ML051050174

Inspection Plan Point Beach Confirmatory Action Letter Followup Special Inspection

ML051050174
Person / Time
Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	06/04/2004
From:	Louden P NRC/RGN-III/DRP/RPB7
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References
FOIA/PA-2004-0282, ir-04-005
Download: ML051050174 (2)

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INSPECTION PLAN POINT BEACH CONFIRMATORY ACTION LETTER FOLLOWUP SPECIAL INSPECTION Dates: June 7 - 11, 2004 Inspectors: Mike Kunowski and John Jacobson Report No. 50-266/2004005; 50-301/2004005 Inspection Procedure: 95003 (follow-up)

Purpose:

This inspection is the first in a series of systematic reviews to assess the licensee's progress in addressing regulatory areas of concern which were detailed in a Confirmatory Action Letter (CAL), issued April 21, 2004, following completion of the Inspection Procedure 95003 supplemental inspection in 2003. This review will include the licensee's process for tracking, reviewing, and closing-out CAL commitment items, an independent assessment by the inspectors of completed items, and a status review of items not yet completed but scheduled for completion in the near-term.

Specific Inspection Items:

1. Review the process for tracking, reviewing, and closing-out CAL items.

The intent of this review is to clearly understand how the licensee is monitoring their improvement program progress particularly in regard to CAL commitment items. The NRC area of concern is that given the Commitment items are a part of a much larger Excellence Plan, assurance is needed that Commitment items will be properly tracked, updated, and closed out. Also, controls should be in place to ensure that items are not inadvertently deleted or completion dates are not changed arbitrarily.

2. Review the following items from the CAL Followup Matrix that are scheduled to be completed as of the date of the inspection.

Item 2 - Step 24 of Action Plan OR-01-004, revise human performance procedure. Included in the review of this item will be a discussion with the licensee's human performance improvement manager.

The focus of this review is to ascertain the licensee's early implementation of human performance improvement processes.

Item 8 - Step 4 of Action Plan OR-02-001, revise guidance to Nuclear Oversight (quality assurance) regarding the implementation of an intrusive methodology to identify issue significance.

Item 32 - Step 1 of Action Plan OP-1 0-010, review implementation of new operating experience program administrative procedure.

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Item 33 - Step 15 of Action Plan OP-1 0-010, review tracking of operating experience information and assessment.

Item 34 - Step 4 of Action Plan OP-1 0-01 0, review procedures for implementing the operating experience program.

Specifically, this procedure is to clearly define expectations for the acquisition and use of OE.

Item 44 - Step 8 of Action Plan OP-14-007, review licensee's disposition of previous licensee-identified problems in the vendor technical information program.

3. Review the status of the following items from the CAL Followup Matrix that are scheduled to be completed after the date of the inspection.

Item 15 - Step 3 of Action Plan OR-08-16, review efforts to reduce the backlog of operable but degraded items.

Item 21 - Step 11 of Action Plan OP-09-004, review the licensee's progress in revising its EALs and submitting them to the NRC Item 24 - Step 12 of Action Plan OP-1 0-004, review operation of the Technical Review Panel.

Item 43 - Step 3 of Action Plan OP-14-005, review status of the licensee's identification of the population of calculations that need validation.

4. Attend various plant meetings to assess the licensee's implementation of its ACEMAN individual performance improvement initiative.

Inspection Plan Approval: IRA! 6/4/04 Patrick Louden, Chief Branch 7 Division of Reactor Projects