ML022380396

2002 Indian Point 3 Mid-Cycle Performance Review and Inspection Plan

ML022380396
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	08/26/2002
From:	Eselgroth P Division Reactor Projects I
To:	Barrett R Entergy Nuclear Operations
References
FOIA/PA-2003-0379, FOIA/PA-2003-0388
Download: ML022380396 (6)

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August 26, 2002 Mr. Robert J. Barrett Vice President, Operations Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit 3 295 Broadway, Suite 3 Post Office Box 308 Buchanan, NY 10511-0308

SUBJECT:

MID-CYCLE PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND INSPECTION PLAN -

INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING UNIT 3

Dear Mr. Barrett:

On August 7, 2002, the NRC staff completed its mid-cycle plant performance assessment of Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit 3 (Indian Point 3). In accordance with NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0305, Operating Reactor Assessment Program, the mid-cycle review involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating the performance of your Indian Point 3 facility for the first half of the current assessment cycle, January 1 - 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 which may conflict with your plant activities.

Plant performance for the most recent quarter was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only baseline inspections at your facility through September 30, 2003.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled for the next year. 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 are tentative and may be revised at the end-of-cycle review.

In addition, the NRC is in the process of finalizing a Temporary Instruction (TI) that will be used to review implementation of the Interim Compensatory Measures required by the Agencys Security Order to all commercial nuclear power plants, dated February 25, 2002. Schedules have not yet been finalized, but it is anticipated that these inspections will begin within the next calendar quarter. Once finalized, the details will be communicated by separate correspondence.

Robert J. Barrett 2 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 Electronic Reading Room).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change the inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at (610) 337-5234 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Peter W. Eselgroth, Chief Projects Branch 2 Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-286 License No. DPR-64

Enclosure:

Indian Point 3 Inspection/ Activity Plan

Robert J. Barrett 3 cc w/encl: J. Yelverton, Chief Executive Officer M. Kansler, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer J. DeRoy, General Manager of Plant Operations D. Pace, Vice President - Engineering J. Knubel, Vice President Operations Support F. Dacimo, Vice President - Operations J. Kelly, Director - Licensing C. D. Faison, Manager - Licensing H. P. Salmon, Jr., Director of Oversight J. Comiotes, Director, Nuclear Safety Assurance J. McCann, Manager, Nuclear Safety and Licensing Mayor, Village of Buchanan J. G. Testa, Mayor, City of Peekskill J. M. Fulton, Assistant General Counsel W. Flynn, President, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority J. Spath, Program Director, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority P. D. Eddy, Electric Division, New York State Department of Public Service C. Donaldson, Esquire, Assistant Attorney General, New York Department of Law R. Schwartz, SRC Consultant R. Toole, SRC Consultant C. Hehl, SRC Consultant R. Albanese, Executive Chair, Four County Nuclear Safety Committee S. Lousteau, Treasury Department, Entergy Services, Inc.

Chairman, Standing Committee on Energy, NYS Assembly Chairman, Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation, NYS Assembly Chairman, Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, NYS Assembly C. Terry, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation County Clerk, Westchester County Legislature A. Spano, Westchester County Executive R. Bondi, Putnam County Executive C. Vanderhoef, Rockland County Executive E. A. Diana, Orange County Executive M. Elie, Citizens Awareness Network J. Riccio, Greenpeace F. Zalcman, Pace Law School, Energy Project A. Matthiessen, Executive Director, Riverkeeper, Inc.

