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Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-219/87-28
ML20149D585
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 01/05/1988
From: Johnston W
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To: Fiedler P
GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
References
NUDOCS 8801130041
Download: ML20149D585 (1)


See also: IR 05000219/1987028

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Docket No. 50-219

GPU Nuclear Corporat!on

ATTN: Mr. P. B. Fiedler

Vice President and Director

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

P. O. Box 388

Forked River, NJ 08731

Gentlemen:

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Inspection No. 50-219/87-28

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This refers to your letter dated December 10, 1987, in response to our letter

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dated November 10, 1987.

Thank you for informing us of the corrective and preventive actions documented.

in your letter. These actions will be examined during a future inspection of

your licensed program.

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Your cooperation with us is appreciated.

Sincerely,

William V. Johnston, Acting Director

Division of Reactor Safety

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Writer's Direct Dial Nurnber:

William V. Johnston, Acting Director

Division of Reactor Safety

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

631 Park Avenue

King of Prussia, PA 19406

Subject:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

Docket No. 50-219

Inspection Report N0. 50-219/87-28

Response to Notice of Violation

The attachment to this letter provides GPU Nuclear's response to the Notice of

Violation in Appendix A to your letter dated November 10, 1987.

If further .i..'ormation is required, please contact Mr. Michael Heller, OC

Licensing Engineer at (609)971-4680.

Very truly yours,

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R. W. Heward, Jr.

Vice President & Director

Maintenan;e, Construction &

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cc: Mr. William T. Russell, Administrator

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

631 Park Avenue

King of Prussia, PA 19406

Mr. Alexander W. Dromerick, Project Manager

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Division of Reactor Projects I/II

7920 Norfolk Avenue, Phillips Bldg.

Bethesda, MD 20014

NRC Resident Inspector

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Violation:

As a result of the inspection conducted on September 23-October 2,1987, and

in accordance with the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR 2, Appendix C), the

following violation was identified:

10 CFR 50 Appendix B, Criterion XII states:

"Measures shall be

established to assure that ... measuring and testing devices ... are

centrolled, calibrated, and adjusted at specified periods ...."

The licensee has committed to ANSI N18.7-1976, paragraph 5.2.16, that

requires that "When calibration, testing, or other measuring devices are

found out of calibration, an evaluation shall be made and documented

concerning the validity of previous tests and the acceptability of

devices previously tested from the time of the previous calibration."

OCNGS Procedure 112, Attachment 6, "Controlled Test Equipment

Discrepancy Investigation Card", requires users of the discrepant test

equipment to review the usage history and report the results of their

evaluation.

Contrary to the above, as of October 2, 1987, the validity of previous

calibration tests of installed plant equipment and the acceptability of

that equipment were not being evaluated in that for Controlled Test

Equipment Discrepancy Investigation Cards issued between fiay 8,1986 and

April 12, 1987 for out of calibration test equipment, 18 instances were

identified in which neither the validity nor the acceptability of

calibration tests performed by that test equipment were being evaluated.

This is a severity level V violation (Supplement I).

GPUN Response:

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GPUN concurs with the violation after clarification that the 18

identified discrepancy evaluations were being processed, although not in

a timely manner.

GPUN had previously identified problems with

discrepancy report format, adequacy of corrective action documentation,

and timeliness of response.

The following corrective actions have been

completed:

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Evaluations of the 18 identified liaintenance and Test Equipment

(H&TE) discrepancies have been completed and documented.

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evaluations included a thorough review of prior usage of the M&TE

and comparison of the out-of-tolerance condition with the accuracy

required for previous inspections performed with the M&TE. All

previous inspections were determined to be valid. No re-work or

additional testing has been required in any case.

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(2) The administrative procedure controlling this activity;has been

revised to require increased management oversight, more complete

documentation of corrective action,.and'a more thorough review of

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discrepancy reports and "flag" untimely responses.

Full compliance was achieved with the completion of items 1 and 2 above on

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