ML091340531

Notification of Inspection and Request for Information for NRC Problem Identification and Resolution Inspection

ML091340531
Person / Time
Site:	Sequoyah
Issue date:	05/14/2009
From:	Vias S Reactor Projects Branch 7
To:	Swafford P Tennessee Valley Authority
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II SAM NUNN ATLANTA FEDERAL CENTER 61 FORSYTH STREET, SW, SUITE 23T85 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-8931 May 14, 2009 Mr. Preston D. Swafford Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice President Tennessee Valley Authority 3R Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

SEQUOYAH NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR NRC PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION

Dear Mr. Swafford:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Region II staff will conduct a problem identification and resolution (PI&R) inspection at your Sequoyah Nuclear Plant during the weeks of July 13 - 17 and July 27 - 31, 2009. The inspection team will be led by Mr. Shane Sandal, a Resident Inspector from the Farley Nuclear Plant. This inspection will be conducted in accordance with the baseline Inspection, Procedure 71152, Identification and Resolution of Problems Inspection, issued January 10, 2008.

The biennial PI&R inspection and assessment of the licensees Corrective Action Program (CAP) complements and expands upon the resident baseline inspections of routine daily screening of all corrective action program issues, quarterly focused issue reviews, and semiannual trend PI&R reviews.

During a telephone conversation on April 27, 2009, Mr. Sandal confirmed with Mr. Rusty Proffitt of your staff, arrangements for an information gathering site visit and the two-week onsite inspection. The schedule is as follows:

• Information gathering visit: June 10 - 11, 2009

• Onsite weeks: July 13 - 17 and July 27 - 31, 2009 The purpose of the information gathering visit is to meet with members of your staff to define the scope of the inspection. Information and documentation needed to support the inspection will also be identified and reviewed.

The enclosure lists documents that will be needed three weeks prior to the first week of on-site inspection. Please have the referenced information available by June 22, 2009. Contact Mr. Sandal with any questions concerning the requested information. The inspectors will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically identifying only those documents required for inspection preparation.

TVA 2 Additional documents might be requested during the information gathering visit as needed. The additional information will need to be made available to the team in the Region II office prior to the inspection teams preparation week of July 6, 2009. During the June 10-11 visit, Mr. Sandal will also discuss the following inspection support administrative details: availability of knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing personnel to serve as points of contact during the inspection; method of tracking inspector requests during the inspection; access to licensee computers; working space; arrangements for site access; and other applicable information.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be 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://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding the information requested or the inspection, please contact Mr. Shane Sandal at (334) 899-3386 or me at (404) 562-4560.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Steven J. Vias, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 7 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos.: 50-327, 50-328 License Nos.: DPR-77, DPR-79

Enclosure:

Information Request for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Problem Identification &

Resolution Inspection cc w/encl: (See page 3)

_________________________ X SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE (S. Sandal)

OFFICE RII:DRP RII:DRP RII:DRP SIGNATURE RA by SV for EFG SV NAME SSandal EGuthrie SVias DATE 05/14/2009 05/13/2009 05/14/2009 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO TVA 3 cc w/encl: Fredrick C. Mashburn Ashok S. Bhatnagar Acting Manager Senior Vice President Corporate Nuclear Licensing and Industry Nuclear Generation Development and Affairs Construction Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Beth A. Wetzel Preston D. Swafford Manager Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice Licensing and Industry Affairs President Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Lawrence Edward Nanney William R. Campbell Director Senior Vice President Division of Radiological Health Fleet Engineering TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution 6A Lookout Place 1101 Market Place County Mayor Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Hamilton County Hamilton County Courthouse Christopher R. Church Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Plant Manager Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Larry E. Nicholson Tennessee Valley Authority General Manager Electronic Mail Distribution Performance Improvement Tennessee Valley Authority Thomas Coutu Electronic Mail Distribution Vice President Nuclear Support Michael A. Purcell Tennessee Valley Authority Senior Licensing Manager Electronic Mail Distribution Nuclear Power Group Tennessee Valley Authority Michael J. Lorek Electronic Mail Distribution Vice President - Nuclear Oversight Tennessee Valley Authority Robert J. Whalen Electronic Mail Distribution Tennessee Valley Authority 3R Lookout Place Timothy P. Cleary 1101 Market Street Site Vice President Chattanooga, TN 37402-280 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority James H. Bassham Electronic Mail Distribution Director Tennessee Emergency Management General Counsel Agency Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Ann Harris 341 Swing Loop Rockwood, TN 37854

TVA 4 Letter to Preston D. Swafford from Steven J. Vias dated May 14, 2009

SUBJECT:

SEQUOYAH NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR NRC PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION Distribution w/encl:

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INFORMATION REQUEST FOR SEQUOYAH NUCLEAR PLANT PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION (JULY 13-17 AND JULY 27-31, 2009)

Note: Unless otherwise noted, the information requested below corresponds to documents generated since August 10, 2007. Please provide the requested documents in electronic format. If the information is not available in electronic format, please contact the inspection team leader to coordinate how the information will be provided.

