A finding of very low safety significance was identified for the licensees failure to adequately update the Update Safety Analysis Report (
USAR) in accordance to
10 CFR 50.71, Maintenance of Records, Making of Reports. The licensee failed to update the
USAR to fully reflect changes and analyses made in response to
NRC Generic Letter (GL) 96-06, Assurance of Equipment Operability and Containment Integrity During Design-Basis Accident Conditions. Once identified, the licensee entered this issue into their corrective action program. The primary cause of this violation was related to the cross-cutting area of Human Performance because the licensee failed to ensure that personnel, equipment, procedures, and other resources were available and adequate to assure nuclear safety. Specifically, the licensee failed to provide adequate engineering procedural guidance concerning the required content of
USAR updates. Because this issue potentially impacted the NRCs ability to perform its regulatory function, this finding was evaluated using the traditional enforcement process. The finding was determined to be more than minor because of the failure to provide complete licensing and design basis information in the
USAR could result in either the licensee making an inappropriate licensing interpretation or the NRC making an inappropriate regulatory decision based on incomplete information in the
USAR. The issue was of very low safety significance because no instances were identified where the failure to appropriately update the
USAR impeded or influenced a regulatory decision, or resulted in an actual loss of safety function. The issue was a
NCV of
10 CFR 50.71(e) which required that the
USAR be updated to include the effects of all analyses of new safety issues performed by or on behalf of the licensee at Commission request.
