ML20199B328
| ML20199B328 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 11/13/1997 |
| From: | Powers D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Cottle W HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9711180272 | |
| Download: ML20199B328 (8) | |
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November 13,1097 William T. Cottle, Group Vice President, Nuclear Houston Lighting & Power Company P.O. Box 289 Wadsworth, Texas 77483
SUBJECT:
NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-498/98-01; 50 499/98 O~
Dear Mr. Cottle:
The purpose of this letter is to announce our Maintenance Rule Baseline Team Inspection at your South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, reactor f acilities. We
- have scheduled this inspection for March 23 27, 1998. The designated inspection team leader, Claude E. Johnson, of this office, will make arrangements with your staff to telephonically discuss the inspection plans in more detail.
The inspection objective will be to evaluate the effectiveness of your initial activities establishing baseline conditions to support compliance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.65. The inspection will be conducted using inspection Procedure 62706,-
" Maintenance Rule." This inspection willinvolve a team of eight NRC and contractor personnel.
The inspection team will require information about your program and its implementation for their in office preparation for the inspection. A description of the material that may be needed is in the enclosure to this letter. Our designated team leader will be contacting your staff and arranging for specific material to be available to the team by February 23,-1998.
If you have any questions concerning this inspection, please contact Mr. Johnson at 817/860-8282 or myself at 817/860-8195.
Sincerely, M
Dr. Date A. Powers, Chief Maintenance Branch Division of Reactor Safety
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Washington, D.C. 20036 5869 Mr. G. E.,Vaughn/Mr. C. A. Johnsen Central Power & Light Company P.O. Box 289 3
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PREINSPECTION PEQUESTED ITEMS LIST 1.
Copy of Maintenance Rule program 2.
Copies of procedures that directly relate to and support the Maintenance Rule program 3.
List of acronyms and alpha-numeric designations of equipment within the scope of the Maintenance Rule (computer printout or computer di'Jk is acceptable) 4.-
Ust of structures, systems, and components (SSCs), or functions, within the scope of the Maintenance Rule - this list shoit!d identify those SSCs, or functions, that have been designated as risk / safety significent and their current performance criteria / goals 5.
List of SSCs, or functions, that were excluded from the scope of the Maintenance Rule, inc.uding justifications for exclusiore 6.
List of SSCs, or functions, placed within (a)(1) and (a)(2) categories of the Maintenance Rule 7.
Background explanation for SSCs, or functions, currently assigned to the (a)(1) category 8.
Results and/or information on b'storical performance review used to initially identify (a)(1) category SSCs, or functions, for July 10,1996, effective date of Maintenance Rule 9.
Risk reduction worth, risk achievement worth, and core damage frequency survey results for SSCs, or functions 10.
Listing of top 20 nonrisk-significant SSCs, or functions, which were not classified as risk-significant and rationalization for nonrisk-significant classification 11.
Any updated material to the initial individual plant examination 12.
Updated risk ranking of SSCs, or functions, including the numericalimportance measure (s) for each SSC, or functions, and the criteria utilized to establish the risk significance of these SSCs, or functions, for the Maintenance Rule program 13.
List of SSCs, or functions, within the probabilistic risk assessment that were downgraded / changed to nonrisk significa.it or excluded from the Maintenance Rule program and the rationale for the changes 14.
Listing of reliability and availability brsic events in the probabilistic risk assessment used for risk ranking compared to the performance criteria established for those SSCs, or functions, under the Maintenance Rule program
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Criteria or bases used by the expert panel to determine risk significance of SSCs, or functions, when the plant is not in Mode 1 16.
The shutdown safety assessment tool / chart / matrix showing which systems are used for maintaining decay heat removal, reactor coolant system inventory control, electric power availability, reactivity control, and containment integrity while shutdown 17.
The on-line maintenance procedure / tool / chart / matrix including the bases for risk level determination 18.
Current Maintenance Rule program trending data 19.
List of items, events, and conditions that were evaluated for maintenance preventable functional f ailures (MPFFs) for the previous two fuel cycles, and specific identification of MPFFs and repetitive MPFFs 20.
Current program performance criteria and goals; also, a list of SSCs, or functions, that are currently classified as " inherently reliable" or "run to f ailure" 21.
Copies of any internal and external Maintenance Rule assessments or related audits 22.
Current organization chart depicting key personnel involved in the Maintenance Rule implementation and a list of their office telephone numbers 23.
Any additionalinformation on organizational (engineering, operations, quality assurance, planning / scheduling, work control and maintenance) Maintenance Rule functional responsibilities 24.
Qualification and background of each expert panel member IN ADDITION, THE INFORMATION BELOW SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO THE INSPECTION TEAM UPON THEIR ARRIVAL ONSITE 1.
Minutes of expert panel meetings 2.
Copies of corrective action documents and/or proposed corrective actions associated with identification of problems during implementation of the Maintenance Rule program, including probabilistic risk assessment aspects 3.
Listing of spray shields, doors / hatches, and detection alarms assumed operationalin the probabilistic risk assessment for internal flooding I _-
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Copies of senior reactor operator and reactor operator logs for the last 6 months and copies of any equipment status documents (limiting condition for operation logs, equipment tagging lo;s, etc.), which provide information what equipment g*oalance-of-plant and safety-related) was out-of-service for the last 6 months d