ML19154A557

Audit Plan for Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Units 3 and 4 LAR 19-001 Protection and Safety Monitoring System Surveillance Requirement Technical Specification Revision

ML19154A557
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	06/04/2019
From:	Paul Kallan NRC/NRO/DLSE/LB2
To:	Jennifer Dixon-Herrity NRC/NRO/DLSE/LB2
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Download: ML19154A557 (10)

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June 4, 2019 MEMORANDUM TO: Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity, Chief Licensing Branch 2 Division of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental Analysis Office of New Reactors FROM: Paul Kallan, Senior Project Manager /RA/

Licensing Branch 2 Division of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental Analysis Office of New Reactors

SUBJECT:

AUDIT PLAN FOR VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT UNITS 3 AND 4, REQUEST FOR LICENSE AMENDMENT:

PROTECTION AND SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM SURVEILLANCE REQUIREMENT REDUCTION TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION REVISION (LAR 19-001)

By letter dated March 25, 2019 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML19084A308), Southern Nuclear Operating Company (the licensee) requested an amendment to Combined License (COL) Numbers NPF-91 and NPF-92, for Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 3 and 4.

The requested amendment proposes to change the Technical Specifications (TS) (COL Appendix A), as well as plant-specific Tier 2 information. Specifically, the requested amendment proposes to change TS Sections 1.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.9, and 5.5. The Surveillance Requirements (SRs) requirement manual Channel Checks, Channel Operational Tests (COTs),

Actuation Logic Tests (ALTs) and Actuation Logic Output Tests (ALOTs) to be performed on protection and safety monitoring system (PMS) components are proposed to be removed from the TSs. The approach for satisfying the reactor trip and engineered safety feature actuation system response time test SRs for the PMS racks is proposed to be changed.

CONTACT: Paul Kallan, NRO/DLSE/LB2 301-415-2809

J. Dixon-Herrity The Instrumentation and Controls Branch A (NRR/EICA), the Technical Specifications Branch (NRR/STSB), the Reactor Assessment and Human Factors Branch (NRR/IRAB), the Quality Assurance Vendor Inspection Branch (NRR/QVIB), and PRA and Severe Accident Branch (NRO/SPRA) staff plan to conduct an audit to gain a better understanding of the proposed changes and to review related documentation and non-docketed information in order to evaluate conformance with the Standard Review Plan or technical guidance.

Docket Nos.: 52-025 and 52-026

Enclosure:

Regulatory Audit Plan cc: See next page

ML19154A557 NRO-008 OFFICE DLSE/LB2/PM DLSE/LB2/LA DLSE/LB2/BC NAME PKallan RButler JDixon-Herrity DATE 6/4/19 6/4/19 6/4/19 Vogtle Units 3 & 4 Mailing List (Revised 05/08/2019) cc:

Office of the Attorney General Resident Inspector 40 Capitol Square, SW Vogtle Plant Units 3 & 4 Atlanta, GA 30334 8805 River Road Waynesboro, GA 30830 Resident Manager Oglethorpe Power Corporation Mr. Barty Simonton Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Plant Team Leader 7821 River Road Environmental Radiation Program Waynesboro, GA 30830 Air Protection Branch Environmental Protection Division Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. 4244 International Parkway, Suite 120 Document Control Coordinator Bin N-226-EC Atlanta, GA 30354-3906 3535 Colonnade Parkway Birmingham, AL 35243 George B. Taylor, Jr.

2100 East Exchange Pl Anne F. Appleby Atlanta, GA 30084-5336 Olgethorpe Power Corporation 2100 East Exchange Place Brian H. Whitley Tucker, GA 30084 3535 Colonnade Parkway, Bin N-226-EC 42 Inverness Center Parkway, BIN B237 County Commissioner Birmingham, AL 35243 Office of the County Commissioner Burke County Commission Mr. Michael Yox Waynesboro, GA 30830 Site Regulatory Affairs Director Vogtle Units 3 & 4 Mr. Wayne Guilfoyle 7825 River Road, Bin 63031 Commissioner District 8 Waynesboro, GA 30830 Augusta-Richmond County Commission 4940 Windsor Spring Rd Hephzibah, GA 30815 Gwendolyn Jackson Burke County Library 130 Highway 24 South Waynesboro, GA 30830 Mr. Reece McAlister Executive Secretary Georgia Public Service Commission Atlanta, GA 30334 Page 1 of 3

