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Units 3 and 4 Inspections, Tests,
Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria
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Commission.
ACTION: Determination of the successful
completion of inspections, tests, and
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AGENCY:
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that specified inspections, tests, and
analyses have been successfully
completed, and that specified
acceptance criteria are met for the
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP),
Units 3 and 4.
DATES: Determinations of the successful
completion of inspections, tests, and
analyses for VEGP Units 3 and 4 are
effective on the dates indicated in the
NRC staff’s verification evaluation forms
for the inspections, tests, analyses, and
acceptance criteria (ITAAC).
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Licensee Notification of Completion
of ITAAC
Southern Nuclear Operating
Company, Inc. (hereafter called SNC or
the licensee) has submitted ITAAC
closure notifications (ICNs) under
section 52.99(c)(1) of title 10 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
informing the NRC that the licensee has
successfully performed the required
inspections, tests, and analyses, and that
the acceptance criteria are met for:
VEGP Unit 3 ITAAC
2.1.02.02a (13), 2.1.02.05a.i (19),
2.1.02.07b (26), 2.1.02.11a.i (46),
2.1.02.11b.i (48), 2.1.02.11c.i (51),
2.1.02.11c.ii (52), 2.1.02.13c (65),
2.1.03.03 (72), 2.1.03.06.i (75),
2.1.03.09b (83), 2.1.03.12 (87),
2.2.01.05.i (98), 2.2.01.06b (103),
2.2.01.09 (110), 2.2.01.10c (113),
2.2.01.11a.iv (117), 2.2.02.05a.i (126),
2.2.02.06b (133), 2.2.02.07b.i (138),
2.2.02.07f.i (145), 2.2.02.10c (153),
2.2.03.02a (159), 2.2.03.05a.i (165),
2.2.03.07b (172), 2.2.03.08c.x (195),
2.2.03.08c.xiii (198), 2.2.03.10 (206),
2.2.03.11a.i (207), 2.2.03.11b.i (209),
2.2.03.11c.i (212), 2.2.03.11c.ii (213),
2.2.04.05a.i (226), 2.2.04.07b (233),
2.2.04.12a.iii (250), 2.2.05.05a.i (259),
2.2.05.06a (263), 2.2.05.07a.i (265),
2.2.05.07c (270), 2.3.02.06b (296),
2.3.04.04.ii (331), 2.3.04.10 (337),
2.3.05.02.i (340), 2.3.06.02a (355),
2.3.06.07b (368), 2.3.07.06a (399),
2.3.09.02a (421), 2.3.09.02b (422),
2.3.09.03.ii (424), 2.3.09.04b (428),
2.3.10.07a.ii (444), 2.3.11.03b (454),
2.3.11.03c (455), 2.3.13.06b (467),
2.3.19.02a (486), 2.3.29.04 (491),
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2.4.02.02a (497), 2.4.02.02b (498),
2.5.01.02a (506), 2.5.02.02.i (522),
2.5.02.05a (527), 2.5.02.06a.i (529),
2.5.02.06a.ii (530), 2.5.02.06c.i (532),
2.5.02.08a.ii (540), 2.5.02.08b.ii (543),
2.5.02.09d (548), 2.5.03.02 (555),
2.5.04.02.i (557), 2.5.04.03 (560),
2.6.01.02.i (579), 2.6.01.03a (582),
2.6.01.04d (587), 2.6.01.04e (588),
2.6.02.02a (593), 2.6.02.02b (594),
2.6.02.02c (595), 2.6.03.02.i (597),
2.6.03.04a (601), 2.6.03.04c (603),
2.6.03.04i (609), 2.6.03.07 (616),
2.6.04.02a (622), 2.6.04.02c (624),
2.6.05.02.ii (629), 2.6.09.05c (646),
2.6.09.06 (647), 2.6.09.08 (650),
2.6.09.13a (652), 2.6.09.13c (654),
2.6.09.15a (655), C.2.6.09.07 (667),
C.2.6.09.08a (668), 2.7.01.14 (700),
2.7.02.03a (703), 2.7.05.02.i (719),
2.7.06.03.i (726), 3.1.00.03 (735),
3.2.00.01e (744), 3.2.00.05 (752),