A. Documents Needed Prior to or during the Information Gathering Visit

1. Copies of the corporate and site level procedures and sub-tier procedures associated with the corrective action program. This should include procedures related to:

a) corrective action process, b) cause evaluation, c) operating experience program, d) employee concerns program, e) self-assessment program, f) maintenance rule program and implementing procedures, g) operability determination process, h) degraded/non-conforming condition process (e.g., RIS 2005-20), i) system health process, or equivalent equipment reliability improvement programs, and j) preventive maintenance deferral and problem evaluation report (PER) extension process. If any of the procedures requested above were revised after August 10, 2007, please provide a copy of the previous revision of each one.

B. Documents Needed by June 22, 2009

1. List of top ten risk significant systems, components, and operator manual actions.

2. List of all PERs initiated, sorted by priority and system, with the following information:

a) PER #, b) system, c) priority, and d) PER title and short description.

3. List of all PERs initiated, sorted by the following responsible plant departments. In each department grouping, please provide the PERs sorted by priority, with the following information: a) PER #, b) priority, and c) PER title and short description.

a) Emergency Preparedness; b) Health Physics; c) Chemistry; and, d) Security.

4. List of outstanding corrective actions with a brief description, priority level, initiation date, and due date.

5. List of control room deficiencies with a brief description and corresponding PER and/or work order (WO) number.

6. List of all currently extended PERs or overdue, sorted by initiation date, with the following information: a) PER #, b) priority, and c) PER title and short description.

7. List of all PERs that have been voided or cancelled. Please sort by PER #, with title or description of problem, and reason voided or cancelled.

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8. List of all structures, systems, and components (SSC) which were classified as (a)(1) in accordance with the Maintenance Rule since August 10, 2007. Please include applicable procedures for classifying systems or components as (a)(1), date and reason for being placed in (a)(1), and actions completed and current status. Also, provide copy of any self-assessment of the Maintenance Rule program conducted.

9. List of Maintenance Preventable Functional Failures (MPFF) of risk significant systems sorted by frequency at the system level first and then by frequency at the component level within the system. Please include actions completed and current status.

10. Corrective action closeout packages, including PERs with description of corrective actions, for all NRC findings and Licensee identified violations.

11. Corrective action closeout packages, including PERs with description of corrective actions, for all licensee event report (LERs) issued.

12. List of all NRC generic communications (e.g., Information Notices, Generic Letters, etc.)

and industry operating experience (OE) documents (e.g., Part 21 reports, vendor information letters, information from other sites, etc.,) evaluated by the site for applicability to the station, regardless of the determination of applicability. Please include the reference number (e.g. PER #) for the documents that evaluated the aforementioned OE information.

13. Copies of all quality assurance audits and/or assessments issued, including the last two audits/assessments of the corrective action program. Also, any self-assessment of the site safety culture conducted should be provided.

14. Copies of all department self-assessments.

15. Copy of the most recent integrated plant trend report, departmental trend report(s), and corrective action trend report, including any human performance and equipment reliability trends.

16. Copy of the latest Corrective Action Program statistics (if exists) such as the number of PERs initiated by department, human performance errors by department, and others as may be available.

17. Copies of any minutes of meetings by the offsite safety review boards/groups. In addition, please provide a list of routine meetings involving the CAP to be held while team is onsite.

18. List of PERs related to equipment aging issues in the top ten risk significant systems since August, 2004 (e.g., system erosion and/or corrosion problems; electronic component aging or obsolescence of circuit boards, power supplies, relays, etc.;

environmental qualification). Please sort by PER # with the following information:

a) PER #, b) priority, and c) PER title and short description.

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19. If performed, provide the results from the latest safety culture survey.

20. Copies of corrective action program documents related to cross-cutting issues (human performance, problem identification and resolution, and safety conscious work environment) identified via trending, self-assessments, safety review committee or other oversight methods.

21. List of all root cause evaluations with a brief description.

22. Copy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment importance measures report.

23. For the following risk significant systems/components, please provide copies of the latest System Health Reports, system design basis documents, system description information, and P&IDs. Please provide a list of the top components for each system sorted by the highest frequency of corrective maintenance and elective maintenance work orders generated (include those components with a frequency of greater than one and include the number of work orders generated for each component).

a. Emergency Diesel Generators

b. Auxiliary Feedwater System

c. Residual Heat Removal System

d. Main Steam Isolation Valves C. Documents Needed During the Inspection

1. List of corrective action documents that have resulted from the Employee Concerns Program (ECP). (Note: This should be provided by the ECP Coordinator)

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