IR 05000334/1987008

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-334/87-08OL

ML20236H566
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	10/28/1987
From:	Gallo R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Sieber J DUQUESNE LIGHT CO.
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Docket No. 50-334 License'No'. DPR-66 ' l Duquesne Light Company L: -ATTN: Mr. J.'D. Sieber VicejPresident Nuclear

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i Subject: Inspection No. 50-334/87-08 (OL)

l This. refers to your-letter dated. September 14, 1987,.in' response to our lette ' dated July 24, 1987.

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Thank you for informing us of.the corrective actions documented in your lette >

'These actions will be. examined during :a future inspection of your

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obert M. Gallo, Chief Operations Branch Division of. Reactor Safety

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H. M. Siegel, Manager, Nuclear Engineering Department C, E. Ewing, QA Manager W. S. Lacey, Plant Manager  ;

R.:Druga, Manager, Technical Services R. Martin, Manager, Regulatory Af fairs J. Crockett, Senior Manager of Nuclear Operations

N R. Tonet, Manager, Nuclear Engineering & Construction Unit Public Document Room (POR)

Local Public Document Room (LPDR)

- Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC)

NRC Resident Inspector-Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Docket-No. 50-334,~ License;No. DPR-66 Report No.. 50-334/87-08 (OL) 4 Requalification Program Evaluation Report Gentlemen

'This letter responds to .the Requalification Program Evaluation:

Report No. . 50-334/87-08 (OL) dated July!24, 198 This report .

requested our response identifying the root cause of the  !

requalification examination failure rate experienced and submissio of a-plan forfimplementing corrective action The basis for the conclusions in Report 87-08 (OL)'was an NRC" i

' administered written and operating examination in which 9 of 12 l licensed personnel. failed to receive passing' grades on the NRC j administered written examination and 2 of 12 operators failed.to j receive passing grades on-the NRC administered (practical) operating ]

examination.' ;It was en-the basis of these' examination results that j the NRC concluded that the BVPS operator requalification. training i

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program was unsatisfactory per the criteria of NUREG 1021, chapter ES-601, paragraph'F.1. An exit meeting was held at the BVPS site on May 22, 1987 to discuss the preliminary evaluation of the result Duquesne Light Company provided comments on the examination'and answer key.by letter dated May 22, 198 Subsequent to that exit meeting, copies of the graded written examinations were provided to us for our review, analysis and the development of our corrective action Duquesne Light Company conducted its own analysis of the written ,

examination and submitted copies of the examination to our requalification training contractor, ETC Corporation and its j subcontractor, Focus Corporation for independent analysis of the '

examination. Our findings and the analysis and findings of our ,

contractors were presented to the NRC staff at a meeting requested by j Duquesne Light Company at NRC Region I headquarters at King of a Prussia, Pennsylvania on July 22, 198 Duquesne Light Company Q provided documentation of our analysis and findings regarding the NRC examination by letter dated July 28, 198 (

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(ff l ~InsummaryIwe;believethat'the.Writtenexamination' administered during?the:. week of May.18, 1987 was sufficiently flawed so as to i

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. introduce uncertainty as:to-its-validity for determining;he qualit .of the'BVPS operator.requalification training program??Becauselof

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this, the testJresults'could not'be adequately reduced to isolate ~ ..U

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analysis of the written : test, either ~ as interpreted bysus or 'byfusing' 4 C

the; staff's interpretation', did:notrrevealmadrootzcausetor2causessforp e thebiargCnumberyof x f al.luresf onithelwrittenYexaminatidiF? This < agrees with the NRC staff's" conclusion stated _on Page 6_of the MRC

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Requalification; Program Evaluation Report No. 87-08.(OL). .

, , '.. :We are convknced that performance on the examination was' effected by the quality'of-the examination-itsel We also believe that the

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construction of1high quality examinations for'all ofLthe reactor /

s sites ~in RegioniI is a formidable task and that, if; improvement in f'

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.the examination' process is to be~ achieved,' such improvement'will only comeLabout:by the close cooperation of licensees with'the NR _

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QugumaMi_ght ComRany is willing to increase ita-efforts to improve Examination cuality_4n Loffers_to_become= involved lin a coordinated eTfort with the_ _NRC to __ achieve- improved examinatioILquali_ty.~N~ ' _

Y Tollowing corrective actions, while primarily designed to: improve the requalification program, may enhance the quality'of' examinations if'

the results of these activities are merged into the examination ,

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CORRECTIVE ACTIONS s,

. Identified;weaknessestaddressedRintReport@l-082('otiKwhich'

consideredtvalidiperfgraance_hasedEdeficioncies1willtbegaddresuc re[h Qduringathe;n4Rtsrequalificationgcycl _,

/. We will revise-the format of the BVPS License Requalification ,

Program to reflect the subject areas as defined in PWR *

Catalog (NUREG 1122) and as verified by the BVPS Job and Tas Analysis. This effort will produce a JTA verified plant specific K.A. catalog for BVPS. This plant specific K.A. catalog will be used r

to developi @srning: objectives.?which!wil1*be+useda

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to developcorarevisenlesson!plansf:stuaentuhaindout7 materials and

'"6xaminationequestionsa This effort will be performed coincident with the next two training cycles. The two year training program consists of ten (10) modules and the plant specific K.A. catalog will be divided into ten (10) sections corresponding to the ten (10) modules. The new completed K.A. catalog will be completed at the end of the two year training program. We will provide the new K.A. catalog to the NRC for use in examination development when complete ___ _ _ _ _ _ - _ - - _ - - _ _ _ _-

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