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i February 28, 1991 For:
The Comissioners From:
James L. Blaha, Assistant for (
-ations, Office of the EDO
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEs CNDING FEBRVARY 22, 1991 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Comissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Nuclear Reactor Regulation A
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards B
Nuclear Regulatory Research C
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data D
Governmental & Public Affairs E
General Counsel F*
Administration G
Information Resources Management H
Controller I*
Personnel J
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil P,ights K*
Enforcement L
Consolidation M
Regional Offices N
Executive Director for Operations 0*
Items Addressed by the Comission P*
Meeting Notices Q
Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for R
external distribution)
- No input this week.
/ James L. Blaha
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James L. Blaha, OEDO 492-1703 w M TEla WEEKLYINFOR
HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT Week Ending February 22, 1991 Limerick, Units 1 and 2 On Friday, February 22, 1991, the Lieutenant Governor of Pe"
!vania (PA),
Mr. Mark Singel, will be completing his tours of commercial n.
,ar power sites in PA, with Limerick as the final stop. The Lieutenant Governor and entourage will be accompanied by Jim Wiggins (Region-1) and the Senior Resident Inspector on a plant familiarization tour.
The Lieutenant Governor will be focusing on Emergency Preparedness and Offsite Emergency Planning in light of the recent bad press on these issues.
The tours will be conducted from 9:00 a.m. to approximately 1:00 p.m. at which time a press conference will be held.
Revision of the CERCLA National Priorities List On Monday February 11, 1991, the Environmental Protection Ao ncy (EPA) announced in the Federal Register (56 FR 5598) the latest revisinn to the National Priorities List (NPL). The comprehensive Environmental Resnons's, Com3ensation, and liability Act (CERCLA or "Superfund") requires that EPA include in tie National Contingency Plan (NCP) a list of national priorities among known, or threatened, releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, and that this list be revised at least annually.
This latest revision adds six sites to the NPL, one of which involves radioactive material (Kerr-McGee, Kress Creek / West Branch of the DuPage River, DuPage County, Illinois). The revision also includes score revisions for six sites. These score revisions are based upon public comments and additional information developed by EPA and the States.
Because of re-scoring, one site involving radioactive material has been dropped from proposed listing on the NPL (Kerr-McGee, Cushing Plant, Cushing, Oklahoma). The fir'1 NPL consists of 1,189 sites with 116 being in the Federal sector. No sites rs ain as " proposed sites" under consideration for addition to the NPL.
4 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Items of Interest Week-Ending February 22,:1991
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Brunswick, Units 1-and 2 On February 20, 1991, Carol _ina Power & Light company _ informed the staff that they have identified various-Vent and drain lines that were not properly hydrostatically tested between the first and second isolation valves (32 lines on Unit 1, five of which have undergone replacement and testing, and a similar number on Unit 2), This test is part of Section IX of the ASME Code's require-ment for the first ten-year Inservice Inspection (ISI) program. The plant is
- now in~its second ten-year ISI program.
Currently, Unit 2 is at full power and Unit 1 is tentatively scheduled to-startup from reload 7 outage on February 21, 1991. The licensee has provided the staff.with a safety assessment to justify the continued operation of Unit 2 and the restart of Unit 1.
LIn its safety _ assessment, the licensee submitted 1)'that the isolation valves in question are manual, have been independently verified in their closed position prior to the unit startup, and are inaccessible during power operation; 2) that the plant Technical Specifications associated with the j
structural integrity of the reactor coolant system pressure boundary are met; I
and-3) that the margin of safety has not be'n reduced.
In-' addition, with: regard to.the restart of Unit 1, the licensee submitted that, in its current plant startup configuration, many of these drain and. vent lines cannot be individually isolated ~and pressurized; therefore, a complete vessel hydrostatic test would be required, adding about two weeks to the present outage.- The licensee asserts that the retest would be an undue hardship and would be contrary to the public interest.
As a corrective measure, the licensee has committed to_ complete the required hydrostati.c te_ sting of these vent and drain lines during the next scheduled refueling outage for each unit. The Region _is considering an enforcement-action for-this licensee-identified nonconformance with the ASME Code requirements.
BWR' Standby Liquid Control System Pump NPSH The staff has activated the_ industry BWR Regulatory Response Group (RRG) to:
address questions related tc the adequacy of available net _ positive suction -
= head'(NPSH) for Standby Liquid Control System (SLCS) pumps. Tests recently-performed by Comonwealth Edison Company for its Quad Cities Station showed
=that-pump cavitation occurred with test tank levels above those called for by the system design.
The SLCS system.is required to provide liquid " poison" (i.e., neutron absorber) in the event that-control-rod insertion is inadequate to achieve and l
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storage tank level decrease results in a decrease of available NPSH.
Insuf-ficient NPSH can-lead to reduced pumping capability or pump failure and there-fore incomp.lete mitigation of control-rod insertion failure events, such as ATWS.
Since the basic SLCS design is similar at all BWRs the staff is con-cerned that the question of adequate NPSH may apply to other BWRs.
The staff questioned whether adequate testing has been performed to assure the SLCS pumps will perform reliably throughout the required operating ranges.
