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Final Response to FOIA Request for Documents Re Plant. Forwards Documents Listed in App B.Documents Also Available in PDR
ML20215M458
Person / Time
Site: South Texas  STP Nuclear Operating Company icon.png
Issue date: 05/08/1987
From: Grimsley D
NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To: Bauman L
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
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L/ MAY 8 e DOCKET NUMBERtSi ur appM9ff S. I /5., M' M h , h PART s.-RLCdRDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED ISee checked bonest No agency records subrect to the request have been located.

No additonal agency records subject to the request have been located.

Agency records subrect to the request that are identifed in Appendia are already available for publH: mspecten and copeng in the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street. N W., Washington, DC.

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Agency records subsect to the request that are identifed in Appendin h are being macle available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document T.oom 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOtA number and requester na, *a.

The nonpropretary verson of the proposaHsl that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff is now being made avadable for public inspecten and coying at the NRC Public Document Room.1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, e a folder under the FOIA number and requester name.

Enclosed is information on how you may obtain access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

Agency records subject to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments secton.

Records subject to the request have been pferred to another Federal agencybes) for review and d, rect response to v.a.

In www of NRC's response to the request, no further acton is being taken on appealletter dated PART ll.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certain informaton in the requested records is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptons described in and for the reasons stated in Part II, sec-tions B. C, and D. Any released portons of the documents for which only part of the record is bemg withheld are being made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room.1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name. -

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RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE POR UNDER THE ABOVE REQUEST N NUMBER DATE DESCRIPTION j* 3/13/87 Station Problem Report, South Texas Project 50-498/499, OPGP03-ZA-0018-1, Report No. 87-0005 (15 pages) 2.

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GOVFRNMENT ACCOUNTADILITY PROJEG 1555 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Suite 202 Washington. D.C. 20036 (202)232 8550 MIDWEST OFFICE 104 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54915-8605 l t

April 10, 1987 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

[gB)0M OF INFORMAT10N Director Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20210 hg Qg4 TO WilOM IT MAY CONCERN g

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) requests copies of any and 011 agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, lotters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calanders, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, Gngineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, agreements, hadnwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books, telephones messages, cnd any other data compilations, computations, voice recordings, computer runoffs, rcports, and any and all other recordsinterim and/or final reports, status in an auxiliary water cooling system, concerning -the "significant vibration on Wednesday, March 11, at the South Texas Project, Unit 1, 13, 1987.

A copy of the article is enclosed for your reference.1987, as rep This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) cnd the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved October 8, 1980) investigative or other files,whether they currently exist in the NRC offical, " working" rcoidences. or at any other location, including private If cny records as defined in 10 C.P.R. 9.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, supra, cnd covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed after this

request, to please a list of provide all surrounding records, including but not limited all records o doscription of the action (s)w hich haverelevant taken been or are destroyed and/or to, generated removed, in connection cnd/or issued in order to implement the action (s). .s b Y

gal' requests tha t fees be waived, because " finding the information can be considered as primarily benefiting the general public," 5 U.S.C. 552 (a) (4) (a). GAP is a non profit, non-partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government.

Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability. Through it Enviromental Whistleblower.

Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local pubile interest and citizens groups and-intervenors in the concern for safety at nuglear power plants.

We are regnesting this information as part of an ongoing monitoring projectyof the NRC's efforts to protect public health and safety at and near nuclear processing plants and radioactive waste facilities. .

For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld. The index should provide o datalled justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemtion is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld. This index is required under Vaughn 11 Roson (1), 484 F2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 197.3), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 TIlii).-

We look forward to your response to this request within ten (10) working days.

Sincerely, t7 N&.#4hf

  • Linda Bauman FOIA Coordinator Midwest. Office 4

Rocponses to this request should be mailed to t 104 E. Wisconsin Avenue Appleton, Wisconsin 54915-8605 s

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'possible, with the unit scheduled to go on line in December.

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wi,ne,aisosa u ment.ib,ati wuch s hot pw id un quicu condenses back to s i' r

Ii rneoa..,olcornbe Van H "A't this poinc l understand it is possible." said knocked loose pipe holders and sent over 20 quid stat. due to a sudden reduction in r,,m.y NRC spokesman Clyde Wisner. "but not s!! that workers home late Wednesday night, was an temperatu . accordmg to STP information officer 4

operator error and was not caused by a problem David Por, er.

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} A "sigmficant vibration"in an auxiliarv.d i will certainly be some repairs needed and some, likely. They will have to assess"Ithe .

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ant to say There it's not a' with theproblem.

serious system.

! cooling ss stem Wednesday at the SouthTexas Pi retraming will be necessary." As pressure and temperature of superheated, becauseits oldbesseriousproblem-butitcould icet's Unit 1 could affect the fuelloading xhedule Since January Urut I has been undergoing hot ' pressurized steamin thecoohngsystem werebeing be a minor oblem." said Walker. Ele equated the reduced at about 11 p.m. Wednesday. a very loud problem wi i the rattle of hot waterpipes in a home

! st the facility a Nuclear llegulatory Commission function testing. a required step in the NRC beens- knocking sound referred to as a " water hammer" - but on a 'rrer scale.

j *pokesman said ioday. ing process. Fuel loadmg at Unit I is set for June occurred. said IIL&P spokesman Glen Walker.

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' Castissed from Page 1 j l Wisner said hedidn't think theincident would af- reactor was heated to 567 degrees and pressurized

fact the status of the test because woikers "were in to 2.235 pounds per squareinch.

the process of wrappmg it up." The pipes affected by the wster hammer were in a .

Engineerssupervismgthecoolwiownphaseofthethe loop of cooling water not passing dsrectly through 5 reactor,

, hot-function test remamed at the site that night and continued wrong. Walker said. totry and figureoutwhat hadgone plant Martir 4 as the entmMatson of the test.A trial amount of electricity was gene The knocking - supposed to be caused by too. Though origineDy slated to be completed by late February, the revised test achedule would have rapidcoolingof thesteaminthepipes-continued for about 30 minutes, he said. completed the hot-function test Sunday, said Walker.

i Wisner said the vibration was tikely caused when the operator " overlooked a couple of steps." Theincident marks theescond setbackin Unit 1's l

3 Walker said the cool-down phase of the hot func. hot function tes'ing, which began Jan.10.

tion test remains on hold at 350 degrees while the in. On Jan. 27 a faulty gasket around a temperature cident remams under investigation . amid Walker. gauge caused a steam leak which was was termed a mmor problem by Central Power & Light. After the l

At the peak of the test, water passmg through the leak was repaired the tmat continued.

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