ML19209A073
| ML19209A073 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | La Crosse File:Dairyland Power Cooperative icon.png |
| Issue date: | 09/07/1979 |
| From: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7910020196 | |
| Download: ML19209A073 (1) | |
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GLEN ELLYN,ILLINolS 60137 Docket No. 50-409 Dairyland Power Cooperative ATTN:
Mr. F. W. Lind'r General Manager SEP 7 1979 2615 East Avenue - South La Crosse, WI 54601 Gentlemen:
With this Information Notice the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is extending an existing mechanism previously used for informing facility licensees of significant operating events to include informing operator licensees of significant events which could impact on conditions of their NRC licenses.
This Information Notice is being reissued to correct a word omission and a punctuation error that, when taken together, completely changed the intent of a statement. The changed statement is underlined in the text of the Information Notice.
It is requested that the facility licensee provide copies of this Information Notice to all NRC licensed individuals at the facility.
No specific responer is requested at this time.
If you have questions regarding this matter please contact the Director of the appropriate NRC Regional Office.
Sincerely, 0-ames G. Keppler Director
Enclosure:
IE Information Notice No. 79-20, Rev. 3 ci fencl:
Mr. R. E. Shimshak, Plant Super.
Central Files Director, NRR/DPM Director, NRR/ DOR PDR Local PDR NSIC TIC Anthony Roisman, Esq., Attorney M
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7908220108 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND EMFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 September 7, 1979 IE Information Notice No. 79-20 Rev. 1 NRC ENFORCEMENT POLICY - NRC LICENSED INDIVIDUALS
Background:
In the past, NRC licensed individuals haw been cited by the NRC for failure to comply with the conditions of their licanses.
These items of noncompliance can generally be characterized as serious oc repeated failures to follow reactor operating procedures.
Two recent even b involving the radiation overexposure of NRC licensed individuals through '. heir violation of utility procedures, facility Technical Specifications and the Code of Federal Regulations have raised questions about the exercise of their responsibilities.
The purpose of this Information Notice is two-fold:
(1) To remind the NRC licensed individuals of their re< onsibilities, not only in the proper operation of the facility controls, _.
1 compliance with the facility administrative procedures, and (2) To summarize the enforcement sanctions available to the NRC for use against licensed individuals.
Description of Circumstances:
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Responsibilities Facility licensees are charged with the responsibility to design, construct and operate their plants in accordance with NRC requirements to assure that public health and safety are protected.
The role of NRC licensed individuals is no less important in the overell Regulatory scheme.
The NRC recognizes that timely actions by NRC licensed indivi-duals are an important part of safety.
Reliance on these actions is a part of the defense-in-depth concept.
Specifically, the NRC requires that:
(1) Only licensed operators are permitted to manipulate the controls that directly affect reactivi, (2) Licensed operators are requi DUPLICATE DOCUMENT all times during the operati Entire document previously e:itered jjg g, into system under: 790822.0/08 ANO No. of pages: [}}