IR 05000382/1992026

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-382/92-26

ML20128E147
Person / Time
Site:	Waterford
Issue date:	02/01/1993
From:	Beach A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Barkhurst R ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC.
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NUDOCS 9302100324
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Ross P. Barkhurst, Vice President Operations, Waterford P.O. Box B Killona, Louisiana 70066 Gentlemen:

SUBJECT:

NRC INSPECTION REPORT NO. 50-382/92-26 Thank you for your letter of January 15, 1993, in response to our letter and Notice of Violation dated December 16, 1992. We have reviewed your reply and find it responsive to the concerns raised in our Notice of Violation. We

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inspection to determine that full compliance has been achieved and will be maintained.

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ATTN: -Donald C. Hintz, President

& Chief Operating Officer P.O. Box 31995 Jackson, Mississippi 39286 Entergy Operations, Inc.

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D. F. Packer, General Manager Plant Operations P.O. Box B Killona, Louisiana 70066 Entergy Operations, Inc.

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L. W. Laughlin Licensing Manager P.O. Box B Killona, Louisiana 70066 Chairman Louisiana Public Service Commission One American Place, Suite 1630 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70825-1697 Entergy Operations, Inc.

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R. F. Burski, Director Nuclear Safety P.O. Box B Killona, Louisiana 70066 Hall Bohlinger, Administrator Radiation Protection Division P.O. Box 82135 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70884-2135 Parish President St. Charles Parish P.O. Box 302 Hahnville, Louisiana 70057 Mr. William A. Cross Bethesda Licensing Office 3 Metro Center Suite 610 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Winston & Strawn ATTN: Nicholas S. Reynolds Esq.

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January 15, 1993 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission A11N Document Control Desk Washington, D.C. 20555 t

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Waterford 3 SES Docket No. 50-382 License No. NPF-38 NRC Inspection Report 92-26 Reply to Notice of Violation Gentlemen:

In accordance with 10CfR2.201, Entergy Operations, Inc. hereby submits in Attachment I the response to the violation identified in Appendix A of the subject inspection Report.

If you have any questions concerning this response, please contact B.R. Loetzerich at (504) 739-6636.

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RESPONSE (1)

Reason for the Violation Entergy Operations, Inc. admits this violation and believes that two different root causes existed for tha examples listed in the cited violation.

The root cause of the first example, involving an incident in the control room on October 25, 1992, is an inadequate procedure in that UNT-007-003, " Control of Consumable Materials," exempts the control room as a Consumable Material Control Area (CMCA).

It is believed that this condition resulted in the incorrect application of a consumable material on a control room panel, causing damage to the control panel switches.

The root cause of the second example, involving the November, 1992, discoveries of unapproved consumables in CMCAs, is inappropriate action in that personnel did not adhere to the requirements of UNT-007-003.

UNT-007-003 states that plant personnel are responsible for ensuring that consumable materials introduced into a CMCA are approved in the Pl ut Consumable Materials Report and are labelled accordingly, or are accompanied by authorized Consumable Materials Exception forms.

However, this was not done.

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Corrective Steps That Have Been Taken and the Results Achieved On October 25, 1992, Condition Identification No. 283138 was generated to replace the damaged control panel switches and an Operational Experience Report was generated to alert other operating shifts of this event.

By October 30, 1992, the knobs and covers of the damaged control switches had been replaced and the switches could operate freely. On November 6, 1992, additional control panels were inspected for damaged switches.

The inspection involved a 50 percent sampling of certain control panels (l.CP-48, CP-1, CP-2, CP-4, CP-13, CP-14, CP-18, and CP-33) and a 100 percent sampling of other control panels (LCP-43, EDG-A and EDG B).

No damaged switches were ideifified.

Additional corrective actions taken as a result of the damaged control panel switches included the issuance of Standing Instruction (SI) 92-!1 and Significance Occurrence Report (SOR)92-019. 51 92-11 was issued to identify th2 approved cleaner for cleaning the exterior surfaces of control panels.

SOR 92-019 was issued to describe the incident and to document immediate corrective actions.

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Date When full Compliance Will Be Achieved Corrective steps 1 through 4 will be completed by February 26, 1993.

Corrective steps 5 and 6 will be completed by May 28, 1993.