ML19338F898
| ML19338F898 | |
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| Site: | Arkansas Nuclear  |
| Issue date: | 10/20/1980 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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pO APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Arkansas Power and Light Company Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-313/50-368 Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted during the period of June 17-20, 1980 and July 14-18, 1980, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC regulations and the conditions of your licenses, DPR-51 and NPF-6, as indicated below:
A.
Criterion V of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, states that activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions.
The licensee has adopted a Quality Assurance Program to meet the requirements of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, which includes a Quality Assurance Manual.
Section 16.2.3 of the licensee's Quality Assurance Manual requires that the corrective action for deficiencies and nonconformances shall be 4
prompt.
1.
Based on the result of an NRC inspection conducted during the period of July 8 - August 9, 1979, a Notice of Violation was issued on Augusts24, 1979, for failure to conduct requalification lectures and to perform performance evaluations.
The licensee, in its September 14, 1979 letter in response to the Notice of Violation, committed to take corrective action to preclude recurrences of such noncompliances including incorporation of a notification requirement in the Training Implementation Procedure and the development of an evaluation status log.
Contrary to the above, as of July,1980, neither the notification requirement nor the evaluation status log committed to by the licensee had been implemented.
This is an infraction (Civil Penalty: $4,000.00).
2.
Based on the result of an NRC inspection conducted during the period of July 30 - August 10, 1979, a Notice of Violation was issued on December 6, 1979, that included an item of noncompliance with re-quirements for retraining and replacement training.
The licensee, in its January 25, 1980 letter in response to the Notice of Violation, indicated that corrective action would include a revision to the licensee's Training System to provide for training of certain positions to begin by the first quarter of 1980.
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Appendix A (Continued) licensee committed to develop a procedure specifically to define training procedures including retraining requirements for all employees, and methods for evaluating training effectiveness.
Contrary to the above, as of July 1980, significant portions of the -
1 training committed to by the licensee had not been conducted.
Furthermore, the procedure committed to by the licensee had not been
' implemented.
-This is an infraction (Civil Penalty: $4,000.00).
B.
Technical Specification 6.4.1 for ANO Units 1 and 2 requires that, "A retraining program for the facility staff shall be maintained and shall meet or exceed the requirements and recommendations of Section 5.5 of ANSI N18.1-1971 and Appendix 'A' of 10 CFR Part 55."
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10 CFR Part 55, Appendix A, paragraph 2, requires that the requalification program include preplanned lectures on a regular and continuing basis throughout the license period in those areas where annual operator and senior operator written examinations indicate that scope and depth of coverage is needed in specific areas, including plant instrumentation and control systems.
Contrary to the above, the annual operator and senior operator written examinations administered during May-June 1979 identified specific weaknesses in the area of instrumentation and control systems and lectures were not conducted on a regular and continuing basis to correct these specific weaknesses.
This is an infraction (Civil Penalty: $4,000.00).
2.
10 CFR Part 55, Appendix A, paragraph 4.b, requires that the requal-ification program include written examinations which determine licensed operator and senior operator knowledge of subjects covered in the requalification program.
Contrary to the above, written examinations were not administered to several individuals who participated in the requalification program This is an infraction (Civil Penalty: $4,000.00).
C.
Technical Specification 6.4.2 for ANO Unit I requires fire brigade training which meets or exceeds the requirements of Section 27 of the NFPA Code-1975 except that the frequency of training shall be six times per year.
The Unit 2 Technical Specification, Section 6.4.2, requires the same scope and depth of training except that training shall be held quarterly.
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Appendix A (Continued) Contrary to the above, during the period January to July 1980, fire brigade training was conducted only once for each Unit fire brigade.
This is an infraction (Civil Penalty: $4,000.00).
D.
10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVII, requires that sufficient records be maintained to furnish evidence of activities affecting quality.
Further, Criterion XVII requires that records shall be identifiable and retrievable.
Chapter 17 of the Arkansas Power and Light Company Quality Assurance Manual states, in part, that " records storage shall provide for retrieval of information without undue delay," and that " permanent records shall be stored in the records vault..
Contrary to the above:
1.
Although sixty lectures were conducted for the Unit 2 requalification program, only twelve of these lectures were documented.
2.
Although twenty-four lectures were conducted for the Unit 1 requalification program, only seventeen of these lecteres were documented.
3.
A record of respiratory protection training was not maintained for one member of the plant staff who had received the specified training.
This item is a deficiency. (Civil Penalty: $1,500.00) j i
This Notice of Violation is sent to Arkansas Power and Light Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.201 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2, i
Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations.
You are hereby required to submit to this office, within twenty-five days of the date of this letter, a written statement or explanation in reply, in:.luding for each item of noncompliance:
(1) admission or. denial of the alleged item of noncompliance: (2) the reasons for the items of noncompliance, if admitted; (3) the corrective steps which
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have been taken by you and the results achieved; (4) the corrective steps j
which will be taken to avoid further noncompliance; and (5) the date when compliance will be achieved.
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