3.2.00.07 (756), 3.2.00.09 (758),
3.3.00.02a.i.b (761), 3.3.00.05b (785),
3.3.00.05c (786), 3.3.00.07aa (789),
3.3.00.07ab (790), 3.3.00.07ac (791),
3.3.00.07ba (792), 3.3.00.07bb (793),
3.3.00.07bc (794), 3.3.00.07c.i.a (795),
3.3.00.07c.i.b (796), 3.3.00.07c.ii.a (797),
3.3.00.07c.ii.b (798), 3.3.00.07d.i (799),
3.3.00.07d.ii.a (800), 3.3.00.07d.ii.b
(801), 3.3.00.07d.ii.c (802),
3.3.00.07d.iii.a (803), 3.3.00.07d.iii.b
(804), 3.3.00.07d.iii.c (805), 3.3.00.08
(813), 3.3.00.14 (820), 3.3.00.16 (821),
3.3.00.17 (822), 3.5.00.01.i (823),
3.5.00.06 (831), E.3.9.01.01.01 (845),
E.3.9.03.00.02 (848), 2.2.05.09c (877),
and 2.3.10.11a (878).
VEGP Unit 4 ITAAC
2.1.02.08d.v (36), 2.2.01.07.i (107),
2.2.01.11a.i (114) 2.2.03.09a.ii (202),
2.3.04.11 (338), 2.3.10.02a (431),
2.5.02.08b.i (542), 3.2.00.02 (745),
3.3.00.02b (770), and 3.3.00.02f (774).
The ITAAC for VEGP Unit 3 are in
Appendix C of the VEGP Unit 3
combined license (ADAMS Accession
No. ML14100A106). The ITAAC for
VEGP Unit 4 are in Appendix C of the
VEGP Unit 4 combined license (ADAMS
Accession No. ML14100A135).
II. Licensee ITAAC Post-Closure
Notifications (IPCNs)
Since the last Federal Register notice
of the NRC staff’s determinations of
successful completion of inspections,
tests, and analyses for VEGP Units 3 and
4 (87 FR 5866; February 2, 2022), the
NRC staff has not made additional
determinations of the successful
completion of inspections, tests, and
analyses based on licensee IPCNs
submitted under 10 CFR 52.99(c)(2).
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III. NRC Staff Determination of
Completion of ITAAC
The NRC staff has determined that the
specified inspections, tests, and
analyses have been successfully
completed, and that the specified
acceptance criteria are met. The
documentation of the NRC staff’s
determination is in the ITAAC Closure
Verification Evaluation Form (VEF) for
each ITAAC. The VEF is a form that
represents the NRC staff’s structured
process for reviewing ICNs and IPCNs.
Each ICN presents a narrative
description of how the ITAAC was
completed. The NRC’s ICN review
process involves a determination on
whether, among other things: (1) each
ICN provides sufficient information,
including a summary of the
methodology used to perform the
ITAAC, to demonstrate that the
inspections, tests, and analyses have
been successfully completed; (2) each
ICN provides sufficient information to
demonstrate that the acceptance criteria
of the ITAAC are met; and (3) any NRC
inspections for the ITAAC have been
completed and any ITAAC findings
associated with that ITAAC have been
closed. The NRC’s review process for
IPCNs is similar to that for ICNs but
focuses on how the licensee addressed
the new, material information giving
rise to the IPCN.
The NRC staff’s determination of the
successful completion of these ITAAC
for VEGP Unit 3 is final because the
NRC has found pursuant to 10 CFR
52.103(g) that the acceptance criteria in
the VEGP Unit 3 combined license are
met (87 FR 48201; August 8, 2022). As
such, the licensee is allowed to operate
VEGP Unit 3 in accordance with the
terms and conditions of the license. In
accordance with 10 CFR 52.103(h), the
ITAAC in the VEGP Unit 3 licensee no
longer constitute regulatory
requirements.
