ML070610601

Annual Assessment Letter - Fort Calhoun Station (NRC Inspection Report 05000458-07-001)

ML070610601
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	03/02/2007
From:	Clark J NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-E
To:	Ridenoure R Omaha Public Power District
References
IR-07-001
Download: ML070610601 (7)

See also: IR 05000458/2007001

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION REGION IV

611 RYAN PLAZA DRIVE, SUITE 400 ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4005

March 2, 2007 R. T. Ridenoure Vice President Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4

Adm. P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

SUBJECT: ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - FORT CALHOUN

STATION (NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000458/2007001) Dear Mr. Ridenoure:

On February 7, the NRC staff completed its performance review of Fort Calhoun Station. Our technical staff reviewed performance indicators for

the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period

from January 1 through December 31, 2006.

The purpose of this letter is to inform

you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period

and our plans for future inspections

at your facility. This performance review and enclosed inspection plan

do not include physical protection information. A separate letter designated and marked

as "Official

Use Only - Security-Related

Information" will include the physical protection review and resultant inspection plan. Overall, Fort Calhoun Station, operated

in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for

the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of

the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response column of the NRC's Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified

as having very low safety significance (Green) and all performance indicators indicating performance at a level requiring no additional

NRC oversight (Green). Although plant performance was within the Licensee Response column, the significance

of an inoperable train of

the containment spray

system is still under review

as part of the Significance Determination Process. The results

of our review will be provided

by separate correspondence. This issue is not a current safety concern because it was

corrected during the recently completed refueling outage. The NRC staff has identified a substantive crosscutting issue in the human performance

area at Fort Calhoun Station.

There were a total of

13 Green findings with crosscutting aspects in the human performance area. A crosscutting theme

was identified in the area of Work Practices (instances

of ineffective

use of human error prevention techniques).

Five Green findings were related to this theme, affecting the Mitigating Systems and Occupational Radiation Safety cornerstones. These include:

the inadvertent pump down

of the intake bay resulting

in less than the minimum number of required raw water pumps being available, the overpressurization of chemical and volume

control system and high pressure safety injection piping, a failure to maintain shutdown cooling

in service, and a failure to obtain high radiation area access

Omaha Public Power District -2- authorization before entering the

area. To address these problems, we understand

your staff has conducted a

root cause determination

and formed a cross-disciplinary

team to identify

potential

recommendations

for improvements

in this area.

However, full implementation

of these actions is

not complete. Therefore, this substantive

crosscutting

issue will remain open until we determine, through the implementation

of focused baseline inspections, that corrective

actions implemented

in accordance

with your improvement

initiative have addressed these

issues. The enclosed inspection plan details

the inspections, except those

related to physical protection, scheduled

through September

30, 2008. The inspection plan

is provided to allow for the resolution

of any scheduling

conflicts

and personnel

availability

issues well in advance of

inspector arrival onsite.

Routine resident inspections

are not listed

due to their ongoing and continuous

nature. The inspections

in the last 9 months of the inspection plan

are tentative

and may be revised at the midcycle

review. In accordance

with 10 CFR 2.390

of the NRC's "Rules of Practice,

a copy of this letter

and its enclosure

will be made available electronically for public inspection

in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component

of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC

Web site at h t t P : //www. n rc . CI ov/ re ad in CI - r m/a d a m

s . h t m I (the P u b I i c E I ect ro n i c Read in g Roo m ) . If circumstances

arise which cause

us to change this inspection plan, we will

contact you to discuss the change as

soon as possible. Please contact

me at (817) 860-8147 with any questions you

may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

/Jeff Clark, Chief Project Branch E Division of Reactor Projects Docket: 50-285 License: DPR-40 Enclosure:

Fort Calhoun Station Inspection/Activity

Plan cc w/enclosure:

Joe I. McManis, Manager - Licensing

Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

Omaha Public

Power District -3- David J. Bannister

Manager - Fort Calhoun Station Omaha Public

Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-1-1 Plant P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

