05000387/FIN-2010002-01
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| Title | Licensee-Identified Violation |
| Description | In June 2007, PPL Susquehanna management informed NRC resident inspectors that they had identified an issue where an individual had falsified entries in a weld rod oven temperature log. The NRC Office of Investigations (01) Investigation (Report 1-2008- 031) initiated on March 7, 2008, at PPL\'s Susquehanna Steam Electric Station (SSES). The purpose of the investigation was to determine if a SSES Operations Support Clerk (OSC) deliberately falsified weld rod oven temperature verification logs between June 8, 2007, and February 1, 2008. Based on evidence developed during the 01 investigation, the NRC concluded that the SSES OSC deliberately falsified the Weld Rod Oven Temperature Logs for four dates, specifically, January 29, 2008, through February 1, 2008. The creation of a false record material to the NRC constituted a violation of 10 CFR 50.9. Because the licensee is responsible for the actions of its employees, and because the violation was willful, the violation of 10 CFR 50.9 was evaluated under the NRC traditional enforcement process as set forth in Section IV.AA of the NRC Enforcement Policy. The NRC considered that the violation, absent willfulness, would be of minor safety significance because subsequent evaluation by PPL of the oven temperature recorders (separate from the logs) determined that the temperatures for this time frame were all satisfactory for the issuance of weld rods. However, the NRC increased the significance of the violation to Severity Level IV because the violation involved a deliberate act. The NRC considered issuance of a Notice of Violation for this issue. However, after considering the factors set forth in Section VI.A.1 of the Enforcement Policy, the NRC determined that although the violation was willful, a non-cited violation (NCV) was appropriate in this case because: (1) PPL identified the violation; (2) the violation inVOlved the acts of a non-supervisory individual who was not a licensee official in the context of the NRC Enforcement Policy; (3) the violation resulted from the isolated actions of a single individual without management involvement; and, (4) PPL took significant remedial action. The NRC also recognized that PPL did identify this issue on January 28, 2008, during a QA audit of the SSES Tool Room. As such, this violation was characterized as a licensee-identified, SLiV NCV of 10 CFR 50.9. Because it is a licensee-identified issue, it will not be entered into the Plant Issues Matrix; and in accordance with NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0305, \"Plant Assessment\" was not directly considered in the plant assessment process. (EA-09-006 |
| Site: | Susquehanna  |
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| Report | IR 05000387/2010002 Section 4OA7 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2010 (2010Q1) |
| Type: | TEV: Severity level IV |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | Licensee-identified |
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| Inspectors (proximate) | L Scholl P Kaufman J Furia A Rosebrook F Arner T Burns A Patel P Finney J Bream P Krohn E Burket |
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Finding List (Susquehanna) @ 2010Q1
Self-Identified List (Susquehanna)
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