ML20033G992

Requests Answers to Questions in Encl 1 Re Congressional Staff Concerns by 900420,per 900323 Conference Call.Nrc Should Be Notified If More Time Needed

ML20033G992
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	04/04/1990
From:	Jerrica Johnson NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Ellen Brown PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
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NUDOCS 9004130276
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l Docket No. 50-443 Public Service Company of New Hampshire I

ATTN: Mr. Edward A. Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer New Hampshire Yankee Division t

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Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Gentlemen-t subject: Congressional Staff Concerns During a conference call on March 23, 1990, the NRC Region I staff received several questions.and requests for information and documents from Congressional Staff members.

Ic' assist us in our response to those and subsequent r.oncerns, i

please provide us with reasonably available answers to the questions in En-closure 1 by April 20, 1990.

This request is for information available from your records, not for retrieval of information from other organizations or individuals.

Further, we are not asking that new files or records be created.

In addition, if a significant

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distraction from the performance of safety tasks is involved in providing any i

of the requested inforuation, then please contact the NRC for resolution of the safety conflict before proceeding with the associated part of your response, i

Also, if you need more time to reply to this request without adversely impact-ing the performance of nuclear safety tasks, please notify us of the earliest l

date on which the associated information can be feasibly provided.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely, ORIGIN /,k SIGNED DYi JON R. JOHNSON Jon R. Johnson, Chief Projects Branch No. 3 Division of Reactor Projects l

Enclosure:

Questions Relating to Congressional Staff Concerns I

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Region 1 Docket Room (with concurrences)

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and Chief Executive Officer Stabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Post Office Box 300 i

Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Public Service Company of New Hampshire Mr. T. Harpster L

ATTN: Mr. John C. Duffett Public Service Company of President and Chief Executive New Hampshire Of.ficer P.O. Box 300 i

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Manchester, New Hampshire 03105 Mr. Donald E. Moody Mr. James M. Peschel Public Service Cmpany of New Hampshire Public Service Company of New l

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Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Post Office Box 300 Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Mr. Ted C. Teigenbaum Mr. R. Hallisey, Director Public Service Company of New Hampshire Dept. of Public Health Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Commonwealth of Masssachusetts Officer Radiatioh Control Program i

Post Office Box 300 150 Trenont Street, 4th floor Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Boston, MA 02111 Massachusetts Transportation E. Tupper Kinger, Esq.

Building Assistant Attorney General ATTN Sarah Woodhouse Office of Attorney General Legislative Assistant 208 State House Annex Ten Park Plaza - Suite 3220 Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Thomas Dignan, Esq Jerard A. Crouteau, Constable John A. Ritscher, Esq.

82 Beach Road Ropes and Gray P. O. Box 5501 225 Franklin Street Salisbury, Massachusetts 01950 l

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George D. Bisbee, Esq.

Backus, Mtyer and Solomon Assistant Attorney General 116 Lowell Street Office of the Attorney General P. O. Box 516 25 Capitol Street hanchester, New Hampshire 03106 Concord, New Hampshire 03301 i

Phillip Ahren Esq.

Diane Curran, Esq.

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Office of the Attorney General 2001 S. Street, N.W.

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Steven Oles'ky, Esq.

4 D. Pierre G. Cameron, Jr., Esq Office of the Attorney General General Counsel One Asburton Place Public Service Company of l

P. O. Box 330 New Hampshire Coston, Massachusetts 02108 Manchester, New Hampshire 01105

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Ms. Diana P. Randall Mr. Alfred V. Sargent, Chairman j

70 Collins Street Board of Selectmen Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Town of Salisbury, MA 01950 Richard Hampe, Esq.

Ms. Suzanne Breiseth j

New Hampshire Civil Dsfense Agency Town of Hamaton falls j

107 Pleasarit Street Drinkwater load Concord, New Hampshire 03874 Hampton Falls, New Hanipshire 03844

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Mr. Calvin A. Canney, City Manager Senator Gordon J. Humphrey j

City Hall ATTN:

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Washington, D.C.

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Board of Selectmen Mr. Owen B. Durgin, Chairman RfD Dalton Road Durham Board of Selectmen Brentwood, New Hampshire 03833 Town of Durham t

Durham, New Hampshire 03824 i

Chairman Board of Selectmen Rye Nuclear Intervention Committee TownHall c/o Rye Town Hall r

South Hampton, New Hampshire 03827 10 Central Road Rye, New Hampshire 03870 Mr. Angie Machiros, Chairman Jane Spector Board of Selectmen federal Energy Regulatory Comm.

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Ms. Rosemary Cashman, Chairman Hr. R. Sweeney Board of Selectmen New Hampshire Yankee Division Town of Amesbury Public Service Company of Town Hall New Hampshire Amesbury, Massachusetts 01913 Suite C10 Three Metro Center i

Bethesda, Maryland 20814 l

Honorable Peter J. Matthews Administrative Judge Mayor, City of Newburyport Howard A. Wilber l

Hall Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Citguryport, Massachusetts New 01950 Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission g

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Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman Thomas S. Moore Esq.

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Board Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear hgulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Emmeth A. Luebke Jerry Harbour Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nucletr Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C.

