ML20059F980
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| Issue date: | 01/11/1994 |
| From: | Blaha J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JANUARY 7, 1994 Contents Enclosure Nuclear Reactor Regulation A
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards B
Nuclear Regulatory Research C
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data D
General Counsel E*
Administration F
Information Resources Management G
Controller H*
Personnel I
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights J*
Enforcement K
Consolidation L
State Programs M*
Policy Planning N*
Public Affairs 0*
International Programs P
Congressional Affairs' Q
Regional Offices R
Executive Director for Operations
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Meeting Notices T
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 Simulator Scenario Review On January 10-14, 1994, the Operator Licensing Branch (HOLB) will convene a panel of certified examiners to conduct a table-top review of selected initial examination scenarios from recently completed examinations in each of the regions.
The independent management study that evaluated the consistency of the operator licensing examinations indicated a variation in the level of difficulty for initial examination simulator scenarios. The study's findings were reported to the Commission in SECY-93-309. The panel of examiners will evaluate the scope, depth and complexity of each Region's simulator scenarios -
to determine the characteristics that control examination level of difficulty.
From this analysis, HOLB intends to develop supplemental examination guidance that describes the appropriate level of difficulty for initial examination simulator scenarios.
River Bend On December 16, 1993, the NRC approved the merger between Gulf States Utilities (GSU) and Entergy Corporation. An order was issued approving the merger and the addition of Entergy Operations, Inc. to the license as the managing authority responsible for the operation of River Bend. Two license amendments were also issued, modifying the license to reflect the changes approved by the order. As a result of the merger, GSU remains a 70 percent owner of River Bend and becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Entergy Corporation. Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., the minority owner, continues to hold a 30 percent interest in River Bend. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order approving the merger on December 17, 1993.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas gave final approval for the merger on December 29, 1993. The merger was effective January 1, 1994.
Indian Point 3 The unit has been shutdown since February 26, 1993, for the " Performance Improvement Plan" outage. A Confirmatory Action Letter documents the licensee's restart commitments.
New York Power Authority's (NYPA's) current official schedule has Indian Point 3 ready for the NRC's Restart Readiness Assessment Team Inspection on February 14, 1994, with startup 30 days later.
However, NYPA's startup readiness evaluation, which was scheduled to start several weeks ago, has been postponed indefinitely.
This evaluation must be completed before the readiness assessment team can inspect the plant.
Tim Martin, Region I Regional Administrator, has a site visit scheduled for January 5 and January 6, 1994. The purpose of the visit is to interview various members of site and corporate management including Bob Schoenberger, NYPA President (acting) and Bill Josiger, NYPA Executive Vice President -
Nuclear Generation (acting). There will also be interviews with shift supervisors and maintenance supervisors.
l JANUARY 7, 1994 ENCLOSURE A
2 McGuire Units 1 & 2 - Ooeratino Status and Loss-of-Off-Site-Power (LOOP)
Unit 1 is operating at 100% power, On December 27, 1993, with Unit 2 operating at full power, an electrical insulator failure in the 525 Kv main switchyard caused a loss of one of the two off-site power supplies to Unit 2.
A subsequent loss of the second 525 Kv line caused a trip of the reactor and a turbine tHp. During the transient, the reduction in reactor system pressure during cooldown resulted in a Safety Injection actuation, and the main steam isolation valve (MSIV) for Steam Generator 2B failed to close. This eventually caused Steam Generator 2B to go d ry. Operators used the plant emergency procedures for depressurization to prevent a steam generator tube rupture and safely shut down the plant. The use of the primary power operated relief valves to depressurize the plant resulted in discharge to the primary relief tank and eventually ruptured the rupture disk.
An Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) was dispatched to the site on December 29, 1993.
The AIT's preliminary findings are:
that it is reasonable to expect with the existing emergency operating procedures that McGuire Units 1 & 2 will have a safety injection upon a LOOP and that this will unnecessarily complicate the recovery from the LOOP; that there is a question as to whether off-site power sources meet GDC-17; that the reactor cooldown limit of 100*F in I hour was exceeded (the B loop cooldown rate was 140*F per hour)-
that the stuck open "B" SG MSIV was attributed to a failure to incorporate vendor recommendations into the maintenance and testing procedures; that there were problems in operator performance in handling certain matters during this event; j
that there were problems on how the licensee handled the event notification to the NRC.
