ML20062M192
| ML20062M192 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/23/1982 |
| From: | Dewitt R CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| NUDOCS 8208200023 | |
| Download: ML20062M192 (4) | |
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Consumers POVVer Company Gee. oral offkes: 1945 West ParnaH Road, Jackson, MI 49201 e (517) 780 0550 July 23, 1982 James G Keppler, Adminstrator Region III US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE DPR PALISADES PLANT - RESPONSE TO IE INSPECTION REPORT 82-13 The NRC reported the results of a routine safety inspection conducted during May 1982 in IE Inspection Report No. 50-255/82-13. Addressed in the report were two items of noncampliance to which a response is required.
The items of noncompliance and response thereto are as follove:
ITEM:
Technical Specification 6.8.1.a requires implementation of procedures which includes Heal $gulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix "A" (November 1972),
as recommended in Re h Physics Procedures for Surveys and Monitoring.
Palisades Plant Health Physics Procedures, Section 1, Paragraph 1.1.5.2.3 provides that any time a person leaves a restricted area that person must check for contamination.
Contrary to the above, on May 12, 1982, the inspector observed five contractor employees exit a restricted area without checking for contamination.
RESPONSE
Corrective Action Taken and Results Achieved. The health physics technician stationed at the restricted area exit was instructed re-garding health physics requirements related to personnel leaving the restricted area.
Contractor managment was notified of the problem and requested to reinstruct their personnel in the applicable health physics requirements. Contractor management responded positively by counseling and disciplining individuals involved in a subsequent violation of these requirements.
Corrective Action to Prevent Recurrence.. Health physiac technicians have been briefed regarding requirements related to use of the re-stricted area exit in question. Contractor management has scheduled instruction sessions to cover health physics ' requirements with their personnel; these sessions will be conducted on an as-needed basis in conjunction with periodic safety meetings.
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Palisades Plant Response to IEIR 82-13 July 23, 1982 Date When Full Compliance Will be Achieved. The contractor training described above is scheduled to commence in September, 1982.
ITEM:
Technical Specification 6.8.1.a requires implementstion of applicable procedures as recommended in Regulatory Guide 1.33 Appendix "A" (November 1972), which includes Administrative Procedures.
Contrary to the above, provisions of the Palisades Nuclear Plant Admini-strative Procedures were not implemented, as follows:
a.
The modified heat tracing system was being operated without prior revision of associated procedures (D.l.4 and SDP 2.A) as required by Administrative Procedure 9 0, Paragraph 5.h.8.
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Setpoints for two heat tracing circuits were temporarily changed and caution tagged in May,1981, without initiation and processing of a Setpoint Change Sheet as required by Administrative Procedure 9.6, Paragraph 5 3
RESPONSE
(Part a)
Corrective Action Taken and Results Achieved.
Investigation into this noncompliance revealed that durin,g the period of time the modification to the boric acid heat trace system was being performed, responsibility for updating procedures as a result of system modifications was trans-ferred from project engineers to the Operations Department.
Failure to update procelures following modification to the boric acid heat trace system apparently resulted from oversight, and is considered to be an isolated case. The procedures requiring revision have been identified.
Corrective Action to Prevent Recurrence. Applicable procedures will be revised to reflect modifications made to the boric acid heat trace system. Because of the nature of the occurrence, no changes to admin-istrative controls related to design control are considered necesscry.
Date When Full Compliance Will be A'chieved.
Procedures will be revised, as described above, by September 1,1982.
RESPONSE
(Part b)
Corrective Action Taken and Results Achieved.
The setpoints have been returned to specified values.
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7 CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY Palisades Plant IE INSPECTION REPORT 82-13 Docket 50-255 License DPR-20 At the request of the Commission and pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 195h and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, and the Commission's Rules and Regulations thereunder, Consumers Power Company sutclits our response to IE Inspection Report 82-13, dated June 24, 1982.
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BY R B DeWitt, Vice President Nuclear Operations Sworn and subscribed to before me this 23rd day of July 1982.
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'M Helen I Dempski, Nota /ry Public Jackson County, Michigan My commission expires December 1h, 1983.
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Palisades Plant Response to IEIR 82-13 July 23, 1982
RESPONSE
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Corrective Action to Prevent Recurrence.
A memorandum has been issued to Operations Department personnel and instrument and control techni-cians to reiterate requirements to procens a setpoint change form prior to changing setpoints.
Date When Full Compliance Will be Achieved.
The actions described above have bees. Completed.
w Ar' Brian D Johnson Senior Licensing Engineer CC Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement NRC Resident Inspector - Palisades Attachment