IR 05000458/1986011

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Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Repts 50-458/86-11 & 50-458/86-17.Severity Level of Security Incidents Discussed
ML20210E926
Person / Time
Site: River Bend Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 02/04/1987
From: Martin R
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To: William Cahill
GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
References
NUDOCS 8702100399
Download: ML20210E926 (2)


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FEB _41987 In Reply Refer To:

Docket: 50-458/86-11 50-458/86-17 Gulf States Utilities ATTN: William J. Cahill, Jr.

Senior Vice President River Bend Nuclear Group P. O. Box 220 St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775 Gentlemen:

Thank you for your letter dated September 5,'1986, in response to our Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties dated August 7, 1986.

We have r.o questions at this time and will review the implementation of your corrective actions during a future inspection to determine that full compliance has been achieved and will be maintained.

In reference to Attachment 3 of your letter, you stated that "the security incidents, when examined separately, would normally fall into a lower category of violation." This is not the case. Each incident, when examined separately against the requirements of 10 CFR 2, Appendix C, Supplement III, demonstrates a failure to control access such that two of the three elements of access control at the barrier are inadequate. Thus, each incident could have been categorized as a Severity Level III violation. The NRC essentially mitigated the penalty for each individual violation by combining the individual events into two violations with multiple examples. In addition, the NRC reduced the base civil penalty for each violation by 50 percent, because of your prompt and extensive corrective actions, and does not consider further mitigation to be warranted.

Sincerely, ORIGINAL SIGNED SY ROBERT D. MARTW Robert D. Martin Regional Administrator cc: (sea next page)

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UlIS PAGE NOT SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE REQUIREMENTS WHEN SEPARATED FROM MATERIAL CONTAINING i GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY Alvf R 0END $f AYiON POST OFFICE BOX 220 $t FRANCISVILLE Louisiana 70775 AREA CODE 504 635 6094 346 865I September 5, 1986 RBG- 24324 File Nos. G9.5, G15.4.-l Mr. James M. Taylor, Director Office of Inspection & Enforcement U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission gggggg g Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Taylor:

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" Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties" This letter is Gulf States Utilities Company's response to the Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties as attached to NRC letter EA86-109 dated August 7, 1986 and as described in Inspection Report Nos. 86-11 and 86-17. The inspections were performed by Messrs. A.B. Earnest and J.A.F. Kelly on February 25, 1986, and Messrs. J.A.F. Kelly and R.A Caldwell during the period of March 31 through April 4 and May 2, 1986 on activities authorized by NRC Operating License NPF-47 for River Bend Station - Unit 1.

GSU's response to the Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties is provided in the enclosed as Attachment 1-

" Violations Assessed a Civil Penalty" and Attachment 2 -

" Violations Not Assessed a Civil Penalty".

A reauest for remission or mitigation of the Civil Penalties is being submitted separately as Attachmenf3 "REGd5YCfor7EiCof Civil

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Penalties". While a check in the amount of $65,000 is enclosed, for reasons stated in Attachment 3 the civil penalties are requested to be waived or reduced.

Information contained in these attachments is considered " Safeguards Information" pursuant to 10CFR73.21 and should be handled accordingly.

This completes GSU's response in this matter.

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