A management meeting with the licensee to discuss restart items was held on January 5, 1994.
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Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 Vice President Gore's Visit to Almaty. Kazakhstan i
During Vice President Gore's visit to Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 14, 1993, Kazakhstan and the U.S. signed an agreement providing for cooperative assistance in the area of material control and accounting (MC&A) and physical protection. This agreement will help strengthen the Kazakh's state system of accounting and control of nuclear material.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission International Safeguards staff is working in tandem with the Department of Energy in this five year effort, which is under the auspices of the Safe and Secure Dismantlement program. NRC's role is first to assist.in defining the safeguards regulatory needs of Kazakhstan and, subsequently, to aid the Atomic Energy Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (AEARK) in developing regulations, regulatory guidance, licensing review criteria, and inspection procedures.
NRC will also help the AEARK in developing an effective safeguards organizational structure, and train the Kazakh regulators in licensing and inspecting nuclear facilities.
Kazakhstan is one of the four former Soviet republics which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal.
Its nuclear facilities include a large LEU pellet fabrication facility, a fast breeder reactor, and four research reactors, as well as some uranium mining-and conversion facilities.
International Safeguards staff hope to travel 'to Kazakhstan within the next two months to meet with their Kazakh-counterparts and plan a course of action.
Meetina To Discuss Status of the Nunn-Luaar Safe and Secure Disarmament On January 5,1994, members of the Regulatory and International Safeguards Branch met with representatives of the National Security Council (NSC) and the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to discuss the status of the Nunn-Lugar Safe and Secure Disarmament (SSD) Material Control and Accounting (MC&A) and Physical Protection subgroup activities.
The meeting was prompted by recent developments which occurred during the December.
r 1993 Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission meetings in Moscow. Potential approaches to address U.S. safeguards assistance for Russian nuclear material were discussed. There was general agreement among the attendees that the SSD MC&A subgroup is the appropriate U.S. working group to address the inclusion of Russian military nuclear material in the development of a national regulatory program for Russia.
Update on WESF Sources In a December 30, 1993, telephone conversation with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff, a representative of the Department of Energy (DOE) provided the following information about Waste Storage and Encapsulation Facility (WESF) sources.
1 The 309 WESF sources located at the 10 TECH facility in Northglenn, Colorado, have been " clunk" tested.
All sources passed the test.
DOE plans to~use its i
BUSS cask to ship the WESF sources back to the DOE facility at Hanford, Washington.
The BUSS cask holds 16 sources Assuming that some necessary 1
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d administrative details can be completed, 00E plans to begin shipping WESF sources from 10 TECH on or about February 15, 1994. DOE plans one shipment per 4
month, and expects that it will take about 20 months to remove all of the WESF i
sources from 10 TECH. Upon completion of the 10 TECH shipments, DOE will remove the WESF sources now in the Applied Radiant Energy Corporation's (AREC0) irradiator at Lynchburg, Virginia. The WESF sources at ARECO successfully passed their most recent leak and " clunk" tests on October 21, 1993.
O DOE has agreed that States along the truck route to Washington may escort the WESF shipments, if they so choose.
DOE will fund training of State escort personnel and the cost of the escort.
The DOE representative did not identify which States, if any,-have decided to escort the WESF shipments.
r Review and Evaluation of NRC's Reaulatory Procram for Medical Use of Byproduct Material i
The very serious therapy misadministration incident in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in November 1992, and other recent events and circumstances in both non-Agreement States (Nuclear Regulatory Commission. jurisdiction) and Agreement.
States, underscored the importance of assuring that NRC and Agreement States medical use licensing, inspection and enforcement programs are properly designed and effectively implemented.
Consequently, the Commission requested that the staff obtain the services of an outside group to conduct a comprehensive in-depth review and evaluation of the adequacy of NRC's regulatory program for the medical use of byproduct material, and to provide any recommendations for needed changes.
