05000313/LER-1978-031, Forwards LER 78-031/03L-0

Forwards LER 78-031/03L-0

ML19270F552
Person / Time
Site:	Arkansas Nuclear
Issue date:	02/08/1979
From:	David Williams ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT CO.
To:	Madsen G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
Shared Package
ML19270F553	List: 05000313/LER-1978-031, Forwards LER 78-031/03L-0 05000368/LER-1978-031-03, /03L-0 on 781207:failure to Perform Semiannual Surveillance on Triaxial response-spectrum Recorders 2XR-8350 as Scheduled on 781005.Caused by Personnel Error
References
1-029-7, 1-29-7, NUDOCS 7902150429
Download: ML19270F552 (2)

LER-1978-031, Forwards LER 78-031/03L-0

Event date:
Report date:
3131978031R00 - NRC Website

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m' ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY POST OFFICE BOX 551 LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS 72203 (501)371-4000 February 8, 1979 1-029-7 2-029-S Mr. G. L. Madsen, Chief Reactor Operations 6 Nuclear Support Office of Inspection S Enforcement U. S. Nuclear Regu1atory Commission Region IV 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, Texas 76011 Subject: Arkansas Nuclear One-Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-313,50-36S License Nos. DPR-51, NPF-6

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Reportable Occurrence 50-36S/78-31 (File: 2-1511.1, 2-0520, 1511.1, 0520)

Gentlemen:

As you know from previous conversations, based on our January 17, 1978, letter on the ANO-1 docket documenting NRC staff instructions regarding the reportability, under degraded mode reporting requirements, of inoperable equipment for which a report is required if the inoperability is extended beyond a specified time period (with no operating restrictions),

we determined that a previous failure to perform the surveillance

. requirements of Technical Specification 4.3.3.3.1 within the specified time interval 25% was no~. reportable because the surveillance had been performed before the specified interval + 25% + the 30 days allowed by Technical Specification 3.3.3.3.a.

We now understand, based on a subsequent phone conversation with Messrs. Engle and Brinkman on February 8, 1979, that the previously documented staff instructions are no longer valid.

We are therefore filing the subject report now based on Mr. Brinknan's ruling that, even though no action is required unless the equipment is inoperable for more than 30 days, operation with the equipment inoperable for any period of time is operation in a degraded mode.

Mr. Engle will be contacting the ANO-1 NRC project nanager to request an administrative change to the ANO-1 technical specifications properly clarifying the intent of the appropriate Fire Protection Technical Specifications given the change in the staff's instructions.

This clarification will be consistent with conversations that we had with the staff prior to the Janusry 17, 197S, letter in which we requested but were denied such clarification.

Therefore, until that clarification is issued the ANO-1 Technical specifications 780215oggy ME ME3E A WOOLE SOUT-U%U T E S ' v 5TE Y

>! r. G. L. Madsen February 8, 1979 to which the January 17, 1978, clarification was addressed will continue to be implemented according to their intent as do umented in the January 17, 1978, letter.

Very truly yours, l

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Daniel H. Williams Manager, Licensing DHN:1g ec:

Mr. John G. Davis, Acting Director Mr. N. D. Johnson Office of Inspection S Enforcement U. S. Nuclear Regulatory U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 P. O. Box 2090 Russellville, Arkansas 72801 Mr. Norman M. Haller, Director Office of Management Information and Program Control Washington, D. C. 20555