IR 05000354/1986027
| ML20210H860 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 09/17/1986 |
| From: | Ebneter S NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Corbin McNeil Public Service Enterprise Group |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8609260346 | |
| Download: ML20210H860 (2) | |
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i s SEP 171986 Docket No. 50-354 Public Service Electric & Gas Company ATTN: Mr. C. A. McNeill, Jr.
Vice President - Nuclear Post Office Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey 08038 Gentlemen: l Subject: Inspection 50-354/86-27
This refers to your letter dated August 8,1986, in response to our letter dated July 9, 1986.
i Thank you for informing us of the corrective and preventive actions documented . in your letter. These actions will be examined during a future inspection of your licensed program.
Your cooperation with us is appreciated.
Sincerely, Oridd JacquoP' # Stewart D. Ebneter, Director Division of Reactor Safety cc w/ enc 1: P. R. H. Landrieu, Vice Pre dent - Engineering (Newark) R. S. Salvesen, General Manager, Hope Creek Operations A. E. Giardino, Manager, Station Quality Assurance R. L. Mitt 1, General Manager, Nuclear Assurance and Regulation W. H. Hirst, Manager, Joint Generation Projects Department, Atlantic Electric Company L. A. Reiter, General Manager - Licensing and Reliability , Rebecca A. Green, Bureau of Radiation Protection Public Document Room (PDR) local Public Document Room (LPDR) Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC) NRC Resident Inspector ' -[[ State of New Jersey -
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Public Service Electnc and Gas Cornpany P.O. Box 236.Hancocks Bndge.NJ 08038 609 339-4800 Vice President - Nuc! ear August 8, 1986 NLR-N86100 U.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region I 631 Park Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19406 Attention: Dr. Thomas E. Murley, Administrator Office of Inspection and Enforcement Gentlemen: NRC INSPECTION REPORT.#86-27 ' DOCKET NO. 50-354 HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G)~ is in receipt of your letter dated July 9, 1986, which transmitted a Notice of violation concerning a failure to comply with Technical Specification requirements.
Pursuant to the provisions of 10CFR2.201, our response to the Notice of Violation is provided in Attachment 1.
Inspection Report No. 50-354/86-27 requested that we include, in our reply to the violation, an assessment of those actions taken in response to a Quality Assurance Corrective Action Request (CAR) dated April 25, 1986.
This CAR identified essentially the same concerns as the above Notice of Violation.
Response to the CAR involved protracted dialogue between OA and the affected department, requiring two time extensions to complete.
On June 23, 1986, the Station Quality Assurance Department found the reply to the CAR, whic.h contained the immediate and long term corrective actions listed in Attachment 1, to be satisfactory.
OA verification of these actions was completed on July 30, 1986.
Additionally, your letter included a request that we describe our efforts to improve the timeliness of our Quality Assurance Corrective Actions.
The backlog of unanswered Quality Action Requests, which reached 36 items by the end of April, 1986, developed due to individual station departments tracking their own responses to OA requests.
This fragmented approach, compounded by the demands of our startup program, allowed the extent of the backlog to escape the attention of station management.
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8/8/86 . To focus specific, increased management attention on Ouality Action Requests, station manacement, in early May, 198 6, began tracking all OA requests on one data base.
Any outstandino requests are highlighted at weekly station management meetinas.
Presently, there are only three outstandino reauests for which an initial response has not been made.
This increased manacement attention will be continued to ensure timely responses to all Ouality Action Recuests.
Sincerely, , Attachment C Of fice of Inspection and Enforcement Division of Reactor Construction Inspection Washington, DC 20555 NRC Resident Inspector . P.O.
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_. ~ .. . . ATTACHMENT 1 ~ 10 CFR 2.201 INFORMATION - PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION RESPONSE TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION Your letter dated July 9, 1986, identified one Violation of plant Technical Specification 6.8.2.
As stated therein, the Violation involved the use of temporary procedures to perform surveillance tests which were not fully approved prior to use.
Additionally, since these temporary procedures were handled as ON-THE-SPOT Changes (OSC), the Operations Department failed to complete the post change review within 14 days as specified in Technical Specification 6.8.3.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY DOES NOT DISPUTE THE VIOLATION.
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THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE VIOLATION STEMMED PROM AN INCORRECT INTERPRETATION BY THE OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT OF REVISION 3 OF PROCEDURE SA-AP.ZZ-Q32(0), " REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF STATION PROC ED URES". , THE ROOT CAUSE WHICH LED TO EXCEEDING THE 14 DAY PERIOD FOR OSC POST CHANGE REVIEWS WAS THE LACK OF PROPER ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL IN TRACKING THE INITIATION, REVIEW, AND FINAL J APPROVAL OF OSC'S.
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IMMEDIATE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS: a) As noted in the inspection report, the practice of issuing temporary procedures as OSC's was immediately terminated.
All temporary procedures initiated since 5/21/86 have undergone the complete review and approval process.
b) Since 5/24/86, the Station Qualified Reviewer (SQR) review has been performed on all af fected temporary procedures that were initiated prior to 5/21/86.
As a result of this review, no surveillance procedures needed to be redone.
c) The method of tracking OSC's was thoroughly reviewed and improved to ensure any OSC would enter the post change review cycle within several days of initiation.
To date, this program revision has been effective.
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LONG TERM CORRECTIVE ACTIONS: a) Station procedure SA-AP.ZZ-032(Q) Revision 5 was approved on 7/8/86 and distributed on 7/11/86 clearly defining the
usage of temporary procedures and OSC's.
b) On 7/21/86, a memo pertaining to the usage of Temporary Procedures and OSC's in accordance with SA-AP.ZZ-032(Q), ! Revision 5, was placed in the Hope Creek Operations l Required Reading Book to be read by all licensed operators.
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FULL COMPLIANCE WAS ACHIEVED ON 7/21/86.
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