The NRC has~ awarded a contract, effective January 2, 1994, to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, to conduct.this review. The project is estimated to require 24 months, and will result in a formal report by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 Meetina with EPA and DOE about Decommissionina Standards On January 6, 1994, NRC staff met with representatives of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (D0E) at EPA Headquarters offices to discuss the approaches taken by the agencies in conducting radiation surveys to determine compliance with decommissioning standards and criteria. These preliminary discussions focused on comparing the procedural and technical differences between existing NRC, DOE, and EPA guidance documents developed for sampling, surveying, and analyzing residual radioactivity at sites under the jurisdiction of each agency. Meeting participants agreed to (1) exchange information on ongoing projects concerning the development of survey guidance; (2) compile bibliographies of relevant survey guidance documents; and (3) jointly develop a Statement of Purpose for an interagency survey manual. These exchanges are expected to be useful in the NRC's effort to develop implementing guidance in support of the Enhanced Participatory Rulemaking on Radiological Criteria for Decommissioning. The next meeting of this group is scheduled for February 8,1994.
Draft Staff Evaluation Report Recardina Individual Plant Examination (IPE)
Submittal for Duke Power Company McGuire Units 1 and 2 RES has completed its review and issued a draft staff evaluation report on the McGuire Units 1 and 2 IPE.
The licensee's IPE analysis estimated the mean probabilistic core damage frequency (from internal events) at 4.0E-5/yr. The analysis did not identify any severe accident vulnerabilities with respect to core damage or containment failure. However, the IPE identified a number of plant safety enhancements, including improvements to procedures and training that will enable operators to quickly activate their safe shutdown facility (SSF) during station blackout events.
(The SSF acts as a backup system to normal safety systems on both units).
Improvements will reduce the conditional probability of reactor coolant pump seal failure and associated loss of primary coolant through the failed seals.
In addition, the licensee plans to maintain a "living" PRA program to help identify additional safety enhancement opportunities throughout the lifetime of the plant.
Draft Staff Evaluation Report Recardina Individual Plant Examination (IPE)
Submittal for Duke Power Company Catawba Units 1 and 2 RES has completed its review and issued a draft staff evaluation report on the Catawba Units 1 and 2 IPE. The licensee's IPE analysis estimated the mean probabilistic core damage frequency (from internal events) at 5.8E-5/yr. The IPE did not identify any severe accident vulnerabilities with respect to core damage or containment failure. However, a dependency involving both the reactor coolant pump (RCP) thermal barriers and charging pumps on the component cooling water (CCW) system, elevated the significance of transient induced pump seal LOCA events.
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seal failure and contribution to core damage.
In addition, the licensee plans to maintain a "living" PRA program to enhance the identification of additional safety improvements during the lifetime of the plant.
i JANUARY 7, 1994 ENCLOSURE C
Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 Preliminary Notifications a.
Fair Lawn Diagnostic Imaging Center, PN0-I-94-001, Loss of a Cesium-137 Dose Calibrator Source b.
Zynaxis Cell Science, Inc., PHO-I-94-002, 24-Hour Notification of Possible Skin Overexposure c.
Stone and Webster (Temporary Work Location), PN0-II-93-074A, Recovered Portable Gauges d.
Duke Power Co. (McGuire 2), FN0-II-93-076A, Update-Switchyard Insulator Failure Leading to Loss of Offsite Power e.
Fermi 2 (Detroit Edison Co), PN0-III-93-69A, Extended Shutdown of Facility Due to Failure of Low-Pressure Turbine (Update) f.
Wisconsin Public Service Corp., PN0-III-94-01, Shutdown to Repair Reactor Coolant System Leakage JANUARY 7, 1994 ENCLOSURE D
Office of Administration Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 National Industrial Security Proaram On December 14, 1953 the President issued Executive Order 12885, " Amendment to Executive Order No.12829," to postpone the issuance of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISP0M) to a date no later than June 30, 1994.
Issuance of the NISP0M was originally ordered for January 1994.
