ML030620587

2003 Annual Assessment Letter - Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 & 2

ML030620587
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Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	03/03/2003
From:	Blough A Division Reactor Projects I
To:	Bezilla M FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
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March 3, 2003 Mr. M. Bezilla Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Post Office Box 4 Shippingport, Pennsylvania 15077

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - BEAVER VALLEY POWER STATION, UNIT 1 & UNIT 2 (REPORT 50-334/2003-001, 50-412/2003-001)

Dear Mr. Bezilla:

On February 10, 2003, the NRC staff completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of your Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit 1 & Unit 2. The end-of-cycle review for Beaver Valley involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2002. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities.

Overall, Beaver Valley Power Station (BVPS) operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment period, was within the Regulatory Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on an inspection finding of low to moderate safety significance (White) in the Emergency Preparedness (EP) cornerstone. This finding involved inadequate maintenance and testing of personal home alerting devices (PHADs), as well as insufficient effort to fully resolve the problem since 1998. PHADs comprise a portion of the public alert and notification system to ensure the capability of alerting members of the public who are located in areas where they may not hear pole-mounted sirens.

The significance of the PHADs finding was finalized in our letter dated June 24, 2002. You informed us of interim and planned permanent corrective actions, including route alerting and installation of additional pole-mounted sirens to eliminate the need for PHADs at a regulatory conference held on May 15, 2002. On February 24-28, 2003, our inspectors conducted a supplemental inspection to evaluate your causal assessment and associated corrective actions.

Pending the results of this inspection, we will determine whether our baseline inspection program in the Emergency Preparedness cornerstone is sufficient to provide us information to monitor the effectiveness of your long-term corrective actions. We will inform you if it is necessary to conduct additional inspection in this cornerstone.

Mr. M. Bezilla 2 The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through March 31, 2004. The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature.

The last six months of the inspection plan is tentative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review meeting.

As you are aware, since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the NRC has issued several Orders and threat advisories to enhance security capabilities and improve guard force readiness.

We have conducted inspections to review your implementation of these requirements and have monitored your actions in response to changing threat conditions. For calendar year 2003, we plan to continue these inspections, conduct portions of the security baseline inspection program, as well as perform additional inspections to evaluate your compliance with new requirements that may be ordered. Based on our final determinations in this regard, we will notify you of any inspection plan changes.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made 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).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact Robert Summers at (610) 337-5109 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

A. Randolph Blough, Director Division of Reactor Projects, Region 1 Docket Nos: 50-334 & 412 License Nos: DPR-66; NPF-73

Enclosure:

Beaver Valley Power Station Inspection / Activity Plan

Mr. M. Bezilla 3 cc w/encl:

J. Lash, Plant General Manager F. von Ahn, Director, Plant Engineering L. Cosgrove, Director, Work Management R. Donnellon, Director, Maintenance M. Pearson, Director, Director Services and Projects L. Freeland, Manager, Nuclear Regulatory Affairs & Corrective Actions M. Clancy, Mayor, Shippingport, PA R. Janati, Chief, Division of Nuclear Safety Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State of Ohio State of West Virginia

Mr. M. Bezilla 4 Distribution w/encl:

Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)

D. Kern, DRP - Senior Resident Inspector H. Miller, RA J. Wiggins, DRA J. Rogge, DRP R. Barkley, DRP P. Maccaglia, Site Secretary DRS Director, Region I DRS Branch Chiefs (5)

P. Kaufman, DRS J. McFadden, DRS G. Smith, DRS D. Silk, DRS B. Platchek, DRP T. McGinty, OEDO R. Laufer, NRR J. Andersen, NRR D. Collins, PM, NRR R. Clark, Backup PM, NRR RidsNrrDipmlipb DOCUMENT NAME: G:\Branch7 - Oyster Creek, Three Mile Island and Beaver Valley\Beaver Valley 2003 EOC Letter Final.wpd After declaring this document An Official Agency Record it will be released to the Public.

To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box: "C" = Copy without attachment/enclosure "E" = Copy with attachment/enclosure "N" = No copy OFFICE RI/DRP RI/DRP RI/DRP NAME RBarkley /RJS for/ RSummers /RJS/ RBlough /ARB/

DATE 02/27/03 03/03/03 03/03/03 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

Page 1 of 2 Beaver Valley 03/03/2003 08:46:26 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 12/29/2002 - 03/27/2004 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 02/03/2003 02/07/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 02/03/2003 02/07/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 02/03/2003 02/07/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 02/03/2003 02/07/2003 Baseline Inspections 71114 - EP PRG RVW 1 1, 2 IP 7111402 Alert and Notification System Testing 02/23/2003 02/28/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111403 Emergency Response Organization Augmentation Testing 02/23/2003 02/28/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111404 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 02/23/2003 02/28/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111405 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies 02/23/2003 02/28/2003 Baseline Inspections 95001 - 95001 PHAD FOLLOW UP 1 1, 2 IP 95001 Supplemental Inspection For One Or Two White Inputs In A Strategic Performance Area 02/24/2003 02/28/2003 Supplemental Program 71151 - EP PI VERIFICATION 1 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 03/10/2003 03/14/2003 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 03/17/2003 03/21/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 03/17/2003 03/21/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 03/17/2003 03/21/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 03/17/2003 03/21/2003 Baseline Inspections 7111108 - INSERVICE INSPECTION 2 1 IP 2515/150 Reactor Pressure Vessel Head and Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles (NRC Bulletin 2002-02) 03/17/2003 03/21/2003 Safety Issues TI148BC - SEC ICM 7 1, 2 IP 2515/148 Inspection of Nuclear Reactor Safeguards - Interim Compensatory Measures 03/17/2003 03/24/2003 Safety Issues 7111108 - INSERVICE INSPECTION 2 1 IP 7111108P Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 03/24/2003 03/28/2003 Baseline Inspections 7111107B - HEAT SINK 1 1, 2 IP 7111107B Heat Sink Performance 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 Baseline Inspections 71122.01 - RETS 1 1, 2 IP 7112201 Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment and Monitoring Systems 05/05/2003 05/09/2003 Baseline Inspections 7111117B - PLANT MODIFICATION 5 1, 2 IP 7111102 Evaluation of Changes, Tests, or Experiments 06/16/2003 06/20/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111117B Permanent Plant Modifications 06/16/2003 06/20/2003 Baseline Inspections 71152B - PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION 4 1, 2 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 07/07/2003 07/11/2003 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

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

Page 2 of 2 Beaver Valley 03/03/2003 08:46:26 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 12/29/2002 - 03/27/2004 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type 71152B - PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION 4 1, 2 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 07/21/2003 07/25/2003 Baseline Inspections 7111108 - INSERVICE INSPECTION - UNIT 2 2 2 IP 2515/150 Reactor Pressure Vessel Head and Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles (NRC Bulletin 2002-02) 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Safety Issues 2 IP 7111108P Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 09/22/2003 09/26/2003 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 10/20/2003 10/24/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 10/20/2003 10/24/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 10/20/2003 10/24/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 10/20/2003 10/24/2003 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 01/05/2004 01/09/2004 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 01/05/2004 01/09/2004 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 01/05/2004 01/09/2004 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 01/05/2004 01/09/2004 Baseline Inspections INSPECT - TRIENNIAL FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTION 3 2 IP 7111105T Fire Protection 01/12/2004 01/16/2004 Baseline Inspections 2 IP 7111105T Fire Protection 01/26/2004 01/30/2004 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 03/08/2004 03/12/2004 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 03/08/2004 03/12/2004 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 03/08/2004 03/12/2004 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 03/08/2004 03/12/2004 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

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