Vogtle Units 3 & 4 Mailing List Email acchambe@southernco.com (Amy Chamberlian) agaughtm@southernco.com (Amy Aughtman)

ALPUGH@southernco.com (Amanda Pugh) awc@nei.org (Anne W. Cottingham) becky@georgiawand.org (Becky Rafter) bhwhitley@southernco.com (Brian Whitley)

Bill.Jacobs@gdsassociates.com (Bill Jacobs) bjadams@southernco.com (Brad Adams) bwwaites@southernco.com (Brandon Waites) castelca@westinghouse.com (Curtis Castell) comerj@westinghouse.com (James Comer) crpierce@southernco.com (C.R. Pierce) dahjones@southernco.com (David Jones) david.hinds@ge.com (David Hinds) david.lewis@pillsburylaw.com (David Lewis) dgbost@southernco.com (Danny Bost) dlfulton@southernco.com (Dale Fulton) drculver@southernco.com (Randy Culver) durhamdc@westinghouse.com (David Durham) ed.burns@earthlink.net (Ed Burns) edavis@pegasusgroup.us (Ed David) erg-xl@cox.net (Eddie R. Grant) fdhundle@southernco.com (Forrest Hundley) fhwillis@southernco.com (Fred Willis)

G2NDRMDC@southernco.com (SNC Document Control) graysw@westinghouse.com (Scott W. Gray) jadwilli@southernco.com (J.D. Williams) james1.beard@ge.com (James Beard) jannina.blanco@pillsburylaw.com (Jannina Blanco) jantol1dj@westinghouse.com (David Jantosik) jenmorri@southernco.com (Jennifer Buettner)

JHaswell@southernco.com (Jeremiah Haswell) jim@ncwarn.org (Jim Warren)

John.Bozga@nrc.gov (John Bozga)

Joseph_Hegner@dom.com (Joseph Hegner) jpredd@southernco.com (Jason R. Redd) jranalli@meagpower.org (Jerry Ranalli) karen.patterson@ttnus.com (Karen Patterson) karlg@att.net (Karl Gross) kmstacy@southernco.com (Kara Stacy)

KSutton@morganlewis.com (Kathryn M. Sutton) kwaugh@impact-net.org (Kenneth O. Waugh) markus.popa@hq.doe.gov (Markus Popa)

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Vogtle Units 3 & 4 Mailing List Matthew.Williams@hq.doe.gov (Matthew Williams) mdmeier@southernco.com (Mike Meier) media@nei.org (Scott Peterson)

Melissa.Smith@Hq.Doe.Gov (Melissa Smith) mike.price@opc.com (M.W. Price)

MKWASHIN@southernco.com (MKWashington) mlgraves@southernco.com (Michelle Graves)

MSF@nei.org (Marvin Fertel) myox@southernco.com (Mike Yox) nirsnet@nirs.org (Michael Mariotte)

Nuclaw@mindspring.com (Robert Temple) patriciaL.campbell@ge.com (Patricia L. Campbell)

Paul@beyondnuclear.org (Paul Gunter) pbessette@morganlewis.com (Paul Bessette) r.joshi15@comcast.net (Ravi Joshi)

RJB@NEI.org (Russell Bell)

Ronald.Jones@scana.com (Ronald Jones) rwink@ameren.com (Roger Wink) sabinski@suddenlink.net (Steve A. Bennett) sara@cleanenergy.org (Sara Barczak) sblanton@balch.com (Stanford Blanton)

Shiva.Granmayeh@hq.doe.gov (Shiva Granmayeh) sjackson@meagpower.org (Steven Jackson) skauffman@mpr.com (Storm Kauffman) sroetger@psc.state.ga.us (Steve Roetger) stephan.moen@ge.com (Stephan Moen) stephen.burdick@morganlewis.com (Stephen Burdick) tom.miller@hq.doe.gov (Tom Miller)

