ML022410442
| ML022410442 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Columbia  (NPF-021) |
| Issue date: | 08/26/2002 |
| From: | Merschoff E Region 4 Administrator |
| To: | Parrish J Energy Northwest |
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| Download: ML022410442 (7) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION IV 611 RYAN PLAZA DRIVE, SUITE 400 ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4005 AUG 2 6 2002 J. V. Parrish Chief Executive Officer Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968; MD 1023 Richland, Washington 99352-0968
SUBJECT:
MIDCYCLE PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND INSPECTION PLAN COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION
Dear Mr. Parrish:
On July 31, 2002, the NRC staff completed its midcycle plant performance assessment of Columbia Generating Station. In accordance with NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0305, "Operating Reactor Assessment Program," the midcycle review involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating the performance of your Columbia Generating Station facility for the first half of the current assessment cycle, January 1 through December 31, 2002. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections which may conflict with your plant activities.
Plant performance for the most recent quarter was within the Degraded Cornerstone column of the NRC's Action Matrix based on one yellow finding in the emergency preparedness cornerstone. The NRC's regulatory actions, including the supplemental inspection, were completed during the second quarter of this assessment period. Based on this finding having been assessed over a 4-quarter period and the supplemental inspection results finding that the root cause was adequately defined and understood, and the collective corrective actions resulting from the evaluations of the finding having been appropriately addressed, the finding has been removed from the NRC's Action Matrix effective July 1, 2002.
During the second quarter of this assessment period a white finding was identified in the mitigating system cornerstone involving degraded safety-related breakers. Columbia Generating Station is currently in the Regulatory Response column of the NRC's Action Matrix based on this white finding. The NRC staff plans to review this issue in accordance with Inspection Procedure 95001, "Inspection for One or Two White Inputs in a Strategic Performance Area." This inspection will be integrated into the supplemental problem identification and resolution inspection scheduled for December 2002.
In our Annual Assessment Letter dated March 4, 2002, we advised you of a substantive crosscutting issue in the area of human performance. A substantive crosscutting issue was identified for multiple findings that are of greater than minor significance. The NRC found that over the course of the previous assessment period, a number of green findings and a yellow finding were identified that were examples of poor human performance with regard to Energy Northwest procedural adherence. The NRC staff has not identified similar substantive crosscutting issues during this assessment period. The NRC staff will review your actions to address this issue during the supplemental problem identification and resolution inspection.
The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through September 30, 2003.
The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature.
The last 6 months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the end-of-cycle review.
In addition, the NRC is in the process of finalizing a Temporary Instruction (TI) that will be used to review implementation of the Interim Compensatory Measures required by the Agency's Security Order to all commercial nuclear power plants dated February 25, 2002. Schedules have not yet been finalized, but it is anticipated that these inspections will begin within the next calendar quarter. Once finalized, the details will be communicated by separate correspondence.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http:Ilwww.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).
If circumstances arise which cause us to change the inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at 817/860-8147 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.
Sincerely, Ellis W. MerschoV' Regional Admi nftrator Docket: 50-397 License: NPF-21
Enclosure:
Columbia Generating Station Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/enclosure:
Chair Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council P.O. Box 43172 Olympia, Washington 98504-3172 Energy Northwest Rodney L. Webring (Mail Drop PE08)
Vice President, Operations Support/PlO Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968 Richland, Washington 99352-0968 Greg 0. Smith (Mail Drop 927M)
Vice President, Generation Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968 Richland, Washington 99352-0968 D. W. Coleman (Mail Drop PE20)
Manager, Regulatory Affairs Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968 Richland, Washington 99352-0968 Albert E. Mouncer (Mail Drop 1396)
General Counsel Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968 Richland, Washington 99352-0968 C. L. Perino (Mail Drop PE20)
Manager, Licensing Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968 Richland, Washington 99352-0968 Thomas C. Poindexter, Esq.
Winston & Strawn 1400 L Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005-3502 Bob Nichols State Liaison Officer Executive Policy Division Office of the Governor P.O. Box 43113 Olympia, Washington 98504-3113 Lynn Albin Washington State Department of Health P.O. Box 47827 Olympia, WA 98504-7827
Energy Northwest Gary Robertson, Director Division of Radiation Protection Department of Health P.O. Box 47827 Olympia, Washington 98504-7827 Chairman Board of Benton County Commissioners P.O. Box 190 Prosser, Washington 99350 Frank H. Brock, Chair Board of Franklin County Commissioners 1016 North 4th Street Pasco, Washington 99301 Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Regional Center John Pennington, Regional Director 130 228th Street, SW Bothell, Washington 98021-9796 Energy Northwest Electronic distribution by RIV:
Regional Administrator (EWM)
DRP Director (KEB)
DRS Director (EEC)
Senior Resident Inspector (GDR)
Branch Chief, DRP/E (WBJ)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (JSD)
Staff Chief, DRP/TSS (PHH)
RITS Coordinator (NBH)
Scott Morris (SAMI)
Columbia Site Secretary (LEFI)
Dale Thatcher (DFT)
RidsNrrDipmlipb B. Henderson, PAO (BWH)
W. A. Maier, RSLO (WAM)
C. J. Gordon (CJG)
DRS Branch Chiefs (GMG, ATG, CSM)
W. D. Travers, EDO (WDT)
C. A. Carpenter, Chief, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (CAC)
R. K. Frahm, PPR Program Manager, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (RKF)
R. W. Borchardt, Associate Dir. for Inspection and Programs (RWB1)
B. W. Sheron, Associate Dir. for Project Licensing and Technical Analysis (BWS)
J. Shea, Chief, Regional Operations Staff, OEDO (JWSI)
W. Ruland, NRR Project Director (WHR)
S. Dembek, Chief, Section 2, NRR/DLPM (SXD)
J. Cushing, NRR Project Manager (JXC9)
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OFFICIAL RECORD COPY T=Telephone E=E-mail F=Fax Columbia Generating Station Inspection / Activity Plan 08/01/2002 - 12/31/2003 Page 1 of 2 08/22/2002 Report 22 Unit Number 1ý No.of _Staff I Planned Dates jj Inspection on Site Start.
