IR 05000354/2022006

Annual Assessment Letter for Hope Creek Generating Station (Report 05000354/2022006)

ML23058A087
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	03/01/2023
From:	Brice Bickett NRC/RGN-I/DORS
To:	Carr E Public Service Enterprise Group
References
IR 2022006
Download: ML23058A087 (1)

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March 1, 2023

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER FOR HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION (REPORT 05000354/2022006)

Dear Eric Carr:

The U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its end-of-cycle performance assessment of Hope Creek Generating Station (Hope Creek), reviewing performance indicators (PIs), inspection results, and enforcement actions from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. This letter informs you of the NRCs assessment of your facility during this period and its plans for future inspections at your facility. The NRC concluded that overall performance at your facility preserved public health and safety. The baseline inspection program was completed at your facility as defined in Inspection Manual Chapter 2515, Light-Water Reactor Inspection Program - Operations Phase.

The NRC determined the performance at Hope Creek during the most recent quarter was within the Licensee Response Column (Column 1) of the NRCs Reactor Oversight Process (ROP)

Action Matrix in Inspection Manual Chapter 0305, Operating Reactor Assessment Program, because all inspection findings had very low safety significance (i.e., Green), and all PIs were within the expected range (i.e., Green). Therefore, the NRC plans to conduct ROP baseline inspections at Hope Creek.

The enclosed inspection plan lists the inspections scheduled through December 31, 2024.

The NRC provides the inspection plan to allow for the resolution of any scheduling conflicts and personnel availability issues. Routine inspections performed by resident inspectors are not included in the inspection plan. The inspections listed during the last twelve months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised. The NRC will contact you as soon as possible to discuss changes to the inspection plan should circumstances warrant any changes.

In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the NRC adjusted inspection plans and schedules to safeguard the health and safety of both NRC and licensee staff while still effectively implementing the ROP. While the PHE continues, overall conditions throughout the country support performance of our inspection and oversight activities returning to normal onsite presence by our resident and region-based inspectors and completion of nominal baseline inspection samples. We continue to monitor site-specific conditions and, as discussed in our November 2, 2021, memo, Implementation of Inspection Programs Following Re-Entry from the Public Health Emergency for the Reactor Safety Program (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) ML21295A302), it may be necessary to alter how and when we perform our inspection and oversight activities as we balance the importance of protecting the health and safety of our staff with the need to conduct effective oversight that supports the NRCs critical safety mission.

For inspections requiring extensive coordination with offsite organizations, such as evaluated emergency preparedness exercises, NRC guidance and frequently asked questions for security and emergency preparedness can be found here: https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/covid-19/security-ep/. Similarly, the NRC has developed guidance if force-on-force inspections cannot be completed as scheduled due to an emergency, such as the COVID-19 PHE. These changes help ensure the health and safety of both NRC and licensee staff while maintaining the NRCs important safety and security mission during the COVID-19 PHE. The attached inspection plan is accurate on the date of issuance but remains subject to change based on approval of potential exemption requests or other changes needed due to changing conditions in the COVID-19 PHE. NRC staff will contact your appropriate regulatory affairs staff in order to coordinate inspection planning and scheduling.

In addition to baseline inspections, the NRC plans to conduct Inspection Procedure 71003, Post-Approval Site Inspection for License Renewal at your facility.

Beginning on January 1, 2023, the engineering inspection frequency will transition from a triennial (3-year) to a quadrennial (4-year) cycle. The new engineering inspection program will consist of a Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection (CETI) 1 and three Focused Engineering Inspections (FEIs) that will be performed in each quadrennial cycle. For the cycle beginning in 2023, the FEIs will be: Fire Protection Team Inspection, Commercial Grade Dedication, and an engineering inspection that reviews age-related degradation and management 2.

Aspects of the Design Basis Assurance Inspection (DBAI), Evaluations of Changes, Tests, & Experiments, and Heat Sink inspections will be included in the new CETI inspection. Previously scheduled Evaluation of Changes, Tests, & Experiments and Heat Sink inspections have been cancelled and removed from the attached Report 22.

The Age-Related Degradation procedure is publicly available and the NRC plans to implement the first inspection of this type beginning in July 2023. In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRCs website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Please contact me at (610) 337-5312 with any questions you have regarding this letter.

Sincerely, Digitally signed by Brice Brice A. A. Bickett Date: 2023.03.01 Bickett 08:23:10 -05'00'

Brice A. Bickett, Chief Projects Branch 3 Division of Operating Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 05000354 License Nos. NPF-57 Enclosure:

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ML23058A087 x Non-Sensitive x Publicly Available x SUNSI Review Sensitive Non-Publicly Available OFFICE RI/DORS RI/DORS NAME PFinney BBickett DATE 2/23/2023 2/27/2023

