ML17265A430

Provides Update of Current Status & Schedule of Commitments Made by Rg&E Re Design Basis Info

ML17265A430
Person / Time
Site:	Ginna
Issue date:	10/16/1998
From:	Mecredy R ROCHESTER GAS & ELECTRIC CORP.
To:	Vissing G NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned), NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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NUDOCS 9810230123
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ACCESSION NBR:9810230123 DOC.DATE: 98/10/16 NOTARIZED: NO DOCKET ¹ FACIL:50-244 Robert Emmet Ginna Nuclear Plant, Unit 1, Rochester G 05000244 AUTH. jVAME .. AUTHOR AFFILIATION MECREDY,R.C. Rochester Gas 8 Electric Corp.

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SUBJECT:

Provides .update of current status & schedule of commitments made by RGS:E re design basis info.

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ANO ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION 89 EASTAVENIJE, ROCHESTER, N.Y. 14649-0001 AREA CODE 716-546-2700 ROBERT C. MECREDY Vice Presideni October 16, 1998 Nucieor Operations U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Attn: Guy S. Vissing Project Directorate 1-1 Washington, D.C. 20555

Subject:

Update to Response to NRC Request for Information Pursuant to 10CFR50.54(f)

Regarding Adequacy and Availability of Design Basis Information R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant Docket No. 50-244 Ref. (1) Letter from R.E. Smith QG&E) to NRC,

Subject:

Response to NRC Request for Information Pursuant to 10CFR50.54(f) Regarding Adequacy and Availability of Design Basis Information, dated February 7, 1997 (2) Letter from Robert C. Mecredy (RG&E) to Guy S. Vissing (NRC),

Subject:

Update to Response to NRC Request for Information Pursuant to 10CFR50.54(f) Regarding Adequacy and Availability of Design Basis Information, dated September 30, 1997 (3) EGM 98-007, Memorandum from James Lieberman (NRC),

SUBJECT:

ENFORCEMENT GUIDANCE MEMORANDUM EXTENSION OF EXERCISE OF DISCRETION FOR FSAR DISCREPANCIES IDENTIFIED WHILE THE LICENSEE HAS A DEFINED PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFYING SUCH DISCREPANCIES, dated September 15, 1998

Dear Mr. Vissing:

Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E) has previously provided responses (References 1 and 2) to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's request for information pursuant to 10CFR50.54(f) regarding adequacy and availability of design basis information. The intent of this correspondence is to provide an update of the current status and schedule of the commitments made by RG&E in regards to design basis information.

As the result of responding to NEI initiative 96-05, RG&E noted that the descriptive information in the UFSAR has not always been rigorously modified in accordance with plant or procedure changes.

Within Reference 1, RG&E committed to undertake a'oluntary initiative to perform a thorough review of the UFSAR with an expected completion date of October 18, 1998. This date was to coincide with the NRC's two year Enforcement Discretion period for self-identification of FSAR P,

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discrepancies. Recently, as documented in Reference 3, further Commission direction has been given by'the Director, OIIice of Enforcement, for the handling of discretion for FSAR discrepancies. The Enforcement Guidance Memorandum discusses the relationship of FSAR accuracy and completeness and provides new dates for the extension of the provision for the exercise of discretion as described in Section VII.B.3 of the Enforcement Policy of March 30, 2000 for risk significant items and March 30, 2001 for all other issues.

RGkE has been actively reviewing the UFSAR using plant personnel during this period. Though this was a major undertaking it was felt that the knowledge gained by the individuals doing the review would be invaluable and much of the knowledge would be lost ifoutside contractors were utilized.

Currently over 83% of the UFSAR has been addressed, which includes 94 sections that have been broken down into over 5200 individual records that have been evaluated for over 11,000 ties to implementing or source documents. To date, this review has not determined any items which are of a reportable nature and the majority of the discrepancies found continue to be related to past incomplete updating as the result of plant changes and the general nature of original statements. The remainder of the UFSAR review is being given a high priority, as this review also ties in with RGBs commitment (Reference 2) to collate and validate selected information for specific systems and topics and link the information electronically with the UFSAR. RG&E continues to remain confident that the risk signi6cance of the minor discrepancies in the UFSAR is low. Accordingly, RGkE is revising our voluntary commitment date for the completion of the UFSAR review to coincide with the revised NRC enforcement discretion dates of, March 30, 2000 for risk significant items and March 30, 2001 for all other issues.

In addition to the UFSAR review, several process weaknesses that were highlighted in Reference 1 were also tied to the October 18 date for development and implementation of improvements. A new commitment management procedure has been developed to ensure that licensing commitments are controlled more closely and a review of previous NRC correspondence has been performed to identify potential procedural based commitments. Procedural changes have been implemented to provide enhancements to current processes which could potentially acct information in the UFSAR to require timely generation of UFSAR Change Notices. An electronic word searchable version of the UFSAR has been provided to site personnel. QA audits and surveillances have also been enhanced to provide for an UFSAR accuracy review when areas affecting the UFSAR are evaluated. These items are considered complete per the original commitment and further process improvements will continue as the design basis documentation project progresses.

RGB continues to be involved closely with industry groups and the NRC on the topic of UFSAR accuracy and completeness and will provide future updates as to the status of our projects as major milestones are reached or as significant changes in the industry are initiated.

'ery t yours, Robert C. Mecredy

xc: Mr. Guy S. Vissing (Mail Stop 14B2)

Project Directorate I-l Division of Reactor Projects UII Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Regional Administrator, Region I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road .

King of Prussia, PA 19406 U.S. NRC Ginna Senior Resident Inspector