ML20236D502
| ML20236D502 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 10/06/1987 |
| From: | Coffman F NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| To: | Minners W NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| References | |
| REF-GTECI-075, REF-GTECI-122, REF-GTECI-NI, RTR-REGGD-01.008, RTR-REGGD-01.033, RTR-REGGD-1.008, RTR-REGGD-1.033, TASK-075, TASK-1.B.1.1, TASK-1.C.1, TASK-1.C.9, TASK-1.D.4, TASK-122, TASK-75, TASK-OR, TASK-TM NUDOCS 8710280237 | |
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- b OCT G 1987 f ;q e OOr 0 3 MEtiORANDUM FOR: Warren flinners, Deputy Director 26 h 3O Division of Reactor and Plant Systems fe./.-k) Nf'D FROM:
Franklin D. Coffman, Acting Chief Reliability and Human Factors Branch Division of Reactor and Plant Systems I
SUBJECT:
PLANS FOR RESOLUTION OF HUMAN FACTORS GENERIC ISSlTS I.B.1.1 AND I.D.4 During the DRPS program review on September 2, 1987, you requested that plans for resolving human factors generic issues I.B.1.1 and I.D.4 be developed by the end of Septerrber 1987.
Plans and schedules for resolution of these issues are given below. Updates to the Generic Issue Management Control System J
(GIMCS) will reflect these schedules.
i I.B.l.1 -- Organization and Management Long Tern Imrarovements.
This Three Mile Islend Task Action Plan (TPI TAP) item encompasses seven sub-itens. Four of those sub-items were resolved by Commission deference j
to NUMARC initiatives. One was resolved by reference to normal NRC 1
activitics. Resolution of the remaining two sub-items depends upon publication of revised Regulatory Guides 1.33, " Quality Assurance Program Requirements (Operation)," and 1.8, "0 qualification and Training of Personnel for Nuclear Power Plants." Reg. Guide 1.8, Revision P was published in April 1987. That leaves only publication of Reg. Guide 1.33, Revision 3 to resolve the issue completely.
Tne schedule for Reg. Guide 1.33, Revision 3 publication is k nuary 1990 because it endorses ANSI /ANS 3.2 which is also being revised.
However, tracking of the revision j
to Reg. Guide 1.33 wes formally transferred from Generic Issue I.B.l.1 to j
Generic Issue 75, " Generic Implications of ATWS Events at Selem - OA," by a j
July P6, 1984 memorandum frem R. DeYoung to W. Dircks.
Thus, as you recommended, this generic issue shculd be considered resc1ved. That i
. position has been discussed with the G. Cwaline (acting chief, NRP/DLP0/PEB) and with Ron Enrit (GIMCS). No concerns were identified. A memorandum i
indicetirg that Generic Issue I.B.1.1 is resolved will be prepared by Normber 30, 1987 for transmittal from E. Beckford to V. Stello.
l 1.D.4 -- Control Room Design Standard. Tbc resolution proposed by I
the TMi TAP foi th W item was a regulatory guide endorsing two IEEE standards l
(566, "IEEE Recommended Practice for the Design of Display end Control i
Fecilities for Central Centrol Rooms cf Nuclear Power Generating Statiens,"
erd 567, "IEEE Trial-Use Standard Criterie for the Control Room Complex for j
a Nuclear Power Generatino Station"). There appears to have been no i
further NRC action en this issue since publication of the TMI TAP. One of i
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l the'IEEE standards (566) specifically referenced by the THI TAP has been e
published and withdrawn. That standard has been subsumed by a new document 1
(P1023, "IEEE Guide for the Application of Humen Factors Engineering to I
Systems, Equipment, and Facilities cf Nuclear nwer Generating Stations")
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which is nearing final app (567) hes just been approved by tne IEEE Nuclear roval by the IEEE standards boato.
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Power Engineering Cemittee. The revision process is expected to teke a minirum of thirty months through final approval of the revised document by the standards hoard.
Eerelution of this issue should also consider endorsement of new IEEE document (P845, " Guide to Evaluation of f!an-Machine Performance in Nuclear Power Generating tation Control Rooms and Other Peripheries") which was
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not cited by the TMI TAP.
Like P1023, P845 is nearing final approval by l
the IEEE standards board, j
There was concern about whether work on this generic issue is still warranted since all existing plants have been subiected to Detailed Control Room Design Reviews. Discussion with t M S. Weiss (section leeder, man-machire interface section, NRR/Dt.PQ/HFAB) indicated that the need for a j
regulatory guide addressing control room design for future plants does q
exist.
Based on the schedule for revisie of IEEE 567 and the medium priority i
rating of this issue, the earliest possible publication of a regulatory j
guide endorsing IEEE standards associeted with centrol room design is i
expected to be September 1991.
One other question about human factors generic issues was raised during the I
program reviews. That question wes, "why does Generic Issue 122.2 address initiation of feed and bleed when it should have been covered by TMI TAP items I.C.1 or I.C.9?".
The answer is that Generic Issue 122.2 arose from the Davis-Besse Feedwater Transient of June 9, 1985. TMI TAP items I.C.1 and I.C.9 were already rerolved at that time. Resolution of Generic Issue 122.2 is the responsibility of NRR/ DEST /RSB.
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