The licensee-identified a violation of
10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI for the licensees failure to assure that
conditions adverse to quality, such as deficiencies, and nonconformances are promptly identified and corrected. Specifically, the licensee failed to take timely corrective actions to address an extensive backlog of
EQ information releases which resulted in not meeting their environmental qualification program and the
10CFR 50.49 auditability requirements. Contrary to this requirement, since January of 2010, the licensee failed to take prompt and appropriate corrective actions to evaluate and correct an extensive backlog of EQIRs, which resulted in 81 of the licensees 99 required Environmental Qualification equipment files not being updated to reflect the as-installed specifications and configuration of
EQ equipment. The licensee entered this issue into their corrective action program as PERs 238931 and 624137. The finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green) using Attachment 4 to
IMC 0609,
Significance Determination Process, because the incomplete corrective actions did not result in an actual loss of safety function.
