ML20134B667

Forwards Insp Rept 50-354/96-10 on 961110-1221 & Notice of Violation Re Certain Security Program Requirements That Were Not Followed at Combined Salem & Hope Creek Facilities

ML20134B667
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek
Issue date:	01/27/1997
From:	Larry Nicholson NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Eliason L Public Service Enterprise Group
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ML20134B670	List: IR 05000354/1996010 ML20134B667 ML20134B674
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NUDOCS 9701310013
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See also: IR 05000354/1996010

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January 27, 1997

Mr. Leon R. Eliason

Chief Nuclear Officer and President

Nuclear Business Unit

Public Service Electric and Gas Company

Post Office Box 236

Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

SUBJECT: NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 50-354/96-10

NOTICE OF VIOLATION

Dear Mr. Eliason:

On December 21,1996, the NRC completed an inspection at your Hope Creek reactor

facility. The enclosed report presents the results of that inspection.

During the 6-week period covered by this inspection, your conduct of activities at the Hope

Creek facility was generally characterized by safety-conscious operations, sound

engineering and maintenance practices, and careful radiologica! work controls. However,

certain activities involving weak procedure adherence were observed throughout the period

in operations, maintenance and plant support. On-the-other-hand, a positive finding

regarding procedure use was made during a region-based inspection of the license

requalification examination program. The region-based inspector noted improvements in

the operators' use of procedures, communications, and directing shift operations during

that review in comparison to earlier observations in the spring of 1996.

We are concerned, however, about two violations of NRC requirements that were

identified. In the first instance, NRC inspectors identified that certain Technical

Specification Surveillance Requirements and associated implementing procedures were not

being maintained current. In the second instance, NRC inspectors identified that certain

security program requirements were not followed at the combined Salem and Hope Creek

facilities. Because that violation applies to both sites, the attached Notice of Violation

references all three docket numbers.

These violations are cited in the enclosed Notice of Violation, and the circumstances

surrounc%g the violations are described in detail in the enclosed report. Please note that

you are required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the

enclosed Notice when preparing your response. We note that you have provided a

Licensee Event Report (LER 50-354/96-21) that describes one of the examples of the

above violations. The corrective actions described in that report are considered acceptable

for that example and you need not provide a response for that violation except where you

believe additional or new information is relevant to your overall response. The NRC will

use your response, in part, to determine whether further enforcement action is necessary

to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.  ;

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in accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter

and its enclosures will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR).

Sincerely,

ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:

Larry E. Nicholson, Chief

Projects Branch 3

Division of Retetor Projects *

Docket No.: 50-354

License No: NPF-57

Enclosures: Notice of Violation

inspection Report 50-354/96-10

cc w/ encl:

L. Storz, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Operations

E. Simpson, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Engineering l

E. Salowitz, Director - Nuclear Business Support '

C. Schaefer, External Operations - Nuclear, Delmarva Power & Light Co.

P. MacFarland Goelz, Manager, Joint Generation

Atlantic Electric

M. Bezilla, General Manager - Hope Creek Operations

J. Benjamin, Director - Quality Assurance & Nuclear Safety Review

D. Powell, Manager - Licensing and Regulation

R. Kankus, Joint Owner Affairs

A. C. Tapert, Program Administrator  !

R. E. Selover, Esquire 1

M. J. Wetterhahn, Esquire

Consumer Advocate, Office of Consumer Advocate

William Conklin, Public Safety Consultant, Lower Alloways Creek Township

State of New Jersey

State of Delaware

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l Region i Docket Room (with concurrences)

l K. Gallagher

l D. Screnci, PAO (1)

Nuclear Safety information Center (NSIC)

j NRC Resident inspector

j L. Cunningham, NRR

l D. Barss, NRR

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Distribution w/enet: (Via E-Mail)

W. Dean, OEDO

i D. Jaffe, Project Manager, NRR

, J. Stolz, PDI-2, NRR

l Inspection Program Branch, NRR (IPAS)

{' R. Correia, NRR (RPC)

, R. Frahm, Jr., NRR (RKF)

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