P. Leventhal, The Nuclear Control Institute K. Copeland, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic R. Witherspoon, The Journal News

Robert J. Barrett 4 Distribution w/encl: H. Miller, RA/J. Wiggins, DRA (1)

A. Blough, DRP W. Lanning, DRS J. Clifford, DRP B. Holian, DRP R. Crlenjak, DRS H. Nieh, RI EDO Coordinator S. Richards, NRR (ridsnrrdlpmlpdi)

P. Milano, PM, NRR G. Vissing, Backup PM, NRR Ridsnrrdipmlipb D. Screnci, PAO N. Sheehan, PAO P. Eselgroth, DRP DRS Branch Chiefs (5)

S. Barber, DRP W. Cook, DRP R. Junod, DRP R. Martin, DRP P. Drysdale, SRI - Indian Point 3 L. Scholl, DRS J. McFadden, DRS P. Frechette, DRS D. Silk, DRS B. Platchek, DRP Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)

DOCUMENT NAME: G:\BRANCH2\ROP-3 FILES\IP3 MID-CYCLE LETTER 2002.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 WCook /WAC/ PEselgroth /PWE/ BHolian /BEH/

DATE 08/26/02 08/26/02 08/26/02 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

Page 1 of 2 Indian Point 3 08/22/2002 16:30:48 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 06/30/2002 - 09/30/2003 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type 7112203 - PUB RAD SAFETY - REMP 1 3 IP 7112203 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program 07/08/2002 07/12/2002 Baseline Inspections 71152B - PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION 3 3 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 09/16/2002 09/20/2002 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 09/30/2002 10/04/2002 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 3 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 09/09/2002 09/13/2002 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 09/09/2002 09/13/2002 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 09/09/2002 09/13/2002 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 09/09/2002 09/13/2002 Baseline Inspections 711111B - U3 L.O.REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM 2 3 IP 7111111B Licensed Operator Requalification 09/16/2002 09/20/2002 Baseline Inspections 7111401 - EXERCISE EVALUATION 2 3 IP 7111401 Exercise Evaluation 10/14/2002 10/18/2002 Baseline Inspections 7111117B - MODS & 50.59 3 3 IP 7111102 Evaluation of Changes, Tests, or Experiments 10/21/2002 10/25/2002 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111117B Permanent Plant Modifications 10/21/2002 10/25/2002 Baseline Inspections 71151 - PUB RAD SAFETY PI VERIFICATION 2 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 11/04/2002 11/08/2002 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 3 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 01/13/2003 01/17/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 01/13/2003 01/17/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 01/13/2003 01/17/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 01/13/2003 01/17/2003 Baseline Inspections 7112201 - PUB RAD SAFETY - RETS 1 3 IP 7112201 Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment and Monitoring Systems 02/03/2003 02/07/2003 Baseline Inspections 3/10+EXM - U3 OPERATOR LICENSING INITIAL EXAMS 3 3 U01504 INDIAN POINT 3 INITIAL EXAM (3/10/03) 02/09/2003 02/13/2003 Not Applicable 3 U01504 INDIAN POINT 3 INITIAL EXAM (3/10/03) 03/10/2003 03/21/2003 Not Applicable 7111108 - INSERVICE INSPECTION 2 3 IP 2515/145 Circumferential Cracking of Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles (NRC Bulletin 2001-01) 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 Safety Issues 3 IP 7111108 Inservice Inspection Activities 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 3 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 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 Indian Point 3 08/22/2002 16:30:48 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 06/30/2002 - 09/30/2003 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 04/07/2003 04/11/2003 Baseline Inspections 7111112B - MAINTENANCE RULE 1 3 IP 7111112B Maintenance Effectiveness 06/02/2003 06/06/2003 Baseline Inspections 71122.02 - RADWASTE 1 3 IP 7112202 Radioactive Material Processing and Transportation 07/07/2003 07/11/2003 Baseline Inspections 71130 - SECURITY 1 3 IP 7113001 Access Authorization Program (Behavior Observation Only) 07/14/2003 07/18/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7113002 Access Control (Search of Personnel, Packages, and Vehicles: Identification and Authorization) 07/14/2003 07/18/2003 Baseline Inspections 7111107B - HEAT SINK 1 3 IP 7111107B Heat Sink Performance 08/18/2003 08/22/2003 Baseline Inspections 71121 - OCC RAD SAFETY 1 3 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 09/29/2003 10/03/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 09/29/2003 10/03/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 09/29/2003 10/03/2003 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 09/29/2003 10/03/2003 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

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