The extension was necessary due to the concurrent work on the revision to Executive Order 12356, " National Security Information," and the review being conducted by the Joint CIA and D00 Security Commission.
Products from these efforts will need to be incorporated into the NISP0M.
Self-Guarantee as an Additional Financial Assurance Mechanism A final rule entitled, "Self-Guarantee as an Additional Financial Assurance Mechanism," was published in the Federal Register on December 29, 1993 (58 FR 68726). The final rule amends regulations for decommissioning licensed facilities to allow certain non-electric utility licensees to use self-guarantee as a means of financial assurance. The final rule reduces the cost burden cf financial assurance while providing the NRC with sufficient assurance that decommissioning costs will be funded. The final rule becomes effective January 28, 1994.
Standards for Protection Aaainst Radiation: NRC Operations Center Telephone Number A final rule amending the NRC's standards for protection against radiation was published in the Federal Register on December 30, 1993 (58 FR 69219).
The final rule includes the telephone number for the NRC Operations Center in the text of the revised standards for protection against radiation. The final rule became effective December 30, 1993.
Sionificant F0IA Reauests Received by the NRC For 4-Day Period of January 3 -
January 6. 1994 Request for five categories of records regarding the March 28, 1979 accident at THI-2.
(Richard Webb, Studies of Nuclear Hazards and Constitutional Law, F01A-94-1)
Request for a copy of NRC's latest Five-Year Plan.
(Nancy Chapman, Bechtel Power Corporation, F0lA-94-4)
Request for a copy of Temporary Instruction (draft): Quality Management Program and Hisadministration Rule.
(Gary Talkington, Fairfax Hospital, F0IA-94-5)
Request for copies of specified references from NUREG/CR-3950, Volume 8 and copies of all Fuel Vendors 1991 and 1992 Annual Reports submitted to the Reactor Systems Branch.
(Michael O'Mealia, F01A-94-6)
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Request for copies of all license requests within the U.S. for the export of low-enriched uranium for the time period between December 30, 1983 and December 30, 1993.
(Stephanie Hitchell, National Security News Service, FOIA-94-8)-
Request for seven categories of records regarding License No. SNM-1995.
(Penelope Wotherspoon, F0IA-94-9)
JANUARY 7, 1994 ENCLOSURE F
Office of information Resources Management Items of Interest Week inding January 7, 1994 i
Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) 2000 The new FTS 2000 calling cards were effective as of January 1,1994. Ninety-five percent of the old calling cards have been replaced and most of the new orders have been filled.
Support for Office of Consolidation The Automated Graphics Section (AGS) is creating an information kiosk for Two White Flint North.
The AGS has submitted size specifications for all the internal hardware kiosk compor.ents along with several kiosk enclosure design sketches to CONS to have the kiosk enclosures designed and fabricated by the building contractor.
Voice Mail There are 1,283 mailboxes on the new system.
The mailboxes consist of 1,240 subscriber boxes, 30 application boxes and 13 administrative boxes. Of the 1,283 mailboxes,1,171 have been initialized (94.4%) and are in use by staff members.
There are 69 NRC staffers who have mailboxes which they are not using (uninitialized). We are contacting each staffer individually to determine their intention and will either eliminate their mailbox or instruct them (again) how to initialize their service. Voice Mail training has been provided to 464 staff members.
Records Retirement Activity During the week, the Office of Information Resources Management's file Center staff retired 233 boxes of nuclear power plant part 50 docket case files to the NRC Archival Facility.
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Office of Personnel items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 SES Candidate Develoomant Proaram Candidates Attend Course from January 5-7, 1994, participants in the Senior Executive Service (SES)
Candidate Development Program attended a three-day training program entitled Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making Workshop.
This course, taught by representatives of the Kepner-Tregoe Company of Princeton, New Jersey, is part of-the required curriculum of the SES Candidate Development Program.
Supervisory Development Program candidates are attending a separate session from January 10-12, 1994.
Smokina Cessation Procram Starting January 11, 1994, the Employee Assistance Program is sponsoring a.
smoking cessation program in 0WFN to help employees kick the nicotine habit.
