IR 05000354/1998302

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-354/98-302 Issued on 990226.Response Indicates That Licensee Corrected Violation & Initiated Measures to Prevent Recurrence

ML20205N211
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	04/09/1999
From:	Conte R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Keiser H Public Service Enterprise Group
References
50-354-98-302, NUDOCS 9904160186
Download: ML20205N211 (3)

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April 9, 1999

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NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-354/98-302 (REPLY)

Dear Mr. Keiser This letter refers to your March 25,1999, correspondence, in response to our February 26, 1999, letter.

Thank you for informing us of the corrective and preventive actions for the Notice of Violation, documented in your letter. The Notice of Violation was cited for failing to maintain records documenting the participation of each licensed operator and sen!or operator in the requalification program. The root cause was inadequate oversight and nonadherence to training procedures when a new database system was instituted. We also noted that you reviewed the Salem records, and found no significant problems.

Your response to the violation indicated that you have corrected the violation and have initiated measures to prevent recurrence. Your response to the violation will be examined during a future s

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Your cooperation with us is appreciated.

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Sincerely, ORIGINAL SIGNED BY-Richard J. Conte, Chief Human Performance and Emergency Preparedness Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-354 100081 h

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e Pubke Service Electne and Gas Company Louis F. Storz Public Service Electnc and Gas Company P.O. Box 236, Hancocks Budge. NJ 08038 609-339 5700 Senor Vee President Nuclear Operatons Ilmta5899 LR-N990111 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 REPLY TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION EXAMINATION REPORT 354/98-302 HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION DOCKET NO. 50-354 Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) provides the attached information in response to the Notice of Violation issued on February 26,1999, in Hope Creek Examination Report 50-354/98-302.

If you have any questions concerning the above information, please contact Brian Thomas at 609-339-2022.

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ATTACHMENT REPLY TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION LR-N990111 During an NRC inspection conducted from November 24,1998 through December 4, 1998, the following violation of NRC requirements was identified as described below:

10 CFR 55.59(a)(5)(i) requires, in part, that the facility licensee shall maintain records documenting the participation of each licensed operator and senior operator in the requalification program.

Contrary to the above, from March 1998 through November 1998, the facility licensee failed to maintain records for five operators documenting their participation in the requalification program. Specifically, the facility licensee was missing training attendance records for five operators on mandatory requalification program training classes.

This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I).

RESPONSE:

PSE&G concurs with the violation.

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The reason for the violation.

The reason for the failure to maintain records for the five operators in the requalification progrsm is attributed to the following:

Less than adequate Training Management Oversight concerning records

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program implementation and resource control. Training Management did not provide proper os arsight of treining records processing since record transmittal was allowed to consistently extend beyond the 7-day requirement contained in the procedures. Training Management also failed to increase supervision sufficiently to preclude record retention anomalies during implementation of training records retention using new SAP database.

Failure to submit the training records package for processing within seven

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business days of course completion contrary to the ' Nuclear Training Records' procedure.

Inadequate implementation of new SAP database for training records.

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ATTACHMENT REPLY TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION LR-N990111 (2)

The corrective steps that have been taken.

A. Hope Creek Licensed Operator Training completed a full audit of the 1998 j

requalification training records. The Hope Creek Licensed Operator Training Staff I

took immediate actions to have all licerised operators make up any training for which records were missing. The outstanding records for requalification training were then reissued. This activity was completed prior to the end of the 24 month ficensed operator requalification training cycle, i

B. A review of the 1998 Salem Licensed Operator requalification training records was performed and no significant problems were identified.

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C. The Operations Training Instructors qualification process has been revised to include SAP database orientation for documenting training records.

D. The expectation that a records review will occur after each segment of operations requalification training and this review be :onducted by the cognizant training supervisor has been promulgated by Operations Training Management.

E. Appropriate personnelinvolved with the administration and oversight of the Hope Creek operations training records processing were held accountable for their inappropriate actions in accordance with PSE&G policies.

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The corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations.

A. Training will be provided to the Operations Training Instructors and Training Management personnel involved in the processing of training records by June 1, 1999. This training will include a review of regulations governing training records, internal requirements and guidance concerning training records, and SAP computer training related to training record processing.

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The date when full compliance will be achieved.

Fu!! compliance was achieved by December 31,1998, when the outstanding training records for requalification training were issued. This action was completed prior to the

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