ML070680073

03/14/2007 Meeting with Arizona Public Service Company and Synergy Plans for Conducting a Third-Party Safety Culture Assessment at Palo Verde Generating Station

ML070680073
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	03/09/2007
From:	Markley M NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLIV
To:	Terao D NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLIV
Markley, M T, NRR/DORL/LP4, 301-415-5723
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FOIA/PA-2007-0157
Download: ML070680073 (5)

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March 9, 2007MEMORANDUM TO:David Terao, Chief Plant Licensing Branch IV

Division of Operating Reactor LicensingFROM:Michael T. Markley, Project Manager

/RA/Plant Licensing Branch IV

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing

SUBJECT:

FORTHCOMING CLOSED MEETING WITH ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY AND SYNERGYDATE & TIME:Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.LOCATION:U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Two White Flint North

11545 Rockville Pike, Room T-7A1

Rockville, MarylandPURPOSE:To discuss Arizona Public Service Company (APS) plans for conducting a third-party safety culture assessment at the Palo Verde Nuclear

Generating Station, as described in NRC Inspection Procedure 95003, "Supplemental Inspection for Repetitive Degraded Cornerstones, Multiple

Degraded Cornerstones, Multiple Yellow Inputs, or One Red Input"

[Agencywide Document Access and Management System Accession No. ML062970393]CATEGORY: This meeting is closed to the public in its entirety to discuss proprietary information about the licensee's safety culture assessment and

methodology.PARTICIPANTS:Participants from the NRC include members of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), Office of Enforcement (OE), Office of Nuclear

Regulatory Research (RES), and Region IV.

NRC APS SynergyV. Barnes, RESM. Markley, NRRJ. CopseyJ. GuilbertJ. Cai, NRRM. Keefe, RESS. BauerH. Levin R. Gramm, NRRT. Pruett, Region IV G. Werner, Region IV, et al.

Docket Nos. STN 50-528, STN 50-529, and STN 50-530

Enclosure:

Agenda (ADAMS Accession No. ML070680073) cc w/encl: See next page MEETING CONTACTS:M. Markley, NRRM. Fields, NRR301-415-5723301-415-3062

mtm@nrc.gov mbf1@nrc.gov

• Commission's Policy Statement on "Enhancing Public Participation in NRC Meetings" (67 FR 36920), May 28, 2002

ML070680073) cc w/encl: See next page MEETING CONTACTS:M. Markley, NRRM. Fields, NRR301-415-5723301-415-3062

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DCullison, EDO RIV ADAMS Accession No: ML070680073OFFICENRR/LPL4/PMNRR/LPL4/LANRR/LPL4/BCNAMEMMarkleyLFeizollahiDTerao DATE3/9/073/9/073/9/07

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station cc: Mr. Steve Olea

Arizona Corporation Commission

1200 W. Washington Street

Phoenix, AZ 85007 Mr. Douglas Kent Porter Senior Counsel

Southern California Edison Company

Law Department, Generation Resources

P.O. Box 800

Rosemead, CA 91770 Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

P.O. Box 40

Buckeye, AZ 85326 Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Harris Tower & Pavillion

611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 Arlington, TX 76011-8064 Chairman Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

301 W. Jefferson, 10th Floor

Phoenix, AZ 85003 Mr. Aubrey V. Godwin, Director Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency

4814 South 40 Street

Phoenix, AZ 85040 Mr. Scott Bauer, Acting General Manager Regulatory Affairs and

Performance Improvement

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

Mail Station 7636

P.O. Box 52034

Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034 Mr. Matthew Benac Assistant Vice President

Nuclear & Generation Services

El Paso Electric Company

340 East Palm Lane, Suite 310

Phoenix, AZ 85004 Mr. John Taylor Public Service Company of New Mexico

2401 Aztec NE, MS Z110

Albuquerque, NM 87107-4224 Mr. Geoffrey M. Cook Southern California Edison Company

5000 Pacific Coast Hwy Bldg N50

San Clemente, CA 92672 Mr. Robert Henry Salt River Project

6504 East Thomas Road

Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Mr. Jeffrey T. Weikert Assistant General Counsel

El Paso Electric Company

Mail Location 167

123 W. Mills El Paso, TX 79901 Mr. John Schumann Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

Southern California Public Power Authority

P.O. Box 51111, Room 1255-C

Los Angeles, CA 90051-0100 Mr. Brian Almon Public Utility Commission

William B. Travis Building

P.O. Box 13326

1701 North Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78701-3326 Ms. Karen O'Regan Environmental Program Manager

City of Phoenix

Office of Environmental Programs

200 West Washington Street

Phoenix AZ 85003 Mr. Randall K. Edington Senior Vice President, Nuclear

Mail Station 7602

Arizona Public Service Company

P. O. Box 52034

Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034 WORKING-LEVEL MEETING WITH ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY AND SYNERGY ON LICENSEE SAFETY CULTURE ASSESSMENT MARCH 14-15, 20071.Introductions2.Background for meeting 3.Discuss the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) expectations for the licensee safetyculture assessment:*Specific aspects that will be evaluated by the NRC are described in Inspection Procedure (IP) 95003 Sections 02.07, 03.07, and relevant enclosures to the IP.*Assessment team must be independent of licensee (including corporate) personnel, conducted by a third party.*All functional groups (including contractors), all management levels (including corporate) must be included with a rationale for sample selection and sizes.*Cross-walk to all 13 of NRC's safety culture components.

• Rationale for method(s) selected and technical basis for combination of methods.

• Technical basis for method(s) (e.g., if a survey is used, documentation of statisticalcharacteristics of survey instrum ent, survey administration protocol).*Assessment tools should consider insights from prior site safety culture assessment, other self-assessments, and NRC findings for the past two years as deserving special attention.4.Meeting closing remarks 5.Adjourn