Twelve NRC employees have enrolled in the program, which consists of seven one-hour sessions conducted by the Stop Smoking Institute.
Arrivals HARDIN, Kimberly NUCLEAR ENGINEER (PFT)
NMSS KAUFMAN, Jennifer CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR (PFT)
OIG PLITT, Deidre COMPUTER SPECIALIST (POLICY) (PFT) 1RM Retirements.
ERICKSON, Robert CHIEF, EMER. PREP. BR. (PFT)
NRR FAULKENBERRY, Bobby REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR (PFT)
RV FOUCHARD, Joseph DIRECTOR, PA (PFT)
PA HOLMES-RAY, Peter SR. RESIDENT INSPECTOR (PFT)
RIl JENKINS, George DIRECTOR, ENF. INV. C0ORD. (PFT)
Ril MCLEAREN, Agnes SR. CONTRACT NEGOTIATOR (PFT)
ADM MEYER, Dolores CHIEF, RESOURCE MGMT. SECTION (PFT)
RIV MINNERS, Warren DIR., DIV., 0F SFTY. ISSUE RES. (PFT) RES NEWLIN, Robert DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PA (PFT)
PA-PELL, Anna SR. V0UCHER EXAMINER (PFT)
R11 SCARBOROUGH, Jack TECHNICAL ASSISTANT-(PFT)
OCM/KR SCOTT, Harold SUPV. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR (PFT)
OlG Departures HELWIG, Gary ELECTRONICS-ENGINEER (PFT)
IRM JACOBY, Dawn PROJECT MANAGER (PFT)
RIV PAR 0BY, Richard ENGINEERING AIDE (COOP) (OPFT)
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Office of Enforcement Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1993 Sianificant Enforcement Actions A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition'of Civil Penalty in the amount of $15,000 will be issued on January 7,1994, to the Virginia Electric and
. Power Company (North Anna, Unit 2). The action is based on two previous similar Severity Level IV violations issued on December 7,1990, and May:15, 1992.
The violation involved the licensee's failure'to demonstrate-operability of the Unit 2 ECCS subsystems by conducting adequate flow tests of the centrifugal charging pumps to verify flow characteristics. A civil penalty was issued for the repetitive nature of the violation which.is based on ineffective corrective actions and insufficient root cause analyses-for the previous similar violations.
The base civil penalty. for a Severity Level IV violation is $15,000.
Civil penalties for Severity Level IV violations are normally proposed at the base value without assessing civil penalty adjustment 1 factors.
(EN 94-001)
Civil Penalty Paid Edwards Pipeline Testing, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, paid the civil penalty in the amount of 512,000. The action was based on a violation involving repetitive willful. failures to perform quarterly audits on radiography personnel.
(EA 93-015)
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Office of Consolidation Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 Second Buildino Status During the week, Transwall began installing demountable walls on Floor 6 and-Haworth continued installing systems work stations on Floors 4 and 5.
The developer's contractor began installing pendant light fixtures in conference rooms on all floors. Modification work continued on stairwell No. I and adjacent areas to create a new second means of fire egress to the outside from the auditorium. Cable was pulled for key-card systems on various floors.
On January 3, Office staff met with Division of Contracts and Property Management (DCPM) staff to review problems identified by DCPM in specifications and justifications provided by DBI for selection of various items of furniture for TWFN.
On January 5, at the weekly progress meeting with the developer.and GSA, much of the discussion focused on the details of transferring control of TWFN from the construction contractor to the Government.
On January 6, NRC staff met with the TWFN plaza level design team to continue discussions of layout for the cafeteria, fitness center, and employee store.
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Office of International Programs Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 i
Letter of Invitation Sent to Indonesia The formal letter of invitation to four proposed assignees from Indonesia was signed by the Executive Director for Operations on Wednesday, January 5.
The letter was dispatched by express mail and fax the same day.
The assignments are scheduled to begin on January 31.
Proposed NRC Cooperation Aareement with Kazakhstan The Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Agency has' requested three minor corrections to the Russian language draft of the proposed NRC-KAEA agreement. When the Language Services staff at the Department of State confirms the changes, which is expected to happen shortly, the agreement will stand ready for signature.
