ML20196B879
| ML20196B879 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 02/08/1988 |
| From: | Lieberman J, Luehman J NRC OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT (OE) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| EA-87-240, EN-88-010, EN-88-10, NUDOCS 8802120172 | |
| Download: ML20196B879 (1) | |
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E February 8, 1988 EN 88-10 OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION OF SIGNIFICANT ENFOREMENT ACTION Licensee: Houston Lighting and Power Company (EA 87-240)
South Texas Unit 1 Docket No. 50-498 I
Subject:
PROPOSED IMPOSITION OF CIVIL PENALTY - $75,000 This is to inform the Comission that a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars
($75,000) will be issued on or about February 11, 1988 to Houston Lighting and s
Power Company. This action is based on two events in which the licensee failed L
to satisfy Technical Specification requirements.
In the first, the licensee J
1 identified that all three cold leg inspection valves in the High Head Safety
- i Injection System were shut in an operational mode in which they were required.
In the second event, the licensee reported all four channels of the icw I
pressurizer safety injection actuation setpoint were set below the Technical Specification limits. The escalation and mitigation factors of the Enforcement Policy were considered and in this case the civil penalty was increased by 50 percent because the first problem existed for a significant duration and because corrective action for a prior event should have prevented the second problem.
k It should be noted that the licensee has not been specifically infomed of the enforcement action. The schedule of issuance and notificatien ist 7
Mailing of Notice February sl 1988
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Telephone Notification of Licensee February ll, 1988 The State of Texas will be notified.
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The licensee has thirty days from the date of the Notice in which to respond.
Following NRC evaluation of the response, the civil penalty may be remitted, mitigated, or imposed by Order.
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Contact:
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