ML20155B395
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| From: | Hoyle J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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e bOf D k September 28, 1988 For: The Consnissioners From: John C. rioyle, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 Subiect:
A sumary of key avents is included as a convenience to those Comissioners who may prefer a cindensed version of this report.
Enclosure Contents Administration and Resources Management A B
Nuclear Reactor k*gulation Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C D
Nuclear Regulatory Pesearch E
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data F
Governmental & Public Affairs G*
General Counsel H
Personnel Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights I*
Special Projects J*
K Enforcement L
Consolidation M
Regional Offices Executive Director for Operations N*
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Items Addressed by the Comission 0 P
Meeting Notices Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for Q external distribution)
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fke, Assistant for Operations John C. Ho Office of the Executive Director for Operations
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HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT i
WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 Decomissioning of Fort St. Vrain Reactor l
Decomissioning of the Fort St. Vrain reactor is being considered by the l licensee, Public Service Co., of Colorado. At the request of the licensee, '
representatives of NRR and NMSS/LLWM are planning to tour the Fort St. Vrain reactor facility and then meet with the licensee and State of Colorado staff l to discuss potential decomissioning of the reactor plant.
Nuclear Fuel Services. Inc. (NFS)
On Septenber 19, 1988, NRC staff (OGC and NMSS) met with an NFS Corporate Official to discuss NFS' intent to withdraw escrow funds in connection with the decomissioning of the holding ponds at its facilities in Erwin, Tennessee.
According to the NFS escrow agreement a withdrawal may be made when NFS presents certification to the escrow a,0ent that decomissioning is proceeding pursuant to an NRC-approved plan and that NRC has been given prior notice of NFS' intent to withdraw funds. In this case, NFS plans to use escrow funds to reroute Banner Spring Creek, which currently traverses the holding pond area. The NRC staff agrees that the rerouting of the creek is a necessary and integral part of the pond decomissioning. NFS is seeking the necessary State approvals for this action.
Peach Bottom Exercise Interhee Meetings with Maryland and Pennsylvania William Russell, who will be the Director of Site Operations during the Peach Bottom exercise, and members of his staff met with senior State officials in Maryland and Pennsylvania on September 19 and 22, respectively. The discussions focused on the NRC response roles, State response roles and facilities. Both States' emergency operations centers and dose assessment centers were toured and exercise logistics were discussed.
Event at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base At the request of the Department of the Air Force, the staff held a transcribed meeting on September 15, 1988 with the Air Force regarding the June 17, 1988 Notice of Violation and Prososed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of
$102,500. This action was based on an inspection and investigation of an event at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio and involved the failure to report a significant spill of americium-241 and an overexposure.
In its response The Air Force the Air Force (1) responded to the denied the civil penalty reporting on July)15, violation, 1988.
(2 stated that it considers the civil penalty to be unjustified, and (3) questioned the constitutional '
authority concerning the NRC's jurisdiction to impose a civil senalty on the Air Force (another Federal agency). The staff is evaluating tie Air Force's response.
Temporary Parking Lot at OWFN Clearing and grading of the lot behind OWFN this week signaled the start of construction for the temporary parking lot that Montgomery County requires the developer to provide in fulfillment of promises made when the building permit for the first building was granted. The estimated time of completion is the latter part of November.
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'0 0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION'AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT I
ADMINISTRATION 0F THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS - 1988 I For 5-Day Period of September 16, 1988 - September 22, 1988 Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision 4
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Received This Week 11 1 Completed This Week 7 2 Carryovers From 1987 157 33 Received In 1988 487 44 Granted In 1988 377 21 Denied In 1988 164 43 i Pending 103 13 ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Kenneth Mokoena, Referral from the DOS of two records relating to South The National Africa.
Security)
(88-477 Archive Joseph Rhodes, Requests eight categories of records relating to the Commonwealth of Peach Bottom nuclear power plant.
Pennsylvania (88-478)
Kenneth Boley, Referral from the FBI of a request for three categories Critical Mass of records relating to criminal records of employees at (88-479) comercial nuclear power plants in the United States.
Bill Jaseph, Recuests a copy of the bid or manufacturer, model number.
Data anc technical proposal submitted by Results i. easing, Comunications Inc., under solicitation No. RS-ARM-88-179.
