ML20083D964

Informs That a Koca Terminated from Position as QA Supervisor for Hatfield Electric Co,Effective 831021

ML20083D964
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Site:	Byron
Issue date:	12/14/1983
From:	Mark Miller COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO., ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE
To:	Callihan A, Cole R, Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE COUNSELORS AT LAW THRE E FIR 51 NATONAL PLAZA CHICAGO, lLUNOIS 60802 TELEPHONE 312 553 7500

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• WASHiN TON C 20026 December 14, 1983 Ivan W. Smith, Esq. Dr. Richard F. Cole Administrative Judge and Administrative Judge Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Washington, D. C. 20555 Dr. A. Dixon Callihan Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board c/o Union Carbide Corporation P.O. Box Y Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Re: In the Matter of Commonwealth Edison Company (Byron Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2)

Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455

Dear Administrative Judges:

In accordance with its obligation to inform the Board of occurrences which may be relevant to the above-captioned proceedings, Commonwealth Edison Company hereby informs the Board that Allen Koca was terminated from his position as Quality Assurance Supervisor for Hatfield Electric Company effective October 21, 1983. During a meeting with represen-tatives of Commonwealth Edison at Byron on August 5, 1983, members of the Region III Staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission expressed their concern about Mr. Koca's ability to function effectively within Hatfield's quality assurance program. As understood by Commonwealth Edison personnel, the Staff's concern was that friction between Hatfield's quality control inspectors and Mr. Koca was undermining his ability to assist in the implementation of an effective quality assurance program. The Staff also expressed concern about Mr. Koca's ability to perform his job responsibilities effectively. Commonwealth Edison concurred with the Staff's assessment of Mr. Koca.

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Ivan W. Smith, Esq.

Dr. Richard F. Cole Dr. A. Dixon Callihan December 14, 1983 Page Two '

Mr. Koca was not terminated because of any findings of wrongdoing on his part. The vast majority of allegations

-involving Hatfield's quality assurance program and Mr. Koca personally have proven to be unsubstantiated, Hatfield's quality assurance program is functioning satisfactorily, and to the Company's knowledge there have been no findings of wilful wrongdoing by Mr. Koca. Removal of Mr. Koca as Quality Assurance Supervisor, however, was viewed to be an appropriate step toward reinstilling confidence in Hatfield's quality assurance program.

Mr. Koca's termination should not be deemed to be a reflection on his credibility as a witness before the Board.

Mr. Koca's testimony focused on the training and certification of John Hughes, and on the testing of QA/QC trainees. On these issues there have been no findings by the NRC Staff which would indicate that the specific allegations were substantiated or suggest that Mr. Koca was anything but truthful before the Board.

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STN 50-454 Mr. Dennis L. Farrar Director of Nuclear Licensing Commonwealth Edison Company Post Office Box 767 Chicago, Illinois 60690

Subject:

Information Needed Prior to Fuel Load of Byron 1 Your letter of September 23, 1983 revised the target date for Byron 1 fuel load to February 15, 1984. It is our goal to resolve by fuel load all the outstanding items and confirmatory issues identified in our original Safety Evaluation Report (SER).

Enclosure 1 summarizes the information we need from you to resolve these issues. If an item is not listed in the enclosure, it means that is resolved or that we have all the information that we need at this time. (Supplement 3 to the SER, issued in November 1983, provides a summary of all the resolved items.)

Provide a response to the items in Enclosure 1 or a justification for proceeding with fuel load with the item unresolved. We need this response at least 60 days prior to your fuel load date so that we may complete our safety evaluation 30 days prior to fuel load.

All the items have been discussed extensively with T. Tramm of your staff.

However, if you need further clarification contact L. 01shan, the Licensing Project Manager, at 492-7070.

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B.J.l.,oungbloo, Chief Licen ing Branc No. 1 Division of Licensing

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_ ,, .,r-- .------m ENCLOSURE 1 INFORMATION NEEDED PRIOR TO BYRON 1 FUEL LOAD Outstanding Items (1) Additional information to confirm pipeline foundation design - Provide soils information at area 12 as requested in our June 1,1982 letter. The infcrmation provided thus far is not sufficient for us to resolve the concern for differential soil settlement effects on the pipeline.

(2) Turbine missile evaluation - Provide the turbine maintenance program discussed during the November 17, 1983 meeting (meeting summary issued December 6,1983.)

(4) Pump and valve operability assurance - Provide the information we requested during discussions on November 8, 1983.

(6) Seismic and dynamic qualification of equipment - Provide the information we requested during discussions on November 8, 1983.