The staff issued an Information Notice and on February 21, met with the RRG.
Preliminary data gathered by RRG, including test results collected thus far, indicates the NPSH problem is probably not widespread. Further, the representativeness of test conditions for the failed Quad Cities test is being studied. The staff plans to brief CRGR on February 26, 1991, and will decide on any further action after reviewing the RRG submittal on all plant test results, expected March 1, 1991.
Limerick, Units 1 and 2 On Friday, February 22, 1991. the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (PA),
Mr. Mark Singel, will be completing his tours of comercial nuclear power sites in PA, with Limerick as the final stop. The Lieutenant Governor and entourage will be accompanied by Jim Wiggins (Region I) and the Senior Resident Inspector on a plant familiarizatic tour.
The Lieutenant Governor wi?1 be focusing on Emergency Preparedness and Offsite Emergency Planning in light of the recent bad press on these issues.
The tours will be conducted from 9:00 a.m. to approximately 1:00 p.m. at which time a press conference will be held.
Palisades The Palisades license conversion (from Provisional to a Full Term Operating License) was approved this week, Palisades obtained a construction permit on March 14, 1967.
The plant achieved initial criticality under a Provisional Operating License on May 24, 1971, and entered commercial operation on December 31, 1971.
The Full Term Operating License authorizes the plant to be operated at power levels up to 2530 MWt until I
March 14, 2007. Consumers Power Company does plan to apply for regaining the construction period, and will apply that four year period to the existing operating license.
Steam Generator Replacement Pr9 ject (SGRP)
Last week the plant satisfactorily completed the Structural Integrity Test and the Containment Integrated Leak Rate Test (containment pressure was raised to 63#, and then sustained at 55#, respectively). Region 111 review of test results is ongoing.
The Project Manager and the Project Director visited the plant on 2/14/91 and w?re briefed on the startup test program. Testing is on schedule, and the plant plans on leaving Cold Shutdown on 2/23/91.
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. Yankee Rowe There are two recent developments of concern related to the Yankee liowe Reactor Vessel Embrittlement issue:
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Ths fluence as reported by Yankee has been raised by 13% because Westinghouse has found that its calculated fluences are low by 13% when compared to actual operating reactor data.
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Flaw density as found in recent samplings of the Midland Reactor Vessel welds is a factor of 45 times higher than projected by Marshall distribution used by the licensee in the Yankee Rowe Reactor Yessel evaluation.
Those developments, as_well as other items pertaining to the Yankee Reactor
- Vessel, will be discussed with the staff in a meeting-on March 4, 1991,-at 1:00 p.m. in Room 12-B-11.
-Pilot Motor-0perated Yalve (MOV) Inspection During the week of February 11. 1991, the Special Inspection-Branch conducted
-a pilot inspection related to Generic Letter 89-10, motor-operated _va hes, at the Farley Nuclear Plant. Overall, the team determined that Alabama Power had developed a good MOV program. However, the team identified-several.
. deficiencies. The most significant were related to weaknesses in Alabama Power's programs to: (1) establish similarity between tested and non-tested-valves-and, (2) use of valve vendor and Movats data in the establishment of valve thrust requirements. After at least one more pilot inspection, the inspection module will be made available for Region use.
Browns Ferry Unit 2 ORAT Inspection AnOperationalReadinessAssessmentTeamledbytheSpecialInspecdoIBranch with. support from Regions I, II, and IV concluded the first week of onsite inspection at Browns Ferry Unit 2 on February 16, 1991.
Team members evaluated' programs in plant operation, maintenance, surveillance, training and engineering support that support.the plant's return to power operations in a manner that will ensure public health and safety. The site management organization and activities-were also reviewed.
The inspection will continue onsite next week with the exit meeting currently scheduled for-March 1.
In addition to the current effort, another week of inspection of operation activities just prior to criticality is recommended by DRIS.
NRR/RES Human' Factors-Research Coordination Meeting On February 20 1991, members.of DLPQ, DREP, DOEA, and DST met with their RES counterparts to. discuss NRR user needs for research in the areas of human-factors, risk and-reliability, and management and organization. Areas of interest included future NRR user needs, advanced reactor support and organizational factors research. NRR and RES will continue to meet on a
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-quarterly basis at the management level to discuss issues of mutual concern in order to ensure the effectiveness of RES support for NRR programs in.the above areas.
RESTART SCHEDULE 2/22/91 COMMISSION PLANT SHUTDOWN BRIEFING PLANT RESTART BROWNS FERRY 2 9/15/84C 4/91 4/91*
- Commission decision prior to restart authorization.
ENCLOSURE A FEBRUARY 22, 1991
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Inspection
.On February 18, 1991, inspectors from the IAEA arrived at General Electric (GE)
Wilmington Fuel Fabrication Plant in accordance with the Short Notice Randon
-Inspection program. During this inspection the IAEA reviewed GE's ledger.
verified the content of some UF cyliriders via-nondestructive analysis and statedenrichmen$samplesforoff-sitedestructiveenalysestoverifyGE's obtitined some VO level.
