IR 05000267/1987028
| ML20149E747 | |
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| Site: | Fort Saint Vrain  |
| Issue date: | 01/08/1988 |
| From: | Callan L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Robert Williams PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF COLORADO |
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| NUDOCS 8801140008 | |
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| Download: ML20149E747 (2) | |
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{{#Wiki_filter:. c ", 4 - -. 'JAN 8 1988 . ' In Reply Refer To: Docket: 50-267/87-28 Public Service Company of Colorado ATTN: Robert 0. Williams, Jr.
Vice President, Nuclear Operations 2420 W. 26th Avenue, Suite 15c Denver, Colorado 80211 Gentlemen: Thank you for your letter of December 14, 1987, in response to our letter and Notice of Deviation dated November 12, 1987. We have reviewed your reply and fird it responsive to the concerns raised in our Notice of Deviation. We will review the implementation of your-corrective actions during a futJre inspection to determine that full compliance has been achieved and will be maintained.
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, Unit No. 1 vce Pnescesi P-87434 me AR OPcRATIONS U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, D.C.
20555 Docket No. 50-267 $UBJECT: RESPONSE TO INSPECTION 87-28, NOTICE OF DEVIATION REFERENCE: (1) NRC LETTER, CALLAN TO WILLIAMS, DATED 11/12/87 (G-87400) (2) PSC LETTER, WILLIAMS TO MARTIN, DATED 08/29/86 (P-86535) Gentleaen: Public Service Company of Colcrado (PSC) is hereby submitting written statements and explanations in response to the Notice of Deviation (Appendix A of Reference (1)) and presented in Inspection 87-28.
If you have any questions or concerns pertaining to the information contained within the attachment to this letter, please centact Mr. M.
H. Holmes at (303) 480-6950.
Sincerely s ' .s R. O. Williams, Jr.
Vice President, Nuclear Operations R0W/oje cc: Regional Administrator, Region IV ATTN: Mr. T.F. Westerman, Chief Project Branch B (2 copies) Mr. Robert E. Farrell K "anior Resident inspecter h Fort St. Vrain N i (/ Td 7_,9 M_1fc 6 g\\q Y /o.
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. . ... *,: ' [[' a # ' ' Attachment to P-87434-1-December'14, 1987
NOTICE OF DEVIATION j NRC Inspeciion 87-28 Failure to Staff the Forward Command Post Within Time Commitment
i Paragraph 6.1~ of the Fort -St.
Vrain Radiological Emergency.
Response Plan (RERP) states, in part, "For ALERT level
. . . accidents, onsite and offsite emergency response facilities will, in all-cases, be manned and activated." The minimum staffing for
onsite and offsite emergency response facilities outside of the ~ , control room are specified in. RERP Implementing Procedures
RERP-TSC, RERP-PCC, and RERP-FCP.
The licensee's correspondence l providing staffing and augmentation commitments to the NRC, dated ! August 28, 1980, and April 8 and December 7, 1981, state that the
staffing of emergency response facilities to meet the goals.and- .; criteria of Table B-1 of NUREG-0654 (also Table 2 of-Supplement i No. I to NUREG-0737) will be accomplished in 90 minutes.
In deviation from the above, on October 8, 1987, an NRC inspector { determined from interviews and licensee maintained records and ! logs that the Personnel Control Center (operational support
center) and Forward Command Post (emergency operations facility) had not been staffed and activated' in accordance with the licensee's RERP and procedures in 90 minutes following the declaration of an Alert classification on October 3, 1987.
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The reason for the deviation, if admitted.
Due to several key factors which led to the inability to contact all f qualified members of the emergency organization, the Personnel - Control Center (PCC) and Forward Comand Post (FCP) were not fully staffed and activated within the required 90 minutes following the declaration of an Alert. These key factors have been recognized to be the following: a.- Fire damage to the onsite telecomunications system caused a thirteen minute delay following the classification to , initiate the emergency paging system, b.
Fire damage to the onsite telecommunications system resulted l in no method being available to determine the paging ' response of the emergency organization, via the emergency call-back system, c.
Several key members of the emergency organization either did not have the paging device located nearby, their paging device was inoperable, or their paging device was not heard, d.
Several key staffing positions have limited depth in qualified personnel posing a potential for not being able to meet the minimum staffing requirements if all personnel are not contacted.
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The corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved, a.
PSC Telecomunications Division has researched and purchased a higher grade telecomunications cable which replaced the cable onsite destroyed by fire.
This new cable can withstand more severe temperatures and environmental conditions.
This upgraded replacement will help reduce the possibility of a reoccurrence of this comunication system failure.
This cable was replaced on December 12, 1987.
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Several potential modifications to the emergency call-back system are in the process of. being analyzed for cost benefit.
These modifications could include addition of more incoming lines to the rotary receiving system, dedicated links from Denver to the Fort St. Vrain site, reprogramming of-the conversion program to identify who has not responded to the page rather than the current program which identifies who has responded, and dedicated location and assignment of duties to the call-back system to include manual call out capabilities.
' c.- All members of the emergency organization who carry the-paging devices were reminded via a corporate memo about the importance of keeping the devices operational and keeping them within hearing distance at all possible times.
PSC Telecommunications Division personnel are determining if a modification can be made to transmit multiple signals of an emergency page, thus increasing the possibility of all pager wearers to hear any emergency page.
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All senior nuclear management personnel are identifying additional personnel whom they feel could qualify in various RERP positions to increase the depth in the emergency organization. Those selected will be trained in accordance with FSV procedures.
To date, several selections have been completed and reouests for training initiated.
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The corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further deviations, a.
The emergency call-back system will be evaluated and upgraded. The onsite Security Force will be used to assist in identifying those individuals who have not responded to an emergency page and initiate manual call-outs, b.
The emergency staffing levels will be increased to a minimum of three qualified individuals in each key position within-the critical emergency response facilities,-including the Control Room (CR), Technical Support Center (TSC), Personnel Control Center (PCC), and the Forward Command Post (FCP).
This increase requires selection, training, and final qualification of various personrel within the PSC organization, c.
As previously identified in the PSC letter to the NRC, dated 08/29/86 (Reference 2) on page 18 of Attachment A, PSC will implement a surveillance system to routinely test the emergency paging system and associated call-back system once the systems are fully implemented.
This process will involve production of a surveillance test procedure, reviews, approvals, and final implementation.
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Date when full compli,ance will be achieved, a.
The revisior3 to, installation-and testing of, and appropriate training of the emergency call-back system will be completed by June 1,1988.
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The training of additional personnel to achieve a three deep minimum at the critical emergency response facilities will be completed by June 1,1988.
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The implementation of a surveillance test to routinely test t the effectiveness of the emergency paging and call-back systems will be completed by June 30, 1988.
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