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Forwards Final Rept of SALP for Period of 920203-930529 & Submits Info Re SALP
ML20056G691
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Site: Comanche Peak  Luminant icon.png
Issue date: 08/30/1993
From: Milhoan J
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To: William Cahill
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC)
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Licenses: NPF-87 NPF-89 i I TU Electric  ! ATTN: W. J. Cahill, Jr., Group Vice_ President l l Nuclear Engineering and Operations. , Skyway Tower ! 400. North Olive Street, L.B. 81 Dallas, _ Texas ' 75201 j I

SUBJECT:

FINAL SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF LICENSEE PERFORMANCE (SALP) REPORT L NO. 50-445/93-99;50-446/93-99 r This forwards the final report of the SALP for Comanche Peak Steam Electric- 

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May 29,.1993. This final SALP report includes: ' I i 1. The initial SALP report transmittal letter (no revisions required to the  ! initial SALP report issued on July 23, 1993). i 2. A summary and list _of attendees at our August 18, 1993,. meeting at the  ; Personnel Processing Center, CPSES site. 

           -3.        Your August 19, 1993, response to the initial SALP report.

i The next SALP period for CPSES is scheduled to last 12 months, from May 30, 1993, to May 28, 1994. l i Sincerely, [ 1 i b1 ames L. Milhoan  ! l h Regional Administrator l

Enclosures:

i- 1. Initial SALP report transmittal letter  :

2. Meeting summary and attendance list  !

! 3. TU Electric response to the initial  ; SALP report- } cc: (see next.page) i SC M MIE NY/ h' vao9o7oo6o vaossoT 

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T TU Electric cc w/ enclosures: TU Electric ATTN: Roger D. Walker, Manager of Regulatory Affairs for Nuclear Engineering Organization Skyway Tower 400 North Olive Street, L.B. 81 Dallas, Texas 75201 Juanita Ellis President - CASE 1426 South Polk Street Dallas, Texas 75224 GDS Associates, Inc. Suite 720 1850 Parkway Place Marietta, Georgia 30067-8237 TU Electric Bethesda Licensing 3 Metro Center, Suite 610 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Jorden, Schulte, and Burchette ATTN: William A. Burchette, Esq. I Counsel for Tex-La Electric Cooperative of Texas 1025 Thomas Jefferson St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20007 Newman & Holtzinger, P.C. ATTN: Jack R. Newman, Esq. 1615 L. Street, N.W. Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20036 Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation ATTH: G. R. Bynog, Program Manager / Chief Inspector l Boiler Division l l P.O. Box 12157, Capitol Station  ; Austin Texas 78711 l l } Honorable Dale McPherson I County Judge P.O. Box 851 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 l l I i i l' L l-  ;

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1100 West 49th Street Austin, Texas 78756 I Owen L. Thero, President Quality Technology Company P.O. Box 408 201 West 3rd Lebo, Kansas 66856-0408 Texas Public Utility Commission ATIN: Mr. Chet Oberg l 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd.

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NPF l l ! :TU Electric I ATTN: W. J. Cahill, Jr., Group Vice President Nuclear Engineering and Operations. Skyway Tower 400 North Olive Street, L.B. 81~ Dallas, Texas- -75201

SUBJECT:

INITIAL' SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF LICENSEE PERFORMANCE (SALP) REPORT l This forwards the initial SALP report (50-445/93-99; 50-446/93-99) for the 

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Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station. The SALP Board met on June-23, 1993, to l i evaluate Comanche Peak's performance for the period of February 3, 1992, through May- 29,'1993. The performance analyses and_resulting evaluations are 

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documented in-the enclosed initial SALP report. In accordance with NRC: policy, I have reviewed th'e'SALP Board's assessment and concur with their ratings as discussed below: Good performance in the areas of Plant Operations and Maintenance / i e l- Surveillance resulted-in a Category 2 rating. -Although some improvement in the area of missed surveillances and operator performance was noted, errors in system configuration control, other personnel errors, and missed-surveillances continue _to require increased management attention. l e Performance remained high in the area of Radiological Controls and a Category I rating was assigned. but a declining trend was identified due 

                     ' primarily. to instances of ineffective comunications and poor radiological work practices _during stressful times _such as the refueling outage.-

! Jo Performance declined in the Security area and a Category 2 rating was L assigned. Managerial- problems were noted with respect to oversight of i the contract. security organization and to supervision within~certain security _ shift' organizations. I

e. A decline in performance in the Safety Assessment / Quality Verification functional area resulted in a Category 2 rating. As mentioned in the i ' prev 1cus-SALP report, strong management involvement continued to be p evicent in this area,.but you have not been totally effective in L 1mplementing corrective actions _ or in responding aggressively to deficiencies identified by your self-assessment organizations.

