ML13109A556

5/7/2013 Notice of Meeting with Tennessee Valley Authority to Obtain Additional Information to Allow NRC to Make Subsequent Significance Determination & Enforcement Decisions Related to Three Apparent Violations Identified in NRC Inspection

ML13109A556
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	04/19/2013
From:	Freeman M NRC/RGN-II/DCI/CIB2
To:	James Shea Tennessee Valley Authority
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Download: ML13109A556 (8)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 April 19, 2013 Mr. Joseph W. Shea Vice President, Nuclear Licensing Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market Street, LP 3D-C Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT - CATEGORY 1 PUBLIC MEETING - WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 PREDECSIONAL ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE, DOCKET NO. 50-391

Dear Mr. Shea:

This letter confirms a Category 1 public meeting which has been scheduled for May 7, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. (EDT). The enclosed meeting notice provides additional details. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct a predecisional enforcement conference following the completion of a focused problem identification and resolution inspection (ML13085A258) identifying three apparent violations at the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2.

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 (PDR) or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs Agency wide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Should you have any questions concerning this meeting, please contact Eric Michel at (404) 997-4555.

Sincerely,

/RA/

M. Scott Freeman, Chief Construction Inspection Branch 2 Division of Construction Inspection Docket No.: 50-391

Enclosures:

As stated

April 19, 2013 Mr. Joseph W. Shea Vice President, Nuclear Licensing Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market Street, LP 3D-C Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT - CATEGORY 1 PUBLIC MEETING - WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 PREDECSIONAL ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE, DOCKET NO. 50-391

Dear Mr. Shea:

This letter confirms a Category 1 public meeting which has been scheduled for May 7, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. (EDT). The enclosed meeting notice provides additional details. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct a predecisional enforcement conference following the completion of a focused problem identification and resolution inspection (ML13085A258) identifying three apparent violations at the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2.

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 (PDR) or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs Agency wide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Should you have any questions concerning this meeting, please contact Eric Michel at (404) 997-4555.

Sincerely,

/RA/

M. Scott Freeman, Chief Construction Inspection Branch 2 Division of Construction Inspection Docket No.: 50-391

Enclosures:

As stated

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1. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE G NON-PUBLICLY AVAILABLE G SENSITIVE # NON-SENSITIVE ADAMS: # Yes ACCESSION NUMBER: ML113109A556_ G SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE OFFICE RII:DCI RII:DCI RII:DCI SIGNATURE ECM2 MSF1 ASA1 for GJK3 NAME E. Michel S. Freeman G. Khouri DATE 4/19/2013 4/19/2013 4/18/2013 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO OFFICIAL RECORD COPY DOCUMENT NAME: G:\CCI\DCI\CIB3\WB2 PUBLIC MEETING ANNOU.DOCX

J. Shea 2 cc w/encl: Mr. R. R. Baron, Senior Manager Mr. Gordon P. Arent Nuclear Construction Quality Assurance Senior Manager, Licensing WBN Unit Two WBN Unit Two Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, Tennessee 37381 Spring City, Tennessee 37381 Mr. Joseph Shea, Vice President Mr. O. J. Zeringue, General Manager Nuclear Licensing Engineering and Construction Tennessee Valley Authority WBN Unit Two 1101 Market Street Watts Bar Nuclear Plant 3R Lookout Place Tennessee Valley Authority Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, Tennessee 37381 Mr. E. J. Vigluicci Assistant General Counsel Mr. R. A. Hruby, General Manager Tennessee Valley Authority Technical Services 400 West Summit Hill Drive WBN Unit Two 6A West Tower Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Knoxville, Tennessee 37402 Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Mr. Lawrence E. Nanney, Director Spring City Tennessee 37381 Tennessee Department of Environmental Health & Conservation Ms. Donna Guinn, Manager Division of Radiological Health Licensing and Industry Affairs 3rd Floor, L&C Annex WBN Nuclear Plant 401 Church Street Tennessee Valley Authority Nashville, TN 37243-1532 P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, Tennessee 37381 Mr. T. P. Cleary Site Vice President Mr. Preston D. Swafford Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Chief Nuclear Officer Tennessee Valley Authority and Executive Vice President P.O. Box 2000 Tennessee Valley Authority Spring City, Tennessee 37381 1101 Market Place 3R Lookout Place County Mayor Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801 P.O. Box 156 Decatur, Tennessee 37322 County Executive 375 Church Street Ms. Ann P. Harris Suite 215 Public Dayton, Tennessee 37321 341 Swing Loop Rockwood, TN 37854 Mr. Dave Gronek Plant Manager, WBN Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, Tennessee 37381

J. Shea 3 cc email distribution w/encl:

Greg Scott Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Watts Bar 2 Licensing Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Brenda Derrick Electronic Mail Distribution

Letter to Joseph W. Shea from M. Scott Freeman dated April 19, 2013.

