ML18058B703

Discusses Deferment of Amend Request for Shutdown Cooling. Verification of Committment to Industry Position Requested

ML18058B703
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	03/12/1993
From:	Masciantonio A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Slade G CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
References
TAC-M73443, NUDOCS 9303220440
Download: ML18058B703 (3)

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March 12, 1993

• Docket No. 50-255 Mr. Gerald B. Slade*

Plant General Manager Pa 1 i sades Pl ant-Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star*Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan. 49043

SUBJECT:

. PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT - DEFERMENT OF AMENDMENT REQUEST FOR SHUTDOWN COOLING {TAC NO. ~73443)

By letter dated September 30, 1992, we informed you that we would defer further review of a request to amend the Palisades T~chnical Specifications

{TS) to add new operational. requirements, action statements, and surveillance requirements related to shutdown and low power operation until staff positions were more,cl e_~r,ly defined.

As a result of a reque~t made in a 1 etter from

..'::David Hoffmanito Thomas Murley dated November 23, 1992, we have reexamined our

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• Tha staff has agreed to reconsider the amendment request, as

• current 1 y proposed,.upon veri fi cation in writing of a Pa 1 i sades commitment to

-f~e formal industry positjon :related to shutdown plant issues.

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON. D.C. 20556-0001 Docket No. 50-255 Mr. Gerald 8. Slade Plant General Manager Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043

Dear Mr. Slade:

March 12, 1993

SUBJECT:

PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT - DEFERMENT OF AMENDMENT REQUEST FORJ SHUTDOWN COOLING (TAC NO. M73443}

By letter dated September 30, 1992, we informed you that we would defer further review of a request to amend the Palisades Technical Specifications (TS} to add new operational requirements, action statements, and surveillance requirements related to shutdown and low power operation until staff positions were more clearly defined.

As a result of a request made in a letter from David Hoffman to Thomas Murley dated November 23, 1992, we have reexamined our position.

The staff has agreed to reconsider the amendment request, as currently proposed, upon verification in writing of a Palisades commitment to the formal industry position related to shutdown plant issues.

The formal industry position approved by NUMARC is:

Assess current practices, using NUMARC 91-06, "Guidelines for Industry Action to Assess Shutdown Management," to plan and conduct outages.

Improvements adopted as a result of the assessment will be implemented for outages started after December 31, 1992~

Please provide verification that Palisades is committed to the industry position so that we may proceed with review of the proposed amendment.

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See next page Sincerely, Armando Masciantonio, Project Manager Project Directorate 111-1 Division of Reactor Projects - 111/IY/Y Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Mr. Gerald B. Slade Consumers Power Company cc:

• M. I. Miller, Esquire Sidley & Austin 54th Floor One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Jerry Sarno Township Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 Mr. Patrick M. Donnelly, Director Safety and Licensing Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector Office Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Palisades Plant Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health Department of Public Health 3423 N. Logan Street P. 0. Box 30195 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, N. W.

Washington DC 20037 Alora Davis Committment Tracking System Coordinator Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Hwy.

Covert, Michigan 49043-9530