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Notice of Violation from Insp on 880919-23 & 1003-07. Violation Noted:Failure to Document That Caution Tag Audit Conducted & Guideline Limits on Work Hours for Maint Exceeded W/O Required Authorization During 880730-0916
ML18005A725
Person / Time
Site: Harris 
Issue date: 11/22/1988
From: Ernst M
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:
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ML18005A723 List:
References
50-400-88-34, NUDOCS 8812080116
Download: ML18005A725 (3)


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ENCLOSURE 1

NOTICE OF VIOLATION Carolina Power and Ligh't Company Shearon Harris Docket No. 50-400 License No.

NPF-63 During the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection corducted on September 19-23 and October 3-7, 1988, violations of NRC requirements were identified.

In acc'ordance with the "General Statement

o. Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions,"

10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C (1988), the violations are listed below:

A.

Technical Specification 6.2.2.f requires that administrative procedures shall be developed and implemented to limit the working hours of unit staff who perform safety-related functions, including key maintenance personnel.

Deviations from guideline limits are required to be authorized by the plant general manager or his designee, with documentation of the basis for granting the deviation.

The guideline limits on work hours include:

24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> in any 48-hour

period, and 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> in any 7-day per 1 od.

Contrary to the above, guideline limits on work hours for key maintenance personnel were exceeded without the required authorization during the period of July 30,

1988, through September 16, 1988.

Noted were twenty-two instances of exceeding the limit of 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> in any 7-day period, and 12 instances of exceeding the limit of 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> in any 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br />.

This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I).

B.

10 CFR 50 Appendix B, Criteria V,

states, in part, that activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.

Additionally, the licensee's administrative procedure, AP-021, Caution Tag Procedure, Rev.

1, Section 5.4. 1, states:

"Monthly, the Operating/Radwaste Supervisor shall initiate an <<dministrative audit of the caution tag logs."

Contrary to the

above, the licensee failed to produce documentation indicating that caution tag audits had been conducted between the dates of May 29, 1988 and August 31, 1988.

This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I).

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Carolina Power and Light Company Shearon Harris Docket No. 50-400 License No.

NPF-63 Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Carolina Power and Light Company is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN:

Document Control

Desk, Washington, DC
20555, with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region II, and a

copy to the NRC Resident Inspector, Shearon Harris, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice.

This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a

Notice of Violation" and should include [for each violationj:

(1) admission or denial of the violation, (2) the reason for the violation if admitted, (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results

achieved, (4) the corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations, and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved.

Where good cause is

shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.

If an adequate reply is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an order may be issued to show cause why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken.

Security or safeguards information should be submitted as an enclosure to facilitate withholding it from public disclosure as required by 10 CFR 2.790(d) or 10 CFR 73.21.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Ma co m L. Ernst Acting Regional Administrator Dated at Atlanta, Georgia this 22thday of November 1988