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Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulation … Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50.54(q)(2), requires, in part, that a power reactor licensee follow and maintain the effectiveness of an approved emergency plan which meets the requirements of Appendix E to Part 50, and the planning standards of 10 CFR 50.47(b). The Columbia Emergency Plan, Revision 62, Section 8.7.3, requires a periodic drill involving the response to a simulated injury with contamination. The Columbia Emergency Plan, Revision 62, Table 8-1, defines the drill periodicity as annual. Contrary to the above, between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2015, Columbia Generating Station failed to follow and maintain the effectiveness of an approved emergency plan which meets the requirements of Appendix E to Part 50, and the planning standards of 10 CFR 50.47(b). Specifically, Columbia Generating Station failed to perform a drill involving the response to a contaminated and injured persons during the annual period, 2015, as required by the Columbia Generating Station Emergency Plan, Revision 62. The violation was more than minor because the performance deficiency adversely affected the Emergency Preparedness cornerstone objective and was associated with the ERO performance cornerstone attribute. The violation was assessed using MC 0609, Appendix B, Emergency Preparedness Significance Determination Process, dated September 23, 2014, and was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green), because it was a failure to comply with NRC requirements, was not a risk-significant planning standard issue, and was not a degraded or lost planning standard function. The violation was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Action Requests 00342463 and 00347490. as Action Requests 00342463 and 00347490. +

Discovered date

23:59:59, 30 June 2016 +

Docket

05000397 +

Event date

23:59:59, 30 June 2016 +

Finding integer

2 +

Finding type

Non-cited violation +

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Identified by

Licensee-identified +

Inspection Manual Chapter

NRC Inspection Manual 0609, Appendix B +

Inspection report

IR 05000397/2016002 +

Inspector

Greg Pick +, G Guerra +, Paul Elkmann +, Jeremy Groom +, John Kirkland +, Dan Bradley + and Gregory Kolcum +

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15:54:24, 30 May 2018 +

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