ML18092B147

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Responds to NRC 860324 Ltr Re Deviations on Training of QC Inspectors Noted in Insp Repts 50-272/86-05 & 50-311/86-05. Corrective Actions:Personnel Trained Per IE Bulletin 79-19
ML18092B147
Person / Time
Site: Salem  PSEG icon.png
Issue date: 05/09/1986
From: Corbin McNeil
Public Service Enterprise Group
To: Martin T
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
References
IEB-79-19, NLR-N86053, NUDOCS 8605200310
Download: ML18092B147 (3)


See also: IR 05000272/1986005

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Public Service Electric and Gas Company Corbin A. McNeill, Jr. Vice President

-Public Service Electric and Gas Company P.O. Box 236, Hancocks Bridge. NJ 08038 609 339-4800 Nuclear * * May 9, 1986 NLR-N86053

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission

Region I 631 Park Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19406 Attention:

Thomas T. Martin, Director _ Radiation

Safety and Safeguards

Dear Mr. Martin: NRC COMBINED INSPECTION

50-272/86-05

and 50-311/86-05

SALEM GENERATING

STATION UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2 DOCKET NOS. 50-272 and 50-311 Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is in receipt of your letters dated April 30 and March 24, 1986, which withdrew a Notice of Violation

regarding

a failure to verify leak testing of radioactive

waste shipment packaging

and which transmitted

a Deviation

regarding

training of quality control inspectors, respectively.

Per your request, our response to the Deviation

is provided in Attachment

1. Your March 24, 1986 letter also included an unresolved

item related to the radiological

controls associated

with the handling and preparation

of primary reactor coolant system demineralizer

resins for disposal.

We recognize

your concern and are addressing

its resolution.

Attachment

S' (\\ 3 t d -I I

, ... .) Mr. Thomas T. Martin c Mr. Donald C. Fischer Licensing

Project Manager Mr. Thomas J. Kenny Senior Resident Inspector

-2-R. R. Bellamy, Chief Radiological

Protection

Branch 5/9/86

  • . * J...;. (I* * :* -\.. * .i -, ' . ATTACHMENT

1 PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS SALEM GENERATING

STATION RESPONSE TO NOTICE OF DEVIATION

Your letter, dated March 24, 1986, identified

a deviation

from commitments

to IE Bulletin No. 79-19, "Packaging

of Low-Level

Radioactive

Waste For Transport

and Burial." As stated therein, the deviation

was the result of a failure to provide training in changes to NRC and DOT regulations (which were effective

in 1983) for two (2) quality control inspectors

involved in five (5) radioactive

waste shipments

in 1985. 1. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS DOES NOT DISPUTE THE DEVIATION.

2. THE ROOT CAUSE WAS THE FAILURE OF THE QUALITY ASSURANCE

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

PROGRAM TO ADMINISTRATIVELY

CONTROL SUPPLEMENTAL

TRAINING OF QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTORS

IN RADWASTE HANDLING, PACKAGING

AND TRANSPORTATION.

3. IMMEDIATE

CORRECTIVE

ACTIONS: a. All .involved

Quality Control inspection

were provided supplemental

training in the subject area in accordance

with our response to Bulletin 79-19. 4. LONG TERM CORRECTIVE

ACTIONS: a. The Quality Assurance

Training and Certification

Program will pe reviewed and revised as necessary

to: 1) identify any other area of omission, and 2) to ensure that the program specifically

provides for and controls supplemental

training for radwaste handling, package and transportation

as part of the Quality Control inspector's

annual proficiency

review process. 5. FULL COMPLIANCE

WILL BE ACHIEVED BY JUNE 2, 1986.