ML20056H096
| ML20056H096 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Prairie Island  |
| Issue date: | 08/31/1993 |
| From: | Forney W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Anthony D NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9309080219 | |
| Download: ML20056H096 (2) | |
See also: IR 05000282/1992022
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SUBJECT: FAILURE TO COMPLETE NRC COMMITMENTS WITHIN THE COMMITTED SCHEDULE
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This letter acknowledges Mr. Roger 0. Anderson, Director, Licensing and
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with NRC Requalification Examination Report No. 50-282/0L-92-02-and Inspection
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Reports No. 50-282/92022(DRP) and No. 50-306/92022(DRP). Th'ese reports
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summarized the results of a requalification examination and an announced team
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inspection at your Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2.
While we are concerned that your commitment tracking system was not completely
effective in these areas, your identification of the issue and efforts to
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US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Attn: Document Control Desk
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PPAIRIE ISIAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT
Docket Nos. 50-282 License Nos. DPR-42
50-306
Failure To Complete NRC Commitments
Within The Committed Schedule
The purpose of this letter is to notify the NRC of two commitments which were
not ccepleted within the schedule committed to in previous NRC correspondence .
This deviation from commitments was discussed with the NRC resident inspectors
on August 12, 1993.
Each of the commitments is discussed separately below.
Commitment 1
Pricr to the 1992 NRC-observed operator requalification examinations,
individuals designated to participate in the examination inadvertently
received training from an instructor who was under the Pre-examination
Security agreement. This is discussed .n the NRC Requalification Examinatict
Report No. 2S2/0L-92-02.
In our response to the Requalification Examination Report, dated November 15,
1992, we identified two actions to be taken to preclude a further occurrence
of this type.
One of the actions committed to was the review of this
violation during the first quarter of 1993 with all licensed operators and
operations instructors.
Following the submittal of the November 18, 1992 response, the subject
c omr:i t n:ent was entered into the plant commitment tracking system with a
required completion date of March 31, 1993
However, no Request for Training
Se rvices was initiated.
This form is the normal mechanism for requesting
training to he performed by the Prairie Island Training Center.
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used ::y the training center to identify, schedule and track training requests.
This lack of a Request for Training Services in comhination with mis-
communication within the training department resulted in the required trainir.g
not being completed in the first quarter of 1993.
A contributing cau e of the failure to meet the committed date was the
inadequacy of the current commitment tracking system monthly reporting process
for ensuring that commitments with firm completion. dates are completed per the
committed schedule.
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The committed review will be performed during the six-week training cycle
immediately preceding the 1993 operator requalification examinations and will
be completed by September 24, 1993.
This schedule will meet the intent of the
original committed action by completing the review prior to the next
requalification examination.
Commitment 2
NRC Inspection Reports 50-282/92022 and 50-306/92022 included a Notice of
Violation concerning design and construction of a new building wall.
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response letter dated January 19, 1993, we committed to training on the
subject to be completed during the first quarter of 1993.
Again, as in the situation described above, no Request for Training Services
was initiated following submittal of the commitment.
In addition, this
commitment was not entered into the commitment tracking system in a timely
manner.
The subject commitment was discussed with the Training Department
prior tc submittal; however, the lack of a Request for Training Services , the
failure to enter the commitment in the tracking system and miscommunication
within the training department resulted in the required training not being
completed in the first quarter of 1993.
This training has now been scheduled and will be completed by August 27, 1993.
Actions to Prevent Recurrence
Site personnel will be reminded of the proper use of the Request for Training
Services.
While miscommunication was a factor in these deviations, it was only a factor
because the formal Request for Training Services process was not used.
Therefore, no corrective actions are deemed necessary to address
miscommunication.
A process re-engineering effort has been initiated to strengthen the process
for development of outgoing correspondence to the NRC and commitments that may
be contained in that correspondence.
It is anticipated that as part of the
new process, commitments to the NRC will receive increased management review
during development of the correspondence and that the responsibility for
completion of the commitment will be more clearly defined before the
correspondence is submitted.
The current process at Prairie Island for the tracking of NRC commitments is
being evaluated to identify any improvements that can be made to ensure that
NRC commitments are entered into the system in a timely manner and that
periodic reminders are sent to personnel assigned to complete commitments.
The review is being conducted concurrent with the conversion of the commitment
tracking system to the new plant information computer system. Necessary
revisions to the commitment tracking system will be incorporcted during the
conversion process.
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This letter contains the following new NRC commitment:
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Site personnel will be reminded of the proper use of the Request for
Training Services.
Please contact Gene Ecliolt (612) 388-1121 ext 4663 if you have any questions
related to the information we have provided,
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Wayne Shafer, NRC Region III
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