IR 05000498/1993020

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Repts 50-498/93-20 & 50-499/93-20

ML20057A697
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	09/08/1993
From:	Beach A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Cottle W HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO.
References
NUDOCS 9309150167
Download: ML20057A697 (5)

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Houston Lighting & Power Company l j ATTN: William T. Cottle, Group  ;

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SUBJECT: NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-498/93-20; 50-499/93-20 .

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Thank you for your letter of August 27, 1993, in response-to our letter, I and Notice of Violation dated July 30, 199 We have. reviewed your reply and

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find it responsive to the concerns raised in our Notice of Violation. We will  :

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review the implementation of your corrective' actions during a future i

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

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Houston Lighting & Power Compaiy ATTN: James J. Sheppard, General Manager Nuclear Licensing P.O. Box 289 Wadsworth, Texas 77483

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City Public Service Board ATTN: K. J. Fiedler/M. T. Hardt P.O. Box 1771 San Antonio, Texas 78296 ,

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ATTN: Jack R. Newman, Es L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Central Power and Light Company ATTN: D. E. Ward /T. M. Puckett

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P.O. Box 2121 Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 i

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700 Galleria Parkway Atlanta, Georgia 30339-5957

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Mr. Joseph M. Hendrie 50 Bellport Lane Bellport, New York 11713 Bureau of Radiation Control State of Texas 1100 West 49th Street Austin, Texas 78756 Judge, Matagorda County Matagorda County Courthouse 1700 Seventh Street Bay City, Texas 77414 Licensing Representative Houston Lighting & Power Company Suite 610 Three Metro Center Bethesda, Maryland 20814

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/ August 27, 1993 ST-HL-AE-4540 i f File No.: G02.04 .

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j U. S. Nu-lear Regulatory Commission l Attentio Document Control Desk l Washing,an DC 20555  ;

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Docket Nos. STN 50-498; STN 50-499 Reply to Notice of Violation 9320-02 Regarding Failure to Incorporate a Field Chance into a Procedure Revision Houston Lighting Power Company (HL&P) has reviewed Notice of iolation 9320-02, date July 30, 1993, regarding a Field Change hat was not incorporat d into the revision of the procedure and '

j s its%he A tached r l If you have any questions, please contact M M. H d at (512) 972-7136 or me at (512) 972-878 /

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DNB/pa Attachment: Reply to Notic of Violation 9320-02

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Regional Administrator, Region IV Rufus S. Scott Nuclear Regulatory Commission Associate General Counsel 4 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 Houston Lighting & Power Company ,

i Arlington, TX 76011 P. Box 61867 Houston, TX 77208 l l Kokajko Project Manager l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Institute of. Nuclear Power  :

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! Washington, DC 20555 Operations - Records Center 700 Galleria Parkway Atlanta, GA 30339-5957 D. P. Loveless j

Senior Resident Inspector Dr. Joseph M. Hendrie c/o U. S. Nuclear Regulatory 50 Bellport Lane i Commission P. O. Box 910 Bellport, NY 11713 l Bay City, TX 77414 r D. K. Lacker  !

J. R. Newman, Esquire Bureau of Radiation Control  !

Texas Department of Health  :

Newman & Holtzinger, P.C., STE 1000 1615 L Street, West 49th Street l Washington, DC 20036 Austin, TX 78756-3189 J l E. Ward /T. M. Puckett U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com Central Power and Light Company Attn: Document Control Desk P. O. Box 2121 Washington, D.C. 20555 Corpus Christi, TX 78403 J. Lanier/M. B. Lee City of Austin i Electric Utility-Department '

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ST-HL-AE-4540 Page 1 of 2 Statement of Violation:

Technical Specification 6.8.1 requires, in part, that written  !

procedures shall be established, implemented, and maintained,  ;

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including the applicable procedures recommended in Appendix A of j Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, February 1978. Item 1.e of Appendix A includes administrative procedures for procedure review j and approva Procedure OPGP03-ZA-0002, " Plant Procedures", -

Revision 22, dated July 1, 1992, required-procedure reviewers to

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" include all active Field Changes against the old revision of the  :

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Contrary to the above, Surveillance Test Procedure 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C,. j

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"SSPS Actuation Train C Slave Relay Test," was revised on September 15, 1992, but did not include the change implemented by Field Change i 92-042 This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I) (498/9320-02)  !

l I Houston Lichtina & Power Position: l HL&P concurs that the violation occurre '

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i Survej ' lance Test Procedure 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C, "SSPS Actuation Train C  ;

Slave Relay Test," Revision 2, was issued without Field Change (FC)

92-0424 being incorporated because the procedural requirement to  ;

incorporate or delete active FCs was not followe FC 92-0424 was originally issued because a procedural step had been misread, and Auxiliary Feedwater Pump 13 was inadvertently started during a previous performance of the procedur FC 92-0424 changed the wording in the procedure from " verify that AFW Pump 13 did NOT start" to " verify that AFW pump 13 has NOT started." The inadvertent start of AFW Pump 13 was caused when the step was misinterpreted to mean that "an attempt to start the pump should be made, but the pump should not start", when the step was only meant to be an observation that the pump was not runnin The draft of 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C, Revision 2, was distributed for review and comment on March 4, 199 FC 92-0424 was approved on September

.9, 199 Because FC-0424 was issued after the procedure revision was distributed for review and comment, the Procedure Approval Form did not list FC-0424 as being applicabl IR \93-217.001

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Attachment l ST-HL-AE-4540 Page 2 of 2 III. Reason for the Violation; (Cont'd)

The Procedure Approval Form was updated to include FC 92-0424 on September 14, 1992, because it was believed that FC 92-0424 was 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C, Revision 2, already incorporated in the revisio was subsequently approved on- September 15, 1992 without FC 92-0424 incorporate Because FC-0424 was only a clarification of the wording in 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C, omission of this FC had no safety significanc Between September 15, 1992, when 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C was approved, and June 4, 1993, when clarified wording was returned to the procedure, the procedure was performed three times without an incident similar to that which previously occurre I Corrective Actions:

The following corrective actions have been taken: Field Change 93-0980, dated June 4, 1993, has been incorporated into procedure 1 PSP 03-SP-0009C to change the wording of the step back to " verify that AFW pump 13 has NOT started." A memorandum from the Vice President, Nuclear Engineering was distributed to Nuclear Engineering personnel stating the lessons learned from this event and stating management expectations regarding future procedure revision Additional Information:

Procedure OPGP03-ZA-0002, " Plant Procedures", requires review of active FCs both by the preparer of procedure revisions and the Procedure Control Group (PCG) to ensure that FCs are incorporated into or deleted by the next revision of the procedure. The PCG review is administrative in nature and was implemented as corrective action for previous occurrences of FCsid:t being incorporated. The additional review by PCG was not effeg ,e in preventing the type of error that in the subject of this vio :on because the PCG review is not a technical revie /((

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