ML24157A315

2024 Sequoyah Commercial Grade Dedication Inspection Information Request

ML24157A315
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	06/03/2024
From:	Adam Ruh NRC/RGN-II/DRS/EB1
To:	Tennessee Valley Authority
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From: Adam Ruh To: rmedina4@tva.gov

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Sequoyah CGD Inspection Date: Monday, June 3, 2024 3:32:00 PM Attachments: Sequoyah CGD Information Request.pdf

Hello Rick,

Ill be leading the group of inspectors performing the Commercial Grade Dedication (CGD) inspection in November. As part of preparing for this, Ive attached a request for information with two parts. Documents requested in Enclosure 1 are to support an upcoming information gathering visit. I am planning to perform this visit from Monday July 22, 2024, until Friday July 26, 2024. My goal for the trip is to get a big picture understanding of how your CGD processes work at the site and to narrow down which items we should take a deeper look at during the inspection. During the trip I plan to perform the following to accomplish that goal:

Meet available onsite staff that support CGD activities (e.g. procurement engineering staff) to discuss the following:

Examples of dedication plans CGD acceptance methods utilized Special Tests methods in use (including procedures used)

Methods used to establish and maintain traceability Sampling plans for dimensional/visual inspection and/or testing Calibration methods of measuring and test equipment (and how these are traceable to nationally recognized standards)

Qualification of personnel or vendors used to perform the tests Examples of vendor-certified material test reports and certificates of conformance/compliance Examples of acceptance of dedicated CGI that were provided by a supplier or sub-supplier Tour the following areas:

areas used for dedication/acceptance activities (including observation of any ongoing procurement activities such as testing, inspection, receipt inspection, etc.)

warehouse/storage facility areas Request additional information which may be needed to support the inspection which has not already been requested Go over inspection logistics:

Inspection and interview rooms Response team contacts (from procurement engineering if possible as a lesson learned from initial CGD inspections)

Site access for inspection team (expect individual from NRC program office)

Licensee computer access Meeting times and locations Wifi access

The remainder of the information requested (Enclosure 2) will only be needed after I have identified to you or your staff the specific inspection samples (at a future date). Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you, Adam Ruh Sr. Reactor Insp.

USNRC, R2/DRS/EB1 864-533-5756

Sequoyah Nuclear Plant - Focused Engineering Inspection Initial Information Request

Inspection Procedure: 71111.21N, Design Bases Assurance Inspection (Programs),

Attachment 21N.03, Commercial Grade Dedication, dated February 16, 2023 (ADAMS ML23005A288)

Inspection Dates: Information Gathering Visit: July 22-26, 2024 Preparation Week: October 28-November 1, 2024 Onsite Week 1: Nov ember 4-8, 2024 Onsite Week 2: November 18-22, 2024

Inspection Report: 05000327/ 2024010, 05000328/ 2024010 (Standalone Inspection Report)

Inspectors: A. Ruh (Lead)

J. Copeland P Braxton

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that three inspectors from Region II will conduct an inspection at your site in accordance with Inspection Procedure 71111.21N, Design Bases Assurance Inspection (Programs), Attachment 21N.03, Commercial Grade Dedication. This is not considered a team inspection. The inspection will evaluate Sequoyah Nuclear Plants process for dedicating commercial-grade items, as required in applicable portions of Appendix B to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 50 (Appendix B), to ensure reasonable assurance is provided that these items will perform their intended safety function.

Additionally, this inspection will evaluate implementation of Sequoyah Nuclear Plants procurement process for safety-related components, as required in Appendix B. The inspectors will select samples of components that are risk significant and within the scope of the program.

On July 22, 2024, Mr. Adam Ruh, a Senior Reactor Inspector from the NRCs Region II office, will begin the inspection with an information gathering visit to the site. The purpose of the visit is to become familiar with the process for dedicating commercial -grade items and the process for procuring safety-related components at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. This visit may include a tour of onsite commercial-grade item dedication facilities, receipt inspection facilities, storage facilities, and installed plant components associated with potential inspection samples. During the visit, the team lead will also review the information provided in the initial information request to select a list of potential inspection samples. The team lead may also identify other information needed to support the inspection during this visit.