James R. Curtiss Winston & Strawn 1700 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006-3817

Chairman Washington County Board

of Supervisors

P.O. Box466 Blair, NE 68008 Julia Schmitt, Manager Radiation Control Program Nebraska Health

& Human Services

Dept. of Regulation

& Licensing Division of

Public Health Assurance 301 Centennial

Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 Lincoln, NE 68509-5007

Daniel K. McGhee Bureau of Radiological

Health Iowa Department

of Public Health Lucas State Office Building, 5th Floor 321 East 12th Street Des Moines, IA 50319 Chief, Radiological

Emergency Preparedness Section Kansas City

Field Office Chemical and Nuclear Preparedness

and Protection Division

Dept. of Homeland Security

9221 Ward Parkway Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 641 14-3372 Timothy F. Dunning, Sheriff Douglas County 3601 N. 156th Street Omaha, NE 68116 Kyle Hutchings, Chairperson Douglas County Board

of Commissioners

Civic Center 1819 Farnam LC2

Omaha, NE 68183 Steve Lee, Director

Douglas County Emergency

Civic Center, EOC, Room 114

1819 Farnam Street Omaha, NE 68183 Man age m e n t Agency Larry Oliver Emergency Management

Agency Harrison County

11 1 South 1st Avenue Logan, IA 51 546-1 305

Terry Baxter, Sheriff Harrison County 11 1 South 1 st Avenue Logan, IA 51546 Robert Smith, Chairman Harrison County Board of Supervsiors

I I1 North 2nd Avenue Logan, IA 51546 The Honorable Randy McHugh

Mayor of Missouri Valley City Hall

223 E. Erie Missouri Valley, IA 51 555 Terry Hummel, Coordinator Pottawattamie County Emergency Management Coordinator

227 S. 6th Street, Court House

Council Bluffs, IA 51501 Loren Knauss, Chairman Pottawattamie County Board

of 227 South 6th Street

Council Bluffs, IA

51501 Supervisors

Omaha Public Power District -4- Mike Robinson, Sheriff Washington

County Courthouse 1535 Colfax Street

Blair, NE 68008 Gary Fanoele, President

Blair City Council 218 S. 16th Street Blair, NE 68008 The Honorable Jim Realph Mayor of Blair

218 South 16th Street Blair, NE 68008 The Honorable

Paul Oestmann Mayor of Fort Calhoun P.O. Box 394 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023 David Genoways, President

Fort Calhoun City

Council P.O. Box 577 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023 Bill Pook, Director Region 5/6 Emergency Management 435 N. Park Avenue, Suite 400 Fremont, NE 68025 Dick Hainje, Regional Director Fed era I Em erg en cy

Man age men t Agency Region VI1 9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 300 Kansas City, MO 641 14-3372

John Norris, Chairperson

Department

of Commerce Utilities Division

Iowa Utilities

Board 350 Maple Street Des Moines, IA 50319-0069

Donald A. Flater, Chief Bureau of Radiological

Health Iowa Department

of Public Health Lucas State Office Building, 5th floor 321 East 12th Street Des Moines. IA 50319 Robert Leopold, Administrator Nebraska Health

and Human Services Division of Public Health Assurance

Department

of Regulation and 301 Centennial

Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 Lincoln, NE 68509-5007

Licensure John Blackhawk

Tribal Chairman Winnebago Tribal Coucil P.O. Box 687

Winnebago, NE 68071-0687 Gary Lasley

Tribal Chairperson

Omaha Tribal Council P.O. Box 368 Macy, NE 68039-0368

AI Berndt, Assistant

Director Nebraska Emergency Management

Agency 1300 Military Road Lincoln, NE 68508-1090 Ron McCabe Chief, Radiological

Emergency

Preparedness CNPPD, Kansas

City Field Office

9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 641 14 Institute

of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) Records Center

700 Galleria Parkway SE, Suite 100 Atlanta, GA 30339

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