ML20071N165

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Discusses Role & Responsibility of 10CFR50.55(e) Reporting. Westinghouse Directed to Rept All Future Potential Significant Deficiency Findings for Facility Only to Util & Util Will Rept to NRC
ML20071N165
Person / Time
Site: Beaver Valley
Issue date: 05/04/1983
From: Woolever E
DUQUESNE LIGHT CO.
To: Allan J
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
Shared Package
ML20071N163 List:
References
2NRC-3-025, 2NRC-3-25, NUDOCS 8306060293
Download: ML20071N165 (3)


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. (412) 787 - 5141 (412)923 -1960 Telecopy (412) 787-2629 Nuclear Construction Division May 4,1983 Robinson Plaza, Building 2, Suite 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15205 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region 1 631 Park Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19406 CL ATTENTION: Mr.JamesAllyn Acting Admini'strator

SUBJECT:

Beaver Valley Power Station - Unit No. 2 Docket No. 50-412 Significant Deficiency Reporting Gentlemen:

Duquesne Light Company (DLC) and Westinghouse (W) have recently entered into discussions regarding the role and responsibility of 10CFR50.55(e) reporting. DLC is hereby reiterating its conclusion to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Inspection and Enforcement (I&E) Regional Office.

It is the DLC position to follow 10CFR, which under 10CFR50.55(e) states chat the holder of a construction permit shall notify the NRC I&E Of fice of each f

reportable de f ic iency. As the holder of the Beaver Valley Power Station Unit

'No. 2 (BVPS-2) construction permit, DLC is directly bound by 10 CFR , and, as such, recognizes no one other than itself as the agent to execute the function of reporting 10CFR50.55(e) findings for BVPS-2.

The Nuclear Construction Division (NCD) of DLC has implemented formal procedures which establish the methods for evaluating and reporting significant deficiencies. The procedure. requires that every item that is ident ified as a potential significant deficiency, either by DLC personnel, the NSSS vendor, the Architect Engineer, or any other organization outside of DLC, shall be processed and reported to the NRC as prescribed in the NCD procedure. Therefore, W has been instructed to report all future pot ent ial 10CFR50.55(e) items for BVPS-2

' only to DLC along with sufficient information for DLC to pe rmi t analysis and evaluation of the deficiency and of the suggested corrective action.

W and DLC both recognize that, since its inception, 10CFR21 provides the principle medium for an NSSS vendor to report substantial safety hazards to the NRC. In fact, 10CFR21 requires that an NSSS vendor report to the NRC any item determined by its own independent evaluation to meet the criteria defined in 10CFR21 for a broad scope of items and ac t ivit ies , including construction-related findings . DLC does not, in any manner, intend or infer to reduce W's responsibility to carry out their required functions as defined by 10CFR21.

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However, to remove uncertainties and redundancies that have occurred with the . reporting of recent significant de f iciencies , DLC has directed W to report 'all future potential significant deficiency findings for BVPS-2 only to DLC. DLC will, as a construction permit holder, . comply with -10CFR50.55(e) and report to the NRC each deficiency found in the BVPS-2 design ~ and construction which meets the criteria defined in 10CFR50.55(e)(1).

Should you have any questions concerning this issue, please contact Mr.

E. F. Kurtz, Jr. , Manager of Regulatory Affairs, at (412) 787-5141.

DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY By '

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