PNO-IV-87-030, on 870710,NRC Informed of First Instance of Employee Testing Positive for Drugs,Per Fitness for Duty Program.Access Privileges for Employee Suspended & Denied for Three Contractor Employees

PNO-IV-87-030:on 870710,NRC Informed of First Instance of Employee Testing Positive for Drugs,Per Fitness for Duty Program.Access Privileges for Employee Suspended & Denied for Three Contractor Employees

ML20235H917
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	07/10/1987
From:	Bangart R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:
References
PNO-IV-87-030, PNO-IV-87-30, NUDOCS 8707150315
Download: ML20235H917 (1)

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July 10, 1987 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE -- PN0-IV-87-30 I

l This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE )

safety or public interest significance. The information is.as initially received I without verification or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the "

Region IV staff on this date.

FACILITY: Nebraska Public Power District Licensee Emergency Classification:

l Cooper Nuclear Station Notification of Unusu'al Event Docket No. 50-298 Alert Brownville, NE _ Site Area Emergency General Emergency j l

X Not Applicable

SUBJECT:

COOPER NUCLEAR STATION DRUG TESTING RESULTS, Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) informed Region IV on July 9, 1987, that the first instance of a Cooper Nuclear Station employee testing positive for '

i drugs (cocaine) under the random sampling provision of the NPPD Fitness for Duty Program occurred this week. The employee was a non-licensed I and C technician-whose access privileges have been. suspended. NPPD also indicated that since the program's inception in December 1986, three contractor employees have been denied access to the site'as a result of positive results from drug testing which is an integral part of the initial screening process necessary for-granting of unescorted access privileges. One additional contractor has also tested positive as a result of random _ testing and his access privileges (which were to protected areas only)'were removed. ,

The licensee does not anticipate they will issue'a news release. The NRC does not plan to issue a news release.

i The state of Nebraska has been informed.

This information is current as of 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on July 10, 1987.

CONTACT: R. L. Bangart, FTS 728-8248.

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