TomClements329@cs.com (Tom Clements)

Vanessa.quinn@dhs.gov (Vanessa Quinn) vcsummer2n3@gmail.com (Brian McIntyre) wasparkm@southernco.com (Wesley A. Sparkman) wayne.marquino@gmail.com (Wayne Marquino) weave1dw@westinghouse.com (Doug Weaver) x2gabeck@southernco.com (Gary Becker) x2kmseib@southernco.com (Kristin Seibert)

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AUDIT OF NON-DOCKETED DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF A REQUEST FOR A LICENSE AMENDMENT RELATED TO PROTECTION AND SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM SURVEILLANCE REQUIREMENT REDUCTION TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION REVISION SOUTHERN NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT, UNITS 3 AND 4 DOCKET NOS.52-025 AND 52-026 The purpose of the audit is to review the non-docketed documents needed by staff to verify the information and conclusions in the Request for License Amendment: Protection and Safety Monitoring System Surveillance Requirement Reduction Technical Specification Revision (LAR)19-001 submitted by Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) for the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP), Units 3 and 4 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML19084A308).

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Background:

In LAR 19-001, SNC requires changes to the Technical Specifications (TS) (Combined License Appendix A), as well as plant-specific Tier 2 information. Specifically, the requested amendment proposes to change TS Sections 1.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.9, and 5.5. The Surveillance Requirements (SRs) requirement manual Channel Checks, Channel Operational Tests (COTs), Actuation Logic Tests (ALTs) and Actuation Logic Output Tests (ALOTs) to be performed on protection and safety monitoring system (PMS) components are proposed to be removed from the TS. The approach for satisfying the reactor trip and engineered safety feature actuation system response time test SRs for the PMS racks is proposed to be changed.

B. Regulatory Audit Basis This regulatory audit is based on the following:

• VEGP Unit 3, Current Facility Combined License NPF-91, Revised September 11, 2018, License Condition 2.D.(2)(a) (ADAMS Accession No. ML14100A106).

• VEGP Unit 4, Current Facility Combined License NPF-92, Revised September 11, 2018, License Condition 2.D.(2)(a) (ADAMS Accession No. ML14100A135).

• VEGP Units 3 and 4, Updated Final Safety Analysis Report, Revision 6 and Tier 1, Revision 5, August 11, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17172A218).

C. Regulatory Audit Scope and Methodology The audit team will view the non-docketed documents that provide the technical support for the evaluation of LAR-19-001. In addition, the audit team may potentially request to meet with subject matter expert(s) to discuss (1) the capabilities of the PMS self-diagnostic testing features, (2) quality assurance of the development process of the PMS self-diagnostic testing features, and (3) verification and validation of the PMS self-diagnostic testing features.

Enclosure

D. Information and Other Material Necessary for the Regulatory Audit Besides the documents already made available in the electronic reading room, the following additional documents should be made available to the staff either during the audit or in the electronic reading room:

• ABB Documents for AC160 diagnostic requirements, design, test procedure/analysis, and test record as used in Document Attachment A-Document Tracing Table for AC160 Diagnostics

• APP-PMS-J0M-003, Revision 1, AP1000 Protection and Safety Monitoring System -

Technical Manual, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• APP-PMS-GJP-806, Revision A, ESF Safety Feature Actuation Channel Check, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• APP-PMS-GJP-819, Revision 2, Post Accident Monitoring Instrumentation Channel Check, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• APP-PMS-GJP-873, Revision 1, Division A Automatic ESF Signals - Reactor Trip Logic Test, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• APP-PMS-AR-001, Revision 4, AP1000 Protection and Safety Monitoring System Reliability Analysis, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• RD10027, Revision 0, Solid State Protection System Response Time Failure Analysis, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC.

• IC-12-054, Revision 0, NIS Time Response During EQ Testing, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• GBRA095801, Revision E, AC160 Product Specification for AP1000 PMS, Westinghouse Electric Germany, GmbH

• WNA-TR-03135-GEN, Revision 0, Analysis of DO630 Relay Time Response Testing, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• 3BDS 005 740R501, S600 I/O Hardware Advant Controller 160 for Westinghouse Version 1.3 Reference Manual, ABB Process Automation Corporation

• SV3-PMS-T2R-012, Revision 1, Vogtle Unit 3 AP1000 Protection and Safety Monitoring System

• System Interfaces and Response Time - System Integration Test Report, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC.

