IR 05000333/1988025

Ack Receipt of Util Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-333/88-25. Understands That Inadequate Info Available During Insp to Establish Harsh Environ Qualification of Cable Splice

ML20247M928
Person / Time
Site:	FitzPatrick
Issue date:	03/28/1989
From:	Martin T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Fernandez W POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (NEW YORK
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NUDOCS 8904060162
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Docket No. 50-333-Power Authority of the State of New York j

James.A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant ATTN: W. Fernandez Resident-Manager P. O. Box 41-Lycoming, New York 13093 Gentlemen:

Subject: Inspection 50-333/88-25-This refers to your letter dated December-13, 1988, in response to our letter dated November 21, 198 On . February 25, 1989 and March 1, 1989 my staff held telephone conversations with Messrs. D. Ruddy and K. Moody of your staff to discuss the objection to the subject violation. :From these discussions, we understand.that at the time-of the inspection there was in dequate information to establish harsh. environ-ment qualification of the tape-wrap cable splice configuration at the FitzPatrick site. The data known to support qualification of the subject.tapt-wrap splice

'is for.a-splice with two half-lapped layers of inner red tape and two half-lapped-layers of outer black. When requested, your staff was unable to provide data to support the envire.nental qualification, in accordance with the 10 CFR 50.49 requirement, for a cable splice configuration with only the red tape. Therefore, the deficiency does represent a violation of 10.CFR 50.49 Equipment Qualification

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requirements as stated in the original Notice of Violatio Thank you for informing us of the corrective and preventive actions documented in your lette These actions will be examined during a future inspection of your licensed progra Your cooperation with us is appreciate

Sincerely, Original Signed By:

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. Gerald C. Goldstein, Assistant General Counsel R. E. Beedle, Vice President Nuclear Support S. S Zulla, Vice President. Nuclear Engineering R. Burns, Vice President Nuclear Operation Dept..of Public Service, State of New York State'of New York, Department of Law Licensing Project Manager, NRR

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JAFP 88-1086 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Station P1-137 Washington, D. C. 20555 Attention: Document Control Desk Subject: James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant Docket No. 50-333 Intspection No. 88-25 Reference: (1) NRC Inspection Report No. 50-333/88-25 Dated November 21, 1988 Gentlemen:

As identified and requested by reference (1), the Authority submits the response to Appendix A, Notice of Violatio Notice of Violation As a result of the inspection conducted on October 11-14, 1988, and in accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C (Enforcement Policy)

(1988), the following violation was identiiied:

10 CFR 50.49 paragraphs (f) and (j), respectively, require that (1)

each item of electric equipment important to safety shall be qualified by testing and/or analysis of identical or similar equipment, and the qualification based on similarity shall include a supporting analysis to show that equipment to be qualified is acceptable; and, (2) a record of the qualification shall be maintained in an auditable form to permit verification that each item of electrical equipment important to safety is qualified and that the equipment meets the specified performance requirements under postulated environmental condition Contrary to the above on October 14, the NRC inspectors identified Okonite cable splices in Limitorque operator No. 12 MOV-15, that were not qualified in that they were installed in a condition that was not similar to the qualified configuration. Specifically, the installed half-lapped layers of the tape splice were 1/8-1/4 inc This is substantially less than the 3/8-1/2 inch half-lapped layer required to be in accordance with the qualified configuratio This is a level IV Violation. Supplement ~VhlllboS$ yp i - - - - - - - - - - _

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To: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission December 13, 1988 j From: Radford J. Converse JAFP 88-1086

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Subj ect: JAFNPP/50-333/NRCI 88-25 Page 2 Response to Violation The Authority does not agree with this violation. As presented November 29, 1988, at a meeting in the NRC Region 1 offices, the identified Okonite cable splice should not be an environmental qualification (EQ)

concern. The function of the outer black tape, which was observed to have improper overlap, is to provide abrasion protection. Electrical insulation capability is provided by an inner red tape which was applied satisfactorily to meet EQ concerns. Records of the qualification program which confirm this are available at the FitzPatrick sit The identified cable splice was not exactly in accordance with a plant procedure which specifies how this type of splice is to be performe The root cause of the improper splice was that the contract electrician who performed the splice was not properly trained in the implementation l of the governing procedur This type of splice is normally performed i by Authority permanent electricians who have been properly trained. The training program is being upgraded to ensure contract electricians are properly trained in this type of splice. Secondary causes of this event were the difficulty of making the splice properly in close quarters wearing protective clothing (including two pairs of rubber gloves) and inadequate QC inspectio A review was conducted to identify additional splices of this type that were performed during the refuel outage and to independently inspect a sample of them for proper compliance. No problems were identifie Very truly yours,

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