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EA-19-114 Limerick Generating Station Units 1 and 2 - NRC Investigation Report No. 1-2019-011 and Notice of Violation (Cover Letter Only)
ML20062B657
Person / Time
Site: Limerick  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 03/03/2020
From: Dan Collins
NRC Region 1
To: Bryan Hanson
Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear
Marjorie McLaughlin
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EA-19-114 1-2019-011
Download: ML20062B657 (3)


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OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I 2100 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406-2713 March 3, 2020 EA-19-114 Mr. Bryan C. Hanson Senior Vice President, Exelon Generation Company, LLC President and Chief Nuclear Officer, Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

LIMERICK GENERATING STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 - NRC INVESTIGATION REPORT NO. 1-2019-011 AND NOTICE OF VIOLATION

Dear Mr. Hanson:

This letter refers to an investigation conducted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Investigations (OI) at the Exelon Generation Co., LLC (Exelon) Limerick Generating Station (Limerick). The investigation, which was completed on October 19, 2019, involved security matters that are considered sensitive information. Therefore, details of the investigation are not included in this letter but are described in the non-public enclosures.

Based on the results of the NRC OI investigation, the NRC determined that a Severity Level IV violation of NRC requirements occurred. After considering the factors set forth in Section 2.3.2.a of the Enforcement Policy, this violation is being cited in the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice). The details of the violation, including the assessment of its significance and the basis for citing the violation, are provided in Enclosure 1, and the Notice is provided as Enclosure 2.

The NRC notes that Exelon took immediate corrective actions to address any security-related vulnerability.

You are required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the enclosed Notice when preparing your response. If you have additional information that you believe the NRC should consider, you may provide it in your response to the Notice. The NRC review of your response to the Notice will also determine whether further enforcement action is necessary to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room and from the NRCs Agency-wide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. However, the material enclosed herewith contains Security-Related Information in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1), and its disclosure to unauthorized individuals could present a security vulnerability. Therefore, the material in the enclosures will not be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from ADAMS. If Security-Related Information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please mark your entire response Security-Related Information in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1) and follow the instructions for withholding in 10 CFR 2.390(b)(1). In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(b)(1)(ii), the NRC is waiving the affidavit requirements for your response.

OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION

OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION B. Hanson 2 Please note that final NRC investigation documents, such as the OI report described above, may be made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), subject to redaction of information appropriate under the FOIA. Requests under the FOIA should be made in accordance with 10 CFR 9.23, Requests for Records. Additional information is available on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/foia/foia-privacy.html.

This enforcement action will be administratively tracked under NRC Inspection Report No.

05000352; 05000353/2020404. Should you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Mr. Jon Greives, Chief, Branch 4, Division of Reactor Projects in Region I, at 610-337-5337.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Daniel S. Collins, Director Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353 License Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85

Enclosure:

As described cc w/o encl; w/o OUO: Distribution via ListServ cc w/encl; w/OUO:

S. Desimone, Manager, Site Security D. Allard, Director, PA DEP OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION

OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION

SUBJECT:

LIMERICK GENERATING STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 - NRC INVESTIGATION REPORT NO. 1-2019-011 AND NOTICE OF VIOLATION DATED March 3, 2020 Distribution w/o encl; w/o OUO:

Public D. Lew, RA R. Lorson, DRA D. Collins, DRP B. Welling, DRP J. Yerokun, DRS P. Krohn, DRS D. Screnci / N. Sheehan, PAO J. Weil, OCA B. Klukan, ORA R. McKinley, ORA D. Tifft, RI Enforcement Coordinators RII, RIII, RIV (M. Kowal, J. Cameron, J. Groom)

N. Moran, OGC D. Furst, OE O. Lopez-Santiago, RI, OEDO F. Gore, OI M. Holmes, OI R1ORAMail Resource R1DRPMailResource R1 OE Files (with concurrences)

RidsNrrPMLimerick Resource RidsNrrDorlLpl1 Resource ROPreports Resource RidsOEMailCenter Resource Distribution w/encl; w/OUO:

T. Keene, NSIR D. Johnson, NSIR N. Simonian, NSIR E. Wharton, NSIR J. Shehee, DRS, RII S. Orth, DRS, RIII R. Kellar, DRS, RIV J. Greives, DRP S. Rutenkroger, DRP, SRI S. Haney, DRP, RI DOC NAME: S:\Enf-allg\Enforcement\Proposed-Actions\Region1\ML20062B657_LIM Comp NOV-IV PUBLIC EA 114.docx ADAMS Accession Number: ML20062B657ADAMS PACKAGE: ML20023A004 Non-Sensitive Publicly Available X SUNSI Review/ X Non-Publicly Available X Sensitive OFFICE RI/ORA RI/ DRP RI/DRS RI/ORA RI/ORA OE M McLaughlin/ D Furst via NAME J Greives/ JEG* F Bower/ FLB* B Klukan/ BMK* R McKinley/ RRM*

MMM* email DATE 1/24/20 1/28/20 2/11/20 2/18/20 2/13/20 2/27/20 OFFICE NSIR OGC RI/DRP NAME S Prasad via email N Moran NLO via email D Collins DATE 2/20/20 2/27/20 03/03/2020

  • See/ previous concurrence OFFICIAL RECORD OFFICIAL USE ONLY - SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION