IR 05000498/1989017

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Repts 50-498/89-17 & 50-499/89-17

ML20248G202
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	09/29/1989
From:	Milhoan J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Vaughn G HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO.
References
NUDOCS 8910100129
Download: ML20248G202 (2)

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50-499/89-17 Houston Lighting & Power Company

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Vice President, Nuclear P,0. Box 289 Wadsworth, Texas 77483-Gentlemen: j Thank you for your letter of September 14, 1989, in response.to our

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letter and Notice of Violation dated August 5,1989. We have' reviewed your.-

reply'and . find it responsive to the concerns raised in our Notice of Violatio We will review the implementation of your corrective actions. during a future inspection to detennine that full compliance has been achieved 'and will be maintaine Sincerel Original Signed By:

James L Milhoan James L. Milhoan, Director Division of Reactor Projects cc:

Central Power & Light Company ATTN: R. L. Range /R. P. Verret P.O. Box 2121 Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 City of Austin Electric Utility ATTN: R. J. Miner, Chief Operating i Officer (2 copies)

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10CFR2.201 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attention: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 South Texas Project Electric Generating Station Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. STN 50-498, STN 50-499 Reply to Notice of Violation 8917-01 Regarding Falsification of Fire Watch Loe Houston Lighting & Power Company has reviewed the Notice of Violation issued as a result of NRC Inspection Report 89-17 dated August 5, 1989 and submits the attached response pursuant to 10CFR2.20 If you should have any questions on this matter, please contact Mr. C. A. Ayala at (512) 972-862 ,

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ST-HL-AE-3232 Attachment Page 1 of 2 South Texas Project Electric Generating Station Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. STN 50-498, STN 50-499 Reply to Notice of Violation 8917-01 Regarding Falsification of Fire Watch Lon Statement of Violation 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R specifies fire protection requirements for

, nuclear power plants. South Texas Project (STP) Station Procedures (SP)

establish a program and specific implementing instructions to satisfy Appendix R requirements. In particular, STP SP OPGP03-ZF-0013. " Fire Watch Program," Revision 2, dated October 24, 1988, paragraph 5.5, requires that personnel assigned to act as hourly fire watches shall pass through the required areas at least once every 60 minute reriod checking for signs of fir Contrary to the above, on April 23, 1989, an STP fire watchman assigned STP fire protection compensatory hourly fire watches initialed a fire watch log indicating that he had passed through the required area checking for signs of fire when, in fact, he had not passed through the required areas within the required time interva I Houston Lighting & Power PositiRD HL&P concurs that the cited violation occurre l III. Reason for Violation The root causes of the failure to perform fire watches and the falsification of the fire watch logs are as follows: Dereliction of duty by the fire watc . A contributing factor was the established practice of leaving a blank space on the fire watch log sheet to highlight that a fire watch round had been misse I Corrective Action Taken and Results Achieved An investigation was conducted to determine the extent of the irregularities in the fire watch program. No other findings, involving other personnel, were identified during this investigatio The individual identified as having falsified the fire watch logs, a fire watch foreman, was removed from fire watch dut A1/014.NL6

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!' Attachment 1 Page 2 of 2 H South Texas Project Electric Generating Station Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. STN 50-498, STN 50-499

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Reply to Notice of Violation 8917-01 Regarding Falsification of Fire Watch Img

. Corrective Action Taken to Prevent Recurrence Remaining fire watch personnel have been reinstructed on the consequences.of falsifying records. 'New personnel receive this s training throt.gh Ger.eral Employee Training Category I and all personnel through the GET Requalification program. As an additional reminder a plant bulletin will be issued by September 22, 1989 to further reinforce this polic . The' fire watch personnel have also received written instruction to make all entries on the fire watch logs consecutively and that no lines are to be " skipped".

V Date of Full Comoliance HIAP is in full compliance at this tim I o

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