ML20137Y164

Discusses Issuance of CAL-RIII-97-02A Due to Concerns W/Performance Deficiencies That May Have Occurred During 970221 Event

ML20137Y164
Person / Time
Site:	Zion  File:ZionSolutions icon.png
Issue date:	04/14/1997
From:	Beach A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
To:	Mueller J COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO.
References
CAL-III-97-02A, CAL-III-97-2A, NUDOCS 9704220341
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CAL No. Mill-97-002A

, .t Mr. J. H. Mueller i Site Vice President.

Zion Station Commonwealth Edison Company l 101 Shiloh Boulevard Zion, IL. 60099

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SUBJECT:

SUPPLEMENT TO CONFIRMATORY ACTION LETTER Rill-97-002 l I

Dear Mr. Mueller:

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J On September 19,1996, Unit 2 was shut down for a refuelmg outage. On February 21,

- 1997, Unit 1 was shut down due to an inoperable containment spray pump. During the Unit 1 reactor shutdown, a reactivity management event occurred. Due to concerns with performance deficiencies that may have occurred during this event involving supervisory oversight, crew communications, procedure quality and adherence, plant staff safety i focus, control room decorum, and operator understanding of expectations regarding reactivity control, the NRC issued a confirmatory action letter (CAL) Rill-97-002 which formalized your commitments to take specific actions in response to this event. In addition, the NRC dispatched an Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) to determine the facts associated with this event. The AIT identified human performance deficiencise involving

both the operating crew and licensee management and concluded that the event resulted from a breakdown in command and control by operations supervision, inadequate communications within the operations department, the failure to pre-plan the shutdown

! evolution, and licensed operator knowledge and training deficiencies. You decided not to restart either unit until you had corrected human performance problems in operations, material condition issues affecting startup, and deficiencies in engineering support to operations that have been identified by the NRC and your staff. This supplemental CAL is being issued to formalize your commitment to take specific actions to address these i deficiencies.

Pursuant to a telephone discussion on April 11,1997, between you and / l

, Mr. Geoffrey Grant, it is our understanding that you are currently pursuing performance /y b8 l

- improvements and have taken or will take the following actions, in addition to those I i actions described in the original CAL, bafore restarting Zion Station: ,

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l (1)  ! Develop a recovery plan for Zico Station to address corrective actions for the -

various performance deficiencies referenced above and transmit that plan to the l NRC for formal public docketing, in developing this plan, you will also establish quantitative and qualitative criteria for assessing and monitoring the effectiveness ,

of your corrective actions for each of the areas identified in the recovery plan.  ;

The extent to which any action will not be completed prior to restar: will be identified and assessed to determine if restart is acceptable with action pending.

(2) You will keep the NRC updated on the projected startup date for the lead unit in  :

order to facilitate advance planning of an NRC special inspection to be conducted .l prior to startup. This NRC inspection will evaluate the operational readiness of Zion l Station and your staff.

(3) You will meet with the NRC staff on a periodic basis to discuss the results of the recovery plan implementation and the extent to which the evaluation criteria for  !

corrective action effectiveness have been met. These meetings will be open to >

public observation.

(4) You w;41 meet with the NRC once you have completed your operations department personnel assessment process and subsequent remediation training to discuss both the results of this selection and training initiative and the process and indicators you intend on using to evaluate the abi!!ty of operating personnel to startup and operate the units at TJon Station. This meeting will be open to public observation.

(5) You will meet with the NRC once you have concluded that one of the units at Zion t Station is ready for restart to discuss tim basis for your conclusion. During this meeting, you will discuss the results of planned independent assessments of recovery program implementation effectiveness and Zion Station operational readiness by Zion Stations's Site Quality Verification organization and Safety Review Board, and Commonwealth Edison's Nuclear Operations Division management team. This meeting will also be open to public observation.

Nothing in this confirmatory action letter is intended to preclude you from taking actions which you deem necessary to place the plant in a safe condition or maintain it in a safe condition in the event of changing conditions.

Pursuant to Section 182 of the Atomic Energy Act,42 U.S.C. 2232, you are required to:

I (1) Notify me immediately in writing if your understanding differs from that set forth above; -

~ J. H. Mueller . o i (2)- Notify me if for any reason you cannot complete the actions within'the specified schedule and advise me in writing of your modified schedule in advance of the change; and (3) Notify me in writing when you have completed the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter.

