ML25093A339
| ML25093A339 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 04/07/2025 |
| From: | Dustin Reinert NRC/RGN-IV/DORS/EB1 |
| To: | Harshaw K South Texas |
| References | |
| IR 2025011 | |
| Download: ML25093A339 (9) | |
See also: IR 05000498/2025011
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April 07, 2025
Kimberly A. Harshaw, Acting President
CEO and Chief Nuclear Officer
STP Nuclear Operating Company
P.O. Box 289
Wadsworth, TX 77483
SUBJECT:
SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1 AND
2 - NOTIFICATION OF COMPREHENSIVE ENGINEERING TEAM
INSPECTION (05000498/2025011 AND 05000499/2025011) AND REQUEST
FOR INFORMATION
Dear Kimberly A. Harshaw:
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
staff will conduct the comprehensive engineering team inspection at South Texas Project
Electric Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, beginning on July 14, 2025. The inspection team will
be composed of six personnel from the NRC Region IV office. The inspection will be conducted
in accordance with NRC inspection procedure (IP) 71111.21M, Comprehensive Engineering
Team Inspection, dated October 7, 2022.
The objectives of the inspection are to verify that risk-significant structures, systems, and
components (SSCs) have been maintained and will operate within their design and licensing
bases requirements; modifications to risk-significant SSCs did not introduce conditions that
adversely impact the ability of SSCs to perform their design and licensing bases functions; the
design basis, licensing basis, and performance capability of SSCs have not been adversely
impacted by changes introduced through degraded conditions and other activities; and that
requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.59 have been
appropriately implemented.
The inspection will include an onsite information gathering visit by the team lead and two weeks
of onsite inspection by the team. The schedule for the inspection is as follows:
Onsite Information Gathering Visit: June 2-5, 2025
Offsite Preparation Week: July 7-10, 2025
Onsite Inspection Weeks: July 14-17, 2025, and July 28-31, 2025
The purpose of the information gathering visit is to meet with your staff to become familiar with
South Texas Project Electric Generating Stations SSCs, programs, processes, and procedures
and to ensure the resources needed to support the team, as necessary, to conduct an effective
and efficient inspection. This visit may include a tour of installed plant SSCs associated with
potential inspection samples. During the visit, the team lead will also review the information
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provided in the initial information request to select a list of potential inspection samples. The
team lead may also identify other information needed to support the inspection during this visit.
To minimize the impact on your staff and to ensure an effective and efficient inspection, we
have enclosed two separate requests for information needed prior to the onsite information
gathering visit and offsite inspection preparation week. The first request (Enclosure 1) is
generally for information that will be used to choose the inspection samples or information that
will be applicable to all inspection samples throughout the inspection. This information should be
made available to the team lead prior to the information gathering visit. The second request
(Enclosure 2) is for information that is specific to an individual sample and should be made
available prior to the offsite preparation week.
Additional information requests, interviews with your staff, and/or tours of facilities or installed
plant components will be made by the team throughout the inspection to complete their review
of the selected inspection samples. It is important that all documentation provided to the team is
complete and up to date to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the
preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection. Additionally, to facilitate an efficient
inspection, we request that a contact individual be assigned to each inspector to ensure
information requests, questions, and concerns are addressed in a timely manner.
We understand that Zachary Dibbern from your Licensing organization is our contact for this
inspection. If there are any questions about the inspection or the information requested, please
contact the team lead, Wes Cullum, by telephone at 817-200-1563 or by e-mail at
Wes.Cullum@nrc.gov. Enclosure 3 contains additional contact information for the inspection
team.
This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection
requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, under Control Number
3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document
displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC rules and practices, a copy of this letter and its
enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC public document
room or from the publicly available records (PARS) component of NRCs document system
(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site.
Sincerely,
Dustin Reinert, Acting Branch Chief
Engineering Branch 1
Division of Operating Reactor Safety
Signed by Reinert, Dustin
on 04/07/25
K. Harshaw
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Docket Nos. 05000498; 05000499
Enclosures:
1.