Regulatory Guide for low Enrichment Activities Draft Regulatory Guide DG-5002, " Material Control and Accounting for Uranium Enrichment Facilities Authorized to Produce SNM of low Strategic Significance",
was made available for public comment on February 13, 1991.
The Regulatory Guide is a companion document for the proposed MC&A enrichnent rule (10 CFR -74.33). -Both the proposed rule and the draft Regulatory Guide are presently subject to public comment, i
Analytic System and Software for Evaluating Safeguards and Security (ASSESS)
The Division of Safeguards and Transportation is evaluating the Department of Energy (DOE) developed ASSESS methodology as a potential analytical tool in the analysis of licensee performance.
In anticipation of ASSESS application at.a Category I facility, arrangements have been made for two licensee personnel and one NRC Safeguards staff member to attend the DOE Vulnerability Assessment Course at Albuquerque, New Mexico, to gain experience in the implementation of ASSESS. The course will last for two weeks starting February 25, 1991.
Status of Northern States Power Dry Storage !.icensing Proceeding On August 31, 1990, Northern States Power Company (NSP) applied for a license to construct and operate an Independent Spent Fuel' Storage Installation
-(ISFSI) at their Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant _ site in Minnesota.
NSP needs to have additional storage capacity by 1994 to continue operating Prairie Island. NSP plans to store the spent fuel in TN-40 casks built by
-Transnuclear Incorporated.
The State of Minnesota asked the Atomic' Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) for additional time to decide whether or not it will file contentions. ASLB granted the State a two week extension to March 1, 1991, to file.
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.High-Level Waste Technical Exchange On February 20,-1991, staff from the Division of High-level Waste Management conducted a technical exchange with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The purpose of the technical exchange was to discuss the results of the staff review of the comments and suggestions previously made by 00E and others on ENCLOSURE 8 FEBRUARY 22, 1991
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the draft staff technical position (STP) to investigate fault displacenent and seismic hazards at a geologic repository.
In addition to DOE, representatives from the State of Nevada, Clark County, Nevada, the Edison Electric Institute,
'the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Advisory Comittee on Nuclear Waste were in attendance. The draft STP was considered by those in attendance to be substantially improved and DOE indicated that the draft STP addressed several of its major concerns. Based on the coments received, the staff will revise the draft STP and recirculate it for public coment.
Revision of the CERCLA National Priorities List On Monday Februsry 11, 1991, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in the Federal Register (56 FR 5598) the latest revision to the National Priorities List (NPL).
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com)ensation, and liability Act (CERCLA or "Superfund") requires that EPA include in tie National Contingency Plan (NCP) a list of national priorities among known, or threatened, releases of hazardous substances, pollutt.nts, or contaminants, and that this list be revised at least annually.
This latest revision adds six sites to the NPL, one of which involves radioactive matorial (Kerr-McGee, Kress Creek / West Branch of the DuPage River DuPage County, Illinois). The revision also includes score revisions for six sites. These score revisions are based upon public coments and additional information developed by EPA and the States.
Because of re-scoring, one site involving radioactive material has been dropp"i from proposed listing on the NPL (Kerr-McGee, Cushing Plant, Cushing, Oklahoma). The final NPL consists of 1,189 c
sites with 116 being in the Federal sector. No sites remain as " proposed sites" under consideration for addition to the NPL.
Meeting with Waste Management, Inc.
On February 15, 1991, representatives from Waste Management, Inc. (WM) met with staff rtembers of HMSS, NRR, GPA, OGC and RES. WM was represented by five of its companies:
Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (CWM); Waste Management of North America, Inc. (WMNA); Waste Management, Inc.; F/sdical Services, Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. (WTI); and Chem-Nuclear Services, Inc. (CNSI). The purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum to exchange information on several waste management issues of mutual interest. The NRC made presentations regarding its framework for control of radioactive materials at NRC licensees and the BRC policy statement. Mi made a presentation describing the general principles of its radioactive monitoring programs. They also described their corporate-wide position that wastes containing radioactive materials are prohibited from Mi treatment and disposal facilities except the Barnwell low-level radioactive waste disposal site.
Special Comittee on Vadose 2cne Monitoring Fred Ross, hydrogeologist with the Division of Low-Level Waste Management and Decomissioning (LLWD), participated on the Special Comittee on Vadose Zone Monitoring organized and chaired by the California Department of Health Ser-vices (DHS). The request for an HMSS participant came from GPA. The comittee convened on February 14 and 15, 1991, in Sacramento, California.
The ten member comittee, composed of experts in the field of vadose zone monitoring and low-level waste disposal regulations, was charged with aiding DHS in f
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reaching a decision regarding the adequacy of the vadose zone monitoring plan proposed by US Ecology, Inc., for the Ward Valley low-level waste (LLW) dis-posal site.. The proposed plan centers on monitoring and sampling beneath the disposal units from angled bore holes originatir.g at the disposal unit margins.
The committee was asked to decide whether the proposed monitoring system is adequate to detect releases of radionuclides that could lead to groundwater degradation of the underlying aquifer and, if not, suggest how the proposed system should be changed._ Various alternatives and or additions to the pro-posed system were discussed and evaluated by the committee. The committee made specific recommendations for improving the monitoring plan.
