ML16251A134

Notification of Inspection (NRC Integrated Inspection Report 05000397/2016004) and Request for Information

ML16251A134
Person / Time
Site:	Columbia
Issue date:	09/07/2016
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Reddemann M Energy Northwest
References
IR 2016004
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See also: IR 05000397/2016004

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E. LAMAR BLVD.

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

September 7, 2016

Mr. Mark E. Reddemann

Chief Executive Officer

Energy Northwest

76 North Power Plant Loop

P.O. Box 968 - Mail Drop 1023

Richland, WA 99352-0968

SUBJECT: COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000397/2016004) AND REQUEST

FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Reddemann:

From December 5-9, 2016, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC)

Region IV office will perform the baseline biennial requalification inspection at Columbia

Generating Station, using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.11B, Licensed Operator

Requalification Program. Experience has shown that this inspection is a resource intensive

inspection both for the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your

on-site resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for

documents needed for this inspection. These documents have been divided into three groups.

The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information to be provided prior to the

inspection to ensure that the inspectors are adequately prepared. The second group (Section B

of the enclosure) identifies the information the inspectors will need upon arrival at the site. The

third group (Section C of the enclosure) identifies the items which are necessary to close out the

inspection and are usually sent a few weeks after the team has left the site. It is important that

all of these documents are up to date and complete in order to minimize the number of

additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the

inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand

that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Ms. T. Parmellee, Regulatory Affairs.

Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of examination

activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please

contact Sean Hedger, lead inspector, at 817-200-1556 or Sean.Hedger@nrc.gov.

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, control

number 3150-0018. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to

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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 NRCs "Rules of Practice and Procedure," a copy of

this letter and its enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public

Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's

Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible

from the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic

Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50-397

License No. NPF-21

Enclosure:

Biennial Requalification Inspection

Document Request

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DATE 9/7/16 9/7/16

Letter to Mark E. Reddemann from Vincent G. Gaddy, dated September 7, 2016

SUBJECT: COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000397/2016004) AND REQUEST

FOR INFORMATION

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Scott.Morris@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Ryan.Lantz@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Gregory.Kolcum@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Dan.Bradley@nrc.gov)

Administrative Assistant (Vacant)

Branch Chief, DRP/A (Jeremy.Groom@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/A (Ryan.Alexander@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer (Thomas.Sullivan@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer (Matthew.Kirk@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Project Manager (John.Klos@nrc.gov)

Team Leader, DRS/IPAT (Thomas.Hipschman@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRS/IPAT (Eduardo.Uribe@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Technical Support Assistant (Loretta.Williams@nrc.gov)

Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

RIV Congressional Affairs Officer (Angel.Moreno@nrc.gov)

RIV/ETA: OEDO (Jeremy.Bowen@nrc.gov)

RIV RSLO (Bill.Maier@nrc.gov)

BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

TO: Gerald Wyatt

Simulator and Exam Group Supervisor

509-377-4368

FROM: Sean Hedger

Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-200-1556

SUBJECT: INFORMATION REQUEST TO SUPPORT DECEMBER 5 TO 9, 2016,

LICENSED OPERATOR REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION

(IP 71111.11B)

A. The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation

activities. These items are listed by section as they appear in the inspection module

(i.e., 2.02, 2.04, etc.). Requested materials should be sent either electronically or

hardcopy in order to arrive at the Region IV office no later than November 14, 2016.

Electronically to: Sean.Hedger@nrc.gov (lead inspector);

cc: Clyde.Osterholtz@nrc.gov; Chris.Steely@nrc.gov (inspectors)

Note: Making documents available in IMS Certrec is acceptable as well

Items sent on hardcopy or CD go to: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Region IV

ATTN: Sean Hedger

1600 E. Lamar Blvd

Arlington, TX 76011

General Requests:

• Index of the materials provided in response to this request

• List of licensed operators (LO) [senior reactor operators (SRO) and reactor operators

(RO)] by crew (operating and staff)

• Training and operations department organization charts [with qualified licensed

operator requalification (LOR) evaluators identified]

• Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO continuing training

program up to date

• List of outstanding LOR program changes

• List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into LOR

program since last BRQ (biennial requalification)

• Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator

requalification training program

• Last two years of Simulator Review Committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes

• Last two years of Curriculum Review Committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes

Enclosure

02.03: Biennial Requalification Written Examination Quality

• Current and approved biennial written examination schedule

• Current requalification cycle written examination results for both SRO and RO that

have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team arrival

onsite, if any

• All written examinations that have been approved for administration up to and

including the week before the inspection team is onsite, if any (these documents will

need to have adequate password protection if e-mailed or double envelope

protection if mailed via regular mail per NUREG-1021).