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Edwin J. Reis Esq.

H. Joseph Flynn, Esq.

i Office of the General Counsel Assistant General Counsel l

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission federal Emergency Management Agency i

Washington, D.C.

20555 500 C. Street, S.W.

Washington, D.C.

20472 Jack Dolan Carol S. Sneider Esq.

federal Emergency Management Agency Assistant Attorney General 442 J. W. McCormack (P0CH)

Office of the Attorney General Boston, Massachusetts 02109 One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Paul McEachern Esq.

Richard A. Haaps, Esq Shaines and McEachern Haaps and McNicholas 25 Maplewood Avenue 35 Pleasant Street i

Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Board of Selectmen Allen Lampert 10 Central Street Civil Defense Director Rye, New Hampshire 03870 Town of Brentwood l

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i William Armstrong Sandra Gavutis, Chairman Civil Defense Director Board of Selectmen l

Town of Exeter RfD #1, Box 1154 10 Front Street Kensington, New Hampshire 03827 Exeter, k w Hampshire 03833 i

l Anne Goodw.an, Chairman Stanley W. Knowles, Chairman i

Board of Selectmen Board of Selectmen 13-15 Newmarket Road P. O. Box 710 i

Durham, New Hampshire 03824 florth Hampton, New Hampshire 03862 i

Norman C. Kantner Judith H. Mitzner i

Superintendent of Schools 4

Silverglate, Gertner, Baker, fine, School Administrative Unit No. 21 Good, and Mitzner A1uani Drive 88 Broad Street Hampton, New Hampshire 03042 Boston, Massachusetts 02110 l

Jane Doughty Gary W. Holmes, Esq.

Seacoast Anti Pollution League Holmes and Ellis 5 Market Street 47 Winnacunnet Road Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03601 Hampton, New Hampshire 03842 l

Mr. Robert Carrigg, Chairman Adjudicatory file

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ENCLOSURE l

OVESTIONS RELATING TO CONGRES$10NAL STAFT CONCERN $

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Do Pullman-Higgins, United Engineers and Constructors (VE&C), Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC), and/or New Hampshire Yankee (NHY) radiog-I raphy reviewer logs exist for the seabrook Station? Do any other similar logs relating to radiography and/or weld repair by Pullman-Higgins exist?

If so:

a.

Are they in the possession of New Hampshire Yankee, or are they reasonably obtainable by New Harrpshire Yankee?

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If there are such logs, in what form do they exist?

c.

Are such logs a part of the Quality Assurance Records for the plant?

l 2.

In regard to Pullman-Higgins:

a.

What Nonconformance Reports (NCRs) or other similar deficiency or corrective action reports were generated by or against Pullman-Higgins during the years 1982, 1983, 1984, and 19857 f

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b.

During 1982, 1983, and 1984, at what rate did YAEC reviewers reject radiographs that had been previously reviewed by Pullman-Higgins?

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During 1982, 1983, and 1984, how many NCRs or other deficiency re-

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ports were written by YAEC reviewers as a result of finding deficien-cies in radiographs passed on to them by Pullman-Higgins?

d.

If YAEC reviewers had rejected radiographs and returned them to Pullman-Higgins without documenting the rejuction and the return, would this have violated applicable procedures?

If so, what provi-l sions existed for detecting such violations? How would undocumented rejections and returns have affected the final product?

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In regard to NCRs and Repair Orders; I

a.

What records exist related to NCRs and Repair Orders for all welds I

accepted as is based on Engineering Analysis? Which of these NCRs 1

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and Repair Orders involve currently inaccessible welds?

i b.

Of the NCR$ and Repair Orders by or against Pullman-Higgins and dis-positioned as accept-as-is from 1982-1986, how many inaccessible l

welds were dispositioned based on engineering analysis?

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Of the NCRs and Repair Orders by c>r against Pullman-Higgins and dis-positioned as accept-as-is from 1982-1986, how many had a long lag j

time between the welding and the disposition?

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4.

Does a concise report or small group of reports of disposition for Deft-ciency Report (DR) 527 exist? Does it include a listing of all weld pack-ages reviewed in relation to the DR? Does such a listing of weld packages exist elsewhere?

5.

Does a concise report or small group of reports of disposition of DR 574 exist? Does it include a listing of all weld packages reviewed in rela-tion to the DR7 Does such a listing of weld packages exist elsewhere?

6.

What were the dates when construction activity was suspended and re-initiated? Are there documents which describe or provide notification of j

these dates?

7.

Given DR 527 indicates a 10 CFR 50.55(e) report was to be generated, why was such a report not generated and should it have been?

c 8.

Why was the weld reject rate in the early 1980's not reported under 10 CFR 50.55(e)?

9.

For NCR 5781:

a.

!$ there a chronological report of all activities concerning RC 01-F0103 (as reportedly stipulated in a February 8,1984 document prepared under the auspices of the Nonconformance Review Board)?

b.

Is there a documented review of 25% of the process sheets for the RC system (as reportedly stipulated in a February 8,1984 document pre-pared under the auspices of the Nonconformance Review Board)?

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