ML20154R254
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June 1, 1988 For: The Comissioners From: T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 1988 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Comissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Administration and Resources Management A Nuclear Reactor Regulation B Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C Nuclear Regulatory Research D*
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data (CRGR Activities) E Governmental & Public Affairs F General Counsel G*
Personnel H Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights I*
Special Projects J*
Enforcement K Consolidaticn L*
Regional Offices M*
Executive Director for Operations N Items Addressed by the Comission 0 Meeting Notices P
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l HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 1988 Surry, Unit 2 At 1513 hours0.0175 days <br />0.42 hours <br />0.0025 weeks <br />5.756965e-4 months <br /> on May 24 a fire was reported to the control room from containment where welding was taking place on the AFW system. The fire was reported to be a blue flame, about two inches high, at the exit of a one inch pipe attached to a flange cover plate connected to a vent line used to vent open systems during RCS maintenance. The fire brigade responded to the call and extinguished the fire at 1530 hours0.0177 days <br />0.425 hours <br />0.00253 weeks <br />5.82165e-4 months <br />. The licensee declared an Unusual Event in accordance with emergency procedures at 1523 hours0.0176 days <br />0.423 hours <br />0.00252 weeks <br />5.795015e-4 months <br />. The Unusual Event was terminated at 1643 hours0.019 days <br />0.456 hours <br />0.00272 weeks <br />6.251615e-4 months <br />.
The source of the flame was determined to be a lco concentration of hydrogen gas in nitrogen, leaking from the pressurizer relief tank (PRT) and out of the vent line used for venting when RCS maintenance work is perfonned. The hydrogen gas was ignited by a welding spark. The hydrogen gas in the PRT was a nonnal occurrence due to operators raising the water level in the pressurizer in preparation for maintenance activities which required opening the RCS.
No personnel were injured. Also, no equipment was damaged. Region II and NRR are following up on the event.
Babcock & Wilcox, Pennsylvania Operations IMPS staff met with R. L. Bruce, Manager of Nuclear Operations and Administration for R&W's Nuclear Power Division, and other BAW management to discuss the company's plans for use of the Apollo, Pennsylvania, facility.
Mr. Bruce stated the company's commitment to resolve the problems at this facility, particularly those related to soil contamination levels above NRC's guidelines for urrestricted use. He informed the staff that the proposed activities at Apollo will include methuds testing for contaminated soil cleanup, temporary storage of contaminated soil, and staging and storage of nuclear reactor components and equipment which are being decontaminated and refurbished at the company's Parks Township, Pennsylvania, facility. B&W plans to revise its application for licensing renewal to incorporate these activities and to delete its previous proposal to conduct nuclear service work on reactor components at the Apollo facility, similar to work now performed at Parks Township. The revised renewal application is expected in about two months.
GAO Audit of Military Master Broad Licenses On May 25, 1988, representatives from GAO met with HMSS staff to discuss their upcoming audit of the Mil itary Master Broad Licenses. Their audit will include the Air Force and Navy Master Broad Licenses and the individual licenses issued to the' Army. The audit will be done over the next several months, with visits to Regions 11 and IV.
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OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT l ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS - 1988 l l
For 6-Day Period of May 19, 1988 - May 26, 1988 I
Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision
. Received This Week 22 1 Canpleted This Week 8 1 Carryovers From 1987 157 33 Received In 1988 288 30 Granted In 1988 225 11 Denied In 1988 98 32 Pending 122 20 ACTIONS THIS WEEK l
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Patty Day, Requests a copy of SECY-87-237.
NUS Corporation (88-267)
Patty Day, Requests a copy of SECY-88-57.
NUS Corporation .
(88-268)
H. Richard Chambers, Requests copies of all records dealing with three Consumers Power specified meetings betwaen consultants of MHB (88-269) Technical Associates and NRC staff regarding the Midland nuclear power plant.
H. Richard Chambers, Requests copies of all records relating to all Consumers Power telephone conversations between James Keppler and any.
(88-270) persons related to the Association of Businesses Advocating Tariff Equity regarding the Midland nuclear power plant.
Joseph M. Felto' Requests an unredacted copy of an OI list of cases Nuclear Licen.ing referred to D0J.
Reports *
(88-271)
CONTACT: Donnie H. Grimsley 492-7211 MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
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2 Received, Cont'd
, Louise Ponce Requests records regarding any contamination on the (88-272) properties located on West Central Avenue, Maywood, New Jersey.
John Willison Requests the job title, grade and step of a specified (88-273) NRC empioyee.-
Mark Phillis, Requests copies of SECY-87-309 with any attachments ,
Bishop., Cook, and the related March 2, 1988 staff requirements memo.
Purcell & Reynolds (88-274)
Phillip Henzler, Requests a list of all NRC contracts awarded since Resource Technical July 1, 1987, that contains three specified categories Services, Inc. of information.
