ML20059B309

Discusses Info Re Iein 92-030, Falsification of Plant Records, Issued on 920423 & Forwards NOV Re 920607-0718 Insp at Limerick Generating Station

ML20059B309
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	10/15/1993
From:	Martin T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Danni Smith PECO ENERGY CO., (FORMERLY PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC
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ML20059B312	List: ML20059B309 ML20059B318
References
IEIN-92-030, IEIN-92-30, NUDOCS 9310280131
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DCT I 51993 Docket No. 50-353 License No. NPF-85 Mr. D. M. Smith Senior Vice President-Nuclear Philadelphia Electric Company Nuclear Group Headquarters Correspondence Control Desk Post Of6ce Box 195 Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087-0195

SUBJECT:

FALSIFICATION OF PLANT RECORDS This refers to the .NRC inspection conducted on June 7 - July 18,1992, at the Limerick Generating Station, Limerick, Pennsylvania, to review, in part, the actions taken by you to determine the potential for record falsification at your facility. Information Notice (IN) 92-30,

" Falsification of Plant Records," was issued on April 23, 1992, to alert all licensees of the NRC's concern that plant mechanics, technicians, and operators may have falsified plant records at several nuclear plants. As a result of your review, you identified one record that you determined was incomplete or inaccurate.

The NRC is concerned about the apparent misconduct on the part of the individual involved with this record. Because the NRC must be able to rely on the professionalism and integrity of personnel who perform safety-related activities, including log taking and record keeping, such misconduct cannot be tolerated. Therefore, the NRC is issuing the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice) to document that concern and to emphasize your management's responsibility to assure that your records are complete and accurate. However, after considering the facts of this case, including your identi6 cation of the violation and the corrective actions taken, both disciplinary action against the offending individual, including being counselled and a written reprimand being placed into his service record, and program upgrades to improve the log keeping process, the NRC has decided not to assign a severity level to the violation, nor require a response to the Notice.

In the future, similar viola! ions may result in escalated enforcement action. In addition, enforcement action can be taken against not only the facility licensee for the inaccurate or.

incomplete information (see 10 CFR 50.9(a)), but also against any individual who engages in deliberate misconduct that causes, or but for detection, would have caused a licensee to be in 1 violation of a requirement for providing accurate information to you or the NRC (see 10 CFR 50.5),

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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the Commission's regulations, a copy of this letter will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

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