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4; Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Items of Interest Week Ending February ?2, 1991 Meeting with C. Sebastian Alcot On February 19.-1991,-representatives of the Office of Research, Radiation Protection and Health Effects Branch, met with Mr. C. Sebastian Aloot, Chairman, Nuclear Claims Tribunal Republic of the Marshall Islands. The discussions centered on various aspects of current radiation protection and health effects issues including recent research findings on low level radiation health effects, the BRC policy statement, acceptable levels of radiation-for
- unrestricted use,-and the impacts of the BEIR Y report and the upcoming revision-of.the ICRP recomendations.
Draft Regulatory Guide on Material Control snd Accounting (MC&A) for Uranium Enrienment Facilities Authorized to Produce Special Nuclear Material of Low Strategic Significance Earlier this month, the staff published Draft Regulatory Guide DG-5002 on Material Control and Accounting (MC&A) for Uranium Enrieb*ent facilities Authorized to Produce Special Nuclear Material of Low Strategic Significance for public comments. The guide provides an acceptable method for meeting the requirements of the pro)osed rule, 10 CFR 74.33-(55 FR-51726), on.the same subject that was publisied for public coments on December 17, 1990.- The rule and regulatory guide are being develo)ed~to support licensing of the gas centrifuge plant which the Louisiana Energy Services (LES) intends to build and operate in the near future. The plant would produce low-enriched uranium for the comercial market. The guise provides a method for preparing performance-based MC&A systems capable of protecting against the loss of uranium of low strategic significance and specifies the information that an applicant must provide in its Fundamental Nuclear Material Control-plan to be submitted to the NRC pursuant to the proposed rule. Although the impetus for their development was the anticipated application from LES, the= rule and regulatory guide are
- applicable to gas diffusion and laser separation enrichment technologies as
- well.-
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4 Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 Incident Response Branch (IRB)
On February 21, an IRB staff member participated in a briefing for the NRC Region 11 personnel and regional representatives of other federal agencies in the Atlanta area on the pending revision to the Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan (FRERP). The briefing addressed how the FRERP revision will affect the expected response by federal agencies to a radiological emergency at the NRC licensed facility.
Other federal agencies represented were the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),
Environment Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Transportation (DOT).
Department of Interior (D0I) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Diaonostic Evaluation and Incident Investigation Branch (DEIIB)
On February 14, the Oyster Creek Diagnostic Evaluation Team (DET) report was approved and transmitted to the license 6.
During the period February 18-22, a member of the DEIIB participated in the Monticello Maintenance Team Inspection.
During the period correspondence was completed to begin office review to establish rosters for DET managers and members.
Technical Training Center (TTC)
On February 19-22, a special Babcock and Wilcox (B&W) familiarization course was conducted for DOE. The course consisted of a 3-day classroom session and 1 day of simulator demonstrations. DOE is considering the use of the Washington Public Power Supply Unit 1 plant (WNP-1) as a possible productien facility and requested training for 16 of its engineers and contractors. The WNP-1 plant is the reference plant for the B&W simulator located at the TTC.
A General Electric (GE) full-course series, originally not on the schedule, began on February 18 with the GE Technology Course (R-306B). This full-course series was added because of the high demand created by technical training requirement changes and additions for Regional and Headquarters personnel.
AEOD 91 A Review of Water Hamer Events Af ter 1985 AEOD Engineering Evaluation, "A Review of Water Hammer Events After 1985," was issued on February 20, 1991.
The study evaluated 12 events from 1986 through March 1990.
It was concluded that recent event causes were enveloped by the water hammer phenomena identified during the original USI A-1 investigation and that event frequency has decreased. However, some aspects identified in the study have not been areviously emphasized and they could impact safety.
It was suggested that tTis information be disseminated to licensees. These items are:
(1) some water hammer events were the result of failure to implement the guidance issued in the resolution to USI A-1, (2) hydrodynamic interactions between systems may occur, (3) system realignments can involve complex issues ENCLOSURE D FEBRUARY 22, 1991
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. A concerning component operability as well as water hammer, and (4) RHR pump maneuvering in BWR plants has resulted in a number of isolation valve closures followed by loss of shutdown cooling and a few water hammer events.
A draft Information Notice to address these issues was included in the report.
In addition, the report suggests that investigation of the more than 20 events involving isolation valve closure when attempting to use BWR shutdown cooling should be included as part of the staff plan for evaluating safety risk during shutdown and lower power operation.
Preliminary Notifications a.
PNO-I-91-12, Maine Yankee, Maine Yankee Unplanned Shutdown Greater Than 72 Hours, b.
PNO-II-91-03, Tennessee Valley Authority (Browns Ferry Unit 2), Browns Ferry Unit 2 Fuel Load.
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Office of Governmental and Public Affairs
-Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 Oregon Radiation Control Program Review Jack Hornor, Region V State Agreements Officer, began a review of the Oregon Radiation Control Program on February 19, 1991-in Portland, Oregon.