(88-480)
David Holtzman, Requests records reflecting approval or acceptance Schuchat, Cook & by the NRC of the particular psychological test used by Werner Daniel Construction to evaluate its employees and (88-481) subcontractors at the Callaway nuclear power plant.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
Received. Cont'd, J. Hue Henry, Requests, on behalf of two clients, a copy of the 01 Henry & Pearson, report on Georgia Institute of Technology on P.C. allegations of harassment and intimidation.
(88-482)
Elizabeth Sullivan, Requests records related to allegations about a The Plain Dealer December 31, 1986 incident at the Davis-Besse plant and (88-483) later similar allegations.
Elizabeth Sullivan, Requests a copy of the enclosure to NRC's August 23, The Plain Dealer 1988 letter to the utility regarding an allegation about (88-484) the Perry nuclear power plant.
Ed Vachal, Requests copies of funded proposals for seven specified The Richard-Rogers types of Training.
Group, Inc.
(88-485)
(NRC employee) Requests records concerning an investigation.
(88-486)
Phillip Hamilton, Requests copies of SECY-88-51 and SECY-88-238.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (88-487)
Robert Belair, APPEAL TO THE EDO for the release of four records denied Kirkpatrick & in their entirety relating to a request for records Locknart regarding the Shoreham nuclear power plant.
(88-A-44-88-280)
Granted Lynn Connor, In response to a request for copies of (1) "Plant Design Doc-Search Assessment Report for SRV and LOCA Loads," Revisions Associates 1 and 3, informed the requester that these records are (88-427) already available at the PDR.
Michael Mokrzycki, in response to a request for records from the 1960's and Associated Press early 1970's, not already in the PDR, regarding the (88-443) decision to build the Seabrook nuclear power plant and where to put the plant, made available 19 records.
Douglas Lord, In response to a request for a list of licensees in Enviro-Tox, Inc. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut (88-471) and Rhode Island, made available one record. Suggested that the requester contact the states of New Hampshire and Rhode Island since they are agreement states.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
,t 0 Denied Richard 8ernstein, In response to a request for four categories o? records Rosenman & Colin related to the July 19, 1988 deposition of Carl Berlinger (88-306) regarding a lawsuit related to the Shoreham nuclear power plant, made available one record. Denied two records in their entirety considered to be confidential business (proprietary) information. l Marvin Resnikoff, In response to a request for copies of (1) NRC's response Radioactive Waste to Michigan's request about disposal of waste at existing Campaign (2) NRC's coments on DOE's Dry Cask Storage (88-361) plants,(3)
Study, list of recipients of coments on the report Living Without Landfills, and (4) all records related to item 3, made available 32 records. Informed the requester that one record subject to this request is already available at the PDR. Denied two records in their entirety, disclosure of which would tend to inhibit ,
the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the l deliberative process. l l Robert Belair, In response to an APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION AND THE EDO !
Kirkpatrick & for the release of one record denied its entirety and .
Lockhart portions of one record and the adequacy of search for (88-A-34-88-63) a request concerning the Shoreham nuclear power plant, made available the denied portions of one recora.
Denied portions of one record, disclosure of which would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process. Made available 10 additional records.
Dave Airozo, In response to an APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the Inside NRC release of 38 records denied in their entirety relating (88-A-37-88-228) to a request for all notation vote sheets in March 1988, l continued to deny these records, disclosure of which
! would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process. Made l
available the final votes of the Comissioners.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOS'JRE A
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP No.: RS-RG4-88-296
Title:
"ADP Data Entry Support Services at NRC's Region IV Office"
Description:
The contrrctor shall provide the necessary personnel to perform data entry, editir.g. and reporting activities relating to various systems for which the NRC Region IV office is operationally responsible.
Period of Perfomance: Two Years '
- . or.sor: Region IV Status: The competitive range h=s been established and negotiations are scheduled for the week of September 26, 1988.
RFP No.: RS-PER-88-363
Title:
"Effective Comunication: Media Training Workshop" r
Description:
Conduct media training workshop course for NRC 4
Headquarters and Regional staff. ,
Period of Performance: Two Years Sponsor: Office of Personnel l Status: Best and Final offers received on September 15, 1988 !
and forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on l September 15, 1988.
- RFF No.: RS NMS-88-004 "Study on Training and Experience Criteria for !
Title:
Personnel Involved in the Medical Use of By-product !
Material" <
Description:
The Contractor shall conduct a study to assess training received by individuals, such as nuclear medicine technologists, radiation technologists, and dosimetrists, which will be used in the development of training criteria for individuals involved in all i uses of by-product material.
