ML20195B551

Discusses Supplemental Response to Violations Noted in Insp Repts 50-369/88-13 & 50-370/88-13.Concludes That Performance Group Relatively Unresponsive to NRC Inspector Identified Concerns

ML20195B551
Person / Time
Site:	Mcguire, McGuire
Issue date:	10/19/1988
From:	Ernst M NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:	Tucker H DUKE POWER CO.
References
NUDOCS 8811020069
Download: ML20195B551 (2)

See also: IR 05000369/1988013

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p(TTN: Mr. H. B. Tucker, Vice Presiden?

Nuclear Production Department

422 South Church Street

Charlotte, NC 28242

Gentlemen:

SUBJECT: REPORT NOS. 50-369/88-13 AND 50-370/88-13

J This refers to ycur Sepumber 2,1988 ietter, which was a supplemental reply to

the Notice of Violation contained in NRC Inspection Report No. 50-269,

370/88-13 and addresses the inspector's conclusion about responsiveness stated

in the results section of the Inspection Report. The conclusion was that your

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"Perfomance Group was relatively unresponsive to NRC ' inspector identified

concerns," in that "repeated Questioning was required to obtain information

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needed to determine that procedures and hardware performed satisfactorily."

As you are aware, we have recently started requiring that inspectors expand the

conclusion section of the report sumary from a. sirrole statement about

compliance to a brief capsule about licensee performance in SALP terms. The

conclusion that you were addressi'1g in your September 2 letter is a result of

this new requirement. As Mr. Edward Girard stated in the details of Report

No. 50-369, 370/88-13, his concerns about the responsiveness of the McGuire

Performance Group were the result of trying to resolve long-standing issues

regarding the preparation and issue of procedures for the work being done in

l the inservice testing of pumps and valves.

In reviewing the chronology of the issues, we find that your actions to resolve

problems identified during an inspection in August 1986 (See Report No. 50-369,

j 370/86-26) were not yet ready for review when the inspector returned in

September 1987 (as discussed in Report No. 50-369,370/87-37). At that time, a

verbal comitment by the Performance Group to have the matter resolved by the

end of December 1987, was documented in the report. In January 1988, during

the inspection documented in Report No. 50-369, 370/88-01, Mr. Girard recorded

the fact that the lack of progress was discussed during the exit meeting and

that the Plant Manager directed the Performance Group to resolve the issues

within two months. In May 1988, Mr. Girard again asked for the information

necessary to resolve his concerns and was shown a draft copy of a procedure

that had not been issued.

This is the situation which prompted Mr. Girard to conclude that the

Perfomance Group at McGuire was not responding to our concerns in the manner

that we have come to expect from Duke. It appears that some mis-communication

occurred. Please note that we have not concluded that there is a problem with

McGuire's overall performance in maintaining an open, productive and responsive

relationship with the NRC. What we have pointed out is that one of the many

groups that we interface with during the course of our inspection activities

is not perfoming up to the level that we have come to expect. We feel that

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the examples cited in the details of Mr. Girard's report fully substantiate

his conclusion that the Performance Group was, in the examples cited, not

up to the standards expected.

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Acting Regional Administrator

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