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| number = ML20138E686
| issue date = 11/17/1985
| title = Responds to NRC Re Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-458/85-62.Corrective Actions:Temporary Change Notices 85-1436,85-1453 & 85-1454 Issued to Correct Procedural Deficiencies & Incorporated in Surveillance Test Procedures
| author name = Cahill W
| author affiliation = GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
| addressee name = Martin R
| addressee affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION &amp; ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
| docket = 05000458
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| document report number = RBG-22-629, NUDOCS 8512130525
| title reference date = 10-18-1985
| package number = ML20138E669
| document type = CORRESPONDENCE-LETTERS, INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, UTILITY TO NRC
| page count = 4
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   -d - 9 GULF STATES                        UTILITIES COMPANY RIVER BEND STATION     POST OFFICE BOX 220    $T FRANCISVILLE.LOUISLANA 70775 AREA CODE 504     E35 6094     346-8651 November 17, 1985 RBG- 22,629 File Nos. G9.5, G15.4.1 Mr. Robert D. Martin, Regional Administrator
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River Bend Stat. ion - Unit'l Refer to: Region IV-Docket No.'50-458/ Report 85-62 This letter is in response to the. Notice of. Violation contained'in NRC I&E' Inspection Report No.                                         50-458/85-62. The inspection. was performed by Messrs. D. D. Chamberlain, J. P.
Jaudon,- W. M. McNeill, -and: C. C. Harbuck during the period August 16 through September 15, 1985, of activities authorized by NRC Operating License NPF-40 for River Bend Station Unit-No. 1.
Gulf States Utilities Company's (GSU) response to the Notice of Violation        85-62-01,              " Failure to Follow an Administrative Procedure," is provided in the enclosed attachment.-                                                 This completes GSU's response to the Notice of Violation.
Sincerely, g2130525851129
* G     ADOCK 05000458                                                   , J. Cahill,        r.
PDR Senior Vice President River Bend Nuclear Group WJC/T C/    /((H/amg.
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ATTACHMENT November 17, 1985 RBG s 22,629 Response to Notice of Violation Reference
:Noticeu of Violation             -E. H. Johnson letter-to W. J. Cahill dated
                   -October =18, 1985..
                  .Referito Docket No. 50-458/85-62'.
1 Reason-For The Violation ADM-0003' procedure requirements with regard to Temporary Change
                  ' Notices (TCNs) ~ were not fully-implemented for Surveillance-Test
                  ' Procedures t (STPs)L for = semiannual calibration of source range
: monitor channels.           -
Th'e. Corrective' Steps Which Have Been Taken and The'Results
                  ' Achieved The deficient-Temporary Change Notices 85-1214, 85-1405, 85-1406 Jand      85-1440 were determined to be one time changes necessary_to allow the performance of initial testing prior to fuel load and
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were subsequently cancelled.
Temporary;._ Change     Notices 85-1436, 85-1453 and 85-1454 had been issued.      to   correct.       procedural ' deficiencies.       'They- have subsequently been incorporated into' permanent STP revisions.
lIn   an    attempt >to uncover similar. problems, a selected. number of reviewed-
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STPs_ with      TCNs        were                 for  ~ acceptance    criteria
                  ; deficiencies. :None'were identified.
After. 'the [ completion' of thef semiannual channel' calibration
: procedures STP-503-4203, 4204, 4205 and'4206, the Source Range Monitors.'were_ verified to.be operable on 8-15-85 and 8-16-85 by
                  'theLauccessful completion,of the-weekly channel' functional test proceduresz STP-503-4503, 4504, 4505 and 4506.-                                ]
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LThe Cor'rective Steps Which Will Be'Taken to' Avoid Further Violations
                  'To prevent-recurrence, the management responsibilities of the I&C
                  .. Department .have beenfreorganized to allow a more thorough review of-~ completed- STPs by- the I&C. Supervisor.                  On 10-8-85,-  a
                  ; memorandum..was' issued by the I&C Supervisor instructing all I&C personnelconothe proper steps to follow during _the preparation and performance.of Temporary Change Notices associated with STPs.

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          .In    addition, changes have been made to Administrative Procedures ADM-0003 and ADM-0015, clarifying the use of TCNs to preclude the
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recurrence of similar problems in the future.
The Date When Full Compliance Will Be Achieved As a result of the corrective actions taken, the procedure requirements of -ADM-0003 and ADM-0015 are now being fully-
          . implemented..

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA                             i NUCLEAR EEGULATORT CGetISSION STATE OF LOUISIANA                      5 PARISE OF, WEST FELICIANA               5 In the Matter of                        I         Docket Nos. 50-458 GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANT           $
(River Bend Station, Unit'1)
AFFIDAVIT W. J. Cahill,   Jr.,  being duly sworn, states that he is a Vice President of Gulf States Utilities Company; that he is authorized on the part of said Company to sign and file with the Nuclear Regulatory' Commission the documents attached heretos and that all such documents are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief.
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W. J Cahill, Jr. [/'
Subscribed and- sworn to before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and Parish above named, this [ N day of            CVd/Mhdf    , 19 b6 .
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an W. Middlebrookd otary Public in and for West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana My Commission is for Life.}}