Period of Performance: 13 months ,
< Sponscr: Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards 4
Status: Negotiations have been completed. Best and Final offers are due on September 21, 1988.
RFP No.: RS-RG2-88-276
Title:
"Data Entry Support Services" ;
Description:
perform ADP Data Entry and retrieval tr.tivities at I
the Region II Office i Period of Performance: Two Years l
Sponsor: Region II i Status: The RFP was cancelled on September 20, 1988 i
1988 ENCLOSURE A SEPTEHCh 4
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending September 23, 1988 Calvert Cliffs At approximateiy 9:30 a.m. on September 15, 1988, three BG&E Material Engineering and Analysis the No. 11 condensate storageUnit tankemploy (ees were making preparations to enterCST), I which is to effect repairs on the tank level indicator. The employee who was to enter the tank is a diver. The diver was unable to enter the tank while wesring his oxygen breathing apparatus. Consequently, he decided to enter the CST and don the breathing gear once inside. Once inside, the diver fell into the water.
The cause of this fall has not been determined yet. The two workers atop the l CST attempted to pull the diver out using the diver's safety line but were l unsuccessful. At that )oint, one of these two employees, who was not a diver. :
jumped into the CST witicut any breathing apparatus or a safety line. He was seen to disappear beneath the water and aoparently drowned. The third employee imediately called to another employee located near the base of the CST who then imediately informed the control room of the accident at 9.55 a.m.
The circumstances existing at the time of entry into the CST appear to be as follows:
l 1. Entry may have been made into the CST without the required enclosed space l permit and without following the required procedures.
l 2. The centrol room operators were aware of p!anned CST work.
- 3. The CST was still in service and being used to provide makeup feedwater to the Unit I condenser hotwell.
4 The employees may :.dve "sniffed" the CST atmosphere near the top of the CST but not deeper in the tank.
- 5. The CST had not been deinerted other than the superficial diffusion thac occurred at the top of the CST when the manway was opened.
- 7. There was no internal lighting provided for the CST.
After notification, the control room secured suction from the CST and dispatched medical safety teams to the CST. They were able to retrieve the diver who was in respiratory depression. Through CPR, they were able to restore his breathing after which he was hospitalized. The plant also notified Calvert County and the Maryland State Police who dispatched 3 rescue divers to the scene. After partial draining and deinerting of the CST, these divers entered the CST at 12:20 p.m.
and recovered the deceased worker at 1:18 p.m.
The license has notified State of Maryland, the NRC and OSHA regarding this fatality.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE B
2 Shoreham On September 15, the New York State Public Service Comission voted 6 to 1 to accept the Shoreham settlement agreement, subject to LILCO stockholders' -
acceptance.
In a related matter, according to the press, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has given tentative approval for the 2.5 billion dollars worth of tax '
write offs for closing Shoreham.
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending September 23, 1988 SAFEGUARDS Transportation Plutonium Air Shipment On September 19, 1988, SGTR and OGC staff met with representatives of Japan to discuss funding for implementation of the Murkowski Amendment. Based on the meeting, the staff is developing an agreement for reimbursement of costs to NRC and to generally outline the program for implementation of the Hurkowski Amendment.
LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT Decomissioning of Fort St. Vrain Reactor Decomissioning of the Fort St. Vrain reactor is being considered by the licenste, Public Service Co., of Colorado. At the request of the licensee, representatives of NRR and NMSS/LLWM are planning to tour the Fort St. Vrain reactor facility and then meet with the licensee and State of Colorado staff to discuss potential decomissioning of the reactor plant.
INDUSTRIAL AND HEDICAL NUCLEAR SAFETY Fuel Cycle Safety Nuclear Fuel Services. Inc. (NFS)
On September 19, 1988, NRC staff (OGC and NMSS) met with an NFS Corporate Official to discuss NFS' intent to withdraw escrow funds in connection with the decomicsioning of the holding ponds at its facilities in Emin, Tennessee.
