ML091740545

Notification of Inspection and Request for Information for NRC Problem Identification and Resolution Inspection

ML091740545
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	06/23/2009
From:	Rivera-Ortiz J Reactor Projects Branch 7
To:	Burton C Carolina Power & Light Co
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II SAM NUNN ATLANTA FEDERAL CENTER 61 FORSYTH STREET, SW, SUITE 23T85 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-8931 June 23, 2009 Mr. Christopher L. Burton Vice President Carolina Power & Light Company Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant P.O. Box 165, Mail Zone 1 New Hill, NC 27562-0165

SUBJECT:

SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR NRC PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION

Dear Mr. Burton:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Region II staff will conduct a problem identification and resolution (PI&R) inspection at your Shearon Harris reactor facility during the weeks of September 14 - 18 and September 28 -

October 2, 2009. The inspection team will be led by Michelle Catts, a Region 4 Resident Inspector. This inspection will be conducted in accordance with the baseline inspection procedure, Procedure 71152, Identification and Resolution of Problems Inspection, issued January 10, 2008.

The biennial PI&R inspection and assessment of the licensees Corrective Action Program (CAP) complements and expands upon the resident baseline inspections of routine daily screening of all corrective action program issues, quarterly focused issue reviews, and semiannual trend PI&R reviews.

During a telephone conversation on June 23, 2009, Ms. Catts confirmed with Mr. John Doorhy, of your staff, arrangements for an information gathering site visit and the two-week onsite inspection. The schedule is as follows:

• Information gathering visit: July 28 - 29, 2009

• Onsite weeks: September 14 - 18 and September 28 - October 2, 2009 The purpose of the information gathering visit is to meet with members of your staff to define the scope of the inspection. Information and documentation needed to support the inspection will also be identified.

The enclosure lists documents that will be needed prior to the information gathering visit.

Please have the referenced information available prior to July 28, 2009. Contact Ms. Catts with any questions concerning the requested information. The inspectors will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically identifying only those documents required for inspection preparation.

CP&L 2 Additional documents will be requested during the information gathering visit. The additional information will need to be made available to the team in the Region II office prior to the inspection teams preparation week of September 8 - 11, 2009. Ms. Catts will also discuss the following inspection support administrative details: availability of knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing personnel to serve as points of contact during the inspection; method of tracking inspector requests during the inspection; access to licensee computers; working space; arrangements for site access; and other applicable information.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, 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 NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding the information requested or the inspection, please contact Ms. Michelle Catts at (623) 393-3737 or me at (404) 562-4825.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel Rivera-Ortiz, Acting Chief Reactor Projects Branch 7 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos.: 50-400 License No.: NPF-63

Enclosure:

INFORMATION REQUEST FOR SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION cc w/enc - See page 3

_________________________ X SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE OFFICE RIV:DRP RII:DRP SIGNATURE via email JRO /RA/

NAME M. Catts J.Rivera-Ortiz DATE 06/23/2009 06/23/2009 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO CP&L 3 cc w/encl: Chairman Brian C. McCabe North Carolina Utilities Commission Manager, Nuclear Regulatory Affairs Electronic Mail Distribution Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.

Electronic Mail Distribution Thomas D. Walt Vice President R. J. Duncan, II Nuclear Oversight Vice President Carolina Power and Light Company Nuclear Operations Electronic Mail Distribution Carolina Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Beverly O. Hall Chief, Radiation Protection Section Greg Kilpatrick Department of Environmental Health Training Manager N.C. Department of Environmental Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Commerce & Natural Resources Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Public Service Commission Kimberly Harshaw State of South Carolina Manager P.O. Box 11649 Support Services Columbia, SC 29211 Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.

Electronic Mail Distribution Robert P. Gruber Executive Director David H. Corlett Public Staff - NCUC Supervisor 4326 Mail Service Center Licensing/Regulatory Programs Raleigh, NC 27699-4326 Progress Energy Electronic Mail Distribution Herb Council Chair David T. Conley Board of County Commissioners of Wake Associate General Counsel County Legal Dept. P.O. Box 550 Progress Energy Service Company, LLC Raleigh, NC 27602 Electronic Mail Distribution Tommy Emerson Christos Kamilaris Chair Director Board of County Commissioners of Fleet Support Services Chatham County Carolina Power & Light Company 186 Emerson Road Electronic Mail Distribution Siler City, NC 27344 John H. O'Neill, Jr. Kelvin Henderson Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Plant General Manager 2300 N. Street, NW Carolina Power and Light Company Washington, DC 20037-1128 Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Electronic Mail Distribution

CP&L 4 Letter to Christopher L. Burton from Joel Rivera-Ortiz dated June 23, 2009

SUBJECT:

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INFORMATION REQUEST FOR SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION (SEPTEMBER 14 - 18 and SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 2, 2009)

A. Documents Needed Prior to the Information Gathering Visit Note: Unless otherwise noted, the information requested below corresponds to documents generated since August 17, 2007. Please provide the requested documents in electronic format. If the information is not available in electronic format, please contact the inspection team leader to coordinate alternate ways to provide the information.

1. Copies of the corporate and site level procedures and sub-tier procedures associated with the corrective action program. This should include procedures related to:

a) corrective action process, b) cause evaluation, c) operating experience program, d) employee concerns program, e) self-assessment program, f) maintenance rule program and implementing procedures, g) operability determination process, h) degraded/non-conforming condition process (e.g., RIS 2005-20), i) system health process, or equivalent equipment reliability improvement programs, and j) preventive maintenance deferral and action request/nuclear condition report (AR/NCR) extension process. If any of the procedures requested above were revised after August 17, 2007, please provide copies of all revisions.