(7) Environmental qualification of electrical equipment - Provide the remaining information not included in your December 6, 1983 letter.

(9) TMI action item II.F.2: Inadequate Core Cooling Instrumentation. Expand

, your August 13, 1982 response, Item (4), to explain how your system conforms to NUREG-0737 Item II.F.2.

(10) Steam Generator flow-induced vibrations - Provide the plant-specific information discussed on page B-85 of NUREG-1014 " Safety Evaluation Report related to the D4/05/E Steam Generator Design Mcdificaten."

(13) Fire protection program - Provide responses to the concerns disce , sed in our August 3,1983 letter and again discussed in the October 28, 1983 meeting (meeting summary issued November 1, 1983).

(17) Control iaom human factors review - Provide the responses discussed during the October 26, 1983 meeting (meeting summary issued November 7, 1983).

Confirmatory Issues (1) Confirmatory analysis to verify river screenhouse seismic response analysis - confirm the soil properties used the analysis reauested on page 2-32 of the original SER. Your June 15, 1983 letter and the the additional information you provided in December 1983 is not

-sufficient.

(16) Charging pump deadheading - Your September 16, 1983 letter proposes an interim plan of operation until the changes are completed. Provide a discussion of the worst single failure for this interim plan, as we reouested during a November 30, 1983 telephone conversation.

2-(28) TMI Item II.K.3.1 - Provide justification that your valves are enveloped by the generic response.

TMI Item III.D.1.1 - Provide the information discussed on page 9-23 of the original SER.

THI Item II.D.1 - Provide results of the analysis discussed on page 10 of your October 26, 1982 letter.

(34) RCP rotor seizure and shaft - Provide discussion of the effects of a stuck open secondary valve.

(35) Anticipated transients without scram - Provide the portions of the i Procedures Generation Package that we requested during the November 10, 1983 telephone consersation.

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Mr. Dennis L. Farrar Director of Nuclear Licensing Commonwealth Edison Company Post Office Box 767 Chicago. Illinois 60690 cc: Mr.. William Kortier Ms. Diane Chavez Atomic Power Distribution 326 N. Avon Street i Westinghouse Electric Corporation Rockford, Illinois 61103 Post Office Box 355 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Mr. James G. Keppler U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Michael Miller Region III Isham, Lincoln & Beale 799 Roosevelt Road One First National Plaza Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 42nd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60603 Joseph Gallo, Esq.

Isham, Lincoln & Beale Mrs. Phillip B. Johnson Suite 840 1907 Stratford Lane 1120 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.

Rockford, Illinois 61107 Washington, D. C. 20036 Dr. Bruce von Zellen Doug Cassel, Esq.

Department of Biological Sciences Jane Whicker, Esq.

, Northern Illinois University 109 N. Dearborn Street DeKalb, Illinois 61107 i Ch~cago, Ill'inois 60602 Mr. Edward R. Crass Ms. Pat Morrison Nuclear Safeguards & Licensing 5568 Thunderidge Drive Sargent & Lundy Engineers Rockford, Illinois 61107 55 East Monroe Street Chicago, Illinois 60603 David C. Thomas, Esq.

77 S. Wacker Drive Mr. Julian Hinds Chicago, Illinois 60601 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

! Syron/ Resident Inspectors Offices

! 4448 German Church Road Byron, Illinois 61010 l

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'83 DEC 27 Pl2:58 In the Matter of OfflCE OF SELRtiA' COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY ) Docket No.50-45Y $$NC

) 50-455 i (Byron Station, Units 1 and 2) )

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE l I hereby certify this 22nd day of December, 1983, that copies of " MOTION-TO REOPEN RECORD AND FOR ORDER IMPOSING COMMITMENTS" in the above-captioned proceeding were served on the following by deposit in the United States mail.

Ivan W. Smith, Chairman Richard J. Rawson Administrative Judge Office of Executive Legal Atonic Safety and Licensing Director Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Office of the Secretary of Dr. Dixon A. Callihan the Comm1ssion Administrative Judge Attn: Docketing & Service Union Carbide Corporation Section P.O. Box Y U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Richard F. Cole Administrative Judge David Thomas , Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing 77 South Wacker Drive Board Chicago, IL 60621 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Joseph Gallo, Esq.

Washington, D.C. 20555 Isham, Lincoln & Beale 1120 Connecticut Ave., N.W.

Alan P. Bielawski, Esq. Room 325 Bruce Becker, Esq. Washington, D.C. 20036

, Isham, Lincoln & Beale Three First National Plaza Chicago,s IL 60603 ,

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