(88-275)
(NRCemployee) Requests copies of the Forrr NRC-178, a record (88-276) identifying the rating panel, and any panel notes for Vacancy Announcement No. 88-8099.
Edward Labas Requests records '* ding alleged violations at (88-277) Harvard Medical Sci. 1 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Art Gray, Requests infomstion on the subinission of a grant / loan i Groy & Company request. I (88-278)
T. C. Feigenbaum, Requests a list of byproduct, source, and special Pu.,lic Service of nuclear materici licensees for Haverhill, New Hampshire Massachusetts.
(88-279) l Robert Belair, Requests copies of all records dated November 1, 1987, Kirkpatrick & to date relating to (1) a FEMA-graded exercise on I Lockhart radiological emergency response for the Shoreham (88-280) nuclear power plant, and (2) Revision 9 of LILC0's emergency plan for the Shoreham plant.
Stephen Duggan, Requests copies of records on testing of 3M ionizer Consulting Engineer equipment used by Medtronics, Inc., plants in Puerto (88-231) Rico.
Stephen Duggan, Requests copies of records on testing of 3M ionizer Consulting Engineer equipment located at Medtronics, Inc., plants in (88-282) Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Stephen Duggan, Requests copies of records on testing of 3M ionizer Consulting Engineer equipment located at Medtronics, Inc., plants in (88-283) Tempe, Arizona.
MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
3 Received, Cont'd Douglas Carrey-Beaver, Requests records concerning commitments, I The Comonwealth modifications, and/or exemptions at the Pilgrim of Massachusetts nuclear power plant related to the fire protection (88-284) requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R. l Douglas Carrey-Beaver, Requests records concerning the NRC's review of l The Comonwealth the utility's proposed Safety Enhancement Program of Massachusetts for the Pilgrim nuclear power plant.
(88:285) 1 Douglas Carrey-Beaver, Requests records concerning the Restart Plan submitted i The Comonwealth on July 30, 1987 by Boston Edison Company to the NRC l of Massachusetts for the restart of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant.
(88-286)
Douglas Carrey-Beaver, Requests records relating to supplementary The Comonwealth Confinnatory Action Letter 86-10, issued by the NRC of Massachusetts on August 27, 1986, relating to the Pilgrim nuclear (88-287) power plant.
Tab Wilkins, Requests a listing of SBIR Phase I awards from FY 87 New York State by state.
Science are Technolog ioundation (88-288 Charles Elliott, APPEAL TO THE ED0 for the lack of response to a request Brose and for records relating to General Electric BWRs produced Poswistilo pursuant to any contract awarded under RFP RS-NRR (88-A-30-88-168) 092, "Severe Accident Consequences Mitigation."
Granted Mark Phillis, In response to a request for a copy of SECY-88-70, Bishop, Cook, made available a copy of the requested record.
Purcell & Reynolds (88-201)
Kristine Albrecht, In response to a request for records related to a 1984 Food Irradiation cobalt spill at International Neutronics, Dover, New Response Jersey, informed the requester that the NRC located no (88-253) agency records subject to this request.
Patty Day, In response to a request for copies of (1) BWR-0G-8121, NUS Corporation (2) BWR-0G-8118, and (3) letter dated December 13, (88-259) 1983, from D. Eisenhut to Bucholz regarding NUREG-0737, Item II.X.3.30, informed the requester that item 3 is already available at the PDR. Informed the requester that the NRC did not locate items 1 and 2.
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4 Granted, Cont'd f Patty Day, In response to a request for a copy of the NRC Safety NUS Corporation Evaluation dated August 7, 1982, regarding NUREG-0737, (88-260) Item II.K.3.44, "Evaluation of Anticipated Transient Combined with Singles Failures," informed the requester that the record is already available at the PDR.
Paul Heike In response to a request for records of New England (88-261) Nuclear's violatiens of HRC's rlgulations and guidelines with respect to interstate packaging, shipping, and classification of radioactive materials during the years 1983 and 1984, made available three records.
Denied Robert Belair, In response to a request-for copies of all records Kirkpatrick & related to (1) records submitted by LILCO relating to Lockhart a January 14, 1988 meeting on the Shoreham nuclear (88-63) power plant and (2) recards relating to any comunications during the period March 1987 to the present between LILC0 and NRC pertaining to Shoreham, made available one record. Informed the requester that three records subject to this request are already available at the PDR. Denied one record in its entirety and portions of one record, disclosure of which would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process.
Patrick Small. In response to a request for 1987 Quarterly Reports for FOI Services, Inc. the 3M Company, denied in their entirety those records (88-256) containing confidential business (proprietary) information.
MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
DIVISION OF CONTRACTS & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 1988 PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP No: RS-RES-88-073
Title:
"Environmentally-Assisted Cracking in Nuclear Grade Steel"
Description:
Develop analytical methodologies, test procedures, and data bases relating to the resistance to (or susceptibility to) environmentally assisted fatigue and fatigue crack growth of nuclear grade steels and weldments.
Period of Performance: 4 years Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: RFP closed on May 25, 1988. Proposals forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on May 26, 1988.
RFP No.: RS-ARM-88-230
Title:
"ITS End User Support Services"
Description:
The contractor shall assist end-users of microcomputers and NRC users of the National Institutes of Health Computer Facility to resolve application problems, develop specifically defined end-o~'r tools and systems, and assist end-use.s in making effective use of ADP equipment and services.
These services are performed on-site at NRC facilities in Bethesda/Rockville, Maryland area.
Period of Performance: 2 years Sponsor: Office of Administration and Resources Management Status: Negotiations have been completed. Best and Final offers are due on June 6, 1988.
RFP No.: RS-PER-88-364 l
Title:
"Operation and Maintenance of the Information l Technology Services Training Laboratory"
Description:
Contractor will be required to provide ADP training to managers and other technical and non-technical end-users. ,
Period of Performance: 3 year period Sponsor: Office of Personnel Status: Best and Final offers received on May 26, 1988 and forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on May 26, 1988. 1 MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE A l
DIVISION OF CONTRACTS & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 1988 RFP: RS-ARM-88-207
Title:
"Purchase of Modems and Ancillary Equipment"
Description:
The modems and ancillary data communications equipment will replace leased equipment. They will be purchased as needed under a requirements contract.
Period of Performance: Date of Award through September 30, 1990.
Spensor: Office of Administration and Resources Management Status: Best and Final offers were received on May 23, 1988, and forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on May 24, 1988.
RFP: RS-ARM 79 .
Title:
Purchase o1 Modems
Description:
V.22 bis codems to support NRC personal computera will be purchased as required under a requirements contract.
Period of Performance: FY88 through FY90 Sponsor: Office of Administration and Resources Management Status: Best and Final offers received on May 26, 1988, and forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on May 27, 1988.
SOLICITATION ISSUED RFP No.: RS-SBIR-88-098
Title:
"Small Business Innovation Research Program"
Description:
This is a special program providing multiple contract awards exclusively for science-based and high-technology small business firms. NRC will support high quality research proposals on important scientific or engineering problems and opportunities that could lead to significant advancement in the safety of nuclear operations or nuclear power plants.
Status: RFP issued May 23, 1988. Proposals are due on July 7, 1988. ,
MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
1 0FFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION j ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending May 27, 1988 Hatch Units 1 and 2 Hatch Unit 1 is shutdown to repair a leak in the RWCU piping. Two attempts have been made to repair the leak at a T joint in the 3" piping. Each repair effort has failed the subsequent radiography. The licensee now intends to cut l out a section of the piping and make the repair with replacement pipe. j Repairs to the 2N21-F0068 valve were completed on 5/21/88. Unit 2 has sb rted up and was synchronized to the grid at 1137 hour0.0132 days <br />0.316 hours <br />0.00188 weeks <br />4.326285e-4 months <br /> on 5/23/88.
Surry, Unit 2 At 1513 hours0.0175 days <br />0.42 hours <br />0.0025 weeks <br />5.756965e-4 months <br /> on May 24 a fire was reported to the control room from containment where welding was taking place on the AFW system. The fire was reported to be a blue flame, about two inches high, at the exit of a one inch pipe attached to a flange cover plate connected to a vent line used to vent open systems during RCS maintenance. The fire brigade responded to the call and extinguished the fire at 1530 hours0.0177 days <br />0.425 hours <br />0.00253 weeks <br />5.82165e-4 months <br />. The licensee declared an Unusual Event in accordance with emergency procedures at 1523 hours0.0176 days <br />0.423 hours <br />0.00252 weeks <br />5.795015e-4 months <br />. The Unusual Event was terminated at 1643 hours0.019 days <br />0.456 hours <br />0.00272 weeks <br />6.251615e-4 months <br />.
The source of the flame was determined to be a low concentration of hydrogen gas in nitrogen, leaking from the pressurizer relief tank (PRT) and out of the vent line used for venting when RCS maintenance work is performed. The hydrogen gas was ignited by a welding spark. The hydrogen gas in the PRT was a normal occurrence due to operators raising the water level in the pressurizer in preparation for maintenance activities which required opening the RCS.
