ELV-00594, Provides Addl Info Re Proposed Changes to QA Program,Per NRC Request.Program of Audits Required by Tech Specs & FSAR Not Being Changed by Reduction in Personnel

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Provides Addl Info Re Proposed Changes to QA Program,Per NRC Request.Program of Audits Required by Tech Specs & FSAR Not Being Changed by Reduction in Personnel
ML20244B789
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Site: Vogtle  Southern Nuclear icon.png
Issue date: 06/08/1989
From: Hairston W
GEORGIA POWER CO.
To:
NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
ELV-00594, ELV-594, NUDOCS 8906130291
Download: ML20244B789 (2)


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, . ELV-00594 1473n June 8, 1989 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: bocument Control Desk Washi".gton, D. C. 20555 PLANT V0GTLE - UNITS 1, 2 NRC DOCKETS 50-424, 50-425 OPERATING LICENSES NPF-68, NPF-8i QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRNi Gentlemen:

The following information is provided in resporse to NRC questions regarding proposed changes in the staffing of the VEGP SAER department as described in Chapter 17.2 of the FSAR.

Q.1. 110w has the audit program been changed to permit the reduction of audit personnel from approximately 10 for one unit operation to approximately 8 for 2 unit operation?

The program of audits required by lechnical Specifications and the FSAR is not being changed by the reduction in personnel. Technical Specifications and the FSAR currently require performance of 24 audits per year. In actual practice, the site SAER group has 59 audits scheduled for 1989. This number is consistent with past years and will continue to be supported af ter the reduction in staffing.

Our manpower analysis has shown that one auditor can perfonn approximately 10 audits per year. The audit program described above can be fully implemented by the staff size being proposed.

Certain other activities in which SAER was involved are being eliminated. Site SAER personnel were assigned to round the clock coverage of unit 2 startup testing activities. Now that unit 2 startup testing is cwplete, this shift coverage is no longer necessary. Site SAER personnel have also conducted a program of observations of plant activities. This program is being eliminated as a responsibility of site SAER personnel since it is a redundant respcasibility of the plant's Independent Safety Engineering Group (ISEG).

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l U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ELV-00594 Page Two Q.2. Are SAER audits " performance based" as addressed in NUREG/CR-5151?

1 Although VEGP is not committed to NUREG/CR-5151, the site SAER audit program incorporates the elements described by the NUREG. The current and past audits are evidence of the performance based l emphasis of our audit program. This emphasis has been noted as a particular strength of the VEGP audit program in NRC Inspection Report No. 50-424/87-69 dated February 11, 1988. Most of the '

personnel in the department have completed training in performance

  • ased auditing techniques and it is our intention to continue this emphasis.

Sincerely, W. G. Hairston, III PDR/gm xc: Georgia Power Company Mr. C. K. McCoy Mr. G. Bockhold, Jr.

Mr. M. Sheibani Mr. J. P. Kane NORMS U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mr. S. D. Ebneter, Regional Administrator Mr. J. B. Hopkins, Licensing Project Manager, NRR Mr. J. F. Rogge, Sentor Resident Inspector, Vogtle

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