According to the NFS escrow agreement, a withdrawal may be made when NFS presents certification to the escrow agent that decomissioning is proceeding pursuant to an NRC-approved plan and that NRC has been given prior notice of NFS' intent to withdraw funds. In this case, NFS plans to use escrow funds to reroute Banner Spring Creek, which currently traverses the holding pond area. The NRC staff agrees that the rerouting of the creek is a necessary and integral part of the pond decomissioning. NFS is seeking the necessary State approvals for this action.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE C
. o OFFICE Of NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Items of Interest Week Ending September 23, 1988 PREVENTING DAMAGE TO REACTOR CORES Waterhammer Guidebook A guidebook "Diagnosis of Condensation Induced Waterhammer," has been produced by CREARE, Inc. and accepted for publication as NUREG/CR-5220. The guidebook provides analytical diagnostic methods and their application to actual water-hammer events in nuclear power plants. Many photos of waterhammer damage are illustrated throughout the text. The guidebook will assist inspectors and licensees in the diagnosis, mitigation and prevention of waterhammer events.
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Items of Interest Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data Week Ending September 23, 1988 Otagnostic Evaluation and Incident Investigation During the period from September 19-23, 1988, the Fermi Diagnostic Evaluation Team (DET) continued efforts to complete the final integrated performance evaluation and root cause assessment. Preparation of the initial draft of the Fermi DET report was also begun during this period.
Incident Response On September 19. IRB staff met with RES and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) concerning thv staff's view on the use of "Expert Systems" in Incident Response.
On September 20, an IRB staff member attended a meeting of the Group to Rewrite the Federal Radiological Entgency Response Plan (FRERP) based on lessons learned from the Federal Field Exercise-2 (FFE-2), Chernobyl and the National System for Emergency Coordination (NSEC).
On September 20-21, IRB staff conducted training for the Regional Administrator and Senior Staff Region I on NRC Standard Technical Procedures and Computer Systems that would be used to assess protective measures during an emergency.
On September 20, IRB staff participated on a limited basis with Oconee during an exercise. .
On Septen>ber 23,1RB staff met with NRR, RES and the Nuclear Utility Management and Resources Committee (NUMARC) to review the Emergency Action Level (EAL)
Interim Report of the NUMARC EAL Task Force.
During the weeks of September 19-23 and September 25-30, the IRB staff will be working with representatives of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) on the Reactor Safety Assessment System.
Technical Training Center (TTC)
Two members of the TTC staff presented a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Technology Course in Mexico on September 12-23, 1988. The course, requested by the Mexican Government through the International Atomic Energy Agancy (IAEA) and Government and Public Affairs (GPA), was conducted at the Comision Nacional de Saguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias (CNSNS) headquarters in Mexico City. This is the fourth course that the NRC has presented at the request of the Mexican Government since 1977. Reactor technology courses on behalf of NRC foreign counterpart agencies have been presented in seven different countries.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE E
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- a. PNS-I-88-07, Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation (T. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant), Loss of Plant Exterior Security Lighting.
- b. PNO-I-88-94, CORRECTED COPY, Roswell Park Memorial Hospital (Agreement ,
State Licensee) Two Missing lodine 131 Capsules. l
- c. PNO-I-88-96, GPU Nuclear Corporation (Three Mile Island, Unit 1), Shutdown in Excess of 48 Hours.
- d. PNO-I-88-97, Berthold Systems (Docket Nos 030-20043,030-21228), Cobalt-60 '
, Source Lost in Transit.
- e. PNO-III-88-80. E and D Paving (License No. 13-21290-01), Stolen .
- f. PNO-III-88-81, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (Perry), Shutdown to Investigate Offgas System Problem.
- g. PNO-IV-88-77, Trainer Surveys Incorporated (Louisiana Agreement State t License), Lost Well Logging Source. t l
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEK ENDING SEPTcNBER 23, 1988 INTERNATIONAL PROCRAMS Foreign Visitors On Monday a French government and utility technical team met with staff from NRR, RES, AE00 and GPA/IP to discuss US fire protection philosophy and requirements for power reactors.
US/ EURATOM Annual HEU Supply Meating The Annual US-EURATOM Supply Agency meeting on US supply of highly enriched uranium (HEU) was held on Friday September 16, at EURATOM's Washington office.
The EURATOM delegation was led by Juergen Jaspert of the Supply Agency and included representatives from CEA (France) CEN (Belgium) HFR-Petten. HFR-Grenoble. NUKEM, Transnuclear (Paris) and Transnuclear (US). Carl Thorne.
Director, OES/NEC, headed the US team which included representatives from NRC, DOS, DOE, ACDA, Oak Ridge Operations Office, and Argonne National Laboratory.