The review will~ continue through March 1, 1991. Preliminary staff findings will be reviewed by Regional and Headquarters offices and the results of the review will be confirmed in a letter to the State,
, Utah Radiation Control Program Special Review Robert Doda, Region IV State Agreements Officer, conducted a special review of the Utah Radiation Control Program on February 19-22, 1991 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The purpose of 26is special review was to examine the Utah Bureau.of Radiation Control low 4 tel radioactive waste program. Carlton Kammerer.
Director, State Prograno, Kathleen Schneider, State Programs, and James Shaffner, NMSS, assisted Mr. Doda on the review. Preliminary staff findings will be reviewed by Regional and Headquarters-offices and the results of the
- review will be confirmed in a letter to the State.
Area Compliance Office Visits and Inspector Accompaniments Richard Woodruff, Region II State Agreements Officer, conducted visits to area compliance offices in Florida on February 19-22, 1991. Mr. Woodruff also
- conducted State inspector accompaniments while in the State. These visits and
- accompaniments are part of the radiation control 3rogram review which will be conducted.on February 25 - March 1,1991 in Ta11alassee, Florida.
. Meeting with Commonwealth of-Hassachusetts Nuclear Engineer James Muckerhide, Massachusetts nuclear engineer, was at Region I on February 20-2.1, 1991. Mr. liuckerhide attended Region I's engineering symposium. While at the Regional office, he also met with Region-I staff to discuss items of mutual interest-y l
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Congressional Affairs CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS SCHEDULE (CA) m OCA ll ASSIGNMENT DATE TIME WITNESS SUBJECT C0FMITTEE l e:
33 Gerke 02/26/91 2:30 Non-NRC Ethics & Procurement Senators Levin / Cohen Senate Governmental Affairs
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M Gerke 02/27/91 10:00 Marlup Changing Honoraria Rep. Frant/ James
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( 53 House Judiciary Madden 02/28/91 2:00 Commissioners NRC Budget Review Rep. Kostmayer/Rhoder Energy and the Environment House Interior & Insular Affairs Gerke/Callahan 3/05/91 9:30 DOE, Vendors, Nuclear Titles of Senators Johnston/ Wallop Utilities S. 341 Senate Energy & Nati Resources Callahan 03/06/91 9:00 Non-NRC Civilian Nuclear Rep. Lloyd/Morrison R&D Energy Subcommittee Science, Space & Technology Madden 03/06/91 TBA Non-NRC Substandard Parts Senators Glenn/Roth 03/07/91 9:30 NRC Senate Governmental Affairs Combs 03/07/91 2:00 TBA Comprehensive Uranium Senators Ford /
Act, S. 210 Energy R&D Senate Energy & Nati Resources Gerke 03/08/91 10:00 non-NRC Drugs in the Workplace Reps. Wyden/Broomfield Regulation, Bus Opp & Energy House Small Business Comittee Madden 03/13/91 10:00 Commissioners, NRC's FY92 Budget Rep. Bevill/Myers IG Energy & Water Development House Appropriations ry Gerke 03/19/91 9:30 Taylor, Scroggins IG Reports, CF0 Senators Graham, Simpson Fi Williams Nuclear Regulation Environment & Public Works
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Combs 03/21/91 9:30 TBA Civilian Nuclear Senators Johnston/ Wallop Waste Program Senate Energy & Nati Resources ri
t Office of Administration Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 Secure Teleconmunications The Division of Security (SEC) has received four carrying cases and four STU-IIIs, Type I, for delivery to NRC individuals for use primarily in residences. The instruments will be distributed to individuals in NMSS and SEC who have primary responsibility for after hours response to incidents resulting from the Persian Gulf War.
Significant FOIA Requests Received by the NRC for the Period February 15-?1, i991 Request for transcripts of NRC enforcement materials involving Radiation Technology, Inc., which took place in May, June, and July 1986.
(Martin Welt.
Request for five categories of records regarding Allied Signal Aerospace, Bendix Division, Teterboro, New Jersey.
(Mark Malone of Stier, Anderson &
Malone, FOIA-91-72)
Request for specified records referenced in a September 5, 1990 memorandum for Chairman Carr from Commissioner Remick entitled, "COMKC-90-12 Licenseability of Above-Ground Disposal Concepts for low-Level Wastes." (Claudia Guild of Winston & Strawn, F01A-91-65)
Request for a copy of a recent application for a nuclear material license by Easton Cardiovascular Associates of Pennsylvania.
(Christopher Chapman, Easton Radiology Associates,-P.C., F01A-91-66)
Request for records regarding the Senuoyah Fuels Corporation's uranium processing plant in-Gore, Oklahoma as a " priority" plant.
(Diane Curran of Harmon, Curran, Gallagher & Spielbe'g, FOI A-91-67) l l
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Office of Information Resources Management items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 1.
Entry of Events into SINET/EXSIS Back to Normal The local Area Network (LAN) hardware problem, which had interrupted the routine, direct entry of events data into SINET by the Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data, has been fixed, and the entry of data into the SINET data base and EXSIS is now back to normal. All event data is up-to-date in both systems.
