IR 05000321/2004005

Notice of Violation from Insp on 850321-0405.Violation Noted:Ventilation Duct Routed Between Cable Spreading Room & Process Instrument Room Fire Areas,Interconnecting Areas Where Redundant Power Cables Located

ML20127D547
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley, Hatch
Issue date:	06/18/1985
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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ML20127D533	List: IR 05000321/2004005 ML20127D528
References
50-334-85-11, NUDOCS 8506240262
Download: ML20127D547 (1)

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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Duquesne Light Company Docket No. 50-334 Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit 1 License No. DPR-66 As a result of the ins)ection conducted on March 21 thru April 5, 1985, and in ac-cordance with the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR 2, Appendix C) published in the Federal Register on March 8, 1984 (47 FR 8583), the following violation was iden-tified:

10 CFR 50, Appendix R, Section III.G, Fire Protection for Safe Shutdown Cap-ability, requires power cables of redundant trains of systems necessary to achieve and maintain hot shutdown conditions that are located in the same fire area outside the primary containment to be separated by a fire barrier having a3hourratingIsfreeoffiredamage.or dundant trains alternate The BVPSmeans be provided Fire Protection to ensure tha Assessment, dated June 30, 1982, requests na exemption in this area in complying with 10 CFR 50.48, Fire Protectio Contrary to the above, a ventilation duct was routed between the cable s) reading room and process instrument room fire areas, thereby interconnecting tie areas where the redundant emergency diesel generator power cables are located, without the designed fire wrap or dampers to provide a fire barrier with 3 hour3.472222e-5 days <br />8.333333e-4 hours <br />4.960317e-6 weeks <br />1.1415e-6 months <br /> fire rating separating the redundant cables. The emergency diesel systems are necessary to achieve and maintain hot shutdown condition This is a Severity Level IV Violation (Supplement I).

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Duqufsne Light Company is hereby re-quired to submit to this office within thirty days of'the date of the letter which transmitted this Notice, a written statement or explanation in re)ly, including (1) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results aclieved; (2) cor-rective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations; and (3) the date when full compliance will be achieved. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending this response tim ,8506240262 DR 05061o g ADOCK 0D000334 PUN