ML20155B678
| ML20155B678 | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 10/28/1998 |
| From: | NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9810300230 | |
| Download: ML20155B678 (3) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20666-0001
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SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR 00ALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM
'UtE00 EDISON COMPANY CENTERIOR SERVICE COMPANY MQ THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION. UNIT NO. 1 DOCKET NO. 50-346
1.0 INTRODUCTION
By letter dated August 24 1998. Toledo Edison Company. Centerior Service Company, and The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (the licensees),
submitted a request for changes to the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Unit No. 1. Updated Safety Analysis Report (USAR) Chapter 17.2. " Quality Assurance During the Operations Phase." The proposed changes in the Quality Assurance Program (OAP) would transfer most material receipt inspection functions from the Nuclear Assurance Department's Nuclear Safety and Inspection Section to the Engineering and Services Department's Design Basis Engineering Section.
2.0 EVALUATION The following activities are presently performed by Nuclear Assurance receipt inspection personnel:
preparing receipt / source inspection procedures and checklists review of procurement documents for receipt / source inspection planning (including inspection criteria, hold / witness points, and supplier inclusion on the Approved Vendors List) receipt / source inspection review / verification of vendor supplied documentation (including Certificates of Conformance. Certificates of 9810300230 981028 PDR ADOCK 05000346 G
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' Compliance, and material physical / chemical analysis reports) receipt / source inspection (including performing / waiving hold points) items receipt / source inspection acceptance status tagging item receipt / source inspection release coordination of corporate receipt / source inspection services.
The licensees propose to transfer the above receipt inspection activities to the Design Basis Engineering organization, except for those related to nuclear fuel and radioactive waste areas. The receipt inspection responsibilities being transferred will continue to be performed by ANSI N45.2.6 qualified personnel independent from the organizations being inspected. The Nuclear Assurance Department's Nuclear Safety and Inspection Section will maintain responsibility for the training and qualification of the Design Basis Engineering inspectors to maintain requisite independence.
0AP Section 17.2.10.1 inspection requirements that individuals performing inspections are other than those who performed or directly supervised the activity being inspected will continue to be satisfied as individuals performing receipt / source inspections will be other than those who performed or directly supervised the activity being inspected.
In addition. Design Basis Engineering
. receipt /scurce inspectors will not be subjected to the same operational pressures as those engineers involved with daily plant operation (for example, system engineers) since they will be part of the design control function ensuring that purchased material equipment conform to design / procurement specifications. Also, procurement engineers will continue to perform self-sponsored peer reviews for checking procurement engineering products and services.
Nuclear Assurance /0uality Assessment auditors will continue to provide independent quality assurance oversight / checking of procurement engineering functions, including receipt / source inspection, during surveillance of related processes and audits performd pursuant to 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion XVIII. Technical Specification 6.5.2.8 and QAP 17.2.18.1 requirements.
3.0 CONCLUSION
The proposed reduction in commitment is acceptable because it only changes l
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3-licensee self-imposed commitments. This proposal does not take any new exceptions to QAP-committed NRC Regulatory Guides or ANSI Standards that provide the basis for satisfying a.10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality assurance program. The proposed QAP change that was described by the licensees as a l
" reduction in commitment" continues to satisfy the provisions in Section 17.2 of the Standard Review Plan (NUREG-0800).
Principal Reviewer:
M. Bugg Date: October 28, 1998 l
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