To minimize the impact on your staff and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed two separate requests for information needed prior to the onsite information gathering visit and offsite inspection preparation week. The first request (Enclosure 1) is generally for information that will be used to choose the inspection samples or information that will be applicable to all inspection samples throughout the inspection. This information should be made available to the team lead prior to the information gathering visit. The second request (Enclosure 2) is for information specific to individual samples and should be made available prior to the offsite preparation week.

Please provide the information requested in Enclosure 1 to the Region II Office or a file sharing site by July 15, 2024. Additional documents may be requested during the information gathering visit. The inspectors will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically identifying only those documents required for inspection preparation. The additional information should be provided to the Inspectors in the Region II office or a file sharing site by October 25, 2024.

During the information gathering visit, Mr. Ruh will also discuss the following inspection support administrative details: (1) availability of knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing personnel to serve as points of contact during the inspection, (2) method of tracking inspector requests during the inspection, (3) computer access, (4) working space, (5) arrangements for site access, and (6) other applicable information.

INFORMATION REQUEST FOR SEQUOYAH NUCLEAR PLANT FOCUSED ENGINEERING INSPECTION (COMMERCIAL GRADE DEDICATION)

Prior to the information gathering visit, please provide the information electronically in.pdf files, Excel, or other searchable format on CDROM (or FTP site, SharePoint, etc.). The CDROM (or website) should be indexed and hyperlinked to facilitate ease of use.

Contact Information: Adam Ruh 404-997-4699 adam.ruh@nrc.gov

Information Gathering Visit: An information gathering visit is currently scheduled the week of July 22, 2024. During this visit, we would like to identify the component samples for this inspection. Wed like to meet with procurement and dedication specialists to discuss the upcoming inspection and our sample selection process. Purposes of the site visit are to: (a) discuss the scope of the planned inspection; (b) obtain advance information to review in preparation for the inspection; (c) ensure that the information to be reviewed is available at the beginning of the inspection; and (d) verify that logistical issues (such as obtaining both site and computer system access and arranging the location of the inspection team working area) will be resolved prior to inspector arrival. P lease reserve a room during the scheduled inspection dates. We request the room have a telephone,wireless internet access, and a licensee computer with access to procedures, corrective action program documents, and a printer.

Logistics:

Information gathering visit: July 22-26, 2024 Onsite inspection weeks: November 4-8, and November 18-22, 2024

Please schedule an entrance meeting for around 2:00PM on Monday, November 4, 2024 (approximately 15 minutes). The date and time of the exit meeting will be discussed at a later date. In addition, Id like to have a daily debrief with your inspection support staff at a convenient time in the afternoons for both onsite inspection weeks (Time TBD, approximately 30 minutes).

We will need a conference room as workspace for the inspectors. We will also need an area available for conducting interviews.

Please provide access to your document system (preferably at least one computer in our conference room), nearby printers, and Wi -Fi access.

During the information gathering visit, please provide info on (1) conference room location &

phone number, (2) cafeteria location/hours, and (3) procurement and engineering staff normal working hours.Also, please let me know if there are any potential resource conflicts during our scheduled inspection weeks (Fridays off, EP drills, management retreats) and well do our best to accommodate.

Team Members: Adam Ruh ( Inspection Lead)

Justin Copeland Pauline Braxton

Please verify the status of access authorization and requirements for unescorted access for each inspector. Please provide me with a list of exceptions, and I will address them.

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT

This letter contains voluntary information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved these information collections (approval number 3150- 0011). The burden to the public for these information collections is estimated to average 60 hours6.944444e-4 days <br />0.0167 hours <br />9.920635e-5 weeks <br />2.283e-5 months <br /> per response. Send comments regarding this information collection to the Information Services Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Mail Stop: T6A10M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by e-mail to Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB -10202, (3150-0011) Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

PUBLIC PROTECTION NOTIFICATION

The NRC may not conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document displays a currently valid OMB control number.

