ML19339B386

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Forwards IE Insp Rept 50-029/76-06 on 760209-13 & Notice of Violation
ML19339B386
Person / Time
Site: Yankee Rowe
Issue date: 03/15/1976
From: Brunner E
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To: Groce R
YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC CO.
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Download: ML19339B386 (2)


See also: IR 05000029/1976006

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License No. DPR-3

Attention: Mr. Robert H. Groce

Inspection No. 76-06

Docket No. 50-29

Licensing Engineer

20 Turnpike Road

Westborough, Massachusetts 01581

Gentlemen:

This refers to the inspection conducted by Mr. J. Smith of this office

on February 9-13, 1976 at your Yankee Atomic Electric Station in Rowe,

Massachusetts and your offices in South Borough, Massachusetts of

activities authorized by NRC License No. DPR-3 and to the discussions of

our findings held by Mr. D. Haverkamp of this office with Mr. Actio and

other members of your staff at the conc 3tision of the inspection, and to

a subsequent telephone discussion between Mr. D. Haverkamp and Mr. Autio

on February 18, 1976.

Areas examined during this inspection are described in the Office of

Inspection and Enforcement Inspection Report which is enclosed with this

letter. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of selective exam-

inations of procedures and representative records, interviews with

personnel, and observations by the inspector.

Based' on the results of this inspection, it appears that certain of your

activi'.4.es were not conducted in full compliance with NRC requirements,

as set dorth in the Notice of Violation, enclosed herewith as Appendix

A.

The.m items of noncompliance have been categorized into the levels

as desc':ibed in our correspondence to you dcted December 31, 1974. This

notice is sent to you pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.201 of the

NRC's " Rules of Ftactice", Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations.

Section 2.201 req tires you to submit to this office, within twenty (20)

days of your rece;pt of this notice, a written statement or explanation

in reply including:

(1) corrective steps which have been taken by you

and the results achieved; (2) corrective steps which will be taken to

avoid further items of noncompliance; and (3) the date when full com-

pliance will be achieved.

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As indicated in Appendix A, we note that you have ccrrected Item B, and

therefore you need not address this item in your response. We also note

in Appendix A that the immediate corrective actions for Item A were

completed; however, your response should detail the actions to prevent

recurrence.

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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

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

If this

report contains any information that you (or your contractor) believe to

be proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application

within 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 prepared 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 speci-

fied period, the report will be placed in the Public Document Room.

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

pleased to discuss them with you.

Sincerely,

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Brunner, Chief

Re tor Operations and Nuclear

Support Branch

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Enclosures:

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. Appendix A, Notice of Violations

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Region I Inspection Report No. 50-29/76-06

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H. Autio, Plant Superintendent

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