ML20206U310
| ML20206U310 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Byron  |
| Issue date: | 10/30/1998 |
| From: | Clayton H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Kingsley O COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20206U278 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 9905250154 | |
| Download: ML20206U310 (4) | |
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Dear Mr. Kingsley:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently received information concerning i
activities at the Byron Nuclear Plant. The details are enclosed for your evaluation.
We request that the results of your evaluation of this matter be submitted to Region 111 within 30 days of the date of this letter. Your response to this request should not be docketed, and should be sent in an envelope addressed to the Region ill Enforcement / Investigations Officer.
We also request that your response contain no personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you mus1 specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
The NRC's review of your response will include whether: (a) the organization orindividual conducting the evaluation was independent; (b) the evaluation was of sufficient depth and scope; (c) appropriate root causes and generic implications were considered, if the concerns were substantiated; and (d) the corrective actions, both planned and completed, were sufficient to correct the specific example (s) and generic implications and to prevent recurrence.
The enclosure to this letter should be controlled and distribution should be limited to personnel with a "need to knov/' until your evaluation has been completed and reviewed by NRC Region Ill. The enclosure to this letter is considered "NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE."
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O. Kingsley We appreciate your cooperation and will gladly discuss any questions you may have concerning this information.
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H. Brent Clayton Enforcement / Investigations Officer
Enclosure:
Details (NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE) cc w/ enc!: K. Graesser, Site Vice President
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Mr. Oliver D. Kingsley President; Nuclear Generation Group
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Commonwealth Edison Company ATTN: Regulatory Services Executive Towers West til 1400 Opus Place, Suite 500 Downers Grove,IL 60515
Dear Mr. Kingsley:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently received information concerning activities at the Byron Nuclear Power Plant. The details are enclosed for your evaluation, We request that the results of your evaluation of this matter be submitted to Region ill within 45 days of the date of this letter. Your response to this request should not be docketed, and should be sent in an envelope addressed to the Region ill Enforcement / investigations Officer.
We also request that your response contain no personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you mual specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
The NRC review of your response will include whether: (a) the organization or individual conducting the evaluation was independent; (b) the evaluation was of sufficient depth and scope; (c) appropriate root causes and generic implications were considered, if the concerns were substantiated; and (d) the corrective actions, both planned and completed, were sufficient to correct the specific example (s) and generic implications and to prevent recurrence.
The enclosure to this letter should be controlled and distribution should be limited to personnel with a "need to know" until your evaluation has been completed and reviewed by NRC Region !!I. The enclosure to this letter is considered "NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCt.OSURE."
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NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE ENCLOSURE Please reference tracking number 98-A-0105 in your response.
1 Details The NRC recently received information that licensee management's responses to individuals writing problem identification forms (PIFs) may have created a chilled environment at the site.
The majority of the examples concemed the Operations Department.
Some examples included:
Operations department personnel, including licensed senior reactor operators, hesitate to write PlFs that are critical of management decisions, for fear that writing the PlF would be careerlimiting.
Some supervisors requiring that draft PlFs be submitted and " edited
- by the supervisor prior to entry into the PIF data base.
l Dissenting views from managements' approach to resolving problems are not tolerated.
Root cause investigation reports being revised by management over the objections of the investigators (i.e. the authors of the report).
Supervisors and managers try to talk individuals out of writing PlFs.
Managers confronting individuals and asking and/or accusing the individuals of providing a concern to the NRC.
Originators of PlFs are either rebuked or ignored.
NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE