ML20199B848

Informs of Planned Inspection Effort Resulting from Vogtle Plant Performance Review & General Time Frame of Planned Inspections Plus Exact Dates of Team Inspections.Followup Insp of Fire Barrier Penetration Seal to Be Conducted

ML20199B848
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	11/07/1997
From:	Skinner P NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:	Mccoy C SOUTHERN NUCLEAR OPERATING CO.
References
IEIN-88-004, IEIN-88-056, IEIN-88-4, IEIN-88-56, NUDOCS 9711190119
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.s November 7,T1997-Southern Nuclear Operating. Company Inc.

ATTN: Mr. C. /.. McCoy.

Vice President-P. O. Box:1295 Birmingham -AL 35201-1295 l

SUBJECT:

PLANT PERFORMANCE REVIEW (PPR) - V0GTLE-

Dear Mr. McCoy:

On October l9.1997 the regional staff completed the semiannual Plant Performance Review (PPR)-for Vogtle. -The staff conducts these reviews for all operating nuclear power plants to develop and integrate understanding-of safety performance. The results are used by regional management to facilitate planning and allocation-of inspection resources.

The PPR for Vogtle involved the participation of all Region 11 technical divisions in evaluating inspection results and safety aerformance information for the period from LMarch 1 to August 31, 1997, P)Rs provide regional management with a current summary of licensee performance and serve as inputs to the NRC Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance and senior management meeting reviews.

This ' letter advises you of our planned inspection effort resulting from the Vogtle PPR review and the general time frame of planned inspections plus the exact dates of. team inspections.

It is 3rovided to minimize the resource

-impact on your staff and to allow for scleduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector-arrival onsite.

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inspections are identified by the month (s)-in which we intend to conduct the inspection.

Exact dates are not provided for non-team inspections because experience has-proven'that we must often change dates as a result of higher priority requirements and conflicts at your site or other sites.

You will be contacted three to six weeks prior to individual inspections to confirm dates.

The rationale or basis for each inspection outside the core inspection program is provided so that you are aware of the' reasons for emphasis in these program areas.

Resident inspections are not listed due to their engoing and continuous nature;

The.NRCls, general policy for reactor inspections is that each insaection shall be announced c except when-announcing the inspection could reasonaMy compromise the objectives of the inspectors. Therefore, some_ specific insp6ctions'. such as in the security and radiological protection areas, may not'be announced.

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As part-of the regional initiative-' inspection program, we plan to conduct six months. pections of fire barrier penetration seal issues during the next followup ins The issues are. discussed-in Information Notice (IN) 88-04.

Inadequate Qualification and Documentation of Fire Barrier Penetration Seals," and IN 88-56. " Potential Problems with Silicone Foam Fire Barrier Penetration Seals.".The specific plants that will be inspected have not yet been determined. We will notify you separately if the inspections are

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scheduled at your facility in the next six months.

We will inform you of any changes to the inspection plan.

If you have any questions. please contact me at-(404) 562-4520.

Sincerely.

(Original signed by Pierce H. Skinner)

Pierce H. Skinner. Chief Reactor Projects Branch 2 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-424.:50-425 License Nos. NPF-68. NPF-81

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J. D. Woodard Executive Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Company. Inc.

P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham. AL 35201-1295 J.- B. Beasley General Manager Plant Vogtl Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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J. A. Bailey Manager-Licensing Southern Nuclear Operating Company. Inc.

P. O. Box 1295-birmingham AL 35201-1295 cc w/ encl cont'd: -(See Page 3)

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Harold Reheis. Director Department of Natural Resources 205 Butler Street. SE. Suite 1252

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IP 81700 Physical Security 01/98 1

Core Inspection' IP 62706 Maintenance Rule Baseline Inspection 01/26/98 7

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IP 70001-Operator Licensing Requalification Exams 03/98 1

Core Inspection IP 83750 Occupational Radiation Exposure 03/98 1

Core Inspection IP 37550 Engineerim - Outage 04/98 1-Core Inspection' IP 73753 Inservice Inspection 04/98 1-Core Inspection-

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