ML20036C020
| ML20036C020 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/16/1993 |
| From: | Rogers NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| NUDOCS 9306080315 | |
| Download: ML20036C020 (5) | |
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Commissioner Rogers Comments on SECY-93-090 The staff should be commended for an excellent job in assessing the SALP program and preparing their final recommendations for changes.
I agree with most of the recommended changes except for the following:
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While I agree that the Safety Assessment / Quality i
Verification (SA/QV) should not be rated.as a separate functional area, it should be specifically addressed in the SALP cover letter that is prepared by the Regional j
Administrator.
The Part II of the Handbook of Management Directive 8.6 (MD 8.6) should be revised on Page 11 to add the following additional item to be included in the cover letter:
The cover letter will include a specific reference to e
and assessment of the licensee's safety Assessment / Quality Verification activities.
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The staff has recommended removing the trend designators
(" improving" or " declining") from the performance ratings for the functional areas.
While I agree that the ratings, which will emphasize performance during the last six months, would represent the current licensee performance, I do not agree that the trend information should be deleted.
Information about the performance trend can be valuable both to the licensees and to the NRC staff and I believe that it should continue to be appropriately included in the performance ratings.
A discussion similar to that on Page 12 of the (08/10/92) draft of the MD 8.6 Handbook should be added to Part I of the MD 8.6 Handbook.
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The staff recommends that the regional administrator may decide not to hold a SALP public meeting under certain situations and it is so indicated in MD 8.6.
I believe that this approach has the wrong emphasis.
SALP public meetings should be held as a matter of standard procedure.
Only under unusual circumstances should a regional administrator not hold a SALP public meeting.
The next to last sentence in the first paragraph of Page 12 of the MD 8.6 Handbook _
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The regional administrator will normally hold a SALP public meeting unless unusual circumstances arise which may make a public meeting unnecessary or inadvisable.
An additional editorial change regarding scheduling of the public meeting is included on Page 12 for clarification.
Suggested revisions have been indicated in the attached pages and the staff should ensure that, if needed, other appropriate changes should be made for consistency.
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Volume 8, Licensee Oversight Programs Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance (SALP)
IIandbook 8.6 Part II Assessment Process (A)(continued)
Completion and issuance of the SALP Report (3)(continued) report will dictate the length of the report. The SALP cover letter should include the following:
A characterization of overall safety performance of the licensee.
The SALP cover letter will highlight common themes oflicensee performance identified by the SALP process. The cover letter should characterize the licensee's performance and should place in perspective any signifirant events or findings that took place outside the assessment period that bear on the evaluations in the report. The SALP report should be consistent with the results of any other current events and processes related to the plant's performance, such as results of recent Senior Management Meetings and major team inspections, to ensure that conflicting messages are not inadvertently transmitted to the licensee. (a)
Areas or issues that warrant discussion during the meeting with the licensee. For any functional area rated Category 3, the cover letter lo The cover letter will should request that the licensee be prepared to discuss includo a specific performance and planned actions in this functional area. (b) reference to and I
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verification activities. planned corrective actions to improve performance. (c)
The cover letter and functional area assessments will be transmitted to the licensee before being publicly released. (d)
Copies of the report should be provided to the offices of the EDO:
the Director, NRR: the Director, Office of Enforcement; the Commissioners: and the NRR Division of Reactor Inspection and Licensee Performance (DRIL) SALP Program Manager. The SALP report will be distributed on a timely basis as a standard docket item to the Document Control System, the NRC Public Document Room, the appropriate Local Public Document Room, and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Each report will be assigned an inspection report number. (e)
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g Improving. Licensee performance was determined to be improving during the assessment period and continuation of the trend may result in a future change in category rating. (a) l
. Declining. Licensee performance was determined to be declining during the assessment period and continuation of the trend may result in a future change in category rating. (b) 6
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Handbook 8.6 Part 11 SALP Meeting With the Licensee (B)
General (1)
The SALP meeting with the licensee should be schedule at ! cast 2 weeks after the SALP report has been issued. Additionally, his public meeting with the licensee's management will be held within 60 days of the end of the assessment period to discuss the assessment. The meeting will be conducted on site or in the vicinity of the site, if
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Meet.mg Preparat. ion (2)
The region shall notify those on distribution for the SALP report of the meeting with the licensee. (See Section (B) of this part.) (a)
The region shall notify the media and State and local government officials of the issuance of the SALP report and of the meetingwith the licensee once the report has been released. Generally, atleast I week's notice should be provided before the meeting. (b)
The licensee should be encouraged to have the following management representatives participate in the meeting: (c)
The senior corporate nuclear officer / manager (i)
Management officials responsible for the major functional areas (ii)
The site manager (iii)
Licensee Meeting (3)
The regional administrator will designate the NRC participants for the licensee meeting. NRC participants for this meeting typically include the following: (a) 12 Approved: (Draft March 30.1993) g
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