ML20207E279

Announces Corrective Action Program Insp at Wolf Creek Reactor Facility,Scheduled for 990816-20.Insp Will Evaluate Effectiveness of Activities for Identifying,Resolving & Preventing Issues That Degrade Quality of Plant Operations

ML20207E279
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	05/25/1999
From:	Pellet J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Maynard O WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORP.
References
50-482-99-05, 50-482-99-5, NUDOCS 9906040219
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,gg ARUNGTON, TEXAS 76011-8064 May 25,1999 Otto L. Maynard, President and Chief Executive Officer i Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation l P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839

SUBJECT:

NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-482/99-05 Dear Mr. Maynard.

The purpose of this letter is to announce our Corrective Action Program inspection at your Wolf Creek reactor facility. We have scheduled this inspection for August 16 to 20,1999. The designated inspection leader, Mr. Tom McKernon, of this office, has telephonically discussed the inspection plans in more detail with members of your staff. j j

The inspection will evaluate the effectiveness of your activities for identifying, resolving, and l

preventing issues that degrade the quality of plant operations or safety. The inspection will be i conducted using inspection Procedure 40500, " Effectiveness of Licensee Process to identify,  ;

Resolve, and Prevent Problems." This inspection will involve three NRC personnel.

l The inspection team will require information about your corrective actions program and l implementation for inoffice preparation and inspection. A description of the material that will be  !

needed is enclosed. Mr McKemon has contacted your staff and arranged for specific material to be available to the team by August 2,1999.

1 If you have any questions concerning this inspection, please contact Mr. Tom McKernon at  ;

817/860-8153 or myself at 817/860-8159.

1 Sincerely, John L. Pellet, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety

Enclosure:

Material Request List Docket No.: 50-482 License No.: NPF-42 l

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l ' Chief Operating Officer L Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp.

P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839 : '

Jay Silberg, Esq. _

Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge 2300 N Street, NW.

Washington, D.C. ' 20037 -

Supervisor Licensing -j Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. (

' P.O. Box 411

. Burlington, Kansas 66839 1 Chief Engineer Utilities Division 1 Kansas Corporation Commission I

- 1500 SW Arrowhead Rd.

. Topeka, Kansas 66604-4027 Office of the Governor-State of Kansas ']

Topeka, Kansas 66612 Attorney General.-

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301 S.W.10th 2nd Floor.

Topeka, Kansas 66612-1597.

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Coffey County Courthouse l Burlington, Kansas . 66839-1798 Vick L. Cooper, Chief-Radiation Control Program Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Bureau of Air and Radiation Forbes Field Building 283

. Topeka, Kansas 66620 Mr. Frank Moussa i

' Division of Emergency Preparedness 2800 SW Topeka Blvd 1

.. Topeka, Kansas 66611-1287 i

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p ENCLOSURE Initial Material reauested for the 40500 Inspection at Wolf Creek Index of all corrective action documents (e.g., condition reports and corrective actions taken) for the last 12 months.

All corrective action documents in response or related to plant transients, the equipment malfunctions that initiated them or that were previously written on the same equipment, for the last 12 months.

All corrective action documents related to external operating experience, especially vendor information not included in plant procedures and documents, for the last 12 months.

All major corrective action documents (i.e., (PIRs) those that subsume or roll-up one or more smaller issues), for the last 12 months.

All corrective action documents associated with:

+ Auxiliary feedwater system

+ Control room operator human performance issues,

+ Essential service water system and the intake structure,

+ Emergency diesel generators,

+ Emergency response organization and effectiveness,

+ Maintenance rule implementation, preventable functional failures, and baseline inspection results,

+ Operator workarounds, and

+ Reactor coolant system component maintenance work

+ Margin management program All corrective action documents associated with nonescalated, no response required, or noncited violations, for the last 12 months.

• All corrective action program assessments for the last 12 months.

• Description of any informal systems, especially used by operations, for issues below the threshold of the formal corrective action system and the content of those systems.

• All procedures governing or applying to the corrective action program.

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