The NRC staff’s determination of the
successful completion of these ITAAC
for VEGP Unit 4 is based on information
available at this time and is subject to
the licensee’s ability to maintain the
condition that the acceptance criteria
are met. If the NRC staff receives new
information that suggests the NRC staff’s
determination on any of these ITAAC is
incorrect, then the NRC staff will
determine whether to reopen that
ITAAC (including withdrawing the NRC
staff’s determination on that ITAAC).
The NRC staff’s determination will be
used to support a subsequent finding,
pursuant to 10 CFR 52.103(g), at the end
of construction that all acceptance
criteria in the combined license are met.
The ITAAC closure process is not
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finalized for these ITAAC until the NRC
makes an affirmative finding under 10
CFR 52.103(g). Any future updates to
the status of these ITAAC can be found
by selecting the link ‘‘ITAAC Status
Report’’ on the NRC’s website: https://
www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/colholder/vog4.html.
This notice fulfills the NRC staff’s
obligations under 10 CFR 52.99(e)(1) to
publish a notice in the Federal Register
of the NRC staff’s determination of the
successful completion of inspections,
tests, and analyses.
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 3,
Docket No. 5200025
A complete list of the review status
for VEGP Unit 3 ITAAC, including the
submission date and ADAMS accession
number for each ICN and IPCN received,
the ADAMS accession number for each
VEF, and the ADAMS accession
numbers for the inspection reports
associated with these specific ITAAC
can be found by selecting the link
‘‘ITAAC Status Report’’ at the NRC’s
website https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/
new-reactors/col-holder/vog3.html.
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 4,
Docket No. 5200026
A complete list of the review status
for VEGP Unit 4 ITAAC, including the
submission date and ADAMS accession
number for each ICN and IPCN received,
the ADAMS accession number for each
VEF, and the ADAMS accession
numbers for the inspection reports
associated with these specific ITAAC,
can be found by selecting the link
‘‘ITAAC Status Report’’ at the NRC’s
website https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/
new-reactors/col-holder/vog4.html.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Victor E. Hall,
Chief, Vogtle Project Office, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
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Acceptance Criteria
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Determination of the successful completion of inspections,
tests, and analyses.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has
determined that specified inspections, tests, and analyses have been
successfully completed, and that specified acceptance criteria are met
for the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP), Units 3 and 4.
DATES: Determinations of the successful completion of inspections,
tests, and analyses for VEGP Units 3 and 4 are effective on the dates
indicated in the NRC staff's verification evaluation forms for the
inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria (ITAAC).
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0252 when contacting the
