ML120610641

Annual Assessment Letter for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Report 05000361; 362/2011001)

ML120610641
Person / Time
Site:	San Onofre
Issue date:	03/05/2012
From:	Ryan Lantz NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-D
To:	Peter Dietrich Southern California Edison Co
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IR-11-001
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March 5, 2012 Mr. Peter Dietrich Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Southern California Edison Company San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

P.O. Box 128

San Clemente, CA 92674

-0128

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER FOR SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 2 AND 3 (REPORT 05000361;362/2011001)

Dear Mr. Dietrich:

On February 15, 2012, the NRC completed its end

-of-cycle performance review of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), Units 2 and 3. The NRC reviewed the most recent quarterly performance indicators (PIs) in addition to inspection results and enforcement actions from January 1 , 2011 through December 31, 2011. This letter informs you of the NRC's assessment of your facility during this period and its plans for future inspections at your facility. This performance review and enclosed inspection plan do not include security information. A separate letter will include the NRC's assessment of your performance in the Security Cornerstone and its security

-related inspection plan.

The NRC determined that overall, SONGS, Units 2 and 3, operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and met all cornerstone objectives. The NRC determined the performance at SONGS, Units 2 and 3 during the most recent quarter was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRC

=s Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) Action Matrix because all inspection findings had very low (i.e., green) safety significance, and all PIs indicated that your performance was within the nominal, expected range (i.e., green). Therefore, the NRC plans to conduct ROP baseline inspections at your facility.

The substantive cross-cutting issue (SCCI) in human performance, decision-making component, associated with the aspect of conservative assumptions in decision

-making H.1(b) was originally opened following the m id-cycle assessment of 2009. The facility has demonstrated effective corrective actions in addressing this SCCI, as determined by our inspections as well as a decreasing trend in the number of finding s with this aspect. Therefore, the NRC determined that this SCCI in human performance H.1(b) is closed.

A new theme was identified in the human performance area, resources component, associated with the aspect of procedure quality H.2(c). You have taken several actions to address this new theme, including a thorough evaluation of corrective actions resulting in identification of new as well as revisions to past corrective actions, and completion of a common cause evaluation to U N I T E D S T A T E S N U C L E A R R E G U L A T O R Y C O M M I S S I O N R E G I O N I V1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD A R L I N G T O N , T E X A S 7 6 0 1 1-4511 P. Dietrich look for other potentially affected areas. The NRC is not opening a new SCCI in Human Performance H.2(c) based on your efforts to address this new theme.

NRC issued a chilling effect letter to Southern California Edison in March 2010. Multiple inspections, including two focused Problem Identification and Resolution inspections in January and May 2011, as well as public meetings, were conducted to review your corrective actions to address the issues identified in the chilling effect letter. Based on the inspection results, the overall results of your safety conscious work environment assessments and associated corrective actions, the NRC closed the chilling effect letter on September 6, 2011

, and informed you that NRC will continue to monitor your efforts to improve the safety conscious work environment at the site through baseline inspection efforts.

The enclosed inspection plan lists the inspections scheduled through June 30, 2013. Routine inspections performed by resident inspectors are not included in the inspection plan. The inspections listed during the last nine months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the mid

-cycle performance review. The NRC provides the inspection plan to allow for the resolution of any scheduling conflicts and personnel availability issues. The NRC will contact you as soon as possible to discuss changes to the inspection plan should circumstances warrant any changes.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC

=s ARules of Practice,@ a copy of this letter 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).

Please contact me at (817) 200-1173 with any questions you have regarding this letter.

Sincerely, /RA/ Ryan E. Lantz, Chief Reactor Projects

, Branch D Division of Reactor Projects

Docket Nos.: 50

-361, 50-362 License Nos.: NPF

-10, NPF-15

Enclosure:

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Inspection Activity Plan cc w/

Enclosure:

Electronic Distribution

P. Dietrich Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Art

.Howell@nrc.gov) DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov) DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov) DR S Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov

) DRS Deputy Director (Thomas.B lo unt@nrc.gov) Senior Resident Inspector (Greg.Warnick@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (John.Reynoso@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer (David.You@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer (Brian.Parks@nrc.gov) Branch Chief, DRP/

D (Ryan.Lantz@nrc.gov)

SONGS Administrative Assistant (Heather.Hutchinson@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

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

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)

Regional State Liaison Officer (Bill.Maier@nrc.gov)

RA Secretary (Lisa.Quayle@nrc.gov) DRA Secretary (Anita.Tannenbaum@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/EB1 (Thomas.Farnholtz@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/EB2 (Geoff