This letter, its enclosure, and your response (if any) will be made available for public inspection and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document Room in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.

Enclosure 1

Documents Requested Prior to Information Gathering Visit

The documents and information requested below should generally be made available to the inspection team for the team's use both on-site and off-site during the information gathering visit. Electronic format is the preferred media. If electronic media is made available via an internet-based remote document management system, then the remote document access must allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the NRC's regional office.

Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hard copy) are acceptable. At the end of the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be retained.

This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such, it is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all of the listed documents. In addition, your plant specific document titles may vary from the document titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below.

Documents requested by July 15, 2024:

1. Current updated final safety analysis report and technical specifications.

2. Procedures for dedicating commercial-grade items and for procurement of safety -related components. Procedure controlling counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items.

3. List of commercial-grade items, with a brief description of application, that have been dedicated for safety-related applications. These items may be dedicated by Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (PQL-2) o r dedicated by a vendor (or other licensee) and procured by Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (PQL-1). Please note whether the item has been installed in the plant. The list should encompass the past six years of dedication activities.

4. List of any commercial grade-items that failed after completing the dedication process,

meaning the item was considered a basic item following dedication, and later failed either during testing or upon an actual demand. The list should encompass the past six years of dedication activities.

5. List of components procured as safety -related (PQL-1), with descriptions, if not included above. Please note whether the item has been installed in the plant. The list should encompass the past six years of procurement activities.

6. List of corrective action program documents, with descriptions, related to commercial -

grade items, procurement, or storage, including any items that failed after completing the dedication process. The list should encompass the past six years of these acti vities.

7. List of systems, system numbers/designators, and corresponding names.

Enclosure 2

Documents Requested Prior to Inspection Preparation Week

For the samples identified by the team lead, the documents and information requested below should generally be made available to the inspection team for the team's use both on-site and off-site during the inspection. Electronic format is the preferred media. If electronic media is made available via an internet-based remote document management system, then the remote document access must allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the NRC's regional office. Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hard copy) are acceptable. At the end of the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be retained.

This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such, it is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all of the listed documents. In addition, your plant specific document titles may vary from the document titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below for each sample.

Documents requested by October 25, 2024:

1. Purchase requisition and purchase orders

2. Dedication Plan / Commercial Grade Item Technical Evaluation, including any supporting attachments

3. Documents demonstrating the dedication method criteria were satisfied such as: (1) special test and inspection procedures and results; (2) commercial-grade survey reports showing: item, design, material, and specific performance characteristics (relevant to safety function); and (3) source inspection reports

4. Receiving Inspection Report, including any results of testing/inspection of the item performed upon receipt, if not provided in response to request 3, above.

5. Procurement basis evaluation such as like-for -like, equivalency, plant design change packages, drawing and specification updates, including any 10 CFR 50.59 documentation

6. Other documents to trace the item from the time it was dedicated and/or procured to the time it was installed, tested, and accepted by operations, e.g., completed stock or material issue forms and installation work orders or reports, including completed post installation test procedure and results

7. Shelf-life information.

8. Historical performance information (list of work orders and NCRs written for the item prior to and since the newly procured item was installed)

9. Other pertinent item/ vendor information, such as:

a. System design basis document

b. Component drawings, where applicable

c. Vendor/supplier/licensee correspondence

d. Original and updated design specifications (i.e., design/procurement specification for the original item that is being replaced and any new design/procurement specifications for the replacement item)

e. Vendor manual(s) for installation/operation/maintenance of the item

f. Catalog specifications / item data sheets

g. Certificates of conformance/compliance/quality

h. Vendor test and inspection reports (records of inspections/tests performed by the supplier prior to shipment to the site)

i. Vendor dedication/partial dedication information

j. Any information showing design/material/process changes done by the manufacturer/supplier to the purchased item

k. Any deviation from design, material, and performance characteristics relevant to the safety function (nonconformance dispositions)

10. If sample is a PQL-1 item, record identifying that the suppliers quality assurance program meets 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, including any audit reports performed by the licensed facility.