ML17285A703
| ML17285A703 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Columbia  |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1989 |
| From: | Chaffee A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Sorensen G WASHINGTON PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8909080223 | |
| Download: ML17285A703 (7) | |
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ACCESSION NBR:8909080223 DOC.DATE: 89/08/22 NOTARIZED:
NO DOCKET FACIL:50-397 WPPSS Nuclear Project, Unit 2, Washington Public Powe 05000397 AUTH.NAME AUTHOR AFFXLIATXON CHAFFEE,A.E.
Region 5, Ofc of the Director RECIP.NAME
. RECIPIENT AFFILIATION SORENSEN,G.C.
Washington Public Power Supply System
SUBJECT:
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(N 4~*~4 UNITEO STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION V 1450 MARIALANE,SUIT~ 210 WALNUTCREEK, CALIFORhlA94596 August 22<
1989 Docket No.
50-397 Washington Public Power Supply System P. 0.
Box 968
- Richland, Washington 99352 Attention:
Mr. G.
C. Sorensen
- Manager, Regulatory Programs Gentlemen:
Subject:
NRC Inspection This refers to the investigation conducted by Mr. E.
G. Power of the NRC Office of Investigations, Region V, in February and April 1989 of activities authorized by NRC Operating License No. NPF-21.
A copy of the investigation synopsis is enclosed for your information.
No violation of NRC requirements was identified within the scope of this
'investigation.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790(a),
a copy of this letter and the enclosure will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room.
Should you have any questions concerning this investigation, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
Sincerely,
Enclosure:
Investigation synopsis A.
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- Powers, WNP-2 Plant Manager
- Hosier, WNP-2 Licensing Manager
- Doupe, Esq.
- Reynolds, Debevois, Cook, Purcell 5 Reynolds of Washington
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SYNOPSIS By memorandum dated December 20, 1988, the Regional Administrator, Region V, U. S.
NRC requested an investigation to determine if there had been willful falsification of records at Washington Nuclear Plant 2 (MNP-2), Richland, Mashington, which is owned and operated by the Mashington Public Power-Supply" System (MPPSS), the licensee.
The alleged wrongdoing involved two separate matters.
The first matter (Allegation 1) concerned a required fire tour within WNP-2, circa 1985 or 1986, which had not been performed, however the tour was falsely documented.as having been conducted.
The former MHP-2 operations manager had become aware of the fire tour incident at the time of occurrence, however, it was alleged that appropriate action by MNP-2 management had not been taken at the time.
In the second matter, (Allegation 2), it was alleged that the former operations manager had re'quested entries be made in the shift manager's lo'g attesting to his having performed a training witch in the MNP-2 control room when the individual had not stood the watch.
The documentation of the training watch was to substantiate that the operations manager met a prerequisite of the MNP-2 license operator requalification program.
A specific date for the alleged falsifications(s) of the shift manager's log was not known, however, it was.
believed to have occurred between July 1986 and May 1987.
(These allegations were not provided as nuclear safety issues by a concerned employee to the
- NRC, but rather the matters, were referenced in a discriminatior suit against WPPSS.)
The WNP-2 License Operator Requalification Program Description (LORPD), in effect at the time, required a minimum of 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> in any four month period in the control room for requalification for an individual not normally performing license activities, such as the operations manager.
The duties were not
- defined, and the location of those requalification duties was not specified in the LORPD. It was also determined that there were no written directives or procedures which required documenting the accumulation of 'the 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> necessary
- or requalification.
It was,
- however, a plant practice to make an ertry in the shift manager's log for such duty, and a separate tracking record docvme>>t also reflected the total hours claimed on individual dates for requalification duty.
Those two records indicated that the former operations manager had performed duty on the dates claimed.
Additionally, the security access records for ingress and egress to the control room were available for a portion of the time in question, and those records, although not complete, supported the presence of the former operations manager in the control room on the dates claimed.
There was,
- however, some variance in the total hours claimed.
Six shift managers who represented all the available shift managers who worked during the period in question were interviewed.
Each of the shift managers testified that he had never been asked to make, and had no knowledge of, any misleading, incorrect or falsified entries in the shift manager's logs to reflect that the former operations manager had performed duty for license operator requalification when the operations manager had not actually performed such duty.
During his interview, the former operations manager testified that the tracking records indicating his hours for requalification during the period from January 1984 through May 1987 were true and correct.
He related that he never did anything to circumvent the license operator maintenance requirements, and he had no knowledge of an misleading, incorrect or false entries in the shift manager's logs or any type of documentation.
Case No. 5-88-013
E The former operations manager further testified that he had never asked or directed any shift manager to make an entry into the shift manager's log for-time in which he had not been performing duties associated with his license:
operator requalification duties.
At the onset of the NRC investigation, it was learned that MPPSS had become knowledgeable of these allegations or concerns prior to the NRC, and had conducted their own investigation into the matters.
Regarding Allegation I>
the MPPSS investigation concluded, in part, that:
I) MNP-2 management recalled the fire tour incident, it had been properly investigated, and had(
been resolved that there was no evidence that the fire tour(s) had not been conducted, and 2) there was no available documentation relating to the
- incident, and the allegation could not be further substantiated.
Regarding'llegation 2, the MPPSS investigation concluded that there was no willful falsification of the shift manager's
- logs, and there was ambiguity in the MNP-2 requalification program requirements.
s'n view of the apparent lack of documentation and knowledgeable witnesses together with the significar ce of Allegation 1, the alleged falsification of,
the fire tour records, the matter did not warrant further NRC investigation.
In the second allegation the evidence developed during the NRC investigation did not substantiate the allegation that the former operations manager had requested the falsification of records in orde~ to meet the license operator requalification requirements.
Case No. 5-88-013