ML18010B041

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Notice of Violation from Insp on 930125-29.Violations Noted: Failure to Maintain Readiness of Emergency Equipment (Hand Held Mobile Radios) & Failure to Place Emergency Warning Zone Decals on Phone Booths in 10-mile EPZ
ML18010B041
Person / Time
Site: Harris Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 02/25/1993
From:
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:
Shared Package
ML18010B040 List:
References
50-400-93-03, 50-400-93-3, NUDOCS 9303080095
Download: ML18010B041 (2)


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ENCLOSURE 1

NOTICE OF VIOLATION Carolina Power and Light Company Shearon Harris Docket No.: 50-400 License No.:

NPF-63 During an NRC inspection conducted on January 25-29, 1993, violations of NRC requirements were identified.

In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions,"

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

A.

10 CFR 50.54(q) states that a licensee authorized to possess and operate a nuclear power reactor shall follow and maintain, in effect an emergency plan which meets the standards in.10 CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements of appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50.

10 CFR 50. 47(b)(8) requires that adequate emergency facilities and equipment to support the emergency response are provided and maintained.

Section

3. 1 of the Shearon Harris Emergency
Plan, which implements 10 CFR 50.47(b)(8),

states that adequate emergency facilities, communication, and equipment to support emergency response are p'rovided and maintained.

Section 3.5.3.b. of the Shearon Harris Emergency Plan identifies Emergency

Response

Facility Information System (ERFIS) consoles, capable of displaying plant data,

SPDS, and
RNS, as Emergency Operations Facility equipment to be maintained.

PEP-402, "Maintaining Readiness of Emergency Facilities, identifies Portable Radios and Base Stations as emergency equipment.

Contrary to the above, two examples of inadequately maintained equipment were identified:

1.

When tested by the inspector, two of the 6 hand held mobile radios maintained in the OSC kits failed to transmit.

B.

2.

When an operational demonstration was requested by the inspector, EOF ERFIS terminals 1,2 and 3 did not operate.

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

10 CFR 50.54(q) states that a licensee authorized to possess and operate a nuclear power reactor shall follow and maintain in effect an emergency

'lan which meets the standards in 10 CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements of Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50.

10 CFR 50, Appendix E. IV.D.2 states that signs or other measures shall also be used to disseminate to any transient population within the plume exposure pathway EPZ appropriate information that would by helpful if an accident occurs.

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

NPF-63 Section 5.2.5 of the Shearon Harris Emergency Plan states that adhesive decals are located at public telephone booths in'he 10-mile EPZ to inform transients that they are in an emergency warning zone and what immediate actions to take should they hear, the sirens.

Contrary to the above, four out of.eight telephone booths surveyed by the inspector did not display the adhesive decals.

This is a Severity Level V violation (Supplement VIII).

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 U,S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN:

Document Control

Desk, Washington, D.C.

20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region II, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facility that is the subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice).

This reply should be clearly marked, as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each violation:

(1) the reason for the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the violation, (2) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results

achieved, (3) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the date when full compliance will be achieved.

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

Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time'.

-Dated at Atlanta, Georgia this oi'>'"

day of feo>>o~)1993