Documents Requested Prior to
Information Gathering Visit
2.
Documents Requested Prior to
Inspection Preparation Week
3.
Inspection Team Contact Information
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Enclosure 1
Enclosure 1
Documents Requested Prior to Information Gathering Visit
The documents and information requested below should generally be made available to the
inspection team for the team's use both on-site and off-site during the information gathering
visit. Electronic format is the preferred media. If electronic media is made available via an
internet based remote document management system, then the remote document access must
allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the NRC's regional office.
Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hard copy) are acceptable. At the end of
the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be retained.
This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such,
this document request is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all of the
listed documents. In addition, your plant specific document titles may vary from the document
titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below.
Documents requested by May 22,2025:
1.
Copy of South Texas Project Electric Generating Stations probabilistic risk
assessment (PRA) summary document for the current internal events, external
events (e.g., fire, flooding, seismic), and shutdown PRA models of record.
2.
From the internal events PRA, a sortable list of structures, systems, and components
(SSCs) with risk achievement worth (RAW) and Birnbaum values for both core
damage frequency (CDF) and large early release frequency (LERF). Include all basic
events with RAW values of 1.3 or greater and Birnbaum values of 1E-6 or greater.
3.
From the external events PRA, a sortable list of SSCs with RAW and Birnbaum
values for both CDF and LERF. Include all basic events with RAW values of 1.3 or
greater and Birnbaum values of 1E-6 or greater.
4.
From the internal events PRA, a sortable list of human failure events (HFEs) with
RAW and Birnbaum values for both CDF and LERF.
5.
From the external events PRA, a sortable list of HFEs with RAW and Birnbaum
6.
Sortable list of SSCs and HFEs sorted by engineering or expert panel judgement
such as those performed to identify risk-significant SSCs for South Texas Project
Electric Generating Stations Maintenance Rule program.
7.
Sortable list of SSCs with known low analytical, operating, maintenance, or
complexity margin, if available.
8.
Sortable list of temporary or permanent modifications that were implemented within
the past four years/since the last triennial NRC design bases inspection, including a
brief description, modification type, and whether the modification is safety-related.
Implemented means accepted or placed into service and declared
functional/operable, as applicable. Modifications may include, but are not limited to,
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equivalency evaluations, commercial grade dedications, and changes to SSCs,
procedures, set points, calculations, designs, and/or the licensing bases.
9.
Sortable list of 10 CFR 50.59 applicability determinations of implemented changes,
tests, and experiments that did not result in a screening within the past four
years/since the last triennial NRC 10 CFR 50.59 inspection.
10.
Sortable list of 10 CFR 50.59 screenings of implemented changes, tests, and
experiments that did not result in an evaluation within the past four years/since the
last triennial NRC 10 CFR 50.59 inspection.
11.
Sortable list of 10 CFR 50.59 evaluations of implemented changes, tests, and
experiments that did not result in an application for a license amendment within the
past four years/since the last triennial NRC 10 CFR 50.59 inspection.
12.
Sortable list of implemented changes, tests, and experiments where an alternate
process or screening criteria was applied within the past four years/since the last
triennial NRC 10 CFR 50.59 inspection.
13.
Copy of the last two submittals of the report containing a brief description of any
changes, tests, and experiments, including a summary of the evaluation of each,
required by 10 CFR 50.59(d)(2).
14.
Sortable list of operating experience evaluations performed within the past four
years/since the last triennial NRC design bases inspection, including whether the
operating experience was applicable. Operating experience sources may include, but
are not limited to, NRC generic communications, licensee event reports, plant
operating experience, 10 CFR Part 21 reports, previous NRC inspection findings,
and vendor communications.
15.
Sortable list of corrective action program documents associated with issues identified
during the last NRC design bases inspection.
16.
Copy of implementing/program procedures, as applicable, for performing
modifications, time critical/sensitive operator actions, 10 CFR 50.59 activities,
operating experience evaluations, and the corrective action program.
17.