Betty Wright, GPA, and Joanna Becker, OGC, were the NRC attendees, Jaspert emphasized EURATOM's need for more predictability and reliability on the part of the US as a supplier of HEU. He also expressed concern regarding US land transportation arrangements for HEU exports. In the absence of any US comercial capability for land transport of HEU. DOE has agreed to provide the Safe Secure Transport (SST) for the upcoming HEU shipment scheduled for late September, but the US remains unable to guarantee such arrangements for the future.
Jaspert also asked the DOE representative when the Federal elegister Notice would be published on the extension of DOE's reprocessing policy for research reactor fuels, and he expressed concern regarding possible price increases.
DOE stated that cost studies are under way and that DOE hoped to publish the new reprocessing policy by the end of November 1988.
Carl Thorne closed the meeting by indicating that the US would review our export licensing procedures to determine if improvements could be made for more timely processing of HEU ex continuetorequireacaseportrequests;however,mostHEUrequestswouldoy-case r STATE, LOCAL AND !NDIAN TRIBE PROGRAMS Cenference of Radiation Control Program Directors' Executive Comittee Feeting Carl Kamerer, Director of State Local and Indian Tribe Programs, hosted the Conferer.ce of Radiation Control Program Directors' Executive Comittee meeting on September 20-22, 1988 at the One White Flint North. The purpose of the meeting was to plan Conference activities for the upcoming fiscal year.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE F
2 Peach Bottom Exercise Interface Meetings with Maryland and Pennsylvania William Russell, who will be the Director of Site Operations during the Peach Bottom exercise, and members of his staff met with senior State officials in Maryland and Pennsylvania on September 19 and 22, respectively. The discussions focused on the NRC response roles. State response roles and facilities. Both States' emergency operations centers and dose assessment centers were toured and exercise logistics were discussed.
Joint Meeting on Mixed Waste Program Implementation On September 22, 1988 Marie Miller, Region I State Liaison Officer, participated in an EPA Region !! meeting with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The discussion included overviews of agencies' roles for inspection of mixed waste facilities and possible coordination agreements.
EXPORT / IMPORT WEEKLY POINTS OF INTEREST During the week ending September 23, 1988, applications for export licenses were received from:
- 1) Combustion Engineering for the export of irradiated fuel rods for post-irradiation examination at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in Canada to evaluate the perfomance of coninercial PWR fuel irradiated to high burn-up.
The export will consist of the irradiated fuel, reactor control rod assembly, one non-fueled rod and one fuel element assembly cage.
- 2) Intercontinental Energy Corporation for the export of 8,400 kgs of natural uranium to Canada for conversion from U038to UF 6and return to the U.S.
- 3) General Electric Company for the authorization to ship 15.400 kgs of Canadian-origin material to Spain for use as fuel in the Cofrentes Power Reactor.
During the week ending September 23, 1988, licenses for export were issued to:
- 1) Transnuclear, Inc. for the export of 5,465.713 kgs of Australian-origin material to West Gemany for use as fuel in the Unterweser ! Power Reactor.
} 2) Transnuclear, Inc. for the export of 10.772 kgs of HEU material to Belgium for fabrication of targets for use in EURATOM Research Reactors to produce radioisotopes for medical purposes, t
l 3) Transnuclear, Inc. for the export of 12.600 kgs of HEU l
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- 4) NRD. Inc. for the export of 30,000 curies of Tritium to Switzerland for use in labelled compounds and luminious paint, i
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending September 16, 1988 Arrivals and Departures Nine new employees reported for work in Headquarters and the Regions.
Kenneth Hart, Operations Engineer joined NRR, as did Jessie Delgado, Clerk-Typist. Donald Schwartz, Computer Systems Analyst joined ARM, Lavonne Martin, Legal Intern / Attorney, started work for OGC and Carolyn Wingo, Secretary, joined HMSS. New Regional employees are: Brenda Holt, State Agreements Program, Region III; Margaret McCullough and Todd Sundsmo, both Reactor Inspectors for Region V; and Katherine Cobb, Resident Clerical Aide for Region IV.
Losses were: John Kaufman, Reactor Systems Engineer, AE00; Burnita Hayes, Secretary, Research, and Dawn McDaniel, Word Processing Operator, Region IV.
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1 Office of Enforcement l Items of Interest i Week Ending September 23, 1988 The following Significant Enforcement Action _s_ were taken the week of September 19, 1988.
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $50,000 was issued on September 16, 1988 to Comonwealth Edison Company (Braidwood Nuclear Power Station). The action was based on two separate examples of inattentiveness on the part of security officers assigned as compensatory measures for an unlocked and unalarmed vital area door.
