ML20056H096

Ack RO Anderson Revising Commitments Associated W/Requalification Exam Rept 50-282/OL-92-02 & Insp Repts 50-282/92-22 & 50-306/92-22

ML20056H096
Person / Time
Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	08/31/1993
From:	Forney W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
To:	Anthony D NORTHERN STATES POWER CO.
References
NUDOCS 9309080219
Download: ML20056H096 (2)

See also: IR 05000282/1992022

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SUBJECT: FAILURE TO COMPLETE NRC COMMITMENTS WITHIN THE COMMITTED SCHEDULE

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with NRC Requalification Examination Report No. 50-282/0L-92-02-and Inspection

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Reports No. 50-282/92022(DRP) and No. 50-306/92022(DRP). Th'ese reports

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summarized the results of a requalification examination and an announced team

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inspection at your Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2.

While we are concerned that your commitment tracking system was not completely

effective in these areas, your identification of the issue and efforts to

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US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Attn: Document Control Desk

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PPAIRIE ISIAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT

Docket Nos. 50-282 License Nos. DPR-42

50-306

DPR-60

Failure To Complete NRC Commitments

Within The Committed Schedule

The purpose of this letter is to notify the NRC of two commitments which were

not ccepleted within the schedule committed to in previous NRC correspondence .

This deviation from commitments was discussed with the NRC resident inspectors

on August 12, 1993.

Each of the commitments is discussed separately below.

Commitment 1

Pricr to the 1992 NRC-observed operator requalification examinations,

individuals designated to participate in the examination inadvertently

received training from an instructor who was under the Pre-examination

Security agreement. This is discussed .n the NRC Requalification Examinatict

Report No. 2S2/0L-92-02.

In our response to the Requalification Examination Report, dated November 15,

1992, we identified two actions to be taken to preclude a further occurrence

of this type.

One of the actions committed to was the review of this

violation during the first quarter of 1993 with all licensed operators and

operations instructors.

Following the submittal of the November 18, 1992 response, the subject

c omr:i t n:ent was entered into the plant commitment tracking system with a

required completion date of March 31, 1993

However, no Request for Training

Se rvices was initiated.

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training to he performed by the Prairie Island Training Center.

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used ::y the training center to identify, schedule and track training requests.

This lack of a Request for Training Services in comhination with mis-

communication within the training department resulted in the required trainir.g

not being completed in the first quarter of 1993.

A contributing cau e of the failure to meet the committed date was the

inadequacy of the current commitment tracking system monthly reporting process

for ensuring that commitments with firm completion. dates are completed per the

committed schedule.

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The committed review will be performed during the six-week training cycle

immediately preceding the 1993 operator requalification examinations and will

be completed by September 24, 1993.

This schedule will meet the intent of the

original committed action by completing the review prior to the next

requalification examination.

Commitment 2

NRC Inspection Reports 50-282/92022 and 50-306/92022 included a Notice of

Violation concerning design and construction of a new building wall.

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response letter dated January 19, 1993, we committed to training on the

subject to be completed during the first quarter of 1993.

Again, as in the situation described above, no Request for Training Services

was initiated following submittal of the commitment.

In addition, this

commitment was not entered into the commitment tracking system in a timely

manner.

The subject commitment was discussed with the Training Department

prior tc submittal; however, the lack of a Request for Training Services , the

failure to enter the commitment in the tracking system and miscommunication

within the training department resulted in the required training not being

completed in the first quarter of 1993.

This training has now been scheduled and will be completed by August 27, 1993.

Actions to Prevent Recurrence

Site personnel will be reminded of the proper use of the Request for Training

Services.

While miscommunication was a factor in these deviations, it was only a factor

because the formal Request for Training Services process was not used.

Therefore, no corrective actions are deemed necessary to address

miscommunication.

A process re-engineering effort has been initiated to strengthen the process

for development of outgoing correspondence to the NRC and commitments that may

be contained in that correspondence.

It is anticipated that as part of the

new process, commitments to the NRC will receive increased management review

during development of the correspondence and that the responsibility for

completion of the commitment will be more clearly defined before the

correspondence is submitted.

The current process at Prairie Island for the tracking of NRC commitments is

being evaluated to identify any improvements that can be made to ensure that

NRC commitments are entered into the system in a timely manner and that

periodic reminders are sent to personnel assigned to complete commitments.

The review is being conducted concurrent with the conversion of the commitment

tracking system to the new plant information computer system. Necessary

revisions to the commitment tracking system will be incorporcted during the

conversion process.

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This letter contains the following new NRC commitment:

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Site personnel will be reminded of the proper use of the Request for

Training Services.

Please contact Gene Ecliolt (612) 388-1121 ext 4663 if you have any questions

related to the information we have provided,

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Wayne Shafer, NRC Region III

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Sr Resident Inspector, NRC

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