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20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7270, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Licensee Notification of Completion of ITAAC
Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. (hereafter called SNC or
the licensee) has submitted ITAAC closure notifications (ICNs) under
section 52.99(c)(1) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), informing the NRC that the licensee has successfully performed
the required inspections, tests, and analyses, and that the acceptance
criteria are met for:
VEGP Unit 3 ITAAC
2.1.02.02a (13), 2.1.02.05a.i (19), 2.1.02.07b (26), 2.1.02.11a.i
(46), 2.1.02.11b.i (48), 2.1.02.11c.i (51), 2.1.02.11c.ii (52),
2.1.02.13c (65), 2.1.03.03 (72), 2.1.03.06.i (75), 2.1.03.09b (83),
2.1.03.12 (87), 2.2.01.05.i (98), 2.2.01.06b (103), 2.2.01.09 (110),
2.2.01.10c (113), 2.2.01.11a.iv (117), 2.2.02.05a.i (126), 2.2.02.06b
(133), 2.2.02.07b.i (138), 2.2.02.07f.i (145), 2.2.02.10c (153),
2.2.03.02a (159), 2.2.03.05a.i (165), 2.2.03.07b (172), 2.2.03.08c.x
(195), 2.2.03.08c.xiii (198), 2.2.03.10 (206), 2.2.03.11a.i (207),
2.2.03.11b.i (209), 2.2.03.11c.i (212), 2.2.03.11c.ii (213),
2.2.04.05a.i (226), 2.2.04.07b (233), 2.2.04.12a.iii (250),
2.2.05.05a.i (259), 2.2.05.06a (263), 2.2.05.07a.i (265), 2.2.05.07c
(270), 2.3.02.06b (296), 2.3.04.04.ii (331), 2.3.04.10 (337),
2.3.05.02.i (340), 2.3.06.02a (355), 2.3.06.07b (368), 2.3.07.06a
(399), 2.3.09.02a (421), 2.3.09.02b (422), 2.3.09.03.ii (424),
2.3.09.04b (428), 2.3.10.07a.ii (444), 2.3.11.03b (454), 2.3.11.03c
(455), 2.3.13.06b (467), 2.3.19.02a (486), 2.3.29.04 (491), 2.4.02.02a
(497), 2.4.02.02b (498), 2.5.01.02a (506), 2.5.02.02.i (522),
2.5.02.05a (527), 2.5.02.06a.i (529), 2.5.02.06a.ii (530), 2.5.02.06c.i
(532), 2.5.02.08a.ii (540), 2.5.02.08b.ii (543), 2.5.02.09d (548),
2.5.03.02 (555), 2.5.04.02.i (557), 2.5.04.03 (560), 2.6.01.02.i (579),
2.6.01.03a (582), 2.6.01.04d (587), 2.6.01.04e (588), 2.6.02.02a (593),
2.6.02.02b (594), 2.6.02.02c (595), 2.6.03.02.i (597), 2.6.03.04a
(601), 2.6.03.04c (603), 2.6.03.04i (609), 2.6.03.07 (616), 2.6.04.02a
(622), 2.6.04.02c (624), 2.6.05.02.ii (629), 2.6.09.05c (646),
2.6.09.06 (647), 2.6.09.08 (650), 2.6.09.13a (652), 2.6.09.13c (654),
2.6.09.15a (655), C.2.6.09.07 (667), C.2.6.09.08a (668), 2.7.01.14
(700), 2.7.02.03a (703), 2.7.05.02.i (719), 2.7.06.03.i (726),
3.1.00.03 (735), 3.2.00.01e (744), 3.2.00.05 (752), 3.2.00.07 (756),
3.2.00.09 (758), 3.3.00.02a.i.b (761), 3.3.00.05b (785), 3.3.00.05c
(786), 3.3.00.07aa (789), 3.3.00.07ab (790), 3.3.00.07ac (791),
3.3.00.07ba (792), 3.3.00.07bb (793), 3.3.00.07bc (794), 3.3.00.07c.i.a
(795), 3.3.00.07c.i.b (796), 3.3.00.07c.ii.a (797), 3.3.00.07c.ii.b
(798), 3.3.00.07d.i (799), 3.3.00.07d.ii.a (800), 3.3.00.07d.ii.b
(801), 3.3.00.07d.ii.c (802), 3.3.00.07d.iii.a (803), 3.3.00.07d.iii.b
(804), 3.3.00.07d.iii.c (805), 3.3.00.08 (813), 3.3.00.14 (820),
3.3.00.16 (821), 3.3.00.17 (822), 3.5.00.01.i (823), 3.5.00.06 (831),
E.3.9.01.01.01 (845), E.3.9.03.00.02 (848), 2.2.05.09c (877), and
2.3.10.11a (878).
VEGP Unit 4 ITAAC
2.1.02.08d.v (36), 2.2.01.07.i (107), 2.2.01.11a.i (114)
2.2.03.09a.ii (202), 2.3.04.11 (338), 2.3.10.02a (431), 2.5.02.08b.i
(542), 3.2.00.02 (745), 3.3.00.02b (770), and 3.3.00.02f (774).
The ITAAC for VEGP Unit 3 are in Appendix C of the VEGP Unit 3
combined license (ADAMS Accession No. ML14100A106). The ITAAC for VEGP
Unit 4 are in Appendix C of the VEGP Unit 4 combined license (ADAMS
Accession No. ML14100A135).
