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Forwards QA Program Insp Repts 50-445/86-17 & 50-446/86-14 on 860616-18 & 24 & 0707-17.TERA QA Program Controls for Design Adequacy Program Consistent W/Util Commitments. Responses to Listed Weakness & Open Items Requested
ML20214N022
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Site: Comanche Peak  Luminant icon.png
Issue date: 09/10/1986
From: Grimes B
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To: Counsil W
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC)
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NUDOCS 8609160010
Download: ML20214N022 (3)


See also: IR 05000445/1986017

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WASHING TON, D. C. 20555

SEP 101996

Docket Nos.:

50-445

50-446

Mr. W. G. Counsil

Execut.ive Vice President

Texas Utilities Generating Company

400 North Olive Street, L.B. 81

Dallas, TX

75201

Dear Mr. Counsil:

SUBJECT:

INSPECTION OF TERA'S QA PROGRAM FOR

ADEQUACY PROGRAM -50-445/86-17, 50-446/86-14

the inspection of TERA's QA Program for the Coman

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Program (DAP .

and Enforceme)nt (IE).

The inspection was conducted by the NR

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Maryland (June 16 to 18,1986),

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(June 24, 1986), and Berkeley and San Jose

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ectric Station (CPSES)

, California (July 7 to 17, 1986).

Appendix G of the Comanche Peak Response Team

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program described in

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and the CPRT DAP QA Program and Procedures Manual

rogram Plan, Revision 3

CPSES site concentrated on the DAP system used by TERA tThe inspec

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The team found that the QA program controls are suffici

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procedures and consistent with CPRT Program Plan commitmentently desc

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between TERA and TUGC0 with respect to information r

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The interface

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equests was functioning

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Several areas of weakness were identified, which includ d d

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failure to communicate to reviewers the piogram req i

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review technical areas for which they have had previous exu rement that th

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it at a time when a substantial portion of DAP re iThe latter iss

am identified

v ews have been completed.

Open items for your response and team follow-up are hi hli

Your response is requested within six weeks of your re

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Your response should address whether any DAP reviews

ceipt of this letter.

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due to the fact that reviewers were not properly informed of the above quali-

fication requirement.

For all open items, your response should address the

specific issue, its generic implications and actions to preclude recurrence.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790(a), a copy of this letter and its enclosure

will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

Sincerely,

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Brian K. Grimes, Director

Division of Quality Assurance, Vendor,

and Technical Training Center Programs

Office of Inspection and Enforcement

Enclosure:

As stated

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W. G. Counsil

Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station

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Texas Utilities Generating Company

Units 1 and 2

cc:

Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esq.

Resident Inspector / Comanche Peak

Bishop, liberman, Cook,

Steam Electric Station

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Purcell & Reynolds

c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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1200 Seventeenth Street, NW

P. O. Box 38

Washington, D.C.

20036

Glen Rose, Texas 76043

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Robert A. Wooldridge, Esq.

Regional Administrator, Region IV

Worsham, Forsythe, Sampels &

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Wooldridge

611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000

2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500

Arlington, Texas 76011

Dallas, Texas 75201

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lanny A. Sinkin

Mr. Homer C. Schmidt

Christic Institute

Manager - Nuclear Services

1324 North Capitol Street

Texas Utilities Generating Company

Washington, D.C.

20002

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Skyway Tower

400 North Olive Street,'L.B. 81

Ms. Billie Pirner Garde

Dallas, Texas 75201

Citizens Clinic Director

Government Accountability Project

Mr. Robert E. Ballard, Jr.

1555 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Director of Projects

Suite 202

Gibbs and Hill, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

20009

11 Pen Plaza

New York, New York 10001

David R. Pigott, Esq.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

600 Montgomery Street

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Mr. R. S. Howard

San Francisco, California 94111

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

P. O. Box 355

Anthony 7. Roisman, Esq.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230

Trial lawyers for Public Justice

2000 P. Street, NW

Renea Nicks, Esq.

Suite 611

Assistant Attorney General

Washington, D.C.

20036

Environmental Protection Division

P. O. Box 12548, Capitol Station

Nancy E. Wiegers

Austin, Texas 78711

Spiegel & McDiarmed

1350 New York Avenue, NW

Mrs. Juanita Ellis, President

. Washington, D.C.

20005-4798

Citizens Association for Sound Energy

1426 South. Polk

Roy P. Lessy, Jr.

Dallas, Texas 75224

Wright & Talisman, P. C.

1050 Seventeenth Street, NW

Ms. Nancy H. Williams

Suite 600

CYGNA

Washington, D.C.

20036-5566

101 California Street

San Francisco, California 94111

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Resident Inspector - Comanche Peak

c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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P. O. Box 1029

Granbury, Texas 76048

Mr. John W. Beck

Vice President ~

Texas Utilities Generating Company

Skyway Tower

400 N. Olive Street, LB#81

Dallas, Texas 75201

Mr. Jack Redding

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Texas Utilities Generating Company

4901 Fairmont Avenue

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Bethesda, Maryland 20814

William A. Burchette, Esq.

Counsel for Tex-l.a Electric Cooperative

of Texas

Peron, Burchette, Ruckert & Rothwell

Suite 700

1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW

Washington, D.C.

20007

GDS Associates, Inc.

2525 Cumberland Parkway

Suite 450

Atlanta, Georgia 30339

Administrative Judge Peter Bloch

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U.S. Nucle.ar Regulatory Commission

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Washington, D.C.

20555

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Elizabeth B. Johnson

Administrative Judge

Oak Ridge National laboratory

P. O. Box X, Building 3500

Dak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

Dr. Kenneth A. McCollom

1107 West Knapp

Stillwater, Oklahoma 74075

Dr. Walter H. Jordan

881 Outer Drive

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830