ML20077H698
| ML20077H698 | |
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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 07/26/1983 |
| From: | Larson C NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. |
| To: | Paperiello C NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| NUDOCS 8308110222 | |
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3 Northem States Powcr Company 414 Nicollet Mall Minneapoks, Minnesota 55401 Telephone (612) 330 5500 July 26, 1983 C.J. Paperiello, Chief Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Safety Branch U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
Dear Mr Paperiello:
M0!EICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLATE Docket No. 50-263 License No. DPR-22 Response to NRC Notice of Violation Letter Dated June 27, 1983 This letter is sent to you pursuant to Section 2.201 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice", Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations and in response to Inspection Report No. 50-263/83-09 which cited an apparent non-compliance with NRC requirements.
Description of Violation Two requirements were cited.
10CFR50, Appendix E, Section IV.D.3, states in part that "a licensee shall have the capability to notify responsible State and Local governmental agencies within 15 minutes after declaring an emergency".
Technical Specification, paragraph 6.5. A.6 requires preparation of and adherence to implementing procedures of the emergency plan.
Contrary to the above requirements, the licensee failed to demonstrate this capability after declaration of a Notification of Unusual Event (NUE) on April 11, 1983. The State of Minnesota was notified 66 minutes after declaring this NUE, a time period greater than 15 minutes.
Further, the licensee failed to follow Emergency Plan Implementing Procedure A.2-102, Attachment 4, which states that both counties and the State shall be notified within 15 minutes after declaring an emergency.
Admission or Denial Statement We agree that our procedures require that notifications to State and Local governmental agencies be made within 15 minutes, and that we failed to comply with our requirenents in this case. However, we do not agree that our actions are in non-compliance with 10CFR50, Appendix E, Section IV.D.3.
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- C.J. Paperiello Page 2 July 26, 1983 capability to make the required notifications within the time allowed and in fact have demonstrated this en several occasions.
Reasons for the Violation The major factor in our failure to rake timely notifications was that the Shif t Supervisor became involved in corrective actions -and did not notify the shift communicator promptly following the emergency declaration.
4 Corrective Actions and Results Achieved To -prevent further. non-compliance, shif t supervisors were instructed on the importance of promptly notifying the shift communicator. To further decrease our response time, the procedure step which addresses contacting the shif t communicator was revised. The shif t supervisor is now instructed to direct the communicator to initiate calls to the State and Local governmental agencies from the communicator's quarters in situations where there is not time for the communicator to first respond to the plant.
Procedures and forms to facilitate notifications from the communicator's quarters were. positioned accordingly and all shif t communicators were notified of the reason for the change and the proper way to handle the initial notifications.
With these actions complete, we believe that full compliance has been achieved.
Respectfully, s
C. E. La Director, Nuclear Generation cc: C Brown
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