IR 05000321/1987005

Insp Repts 50-321/87-05 & 50-366/87-05 on 870217-20.No Violations or Deviations Noted.Major Areas Inspected: Licensee Actions on Previous Enforcement Matters & Identified Insp Findings

ML20205P528
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	03/18/1987
From:	Belisle G, Moore L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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ML20205P501	List: IR 05000321/1987005 ML20205P498
References
50-321-87-05, 50-321-87-5, 50-366-87-05, 50-366-87-5, NUDOCS 8704030302
Download: ML20205P528 (5)

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Report Nos. 50-312/87-05 and 50-366/87-05 Licensee: Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 4545 Atlanta, GA 30302 Docket Nos.: 50-321 and 50-366 License Nos.: DPR-57 and NPF-5 Facility Name: Hatch 1 and 2 Inspection Conducted: February 17-20, 1987 -

Inspector:S' b S//7 97 L. R. Modre ' ~ Dhte 'Sigrfed Accompanying Personnel: K. Jury Approved by:

G. A.'Belisle, Chief

<I44 3//8/87 Date Signed Quality Assurance Programs Section Division of Reactor Safety SUMMARY Scope: This routine, unannounced inspection was in the areas of licensee actions on previous enforcement matters and licensee actions on previously identified inspection finding Results: No violations or deviations were identifie PDR ADOCK 05000321 G PDR

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REPORT DETAILS Persons Contacted Licensee Employees

• L. Adams, Nuclear Security Supervisor G. Barker, Operations Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Superintendent

• G. Creighton, Procedure Specialist, Nuclear Safety and Compliance

• R. Dedrickson, Assistant to the Vice-President

• T. Elton, Engineering Supervisor, Nuclear Safety and Compliance

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• P. Fornel, Maintenance Manager

• 0.Fraser,QualityAssurance(QA)SiteManager(Acting)

C. Fuller, Engineer, Procedures Upgrade Program R. Glisson, Engineering Supervisor

• R. Godby, Operations Maintenance Superintendent

• M. Googe, Outages and Planning Manager

• Kirkley, Supervisor, Health Physics / Chemistry Engineering

• T. Moore, Training and Emergency Preparedness Manager

• D. Mothena, Emergency Preparedness Specialist

• H. Nix, Plant Manager

• T. Powers, Manager of Engineering D. Read, Plant Support Manager

• R. Reddick, Emergency Preparedness Specialist

• L. Sumner, Manager of Operations

• S. Tipps, Manager, Nuclear Safety and Compliance

• A. Vent, Procedures Upgrade Program Manager Other licensee employees contacted included engineers, technicians, and office personne NRC Resident Inspectors

• P. Holmes-Ray

• G. Nejfelt

• Attended exit interview Exit Interview The inspection scope and findings were summarized on February 20, 1987, with those persons indicated in paragraph 1 above. The inspector described the areas inspected and discussed in detail the inspection findings. No dissenting coments were received from the licensee. The licensee did not identify as proprietary any of the materials provided to or reviewed by the inspectors during this inspectio ._ _ __ - . - - , _ ._ _ - _ _ . . _ - . .

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l Licensee Action on Previous Enforcement Matters

.' (Closed) Severity Level V Violation 321/85-12-01: Failure to Comply With Unit 1 Surveillance Test Frequencie The licensee's response dated June 28, 1985, was considered acceptable by Region II. Surveillance frequencies between two consecutive tests are no longer scheduled in a period greater than

. the 125 percent interval required by the Technical Specifications (TS). Procedure 40AC-Reg-001-05, Technical Specifications Surveil-lance Program, has been revised to adjust the surveillance interval between tests with the minus 25 percent, deleted. Any surveillance tests performed early are now rescheduled on the exact due date (per TS interval), with the grace period of 25 percent of the interval scheduled as the late date. The inspector reviewed the master schedule for surveillance testing and concluded that the implementation appears to be effective. The inspector concluded that the licensee had determined the full extent of the violation, taken action to correct current conditions, and developed corrective actions needed to preclude recurrence of similar programs. Corrective actions stated in the licensee response have been implemented, (0 pen) Severity Level IV Violation 321, 366/85-12-02: Inadequate Calibration Procedures in the Maintenance Tool Shop The licensee's response dated June 28, 1985, was. considered acceptable by Region II. The following procedures were reviewed to verify the licensee's corrective action:

