ML18067A688
| ML18067A688 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 09/05/1997 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| ML18067A687 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-255-97-08, 50-255-97-8, EA-96-092, EA-96-92, NUDOCS 9709230081 | |
| Download: ML18067A688 (2) | |
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION Consumers Power Company Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant Docket No. 50-255 License No. DPR-20 EA 96-092 During an NRC inspection conducted on May 24 through July 7, 1997, one violation of NRC requirements was identified. In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NU REG 1600, the violation is listed below:
10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, "Instructions, Procedures, and Draw~ngs,"
requires, 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 and drawings.
Palisades Plant Facility Operating License, section 2.c.(1 ), states, in part, that "CPCo is authorized to operate the facility at steady-state reactor core power levels not in excess of 2530 megawatts thermal (100 percent rated power) in accordance with the conditions specified herein."
Contrary to the above, on February 7, 1996, the operations shift conducted an activity affecting quality, the delithiation of the Reactor Coolant System, using General Operating Procedure (GOP)-12, Revision 12, Section 5.3.1 a, a procedure inappropriate to the circumstances in that it allowed plant operators to operate the plant at 100.99 percent power (2555 megawatts thermal), a steady state power level greater than the license limit.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I)
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Consumers Power 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 Ill, 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. Your response may reference or include previous docketed correspondence, if the correspondence adequately addresses the required-response.--lf-an adequate reply is not received within-the-time*-
specified in this Notice, an order or a Demand for Information 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. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.
9709230081 970905 PDR ADOCK 05000255 G
Notice of Violation Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of ihformation will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2. 790(b) to suppor.t a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
Dated at Lisle, Illinois, this 5th day of September 1997