(EN 88-74)
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $50,000 was issued on September 19, 1988 to Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (Susquehanna Units 1 and 2). The action was based on a violation of the equipment qualification requirements of 10 CFR 50.49. (EN 88-75)
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties in the amount of $150,000 was issued September 20, 1988 to Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (Calvert Cliffs Units 1 and 2). The action was based on two events in which Technical Specification Limiting Conditions for Operations were violated. In the first, one of the two emergency diesel generators required for Unit 2 was inoperable for approximately 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br /> because the voltage regulator was left in manual after testing. In the second, all the variable high level and axial offset Reactor Protective System instrumentation channels on Unit I were set less conservative than required. The base civil penalty was escalated by 50%
for each of these violations. The first violation was escalated because of poor prior perfermance and the second violation was escalated because of prior notice of a similar problem. (EN88-76)
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $1.600 was issued September 20, 1988 to Payne and Payne, Inc., Shawnee, Oklahoma. The action was based on failures to calibrate, perform surveys, evaluate personnel dosimetry, leak test and inventory sealed sourcer, enter into an agreement with well operators as owners or to responsibilities in event of a down-hole irretrievable source, and follow DOT regulations. The base civil penalty was increased by 100% for multiple examples ar.d duration.
(EN88-77)
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $75,000 was issued September 21, 1988 to Power Authority of the State of New York (Indian Point 3). The action was based on a violation of the equipment qualification requirements of 10 CFR 50.49. Because of the licensee's prompt and extensive corrective actions to some of the problems, the penalty was reduced by 50%. (EN 88-78)
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $187,500 was issued on September 22, 1988 to Consumers Power Company (Big Rock Point). This action was based on a violation of the equipment qualifi-cation requirerents of 10 CFR 50.49. The escalation and mitigation factors SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 ENCLOSURE K
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~2 of the modified enforcement policy was considered and 25% escalation of the base civil penalty was deemed appropriate because of the licensee's poor corrective actions. (EN 88-79)
Civil Penalty Paid Carolina Power and Light Company (H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2) paid the imposed civil penalty of $50,000. The action was based on violations lement procedures for safe involving shutdown of the facility in the event of a fire. the failure to properly establish and imp (EA 87-124)
Other At the request of the Department of the Air Force, the staff held a transcribed meeting on September 15, 1988 with the Air Force regarding the June 17, 1988 Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of
$102,500. This action was based on an inspection and investigation of an event at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio and involved the failure to report a significant spill of americium-241 and an overexposure.
In its response The Air Force responded to the Air Force (1) denied the reporting violation, (2 stated that it considers the civil penalty on July)15, 1988.
the civil penalty to be unjustified, and (3) questioned the constitutional authority concerning the NRC's jurisdiction to impose a civil penalty on the Air Force (another Federal agency). The staff is evaluating the Air Force's response.
ENCLOSURE X SEPTEMBER 23. 1988
OFFICE OF C0NSOLIDAT10N Items of Interest Week Ending September 23, 1988 Planning for Two White Flint North A series of planning assumptions for NRC's second building have been established at meetings between NRC staff and representatives of GSA, Tower Construction Company, and Dewberry & Davis. These assumptions, which are preliminary and subject to change, include the following:
- 1. An auditorium will be located on the "A" and "B" levels between the two buildings.
- 2. There will be a day care center on the "A" floor at ground level.
- 3. There will be seven passenger elevators and one freight elevator in the central core of the building, as well as a small elevator to provide access for handicapped persons from the street level down to the auditorium.
- 4. There will be a physical fitness center at TWFN, which will probably be located on the lith floor. The NRC Health Unit will remain in OWFN, but will be expanded to handle the additional patient load.
- 5. Each "typical" floor will have copy rooms, lounges, vending and coffee rooms, a CPU / file server room, and large, medium, and small conference those in(The rooms. lar OWFN.) ge conference A typical floor will alsorooms willworkstations, have PC be about 20 percent bigger than NUDOCS workstations, and space for word-processing printers.
- 6. The meeting and hearing rooms for ACRS, ASLAP, and ASLBP will be designed without removing columns.
- 7. Smoking lounges will be located away from workstations. They will be equipped with closed exhaust ducting connected to the main exhaust.