SUBJECT:

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT - CATEGORY 1 PUBLIC MEETING - WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 PREDECSIONAL ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE, DOCKET NO. 50-391 Distribution w/encl:

Region II Regional Coordinator, OEDO (J. Cassidy)

J. Quichocho, NRR J. Poole, NRR A. Hon, NRR C. Evans, RII L. Douglas, RII EICS S. Shaeffer, RII DRP R. Monk, RII WBN Unit 1 SRI S. Dubose, RII Administrative Assistant Region II State Liaison Officer Region II Public Affairs Officer OE Mail (email address if applicable)

ConE_Resource@nrc.gov PUBLIC

SUBJECT:

NEWLY SCHEDULED PUBLIC MEETING WITH TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY FACILITY: Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 DOCKET: 50-391 DATE & TIME: May 7, 2013, at 1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Public Meeting Presentation, followed by a question and answer session.

LOCATION: U.S. NRC Region II Marquis One Tower 245 Peachtree Center Avenue N.E., Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30303 PURPOSE: The purpose of the meeting is to obtain additional information to allow the NRC to make subsequent significance determination and enforcement decisions related to three apparent violations identified in NRC inspection report 05000391/2013611 (ML13085A258).

CATEGORY: This is a Category 1 meeting. The public is invited to observe this meeting and will have one or more opportunities to communicate with the NRC after the business portion of the meeting but before the meeting is adjourned.

The NRC's Policy Statement, "Enhancing Public Participation in NRC Meetings," effective May 28, 2002, applies to this meeting. The policy statement may be found on the NRC Web site, www.nrc.gov and contains information regarding visitors and security.

The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this meeting, or need this meeting notice or other information from the meeting in another format (e.g., Braille, large print), please notify the NRCs meeting contact, listed below. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Enclosure 1

2 NRC OFFICES Region II PARTICIPATING: Office of Enforcemen PARTICIPANTS: NRC, Region 2 Fred Brown, Deputy Regional Administrator for Construction Jimi Yerokun, Division Director, Division of Construction Inspection Mark Miller, Deputy Division Director, Division of Construction Projects Scott Freeman, Chief, Construction Inspection Branch 2 (CIB2)

Randy Musser, Chief, CIB3 Bob Haag, Chief, Construction Projects Branch 3 Carolyn Evans, Regional Counsel/Enforcement Officer Scott Sparks, Senior Enforcement Specialist NRC, Office of Enforcement Bob Fretz, Senior Enforcement Specialist NRC, NRO Vendor Branch Victor Hall, Reactor Operations Engineer Tennessee Valley Authority Ray Hruby, General Manager Technical Services Gordon Arent, Senior Manager, Licensing Ric Wiggall, Senior Manager, Engineering Jim ODell, Senior Manager, Compliance Lenny Peterson, Manager, Site Support Dennis Myers, Program Manager, QA MEETING Eric Michel CONTACT: 404-997-4555 Eric.Michel@nrc.gov AUDIO TELE- Interested members of the public can participate in this meeting via audio CONFERENCING teleconferencing. Please contact the NRC meeting contact in advance of the meeting, indicating your intent to attend and to obtain teleconferencing information.

VIDEO TELE- Not available.

CONFERENCING

OPEN PREDECISIONAL ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT UNIT 2 MAY 7, 2013 NRC REGION II, ATLANTA, GEORGIA AGENDA I. OPENING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION II. NRC REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT POLICY III. STATEMENT OF THE ISSUE AND APPARENT VIOLATIONS IV. TVA PRESENTATION V. BREAK/NRC CAUCUS VI. NRC FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS VII. CLOSING REMARKS VIII. PUBLIC QUESTIONS Enclosure 2