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TU Electric ' e Performance in the areas of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering / Technical Support continued to be superior, resulting in Category I ratings. e Superior performance in the areas of Preoperational Testing / Operational Readiness and Power Ascension Testing for Unit 2 resulted in Category I ratings. Excellent use of lessons learned from Unit 1; strong programs for room, area, and system turnover; and a cautious, deliberate approach - in the execution of startup tests contributed to these ratings. Overall, safety performance at Comanche Peak was good, and improvements were noted in certain programs. Particularly noteworthy was the concurrent completion of preoperational testing on Unit 2 while undertaking a refueling outage on Unit 1. Also noteworthy was the continued strong performance in the areas of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering / Technical Support, which reflected strong management involvement and safety perspective. A decline in performance was noted in some functional areas and ongoing problems were noted in others. Strong management support for plant activities was evident, but weaknesses in the implementation of certain programs and a failure at times to ensure that performance expectations were being met contributed to the decline. In order to prevent a further decline in performance, additional management attention is appropriate. In particular, I , encourage you to consider the following actions: (1) continue to emphasize i the implementation of the corrective actions initiated to enhance personnel performance and further reduce personnel errors in the areas of operations and surveillance testing, (2) provide increased management oversight of the contractor guard force, and (3) strengthen the implementation of the i corrective action process and the response to self-identified issues. I also emphasize the need for your continued sensitivity to problems that may ' surface as you fully integrate the activities of two operating units. You should assure that the transition to an operating plant environment is successfully achieved. It is essential you ensure appropriate engineering support of plant operations. In accordance with NRC policy for recently licensed plants, the next SALP period will be 12 months. Accordingly, the next SALP period will be from May 30, 1993, to May 28, 1994. A management-meeting has been scheduled with you and your staff to review the  ! results of the initial SALP report. The meeting will be open to the public ' and held at the Personnel Processing Center at the Comanche Peak site on August 13. 1993, at 10 a.m. Within 20 days of this management meeting, you may provide comments on ana amplification of, as appropriate, this initial SALP report.

O TU Electric Your written coments, a summary of our meeting, and the results of my consideration of your comments will be issued as an appendix to the enclosed initial SALP report and will constitute the final SALP report. Sincerely, s eL ames L. Mi hoan F egional Administrator

Enclosure:

b Initial SALP Report 50-445/93-99: 50-446/93-99 ! cc w/ enclosure: TV Electric ATTN: Roger D. Walker, Manager of Regulatory Affairs for Nuclear Engineering Organization Skyway Tower 400 North Olive Street, L.B. 81 Dallas, Texas 75201 Juanita Ellis President - CASE 1426 South Polk Street Dallas, Texas 75224 GOS Associates, Inc. Suite 720 1850 Parkway Place Marietta, Georgia 30067-8237 I TV Electric j Bethesda Licensing 3 Metro Center, Suite 610 Bethesda, Maryland t. 114 l l 1 l Jorden, Schulte, and Bu.chette l ATTN: William A. Burchette. Esq. l Counsel for Tex-La Electric l Cooperative of Texas t 1025 Thovnas Jefferson St.. N.W. Washington. D.C. 20007 l I ! i i i  ! l I  ! I

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I l TV Electric Newman & Holtzinger, P.C. ATTN: Jack R. Newman, Esq. l 1615 L. Street, N.W. l Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20036 Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation l ' ATTN: G. R. Bynog, Program Manager / l Chief Inspector Boiler Division P.O. Box 12157 Capitol Station l Austin, Texas 78711 l l Honorable Dale P.cPherson l County Judge P.O. Box 851 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 Texas Radiation Cou' '91 Program Director 1100 West 49th Stre*:. Austin, T9xas 7Pieb l Owen L. ',tero, President l Quality-Technology Company P.O. Bax 408 201 West 3rd Lebo, Kansas 66856-0408 l Texas Public Utility Commission ATTN: Mr. Chet Oberg 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd. Suite 400N Austin, Texas 78757-1024 i i e -- , 

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TU ELECTRIC COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION . UNITS 1 AND 2 4 FEBRUARY 2,1992 THROUGH MAY 29,1993 GLEN ROSE, TEXAS AUGUST 18,1993

j-i a i I . O I i' . AGENDA i r i i i j 1 1 - I INTRODUCTIONS NRC i TU ELECTRIC 4 i i- OPENING / REMARKS JOHN M. MONTGOMERY 

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FUNCTIONAL AREA DISCUSSION T. PAT GWYNN COMMENTS AND/OR QUESTIONS TU ELECTRIC CONCLUDE MEETING COMMENTS AND/OR QUESTIONS PUBLIC/ MEDIA 4 i 1 4 i 5 4 

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OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE 2 I FUNCTIONAL AREA CATEGORY RATING l 02/03/92 -05/29/93 l PLANT OPERATIONS 2- l RADIOLOGICAL CONTROLS 1D MAINTENANCE / SURVEILLANCE 2 r EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 1 SECURITY 2 ENGINEERING / TECHNICAL SUPPORT 1 l t PREOPERATIONAL TESTING /  ; OPERATIONAL READINESS 1 i POWER ASCENSION TESTING 1 l SAFETY ASSESSMENT /  ! QUALITY VERIFICATION 2 f i I-D - DECLINING TREND  ! i 

