ML17164A733
| ML17164A733 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 08/06/1998 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML17164A732 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-387-98-08, 50-387-98-8, 50-388-98-08, 50-388-98-8, EA-98-300, NUDOCS 9808130276 | |
| Download: ML17164A733 (3) | |
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e ENCLOSURE 1 NOTICE OF VIOLATION Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (PPSL)
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station (SSES)
Unit 1 and Unit 2 Docket Nos. 50-387, 50-388 License Nos. NPF-14, NPF-22 EA 98-300 During'an NRC inspection conducted from June 1, 1998, to June 30, 1998, a violation of NRC requirements was identified.
In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedures for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the violation is listed below:
10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI requires, in part, that Ineasures be established to assure that conditions adverse to quality, such as nonconformances, are promptly identified and corrected.
Contrary to the above, between August 1990 and June 30, 1998, PPSL failed to effect timely resolution of a nonconformance involving the fuel oil transfer system for the emergency diesel generators.
Specifically, in August 1990, in Non-Conformance Report 90-0173 and in April 1991, in PP&L engineering study SEA-ME-332, PPRL identified the fuel oil transfer pump automatic start level-switch setpoints in the emergency diesel generator day tanks did not meet the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) requirement, as referenced by the Technical Specification bases and the Final Safety Analysis Report, to ensure a day tank minimum fuel oil volume, at the level where fuel oil is automatically added to the day tank, sufficient for 60 minutes of emergency diesel generator operation at rated load plus a 10% margin.
The fuel oil transfer pump automatic start level-switch setpoints that existed in April 1991 were not changed to meet the ANSI requirement.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement
- 1) ~
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Pennsylvania Power and Light Compa'ny is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region I, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facility that is the subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice). This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each violation:
(1) the reason for the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the violation or severity level, (2) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved, (3) the corrective steps that willbe taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the date when full compliance will be achieved.
Your response may reference or include previous docketed correspondence, if the correspondence adequately addresses the required response.
If an adequate reply is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an order or a Demand for Information may be issued as to why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken.
Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.
'P808130276 980806 PDR ADOCK 05000387 6
Enclosure 1
If you contest this enforcement action, you should also provide a copy of your response to the Director, Office of Enforcement, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR),'to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction.
If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide~an acceptable
- response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withhold-ing (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information) ~ If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable
- response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 6th day of August 1998