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Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
The SQA Seminar was held on Wednesday, February 13, 1991, with representa-tives of the Software Engineering Institute (SET) speaking. The EDO made the introductory remarks and the session was well attended. Thomas Brandt provided an overview of SEI activities and Watts Humphrey spoke on "The Software Process."
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-Office of Personnel items of Interest Week Ending February _22, 1991-Smokino Ces11 tion Proaram The' fourth'in r series of " freedom From Smoking' programs presented by the
= American Lung Association began on february 19. This program will run for six weeks and 20 NRC employees are participating.
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PRA 1($haplooy Transfer Proaram Activities PRA Program Manager Lillian~ van Santen and members of the PRA Advisory Committee monitored the Region I session of the "PRA Basics for Inspection Applications' course held February 19 22. This course is-currently being revised by the PRA Advisory Committee.-
Recruitment Efforts-On February:15, Richard Lee of RES and Martie Lopez Nagle of OP recruited at
-the. University of Maryland. Several of the 12 engineering students interviewed are excellent- )rospects for the NRC Intern Program.
It was interesting to note that many of tie private companies scheduled to interview on campus cancelled,-
and the federal government is being increasingly viewed-as-an attractive place 3
to work,7 offering competitive salaries, stability and good benefits.
- Arrivals BLACK,'Eric-Word Processing Operator RI
- GARVER; Melanie Management Analyst NRR LEE. Seung.
Structural' Engineer NRR RADDATZ, Charleen Radiobiologist-RES' Departures MCELR0Y; Norman
- Sr. Health Physicist-
-NMSS SMITH., t.1:n Sr.; Program Analyst NRR 4
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Office of Enforcement Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 4
Significant Enforcement Actions 1.
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount _of $7,500 was issued on February 21, 1991 to PX Engineering, Inc.,
Boston, Massachusetts. The action was based on the licensee's former radiation safety officer, who was also the licensee's radiographer, failing to provide adequate supervision of an individual acting as a' radiographer's assistant on a number of occasions between November 1987 and June 28, 1988, and the RSD's failure to provide accurate information in response to inspec-tor's questions regarding his physical presence during the performance of radiography. The staff submitted this action for the Conmission's review-in SECY:91-020 which has been approved by the Commission.
(EN 91-011) 2.
An Order Imposing A Civil Monetary Penalty in the amount of $1,000 was issued on February 22, 1991 to the Radiology-Ultrasound-Nuclear Consultants, PA, Freehold, New Jersey. The action was based on a number of violations c
involving the licensee's teletherapy and nuclear medicine program which represented a lack of management oversight and attention to the radiation safety program. -The licensee responded to the Notice in letter dated
" June 21 to July 10,'1990," admitting one violation, denying two violations,
.and neither admitting nor denying the remaining six violations.
In addi--
tion, the licensee requested cancellation of the civil penalty. After careful consideration of the licensee's response, the staff has concluded the licensee did not provide sufficient justification to withdraw any of the. violations denied or not admitted or denied.
In addition no basis was given for_ mitigation of the civil-penalty.
(EN 90-060A)
Civil Penalty Paid The Veterans Administration Medical Center, * "
- y. New York paid the civil penalty in the amount-of $3,750. _The acti' oased on numerous violations Lthat in the aggregate, represent a signifien
- k of management control of-licensed activities.
(EA 90-209) i 1
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_t" Office of Consolidation Items of Interest Week Ending. February 22,.1991' Second Building Status In a meeting on February 12, 1991, The Tower Companies general counsel
. Arn]ld Kohn indicated that day-to-day management of the TWFN project would be directed by Mark D. Lerner through Lerner Enterprises.
Karl Kaufman, who
- managed-the architectural design and engineering as well as the interior-
- construction of OWFN through the Tower Companies, is retiring and will not
- be involved significantly in the TWFN project.
On February 21, the Director, Office of Consolidation, met with Paul Eisen, Construction Manager, and Frank G. Gambino, Office Tenant Coordinator, of
-Lerner-Corporation, and provided a brief tour of the 0WFN office sprces.
Mr. Eisen noted in that meeting that he, Mr. Cambino and Mr. Peter Rosen, an architect, would meet with representatives of Dewberry & Davis shortly to
- discuss the status of-architectural. design and construction drawings and preliminary space planning activities.
As of February 22, the developer had not formally requested a hearing with the Montgomery County Planning Board to review the developer's request for
-deferral-of the apartment building construction behind OWFN.
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l Region 1 Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 1.
NRC Region I Engineering Synoosium/ Workshop NRC Region I will be conducting a Symposium with several Workshops on February 20-21, 1991 to promote discussion and better understanding between the utility engineering manager and the NRC staff. Mr. James H. Sniezek, Deputy Executive Director for Operations, NRC, and Mr. Edward J. Mroczka, Senior Vice President, Northeast Utilities, will be the keynote speakers.
Additionally, Mr. Michael R. Tresler, Engineering Manager, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, will be a guest speaker to share experiences from an engineering manager's forum for Region V utilities.
