ML17249A981

Ack Receipt of IE Insp Rept 50-269/80-1 on 800103.No Proprietary Info

ML17249A981
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Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	02/13/1980
From:	Parker W Duke Power Co
To:	O'Reilly J NRC Office of Inspection & Enforcement (IE Region II)
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//I////I//I I//I///////// j. I'IA'tC ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION o 89 EAST AVENUE, ROCHESTER, N.Y. I4649 LEON D. WHITE. JR. TELEPHONE VICE PRESIDENT AREA COOE Tle 546 2700 August 5, 1980 Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ATTN: Mr. Dennis M. Crutchfield, Chief Operating Reactors Branch IS Division of Licensing Ch 3~

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Qt I tt1 "I "t Washington, D. C. 20555 I I> C'0 J'J

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Assignment of Personnel as Shift Technical Advisor (RTA)

R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, Unit No. 1 I/I Docket No. 50-244 Dear Mr. Crutchfield; This letter will serve as Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation's response to the evaluation of Lessons Learned Category ",A" requirement 2.2.1.b, "Shift Technical Advisor," issued by your letter dated July 7, 1980 and supersedes our response contained in pages 75 through 77 of our December 28, 1979 submittal.

The present shift operation organization, augmented by the assign-ment of a Shift Technical Advisor (STA) who has a bachelor's degree in science or engineering, or who holds a NRC Senior Reactor Operator License (SRO), is the method RG&E uses to assure that acceptable and adequate personnel are assigned as STA. Since July 1, 1980 only those individuals who are licensed SRO's or who have a bachelor's degree in a scientific or engineering discipline have been assigned as the STA. This will continue to be our policy, pending NRC issuance of long-term requirements for STA.

The Ginna Station Operation Department consists of five shifts with a minimum of five operators per shift, two of whom normally hold Senior Reactor Operator Licenses. The Shift Supervisors have maintained their licenses since before January 1970 and have a broad knowledge of plant design and operation.

The present shift complement is normally comprised of a Shift Supervisor (SRO), Head Control Room Operator (SRO), Control Room Operator (RO) and 3 Auxiliary Operators (some with RO licenses). To meet the require-ments of the Accident Assessment Function one additional individual is QO assigned to the shift when the reactor is critical and is designated as Shift Technical Advisor. During an off-normal transient, this additional individual

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(4 ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC P. SHEET NO. 2 DATE August 5, 1980 Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ATTN: Mr. Dennis M. Crutchfield, Chief will be in the control room and will ~onl be functioning in the technical advisory capacity to the Shift Supervisor. The STA administratively reports to the Technical Assistant for Operational Assessment.

Administrative procedure A-201 "Ginna Station Administrative and Engineering Staff Responsibilities" has been revised in August, 1980 to clarify the responsibilities of the STA and the responsibilities of the Technical Assistant for Operational Assessment.

The Training Program to augment the plant specific education of the assigned STA for the Accident Assessment function in the Control Room will begin September 2, 1980 for those STA's who are not licensed SRO's.

These individuals already have a bachelor's degree. This educational program will assure that non-licensed individuals receive additional train-ing in plant layout, operation and response to transients. We expect this training to be substantially completed by November 14, 1980.

When the NRC prepares definitive long-term STA requirements, we will evaluate our STA program at that time and prior to implementation of the long-term requirements. We have 10 years of operating experience with a total of 164 man-years of licensed operator experience. This safe operation experience and an expanded training program provides a high level of confi-dence that the operating staff will perform safely and properly under accident conditions.

Very truly yours, L. D. White, r.

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