• Current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)

02.04: Annual Requalification Operating Test Quality

• Schedule for the operating tests [job performance measures (JPMs) and scenarios]

to be given the week of December 5, 2016

• Operating tests (JPMs and scenarios) (password protected and provide separately

via telephone at later date) to be given the week of December 5, 2016

• Current requalification cycle operating tests (SRO and RO) and results up to the

week prior to the inspection team arrival on-site

• All of the previous years NRC required annual operating tests

• Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan)

• All portions of the updated final safety analysis report that identify operator response

times for time critical operator actions

02.05: Licensee Admin of Requalification Exams

• All procedures used to administer the annual operating test

• All procedures used to assess operator performance

• All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training

• All procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator

• Index for referencing the above procedures

02.06: Requalification Examination Security

• Submit any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on

the written examinations and also meet the intent of sampling all required topics on a

periodic basis

• Submit any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on

the operating tests and also meet the intent of sampling all required malfunctions

(including major events, instrument/component malfunctions, technical support calls,

etc.) on a periodic basis

• All procedures that describe examination security, including procedures used to

develop the examinations that include guidelines on overlap between examinations

in current examination cycle tests and prior year examinations

• List of all condition reports since the last biennial requalification inspection related to

examination security and overlap

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02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program

• List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requalification examinations

(includes training provided to operators to enable passing requalification

examinations and training provided to correct generic or individual weaknesses

observed during previous requalification examination cycle)

• Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance

documentation)

02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions

• All procedures and program documentation for maintaining active operator licenses,

tracking training attendance, and ensuring medical fitness of licensed operators

• All procedures and associated documentation that supports reactivation of any

SRO/RO license (operating or staff crew) since the last biennial inspection

• List of licensed operators whose licenses were reactivated since the last BRQ

inspection

02.09: Simulator Performance

• For the following cases, send the most recent transient test packages, which may be

electronic or in paper single test packages and shall be complete with test

procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient test,

the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter expert review

versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond the ANSI 3.5

standard requirements.

o Transient test 2, simultaneous trip of all feedwater pumps

o Transient test 6, main turbine trip from maximum power level which does not

result in immediate reactor scram.

o Transient test 10, simultaneous closure of all main steam isolation valves

combined with single stuck open safety or relief valve (inhibit activation of

high pressure emergency core cooling systems)

o Steady State tests for low power test

• All simulator management and configuration procedures if not already provided for

Section 02.05 above.

• Simulator Discrepancy Report (DR) summary list for all open DRs. For closed DRs,

summary list for those items closed between December 2014 and November 2016.

• Malfunction tests for loss of condenser vacuum, misaligned rods, and failure of

reactor pressure control. If these are included in an SBT package then the review of

that package would be acceptable. If these are in a scenario-based training

package, then the review of that package would be acceptable.

• Primary parameters tested in order to verify core physics parameters. The

applicable reference graphs from the Plant physics data book (electronic or other

means as available) should also be included as well as the test procedures used and

the acceptance criteria with results.

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02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution

• Summary report of all condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the

control room

• Any revised requalification training that was based on licensed operator performance

issues

• Action Requests AR-2015-00325641, AR-2015-00326763, AR-2015-00327006,

AR-2015-00325643, AR-2015-00329948; and any causal analysis documentation

associated with issues identified during the 2015 initial licensing examination

• Action Request 346945 and any causal analysis documentation associated with the

March 28, 2016 loss of reactor closed cooling (RCC) event

• Action Requests 324146 and 327593

B. The following information is requested in order to support the onsite inspection

activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either

electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on December 5, 2016.

02.02: Exam Results/ 02.03 and 02.04: Written Exam and Op Test Quality

• All approved Operating Tests (JPMs and scenarios) not previously submitted

• All results up to the day the team leaves the site

02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions

• Access to licensed operators records (operating and staff crews)

• Access to licensed operators training attendance records

• Access to licensed operators medical records

02.09: Simulator Performance

• Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from December 1, 2014, to December 5, 2016. This

should include all open DR examinations and DRs that have been closed, including

the documentation/justification for closure

• Acceptance test documentation, including hardware and software model revisions at

the time of acceptance (as available)

• Documentation that validates current models, including the thermal-hydraulics and

neutronics models, to the actual plant

• All current model deficiencies, including FSAR vs. Design differences in the simulator

(any documentation on this)

• Summary list of modifications from December 1, 2014, to December 5, 2016

• Plant modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the simulator by due

date from July 1, 2014, to July 11, 2016

• Simulator differences lesson plan used in training (current to December 5, 2016)

• The complete book of all simulator annual performance test packages (usually in a

single book, but may be electronic or in single test packages), complete with all

transient tests, steady state tests, scenario-based tests, post-event simulator tests,

and malfunction tests (This should also include the test procedures for each test, the

acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient test, the reference chart should

be included or an equivalent subject matter expert review versus the simulator

results with a write-up for any differences beyond the ANSI 3.5 standard

requirements.)

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• All test packages used to verify core physics parameters. The applicable reference

graphs from the plant physics data book (electronic or other means as available)

should also be included as well as the test procedures used and the acceptance

criteria with results.

• All simulator test, configuration management, and related documents available in the

room for inspectors to review (this includes training needs analysis packages,

simulator review committee meeting minutes, etc.)

• Current copy of ANSI 3.5 Standard you are committed to for simulator testing

02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution

• All condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the control room

C. Columbia Generating Station is required to send the final results summary and any

remaining examinations and operating tests that have not been reviewed to the NRC

regional office lead inspectors for final review and comparison against the

Significance Determination Tools in order to communicate the exit results for the

inspection.

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