05000327/FIN-2009007-01
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| Title | Falsifying Data |
| Description | During an NRC investigation conducted between February 20, 2008 and December 16, 2008, a violation of NRC requirements was identified. In accordance with the NRC Enforcement Policy, the violation is listed below: 10 CFR 50.9 (a) requires that information provided to the Commission by a licensee or information required by statute or by the Commissions regulations, orders, or license conditions to be maintained by the licensee shall be complete and accurate in all material respects. Technical Specification 6.8.1 requires procedures described in Appendix A of RG 1.33, Revision 2 to be established, implemented, and maintained. Paragraph 10 of Appendix A of RG 1.33 requires, in part, that chemical control procedures be written to prescribe the limitations on concentrations of agents that may cause corrosive attack or fouling of heat transfer surfaces and specify laboratory instructions and calibration of laboratory equipment. Licensee procedure SPP-5.3, Chemistry Control, Revision 5, implemented this requirement for all TVA nuclear facilities. Step 3.1.3 of procedure SPP-5.3 required Chemistry licensee personnel, including Chemistry Supervisors, to implement chemistry quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) programs. Appendix D of procedure SPP-5.3 described chemistry quality assurance, quality control and referenced procedure CHTP-109, Chemistry QA/QC, for the details. Step 4.2.3E of procedure CHTP-109 required that a known control standard check within the same concentration range as the instrument calibration range be performed along with each batch of samples and described a batch as less than or equal to 10 samples in a 12 hour1.388889e-4 days <br />0.00333 hours <br />1.984127e-5 weeks <br />4.566e-6 months <br /> period. Contrary to the above, on January 25, 2008, a Chemistry Shift Supervisor deliberately entered false data into the Chemistry Department internal laboratory statistics database. Specifically, on January 24, 2008, the licensee employee failed to perform the required QA/QC standard check for the evening shift, and the following day entered false data into the database. This information was material to the NRC in that the substance of the information is used to determine compliance with the Technical Specifications. The Chemistry Shift Supervisors deliberate entry of false data into the internal laboratory statistics database caused the licensee (TVA) to be in violation of 10 CFR 50.9 (a). This is a Severity Level IV violation. Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, TVA is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, DC 20555-0001 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region II, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facility that is the subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice |
| Site: | Sequoyah  |
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| Report | IR 05000327/2009007 Section 4OA5 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2008 (2008Q4) |
| Type: | TEV: Severity level IV |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | |
| Inspectors (proximate) | E Guthrie |
| Violation of: | Pending |
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