ML17335A439
| ML17335A439 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Cook  |
| Issue date: | 12/24/1998 |
| From: | NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML17335A437 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-315-98-29, 50-316-98-29, EA-98-539, NUDOCS 9901040008 | |
| Download: ML17335A439 (4) | |
Text
NOTICE OF VIOLATION Indiana Michigan Power Company Docket Nos:
50-315; 50-316 Donald C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant License Nos:
DPR-29; DPR-30 EA 98-539 Duringpn NRC investigation conducted from November 21, 1997, to September 9, 1998, a violation of NRC requirements was identified.
In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the violation is listed below:
Donald C. Cook Technical Specification 6.8.1 requires, in part, that written procedures shall be established, implemented and maintained covering the applicable procedures recommended in Appendix "A"of Regulatory Guide 1.33, Rev. 2, February 1978.
Appendix "A"of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.33, Rev. 2, February 1978 states, in part, at Section 1.b, that administrative procedures for "Authorities and Responsibilities for Safe Operation and Shutdown" are typical safety-related activities which should be covered by written procedures.
Procedure OH!4013, "Operators: Authorities and Responsibilities," Revision 9, dated 5/17/96 (a procedure specified by Section 1.b of RG 1.33 Appendix A) states, in part, in paragraph 3.3.2 that potentially distracting activities in the control room and other watch stations must be prohibited. These activities include, but are not limited to, reading non-job related materials, listening to radios, and watching television.
Contrary to the above, during the period August 31, 1997, to December 31, 1997, operators engaged in potentially distracting activities while at their watch station.
Specifically, 123 telephone calls were made from the front area of the D.C. Cook control room (an area of the control room controlled by the licensed operators) to a sports and information telephone hotline with the majority of the calls occurring during the weekends.
between mid-morning and late-evening.
This is a Severity Level IVviolation (Supplement I).
The NRC has concluded that information regarding the reason for the violation, the corrective actions taken and planned to correct the violation and prevent recurrence and the date when full compliance was achieved is already adequately addressed in the cover letter for this Notice of Violation. However, you are required to submit a written statement or explanation pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201 ifthe description therein does not accurately reflect your corrective actions or your position.
In that case, or ifyou choose to respond, clearly mark your response as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation," and send it to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, DC 20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region ill, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facilitythat is the subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice).
Ifyou contest this enforcement action, you should also provide a copy of your response, with the basis for your denial, to the Director, Office of Enforcement, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
990i040008 98i224 PDR ADQCK 050003i5 6
Notice of Violation Ifyou choose to respond, your response willbe placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR). Therefore, to the extent possible, the response should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction.
Dated this 24th day of December 1998
Enc losure 2
SYNOPSIS.
This investigation was initiated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Investigations, Region II, on November 21, 1997, to determine whether licensed and non-licensed operations personnel and management at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant were deliberately engaging in peripheral activities while on duty that rendered them unacceptably inattentive to the safe oper ation of the reactor and related systems of the plant.
The evidence developed did not substantiate the allegation that operations personnel at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant were deliberately or wilfully inattentive to nuclear safety-related duties.