[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 22, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-3850]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-315 and 50-316]
Indiana Michigan Power Co.; Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant Units 1
and 2
Exemption
I
Indiana Michigan Power Company (the licensee) is the holder of
Facility Operating Licenses Nos. DPR-58 and DPR-74 which authorize
operation of the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, at
steady-state reactor power levels not in excess of 3250 and 3411
megawatts thermal, respectively. The Donald C. Cook facilities are
pressurized water reactors located at the licensee's site in Berrien
County, Michigan. These licenses provide, among other things, that they
are subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (the Commission) now or hereafter in effect.
II
Pursuant to 10 CFR 55.59(a)(1), ``Each licensee shall--(1)
Successfully complete a requalification program developed by the
facility licensee that has been approved by the Commission. This
program shall be conducted for a continuous period not to exceed 24
months in duration.''
III
By letter dated October 4, 1993, the licensee requested an
exemption from administering the operating portion of the annual
operator requalification examination in January-February, 1994 due to
the installation of modifications in the control room. The
modifications, which include replacing all Foxboro controllers with
Taylor model 30 controllers and a reconfiguration of the control room,
have been completed in the simulator but will not be installed in the
Unit 1 and Unit 2 control rooms until the refueling outages in February
and August, 1994, respectively.
The licensee is requesting the exemption from the operational
portion of the requalification examination in order to provide more
simulator training time on the new modifications and to avoid
administering a requalification examination on a simulator which is
configured differently from the plant control rooms. The licensee will
administer the operating portion of the requalification examination on
the simulator in the May-June, 1994 time frame. The licensee's 24-month
requalification cycle ends February 11, 1994; therefore, the exemption
from the requirements of the regulation would be for a period of
approximately 4 months.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 55.11, ``The Commission may, upon application by
an interested person, or upon its own initiative, grant such exemptions
from the requirements of the regulations in this part as it determines
are authorized by law and will not endanger life or property and are
otherwise in the public interest.''
IV
Currently, the Donald C. Cook Licensed Operator Requalification
Training Program beings and ends in early February of even years. This
one-time exemption would permit an operating examination from the
current 24-month requalification cycle to be administered approximately
4 months into the next cycle. The next examination will be administered
on schedule in January 1995, which will be consistent with the annual
examination requirement cited in 10 CFR 55.59(a)(2).
V
The staff has reviewed the licensee's request and concluded that
issuance of this exemption will not endanger life or property and will
have no significant effect on the safety of the public or the plant.
Accordingly, the Commission has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR
55.11, that this exemption as described in section III is authorized by
law, will not endanger life or property and is otherwise in the public
interest. Therefore, the Commission hereby grants a one-time exemption
from the requirements of 10 CFR 55.59(a)(1) for a period of February
1994 to June 1994, with respect to the 24-month requalification
program. This exemption applies only to the operational examination
portion of the requalification program. No changes to the written
portion of the requalification program have been requested by the
licensee or granted by this exemption.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.32, the Commission has determined that
granting of this exemption will have no significant impact on the
environment (February 14, 1994, 59 FR 6978).
This exemption is effective upon issuance.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of February, 1994.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack W. Roe,
Director, Division of Reactor Projects--III/IV/V, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 94-3850 Filed 2-18-94; 8:45 am]
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