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IEEE/PES
NPEC ADCOM Meeting Minutes
A15-01
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Flamingo Hotel
Las Vegas, NV
T. Koshy (Vice-Chair)
D. Harmon (Secretary)
Robert Konnik (SC-2 Chair) / T. Crawford (SC-3 Vice-chair)
K. Bush (SC-4 Chair)
D. Desaulniers (SC-5 Vice-Chair)
G. Hostetter (SC-6 Chair)
Guests: / J. White (Past SC-2 Chair)
M. Zaman (IEEE-SA) / G. Johnson (IEC/SC45A Chair)
J. Haasz (IEEE-SA)
1. Call to Order
NPEC Chair, Steve Fleger, called the meeting to order at approximately 12:20PM (MST) and welcomed the NPEC ADCOM members and guests.
A quorum was established with 8 out of 10 members (80%) in attendance or represented (50% of the voting members are required to constitute a quorum). Tom Crawford attended for Yvonne Williams. George Ballassi (Past-chair) and Paul Yanosy (Standards coordinator) were unable to attend.
2. Introductions, Changes to ADCOM Agenda S. Fleger
2.1 Approval of Agenda and Chairman’s Remarks
The chair entertained a motion to approve Rev. 2 of the draft agenda. The motion was made and seconded. The agenda was unanimously approved.
3. Secretary’s Report D. Harmon
3.1 Review and Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
a. The minutes of the A14-02 ADCOM meeting, as amended with D. Herrell’s comments were reviewed. The draft minutes had been distributed prior to the meeting. A motion to approve the minutes was made and seconded.
8 Affirmative Votes, 0 Negative votes, and 0-Abstained votes. The minutes were approved as amended.
b. The meeting fee for the ADCOM meeting was fixed at $50 and NPEC meeting was fixed at $120.
3.2 Status of Action Items
The following status of open action items from the previous meeting were reviewed as follows:
A-13-2-1 No update; still open
A-13-2-3 A letter was sent stating that there were no errors in IEEE 603 or IEEE 308 being written and that IEEE would not intervene in licensing issues related to allowing Non-class 1E diesel generators for passive plant designs. This was concluded at the 14-02 meeting. A final letter will be sent to F. Baxter. The action item is still open and reassigned from G. Ballassi to K. Bush.
A-14-1-4 Not resolved; still open.
A-14-2-1 Will be performed routinely. Reassigned to D. Harmon from T. Koshy.
See updated action Items list at the end of the meeting minutes. This includes 5 items added during the A15-01 meeting.
4. Vice Chairman’s Report T. Koshy
4.1 After a significant number of suggestions and discussion the following locations for the next four NPEC meetings were identified:
15-02 Salt Lake City UT
16-01 Clearwater FL
16-02 Denver CO or Portland OR
17-01 New Orleans LA or Atlanta GA
Dates for the next meeting will be confirmed ASAP by the vice-chair. Selection of meeting locations for the 16-02 and 17-01 meetings will be confirmed after the vice-chair explores the cost of the competing locations (thus hoping to avoid the high meeting costs found in Las Vegas).
4.2 Honors & Awards S. Fleger
There were no awards or honors to be presented at this NPEC meeting. Mark Bowman is now responsible for the NPEC awards and honors. He will prepare a tutorial for the members on eligibility for such recognition and the applicable procedures and processes. NPEC members are encouraged to submit nominations for awards or honors. It was noted that there are awards for past-chairs and lifetime achievement.
5. Planning & Management S. Fleger
5.1 Review of Agenda N15-01 Meeting
The NPEC agenda, as distributed prior to the meeting, was reviewed and left unchanged.
There was a brief discussion regarding finding a new NPEC web coordinator to replace J. MacDonald. Mark Bowman previously expressed interest but will not be able to take on this effort. K. Bush expressed interest and agreed to talk to J. MacDonald. J. MacDonald will be asked to remove Ed Wenzinger as the Technical Sessions Chair from the website and to remove the Secretary Elect position from the NPEC P&P manual.
6. Nuclear Standards Activities
6.1 PARS
IEEE 384 The PAR for the revision to this standard was presented by K. Bush. One comment to add titles for IEEE 603 and IEEE 308 was made. The PAR will be amended to include the titles. The PAR was approved unanimously as amended.
PAR for a new standard titled “Standard Criteria for Combustion Turbine Generator Units Applied as Standby Power Supplies for Nuclear Power Generating Stations” was presented by K. Bush. The PAR was passed unanimously.
6.2 Status of Standards D. Harmon
In the absence of P. Yanosy, D. Harmon presented the standard status. Based on the inputs from Sub Committee chairs, an update to the standards status was provided to Paul Yanosy shortly after the meeting. The status included the status of PARs.
7. Unfinished/Old/Other Business: S. Fleger
7.1 O&P revision to Include simple majority vote at SC level to advance a standard to preview
There is a current effort to change the NPEC O&P manual to a two-thirds vote, rather than the current three-quarters vote, being required for moving a standard forward for NPEC preview. SC2 brought an issue to ADCOM requesting that this be changed to a simple majority rather than two-thirds. After some discussion Action Item 15-1-5 was created and assigned to the NPEC Chair (see table at end of the meeting minutes).
8. New Business:
8.1 Technical Council Retreat S. Fleger
The chair attended the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Technical Council retreat. There was a significant restructuring of committees within IEEE PES. This resulted in renaming several committees, combining coordinating committees and forming one new committee. Four committees were folded into other existing or new committees. There are now a total of 18 technical and coordinating committees in PES. There was no impact to NPEC by any of these changes.
8.2 NPEC Definitions Task Force S. Fleger
This task force was established during the 14-02 NPEC meeting. George Ballassi has circulated a spreadsheet with comments. Current standards are primarily aimed at Generation 3 plants with little focus on Generation 4 or 5 plants. NPEC needs a method to deal with this issue. There is a need to work with other societies and determine definitions established by other societies. NPEC needs to adopt and use a consistent terminology lexicon, to include terms such as Class 1E, safety related, etc. This is especially important as we interface with IEC to develop harmonized and dual logo international standards. There is a suggestion to correlate all these terms and identify gaps in order to determine how best to change terminology. Action Item 15-1-2 was established to track this issue (see table at end of the meeting minutes).
8.3 IEEE/IAEA Practical Arrangements M. Zaman
M. Zaman provided an update on IEEE/IAEA cooperation. She also indicated that there is a new IEEE policy coming out called Public Review. It will establish a 60 day process related to comments from a purchaser of a standard. There will be a presentation of this policy at the 15-02 NPEC meeting.
8.4 NESCC S. Fleger
The chairman attended the November meeting of the Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC) in Washington, D.C. He reported that they are looking for an IEEE representative for the ASME/ANS Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management. They have also requested NPEC participation in their meetings. The chairman noted that NPEC members have worked with and been supportive of various NESCC initiatives in the past (e.g., Electrical Cable Task Group). The chair will serve as a point of contact for future discussions with this group on I&C standards.
8.5 IEC/IEEE Domain
The revision to IEEE 497 is being previewed for ballot at the NPEC 15-01 meeting and is being developed to become a joint logo standard with IEC. To address concerns from the IEC regarding use of IEEE standards, Working Group 6.1 decided to include two “domains” of standards in the normative references section, one set being consistent with IEEE standards and the other set being consistent with IEC standards. SC 5 expressed concern related to the use of these two domains. G. Hostetter, the SC 6 chair, indicated that the word “domain” has been removed during this meeting based on comments and the following statement has added to Clause 2: “This standard can be used with either the IEC or IEEE normative references but the references shall not be mixed”. Regarding the concern that using two sets of references sets a precedence it was noted that other standards had been seen that used a similar approach to using two sets of standards.
SC 5 also expressed concern that IEEE 1023 was in both the normative references and the Bibliography. G. Hostetter indicated that it would be removed from one of the sections before IEEE 497 is balloted. Finally SC 5 expressed concern regarding clause 8.1.2 because it included the reference to IEC 60964 for human factors guidance. IEEE does not endorse that human factors standard. G. Hostetter indicated that the working group will consider removing citations to human factors standards from that clause.
8.6 IEEE/IEC Std 344
R. Konnik reported that since things are going well with the harmonization of IEEE 323 and IEC 60780, the next target will be the harmonization of IEEE 344 and IEC 60980. SC2 will support this project and begin work by writing a PAR early this year. Jim Parello will be the project lead for IEEE.
9. Recap of Action Items D. Harmon
The action items resulting from this meeting, as provided in the table below were reviewed.
10. Adjournment S. Fleger
Having conducted all business a motion to adjourn the meeting was made and seconded. The ADCOM (A15-01) meeting was adjourned with unanimous consent at approximately 6:30 p.m. (MST)
ADCOM Open Action Items (from Meeting A15-01)
To / Description / Due / Status /
A-13-2-1 / G. Ballassi / Chair (G. Ballassi) to identify/appoint a Technical Sessions Coordinator. / ASAP / Open
A-13-2-3 / K. Bush / SC 2,4 & 6 Chairs to investigate outcome of subcommittee investigation/position concerning Class 1E requirements of IEEE Std. 603 on auxiliary DGs. / ASAP / Open
A-14-1-4 / SC-4 & 6 / Collaborate on potential changes to Standards 308 and 384 based on the Westinghouse letter for beyond design bases events. / ASAP / Open
A-14-2-1 / D. Harmon / Provide the list of action items to ADCOM members in a separate email to focus more attention on it. / Routinely / Open
A-15-1-1 / J. White
G. Johnson / Document lessons learned in developing joint logo standards with IEC to assist future efforts. / 7/2015 / Open
A-15-1-2 / Task Force / Provide a statement of the problem and scope of effort regarding safety system terminology (what words need to be defined) / 7/2015 / Open
A-15-1-3 / G. Hostetter / Restore WG 6.2 “Safety Classification”. Identify volunteers for the working group. / 7/2015 / Open
A-15-1-4 / S. Fleger / Issue letters from NPEC formally requesting IEEE liaison with ANS and ASME. / 7/2015 / Open
A-15-1-5 / S. Fleger / Explore subsequent revision of NPEC O&P manual to remove the requirement for a three-quarters vote to allow moving a standard forward from a subcommittee. / 7/2015 / Open
NPEC SC Officers Effective 15-01
NPEC Subcommittee / Position / NamesSC-2 / Chair / Robert Konnik
Vice-Chair
Secretary / Edward Mohtashemi
Alt. Secretary / ---
SC-3 / Chair / Yvonne Williams
Vice-Chair / Tom Crawford
Secretary / Joe Napper
Alt. Secretary / ---
SC-4 / Chair / Keith Bush
Vice-Chair / Mark Bowman
Secretary / Ken Miller
Alt. Secretary / Paul Colaianni
SC-5 / Chair / David Desaulniers
Vice-Chair / Christopher Kerr
Secretary / Robert Fuld
Alt. Secretary / Steve Fleger
SC-6 / Chair / Greg Hostetter
Vice-Chair / Royce Beacom
Secretary / Wolfgang Koenig
Alt. Secretary / ---
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