Site Inspection Activity Plan Hope Creek 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024 Unit Start End Activity CAC Title Staff Count FORCE-ON-FORCE PLANNING AND EXERCISE - SL/HC 4 1 2/27/2023 3/3/2023 IP 71130.03 000735 Contingency Response - Force-On-Force Testing 1 3/20/2023 3/24/2023 IP 71130.03 000735 Contingency Response - Force-On-Force Testing RP Rad Hazard Assess & Control 71124.01 1 1 3/6/2023 3/10/2023 IP 71124.01 000725 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls Commercial Grade Dedication - Hope Creek 3 1 3/13/2023 3/17/2023 IP 71111.21N.03 001808 Commercial Grade Dedication 1 3/27/2023 3/31/2023 IP 71111.21N.03 001808 Commercial Grade Dedication ISFSI Operational Inspection (60855) - HC 2 1 6/5/2023 6/9/2023 IP 60855 001001 Operation Of An ISFSI EP PROGRAM INSPECTION - HOPE CREEK 1 1 6/5/2023 6/9/2023 IP 71114.02 000717 Alert and Notification System Testing 1 6/5/2023 6/9/2023 IP 71114.03 000718 Emergency Response Organization Staffing and Augmentation System 1 6/5/2023 6/9/2023 IP 71114.04 000719 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 1 6/5/2023 6/9/2023 IP 71114.05 000720 Maintenance of Emergency Preparedness 1 6/5/2023 6/9/2023 IP 71151 001397 Performance Indicator Verification PI&R Team Inspection - HC 4 1 6/12/2023 6/16/2023 IP 71152B 000747 Problem Identification and Resolution 1 6/26/2023 6/30/2023 IP 71152B 000747 Problem Identification and Resolution RP Rad Instrumentation 71124.05 1 1 7/17/2023 7/21/2023 IP 71124.05 000729 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation RP Rad Waste Processing and Transportation 71124.08 1 1 9/4/2023 9/8/2023 IP 71124.08 000732 Radioactive Solid Waste Processing & Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, & Transportation Material Control and Accounting - Hope Creek 1 1 9/11/2023 9/15/2023 IP 71130.11 000742 Material Control and Accounting (MC&A)

Access Control, Equipment, Sec Trng, Sec Plan Review, PI-HC 3 1 9/18/2023 9/22/2023 IP 71130.02 000734 Access Control 1 9/18/2023 9/22/2023 IP 71130.04 000736 Equipment Performance, Testing, and Maintenance 1 9/18/2023 9/22/2023 IP 71130.07 000739 Security Training 1 9/18/2023 9/22/2023 IP 71130.09 001656 Security Plan Changes 1 9/18/2023 9/22/2023 IP 71151 001338 Performance Indicator Verification RP PI Verification IP71151 1 Prepared on 2/22/2023 8:16:38 AM 1 of 3

Site Inspection Activity Plan 1 11/27/2023 12/1/2023 IP 71151 000746 Performance Indicator Verification Access Auth, Fitness for Duty 2 1 2/5/2024 2/9/2024 IP 71130.01 000733 Access Authorization 1 2/5/2024 2/9/2024 IP 71130.08 000740 Fitness For Duty Program FY24 Hope Creek Initial License Exam 4 1 1/15/2024 1/19/2024 OV 000956 FB-OR-ONSITE VALIDATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION (OV)

1 2/12/2024 2/23/2024 EXAD 000500 FB-OR-INITIAL LICENSE EXAM ADMINISTRATION (EXAD)

License Renewal Phase 1 - Hope Creek 1 1 4/8/2024 4/12/2024 IP 71003 000687 Post-Approval Site Inspection for License Renewal Inservice Inspection - Hope Creek 1 1 4/8/2024 4/12/2024 IP 71111.08G 000701 Inservice Inspection Activities (BWR)

RP - 71124.01 Rad Hazards 1 1 4/22/2024 4/26/2024 IP 71124.01 000725 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls EP Exercise Inspection - Hope Creek 5 1 5/20/2024 5/24/2024 IP 71114.04 000719 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 1 5/20/2024 5/24/2024 IP 71114.07 000722 Exercise Evaluation - Hostile Action (HA) Event 1 5/20/2024 5/24/2024 IP 71151 001397 Performance Indicator Verification RP - 71124.03 Airborne and 71124.04 Dose 1 1 6/10/2024 6/14/2024 IP 71124.03 000727 In-Plant Airborne Radioactivity Control and Mitigation 1 6/10/2024 6/14/2024 IP 71124.04 000728 Occupational Dose Assessment Access Control, Equipment Testing and Maintenance, Training, SPR 3 1 8/26/2024 8/30/2024 IP 71130.02 000734 Access Control 1 8/26/2024 8/30/2024 IP 71130.04 000736 Equipment Performance, Testing, and Maintenance 1 8/26/2024 8/30/2024 IP 71130.07 000739 Security Training 1 8/26/2024 8/30/2024 IP 71130.09 001656 Security Plan Changes 1 8/26/2024 8/30/2024 IP 71151 001338 Performance Indicator Verification Cyber Security - Hope Creek 4 1 9/16/2024 9/20/2024 IP 71130.10 000741 Cybersecurity Hope Creek Requal Insp with P/F Results 1 1 10/7/2024 10/11/2024 IP 71111.11A 000703 Licensed Operator Requalification Program and Licensed Operator Performance 1 10/7/2024 10/11/2024 IP 71111.11B 000704 Licensed Operator Requalification Program and Licensed Operator Performance Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection - Hope Creek 7 1 11/18/2024 11/22/2024 IP 71111.21M 000713 Design Bases Assurance (DBA) Inspection 1 12/2/2024 12/6/2024 IP 71111.21M 000713 Design Bases Assurance (DBA) Inspection RP 71151 PI Verification 1 Prepared on 2/22/2023 8:16:38 AM 2 of 3

Site Inspection Activity Plan 1 12/9/2024 12/13/2024 IP 71151 000746 Performance Indicator Verification Prepared on 2/22/2023 8:16:38 AM 3 of 3