2. List of top ten risk significant systems, components, and operator manual actions.

3. List of all AR/NCRs initiated, sorted by priority, with the following information:

a) AR/NCR number, b) priority, and c) AR/NCR title and short description.

4. List of AR/NCRs that were upgraded or downgraded with the AR/NCR number, title, and short description.

5. List of all AR/NCRs initiated, sorted by the following responsible plant departments. In each department grouping, please provide the AR/NCRs sorted by priority, with the following information: a) AR/NCR number, b) priority, and c) AR/NCR title and short description.

a) Emergency Preparedness; b) Health Physics; c) Chemistry; and, d) Security.

6. List of outstanding corrective actions with a brief description, priority level, initiation date, and due date.

7. List of control room deficiencies with a brief description and corresponding AR/NCR and/or work order (WO) number.

8. List of operator workarounds and operator burdens with a brief description and corresponding AR/NCR number Enclosure

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9. List of all operability evaluations with a brief description and corresponding AR/NCR number.

10. List of temporary modifications and engineering review requests with a brief description and corresponding AR/NCR number.

11. List of all currently extended AR/NCRs or overdue, sorted by initiation date, with the following information: a) AR/NCR number, b) priority, and c) AR/NCR title and short description.

12. List of all AR/NCRs that have been voided or cancelled. Please sort by AR/NCR number, with title or description of problem, and reason voided or cancelled.

13. List of all structures, systems, and components (SSC) which were classified as (a)(1) in accordance with the Maintenance Rule since August 17, 2007. Please include applicable procedures for classifying systems or components as (a)(1), date and reason for being placed in (a)(1), and actions completed and current status. Also, provide copy of any self-assessment of the Maintenance Rule program conducted.

14. List of Maintenance Preventable Functional Failures (MPFF) of risk significant systems.

Please include actions completed and current status.

15. List of corrective maintenance work orders, sorted by system and component, to include:

WO number, title or description, date of initiation, and date of completion (if completed).

16. Corrective action closeout packages, including AR/NCRs with description of corrective actions, for all NRC findings and Licensee identified violations.

17. Corrective action closeout packages, including AR/NCRs with description of corrective actions, for all licensee event reports (LERs) issued.

18. List of all NRC generic communications (e.g., Information Notices, Generic Letters, etc.)

and industry operating experience (OE) documents (e.g., Part 21 reports, vendor information letters, information from other sites, etc.,) evaluated by the site for applicability to the station, regardless of the determination of applicability. Please include the reference number (e.g. AR/NCR #) for the documents that evaluated the aforementioned OE information.

19. Copies of all quality assurance audits and/or assessments issued, including the last two audits/assessments of the corrective action program. In addition, please provide any self-assessment of the site safety culture conducted.

20. Copies of all department self-assessments.

21. Copy of the most recent integrated plant trend report, departmental trend report(s), and corrective action trend report, including any human performance and equipment reliability trends. Copy of any adverse trends in equipment, processes, procedures, or programs.

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22. Copies of any Corrective Action Program Effectiveness Reviews.

23. Copy of the latest Corrective Action Program statistics (if exists) such as the number of AR/NCRs initiated by department, human performance errors by department, and others as may be available.

24. List of action items generated or addressed by the Plant Safety Review Committee.

25. Copies of any minutes of meetings by the offsite safety review boards/groups. In addition, please provide a list of routine meetings involving the CAP to be held while team is onsite.

26. List of AR/NCRs related to equipment aging issues in the top ten risk significant systems since August 17, 2004 (e.g., system erosion and/or corrosion problems; electronic component aging or obsolescence of circuit boards, power supplies, relays; environmental qualification). Please sort by AR/NCR number with the following information: a) AR/NCR number, b) priority, and c) AR/NCR title and short description.

27. If performed, provide the results from the latest safety culture survey.

28. Copies of corrective action program documents related to cross-cutting issues (human performance, problem identification and resolution, and safety conscious work environment) identified via trending, self-assessments, safety review committee or other oversight methods.

29. List of all root and apparent cause evaluations with a brief description.

30. Copy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment importance measures report.

31. Organizational charts for the following: a) management, b) security, c) licensed operators, d) non-licensed operators, e) mechanical maintenance, f) electrical maintenance, g) radiation protection, h) design engineering, i) first and second line supervisors, j) emergency preparedness, k) chemistry, and l) any other groups that perform work on safety-related equipment.

32. A description of any alternative corrective action process within the organization that may not be controlled within the guidance of the Corrective Action Program (i.e.,

Radiological Protection, Security, Training, Warehouse).

33. List and description of operator training deficiencies and simulator deficiencies.

34. List of work deferred from the last refueling outage.

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4 B. Documents Needed during or after the Information Gathering Visit, but prior to the Inspection Preparation Week (September 8 - 11, 2009)

1. For the risk significant systems selected by the team leader during the information gathering visit, please provide copies of the latest System Health Reports, system design basis documents, system description information, and piping and instrumentation drawings (P&IDs).

2. List of corrective action documents that have resulted from the Employee Concerns Program (ECP). (Note: This should be provided by the ECP Coordinator)

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