52-CP-CAL-003-05 Revision 2, Crimping Tool Calibration 50-CP-CAL-004-0N Revision 1, Belt Tensioner Calibration 52-CP-CAL-005-05, Revision-1, Calibration Check On Precision Measuring Equipment

, 52-CP-TOL-001-05 Revision 0, Torque Wrench Testing The violation identified the following inadequacies in the licensee M&TE calibration instructions:

(1) Environmental requirements (2) Step-by-step instructions (3) Specific acceptance criteri The licensee's response dated June 28, 1985, stated the licensee would review and assess all maintenance and administrative calibration procedures for environmental controls, step-by-step instructions, and acceptance criteria and those procedures requiring changes would be revised by December 13, 1985. The environmental requirement issue was discussed with the licensee, and it appeared that environ-mental requirements for those calibrations done at the site may not be necessary for certain mechanical measuring and test (M&TE)

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equipmen This was due to the relatively insignificant potential for error introduced due to environmental changes in the calibration shop as compared to the potential error introduced due to environ-mental conditions for field use of equipmen This part of this violation will be resolved upon review by the NRC of an engineering evaluation / justification detailing why proceduralized environmental controls are not essential for on site calibration The inspector's review of the previously listed procedures indicated that adequate step-by-step instructions were being utilized, however, the utilization of acceptance criteria / tolerance bands was inconsistent. The licensee. appeared to have generally completed the designated corrective action of reviewing and assessing the administrative and maintenance calibration procedures and additionally revising a number of these procedures. The inspector did not identify as safety significant those issues of environmental requirements and acceptance criteria although this item remains open until they are more fully resolve . Unresolved Items Unresolved items were not identified during this inspection.

,. Licensee Actions On Previously Identified Inspection Findings (92701) (0 pen) Inspector Followup Item 321-366/85-12-03: Promptness of Evaluations of Out-of-Tolerance Measuring and Test. Equipment (M&TE).

This item identified the lack of timeliness of evaluations of I out-of-tolerance M&TE and specifically cited the programmatic lack of '

a time constraint for these evaluations. The inspector initiating this item stated that the one to three month interval frequently required was untimely with respect to the potential for an unidentified limiting condition for operation (LCO) to be entered as a result of an unevaluated out-of-tolerance condition. Establishment of a 90 day time constraint by the licensee appears to be a poor response to an NRC initiativ Review of evaluations performed over the previous four quarters indicated that even this lengthy time constraint was not consistently met. There appeared to be three i major reasons for this inability to complete evaluations in a timely manner:

(1) Lack of an adequate tracking mechanism for out-of-tolerance i evaluation (2) Linking the evaluation completion with the corrective action completio (3) Lack of escalation action specified for the evaluations exceeding the 90 day limi l

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The inspector stressed the importance of a timely evaluation in readily identifying potential LC0 conditions as separate from the completed corrective actions. In linking completion of evaluations and corrective actions it was unclear whether the evaluations were performed in a timely manner. Until the program and its implementation are corrected regarding the previously identified items, this finding will remain ope b. (0 pen) Inspector Followup Item 85-12-04: Method of Verifying Validity of Previous Test Results for Out-of-Tolerance M&TE This finding identified that the procedure for acceptance of previous usage of out-of-tolerance equipment for the Instrumentation and Control (I&C) and the maintenance M&TE shops was inconsisten The I&C procedure required three consecutive valid calibration checks of the out-of-tolerance instrument's previous usage to determine validity of previous usage. The maintenance policy was to require one chec The initiating inspector stated thM these procedures should be consistent and should include a requirement that the three consecutive checks be in the scale and/or range of the identified tolerance error. The I&C procedure was corrected to comply with the inspector's identified concerns, however, the maintenance M&TE procedure did not fully address these and remains inconsisten Until the licensee corrects this identified weakness or demonstrates justification that this consecutive range / scale item is not applicable to maintenance M&TE, this finding will remain ope c. (0 pen) Inspector Followup Item 84-46-01: Vendor Manual Contro This item identified inadequate vendor manual control and was initially identified by the licensee as Quality Assurance finding QA-84-PC-2/156 in September 1984, and again by the NRC as IFI 85-10-03. The item required ~ extensive program and implementation I corrective action which has recently been completed by the Operations Departmen The programmatic corrective action reviewed by the inspector appeared adequate. The item was awaiting implementation review by the licensee QA staff and determination of readiness for ,

NRC review. Until this action is complete and reviewed by the NRC, l the item will remain ope I i

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