5/28/10 5/28/10 Audit - Environmental 6/11/10 6/11/10 Issue environmental requests for additional information (RAls) 7/2/10 12/2/10 Issue safety RAls 8/2110 11/30/10 Inspection - Regional 10/18-22 &

11/1-5/10 10/18-22 &

11/1-5/10 Receive responses for environmental RAls 1/28/11 Receive responses for safety RAls 1/28/11 Issue draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS)

Jun 2011 Public Meeting - draft SEIS meeting Jul2011

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Issue safety evaluation report (SER) with open items Aug 2011 End of draft SEIS comment period Sep 2011 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Subcommittee meeting Oct 2011 Issue final SEIS Dec 2011 Issue final SER Feb 2012 ACRS Full Committee meeting Apr 2012 Decision - Director, NRR Jun 2012 ENCLOSURE

If you have any questions on the revised schedule, please contact Mr. Arthur Cunanan, Project Manager for the review of the CGS LRA, by telephone at 301-415-3897 or bye-mail at arthur. cunanan@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, IRA!

Brian E. Holian, Director Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-397

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SUBJECT:

SCHEDULE REVISION FOR THE REVIEW OF THE COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (TAC NOS. ME3058 AND ME3121)

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