No personnel were injured. Also, no equipment was damaged. Region II and NRR 1 are following up on the event. l l
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending May 27, 1988 SAFEGUARDS Domestic Meeting with Nuclear Fuel Services May 23, 1988 Nuclear Fuel Services met with the Licensing Branch, SGTR to report on safeguards mattu's at their Erwin, Tennessee facility. Discussion points
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included comparability issues of the modification of the new entry control point and the detection of explosives in hand carried packages as well as the status of the High Enriched Uranium Recovery Facility, the Pu laboratory decomissioning project, and the applicability of the fitness for duty rule to a Category I fuel facility. Special staff attention will be given to physical security measures and controls taken during the Pu laboratory decommissioning as further information on anticipated Pu processing holdup is developed. NFS is progressing satisfactorily on all comparability issues.
Transportation !
Meeting with DOE on Source Term Evaluation Members of the Transportation Branch, SGTR, met with representatives from DOE and Sandia on May 17, 1988 to discuss DOE's program for evaluating source tenns for containment. The program would attempt to quantify sources of radioactivity within sper.> fuel casks and to evaluate their potential for release under normal and .. ident conditions of transport. The results would be used to develop a computer code which could evaluate the containment of spent fuel casks.
Shipments of HEU from Oak Ridge Based on recent conversations with the DOE Oak Ridge Operations Office, eight Category II export shipments to Canada are still being held-up. Oak Ridge advises that they are still waiting on instructions from DOE Headquarters.
DOE Office of Safeguards and Security has prepared a draft response advising Oak Ridge how to proceed on this matter.
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INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL NilCLEAR SAFETY Fuel Cycle Safety Babcock & Wilcox, Pennsylvania Operations IMNS staff met with R. L. Bruce, Manager of Nuclear Operations and Administration for B&W's Nuclear Power Division, and other B&W management to discuss the company's plans for use of the Apollo, Pennsylvania, facility.
Mr. Bruce statec the company's commitment to resolve the problems at this facility, particularly those related to soil contamination levels above NRC's guidelines for unrestricted use. He informed the staff that the proposed activities at Apollo will include methuds testing for contaminated soil cleanup, temporary storage of contaminated soil, and staging and storage of nuclear reactor components and equipment which are being decontaminated and refurbished at the ccmpany's Parks Township, Pennsylvania, facility. B&W I I
plans to revise its application for licensing renewal to incorporate these activities and to delete its previous proposal to conduct nuclear service work on reactor components at the Apollo facility, similar to work now I performed at Parks Township. The revised renewal application is expected in about two months.
Dry Cask Spent Fuel Storage On May 18, 1988, NMSS staff met with representatives of Nuclear Assurance Corporation (NAC) relative to their plans to submit a topical report (TR) for a storage cask with a capacity of 31 PWR assemblies. The cask body is the ,
same design submitted previously for the NAC Storage / Transport cask (capacity l 26 PWR assemblies), a stainless steel and lead cask with a solid neutron shield.
However, a new cask fuel basket is designed to take allowance for burnup credit. ,
I NAC expects to submit this TR in mid-July 1988.
Subsequently, NAC plans to resubmit its cask design for storage of consolidated fuel rods. There are 28 positions for storage of fuel rods from 56 PWR assemblies in this cask design's fuel basket. Storage of this amount of consolidated fuel is less reactive than storage of 28 corresponding intact fuel assemblies when water is present in the cask cavity. NAC intends to seek TR approval for storage of 28 intact PWR fuel assemblies taking credit for burnup allowance in a revised criticality design. Submittal of this TR is planned for mid-October 1988.
On May 20, 1988, NRC staff met with Nuclear Packaging, Inc. (NuPac) to discuss NuPac's concrete cask design topical report (TR). The concrete cask design, model CP-9, in NuPac's submitted TR would experience temperatures in concrete exceeding 150'F. Use of concrete standards, in particular ACI 349-80, were discussed. NuPac presented a proposed resolution for concrete temperature concerns. NuPac will submit its analysis as part of this review shortly.
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Materials Licensing GA0 Audit of Military Master Broad Licenses On May 25, 1988, representatives from GAO met with NMSS staff to discuss their upcoming audit of the Military Master Broad Licenses. Their audit will include the Air Force and Navy Master Broad Licenses and the individual licenses issued to the Army. The audit will be done over the next several months, with visits to Regions II and IV.
LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT Low-level Waste Low-level Waste Training Videotapes The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a series of training videotapes on low-level radioactive waste. The series was developed primarily to provide a tutorial for State and other technical staff involved in developing new disposal facilities. They provide an overview of the generation and properties of low-level wastes, 10 CFR Part 61, NRC's licensing process, and current statutes and issues.
DOE provided NRC a copy and copies have been made and provided to the five regional offices and GPA for in-house training use and loan to States or members of the public. NRC staff participated in the development of the tapes and appear in them.
Quality Assurance Workshops On May 23-24, representatives of the Regulatory Branch for Low-Level Waste Management and Decommissioning met with EG&G and CER Corporation to discuss and finalize the presentation for the Quality Assurance Workshops for Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities. The workshops will focus on NUREG-1293 "Quality Assurance Guidance for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility."
