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| Title | Licensee-Identified Violation |
| Description | 10 CFR 50.54(q) states, in part, that licensees may make changes to their emergency plans without Commission approval only if the changes do not decrease the effectiveness of the plans. Contrary to the above, on August 13, 2007, the licensee implemented a change to their emergency plan, specifically the Emergency Action Levels (EALs), which decreased the effectiveness of the approved plan. A note was added to an approved EAL (Notice of Unusual Event HU2), which would delay declaration of an Unusual Event for fires in containment under certain conditions. This decreased the effectiveness of the emergency plan. Since the violation affected the NRCs ability to perform its regulatory function, it was evaluated under traditional enforcement. The inspectors concluded that implementing this change was a Severity Level IV violation based on its similarity to the example in section 6.6(d) of the Enforcement Policy. The licensee took immediate actions to eliminate the note from the EAL and entered the issue in their corrective action program as CR 571572. |
| Site: | Farley  |
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| Report | IR 05000348/2013002 Section 4OA7 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2013 (2013Q1) |
| Type: | TEV: Severity level IV |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | Licensee-identified |
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| Inspectors (proximate) | J Rivera-Ortiz W Loo M Speck M Coursey T Chandler T Lighty J Sowa C Dykes T Su D Berkshire |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50.54 10 CFR 50.54(q) |
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Finding List (Farley) @ 2013Q1
Self-Identified List (Farley)
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