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Responds to NRC NRC Bulletin 90-001, Loss of Fill Oil in Transmitters Mfg by Rosemount. No Transmitters Identified in Item 1 from Suspect Lots Identified by Rosemount
ML17305B768
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Site: Summer South Carolina Electric & Gas Company icon.png
Issue date: 07/19/1990
From: Bradham O
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS CO.
To:
NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
REF-PT21-90 IEB-90-001, IEB-90-1, NUDOCS 9007240293
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SUBJECT:

NRC INSPECTION OF PALO VERDE UNITS 1, 2 AND 3 This letter refers to the" routine inspection by Messrs. T. Chan of NRR, and A. Johnson, R. Huey and C. Ramsey, of this office, on May 16-18 and June 14-15, 1990, of activities authorized by NRC License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51 and NPF-74, and to the discussions of our findings held with members of your staff.

Areas examined .during this inspection are described in the enclosed inspection report. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of selective examinations of procedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspectors.

Based on the results of this inspection, it appears that several of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC requirements, as discussed in Paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 of the report. These apparent violations will be the subject of separate correspondence. 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.

We are concerned about the apparent unreliable performance of the Palo Verde emergency lighting system, as evidenced by numerous failures of emergency lighting system components, Excessive failures and the adequacy of the in.

emergency lighting system design implementation were addressed by ANPP LER 86-059. Problems have been identified in the emergency lighting system by the NRC and by your staff since 1984. The same problems have continued to exist over a six year period, and were a topic of escalated enforcement action and a civil penalty documented in our letter to you dated September 1, 1989 (EA 89-88). Furthermore, emergency lighting failure data originally provided to NRC'nspectors in March 1990, needed to be revised on several occasions, with the most recent revision occurring on June 29, 1990. The need for repeated revision of this data appears to be another indicator of the need for greater engineering and quality oversight involvement wi.th the emergency lighting system.

As discussed between Mr J. N. Bailey and myself on July 2, 1990, an enforcement conference has been arranged for July 10, 1990, to discuss the results of this inspection.

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"2" Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.

Sincerely, R. P >mmerman, Director Division of Reactor Safety and Projects

Enclosures:

l. Inspection Report Nos. 50-528/90-25, 50-529/90-25, 50-530/90-25
2. Appendix A, Description of NRC Regulations Applicable to Appendix R Emergency Lights

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o Agenda document provided by Arizona NRC, dated Hay 16, 1990.

Public Service (APS) for meeting with cc w/enclosures:

Hr. James M. Levine, APS Hr. Jack N. Bailey, APS Hr. Tom Bradish, APS Hr. Blaine E. Ballard, APS Hr. 0. Mark DeHichele, APS Mr. Robert M. Page, APS Mr. E. C, Simpson, APS Mr. Arthur C. Gehr, Esq, Snell 8 Milmer Mr. Al Gutterman, Newman 8 Holtzinger P. C.

Mr. Charles R. Kocher, Esq., Assistant Council, SCE Company Mr. James A. Boeletto, Esq.

Mr. Char les B. Brinkman, Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Mr. Charles Tedford, Director, Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency Chairman, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Hr. John M. Norman, Chief, Arizona Corporation Commission

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