NRC will be conducting several QA workshops with EG&G during the next few I months. The states of Petinsylvania, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and 1 Nebraska have requested this workshop be conducted.
Request from the News and Observer On May 25, 1988, a science writer for the News and Observer of Raleigh, NC requested information on engineering alternatives for LLW disposal. Edgecombe County, in North Carolina is considering volunteering to host a waste disposal park. This would include an incinerator, LLW municipal waste and hazardous i waste disposal. A public meeting was scheduled for May 26, 1988. l l
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Items of Interest Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data Week Ending May 27, 1988 Diagnostic Evaluation and Incident Investigation On May 26. the NRC team evaluating the ENERCON Independent Management Appraisal (IMA) Sf Turkey Point and Florida Power and Light (FP&L) met in Bethesda with the IMA team manager and several IMA team leaders to present and discuss the key significant issues identified by the NRC team during its review.
The infonnation and perspectives provided by the IMA assisted the NRC team in concluding its evaluation of the ENERCON effort. On May 27, the Director, AE0D, Division Director, D0A (Team Manager) and Chief, DEIIB (Deputy Team Manager) met with the Executive Director for Operations, the Administrator, Region II, and the Director, NRR to present a summary of the findings, conclusions, and recomendations of the NRC team's evaluation.
Incident Response On May for the 24-26, Federal IRB staff Emergency membersAgency Management gave a 2-day (course to state and local officialsFEM Institute. The course dealt with Reactor Systems, Severe Accidents, Event Classification, Protective Action Decisionmaking, and Source Team Estimation.
On May 24-26, IRB staff conducted technical exercises for 1 day for Region I and for 2 days at Headquarters, using an accident scenario developed by the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) on their Nuclear Power Plant Analyzer.
The objective was to challenge the technical skills of the reactor safety and protective measures teams against a technically accurate scenario.
On May 27, the Director, AE0D and Chief, IRB conducted a tour and briefing of the Incident Response Center for Dr. Rene' Le'vesque, President of the Canadian Atomic Energy Central Board (AECB).
On May 24-26, IRB conducted an assessment of the Region V incident response ,
capabilities and procedures. '
Safety Programs AE0D staff met with Mr. George Ishack of the Nuclear Energy Agency at ORNL on May 25, 1988, to discuss AE0D/0RNL data base projects. In particular the Foreign Events File, which is managed by ORNL for AE0D, is of interest to NEA since it provides a centralized collection of international event data. On May 26, Mr. Ishack met with Division personnel to discuss areas involving human factors to which AEOD could contribute data and assessment capabilities.
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2-The staff met with representatives of the BWR Owners Group (BWROG) the BWROG Scram Frequency Reduction (SFR) Committee, and GE to discuss the status of scram reduction efforts. The SFR chairman expressed intenst in continued comunication on scram reduction and in cooperation on mutually beneficial projects.
Critical Mass brought court action against NRC to obtain proprietary INP0 documents. The second set of interrogatories, which are very extensive, was due May 26, 1988. AE00 worked closely with OGC and a Department of Justice lawyer to meet the filing date. APM/RRMB was instrumental in meeting the due date by making a large number of copies in a short period of time.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 1988 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS IAEA Annual Safety Review GPA has received a draft copy of the IAEA's 1987 Annual Safety Review.
Any NRC staff person who would like to review the report or read an executive summary may obtain a copy from GPA/IP.
USSR AND HUNGARIAN OSART Mr. Stewart Ebneter, Director of the Office of Special Projects, will be the U.S. operations expert on the IAEA Operational Safety Review Team which will go to the Rovno Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union in December 1988.
John Philip Stohr, Director of the Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards in Region II, is being nominated to be the emergency planning and preparedness expert on the 0SART which will inspect the PAKS plant in Hungary November 14-December 2, 1988.
Foreign Visitors On Wednesday Mr. Alkut Aytern of the Building ResEarch Institute of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey met with Leon Reiter, NRR, to discuss ground motion.
On Thursday R. Hauber and M. Congdon met with George Ishack of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (Paris, France) to discuss the respective NRC and NEA foreign incident data bases at Oak Ridge and Saclay, France. Of mutual interest was the possibility of in-kind support from NRC to the NEA incident reporting system. NEA's current activities related to incident analysis and human factors were also discussed with Mr. Ishack.
On Thursday and Friday RES and GPA staff members attended the Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Institute on Taiwan (AIT) and Coordinating Council for North American Affairs (CCNAA) Joint Comittee on Civil Nuclear Cooperation. Following the keynote presentation by Victor Stello on the status of the U.S. nuclear power industry and NRC programs, and technical presentations by both sides, the matrix of AIT-CCNAA working items was updated.
