ML20129D778
| ML20129D778 | |
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| Issue date: | 09/16/1994 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | NRC |
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| FOIA-96-298 NUDOCS 9610250133 | |
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%, **...Jb September 16, 1994 MEMORANDUM TO: RECORD FROM: James M. Taylor Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
DROP-IN VISIT -- NORTHEAST UTILITIES On September 13, 1994, at 9:00 a.m., Northeast Utilities representatives Mr. James Opeka, Executive Vice President -
Nuclear, and Mr. Richard Kacich, Director, Nuclear Planning, Licensing, and Budgeting, met with Mr. J. Taylor, Mr. C. Miller (NRR), Mr. J. Ruuberg (OGC), Ms. Mary Miller (OEDO), and Mr. W.
Dean (OEDO) to discuss items of mutual interest. The following topics were discussed:
> Management Team Building / Interpersonal Skills Training
> Incorporating the Performance Enhancement Plan (PEP) into the Business Plan
> Barriers to the Success of the Organization The licensee discussed in some detail the different programs they have instituted to enhance team building among upper management, and how they are filtering this training into lower levels of management. Inte personal skills training for first-line supervision is also underway, with a slant towards handling allegation type situations better.
The PEP, which was instituted in 1992 as a result of continued performance problems, is being subsumed into the licensee's Business Plan over the next two years. About 50% of the PEP programs have been completed and validated thus far, and the licensee noted they are committed to follow through each of these programs even after their inclusion into the Business Plan.
The licensee discussed what they see as four barriers to their being successful in achieving a preeminent role in the nuclear industry: 1) Allegation / Employee Concerns, 2) Work Control / Outage Practices, 3) Procedural Compliance, and 4) Root Cause/ Corrective Actions. They outlined actions in effect or those that will be i implemented to address these issues. Of note was their
! recognition that the level of trust within the organization needs l to be elevated, that there is a resistance to establishing common l
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procedures among the Millstone Units, and that the maintenance department is uncomfortable in relinquiching their planning function.
The EDO noted that the experience Seabrook is having with their Personnel Error Response Team may be worth sharing with the other units. He also noted that the errors that continue to take place "on the floor" are really helding them down, indicating the PEP has not been as successful as desired. Examples of plants that have turned a poor operating record around were given (Turkey Point and Davis-Besse). It was noted that the licensee appears l to be doing things to get their personnel moving in the right I direction, but that they have a substantial amount of work to do in order to achieve their goals.
The meeting adjourned at 10:05 a.m. No regulatory decisions were requested nor made.
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Offscer United Technologies Corporation (provides penducts, systems, end services to aerospace and defense, p y, y constructlon, and automotive industrics)
Vice President and Treasurer .,a p,,,gg3,n,,,y,e Chairman
)*h3 W N*Y Magma Copper Company Vice President and Controller
- + William B. Ellis Robert P. Wax Osirman of the Snard vice President, Secretary and General Counsel Northeast Utilities Theresa H. Allsop ~ *+ Bemad M. Fox Assistant Secretary President and Oief &ccuttve Ofcer l Northeast Unlitics Mark A.Joyse Assistant Secretary *at Eugene D. Jones Senior Vice Prestdcnt Grciner Inc. (consultiny, cogtncers)
%bert C. Aronson sistant Treasurer-Treasury Operations t* Elizabeth T. Kennan Presulent Mount Holyoire Couege
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Oairman and a Director Ihnt Silversmtths
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Waterbury RenubRcanrAmerican (newspaper) a Robert E. Patricelli l Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Ofccr ;
Value Health. Inc. (provides managed health care services)
+#* Norman C. Rasmussen Professorof Nuclear Engineenng Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. NORTHEAST UTILITIES QUORt1M - Majority (applicable to Board and Committees) l TRUSTEE 8 Cotton M. Cleveland President, Mather Associates George David President and Chief Executive Officer, l United Technologies Corporation Donald J. Donahue Chairman, Magma Copper company William B. Ellis Chairman of the Board, Northeast Utilities Bernard M. Fox President and Chief Executive Officer, Northeast Utilities !
Eugene D. Jones Senior Vice President, Greiner Inc.
Gaynor N. Kelley Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Perkin-Elmer Corporation Elisabeth T. Kennan President, Mount Holyoke College Denham C. Lunt, Jr. Chairman, Lunt Silversmiths William J. Pape II Publisher, Waterbury Republican-American Robert E. Patricelli Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Value Health. Inc.
Norman C. Rasmussen Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John F. Swope President, Chubb Life Insurance Company of America ,
l 31dit w ittee Donald J. Donahue, Chairman William J. Pape II, Vice Chairman George David Rugene D. Jones Robert E. Patricelli Norman C. Rasmussen John F. Swope Altnna.t2R Cotton M. Cleveland Gaynor N. Kelley Elizabeth T. Kennan Denham C. Lunt, Jr.
Comunittee on organization, Coepensation_ _and Noard Aff airs Eugene D. Jones, Chairman Elizabeth T. Kennan, Vice Chairran Cotton M. Cleveland George David Denham C. Lunt, Jr.
William J. Pape II Robert E. Patricelli Norman C. Rasmussen Alternaten Donald J. Donahue Gaynor N. Kelley John F. Swope
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Norman C. Rs musccn, Chairman Robert E. P0tricalli, Vice Chairman
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'~ Gaynor N. Kelley Elizabeth T. Kennan william J. Pape II Alternates George David Donald J. Donahue Eugene D. Jones Denham C. Lunt, Jr.
John F. Swope Executive <'- 4 tree William B. Ellis, Chairman Bernard M. Fox, Vice Chairman Donald J. Donahue Eugene D. Jones Elizabeth T. Kennan Denham C. Lunt, Jr.
William J. Pape II John F. Swope Alternates Cotton M, Cleveland George David Gaynor N. Kelley Robert E. Patricelli Norman C. Rasmussen Finance f* - 4ttee William B. Ellis, Chairman Denham c. Lunt, Jr., Vice Chairman cotton M. Cleveland Donald J. Donahue Bentard M. Fox Gaynor N. Kelley Norman C. Rasmussen John F. Swope Alternates George David Eugene D. Jones Elizabeth T. Kennan William J. Pape II Robert E. Patrice111 (7/1/94) .
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WORTHEAST UTILITIES QRTECEMB Chairman of the Board President and Chief Executive Officer William B. Ellis Executive Vice President Bernard M. Fox and Chief Financial Officer Robert E. Busch Vice President and Treasurer Vice President and Controller John B. Keane Vice President, Secretary John W. Noyes and General Counsel Assistant Secretary Robert P. Wax Assistant Secretary Theresa H. A11aop Assistant Treasurer-Treasury Operations Mark A. Joyse Robert C. Aronson (7/1/94)
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