ML20237E909

Requests Assessment of Mgt & Personnel Considerations Surrounding Findings of 860401-0516 Insp within 30 Days to Assist NRC in Determining Extent of Enforcement Action.Level of Util Confidence in Current Mgt Questioned

ML20237E909
Person / Time
Site:	Rancho Seco
Issue date:	12/23/1987
From:	Martin J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
To:	Andognini G SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
References
EA-86-110, NUDOCS 8712290255
Download: ML20237E909 (3)

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DEC 23 $87 Docket No. 50-312 EA 86-110

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ATTN: G. Carl Andognini J Chief Executive Officer Nuclear 14440 Twin Cities Road Herald, California 95638-9799 Gentlemen:

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SU8 JECT: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION This refers to a special NRC inspection conducted at Rancho Seco by members of 1 the NRC staff during the period of April 1, 1986 through May 15, 1986, of )

activities authorized by NRC License No. DPR-54. The subject inspection I report was transmitted to you by separate correspondence dated June 6, 1986.

An enforcement conference related to the inspection findings was held at the Region V office on June 20, 1986, with members of the District staff. Based on the results of this inspection and discussions-during the enforcement j conference. it appears that certain of your licensed activities were not '

conducted in full compliance with NRC requirements.

The findings set forth in the insnection report demonstrate a failure of the District to: (1) implement its technical specification requirements to .]

i preclude release of liquirt ehluents containing radioactivity in amounts exceeding the dose criteria set forth in 10 CFR 50, Appendix I; (2) evaluate I changes to the facility as required by 10 CFR 50.59; and (3) maintain and  :

implement procedures and report the release of radioactive material in effluents as prescribed in the facility Technical Specifications. The inspection findings' reveal that during 1985, management personnel permitted piping to be connected between the primary and secondary water storage systems j creating an unevaluated and unreported pathway for discharge of radioactivity j to the environment. In addition, technicians were directed to decrease the counting times for effluent analyses apparently without regard that such an action could preclude detection of radioactivity at levels that could exceed Appendix I dose objectives. These actions occurred in spite of the District's commitment to limit effluents to Appendix I dose objectives in a letter dated September 24, 1984.

We have received and are reviewing your July 3, 1986 and October 8, 1987 letters describing your corrective actions in response to the inspection findings. We also acknowledge your continuing efforts to improve your performance in the area of radioactive effluents as well as many other areas since~the plant was shut down two years ago. The two referenced letters, however, limit themselves largely to corrective actions of a technical and programmatic n:ture. In order to enable the NRC to determine the extent of the enforcement action to be taken, including what action, if any, should be 8712290255 871223 gDR ADOCK O g2 l.l 0

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-< n*10\Y1 taken with respect to your license, you are to submit within.30 days, under the provisions of 10 CFR 50.54(f), your assessment of the management and i personnel considerations surrounding the inspection findings. Your submittal l should include your views on, and the basis thereof, whether you have full I faith and confidence in the present management personnel who were, or may have l

been, involved in these matters such that similar performance is precluded in the future.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2, l Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and the enclosure will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

The responses directed by this letter and the enclosed Notice are not subject to the clearance procedures of the Office of Management and Budget as req ~uired by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511.

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