ML20212F431

Notice of Violation from Insp on 970811-0922.Violation Noted:Inspectors Identified That on 960727,licensee Failed to Initiate DER Following Calibration of Div 2 Oxygen Monitor,During Which 2 Nonconservative Shifts Identified

ML20212F431
Person / Time
Site:	Fermi
Issue date:	10/27/1997
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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Shared Package
ML20212F411	List: IR 05000341/1997013 ML20212F406 ML20212F431
References
50-341-97-13, NUDOCS 9711040282
Download: ML20212F431 (2)

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NOTICE OF VIOLATION Detroit Edison Company Docket No. 050-341  ;

Fermi 2 License No. NPF.43 During an NRC inspection conducted on August 11 through September 22,1997, a violation of NRC requirements was identified. In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG 1600, the violation is listed below:

10 CFR, Fart 50, Appendix B, Criterion V," Instructions, Procedures and Drawings,"

states that activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.

Fermi 2 Licensing / Safety Engineering Conduct Manual, Chapter MLS02, " Deviation and Corrective Actions," Revision 3, Section 4.1, requires that a Deviation Event Report (DER) be initiated when a condition which has an adverse or potentially adverse effect on equipment, activities important to safety, plant reliability or personnel safety, is identified.

Section 3.1 requires that a DER which describes a condition that potentially has a significant plant impact or is potentially reportable, be hand-delivered to the Nuclear Shift Supervisor or Safety Engineering personnel, to assure reportability time constraints are met.

Contrary to the above, the inspectors identified that on July 27,1996, the licensee failed to initiate a DER following calibration of the Division 2 Oxygen Monitor, during which the licensee identified two nonconservative shifts in Oxygen Monitor indications when the instrument was calibrated in a de-inerted environment and then used in an inerted environment. This was a significant condition adverse to quality which was not reported via a DER to the Nuclear Shift Supervisor or Safety Engineering personnel for a prompt reportability assessment.

This is a Severity Level IV Violation (Supplement 1).

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR Part 2.201, the Detroit Edison Company is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN:

Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region 111, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspectors at the facility that is subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice). This reply should be clearly marked as a " Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each

- violation: (1) the reason for the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the violation, (2) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved, (3) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the date when full compliance will be achieved.

Your response may reference or include previous docketed correspondence, if the correspondence adequately addresses the required response. If an adequate reply is not.

received within the time specified in this Notice, an order or a Demand for Information may be issu_ed as to why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.

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Notice of Violation Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction, if personal privacy or proprietary information is necessar/ 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 withheldito of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to hsve withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarrented invasion of personal privacy or provide the 1,3 formation required by 10 CFR Part 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 desciibed in 10 CFR Part 73.21.

Dated at Lisle, Illinois, this 27th day of October 1997 o

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