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Forwards IE Insp Rept 50-309/81-16 on 810721-24 & Notice of Violation
ML20010H365
Person / Time
Site: Maine Yankee
Issue date: 09/01/1981
From: Brunner E
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To: Groce R
Maine Yankee
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See also: IR 05000309/1981016

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Gentlemen:

Subject:

Inspection Report No. 50-309/81-16

This refers to the routine inspection conducted by Mr. J. C. Jang of tnis

office on July 21-24, 1981 at Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Station, Wiscasset,

Maine of activities authorized by NRC License No. CPR-36 and to the

discussions of our findings Sold by Mr. J. C. Jang with Mr. E. Wood and others

of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.

Areas examinec' 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

examinations of procedures and representative records, interviews with

personnel, and observations by the inspector.

b: addition, our Mobile Laboratory was also brought to your site and used by

the inspector to make certain independent measurements. The basic purpose of

these independent measurements is to verify your capability for analyzing

radioactive effluents, and to achieve and maintain comparable methods of

analyses between your facility and the NRC. The complete data from these

measurements will be reported in a subsequent Inspection Report.

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

activities was not conducted in fell compliance wi d NRC requirements, as set

forth in the Notice of Violation, enclosed herewith as Appendix A.

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of noncompliance i.as been categorized into the 1svels described in the Federal

Register Notice (45 FI' 66754) dated October 7,1980. You are required to

respond to this letter and in preparing your response, you chould follow the

instructions in Appendix A.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the Commission's 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 contracters)

believe to be exempt from disclosure under 10 CFR 9.5(a)(4), it is necessary

that you (a) notify +.his office by telephone within ten (10) days from th

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Cate of this letter of your intention to file a request for withholding; and

(b) submit within 25 days from the date of this letter a written application

to this office to withhold such information.

Consistent with secticn

2.790(b)(1), any such application must be accompanied by an affidavit executed

by the owner of the information which identiffes the document or part sougnt

to be withheld, and which contains a full statement of the reasons on the

basis which it is claimed that the information should be withheld from public

disclosure. This section further requires the statement to address with

specificity the considerations listed in 10 CFR 2.790(b)(4). The information

sought to be withheld shall be incorporated as far as possible into a separate

part of the affidavit.

If we do not hear from you in this regard within the

specified periods noted above, the report will be placed in the fublic

Document Room. The ttlephone notification of your intent to request

withholding, or any request for an e< tension of the 10 day period which you

believe necessary, should be made to the Supervisor, Files, Mail and Records,

USNRC Region I, at (215) 337-5223.

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

to discuss them with you.

Since: 61y,

Original signed by

Robert M. Gallo for:

Eldon J. Brunner, Chief,

Projects Branen #1, Division of

Resident and Project Inspection

Enclosures:

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Appendix A, Notice of Violation

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Office of Inspection and Enforcement Inspection

Report Number 50-309/81-16

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E. Wood, Plant Superintendent

E. W. Thurlow, President

J. H. Garrity, Director, Nuclear Engineering & Licensing

Public Document Room (PDR)

Local Public Document Room (LPDR)

Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC)

NRC Resident Inspector

State of Maine

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Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)

Chief, Operational Support Sectinr. (w/o encis)

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