On Friday Dr. Rene Levesque, President of the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB), and Toma Diamantstein, Sr. Coordination Officer of the AECB Planning and Coordination Section, met with Chairman Zech and discussed, among other topics, the prospects for a formal bilateral agreement between the AECB and the NRC. Dr. Levesque also met with MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE F
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, Director, Harold Denton; and GPA/IP Director, James Shea. He toured the NRC Operations Center and met with AE0D Director Edward Jordan and Gary Zech of AE00 and stressed the importance of bilateral cooperation during nuclear emergencies.
STATE, LOCAL AND INDIAN TRIBE PROGRAMS Emergency Planning Exercise at Vogtle During the period May 23-25, 1988, Robert E. Trojanowski, Director, State and Government Affairs Staff, Region II, participated as a member of the Regional Assistance Comittee in the Plant Vogtle nuclear exercise.
Off-site agencies involved in this exercise included the States of Georgia and South Carolina and applicable local governments, as well as representatives from the DOE Savannah River Plant. The performance of the licensee and all of the off-site agencies was exceptional and neither NRC nor FEMA noted any major deficiencies.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 31 JUNE 3, 1988 June 1-2 Regional State liaison Officers Counterpart Meeting
- Rockville, Maryland (Droggitis) 1-3 Ionizing Radiation: Risks, Biological Effects and Policy Statement course - Boston, Massachusetts (Schneider)
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DelMedico 6/16/88 10:00 A.M. VICTOR STELLO COUNTERFEIT FASTNERS Rep. Dingell/Bliley EDO Sub on Oversight & Investigations Com on Energy and Commerce g
Callahan 6/16/88 10:00 A.M. OGC (MALSCH) LICENSING REFORM Rep. Sharp /Moorhean Sub on Energy and Power Com on Energy and Commerce
0FFICE OF PERSONNEL ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending May 27, 1988 Regional Personnel Officer Meeting The Office of Personnel held a conference in Headquarters for the Regional Personnel Officers and Satellite team leaders on May 23-25. A number of specific issues were discussed, including staff mobility, entry level hiring, training and personnel data reports. The principal focus for one full day was the NRC drug testing plan. This session was attended by the Directors, Division of Resource Management and Administration, from each Region who will play an integral role as Assistant Drug Program Coordinators.
Arrivals ar.d Departures No new "permanent full-time" staff members were hired this week. However, the following "other than permanent full-time" personnel were brought on board:
Tan Minh Nguyen, Engineering Aid Cooperative Education student, assigned to AE0D; Thomas Barton, Summer Technical Intern at Region III; and Barbara Parker, Secretary for Research.
Losses were: Comissioner Frederick Bernthal (effective May 23); Tom McCreless, Assistant Executive Director, ACRS, who retired; Alan Rubin, Section Leader, Research; William Guldemond, Branch Chilf, Region III; Lillian EmployeeBrown, WordAssistant, Relations Processing 0P).(Operator, Region II; and Elizabeth Brady, MAY 27, 1988 ENCLOSURE H
Office of Enforcement Items of Interest Week Ending May 27, 1988 The following Significant Enforcement Action was taken the week of May 23, 1988.
An Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $100,000 was issued to Commonwealth Edison Company (Zion, Units 1 and 2. The action was based on inadequacies in the licensee's program and controls for the testing of pressure isolation valves. The licensee responded to the Notice in
- February 3, 1988. After consideration of the licensee's response, the staff concluded that the violation did occur. (EN87-108A) l l
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l ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS Week Ending May 27, 1988 Proposed Rule Signed by EDO On May 23, 1988, the Executive Director for Operations approved a proposed rule to revise 10 CFR Part 71, "Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material." The rulemaking action, in combination with a parallel action by the U.S. Department of Transportation, would make United States domestic rules for the transporation of radioactive material compatible with those of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and thus with those of the international community.
This constitutes notice to the Commission that, in accordance with the rulemaking authority delegated to EDO, the EDO has signed this proposed rule for publication in the Federal , Register.
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i ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION - WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 1988 A. STAFF REQUIREMENTS - AFFIRMATION / DISCUSSION AND V0TE, 11:45 A.M., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1988, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to V. Stello, Jr.,
EDO and W. Parler, GC dated S/23/88 I. SECY-88-119 - Motion to Modify or Quash subpoenas in Parley Nuclear Plant Investigation The Commission, by a 5-0* vote, approved an order which responded to an April 27, 1988, letter asking the Commission to mo'dify or quash OI subpoenas issued on April 13, 1988, to 11 non-supervisory employees at the Farley Nuclear Power Plant. The order denied the motion to quash but did modify the subpoenas in part to better specify the documents to be. produced.