Issuance of this Confirmatory Action Letter does not preclude issuance of an order formalizing the above commitments or requiring other actions on the part of the licensee; )

nor does it preclude the NRC from taking enforcement action for violations of NRC .

requirements that may have prompted the issuance of this letter, in addition, failure to I take the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter may result in enforcement i action.

'in accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter 5 and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR). To the extent . j possible, your response should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. If personal privacy or ,

proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please ,

provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you  !

request withholding of such material, you mual specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of ,

withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted 1 invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If ,

safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the  ;

level of protectior, Oscribed in 10 CFR 73.21.  :

i Sincerely,

/s/ A. Bill Beach I A. Bill Beach Regional Administrator

• Docket Nos. 50-295; 50-304 t

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i (2) - Notify me if for any reason you cannot complete the actions within the specified schedule and advise me in writing of your modified schedule in advance of the change; and

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(3) - Notify me in writing when you have completed the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter.

Issuance of this Confirmatory Action Letter does not preclude issuance of an order I

formalizing the above commitments or requiring other actions on the part of the licensee; _

nor does it preclude the NRC from taking enforcement action for violations of NRC requirements that may have prompted the issuance of this letter. In addition, failure to take the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter may result in enforcement action. .

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

and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR). To the extent possible, your response should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information, if you request withholding of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to '

support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the ,

level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.

Slncerely, A. Bill Beach Regional Administrator Docket Nos. 50-295; 50-304 ,

See Attached Distribution DOCUMENT NAME: G:\ ZION.lR\ZIO-CAL.005 SEE PREVIOUS CONCURRENCES To recalvo a copy of thle document, Indicate in the box *C* = Copy without attachment / enclosure *E" = Copy with attachment / enclosure v - m...py OFFICE Rlli Rlli j Rill Rlli Rill NAME Dapas:nh Capra Grant Caldyfil Beach DATE 04/ /97 04/ /97 04/ /97 04/6/97 04/ /97 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY l

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' (2) Notify me if for any reason you cannot complete the actions within the  !

specified schedule and advise me in writing of your modified schedule in  ;

advance of the change; and l 1

(3) Notify rne in writing when you have completed the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter.

Issuance of this Confirmatory Action Letter does not preclude issuance of an order fermalizing the above commitments or requiring other actions on the part of the licensee; nor does it preclude the NRC from taking enforcement action for violations of NRC ]

requiroments that may have prompted the issuance of this letter. In addition, failure to take the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter may result in enforcement action.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR). To the extent  ;

possible, your response should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards '

information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please i provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be l protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you mME1 specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your cbim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted  !

invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financialinformation). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.

Sincerely, A. Bill Beach Regional Administrator Docket Nos. 50-295; 50-304 See Attached Distribution DOCUMENT NAME: G:\ ZION.lR\ZIO-CAL 005 To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box "C" = Copy without attach /enci "E" = Copy with attach /enci "N" = No copy OFFICE Rlli [ NRR/AEOD [ Rlil ,

8 Rlli NAME Dapas/nhh Capra$hf* 7 Grant k Beach DATE 4////97 4////97 N 4////97 4/ /97 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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,' - J. H. Mueller  : 1

! Distribution:

cc: T. J. Maiman, Senior Vice President Nuclear Operations Division D. A. Sager, Vice President,

!' Generation Support H. W. Keiser, Chief Nuclear i Operating Officer 4 R. Starkey, Plant General Manager i R. Godley, Regulatory Assurance j Supervisor

l. Johnson, Acting Nuclear Regulatory Services Manager Richard Hubbard Nathan Schloss, Economist Office of the Attomey General Mayor, City of Zion State Liaison Officer, Wisconsin State Liaison Officer Chairman, Illinois Commerce Commission.

Document Control Desk-Licensing l

Distribution:

l Docket File Project Manager, NRR TSS PUBLI M DRP J. Callan, EDO OC/LFDCB Rlli PRR H. Thompson, DEDO Gril Byron, Braidwood, - CAA1 (E-mail) J. Lieberman, OE Zion Deputy RA J. Goldberg, OGC

, 4. B. Beach RAC1 (E-Mail) C. Paperiello, NMSS Rlli Enf. Coordinator DRS (2) G. Grant I

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