- 8. The first floor will house the cafeteria, the credit union, and an exhibit area - if the Montgomery Coun g planning Board will grant approval. The county has )reviously specified to the developer that the entire first floor must >e reserved for "retail space."
- 9. Floor two Nill house the NRC Library and the Public Document Room.
- 10. Floor three will house ACRS, ASLAP, and ASLBP, and the meeting and hearing rooms for those offices.
- 11. Floor four will house the document control center and some 3f its contractor employees, duplication services, and publications distribution.
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- 12. Floor five will house the remainder of the document control contractor employees, the photo lab and audiovisual studio, information technology services and graphics support, electronic composition and text processing services, and other ARM staff.
- 13. Floor six will house the Emergency Operations Center, the main computer room, telephone operators, and part of AEOD.
- 15. Floor twelve will be lef t vacant to provide room for future expansion.
Temporary Parking Lot at OWFN Clearing and grading of the lot behind OWFN this week signaled the start of construction for the temporary parking lot that Montgomery County requires the developer to provide in fulfillment of promises made when the building permit for the first building was granted. The estimated time of completion is the latter part of November.
Traffic Survey In preparation for the subdivision hearing on TWFN, which will probably be scheduled for November, the developer conducted a new survey of the traffic at nearby intersections this week. Consultants will analyze the data and prepare a report before the hearing.
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,. REGION 11 ITEM 5 0F INTEREST WEEK ENDING SEPTEM8ER 23, 1988
- 1. On September 19, representatives of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Neely Nuclear Research facility, were in the Region II Office to attend an Enforcement Conference.
- 2. On September 20, representatives of the Carolina Power and Light Company were in the Region !! Office to attend a Management Meeting to discuss the Design Basis Reconstitution problem at their Robinson Nuclear Power facility.
- 3. On September 21, the Regional Administrator and selected members of the Region II staff were at the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Station to present the SALP Board Assessment to Florida Power and Light Company representatives.
4 On September 21, representatives of the Georgia Power Company were in the Region II Office to participate in a working level meeting with NRR and Regional representatives concerning implementation of actions specified in IE Bulletin 85-03 (motor operated valves).
- 5. On September 21, an Enforcement Conference was conducted at the Maryview Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, regarding violations in their radiation safety program that were identified during a recent inspection.
- 6. On September 23. Mr. Ying Zhen Zhang, from the People's Republic of China, accompanied by J. MacKinnon of AE00, was in the Region II Office. Mr. Zhang has been assigned to AEOD under an IAEA Fellowship. He will be developing programs in operating experience assessment and feedback and incident response for China's National Nuclear Safety Administration.
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Region !Y Items of Interest Week Ending September 23, 1988
- 1. Omaha Public Power District met with Region IV staff and management in the Region IV office on September 22, 1988, to discuss improvement plans for their Physical Security Program at the Fort Calhoun Station.
- 2. The Regional Counsel conducted interviews for OCG's Honor Law Graduate Program on September 23 at the University of Oklahoma, and on September 26 at Oklahoma City University.
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i ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION - WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 STAFF REQUIREMENTS - BRIEFING ON PROPOSED RULE ON DEGREED OPERATORS, A.
10:00 A.M., WEDNE5 DAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1988, COMMISSIONER 5' CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to V. Stello, Jr., EDO dated 9/20/88 The commission
- was briefed by the staff on a proposed rule requiring engineering degreed reactor operators at nuclear power plants and other options to assure technical expertise '
and professionalism at nuclear facilities.
Chairman Zach requested his fellow Commissioners to consider :
the staff's recommendations in SECY-88-245 and in their vote sheets make recommendations to bring this long-standing issue l to closure.
Commissioner Rogers also requested the staff, on a separate <
matter, to assess alternative means by whicli the Commission ,
1 l could encourage and ensure higher levels of operator status and Examples recognition as professionals at nuclear power plants.
t of such means include the development of a transportable operator's license, and national accreditation of INpo operator training programs.
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= White Flint Bldg. To discuss (a) problems areas L. Kintner
- 9/28/88 50-416 NRC/SERI 8:30 Room 148-11 in the licensee's procedures for 10 CFR 50.59 reviews identified in the NRC Summary of April 25-29, 1988 Audit, dated July 11, 1988 and licensee's proposed correc-tive actions, and (b) problem areas in the licensee's Technical Specification Position Statements and licensee's proposed corrective actions.