II. Licensee ITAAC Post-Closure Notifications (IPCNs)
Since the last Federal Register notice of the NRC staff's
determinations of successful completion of inspections, tests, and
analyses for VEGP Units 3 and 4 (87 FR 5866; February 2, 2022), the NRC
staff has not made additional determinations of the successful
completion of inspections, tests, and analyses based on licensee IPCNs
submitted under 10 CFR 52.99(c)(2).
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III. NRC Staff Determination of Completion of ITAAC
The NRC staff has determined that the specified inspections, tests,
and analyses have been successfully completed, and that the specified
acceptance criteria are met. The documentation of the NRC staff's
determination is in the ITAAC Closure Verification Evaluation Form
(VEF) for each ITAAC. The VEF is a form that represents the NRC staff's
structured process for reviewing ICNs and IPCNs.
Each ICN presents a narrative description of how the ITAAC was
completed. The NRC's ICN review process involves a determination on
whether, among other things: (1) each ICN provides sufficient
information, including a summary of the methodology used to perform the
ITAAC, to demonstrate that the inspections, tests, and analyses have
been successfully completed; (2) each ICN provides sufficient
information to demonstrate that the acceptance criteria of the ITAAC
are met; and (3) any NRC inspections for the ITAAC have been completed
and any ITAAC findings associated with that ITAAC have been closed. The
NRC's review process for IPCNs is similar to that for ICNs but focuses
on how the licensee addressed the new, material information giving rise
to the IPCN.
The NRC staff's determination of the successful completion of these
ITAAC for VEGP Unit 3 is final because the NRC has found pursuant to 10
CFR 52.103(g) that the acceptance criteria in the VEGP Unit 3 combined
license are met (87 FR 48201; August 8, 2022). As such, the licensee is
allowed to operate VEGP Unit 3 in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the license. In accordance with 10 CFR 52.103(h), the
ITAAC in the VEGP Unit 3 licensee no longer constitute regulatory
requirements.
The NRC staff's determination of the successful completion of these
ITAAC for VEGP Unit 4 is based on information available at this time
and is subject to the licensee's ability to maintain the condition that
the acceptance criteria are met. If the NRC staff receives new
information that suggests the NRC staff's determination on any of these
ITAAC is incorrect, then the NRC staff will determine whether to reopen
that ITAAC (including withdrawing the NRC staff's determination on that
ITAAC). The NRC staff's determination will be used to support a
subsequent finding, pursuant to 10 CFR 52.103(g), at the end of
construction that all acceptance criteria in the combined license are
met. The ITAAC closure process is not finalized for these ITAAC until
the NRC makes an affirmative finding under 10 CFR 52.103(g). Any future
updates to the status of these ITAAC can be found by selecting the link
``ITAAC Status Report'' on the NRC's website: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col-holder/vog4.html.
This notice fulfills the NRC staff's obligations under 10 CFR
52.99(e)(1) to publish a notice in the Federal Register of the NRC
staff's determination of the successful completion of inspections,
tests, and analyses.
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 3, Docket No. 5200025
A complete list of the review status for VEGP Unit 3 ITAAC,
including the submission date and ADAMS accession number for each ICN
and IPCN received, the ADAMS accession number for each VEF, and the
ADAMS accession numbers for the inspection reports associated with
these specific ITAAC can be found by selecting the link ``ITAAC Status
Report'' at the NRC's website https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col-holder/vog3.html.
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 4, Docket No. 5200026
A complete list of the review status for VEGP Unit 4 ITAAC,
including the submission date and ADAMS accession number for each ICN
and IPCN received, the ADAMS accession number for each VEF, and the
ADAMS accession numbers for the inspection reports associated with
these specific ITAAC, can be found by selecting the link ``ITAAC Status
Report'' at the NRC's website https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col-holder/vog4.html.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Victor E. Hall,
Chief, Vogtle Project Office, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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