IR 05000382/1997017

Ack Receipt of 971124 Ltr Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-382/97-17.Reply Found to Be Responsive to NRC Concern About Emergency Operating Procedures

ML20202D435
Person / Time
Site:	Waterford
Issue date:	12/03/1997
From:	Pellet J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Dugger C ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC.
References
50-382-97-17, NUDOCS 9712050023
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Charles M. Dugger, Vice President .

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Dear Mr. Dugger:

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Thank you for your letter of November 24; 1997, in response to our letter and Notice of Vi >Iation dated October 23,1997, We have reviewed your reply and find it responsive to our concern about emergency operating procedures raised in our Notice of Violation. We wili review the implementation of your ccrrective actions during a future inspection to determine that full r

compliance has been achieved and will be maintained.

Sincerely, hGJohn L. Pellet, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket'No.: 50-382 /

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ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, D.C. 20555 Subject: Waterford 3 SES Docket No. 50-382 ,

License No. NPF-38 NRC Inspection Report 50-382/97-17 Reply to Notice of Violation Gentlemen-In accordance with 10CFR2.201, Entergy Operations, Inc. hereby submns in Attachment 1 the response to the violatica identified in Enclosure 1 of the sut' ject inspection Report.

if you have any questions concoming this response, please contact me at (504) 739-8242 or T.J. Gaudet at (504) 739-6666.

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J.W Yelverton (M-ECH45) ~ l

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T.R. Leonard (W-MSB4-300)

F.J. Drummond (W G85-305)  ;

A..l. Wrape (W-GSB-315) .

G.D. Pierce - (W-ADM-686)-

R.E. Allen (W-G88-102)

B.E. Meyers (W-ADM-565)

J.J. Zabritski . (W4M-567) ,

J.G. Hoffpauir (W-MSB4-336)

J.G. Dewease (M-ECH46) - .

L.F. Daughtery (GGNS - ADMILIC)

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C.A. Bottomiller

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ATTACHMENT 1 ENTERGY OPERATIONS. INC. RESPONS'i TO THE VIOLATION IDENTIFIED IN EMCLOSURE 1 OF INSPECTION REPORT 50-382/97-17 VIOt.ATION NO. 9717-01 Technical Specification 6.8.1.a states, in part that written procedures shall be established, implemented, and maintained covering emergency operating procedures.

Subprocedure V, " Containment Isolation,' of the licensee's Emergency Operating Procedure OP 902-008, Revision 10, contair,ed instructions necessary to satisfy the success path for the containment isolation safety function.

The licensee had completed recent moditications to the plant, which pxmitted overriding a containment spray permissive signal to allow the operators to cicse Containment Spray Valves CS-125A(B) in order to isolate the containment and satisfy the safety function success path.

Contrary to the above, written procedures were not maintained for en)ergency operating procedures in that the Itcenses failed to revise the Emergency Operating Procedure OP-902-008 following valve modifications to provide the operators with adequate instruction for closing Containment Spray Valves CS125A(B) to isolate the Containment.

This is a Severity Level IV vielation (Supplement I) (50-382/9717-01).

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(1) Reason for the Violation Entergy attributes the violation to a combination of the inefficient location of procedural guidance and to the lack of clearly defined management expectations for Operations in this area. Entercy a0rees that appropriately located procedural guidance is needed to ensure the proper and appropriate operation of Containment Spray Valves (CS-125A(B)). The location of the procedural guidanca in an Emergency Planning Procedure (EP-002-100, Revision 25, Attachment 7.12) versus in an 5mergency Operating Procedure (OP-902-008) was a conscious decision, which had been reached after much deliberation. Waterford 3 is committed to meeting the strategies for Emergency Operating Procedures outlined in CEN-162, CE Emergency Operating Procedure Guidelines. The NRC approved the use of the strategies in CEN-152 Revisions 03 and 04. The strategies that CE recommends in the guidelines do not include specific steps to iriate containment in the case of equipment failure (e.g. a Containe.< ' Jpray Pump

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not running).7 The Safety Function Success Path for containment isolation in -

the Fundlunal Recovery Guideline (CEN-152) states to ensure an isolation

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valve is clossd for each containment penetration required to be closed. The

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1 Waterford 3 Safety Function Recovery Procedura (OP-902 008) states that et least one containment isolation valve must be closed for sech containment

penetration not in usec The EOPs are written assuming that safety-equipreent s is operable and will perform its intended function. - To assume safety-related  !

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equipment failures in developing EOPs would drastically increase the volume -

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operator complication ar'd response time. Based on the above considerations, we have assessed that the procedural guidance would more appropriately ba located in a standard appendices to the EOPs rather than in  ;

the body of the EOPs.

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It should be noted that the NRC is currently evakating Entergy's position on the Containment Spray Containment isolation Vatves presentad at the Enforcement Conference held in Ariington, Texas on July 29,1997. Final

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resolution tan that issue la pending. Waterford 3 will address the results accordingly. .

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(2) Corrective Stans That Have Baan Takan and the Resulta Achieved

! Operating crews have been briefed on the violation scenario in various

Operations Department meetings and are awere of the current location of the subject procedural guidance and management's expectations in that regard.

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(3) Corrar*ive Bi= = Which Will Be Taken to Avoid Further Violations  ;

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. Waterford 3 has plans to develop a standard appendices to the EOPs l wherein guidance will be included to provide dinction to the operators for i closing Containment Spray Valves CS 125A(B) with Containment Spray l Pumps not running. The Operator imining program will include training for l

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(4) Date When Full Compliance Will Be Achieved The EOP standard appendices will be completed by June 30,1996.

l Operations Training inclusion of the appendices in the treining program will l

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