Severity Level IV. The inspectors identified a finding having very low safety significance and an associated
NCV of
10 CFR 50.59, \\\"Changes, Tests, and Experiments,\\\" for a failure to seek a license amendment. Specifically, when Setpoint Change 96-012 involving the low suction pressure trip of the
auxiliary feedwater pumps was implemented, no safety evaluation was performed. When the evaluation was performed in December 2006 the licensee failed to evaluate known deficiencies. Because violations of
10 CFR 50.59 are considered to be violations that potentially impede or impact the regulatory process, they are dispositioned using the traditional enforcement process instead of the
significance determination process. The performance deficiency met Supplement I.D.5, \\\"Violations of
10 CFR 50.59 that result in conditions evaluated as having very low safety significance by the
SDP,\\\" for a
Severity Level IV Violation. (Section 4OA5.4)
