ML20207C850
| ML20207C850 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 08/02/1988 |
| From: | Charemagne Grimes NRC OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS |
| To: | Counsil W TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC) |
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| NUDOCS 8808100288 | |
| Download: ML20207C850 (5) | |
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August 2,1988 Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446 Mr. William G. Counsil Executive Vice President Texas Utilities Electric Company 400 North Olive Street, L.B. 81 Dallas, Texas 75201
Dear Mr. Counsil:
SUBJECT:
QUALIFICATIONS OF RADIATION PROTECTION MANAGER CANDIDATE Pursuant to our review of FSAR Amendments 59, 60, 62 and 64, on March 10, 1988
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we requested additional infonnation regarding the proposed radiation pro-tection manager (RPM) candidate. We asked you to state how the RPM candidate will obtain the necessary formal training and professional radiation protection experience in order to meet the criteria of Regulatory Guide 1.8 (RG 1.8) and to provide a resume of qualifications for a candidate who will fill the RPM position until the candidate proposed in the FSAR is determined to be qualified.
You responded to our request on May 13,1988(TXX-88406).
Your response pro-vided more detailed information than is currently in the FSAR on the candidate RPM's education and experience and an evaluation of those qualifications based i
on the guidance in RG 1.8.
Your response maintains that the RPM candidate meets the qualification guidance of RG 1.8.
Subsequently, on June 14, 1988, TU Electric representatives met with the staff to discuss your response and obtain feedback from the staff. The staff informed TV Electric that the candidate lacked sufficient professional-level radiation protection experience at a nuclear facility dealing with radiological problems encountered in nuclear power stations. (RG 1.8 specifies that the RPM should have at least 5 years of professional experience in applied radiation protection, at least 3 years of which should have been in a nuclear facility dsaling with radiological problems encountered in nuclear power plants, preferably in an actual nuclear power plant.) The RPM candidate has several years of experience as a radiochemistry technician, none cf which the staff considers equivalent to applied professional-level radiation protection experience. The candidate served for two years as the RPM at Comanche Peak, while the plant was under construction. The staff finds that this experience is not equivalent to the experience gained from radiation protection activities encountered in an operating nuclear power plant.
It is the staff's position that the Comanche Peak radiation protection organi-zation must include an individual who meets the RPM qualification criteria of RG 1.8 and who is also responsible, as a minimum, for the following:
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directing the day-to-day health physics activities and participating in decision-making on sig-nificant radiation protection issues 2.
reviewing and approving the radiation protection procedures 3.
participation in Station Operations Review Committee (SORC) review activities In the interest of reaching an expeditious resolution to this long-standing issue, please respond by August 15, 1988 indicating how TU Electric intends te proceed in this matter. Since we: realize that addressing the staff's con-cerns may require organizational changes and possibly recruiting, we expect this initial response to describe the action (s) you plan to take and your schedule for completing those actions. We believe your actions should be completed by about October 1988. We expect your actions to include, as a minimum, assignment of the RPM-qualified individual to perform in the capa-cities described earlier and a follow-up response including the applicable FSAR and Technical Specification changes and a detailed statement of qualifi-cations for the RPM-qualified individual.
Should you have any questions, please contact eitner Melinda Malloy at (301-492-0738) or Jim Wilson at (301-492-3306).
Sincerely, C1 Christopher I. Grimes, Director Comanche Peak Project Division Office of Special Projects cc: See next page
g W. G. Counsil Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station Texas Utilities Electric Company Units 1 and 2 cc:
Jack R. Newman, Esq.
Asst. Director for Inspec. Programs Newman & Holtzinger, P.C.
Comanche Peak Project Division Suite 1000 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Consnission 1615 L Street, N.W.
P. O. Box 1029 Washington, D.C. 20036 Granbury, Texas 76048 Robert A. Wooldridge, Esq.
Regional Administrator, Region IV Worsham, Forsythe, Sampels &
V.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wooldridge 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500 Arlington, Texas 76011 Dallas, Texas 75201 Lanny A. Sinkin Mr. Honer C. Schmidt Christic Institute Director of Nuclear Services 1324 North Capitol Street Texas Utilities Electric Company Washington, D.C.
20002 Skyway Tower 400 North Olive Street, L.B. 81 Ms. Billie Pirner Garde, Esq.
Dallas, Texas 75201 Government Accountability Project Midwest Office Mr. R. W. Ackley 104 East Wisconsin Avenue Stone & Webster Appleton, Wisconsin 54911 Ccmanche Peak Steam Electric Station P. O. Box 1002 David R. Pigott, Esq.
Glen Rose Texas 76043 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 600 Montgomery Street Mr. J. L. Vota San Francisco, California 94111 s in hou Electric Corporation Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Suite 600 1401 New York Avenue, NW Susan M. Theisen Washington, D.C. 20005 Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division Robert Jablon P. 0. Box 12548, Capitol Station Bonnie S. Blair Austin, Texas 78711-1548 Spiegel A McDiarmid 1350 New York Avenue, NW Mrs. Juanita Ellis, President Washington, D.C. 20005-4798 Citizens Association for Sound Energy 1426 South Polk George A. Parker, Chr.irman Dallas, Texas 75224 Public Utility Consnittee Senior Citizens Alliance Of Ms. Nancy H. Williams Tarrant County, Inc.
CYGNA Energy Services 6048 Wonder Drive 2121 N. California Blvd., Suite 390 Fort Worth, Texas 76133 Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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3 Metro Center, Suite 610 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 William A. Burchette, Esq.
Counsel for Tex-La Electric Cooperative of Texas Heron, Burchette, Ruckert & Rothwell Suite 700 1025 Thoroas Jefferson Street, NW Washingten, D.C.
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reviewing and approving the radiation protection procedures 3.
participation in Station Operations Review Committee (50RC) review activities In the interest of reaching an expeditious resolution to this long-Mstanding issue, please respond by August 15, 1988 indicating how TV Electric intends to proceed in this matter.
Since we realize that addressing the staff's con-cerns may require organizational changes and possibly recruiting, we expect this initial response to describe the action (s) you plan to taks and your schedule for completing thew by October ( 1988. We expect your actions to include, as a minimum, signment of the RPN-qualified individual to perform in the capacities desc bed earlier and a follow-up response including the applicable FSAR and chnical Specification changes and a detailed statement of qualifications r the RPM-qualified individual.
Should you hav any questions, please contact either Melinda Malloy at (301-492-073 or Jim Wilson at (301 492-3306).
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