ML17053B441
| ML17053B441 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 12/03/1979 |
| From: | Grier B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Schneider R NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML17053B439 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8002290590 | |
| Download: ML17053B441 (4) | |
See also: IR 05000220/1979020
Text
UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION I
631 PARK AVENUE
KING OF PRUSSIA, PENNSYLVANIA19406
ocket
No.
50-220
Niagara
Mohawk Power Corporation
ATTN:
Mr.
R.
R. Schneider
Vice President
Electric Operations
300 Erie Boulevard West
Syracuse,
13202
Gentlemen:
Subject:
Inspection
No. 50-220/79-20;
79-25
This refers to the inspection
conducted
by Messers.
L. Thonus,
G.
Yuhas,
and
F. Costello of this office on June 21-22,
and September
25-28,
1979, of activities
authorized
by NRC License
No.
DPR-63 and to the discussions
of our findings
held by Mr. Yuhas
and Mr. Costello with Mr.
Lempges
and other members of your
staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This also refers to the meeting
held at your office on October 16,
1979 attended
by yourself,
Mr.
Lempges
and
Mr. Leach of your staff and by Mr. Allan, Mr. Stohr and Mr. Yuhas of our
staff.
Areas
examined during this inspection are described in the Office of Inspection
and Enforcement Inspection
Report which is enclosed with this letter.
Within
these
areas,
the inspection consisted
of selective
examinations
of procedures
and representative
records,
interviews with personnel,
measurements
made
by
the inspector,
and observations
by the inspector.
Based
on the results of this inspection, it appears
that certain of your
activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC requirements
as set
forth in the Notice of Violation, enclosed
herewith
as Appendix A.
These
items of noncompliance
have
been categorized'into
the levels
as described
in
our correspondence
to you dated
December
31,
1974.
This notice is sent to you
pursuant to the provisions of Section
2.201 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Title 10,
Code of Federal
Regulations.
Section
2..201 requires
you to
submit to this office, within twenty (20) days of your receipt of this notice,
a written statement
or explanation in reply including:
(1) corrective steps
which have
been taken by you and the results
achieved;
(2) corrective steps
which will be taken to avoid further items of noncompliance;
and (3) the date
when 'full compliance will be achieved.
In addition to the
need for corrective
action regarding these specific items of noncompliance,
we are concerned
about
the implementation of your management
control
systems that permitted
them to
occur.
Consequently,
in your reply, you should describe in particular,
those
actions
taken or planned to improve the effectiveness
of your management
control systems.
800sh56
Niagara
Mohawk Power Corporation
2
With respect to Items
A and
C of the Notice of Violation enclosed with this
letter,
we note these
items were previously identified during inspections
conducted
on August 22-24,
1977,
November 27-29,
1978 and March 13-16,
1979
and brought to your attention in our letters
dated October 14, 1977, January
5, 1979 and
May 16,
1979.
Your response
letters
dated
November 4, 1977,
January
29,
1979 and June 8,
1979 stated that corrective actions
had been
taken.
Since these
items were again identified during our June
21-22 and
September
25-28,
1979 inspection, it appears
your corrective actions
were
either not implemented or were. ineffective. Therefore,
in your response
please
give these matters your particular attention.
With respect to the discussions
held with you on October 16, 1979, regarding
your radiation protection procedures,
we would appreciate
your informing us of
your plans to review and or revise your procedures
to make
them more specific
in terms of actions to be taken during routine and nonroutine operations.
In accordance
with Section 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice,"
Part 2,
Title 10,
Code of Federal
Regulations,
a copy of this letter and the enclosed
inspection report will be placed in the NRC's Public Document
Room.
If this
report contains
any information that you (or your contractor) believe to be
proprietary, it is necessary
that you make
a written application, within 20
days to this office to withhold such information from public disclosure.
Any
such application must be accompanied
by an affidavit executed
by the owner of
the information, which identifies the document or part sought to be withheld,
and which contains
a statement of reasons
which addresses
with specificity the
items which will be considered
by the Commission
as listed in subparagraph
(b)
(4) of Section 2.790.
The information sought to be withheld shall
be incorpo-
rated
as far as possible into a separate
part of the affidavit. If we do not
hear from you in this regard within the specified period, the report will be
placed in the Public Document
Room.
Should you have any questions
concerning this inspection,
we will be pleased
to discuss
them with you.
Sincerely,
oy e
H. Grier
Director
Enclosures:
1.
Appendix A, Notice of Violation
2.
Office of Inspection
and Enforcement Inspection
Report
Nos.
79-20 and 79-25
cc w/encl:
T.
E.
Lempges,
General
Superintendent,
Nuclear Generation
T. J.
Perkins, Station Superintendent
C.
L. Stuart,
Operations
Supervisor
E.
B. Thomas, Jr.,
Esquire