ML20236U043

Confirms 871214-18 for NRC Equipment Qualification (EQ) Insp for Facility.Insp Will Include Review of Util Implementation of 10CFR50.49 Program & Technical Evaluation Rept/Ser EQ Corrective Action Commitments

ML20236U043
Person / Time
Site:	Summer
Issue date:	11/25/1987
From:	Verrelli D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:	Nauman D SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS CO.
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NUDOCS 8712020239
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Docket No. 50-395 License No. NPF-12 South Carolina Electric and Gas' Company ATTN: Mr. D. A. Nauman, Vice President Nuclear Operations P. O. Box.764 (167)

Columbia, SC 29218 Gentlemen:

SUBJECT:

EQUIPMENT' QUALIFICATION INSPECTION OF SUMMER NUCLEAR PLANT:

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This letter confirms the date of January 11-15, 1988, for the NRC environmental qualification (EQ) for electrica1 ' equipment inspectionifor . Summer. These dates were established during a telephone conversation with you'and Mr. H. C.. Dance.

of this office on November 18, 1987. The inspection will take place at'the' plant site.

A management entrance meeting is scheduled for 1:00 on January 11,~1988, with a management exit meeting tentatively scheduled for.10:30 a.m., on January 15, 1988, both at the plant site. A plant walkdown inspection of . specific EQ equipment is planned for January 13, 1988, and will require escorted service by knowledgeable EQ personnel of your organization.

The inspection will include but not be limited to the following:

1., Review of your implementation of 10 CFR .50.49 EQ' program,' including >

preservation of qualified status of equipment.

2. Review of your implementation .of Technical. Evaluation Report / Safety Evaluation Report EQ corrective action commitments.

3. Review of EQ documentation files including all supporting calculations'and performance characteristics (including instrument and loop accuracies. in' which effects of decreases of insulation resistance as a result of hostile environment degradation of equipment- such as terminal blocks, cable, splices, EPA, transmitters, etc., are evaluated '(see NUREG/CR-3691);

variation in current; volt:ger. frequency and other ' . electrical characteristics that could imact the qualification). Additional detailse for auditability of EQ records are specified in IE Notice 85-39.

4. Physical inspection of equipmuit from the Master List.

At least two weeks prior to the inspection we will require one copy of each document identified-in the enclosure with a plus (+) mark, f

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A duplicate copy is to be sent to:

Uldis Potapovs, Chief ]

Equipment Qualification Inspection Section EW/S 312A-U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 All calculations. and files are to be 'at the plant site for-this inspection.

Your cooperation during this inspection .will be appreciated. Should.you have

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any questions regarding this inspection, please contact T. E. Conlon on (404)  ;')

331-5537. j Sincerely, h/

David M. Verre111, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 1 Division of Reactor Projects

Enclosure:

Reference cc w/ encl:

0. S. Bradham, Director, Nuclear Plant .!

Operations i J. L. Skolds, Deputy Director

Operations and Maintenance J. B. Knotts, Jr.

Debevoise and Liberman  ;

W. A. Williams, Jr., Special j Assistant, Nuclear Operations - )

Santee Cooper A. M. Paglia, Jr., Manager Nuclear Licensing bec w/ enc 1:

NRC Resident Inspector J. Hopkins, Project Manager, NRR 3 U. Potapovs, NRR  !

T. E. Conlon, RII I N. Merriweather, RII ,

H..C. Dance, RII  !

Document Control Desk -l State of South Carolina RII RI RII ARu TEConlo dt 11/23/87 11/ /87 ARHer/87 11/d

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l ENCLOSURE REFERENCES

1. + Licensee's overall EQ Administrative Program.

2. +NRC Safety Evaluation Reports (SER) concerning environmental qualification of safety-related electrical equipment, including the SER that forwarded the Technical Evaluation Report (TER) to each licensee.

3. + Licensee's commitments for corrective action including May 1983 SER/TER response,1984 minutes of meeting with NRC, and subsequent changes. l l 4. +a. Licensee's list of equipment requiring environmental qualification l

(Master List, submitted in May 1983).

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+b. Master List, version in effect at time of present inspection.

5. + Licensee's response to Generic Letter 84-24, D. G. Eisenhut to Licensees and Applicant, dated December 17, 1984,

Subject:

Certification of Compli- ,

I ance to 10 CFR 50.49.

6. + Licensee's current System Component Evaluation Worksheets (SCEW sheets) for generic items or equivalent. J

7. tLicensee's procedures applicable to equipment qualification (EQ program, i procurement of qualified equipment, maintenance of qualified equipment, i modifications to EQ equipment, EQ personnel training (site and corporate i personnel), QA/EQ interf6ce including corporate QA, Site QA/QC audits, EQ j spare parts equipment and licensee program for EQ related NRC Information J Notices / Bulletins).

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• Licensee's qualification documentation and/or files including all calcula-tion and analysis (aging, Performance characteristics, etc.) that support the Environmental Qualification. l l

• These documents must be available for the inspector's use throughout the inspection.

+These documents are requested for review before the inspection and should also be at the site for the inspector's use through the inspection.

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