• WNA-CN-00162-WAPP, Revision 12, AP1000 Protection and Safety Monitoring System Time Response Calculations, Westinghouse Electric Company

• APP-PMS-GJP-810, Revision 0, Protection and Safety Monitoring System Division B 92 Day RT COT and ESF COT, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• 3BSE009799D0060, Revision 0, Description of Function HW CI627, ABB Process Automation Corporation

• 3BSC140054D0060, Revision 0, Description of Function HW - BIM2-2 ASIC, ABB Process Automation Corporation

• APP-PMS-GHY-008, Revision 17, AP1000 Protection and Safety Monitoring System Software Design Description for the Maintenance and Test Panel, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• APP-DDS-J4-011, Revision 4, AP1000 Data Display and Processing System Datalink Interface Specification, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• MOD 97-7771, Revision 6, Final Quality Assessment and Justification Report, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC 2

• 3BSE052209D0002, Revision C, AI687M Analog Input 16Ch. (Main-board), ABB Process Automation Corporation

• 3BSE052212D0002, Revision D, AI688M Analog Input 16Ch. (Main-board), ABB Process Automation Corporation

• MOD 97-3184, Qualification of Category A I&C Self supervision and test functions FMEA, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• LTR-NIS-19-001, Revision 0, AP1000 Plant NIS Response Time Evaluation, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• GIC-SSP-FSD-19-003, Revision 0, PMS Channel Check Category 2 (Calculated Value)

Error Analysis, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

• SV0-IVV-JQR-021, Revision 4, Vogtle AP1000 Protection and Safety Monitoring System Independent Verification and Validation Summary Report, Westinghouse Electric Company LLC Other documents may be requested based on the staffs review of the above documents.

Appropriate handling and protection of proprietary information shall be acknowledged and observed throughout the audit.

E. Audit Team The following are the NRC audit team members:

Jennivine Rankin, Project Manager (NRC), Lead Jack Zhao, Senior Electronics Engineer (NRC), Technical Reviewer Dinesh Taneja, Senior Electronics Engineer (NRC), Technical Reviewer William Roggenbrodt, Electronics Engineer (NRC), Technical Reviewer Craig Harbuck, Senior Reactor Systems Engineer (NRC), Technical Reviewer Greg Galletti, Senior Reactor Operations Engineer (NRC), Technical Reviewer Molly Keefe-Forsyth, Human Factors Specialist (NRC), Technical Reviewer Dawnmathews Kalathiveettil, Electronics Engineer (NRC), Technical Reviewer Malcolm Patterson, Reliability and Risk Analyst (NRC), Technical Reviewer The following are the licensee contacts:

Stephanie Agee (SNC)

Amy Chamberlain (SNC)

F. Logistics Date: June 17, 2018 - June 25, 2019 Location: Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC Washington Operations 11333 Woodglen Drive, Suite 203 Rockville, Maryland 20852 Telephone: 301-881-7040/7042 Additionally, the review of documents supporting LAR-19-001, and identified in Section D of this audit plan, can be conducted at NRC Headquarters via the licensees electronic reading room.

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Location: NRC Headquarters Two White Flint North 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738 G. Special Requests If necessary, the staff requests that subject matter expert(s) be made available to discuss the (1) the capabilities of the PMS self-diagnostic testing features, (2) quality assurance of the development process of the PMS self-diagnostic testing features, and (3) verification and validation of the PMS self-diagnostic testing features.

Jennivine Rankin (NRC) is the lead for this audit. She can be reached at 301-415-1530 or Jennivine.Rankin@nrc.gov.

H. Deliverables At the completion of the audit, the staff will prepare an audit report within 45 days that will be declared and entered as an official agency record in ADAMS. The audit outcome may be used to identify any additional information to be submitted for making regulatory decisions, and will assist the staff in the issuance of requests for additional information (if necessary) in completing its review of LAR-19-001.

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