ML25174A343

(Quad) Information Request for the Cyber-Security Baseline Inspection Notification to Perform Inspection 05000254/2025401 05000265/2025401

ML25174A343
Person / Time
Site:	Quad Cities
Issue date:	06/23/2025
From:	Fay K NRC/RGN-III/DORS/EB2
To:	Rhoades D Constellation Energy Generation, Constellation Nuclear
References
IR 2025401
Download: ML25174A343 (1)

See also: IR 05000254/2025401

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David P. Rhoades

Senior Vice President

Constellation Energy Generation, LLC

President and Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO)

Constellation Nuclear

4300 Winfield Road

Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

QUAD CITIES NUCLEAR POWER STATION (QUAD), INFORMATION

REQUEST FOR THE CYBER-SECURITY BASELINE INSPECTION,

NOTIFICATION TO PERFORM INSPECTION 05000254/2025401;

05000265/2025401

Dear David Rhoades:

On August 25, 2025, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will begin a baseline

inspection in accordance with Inspection Procedure (IP) 71130.10 Cyber-Security, Revision 0

at your Quad Cities Station. The inspection will be performed to evaluate and verify your ability

to meet the NRCs Cyber-Security Rule, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 73,

Section 54, Protection of Digital Computer and Communication Systems and Networks. The

onsite portion of the inspection will take place August 25-29, 2025.

Experience has shown that baseline inspections are extremely resource intensive, both for the

NRC inspectors and the licensee staff. In order to minimize the inspection impact on the site

and to ensure a productive inspection for both parties, we have enclosed a request for

documents needed for the inspection. These documents have been divided into four groups.

The first group specifies information necessary to assist the inspection team in choosing the

focus areas (i.e., sample set) to be inspected by the cyber-security IP. This information should

be made available electronically no later than July 14, 2025. The inspection team will review this

information and, by July 18, 2025, will request the specific items that should be provided for

review.

The second group of additional requested documents will assist the inspection team in the

evaluation of the critical systems and critical digital assets (CSs/CDAs), defensive architecture,

and the areas of the licensees Cyber-Security Plan (CSP) selected for the cyber-security

inspection. This information will be requested for review in the regional office prior to the

inspection Aug 11, 2025, as identified above.

The third group of requested documents consists of those items that the inspection team will

review, or need access to, during the inspection. Please have this information available by the

first day of the onsite inspection, August 25, 2025.

June 23, 2025

D. Rhoades

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The fourth group of information is necessary to aid the inspection team in tracking issues

identified as a result of the inspection. It is requested that this information be provided to the

lead inspector as the information is generated during the inspection. It is important that all of

these documents are up-to-date and complete in order to minimize the number of additional

documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection.

The lead inspector for this inspection is Kevin Fay. We understand that our regulatory contact for

this inspection is Richard Swat of your organization. If there are any questions about the

inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector at

630-829-9866 or via email at Kevin.Fay@NRC.gov.

This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection

requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, Control

Number 3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or 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 Office of Management and Budget control

number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,

of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available

electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly

Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC website at

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

Kevin Fay, Senior Reactor Inspector

Engineering Branch 2

Division of Operating Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-254 and 50-265

License Nos. DPR-29 and DPR-30

Enclosure:

Cyber-Security Inspection

Document Request

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Signed by Fay, Kevin

on 06/23/25

D. Rhoades

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Letter to David Rhoades from Kevin Fay dated June 23, 2025.

SUBJECT:

QUAD CITIES NUCLEAR POWER STATION (QUAD), INFORMATION

REQUEST FOR THE CYBER-SECURITY BASELINE INSPECTION,

NOTIFICATION TO PERFORM INSPECTION 05000254/2025401;

05000265/2025401

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QUAD CITIES CYBER-SECURITY INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

Enclosure

Inspection Report: 05000254/2025401; 05000265/2025401

Inspection Dates:

August 25-29, 2025

Inspection Procedure:

IP 71130.10, Cyber-Security, Revision 0

NRC Inspectors:

Kevin Fay, Lead

Musab Abuhamdan

630-829-9866

630-829-9633

Kevin.Fay@nrc.gov

Musab.Abuhamdan@nrc.gov

NRC Contractors:

Justin Bowden

Charles Simpson

Justin Bowden@nrc.gov

Charles.Simpson@nrc.gov

I.