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Region I Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 1.
Meetino with Boston Edison Company On January 7, 1994, the Senior Vice President - Nuclear and other representatives of the Boston Edison Company are meeting with the Region I Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards, and other Region I personnel to discuss issues arising from recent radiation protection inspections at Pilgrim. The meeting was requested by the licensee.
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Region 11 Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 1.
Duke Power Company. McGuire Unit 2 The Augmented Inspection Team has concluded its onsite activities and an exit interview and restart meeting was conducted in Headquartersaon January 5, 1994. The AIT Team Leader conducted a Media Briefing on January 6, 1994.
The licensee has completed all the corrective actions in the Confirmatory Action Letter.
The Regional Administrator concurred in the restart of the unit. Unit 2 started on January 6, 1994 and is currently escalating in power.
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Region III Items of Interest Week Ending January 7, 1994 1.
Fermi Nuclear Plant On January 4, 1994, the Regional Administrator and Director, Division of Reactor Projects toured the Fermi site and conducted a press conference to discuss the results of their tour, the Christmas day turbine generator failure, and proposed NRC course of action.
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LaSalle County Nuclear Station On January 4,1994, Unit I lost control rod position indication on the control room displays, process computer, and rod worth minimizer. The rod drift alarm was inoperable as well. The scram function remained operable. The. failure was attributed to a RPIS multiplexer card which was improperly transmitting information that was masking signals from the other multiplexer cards. Compensatory actions were taken until January 5, when the system was repaired and declared operable.
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Items of Interest Week'Ending January 7, 1994 1.
Manaaement Meetina with Enterav A management meeting was held in the Region IV office on January 5, 1994, to discuss the near-term performance improvement plan for the River Bend Station. The meeting was attended by. senior NRC and licensee representatives and was open to attendance by members of the general 1
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River Bend Enforcement-Conferences Two' enforcement conferences'were held in Region IV office with River Bend Station on January 6, 1994. One enforcement conference addressed security issues and was attended by. senior NRC and licensee representatives. The second enforcement conference with a former River Bend Station employee'was held to address security related issues.
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South Texas Proiect Manacement Meetina Members of the Region IV and NRR staff visited the site on January 7, 1994, for a public management meeting with Houston Lighting & Power Company management representatives. The licensee discussed _their line management self assessments and independent assessments: and the status of-their progress in resolving restart issues and Diagnostic Evaluation Team findings.
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01/18/94 50-416 Excel Services Corp.
To discuss the first of eight NRR/BWR/6 Owners D. Pickett 9:00-5:00 50-440 11921 Rcckvilla Pike sequences of technical (E01, CEI, GSUCO, (301) 504-1324 50-458 Rockville, Mai 'and specification sections that make IPCO)/EXCELL 50-461 up the conversion to the SERVICES Improved Standard Technical Specifications (NUREG-1434) for the BWR/6 reactors (Grand Gulf 1, Perry 1, River Bend 1, and Clinton).
The first sequence includes Application of the Policy Criteria; Section 1.0
- Definitions; Section 3.0 - LCO and SR Applicability; and Section 4.0 - Design Features.
01/18/94 50-313 One White Flint North To discuss the use of the NRR/E0I R. Bevan 10:30-12:00 Room 8-B-11 electromatic relief valve (301) 9)b1308 (power-operated relief valve) to avoid plant trips.and mitigate transients at Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1.
01/18/94 50-390 One White Flint North To discuss issues that warrant NRR/TVA P. Tam 1:00-3:00 Room 12-B-11 management attention regarding (301)544-1451 use of U-bolts as pipe clamps at Watts Bar.
01/19/94 50-219 One White Flint North To discuss matters relating to NRR/GPUN A. Dromerick 10:00-3:00 Room 1-F-19 water-backed welding of Oyster (301) 9}b3473 Creek safety-related piping.
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L. Olshan 10:00-12:00 Room 6-B-13 decommissioning. issues.
