ML20196A614

IE Review & Evaluation of Licensee Implementation of TMI Action Plan Requirement 1.C.5, `Procedures for Feedback of Operating Experience to Plant Staff.'

ML20196A614
Person / Time
Site:	San Onofre
Issue date:	06/15/1981
From:	Sternberg D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
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ML20151H186	List: ML20196A606 ML20196A614
References
TASK-1.C.5, TASK-TM TAC-44128, NUDOCS 8802050106
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't./ TITLE: IE REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF LICENSEE IMPLEMENTATION OF TMI ACTION PLAN REQUIREMENTS ACTION PLAN ITEM N0: 1.C.5 ilTLE: PROCEDURES FOR FEEDBACK 0F OPERATING EXPERIENCE TO PLANT STAFF U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Utility: Southern California Edison Conpany Facility: San Onofre

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%) Docket No: 50-206 Signature: o  % d L C. , Acting Director, Division of7 esident, Reacto W 5 ject and Engineering Inspection, Region V Date:

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POSITION Task Action Plan 1.C.5, Procedures for Feedback of Operating Experience to Plant Staff requires each licensee to prepare procedures to assure that operating information pertinent to plant safety originating both within and outside the utility organi:ation is continually supplied to operators and other personnel and is incorporated into training and retraining programs. These procedures shall:

(1) Clectly identify organizational responsibilities for review of operating experience, the feecback of pertinent information to operators and other personnel and the incorporation of such information into training and retraining programs; (2) Identify the acministrative and technical review steps necessary in trans-lating recommendations by the operating experience assessment group into plant actions (e.g., changes to procedures; operating orders);

(3) Identify the recipients of various categories of information from operating exoerience (e.g., supervisory personnel, STAS, operators, maintenance m personnel, H. P. technicians) or otherwise provide means through which such j,' T information can be readily related to the job functions of the recipients.

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(4) Provide means to assure that affected personnel become aware of and under-stand information of sufficient importance that should not wait for emphasis through routine training and retraining programs; (5) Assure that plant personnel do not routinely receive extraneous and unimportant information on operating experience in such volume that it would obscure priority information or otherwise detract from overall job per-formance and proficiency; (6) Provide suitable checks to assure that conflicting or contradictory in-formation is not conveyed to operators and other personnel until raisolution is reached; and; (7) Provide periodic internal audit to assure that the feedback program functions effectively at all levels.

Jacn utility shall carry out an operating experience assessment function that will

• involve utility personnel having collective competence in all areas important to plant safety.

, Those involved in the assessment of operating experience will review information

! from a variety of sources. These include operating information from the I licensee's own plant (s), publications such as IE Bulletins, Circulars and i Notices, and pertinent NRC or industrial assessments of operating experience. In (n)

V some cases, information may be of sufficient importance that it must be dealt with promotly (through instructions, changes to operating and emergency procedures, issuance of special changes to operating and emergency crocecures, l

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\d .s-issuance of special precautions, etc.) and must be handled in such a manner to assure that operations management personnel would be directly involved in the

$rocess. In many other cases, however, important information will become available wnich should be brougn to the attention of operators and other personnel for their general information to assure continued safe plant operation.

Since the total volume of information handled by the assessment group may be large, it is important that assurance by provided that high priority matters are dealt with promptly and that discrimination is used in the feecback of other information so that personnel are not deluged with unimportant and extraneous information to the detriment of their overall proficiency. It is important, also, that technical reviews be conducted to preclude premature dissemination of conflicting or contradictory information.

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/ ' We have reviewed the fo11'owing licensee procedures which address the feedback of operating experience: ESC 40-9-19. "Interim QA Procedures " Rev.'1, dated h'

U February 7,1981; Station Order 501-A-122, Rev. 5, and Nuclear Training Division Trai3jng Memorandum 4-81, dated January 29, 1981.

.Base i . d on this review, we find the licensee's procedures for feedback of a

operating experience to the plant staff to be acceptable.  ;

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