Copy of any self-assessments or audits in preparation for this inspection or related to
activities associated with this inspection (i.e., design, modifications, 10 CFR 50.59,
operating experience) performed within the past four years.
18.
Copy of the updated final safety analysis report, technical specifications, technical
requirements manual, surveillance frequency control program, quality assurance
program, and inservice testing program, including applicable bases documents.
19.
Sortable list of normal, abnormal, or emergency procedures.
20.
Sortable list of systems, including identifying designators and corresponding names.
21.
List of personnel who will be assisting with the inspection, including contact
information.
Enclosure 2
Enclosure 2
Documents Requested Prior to Inspection Preparation Week
For the samples identified by the team lead, the documents and information requested below
should generally be made available to the inspection team for the team's use both on-site and
off-site during the inspection. Electronic format is the preferred media. If electronic media is
made available via an internet based remote document management system, then the remote
document access must allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the
NRC's regional office. Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hard copy) are
acceptable. At the end of the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be
retained.
This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such,
this document request is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all of the
listed documents. In addition, your plant specific document titles may vary from the document
titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below for
each sample.
Documents requested for each sample type by June 30, 2025:
1.
Structure, System, and Component (SSC) Samples
a.
Copy of relevant design bases document, system description, etc.
b.
Copy of relevant vendor manuals (i.e., installation, operation, maintenance).
c.
Copy of relevant design calculations, diagrams, and drawings.
d.
Copy of relevant normal, abnormal, or emergency procedures.
e.
List of relevant preventive maintenance activities, including a brief
description, and frequency. Include procedures/instructions and most recently
completed work order/job for each activity.
f.
List of relevant inspections and tests, including a brief description, and
frequency. Include procedures/instructions and most recently completed work
order/job for each inspection/test.
g.
Copy of the relevant PRA system notebook.
h.
Copy of the relevant system health notebook.
i.
Sortable list of relevant corrective action program documents, including a
brief description, within the past four years. Alternatively, if the number of
documents is few, provide complete copies of these documents with any
attachments.
2.
Modification Samples
a.
Copy of the complete change package.
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b.
Copy of the completed implementing work order.
c.
Copy of any post-modification tests, etc.
d.
Copy of any relevant corrective action program documents.
e.
Copy of relevant vendor manuals (i.e., installation, operation, maintenance).
f.
Copy of affected procedures, training materials, preventive maintenance or
inspection/testing activities, calculations, design specifications, drawings,
updated final safety analysis report, technical specifications, etc.
3.
10 CFR 50.59 Samples
a.
Copy of the relevant 10 CFR 50.59 applicability determination, screening, or
evaluation.
b.
Copy of training/qualification record/status of personnel who performed the
10 CFR 50.59 activity.
c.
Copy of any relevant corrective action program documents.
d.
Copy of any affected procedures, training materials, preventive maintenance
or inspection/testing activities, calculations, design specifications, drawings,
updated final safety analysis report, technical specifications, etc.
4.
Operating Experience Samples
a.
Copy of the complete operating experience evaluation.
b.
Copy of any relevant corrective action program documents.
c.
Copy of any affected procedures, training materials, preventive maintenance
or inspection/testing activities, calculations, design specifications, drawings,
updated final safety analysis report, technical specifications, etc.
Enclosure 3
Enclosure 3
Inspection Team Contact Information
Senior Reactor Inspector
817-200-1563
Wes.Cullum@nrc.gov
Senior Reactor Inspector
817-200-1426
Rayomand.Kumana@nrc.gov
Reactor Inspector
817-200-1126
Fabian.Thomas@nrc.gov
Dustin Bryen
Reactor Inspector
817-200-1078
Dustin.Bryen@nrc.gov
Beatrice Nwafor
Reactor Inspector
817-200-1462
Beatric.Nwafor@nrc.gov
Kent Chambliss
Senior Resident Inspector
817-200-1981
Kent.Chambliss@nrc.gov
Mailing Address:
U.S. NRC, Region IV
Attn: Wes Cullum
1600 East Lamar Blvd.
Arlington, TX 76011-4511