05000528/FIN-2010005-01
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| Title | Failure to Maintain Operator Licensing Examination Integrity |
| Description | The inspectors identified a noncited violation of 10 CFR 55.49, Integrity of Examinations and Tests, for the failure of the licensee to ensure that the integrity of an operating test administered to licensed operators was maintained. During the week of December 8, 2009, twenty-four licensed operators received three job performance measures and one additional licensed operator received five job performance measures for their operating tests that had been previously administered to other licensed operators in previous weeks. This failure resulted in a compromise of examination integrity because it exceeded the 50 percent overlap required by quality procedure LOCT-TPD-R56, Licensed Operator Continuing Training Program, Revision 56, for this portion of the examination, but did not lead to an actual effect on the equitable and consistent administration of the examination. This issue was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report Disposition Request 3527071. The failure of the licensees training staff to maintain the integrity of examinations administered to licensed operations personnel was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency is more than minor, and therefore a finding, because it adversely impacted the human performance attribute of the mitigating systems cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Additionally, if left uncorrected, the performance deficiency could have become more significant in that allowing licensed operators to return to the control room without valid demonstration of appropriate knowledge on the biennial examinations could be a precursor to a more significant event. Using Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 worksheets, and the corresponding Appendix I, Licensed Operator Requalification Significance Determination Process, the finding was determined to have very low safety significance (Green) because, although the - 3 - Enclosure finding resulted in a compromise of the integrity of operating test job performance measures and compensatory actions were not immediately taken when the compromise should have been discovered in 2009, the equitable and consistent administration of the test was not actually impacted by this compromise. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of human performance associated with the resources component because the licensee failed to ensure that procedures were accurately translated from industry standards such that the 50 percent maximum overlap was not exceeded H.2(c) |
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
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| Report | IR 05000528/2010005 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2010 (2010Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | K Clayton R Lantz C Smith S Graves M Young J Mateychick B Larson J Bashore M Baquera B Rice T Buchanan D Reinert |
| CCA | H.7, Documentation |
| INPO aspect | WP.3 |
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Finding List (Palo Verde) @ 2010Q4
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