ML20204D190

Responds to NRC Re Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-354/88-22.Corrective Actions:Incident & Info Re Panel Locations,Configuration & Labeling Will Be Conducted for All Personnel

ML20204D190
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	10/14/1988
From:	Labruna S Public Service Enterprise Group
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
References
NLR-N88170, NUDOCS 8810210095
Download: ML20204D190 (3)

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PweLe seruce Doctric ond oas t Cepa*y Stanley LaBruna Pubhc Service E'ectnc aM Gas Company P O Bou 236, Hancocks Brdge, NJ 08038 609 339 4800 v.. % u .,ew.v.

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NLR-N88170  ;

October 14, 1988 i l

l U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission l Attention: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 Gentlement REPLY TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION  !

NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-354/88-22 DOCKET NO. 50-354 HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is in receipt of l your letter, dated September 16, 1988, which transmitted a Notice l Violation involving a failure to comply with the requirements of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criteria XIV. L f

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, our response to the l Notice of Violation is provided in Attachment 1.

Sincerely, AL NW"

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Attachment C Mr. W. T. Russell, Administrator  !

USNRC Region I Mr. G. W. Rivenbark USNRC Licensing Project Manager [

i Mr. G. W. Meyer (

USNRC Senior Resident Inspector l i

Ms. J. Moon, Acting Chief  !

Division of Environmental Quality (

Bureau of Nuclear Engineering  ;

CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625 I S910210095 881014 f

PDR ADOCK 05000354 ;I O PDC

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ATTACHMENT 1 10 CFR 2.201 INFORMATION PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION RESPONSE TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION INSPECTION REPORT NUMBER 50-354/88-22 As described in Appendix A of your September 16, 1988 letters

- 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, criterion XIV specifies that measures shall be established for indicating the operating status of components of a nuclear power plant, such as safety tagging valves and switches, to prevent inadvertent operation, and

- Contrary to the above, the measures established for safety tagging valves were not adequate, in that the relay for valve GS-HV-4958 was erroneously removed on May 27, 1988, rendering the valve inoperable: and the valve was not restored to operability on May 30, 1983, when the deficient system tagging was removed.

1. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY DOES NOT DISPUTE THE VIOLATION.

j l 2. THE ROOT CAhSE OF THE VIOLATION WAS PERSONNEL ERROR:

Wherein an equipment operator and shift technician, safety during a tagging operation, removed the relay for

' valve GS-HV-4958 instead of the requested relay for valve GS-HV-4952, thereby making the wrong valve inoperable.

Upon completion of the work that required the safety tagging, valve GS-HV-4952 was stroke tested satisfactorily (its relay having never been removed):

however, the improperly removed relay...which made valve

, GS-HV-4958 inoperable...was not reinstalled until the error was discovered at a later date.

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3. IMMEDIATE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS:

Those personnel involved in the improper equipment safety tagging were counselled regarding the incident and their individual responsibilities. This instruction was reinforced by conducting training for all equipment operators and shift technicians on panel locations, configurations and labelling 4

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4. ACTIONS TAKEN TO PREVENT RECURRENCE:

A review of this incident and of the information regardirig l panel locations, configuration and labelling will be  !

conducted for all operations depart'ent shift personnel ,

during Cycle I of the requalificatio.' training program l currently in progress.  :

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5. WE ARE IN FULL COMPLIANCE. .

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