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gj Date/ Time Number Location Purpose Aeolicant NRC Contact 1/13-14/94 N/A Holiday Inn Nuclear Safety Research NSRRC members, G. Sege Bethesda, MD Review Committee meeting NRC staff, public 1/31-2/2/94 N/A HIST Workshop to discuss research States / Compacts J. Philip Gaithersburg,MD on parformance and modeling DOE of concrete for LLW disposal Foreign Organizations
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Date/ Time Number Location Purpose ADDlicant SP Contact 1/17/94 NA Atlanta, GA Atlanta Health Physics HP Society R. Trojanowski Gs Society J
1/17-24/94 NA Sacramento, CA California Radiation State J. Hornor Control Program Follow-up Review 1/19/94 50-325 Southport, NC Brunswick Public Meeting Licensee /Public R. Trojanowski 50-324 1/20-21/94 50-302 Red Level, FL Crystal River EP EP Officials R. Trojanowski Exercise 1/20-21/94 NA Manitowoc, WI Wisconsin REP Conference EP Officials R. Lickus E
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01/18/94 50-317 Region I To discuss Calvert Selected NRC Staff LNicholson 10:00 a.m.
50-318 Cliffs Service Water Members and Licensee Inspection and Engineering Overview 01/18/94 50-334 Region I Enforcement Conference Selected NRC Staff WLazarus 2:00 p..m.
50-412 concerning Emergency Members and Licensee Diesel Generators Solid State ATC Timer / Relays 01/20/94 030-33-019 Region I Enforcement Conference Selected NRC Staff WPasciak 8:30 a.m.
regarding Apparent Members and Licensee Violations Identified during 11/30/93 Inspection 01/25/94 50-219 Region I Enforcement Conference Selected NRC Staff JRogge 10:00 a.m.
to discuss the NRC Members and Licensee Operational Safety Team Inspection Findings 01/27/94 50-387 Region I Management Meeting to Se'lected NRC Staff JWhite 10:00 a.m.
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! Sj 01/10/94 50-261 RII Office Enforcement Conference RA, RII Staff, Ebneter 1:00 p.m.
(0 pen) CPL - Robinson and Licensee e=
01/13/94 50-413 RII Office Enforcement Conference DRA, RII Staff, Reyes 1:00 p.m.
50-414 DPC - Catawba, Oconee and Licensee 50-369 and McGuire (Safeguards) 50-370 50-269 50-270 50-287 01/13/94 50-424 Waynesboro, GA Vogtle Operator Dep Dir of DRS, Jaudon p.m.
50-425 Certificates RII Staff, and Licensee Presentation 01/18/94 50-302 RII Office Enforcement LonTarence RA, RII Staff, Ebneter 1:00 p.m.
FPC - Crystal River and Licensee 01/19/94 50-325 Southport, NC Restart Meeting for RA, RII Staff, Ebneter 1:00 p.m.
50-324 CP&L - Brunswick and Licensee facility 01/20/94 50-390 Spring City, TN Chairman at TVA-Chairman, EDO, PA0 Dir.,
Ebneter 50-391 Watts Bar Facility RA, RII Staff and Licensee for site familiari-zation 01/21/94 50-269 Seneca, SC Chairman at DPC -
Chairman, RA, RII Staff, Ebneter 50-270 Oconee. Facility for and Licensee 50-287 site familiarization t
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'S 1/19-1/20/94 50-341 Site Detroit Edison Regional Administrator-Greenman Site Visit Selected Staff 1/21/94 50-461 Site Illinois Power Deputy Regional Greenman Company - SALP Administrator Selected Staff 1/24-1/26/94 RIII Resident Selected Staff Greenman Inspector Seminar 1/25/94 50-440 Site Cleveland Electric Regional Administrator Greenman Illuminating Co.
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NRC Date/ Time Number location Purpose Acolicant Contact 1/11/94 40-6622 RIV Discuss regulatory authorities T.Pennington, W. Brown 1:00 in nonagreement states B.Poyser 1/13/94 40-3453 URF0 Discuss reclamation plan Atlas Corp.
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Date/ Time Number location Puroose Apolicant NRC Contact 1/24-28/94 50-397 WNP-2 Engineering Team Inspection Designated P. Narbut-Attendees E
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