ML20244B309

Responds to NRC Re Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-188/89-01.Corrective Actions:Procedure Re Entrance to Reactor Bay Revised to Include Provisions for Key Control, Accountability & Compliance Audit

ML20244B309
Person / Time
Site:	Kansas State University
Issue date:	03/29/1989
From:	Faw R KANSAS STATE UNIV., MANHATTAN, KS
To:	Callan L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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Dear Sirs:

This is in response to the notice of violation described in Appendix A to your letter of 21 March 1989, namely, that the University Facility Key Control and Distribution Office had not established control over keys issued for access to the Nuclear Reactor Facility.

We acknowledge the violation to the extent that records of keys in issue were inadequately maintained. Our long experience of cooperation with the bonded locksmiths employed by the University leads us to assert that no keys were issued without proper authority. We in the Nuclear Reactor Facility are willing to accept that the responsibility for the violation rests on our failure to institute an audit procedure to assure adequate record keeping.

As of 3:00 p.m. on 9 Feb 89, records of the Nuclear Reactor Facility and the University Facility Key Control and Distribution Office were in accord and full license cornpliance was assured. As of 15 March 89, the Reactor Facility locks were changed and new keys were issued to authorized personnel.

The Reactor Facility Procedure for " Entrance to the Reactor Bay" is being revised to include provisions for key control, accountability, and compliance i audit. The new provisions were implemented on 15 Mar 89. Revised procedures have been submitted in the Reactor Safaguards Committee for their consideration and approval is expected by 15 Apr 89.

Sincerely, bN Richard E. Faw, Director KSU Nuclear Reactor Facility ec: Reactor Safeguards Committee i

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