ML19330B804

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Forwards IE Mgt Insp Rept 50-312/80-15 on 800414-18,21-25 & 0505-08,notice of Violation & Notice of Deviation
ML19330B804
Person / Time
Site: Rancho Seco
Issue date: 07/16/1980
From: Crews J
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
To: Mattimoe J
SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
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Download: ML19330B804 (2)


See also: IR 05000312/1980015

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Sacramento Municipal Utility District

P. O. Box 15380

Sacramento, California 95813

Attention: Mr. John J. Mattimoe

Assistant General Manager

and Chief Engineer

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Gentlemen:

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Subject: NRC !!anagement Inspection of Rancho Seco

This refers to the management inspection conducted by Messrs. A. T. Gody,

D. G. Hinckley, D. R. Hunter, W. D. Shafer and J. D. Woessner of the NRC/01E

Performance Appraisal Branch (PAB) on April 14 through May 8,1980. of

activities at the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station and the Sacramento

Municipal Utility District Offices as authorized by Operating License No. DPR-54

and to the discussion of .the findings with Mr. J. J. Mattimoe and other members

of your staff by Messrs. H. D. Thornburg, W. D. Shafer and others of the PAB

on May 8,1980, at your general offices.

The enclosed inspection report identifies the areas examined during this

inspection. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of a comprehensive

eiimination of your management controls over licensed activities which included

an examination of procedures and records plus extensive interviews with many of

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your management and supervisory personnel.

This is one of a series of management appraisal inspections conducted by the

NRC Performance Appraisal Branch.

The results of this inspection will be used

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to evaluate the performance of your management control systems from a national

perspective. The enclosed inspection report addresses the enforcement findings

from this inspection. A supplemental report issued by the Performance Appraisal

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Branch presents inspection findings (observations) which along with the enforce-

ment findings, will provide the basis for the subsequent performance appraisal.

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Paragraph 2 of the enclosed report provides additiunal information regarding the

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findings and how they will be utilized.

Five unresolved items are identified in the inspection report.

These items will

be reviewed during subsequent inspections.

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July 16,1980

During this inspection, it was found that certain of your activities appeared

to be in noncompliance with NRC requirements, as set forth in the Notice of

Violation, enclosed herewith as Appendix A.

This notice is sent to you pur-

suant to the provisions of Section 2.201 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice,"

Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations.

Section 2.201 requires you to

submit to this office within twenty (20) days of your receipt of this notice

a written statement or explanation in reply, including for each item of non-

compliance:

(1) corrective action taken and the results achieved; (2) cor-

rective action to be taken to avoid further noncompliance; and (3) the date

when full compliance will be achieved.

During this inspection, it was also found that some of your activities appeared

to deviate from your commitments as set forth in the Notice of Deviation enclosed

herewith as Appendix B.

Please submit to this office, within twenty (20) days

of your receipt of this notice, a written statement or explanation in reply

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including the cause of the deviation and the steps you plan to take to assure

timely implementation and completion of corrective actions.

Your written reply

should include the date(s) when your corrective action (s) were or will be

completed.

In accordance with Section 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2,

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and the enclosed

inspection report will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

If this

report contains any information that you or your contractors believe to be

proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within twenty

(20) days to this office ,to withhold such information from public disclosure.

Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on the basis

of which it is claimed that the information is proprietary, and should be pre-

pared so that proprietary information identified in the application is contained

in a separate part of the document.

If we do not hear from you in this regard

within the specified period, the report will be placed in the Public Document

Room.

Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be glad to

discuss them with you.

Sincerely,

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L.' TEws, Chief

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Support Branch

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Enclosures:

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APPENDIX A - Notice of Violation

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APPENDIX B - Notice of Deviation

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IE Inspection Reprt No. 50-312/80-15

cc w/o Enclosure 3:

R. J. Rodriguez, SMUD

L. G. Schwieger, SMUD

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