B16154, Forwards Plan & Program for Employee Concerns Re Dispositioning Safety Issues

Forwards Plan & Program for Employee Concerns Re Dispositioning Safety Issues

ML20134G950
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Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	01/31/1997
From:	Goebel D NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY CO., NORTHEAST UTILITIES SERVICE CO.
To:	Miraglia F NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
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l Norther.st  % mm . Hy rerry ad.. weierrord, CT i Utilities System r.o.nox128 Waterford, CT 06385-0128 (203) 447-1791 ,

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Docket Nos. 50-245 50-336 1 50-423 B16154 i

F. J. Miraglia, Acting Director

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 l

l Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit Nos.1,2, and 3

Comorehensive Plan for Reviewino and Dispositionina Safety Concems By Order dated October 24,1996, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission required, among other things, that Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (NNECO), within i CO days, develop, submit for NRC review, and begin to implement a comprehensive plan for (a) review /ing and dispositioning safety issues raised by employees and (b) ensuring that employees who raise safety concems are not j subject to discrimination. Our letter dated December 20,1996, noted that an i Employee Concems Task Force (ECTF) had been formed to develop the comprehensive plan and requested an additional 30 days to finalize their work Our letter dated January 22, 1997 noted that NU senior management was j evaluating a report submitted by the ECTF containing recommendations for a '

comprehensive plan and requested an extension to submit and begin implementation of the comprehensive plan to no later than February 4,1997.

We have since completed our evaluation of the ECTF report and finalized '

NNECO's comprehensive plan (the Plan). This letter transmits the Plan for your review.

Attachment 2, " Northeast Utilities Plan for Addressing Employee Concems,"

provides the Plan as required by the Order. The Plan consists of the following six interdependent elements:

• A commitment to rebuilding employee, regulatory and public trust; A

. A new Employee Concems Program; 9702110o94 97o131 PDR ADOCK 0500o245 i

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l . Specific organizational, policy, and procedure changes;

) e Training and orientation to provide specific skills to reinforce healthy relationships between management and employees;

• A list of Action items and assignment of responsibility for implementation;

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• Creation of a Concems Oversight Panel.

j This plan supersedes all our earlier concems programs. It also should be noted i that while the order required a plan to review and disposition safety issues j raised by employees, our plan is designed to review and disposition any issue

an employee might raise regardless of the issue's nature. Further, the Plan should be reviewed in light of our established line processes to repod and j disposition issues.

The order stated that the comprehensive plan shall address the root causes of

past performance failures as described in NU's July 12, 1996, Report of the i Fundamental Cause Assessment Team (FCAT)and the NRC's September 1996

. report of Millstone Independent Review Group (MIRG), with the objective of

meeting a goal of achieving a safety-conscious environment. A matrix contained i

within the plan identifies the root causes from each of these reports, an objective for improvement, and the Action items which address them. l 1 Also provided as Attachment 3 to this letter is the " Employee Concems Task j Force Team Report." This report, submitted to the President of NNECO by the l ECTF, includes recommendaticas for the comprehensive plan and specific j recommendations for implementing parts of the plan.

, Elements of the Plan have begun to be incorporated into the day to day I operations at Millstone Station. Implementation of the Plan represents a new commitment by NNECO management to take those steps which will result in employee concems being addressed in a comprehensive and fair manner. The j success of the plan will be apparent when management and employees work i together to resolve concems without fear of harassment, intimidation,

] discrimination or retaliation. As the work environment improves and line management assumes greater responsibility and accountability for resolving concems, elements of the Plan may be changed to recognize this fact.

Attachment 1 contains a list of NNECO's commitments made in this letter.

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U.S. Nuclear R;gul tory Commission B16154\ Peg 3 3 i Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this request.

1 Very truly yours '

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ORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANY  !

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David M. Goebel

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i Vice President - Nuclear Oversight Attachments (3)

{ cc: W. D. Travers, Dr., Director, Special Projects Office  !

H. J. Miller, Region I Administrator j

, P. F. McKee, Deputy Director of Licensing, Special Projects Office  ;

W. D. Lanning, Deputy Director, Special Projects Office  !

S Dembek, NRC Project Manager, Millstone Unit No.1 .

j D. G. Mcdonald, Jr., NRC Project Manager, Millstone Unit No. 2 I J. W. Andersen, NRC Project Manager, Millstone Unit No. 3 ,

T. A. Easlick, Senior Resident inspector, Millstone Unit No.1 I Senior Resident inspector, Millstone Unit No. 2 i

A. C. Cerne, Senior Resident inspector, Millstone Unit No. 3 Mr. H. L. Thompson, Executive Director for Operations

Nuclear Regulatory Commission One White Flint North  ;

11555 Rockville Pike

. Rockville, MD 20852-2738

Assistant General Counsel for  !

I Hearings and Enforcement U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 l Document Control Desk, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Corinecticut Nuclear Energy Advisory Council

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1 Attachment 1 l Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit Nos.1,2, 3 NNECO's Commitments January 1997

U. S. Nuclear Regulctory Commission ..

B16154%ttachment 1\Page 1 List of Regulatory Commitments The following table identifies those actions committed to by NNECO in this document. Any other actions discussed in the submittal represent intended or planned actions by NNECO. They are described to the NRC for the NRC's

-information and are not regulatory commitments. Please notify the Director -

l Nuclear Licensing at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station of any questions regarding this document or any associated regulatory commitments.

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i Commitment Committed Date or Outage B16154-1: Develop an Employee Concoms Program March 30,1997 Operating Procedure incorporating the elements identified in Action item #1 of the Plan.

l B16154-2: Develop an Employee Concems-specific March 30,1997 Human Resources Department Action Plan which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #2 of the Plan.

B16154-3: Establish a Concoms Oversight Panel which is March 30,1997 chartered and empowered to accomplish the elements identified in Action item #3 of the Plan.

B16154-4: Develop a sitewide Employee Concems- March 30,1997 specific Training Action Plan which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #4 of the Plan.

B16154-5: Develop for the president's signature an February 28,1997 Employee Concems-specific Actinn Plan which l incorporates the elements listed in Action item #5 of the Plan.

B16154 6: Develop for the President's signature an March 30,1997 Employee Concems-specific Action Plan addressed to all First Line Supervisors, Managers, and Directors, which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #6 of the Plan.  :

B16154-7: Develop for the President's signature and March 30,1997 promulgate an Employee Concems Policy Statement which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #7 of l the Plan.

B16154-8: Develop and Promulgate an Employee February 28,1997 Concems-specific Communications Action Plan which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #8 of the Plan. _ ,_

B16154-9: Develop an Employee Concems Program March 30,1997 Action Plan which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #9 of the Plan.

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission B16154%ttachment 1\Page 2 i i Commitment Committed Date or Outage B16154-10: Develop for the President's signature and March 30,1997  ;

promulgate an Employee Concems-specific Executive 4danagement Action Plan, which incorporates the elements listed in Action item #10 of the Plan. l i

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! Attachment 2 '

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Northeast Utilities Plan for Addressing Employee Concerns January 1997 1