ML052590282
| ML052590282 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Salem, Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 02/19/2004 |
| From: | NRC Region 1 |
| To: | |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2004-0314, RI-2004-A-0010 | |
| Download: ML052590282 (2) | |
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ALLEGATION REVIEW BOARD DISPOSITION RECORD Allegation No.: RI-2004-A-0010 Branch Chief (AOC): Meyer Site/Facility: Salem & Hope Creek Acknowledged: No ARB Date: 2/19/04 Confidentiality Granted: No Issue discussed: The alleger indicated a number of concerns with the work control process and the way that station management interacted with staff regarding concerns in this area. He/she described seven discrete concerns and one involving discrimination. He/she indicated that: 1) certain first line supervisors in maintenance department have been pressured to inappropriately close work orders for as-found testing of both safety and non-safety related relief valves without all specified work being completed; 2) a union chief was told not to write notifications regarding broken equipment; specifically, he identified that certain service water gates and valves were not installed correctly nor did they operate as designed; 3) in March 2003, during a forced outage, the alleger directly observed rub marks on auxiliary (aux) impeller for the 'B" reactor recirculation pump that he attributed to clearance problems between the aux impeller and stuffing box and felt that an internal pump inspection was necessary. Management disagreed with his assertion on the need for an internals inspection and considered it a business decision. He noted that the notification was not updated with their rationale and considered this a corrective action program weakness; 4) he/she learned from certain groups of people onsite that repair parts and critical spares that maintenance needs to do safety-related work are routinely sent back to the wholesaler or manufacturer to limit in-house inventory to minimize PSEG's taxes; 5) he/she wrote a Level 1 notification because of abuses in the work control process in the planning and implementation of work orders and nothing was done to address it; 6) people are afraid to identify tagging errors that involved human errors because they feared that someone will get in trouble, but nothing will get fixed; 7) a first line maintenance supervisor is being pressured to work a HC Chiller job that has been mismanaged and that significant additional work has been added without following the work control process. The supervisor feels his job is in jeopardy every time he raises a concern on this issue. 8) The alleger believes that PSEG did not select him for his new position in the September 2003 reorganization since he was viewed as not being a 'team player."
Alleger contacted prior to referral to licensee (if applicable)?
Not vet ALLEGATION REVIEW BOARD DECISIONS Attendees: Chair - Blouoh Branch Chief (AOC) - Meyer SAC -Vito 01 Rep. -
RI Counsel - Farrar Others - Barber DISPOSITION ACTIONS:
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Will include in ack letter the fact that the alleger does not want the NRC to independently take action to address discrimination assertion.
Responsible Person:
SAC ECD:
2/25/04 Closure Documentation:
Completed:_
SAFETY SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT: The initial safety significance of the relief valve testing issue should be considered moderate/high until the people involved can be contacted to identify the systems that are affected along with the actual relief valve settings. Once the as-found settings of the relief valves for any safety related systems are implemented an appropriate operability determination could be implemented.
PRIORITY OF 01 INVESTIGATION: NA ARB MINUTES ARE REVIEWED AND APPROVED AT THE ARB (ii
j David Vito - ARB for RI-2004-A-0010 (new Salem/HC maintenance area SCWE allegation)
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David Vito To:
A. Randolph Blough; Daniel Holody; Eileen Neff; Ernest Wilson; Glenn Meyer, Karl Farrar, Scott Barber Date:
2/13/04 9:43AM
Subject:
ARB for RI-2004-A-0010 (new Salem/HC maintenance area SCWE allegation)
I reviewed the disposition record for the ARB held on 2/11/04 for the subject allegation. The form does not address Concern #8, the alleger's discrimination issue. Whether or not the alleger stated that he is "considering making a discrimantion claim to the NRC" as is indicated on the Allegation Receipt Report, his statements indicate that he has made an assertion of discrimaintion. As such, we need to assess that assertion, determine if it constitutes a prima facie case, and inform him as such in the acknoweldgement letter. If we interpret the information he has given us to mean that he does not want the NRC to pursue his discrimination assertion at this time, the ARB should also decide whether we will honor this request or whether we would feel compelled to investigate the matter. I will tell Sharon to schedule another ARB for 2/25/04 to discuss.
CC:
Leanne Harrison; Sharon Johnson