Information Requested for In-Office Preparation

The initial request for information (i.e., first RFI) concentrates on providing the

inspection team with the general information necessary to select appropriate

components and Cyber-Security Plan (CSP) elements to develop a site-specific

inspection plan. The first RFI is used to identify the list of critical systems and critical

digital assets (CSs/CDAs) plus operational and management (O&M) security control

portions of the CSP to be chosen as the sample set required to be inspected by the

cyber-security IP. The first RFIs requested information is specified below in Table

RFI #1. The Table RFI #1 information is requested to be provided to the regional

office by July 14,2025, or sooner, to facilitate the selection of the specific items that

will be reviewed during the onsite inspection weeks.

The inspection team will examine the returned documentation from the first RFI and

identify/select specific systems and equipment (e.g., CSs/CDAs) to provide a more

focused follow-up request to develop the second RFI. The inspection team will

submit the specific systems and equipment list to your staff by July 18, 2025, which

will identify the specific systems and equipment that will be utilized to evaluate the

CSs/CDAs, defensive architecture, and the areas of the licensees CSP selected for

the cyber-security inspection. We request that the additional information provided

from the second RFI be made available to the regional office prior to the inspection,

by August 11, 2025.

The required Table RFI #1 information shall be provided electronically to the lead

inspector by July 14, 2025. If a compact disc (CD) is provided, please provide four

copies (one for each inspector/contactor). The preferred file format for all lists is a

searchable Excel spreadsheet file. These files should be indexed and hyperlinked

to facilitate ease of use. If you have any questions regarding this information,

please call the inspection team leader as soon as possible.

QUAD CITIES CYBER-SECURITY INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

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Table RFI #1

Request:

IP Ref

1

A list of all Identified CSs/CDAs-highlight/note any additions,

deletions, reclassifications due to new guidance from white papers,

changes to NEI 10-04, 13-10, etc., since the last cyber-security

inspection

Overall

2

A list of Emergency Preparedness and Security onsite and offsite

digital communication systems

Overall

3

Network Topology Diagrams to include information and data flow for

critical systems in Levels 2, 3 and 4 (If available)

Overall

4

Ongoing Monitoring and Assessment program documentation

03.01(a)

5

The most recent effectiveness analysis of the Cyber-Security

Program

03.01(b)

6

Vulnerability screening/assessment and scan program documentation

03.01(c)

7

Cyber-Security Incident response documentation, including incident

detection, response, and recovery documentation as well as

contingency plan development, implementation and including any

program documentation that requires testing of security boundary

device functionality

03.02(a)

and

03.04(b)

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Device Access and Key Control documentation

03.02(c)

9

Password/Authenticator documentation

03.02(c)

10

User Account/Credential documentation

03.02(d)

11

Portable Media and Mobile Device control documentation, including

kiosk security control assessment/documentation

03.02(e)

12

Design change/modification program documentation and a list of all

design changes that affected CDAs that have been installed and

completed since the last cyber-security inspection, including either a

summary of the design change or the 50.59 documentation of the

change

03.03(a)

13

Supply Chain Management documentation including any security

impact analysis for new acquisitions

03.03(a),

(b) and

(c)

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14

Configuration Management documentation including any security

impact analysis performed due to configuration changes since the last

inspection

03.03(a)

and (b)

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Cyber-Security Plan and any 50.54(p) analysis to support changes to

the plan since the last inspection

03.04(a)

16

Cyber-Security Metrics tracked (if applicable)

03.06 (b)

17

Provide documentation describing any cyber-security changes to the

access authorization program since the last cyber-security inspection

Overall

18

Provide a list of all procedures and policies provided to the NRC with

their descriptive name and associated number (if available)

Overall

19

Performance testing report (if applicable)

03.06 (a)

In addition to the above information please provide the following:

(1)

Electronic copy of the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR)

and Technical Specifications;

(2)

Name(s) and phone numbers for the regulatory and technical contacts; and

(3)

Current management and engineering organizational charts.

Based on this information, the inspection team will identify and select specific systems

and equipment (e.g., CSs/CDAs) from the information requested by Table RFI #1 and

submit a list of specific systems and equipment to your staff by July 18, 2025, for the

second RFI (i.e., RFI #2).