9/28/88 50-382 White Flint Bldg. Discussions of the Status of IIRC/ Utility D. Wiggihton 9:30 50-313, Room 128-11 Licensing Actions, Management 50-368, Arrangements and the transfer of 50-416, operations and maintenance of 50-417 Waterford 3 and Arkansas IInclear One, Units 1 & 2 to SERI.
9/28/83 50-219 Oyster Creek Iluclear To discuss the status of NRC/GPUN A. Droserick 9:30-5:00 Generating Station Licensing Activities for Energy Spectrum Oyster Creek Forked River, NJ m
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- NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTEWEES NRR CONTACT E 10/3/88 50-425 Vogtle Urit 2 To perform a review of NRC/ Utility J. Hopkins 3
- 8:00-4:00 Waynesboro, GA structural analyses
- supporting the Vogtle Unit 2 spent fuel pool racks.
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co L. Pittiglio 10/18 All Day Albany, QA workshop for the State of NY St. of NY 10/19 All Day NY CD-Effort between NRC/ DOE /EG&G EG&G The State of NY DOE LPittiglio TCJohnson MJBell DIVISION OF SAFEGUARDS AND TRANSPORTATION ATTENDEES /
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_, 9/17-10/1/88 Vienna, Austria To attend IAEA meeting RCunningham IICunninghan 9/25-30/88 Idaho Falls. ID Radiological & Environmental GlaRoche GlaRoche Sciences Laboratory (RESL)
Test Site (Training) 9/28-29/88 Glen Ellyn, IL State Liaison Officers LRouse LRouse Region III 9/29/88 King of Prussia, PA Review of UNC-Montville Per- G81dinger G8idinger formance Improvement Program Reps. of RI and Region I E
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NRC, WFN NRC staff review of the OCRWM HL W staff BBelke 19/28/88
- Rocirville, MD Quality Assurance Requirements DOE staff a Documents and how it addresses the NRC Review Plan guidance criteria 9/29-30/88 DOE, Forrestal Technical Exchange Meeting HLW staff WWalker Room 6-E-069 Eetween DOE and NRC on Waste DOE staff Washington, DC Acceptance Process for the States / tribes Defense Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River DOE, Forrestal Exploratory Shaf t Facility HLWM staff KStablein 10/18-20/88 Washington, DC Meeting DOE staff States / tribes P
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$9/28/88 m Rockville, MD Quality Assurance Requirements DGE staff Documents and how it addresses the NRC Review Plan guidance criteria DOE, Forrestal Technical Exchange Meeting HLWM staff Walker, x20447 9/29-30/88 Bet W n DOE and NRC on Waste DOE staff Roos 6-E-069 Washington, DC Acceptance Process for the States / tribes Defense Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River DOE, Forrestal Explcratory Shaft Facility HLWM staff KStablein, 20446 10/18-20/88 DOE staff Washington, DC Meeting States / tribes m
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DOCKET OSP CONTACT PURPOSE ATTENDEES DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION Discussion of CE Branch TU Electric James Wilson Sept. 21 50-445/446 OWFN 7-B-15 1:00 pm FSAR review for CP Discussion of Comanche TU Electric /NRC James Wilson Sept. 22 50-445/446 OWFN 7-B-15 Peak Appendix A 10:00 am Technical Specifications Discussion of FSAR TU Electric James Wilson Sept. 29 50-445/446 OWFN 10-B-13 changes under review 9:00 am by the Plant Systems Branch OWFN 10-8-11 (10/5) Discussion of proposed TU Electric Melinda Malloy Oct. 5-6 50-445/446 OWFN 8-8-11 (10/6) changes to the CP Unit I 8:00 am technical specifications
- Copies of sussuries of these meetings will be made publicly available and placed in the respective cocket file (s) in the NRC and local public document rooms.
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NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT DATE/ TIME 11/17/88 RI Office Licensee Requested Meating to NRC/PSE&G P. Swetland 10:00 a.m. [,0-272
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NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES RIV CONTACT DATE 9/30/88 50-498 Region IV Enforcement conference with Houston ML&P reps. E. Holler 9:00 a.m. Lighting and Power to discuss improper fire watches and apparent violations regarding improper close out of a maintenance work request.
10/4/88 50-382 Region IV Enforcement conference with Louisiana LP&L reps. D. Chamberlain 1:00 p.m. Power & Light to discuss EQ.
10/21/88 50-313; ANO site SALP discussions for 1/1/87 - 6/30/88. AP&L reps. D. Chamberlain 50-368 l
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