In acting on the order the Commission noted that the issues raised in the motion to quash are related to ones which the Commission directed OI in March 1987 to address promptly in i
completing its final draft of the 01 procedures manual. (See SRM on COMLZ-87-6 dated March 24, 1987.) The OI procedures manual should be completed in accordance with the March 24, 1987, SRM and returned to the Commission for review.
l The Commission also requests that the sequestration rule alluded be to intothe brought theMarch 29, 1988,attention.
Commission's letter from Congressman Sharp l
Finally the Commission was not provided advance notice of issuance of the subpoenas as required by the delegation of subpoena authority in NRC Manual Chapter 0119-039. The staff is reminded that the Commission should have been informed when the subpoenas were issued on April 13 rather than upon receipt of a motion to quash three weeks later; particularly where the issue has been subject to continued Congressional interest.
- Section 201 of the Energy Reoryanization Act, 42 U.S.C. 1
$5841, provides that action of the Commission shall be deter- I mined by a "majority vote of the members present." commissioner Rogers was not present when this item was affirmed. Accordingly the formal vote of the Commission was 4-0 in favor of the decision. Commissioner Rogers, however, had previously indicated l that he would approve this paper and had he been present he would have affirmed his prior vote.
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i B. STAFF REQUIREMENTS - BRIEFING ON STATUS OF UNRESOLVED SAFETY / GENERIC ISSUES, 10:00 A.M., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1988, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE 1 ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC l ATTENDANCE) - SECY to V. Stello, Jr., EDO dated 5/23/88 l The Commission
- was briefed by the staff on the status of the generic and unresolved safety issues program.
The staff committed to the following: l i
- 1. Provide the Commission a list of examples of low priority l generic issues, and describe how these issues are l periodically reviewed in light of new information. )
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- 2. Provide a Commission paper on integration of all severe i accident issues. The paper will emphasize how the staff ;
weighs timeliness with thoroughness in resolving complex safety issues. l
- 3. Submit for Commission approval the generic letter on individual plant examination program (IPE) . ;
- 4. Provide a Commission paper on the justification for incorporating the resolution of USI A-45, Decay Heat 1 Removal, in the IPE program. l l
C. STAFF REQUIREMENTS - BRIEFING ON STATUS OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PROGRAM, 10:00 A.M., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1988, COMMISSIONERS CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to V. Stello, Jr., EDO dated 5/25/88 The Commission
- was briefed by the staff on the status of NRC's '
performance indicator program.
The Commission requested the staff to validate its safety system function trends indicators with currently available data, prior to proceeding with staff proposed rulemaking.
Chairman Zech requested an early update on staff's efforts to develop one or more maintenance performance indicators, specif-ically, the staff's validation program.
- Commissioner Carr was not present, i
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D. BRIEFING BY DOE ON HIGH LEVEL WASTE PROGRAM, 2:00 P.M., TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1988, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to Memorandum for the Record dated 5/25/88 The Commission was briefed by the Department of Energy on the activities and significant accomplishments of its Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management to license the high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Representing the Department of Energy were:
- Charles E. Kay, Acting' Director Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
- Ralph Stein, Assistant Director Systems Integration and Regulations
- Stephen Kale, Assistant Director Facilities Siting and Development
- Pierre Saget, Acting Director Office of Quality Assurance There were no requirements placed on the staff at this meeting.
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DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT 5/31/88 50-344 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/ Portland GE Co. to NRC/PGC T. Chan 9:30 Room 4-B-11 discuss pipe whip restraint inspection findings / pressurizer surge line movement (Trojan) 5/31/88 50-298 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/Nabraska Public Power NRC/NPP W. Long 12:00 Room 2-F-17/21 District to discuss NRR inspection results (Cooper) 5/31/88 50-528/ White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/ Arizona Public Service NRC/APS E. Licitra 9:00 529/530 Room 6-B-13 Co. to discuss failure of the
- auxiliary feedwater pump (Palo Verde 1) 6/1/88 White Flint Bldg. To discuss CE Topical Report NRC/CE, et al. Y. Hsii 8:30-4:30 Room 14-B-13 CENPD-276-P, CE Upper Plenum Refill /Reflood Code 6/1/88 50-348A/ White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/ Alabama Electric NRC/AEC E. Reeves j 1:00 364A Room 12-B-7 Cooperative, Inc. (AEC) pursuant j to outstanding antitrust i
2.206 petition (Farley 1/2) 5 6/1/88 675 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/CE to discuss proposed NRC/CE G. Vissing m 9:30-1:00 Room 10-B-13 changes to the CESSAR-DC, M System 80+ Quality Assurance
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A listing of these meeting notices can be obtained by calling 492-7424.
