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Submits Results of Survey on Engineering Expertise on Shift. Findings of Survey Include That Plants Utilize Shift Technical Advisors That Are on-call & That Differences from Commission Policy Statement Handled on case-specific Basis
ML20215K603
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Site: Rancho Seco, 05000000, Fort Saint Vrain
Issue date: 10/16/1986
From: Miraglia F
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Russell W
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML20215G605 List:
References
FOIA-87-299, RTR-NUREG-0737, RTR-NUREG-737, TASK-1.A.1.1, TASK-TM GL-86-04, GL-86-4, TAC-61631, TAC-61635, NUDOCS 8610280229
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007 1 6 1986 MEMORANDUM FOR:

William T. Russell, Director Division of Human Factors Safety FROM:

Frank J. Miraglia, Director 4

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SUBJECT:

RESULTS OF SURVEY ON ENGINEERING EXPERTISE ON SHIFT, FORT ST. VRAIN AND RANCHO SECO (TAC N0. 61635)

In your memorandum to me dated August 12, 1986 on the subject of Results of Survey on Engineering Expertise on Shift, you pointed out that one of the findings of the survey is that Fort St. Vrain and Rancho Seco utilize Shift Technical Advisors (STA) that are on-call; and that these differences from the i

Commission Policy Statement are to be handled on a case specific bases. Our views on each of these are as follows:

"3 Generic Letter 86-04 provided to all power reactor licensees a copy of the

,d Federal Register Notice of the Policy Statement on Engineering Expertise on

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Shift.

The Policy Statement offers the licensees two options for meeting j

the current requirements for providing Engineering Expertise on Shift.

1 Option 2 calls for using a dedicated STA.

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Fort. St. Vrain 1

1 Fort St. Vrain, in response to Generic Letter 86-04, has stated that they plan to continue to use a separate STA (option 2 of the Policy Statement).

j The STA is on-call to respond within one hour, in contrast to the position 1

of the Policy Statement that the STA should assume an active role in shift activities. The former staff position required the STA to be able

.a to respond within 10 minutes (NUREG-0737, Item I.A.1.1),

a In an enclosure to a letter dated August 6, 1981 to Mr. 0.R. Lee, Vice j

President Electric Production, Public Service of Colorado, from James R.

j Miller, Chief, Standardization and Special Projects Branch, Division of j

Licensing, the Commission issued an Order confirming the Licensee's i

commitments on TMI related issues.

Item III.2. of this Order states that j

"the licensee has agreed to the requirements of Item I.A.1.1, " Shift 2

Technical Advisor" with the exception that instead of the staff's i

position for a 10 minute response time, the licensee has conrnitted to

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a one-hour response time for the on-call STA.

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' William T. Russell OCT i 61986 to develop, the staff finds the one-hour response time acceptable for the Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Generating Station."

Based on the previous review and Order by the Commission, we do not intend to pursue this issue any further with the licensee.

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Rancho Seco As a result of the December 25, 1985 incident at the Rancho Seco plant the utility has submitted an Action Plan for Performance Improvement. The staff is reviewing this plan.

During the course of this review, we will address the subject of the utility's on-call STA.

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Based on the previous review and Order by the Commissi n, we do not intend to pursue this issue any further with the licensee.

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' As a result of the December 25, 1985 incident the Rancho Seco plant the utility has submitted an Action Pla for Performance Improvement. The staff is reviewing this pl n.

During the course of this review, we will address the subject o the utility's on-call STA.

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