IR 05000358/1978020

IE Inspec Rept#50-358/78-20 on 780911-15 During Which No Items of Noncompliance Were Noted.Major Areas Inspected Incl:Preoper Testing Quality Assurance,Procurement,Safety Comm Activities & Plant Procedures

ML20204D462
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Site:	Zimmer
Issue date:	11/13/1978
From:	Harpster T, Warnick R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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ML20204D453	List: IR 05000358/1978020 ML20204D449
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O U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT

REGION III

Report No. 50-358/78-20 ,

Docket No. 50-358 License No. CPPR-88 Licensee: Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company 139 East 4th Street Cincinnati, OH 45201 Facility Name: Wm. H. Zimmer Nuclear Power Station Inspection At: Wm. H. Zimmer Site, Moscow, OH Inspection Conducted: September 11-15, 21-22 and October 24-25, 1978 Inspectors: T. L. Harpst -

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Approved By: R. F. Warnick, Chief j [yA Reactor Projects Section 2 Inspection Summary

, Instection on September 11-15, 21-22, and October 24-25, 1978 (Report No. 50-358/78-20)

Areas Inspected: Routine, unannounced inspection of preoperational testing quality assurance, procurement, safety committee activities and plant procedures. The inspection involved 63 hours7.291667e-4 days <br />0.0175 hours <br />1.041667e-4 weeks <br />2.39715e-5 months <br /> onsite by two NRC inspector Results: No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie f

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' DETAILS Personnel Contacted 1/S. Salay, Manager, Electric Production 1/2/J. Schott, Station Superintendent jb/3/P. King, Assistant Station Superintendent 2/J. Wald, Station Quality Engineer R. French, Staff Engineer ,

J. Kammerer, Office and Document Supervisor The inspector also interviewed other licensee employees and consul-tant / Denotes those attending the management meeting on September 21, 197 /,3/ Denotes those attending the exit interviews on (2/) September 15 and (3/) October 25, 197 . Management Meeting On September 21,.1978, a management meeting was held at the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company Corporate office. Attending were Messr Salay (CGE Manager, Electric Production), Schott (Zimmer Station Superintendent); and Messrs. Harpster and Warnick from the NRC Office

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of Inspection and Enforcement, Region II The following areas were discussed with regard to their impact on the preoperational test program, operational preparedness of the station, and the fuel load date, Lack of progress in augmenting the existing station staf Status of completion of the station administrative program,

, Status of the preoperational testing quality assurance progra Status of the station maintenance and procurement program . Preoperational Testing Quality Assurance During the inspection on September 11-15, 1978, the inspector reviewed the preoperational testing quality assurance program to ascertain whether the program provides adequate controls over preoperational testing and related activitie The inspector determined that:

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' All of the required procedures had not been written and approved; The station quality engineer, responsible for the development and implementation of the quality assurance program, had no additional staff to assist in the conduct of the audit The inspector discussed the NRC position with regard to the minimum quality assurance requirements for the test program with the station superintendent, assistant station superintendent and station quality engineer. The inspector requested that no safety related preoper-ational tests be started prior to the resolution of items a and b above and the subsequent review of these items by the inspecto The station superintendent stated that the preoperational tests would be deferred until the above items were complete The inspector returned to review the completed preoperational test quality assurance procedures on September 21-22, 1978. The inspector determined that the procedures satisfied the minimum regulatory requirement During the inspection conducted on October 24-25, 1978, the inspector was informed that one person was being contracted for from Nuclear Energy Services to assist the station quality engineer. Two persons ,

from the corporate QA and S staff would be made available temporarily to assist in the conduct of audits. In addition, an offer of employ-ment had been made to another individual to permanently augment the station QA staf The inspector will review' implementation of the quality assurance controls in subsequent inspection . procurement The inspector reviewed the status of the station procurement progra With the major exception of spare parts supplied by General Electric, spare parts are not available for most essential station equipmen One person (on loan to station staff) is currently responsible for researching all equipment technical / parts manuals to develop a matrix of required spare parts. Some equipment technical / parts manuals are not available at the statio procedures have not been written and approved to perform receipt inspection and storage of safety related item The inspector stated the following concerns regarding these obser-vation ,

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. Maintenance for which spare parts are not available during the preoperational test and startup programs will have to be per-formed by turning components / systems back to construction for the repair The construction personnel are then responsible for the required maintenance, surveillance, quality assurance, etc., until the component / system could be turned back over to ,

operations. This places an additional burden on the quality-assurance progra Because the maintenance will be performed by construction per-sonnel, the station maintenance personnel will not get the necessary familiarity and training for much of the essential equipmen Because of the long turn-around time in ordering many of the-required spare parts, this situation will still exist after fuel loa . Safety _ Committee Activities

The inspector reviewed the Safety Review Board (SRB) charter, (Station Administrative Directive SA. SAD.05), and the minutes of SRB meetings two through seventeen, to verify that the committee is functioning in conformance with the draft technical specifications and committments in the Final Safety Analysis Repor The SRB charter does not require the committee to review  :

those events requiring 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> written notification to the !

NRC, and thus does not conform with the draft technical specification The SRB charter contains no provisions for followup action 1 to resolve deficiencies identified by the committe The inspector noted in the review of committee meeting minutes, a number of generic questions with regard to preoperational test acceptance criteri . Plant procedures The inspector reviewed draft and approved administrative control procedures to determine the adequacy of management controls in implementing and maintaining a viable procedure system; and to confirm that the scope of the plant procedures system is adequate to control safety related operations within applicable regulatory requirement I l-4-i

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The inspector provided the licensee with the following comments: Procedures'must as a minimum be classified safety related in accordance with Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix l Temporary procedures as addressed in section 5.4 of SA. SAD.06, )

(Review, Approval, Issue and Revision of implementing Procedures) !

cannot be used for safety related activitie Review, approval, and changes to procedures must be made in I accordance with the draft technical specification !

I The responsibility and mechanism for the disposal of controlled l copies of outdated procedures is not addressed in DC. SAD.01, ;

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7. Organizational Changes l The inspector was informed of the following organizational changes for the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company, as they affect the j construction ar3 operation of the Zimmer statio j l

Mr. E. Borgmann (formerly Vice President Engineering) has been j appointed Vira President Engineering Services and Electric Production. Mr. W. Waymire has been appointed Manager, General Engineering Department. Mr. E. Brinkman (Lead Project Engineer) .

has been appointed Principal Mechanical Engineer, Nuclear and will head a group to support Zimmer activitie The station training coordinator has resigned. This position is currently being filled by a person contracted from General Physic . Exit / Management Interviews

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