Eight breakout groups with two sessions each are plarned to discuss (1) Elements of a Good Engineering Organization; (2) Tts Process for Reporting and Resolving Questions of Equipment and System Operability; and (3) Modifications and Design Changes at Nuclear Plants, k
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Region II Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 1.
American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT)
On February 21, the Deputy Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards met with the Charlotte, North Carolina Section of ASNT in Charlotte, horth Carolina to discuss the current status of Radiographer Certification.
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Carolina Power and Light Company On February 21, representatives of the Carolina Power and Light Company (Brunswick facility) were in the Region II Office to discuss upcoming initial and requalification Examinations with members of the operator licensing staff.
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Florida Power and Light Company On February 22, representatives of the Florida Power and Light Company were in the Regien II Office to make a presentation on Engineering Excel-lence.
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Catawba Emergency Exercise Catawba = held its annual graded emergency exercise on February 20. 1991.
The small-scale exercise was successful although one exercise weakness was identified for poor health physics pract kes during conduct of the con-current medical drill.
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Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan Workshop On February 21, Region II hosted a Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan workshop for Region II-Management as well as Federal Region IV representatives. The workshop was provided by R. Hogan /AEOD and V.
Adler/ FEMA to address the recent changes to-the Plan as well as perceived NRC interfaces with other federal agencies during an emergency.
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Georgia Power Company - Hatch Units 1 and 2 On. February 12, Hatch Unit 1 tripped and on February 14, Hatch Unit 2 tripped. On these trips, the main steam line safety relief valves (SRVs) failed to lift within the set point limits of.the Technical Specification
.(TS). -The SRVs were removed and sent to Wyle Laboratory for evaluation and to perform additional testing. The SRV set )oints were reset and'the SRVs were retested by Wyle and then reinstalled )y the licensee. The events and the cause.of the SRV set points exceeding the TS requirements are being further reviewed by the licensee, Hyle, and GE. The SRVs have bern reinstalled on Unit 1 and the unit returned on line on February 22 at 3:37 a.m.
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The SRVs are currently being reinstalled on Unit 2 and this unit is scheduled to return to power on February 24.
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Florida Power and Light Company - St. Lucie There has been local media coverage of a 1200-pound manatee that has been in the St. Lucie intake canal for approximately two weeks. The State of Florida has authority in this matter and has scheduled for Sea We-1d to
-cage and remove the manatee to a local river on Monday, February 25.
Florida Power and Light Company has been feeding the manatee four cases of iceburg lettuce (approximately 200 pounds) per day as recommended by the State of Florida.
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Region III Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991
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Youngst,wn State University On Feb-m ry 22, 1991, Dr. Carl J. Paperiello, Deputy Regional Adninistrator, along selected regional staff, con'ucted an Enforcement Conference to discus. -
n merous violations identified during a recent inspection. The type snt iumber of violations demonstrate a breakdown in management control.
The region is now considering the appropriate enforcement action.
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Midwest Nuclear Engineering Managers Forum On February 20, 1991, H. J. Miller. Director, Division of Reactor Projects, and T. O. Martin, Director, Division of Reactor Safety, attended the Midwest Nuclear Engineering Managers Forum. Representatives of all Region III utilities and NUMARC were in attendance. Major issues covered during the NRC visit included safety considerations during mid-loop operations, use of LCO maintenance, use of PRA to improve plant safety, and inspector professionalism.
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On February 21, 1991, Dr. Carl J. Paperiello, Deputy Regional Administrator, and Region III staff met with D. Galle, Vice President, Boiling Water Reactor Operations and other Comonwealth Edison Company staff in an Enforcement Conference regarding an event involving a loss of reactor vessel inventory. The event, which resulted in the inadvertent draining of coolant water from the reactor pressure vessel via the shutdown cooling system, was caused by multiple examples of failure to follow procedures and inadequate procedures. The reactor was shut down at the time of the event.
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Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety H. J. Miller, Director, Division of Reactor Projects, and otiier members of h e staff met with Mr. Roy Wight, Manager, Office of Nuclear Facilities Safety, to discuss progress to date in implementing inspection agreements with Illinois. The agreements, which cover both resident engineer and ASME inspection programs, call for such meetings to occur periodically.
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Zion Nuclear Power Station On February 22, 1991, William L. Forney, Deputy Director, bivision of Reactor Projects, and others, met with Zion Ststion management to review g
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Blacks-in-Governnent Followup In response to a request from Region III, on February 21, 1991, Barbara Williams from the Office of Personnel met with Region III supervisors an't FEBRUARY 22, 1991 ENCLOSURE N
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interested employees to discuss followup actions concerning the Blacks-in-Government monitoring /mentoring initiative.
Sh.. discussed the responsibilities of supervisors and employees in implementing the terms of an Individual Development Plan. She also discussed the purpose of the mentoring program, the roles of the individuals involved, and offered some suggestions for starting the program.
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l Region IV Items of Interest Week [nding February 22, 1991 1.
Comancy Peak Steam Electric Station (CPSES) Enforcement Conference The Executive Vice President, Nuclea and other members of his staff, met in the Region :Y office on February 19, 1991, concerning an enforcement conferente pertaining to the apparent violations related to roving firewatch log irregularities.