II.

Additional Information Requested to be Available Prior to Inspection

As stated in Section I above, the inspection team will examine the returned

documentation requested from Table RFI #1 and submit the list of specific systems

and equipment to your staff by July 18, 2025, for the second RFI (i.e., RFI #2). The

second RFI will request additional information required to evaluate the CSs/CDAs,

defensive architecture, and the areas of the licensees CSP selected for the

cyber-security inspection. The additional information requested for the specific systems

and equipment is identified in Table RFI #2.

The Table RFI #2 information shall be provided electronically to the lead inspector by

August 11. 2025. If a CD is provided, please provide four copies (one for each

inspector/contactor). The preferred file format for all lists is a searchable Excel

spreadsheet file. These files should be indexed and hyperlinked to facilitate ease of

use. If you have any questions regarding this information, please call the inspection

team leader as soon as possible.

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Table RFI #2

Request

Items

For the system(s) chosen for inspection provide:

1

Ongoing Monitoring and Assessment activity performed on the

system(s)

03.01(a)

2

All Security Control Assessments for the selected system(s)

03.01(a)

All vulnerability screenings/assessments associated with or scans

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performed on the selected system(s) since the last cyber-security

inspection

03.01(c)

Documentation (including configuration files and rules sets) for

Network-based Intrusion Detection/Protection Systems (NIDS/NIPS),

4

Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS), and Security

Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems for system(s)

chosen for inspection

03.02(b)

Documentation (including configuration files and rule sets) for

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intra-security level firewalls and boundary devices used to protect

the selected system(s)

03.02(c)

6

Copies of all periodic reviews of the access authorization list for the

selected systems since the last inspection

03.02(d)

7

Baseline configuration data sheets for the selected CDAs

03.03(a)

8

Documentation on any changes, including Security Impact Analyses,

performed on the selected system(s) since the last inspection

03.03(b)

9

Copies of the purchase order documentation for any new equipment

purchased for the selected systems since the last inspection

03.03(c)

10

Copies of any cyber-security drills performed since the last

inspection, along with any reports or assessments generated

03.02(a)

03.04(b)

Copy of the individual recovery plan(s) for the selected system(s)

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including documentation of the results the last time the backups

were executed

03.02(a)

03.04(b)

Corrective actions taken as a result of cyber-security

12

incidents/issues to include previous NRC violations and Licensee

Identified Violations since the last cyber-security inspection

03.04(d)

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III.

Information Requested to be Available on First Day of Inspection

For the specific systems and equipment identified in Section II above, provide the

following RFI (i.e., Table 1ST Week Onsite) electronically by August 25, 2025, the first

day of the inspection.

Table 1ST Week Onsite

Request:

Items

1

Any cyber-security event reports submitted in accordance with

10 CFR 73.77 since the last cyber-security inspection

03.04(a)

Updated Copies of corrective actions taken as a result of

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cyber-security incidents/issues, to include previous NRC violations

and Licensee Identified Violations since the last cyber-security

inspection, as well as vulnerability-related corrective actions

03.04(d)

In addition to the above information please provide the following:

(1)

Copies of the following documents do not need to be solely available to the

inspection team as long as the inspectors have easy and unrestrained access

to them.

a. UFSAR, if not previously provided;

b. Original Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) Volumes;

c.

Original Safety Evaluation Report (SER) and Supplements;

d. FSAR Question and Answers;

e. Quality Assurance (QA) Plan;

f.

Technical Specifications, if not previously provided; and

g.

Latest Individual Plant Examination and Probabilistic Risk

Assessment (IPE/PRA) Report.

(2)

Vendor Manuals, Assessment and Corrective Actions:

a. The most recent Cyber-Security QA audit and/or self-assessment; and

b.

Corrective action documents (e.g., condition reports, including status of

corrective actions) generated as a result of the most recent

Cyber-Security QA audit and/or self-assessment.

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IV.

Information Requested to be Provided Throughout the Inspection

(1) Copies of any corrective action documents generated as a result of

the inspection teams questions or queries during the inspection.

(2) Copies of the list of questions submitted by the inspection team members

and the status/resolution of the information requested (provided daily

during the inspection to each inspection team member).

If you have any questions regarding the information requested, please contact the inspection

team leader.