.n Type EMB
- BIENNIAL MODS 2
IP 7111117B Permanent Plant Modifications PSB-EP1
- EP EXERCISE BASELINE INSPECTION 2
IP 7111401 Exercise Evaluation 2
IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification OB-IN
- INTIAL EXAM PREP WEEK 2
X02226 COLUMBIA INITIAL EXAM (09/02)
OB-IN
- INITIAL EXAMINATION 2
X02226 COLUMBIA INITIAL EXAM (09/02)
PSB-S1
- ACCESS AUTH/CONTROL, SEC PLAN, AND PIV 2
IP 7113001 Access Authorization Program (Behavior Observation Only) 2 IP 7113002 Access Control (Search of Personnel, Packages, and Vehicles: Identification and Authorizati 2
IP 7113004 Security Plan Changes 2
IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification PBE-PIR
- PROBLEM ID INSP 2
IP 71152 Identification and Resolution of Problems PBE-SUP
- SUPPLEMENTAL INSPECTION 2
IP 95001 Supplemental Inspection For One Or Two White Inputs In A Strategic Performance Area OB-RQ
- REQUAL INSPECTION 2
IP 7111111B Licensed Operator Requalification EMB
- TRIENNIAL FP 2
IP 7111105T Fire Protection 2
IP 7111105T Fire Protection ACCESSPI
- ACRSA/PI 2
IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 2
IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification ALARA2
- ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 2
IP 71121,02 ALARA Planning and Controls EMB
- ISI 2
IP 7111108 Inservice Inspection Activities OB-PIR
- CG PIR INSPECTION 2
IP 71152 Identification and Resolution of Problems EMB
-HEAT SINK 2
IP 7111107B Heat Sink Performance 3
09/09/2002 09/13/2002 Baseline Inspections 3
09/16/2002 09/16/2002 2
09/23/2002 5
10/07/2002 1
11/04/2002 11/04/2002 11/04/2002 11/04/2002 5
12/02/2002 4
12/02/2002 2
12/09/2002 5
03/03/2003 03/17/2003 04/07/2003 04/07/2003 04/07/2003 1
04/07/2003 1
05/05/2003 5
06/02/2003 1
06/09/2003 09/20/2002 09/20/2002 09/27/2002 10/17/2002 11/08/2002 11/08/2002 11/08/2002 11/08/2002 12/06/2002 12/06/2002 12/13/2002 03/07/2003 03/21/2003 04/11/2003 04/11/2003 04/11/2003 05/09/2003 06/13/2003 06/13/2003 Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Not Applicable Not Applicable Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Supplemental Progra Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.
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Columbia Generating Station Inspection / Activity Plan 08/01/2002 - 12/31/2003 Page 2 of 2 08/22/2002 Report 22 Unit Number Fi fStaff lannedDates7 1nspection
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Type ALARA3
- ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 2
IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls PSB-EP1
- EP PROGRAM BASELINE INSPECTION 2
IP 7111402 Alert and Notification System Testing 2
IP 7111403 Emergency Response Organization Augmentation Testing 2
IP 7111404 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 2
IP 7111405 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies 2
IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification EMB
- SSD&PCI 2
IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability 2
IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability EMB
- 50.59 2
IP 7111102 Evaluation of Changes, Tests, or Experiments RP-TM
- RAD SAFETY TEAM 2
IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 2
IP 7112201 Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment and Monitoring Systems 2
IP 7112202 Radioactive Material Processing and Transportation 2
IP 7112203 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program 07/14/2003 07/18/2003 Baseline Inspections 1
08/11/2003 08/11/2003 08/11/2003 08/11/2003 08/11/2003 08/15/2003 08/15/2003 08/15/2003 08/15/2003 08/15/2003 Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections 5
1 09/08/2003 09/12/2003 Baseline Inspections 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Baseline Inspections 09/09/2003 09/13/2003 Baseline Inspections 4
09/15/2003 09/15/2003 09/15/2003 09/15/2003 09/19/2003 09/19/2003 09/19/2003 09/19/2003 Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.
This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.
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