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Meeting with ARCO Coal Company Concerning Bluewater Hill On February 22, 1991, the URF0 Director and members of his staff met with ARCO Coal Company to discuss application of alternate concentration limits at the Bluewater Hill. This site will likely be the first mill to apply for and receive alternate concentration limits, indicating that ground-water cleanup has reduced levels of hazardous constituents to levels that are as low as reasonably achievable.
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s Region V Items of Interest Week Ending February 22, 1991 1.
NPA Drills at Region V Staff from Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) ai.. COMEX Corporation have been at Region V conducting emergency response training in the form of comprehensive severe accident drills. These drills were Analyzer (NPA)g the RELAPS computer code running on the INEL Nuclear Plant developed usin Two drills were conducted with different regional staff teams. The teams were led by the Regional Administrator and Deputy Regional Administrator respectively.
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.. LOCATION PURPOSE A n.3vu.5 NRR CONTACT g DATE/ TIME NUMBER 03/11/91 50-285 One White Flint North Meeting to discuss Fort Calhoun
.NRC/0 PPD W. Walker 9:00 Room 108-13 topical reports on core reload Analysis and present information.
03/12,13/91 None General Electric Meeting with General Electric NRC/INEL/GE V. McCree
- 9. 1-4:30 175 Curtner Avenue Co. to discuss NRC SBWR San Jose, California Research needs.
03/25/91 50-220 One White Flint North Meeting with Niagara Mohawk NRC/MMPC D. Brinkman 1:00-4:00 Room 12B-11 Power Corp. to discuss the licens7e's Design Bases Reconstitution Program for Nine Mile Point-Unit 1.
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A listing of these meeting notices can be obtained by calling 492-7424.
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MMSS Meeting' Notices i
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I 2/25-27 Knoxville, TN To attend NP9fSS NRC R. Gramann l
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pg Date/ Time Number Location Purpose Applicant NRC Con 3q3t 2/28 70-3070 Baton Rouge, LA To meet with Louisiana NRC P. Loyseh US DEQ Office Dept. of Environmental Quality on EIS scoping process for LES 3/5 OWFN 68-13 To meet with Babock NRC F. Sturtz 10:00 a.m.
& Wilcox to discuss E&W submittal of a dry spent fuel storage cask design for a certificate of compliance for at-reactor-site storage Division of High-level Waste Management Docket Attendees /
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Director's Office 2/27-28/91 Albuquerque, NM Nuclear Safety Research R. Meyer Review Committee Meeting 492-3904 i
Division of Systems Research 3/7/91 OWFN 2-F-17 Presentation of ORNL work NRC/T. Kress (ORNL)
R. Lee 8:30 AM -
on " Iodine Chemical Forms 492-3560 4:00 PM in LWR Accidentr*
Division of Engineering 3/6/91 Room 013 To discuss technical NUMARC A. Murphy 1:30-3:30 5650 Nicholson Lane topics in the revision 492-3860 ot' Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 100 h
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~NRC Contact 02/26 RIY Regional Assessment AEOD, RIV Eric Weinstein 02/26-27 Las Vegas Meeting to Develop FRMAC IRB, DOE Rocamary Hogan Procedures 02/27-28 Salt Lake Meet with 2NEL and ACRS rember INEL/ACRS/AECD Tom Novak City to review human factors operating experience 02/28-31 San Diego Workshop to Discuss Protection IRB, USDA, FEMA Rosemary Hogan of People and Their Food Supply During a Radiological Ecergency 03/13 RII Regional Assessment AE00, RII Eric Veinstein 03/20 Operations St. Lucie Exercise Utility, State, IRB Don Marksberry Center UD E
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FPC - Crystal River Licensee 03/05/91-Homestead, FL Manapment Meeting RA, DRP Director,.
Ebneter to discuss outage Regional Staff, and activities at Turkey.'
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q 03/06/91 Crystal River, FL Presentation of Operator DRA, Regional and Resident M11hoan j
03/07/91 Certificates at Crystal Staff, Licensee Management i
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03/20-22/91 Jensen Beach, FL Full Scale Emergency RA, Reg'onal/HQs Staff, Ebneter Exercise - St. Lucie Licensee Facility 03/26/91 Dothan, AL SALP Presentation RA, Regional Staff, and Ebneter 1:00 p.m.
APC - Farley Licensee 03/28/91 Jackson, MS Mu ting with Entergy, Inc Regional Administrators Ebneter i
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03/06/91 030-04781 Region III The Upjohn Company'-
Licensee, Director, Division Norelius
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Enforcement Conference of Radiation Safety and Safeguards and selected members of RIII Staff I
03/08/91 50-295 Zion Comonwealth Edison Licensee, Regional Miller i
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Administrator and selected Management Meeting members of RIII Staff 03/12/91 50-237 Dresden Comonwealth Edison Licensee, Deputy Miller 9:30'a.m.
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3/12-14/91 Nevada J. Martin touring J. Martin J. Martin Low-Level Sites 3/21-22/91 Hdqts B. Faulkenberry B. Faulkenberry B. Faulkenberry i
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