ML16336A832

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, & 3 - Notification of Evaluations of Changes, Tests, and Experiments, & Permanent Plant Modifications Inspection (05000528/2017007; 05000529/2017007; and 05000530/2017007) & Request For Inf

ML16336A832
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	12/01/2016
From:	Thomas Farnholtz Region 4 Engineering Branch 1
To:	Bement R S Arizona Public Service Co
References
IR 2017007
Download: ML16336A832 (6)

See also: IR 05000528/2017007

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December 1, 2016

Mr. Robert Executive Vice President Nuclear/

Chief Nuclear Officer Mail Station 7602 Arizona Public Service Company P. O. Box 52034 Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034

SUBJECT: PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 - NOTIFICATION OF EVALUATIONS OF CHANGES, TESTS, AND EXPERIMENTS, AND PERMANENT PLANT MODIFICATIONS INSPECTION (05000528/2017007; 05000529/2017007; AND 05000530/2017007)

AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Bement:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

staff will conduct the baseline inspection of changes, tests, experiments, and permanent plant modifications at your Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, from February 27, 2017, to March 3, 2017. The inspection will consist of three reactor inspectors from the NRC's Region IV office for one on-site week. The inspection will be conducted in accordance with NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.17T, "Evaluations of Changes, Tests, and Experiments and Permanent Plant Modifications."

Experience has shown that this inspection is resource intensive for both the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your on-site resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for this inspection.

Please note that the documents are requested to be provided by February 15, 2017. Upon review of these documents, the inspectors will select additional documentation for review upon arrival. It is important that all of these documents are up-to-date and complete in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the on-site portions of the inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, James Drake, by telephone at 817-200-1558 or by e-mail at James.Drake@nrc.gov. This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, control number 3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number. In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice and Procedure," a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,/RA/ Thomas R. Farnholtz, Chief Engineering Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-528, 50-529, 50-530 License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, NPF-74

Enclosure:

Request for Information cc: Electronic Distribution