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! DATE/ TIME MUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT 6/1/88 50-395 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/SCE8G to discuss NRC/SCE8G/EG8G J. Hayes 8:00 Room 14-B-9 IST Program (V.C. Sunener) 6/1/88 50-280/ White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/VEPC0 to discuss NRC/VEPC0 L. Engle
, 10:00-2:00 281/338/339 Room 16-B-11 plans for construction of new radwaste processing facilities (North Anna /Surry) 6/2/88 50-250/ White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/FP&L to discuss seismic NRC/FP&L G. Edison /
4 9:00-4:00 335/251 Room 14-B-11 qualification of equipment E. Tourigny (Turkey Point 3/4 & St. Lucie 1) 4
- 6/2/88 50-289 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/GPUN to discuss use NRC/GPUN R. Hernan 10:00-12:00 Room 13-B-15 of leak-before-break methodology (TMI-1)
! 6/2/88 50-267 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/Public Service Company NRC/PSC0C K. Heitner i 8:30-11:30 Room 14-B-13 of Colorado to discuss Fort i St. Vrain Emergency Procedures Upgrade and Detailed Control
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i 6/8/88 50-601 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/ Westinghouse to discuss NRC/ Westinghouse T. Kenyon j 8:30-1:00 Room 10-B-13 the QA Program for RESAR SP-90 j 6/8/88 50-305 White Flint Bldg. Meeting w/ Wisconsin Public NRC/WPSC J. Giitter i 8:30 Room 14-B-11 Service Corp. to discuss analysis
!m of pipe support base plate designs M using concrete expansion anchor iG bolts (Kewaunee) lE sg o
NMSS MEETING NOTICES g
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May 27, 1988 g DIVISION OF HIGH-LEVEL FASTE MANAGEMENT DOCKET ATTENDEES /
DATE NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 6/29-30/88 Reno, Nevada HLW Licensing Support System PAltomare PAltomare Advisory Comittee Meeting CCameron DIVISION OF LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DECOMMISSIONING DOCKET ATTENDEES /
DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 6/1-2/88 OWFN RSLO Meeting Storage and LLW Milestone P. Lohaus P. Lohaus 6/12-17/88 San Diego, CA ANS Meeting M. Knapp M. Knapp 6/7/88 Albuquerqua, NM Title I State & Tribe Meeting P. Lohaus P. Lohaus 9
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. DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PUkPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 6/26-29/88 Las Vegas, NV INMM 29th Annual Meeting RBurnett, NMSS RBurnett RE: Safeguards & Security JCook, NMSS International Safeguards, CEmeigh, HMSS Transportation Modal Study DKasun, NMSS DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL AND PEDICAL NUCLEAR SAFETY DOCKET ATTENDEES /
DATE NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT i
5/20-6/4/88 London, England ICRP Interface and ICRP/NEA RCunningham RCunningham Paris, France Committee meeting 5/23-27/88 Oak Ridge, TN To attend Uranium Hexa- WPennington, NMSS WPennington fluoride-Safety Handling, WProvencher, NMSS Processing and Transporting AClark, NMSS Conference 5/31-6/3/88 40-8027 Gore, OK Mtg with Sequoyah Fuels RProvencher, IMSB RProvencher Corporation to observe the Reps of SFC licensee conducting its annual emergency exercise as required 6/26/08 DOE HQ-Forrestal Preliminary study review J. Roberts, IMSB J. Roberts 8:00 a.m. BLDG, Washington F. Brennaman RM 7F034 D.C.
May 260 1988 RII MEETING NOTICE SE
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NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT C3 DATE/ TIME 4 Regional Div.
8' 6/1/88 0mni Hotel DRP Division Directors' Reyes Atlanta, GA Counterpart Meeting Directors 6/7/88 RII Office Meetir1 with S. Smith, S. Smith, Regional Grace 9:00 am CP&L, an.i members of Administrator, DRA his staff, to discuss and selected RII CP&L Management Overview staff members of company's nuclear program 6/9/88 10:00 am RII Office Meeting with Duke Power Licensee, Regional Grace Company - Catawba Administrator and selected RII staff members 6/10/88 10:00 am RII Office Management Meeting - Same as above Grace FPL - Turkey Point 6/14-17/88 RII Office Resident Inspector Senior and Resident Reyes Meeting Inspectors 6/14/88 10:00 am RII Office Meeting with CPL - Licensee, Regional Grace Brunswick (AIT Findings) Administrator and selected RII staff members E Same as above Grace T2 1:00 RII Office Enforcement Conference 5%
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Catawba and Oconee gi 6/28-29/88 Mineral, VA Full Scale Emergency Licensee, Deputy RA Ernst 4 Exercise - North Anna and selected RII staff members 4
REGION III MEETING NOTICES k
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DOCKET ATTENDEES /
DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 12/6/88 50-315/50-316 D. C. Cook Site SALP Indiana Michigan Power Company C. J. Paperiello 2:00 p.m.
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