ML20237A731
| ML20237A731 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Catawba  |
| Issue date: | 12/10/1987 |
| From: | Dan Collins NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20237A713 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-413-87-40, 50-414-87-40, NUDOCS 8712150202 | |
| Download: ML20237A731 (2) | |
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ENCLOSURE 1 NOTICE OF VIOLATION Duke Power Company Docket Nos. 50-413, 50-414 Catawba License Nos. NPF-35, NPF-52 During the Nuclear Regulatory Connission (NRC) inspection conducted or:
November 16-20, 1987, violations of NRC requirements were identified.
In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC
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Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C (1987), the violations are j
listed below:
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Technical Specification 6.8.1 requires that written procedures be established, implemented, and maintained covering applicable procedures recommended in Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, dated February 1978.
Procedures for contamination control are recommended by Paragraph 7.e.4 of Appendix A.
Technical Specification 6.11 requires that procedures for personnel radiation protection be prepared consistent with the requirements of 10 CFR 20 and be approved, maintained, and adhered to for all operations involving personnel radiation exposure.
Catawba Nuclear Station Directive 3.8.3, Contamination Pre ention, Control of Decontamination Responsibilities, Revision 21, dated July 2, 1987, requires in Section 4.5.1 that items within clean areas of the radiologically controlled area be maintained with working limits for contamination less than 1,000 disintegrations per minute per 100 square centimeters (1,000 dpm/100 cm ) beta gamma.
a Contrary to the above, the licensee failed to establish adequate written procedures to assure that tools located in the non-contaminated area of j
the Hot Tool Room were stored with working levels of surface contamination less than 1,000 dpm/100 cm2 in that on November 16, 1987, 3 tools nre found in the hot Tool Room with contamination levels in excess of the limits.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement IV).
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10 CFR 19.11(a)(4) requires each licensee to post current copies of any Notice of Violation involving radiological working conditions.
Part 19.11(e) requires that such documents remain posted for a minimum of five working days or until action correcting the violation has been completed whichever is later.
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Duke Power Company Docket Nos. 50-413, 50-414 Catawba 2
License Nos. NPF-35, NPF-52 Contrary to the above, the Notice of Violation issued on October 19, 1937 (Inspection Report Nos. 50-413/87-31 and 50-414/87-31) concerning a violation for failure to perform adequate personnel monitoring was not posted during the week of November 16-20, 1987, on any of the bulletin i
boards used to post other documents required by Part 19.
Licensee corrective action was not due to be completed until January 1988.
l This is a Severity Level V violation (Supplement IV).
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Duke Power Company is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the Nuclear Regulatory Conmission, ATTN:
Document Control Desk, Washington, DC 20555, with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region II, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice.
1 This reply should be clearly marked as a " Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include [for each violation]:
(1) admission or denial of the violation, (2) the reason for the violaticn if admitted, (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved, (4) the corrective steps which will be taken te avoid further violations, and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved.
Whcre good cause is shown, consideration will be given to i
extending the response time.
If an adequate reply is not received within the i
time specified in this Notice, an order may be issued to show cause why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked or why such other action l
as mcy be proper should not be taken.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION fM! 'Y '
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Douglas M. Collins, Chief Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Protection Branch Division of Radiation Safety J
and Safeguards Dated at Atlanta, Georgia this /giday of December 1987
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