ML20206G462

SER Supporting Employee Concern Element Rept 204.8(B), Communication & Interface Control

ML20206G462
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Site:	Sequoyah
Issue date:	11/04/1988
From:	NRC OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS
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($ NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION W ASHING TON, D. C. 20555 SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT SY THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS EMPLOYEE CONCERN ELEMENT REPORT 204.8(B)

"COMMUNICATION AND INTERFACE CONTROL" TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY SEQUOYAP hUCLEAD. DOWER PLANT UNITS 1 AND 2 00CKET NOS. 50-3?7 AND 50-328

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Category: Engineering (20000)

Subcategory: Organization or Operating Procedures (20400)

Eler.ent : Connunication and Interface Control (20408)

The basis for Element Report 204.8(B) Revision 1, dated June 3,1987 is Enployee Concern WI-85-100-052 which states:

"Lack of effective comunication and interface control among organizations within the Division of Engineering Design - branches, projects, procurement, etc. Concerned individual has no further information, Anonymous concern via letter."

This concern was evaluated by the licensee as potentially nuclear safety-related and potentially applicable to Sequoyah (generic).

!!. SLE ARY OF ISSUES The licensee defined the issue as "There is a lack of effective cornunication and interface control areng the branches in the Division of Engineering Design (EN DES) and between Eh CES and the projects and other divisions."

!!!. EVALUATION There have been detailed administrative control procedures in effect since

1973. However, multiple organizations developed with some units having i essentially duplicate functions while others had unclear responsibilities. For example, the licensee found in 1978 that there were four groups contacting vendors and six groups coordinating with each other on purchases. In 1964, the d

NRC Systematic Assessment of Licensee Perfonnance (SALP) Board found that timely corrective action continues to be a problem when interdivisional coor-dinaticn is required for resolutien of issues and there was a failure to t establish reasures to control design interfaces between participating organizations. Tre licensee reported that responsibilities, authorities and organizational interfaces for design and design change control were not revised in a tirely manner to delineate organizational interfaces and lines of 8811220289 881104  ;

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found that effective communications and smooth coordination were not occurring due to the numerous reorganizations. In addition, the ccmmunications and tearwork between the Office of Engineering and Nuclear Operations need improvement, especially at the nuclear plant sites. The result was mistrust between these two organizations and duplication of effort.

The licensee's evaluation team found that organizational interfaces and lines of contunications were addressed in quality assurance program manuals and engineering procedures, but the programmatic controls necessary to keep these procedures current were not implemented. There were also interface problems with vendors and between the Office of Engineering and Nuclear Operations. Tre issue is substantiated.

The licensee intends to make progranratic improvements while reducing duplication and increasing the amount of interfacing. In the future, the bulk of the engineering work for Secuoyah will be perforred by one organization of engineers 1ccated at Secuoyah, and the Knoxville offices will provide speciali:ed services like welding engineering and computer systems development.

At the present time, Knoxville is performino piping and electrical engineering work for Seoucyah. An example of the interface centrols at Sequoyah is Secuoyah Engineering Procedure 50EP-13. "Procedure for Transitional Design Change Control." This is 'Fe crocedure for handling engineering change notices and field change recuests and it contains nurerous mandatory interfaces to acccmmodate design criteria, nuclear safety evaluations, procurement, calculati9ns , documentation, etc. The corrective acticns are acceptable to the staff.

IV. CONCLUSIONS The NRC staff reviewed TVA Employee Concern Special Program Report Number 204.8(B) Revision 1 dated June 3, 1987, "Communication and interface Control" and found their investigation and corrective actions to be adequate. The employee concerns are substentiated.

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