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CATEGORY' 2 PERFORMANCE MIXED

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! o OPERATOR PERFORMANCE DURING PLANT TRANSIENTS AND OFF NORMAL l CONDITIONS O OPERATOR PERFORMANCE DURING ROUTINE OPERATIONS 1 , 1 0 SECONDARY PLANT RELIABILITY AND UNIT INTERFACE CONTROLS o SOME IMPROVEMENT IN SYSTEM STATUS CONTROL AND ANNUNCIATOR

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RADIOLOGICAL CONTROLS CATEGORY 1 - DECLINING l DECLINING PERFORMANCE

o SUPERIOR EXPOSURE CONTROL, ALARA, HOUSEKEEPING, AND RADIOLOGICAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS o INSTANCES OF LESS THAN ADEQUATE COMMUNICATIONS AND PCCR RADIOLOGICAL WORK PRACTICES BY CONTRACT PERSONNEL o EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF REVISED 10 CFR PART 20 t - _ _ _.-__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _._. ._. _ _ _ . _ __ __ __
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MAINTENANCE / SURVEILLANCE-CATEGORY _ 2 PERFORMANCE MIXED o STRENGTHS NOTED IN WORK PRIORITIZATION, MAINTENANCE PLANNING, AND CONTROL OF BACKLOG. L o STRONG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM BUT IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS PERSIST l o MAINTENANCE AND SURVEILLANCE CAUSING UNPLANNED PLANT EVENTS y o SELF-VERIFICATION NOT CONSISTENTLY APPLIED I i i ,

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CATEGORY 1 CONTINUED SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE o EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATED DURING TWO ACTUAL EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS o STRONG MAINTENANCE OF EMERGENCY PLAN AND IMPLEMENTING

PROCEDURES o CUMBERSOME PROCEDURES DELAY EVENT DECLARATIONS l

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SECURITY CATEGORY 2 4 i PERFORMANCE DECLINED

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O CONTINUED SUPERIOR MAINTENANCE, TESTING AND PERFORMANCE OF l SECURITY HARDWARE i i I i i i l i i'

! ENGINEERING / TECHNICAL SUPPORT ! CATEGORY 1 i i i l CONTINUED SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE l l 0 SUPERIOR PROGRAMS AND IMPLEMENTATION l 0 MOTOR OPERATED VALVES o AS-BUILT VERIFICATION o ENVIRONMENTAL QUALIFICATION I o DESIGN MODIFICATION , o STRONG FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING AND PROGRAM o QUALIFICATION OF THERMO-LAG FIRE BARRIER MATERIAL WELL ENGINEERED o SUPERIOR TRAINING PROGRAMS , i o SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROGRAM MATURING i o TECHNICAL EVALUATIONS MIXED 

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i ! SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE . O SUPERIOR MANAGEMENT OF TRANSITION PERIODS i o IMPROVED QUALITY OF PREOPERATIONAL TESTS AND GOOD ! IMPLEMENTATION ' i o . LESSONS LEARNED FROM UNIT 1 o SYSTEM STATUS CONTROL-I o COMBINED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS . i i i . . . -

UNIT 2 POWER ASCENSION TESTING CATEGORY 1 SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE o MANAGEMENT INVOLVEMENT AND OVERSIGHT o SUPERIOR EXECUTION OF WELL DEVELOPED ISU PROCEDURES o STRONG SELF-ASSESSMENTS OF PERFORMANCE o OPERATOR PERFORMANCE 

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ENCLOSURE 2 Part 2 CPSES SALP MEETING LIST OF ATTENDEES AUGUST 18, 1993 NAME AFFILIATION ^ W. Taylor TU Electric W. rahill TU Electric C. Terry TU Electric J. Kelley TU Electric M. Blevins TU Electric R. Walker TU Electric D. Moore TU Electric D. Hood TU Electric B. Lancaster TU Electric J. Ayres TU Electric J. Barker TU Electric T. Hope TU Electric R. Adams TU Electric D. Davis TU Electric D. McAfee TV Electric W. Guldemond TU Electric J. Muffett TU Electric M. Sunseri TU Electric D. Palmer TU Electric J. Gallman TU Electric J. Donahue TU Electric R. Flcres TU Electric S. Palmer TU Electric D. Fiorelli TU Electric R. Byrd TU Electric F. Shants TU Electric J. Rumsey TU Electric Services, Inc. G. Edgar Newman & Holtzinger, P.C. R. Adams KCLW Radio J. Montgomery NRC - Region IV T. Gwynn NRC - Region IV D. Graves NRC - Region IV K. Kennedy NRC - Region IV L. Yandell NRC - Region IV G. Werner NRC - Region IV C. Hackney NRC - Region IV J. Gilliland NRC - Region IV T. Bergman NRC - NRR , S. Black NRC - NRR I S. Wittenberg NRC - NRR l B. Mosley Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) W. Malone FEMA-B. Harris FEMA D. Brink Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation f}}

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