IR 05000324/2003001

Annual Assessment Letter - Brunswick Steam Electric Plant (Report 50-325-03-001 & 50-324-03-001)

ML030650412
Person / Time
Site:	Brunswick
Issue date:	03/04/2003
From:	Fredrickson P NRC/RGN-II/DRP/RPB4
To:	Keenan J Carolina Power & Light Co
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ML030650408	List: IR 05000324/2003001 ML030650420
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rch 4, 2003

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT (REPORT 50-325/03-01 AND 50-324/03-01)

Dear Mr. Keenan:

On February 5, 2003, the NRC staff completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant. The end-of-cycle review for Brunswick involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2002.

The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections which may conflict with your plant activities.

Overall, Brunswick operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only baseline inspections at your facility through March 31, 2004, as well as inspections of your Unit 2 power uprate activities.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through March 31, 2004.

The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature.

The inspections in the last six months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review meeting.

As you are aware, since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the NRC has issued several orders and threat advisories to enhance security capabilities and improve guard force readiness. We have conducted inspections to review your implementation of these requirements and have monitored your actions in response to changing threat conditions.

For 2003, we plan to continue these inspections, conduct portions of the security baseline inspection program, as well as perform additional inspections to evaluate your

CP&L 2 compliance with new requirements that may be ordered. Based on our final determinations in this regard, we will notify you of any inspection plan changes.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at 404-562-4530 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Paul E. Fredrickson, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 4 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-325, 50-324 Licensee Nos. DPR-71, DPR-62 Enclosure: Brunswick Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl: (See page 3)

CP&L 3 cc w/encl: Peggy Force C. J. Gannon, Director Assistant Attorney General Site Operations State of North Carolina Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Carolina Power & Light Electronic Mail Distribution Chairman of the North Carolina Utilities Commission W. C. Noll c/o Sam Watson, Staff Attorney Plant Manager Electronic Mail Distribution Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Carolina Power & Light Company Robert P. Gruber Electronic Mail Distribution Executive Director Public Staff NCUC James W. Holt, Manager 4326 Mail Service Center Performance Evaluation and Raleigh, NC 27699-4326 Regulatory Affairs CPB 7 Carolina Power & Light Company Public Service Commission Electronic Mail Distribution State of South Carolina P. O. Box 11649 Edward T. ONeil, Manager Columbia, SC 29211 Support Services Carolina Power & Light Company Donald E. Warren Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Brunswick County Board of Electronic Mail Distribution Commissioners P. O. Box 249 Licensing Supervisor Bolivia, NC 28422 Carolina Power and Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Dan E. Summers Emergency Management Coordinator Steven R. Carr New Hanover County Department of Associate General Counsel - Legal Dept. Emergency Management Progress Energy Service Company - LLC P. O. Box 1525 P.O. Box 1551 Wilmington, NC 28402 Raleigh, NC 27602-1551 Institute of Nuclear Power Operations John H. ONeill, Jr. 700 Galleria Parkway Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Atlanta, GA 30339-5957 2300 N. Street, NW Washington, DC 20037-1128 Distribution w/encl: (See page 4)

Beverly Hall, Acting Director Division of Radiation Protection N. C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Electronic Mail Distribution

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