.Miller@nrc.gov) Branch Chief, DRS/PSB1 (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/PSB2 (Greg.Werner@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/OB (Mark.Haire@nrc.gov)

Acting Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Ryan.Alexander@nrc.gov)

OEDO RIV Coordinator, (Lydia.Chang@nrc.gov) Director, DIRS, NRR (Fred.Brown@nrc.gov) Deputy Director, DIRS, NRR (John.Lubinski@nrc.gov) Director, DORL, NRR (Joseph Giitter@nrc.gov)

Deputy Director, DORL, NRR (Robert.Nelson@nrc.gov) Chief, PLB IV, DORL, NRR (Michael.Markley@nrc.gov) RidsNrrDirslpab Resource@nrc.gov ROPreports.Resource@nrc.gov Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

File located:

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Page 1 of 2 02/29/2012 07:28:40 Report 22 Unit Number Planned Dates Start End Inspection Activity Title No. of Staff on Site San Onofre Inspection / Activity Plan 04/01/2012

-06/30/2013 TI-182-UNDERGROUND PIPING PHASE 1 2 2, 3 IP Review of the Implementation of the Industry Initiative to Control Degradation of Underground Piping 2515/182 03/01/2012 12/31/2012 TSB-52B-BIENNIAL PI&R INSPECTION 7 2, 3 IP Problem Identification and Resolution 71152B 04/08/2012 04/14/2012 EB1-07T-HEAT SINK PERFORMANCE 1 2, 3 IP Heat Sink Performance 7111107T 05/24/2012 05/31/2012 EB1-17T-50.59 & PERM PLANT MODS 4 2, 3 IP Evaluations of Changes, Tests, or Experiments and Permanent Plant Modifications 7111117T 06/18/2012 06/30/2012 2, 3 IP change/test/evaluations 7111117T-chng/tst 06/18/2012 06/30/2012 2, 3 IP evaluations 7111117T-evals 06/18/2012 06/30/2012 2, 3 IP permanent mods 7111117T-permmod s 06/18/2012 06/30/2012 EP-1-BIENNIAL EP PROGRAM INSPECTION 1 2, 3 IP A lert and Notification System Testing 7111402 06/25/2012 06/29/2012 2, 3 IP Emergency Preparedness Organization Staffing and Augmentation System 7111403 06/25/2012 06/29/2012 2, 3 IP Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies 7111405 06/25/2012 06/29/2012 2, 3 IP Drill/Exercise Performance 71151-EP01 06/25/2012 06/29/2012 2, 3 IP ERO Drill Participation 71151-EP02 06/25/2012 06/29/2012 2, 3 IP A lert & Notification System 71151-EP03 06/25/2012 06/29/2012 RS5678-RADIATION SAFETY TEAM INSPECTION 4 2, 3 IP Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation 71124.05 07/23/2012 07/27/2012 2, 3 IP Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment 71124.06 07/23/2012 07/27/2012 2, 3 IP Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program 71124.07 07/23/2012 07/27/2012 2, 3 IP Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation 71124.08 07/23/2012 07/27/2012 BRQ INSP-BRQ INSPECTION 2 2, 3 IP Licensed Operator Requalification Program 7111111B 07/30/2012 08/03/2012 EXAM-INITIAL OPERATOR EXAM 6 2 INTIAL EXAM UNIT 2- SONGS (01/01/2012)

X02494 09/10/2012 09/14/2012 3 INTIAL EXAM FOR SONGS, UNIT 3, START DATE (01/01/2012)

X02495 09/10/2012 09/14/2012 2 INTIAL EXAM UNIT 2- SONGS (01/01/2012)

X02494 10/15/2012 10/19/2012 3 INTIAL EXAM FOR SONGS, UNIT 3, START DATE (01/01/2012)

X02495 10/15/2012 10/19/2012 TI-182-UNDERGROUND PIPING PHASE 1 2 2, 3 IP Review of the Implementation of the Industry Initiative to Control Degradation of Underground Piping 2515/182 01/01/2013 06/30/2013 EP1-BIENNIAL EXERCISE INSPECTION 4 2, 3 IP Exercise Evaluation 7111401 05/20/2013 05/24/2013 This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.

Page 2 of 2 02/29/2012 07:28:40 Report 22 Unit Number Planned Dates Start End Inspection Activity Title No. of Staff on Site San Onofre Inspection / Activity Plan 04/01/2012

-06/30/2013 EB2-05T-TRIENNIAL FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTION 4 2, 3 IP Fire Protection [Triennial]

7111105T 06/10/2013 06/14/2013 2, 3 IP Fire Protection [Triennial]

7111105T 06/24/2013 06/28/2013 This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.