ML20215D840

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct 861023 Notice of Deviations from Insp Rept 50-458/86-24

ML20215D840
Person / Time
Site:	River Bend
Issue date:	12/05/1986
From:	Gagliardo J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	William Cahill GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
References
NUDOCS 8612170062
Download: ML20215D840 (2)

See also: IR 05000458/1986024

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In_ Reply Refer To:

Docket:' 50-458/86-24

Gulf. States Utilities

? ATTN: William J. Cahill, Jr.

Senior Vice President

River Bend Nuclear Group

.P. O. Box 220

, St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775

Gentlemen:

Thank you for'your letter of November 21, 1986, in response to our letter

' and Notice of Deviation dated October 23, 1986. We have reviewed your reply

and find it responsive .to the concerns raised in our Notice of Deviation. We

will review the implementation of your corrective actions during a future

inspection to determine that full compliance has been achieved and will be

maintained.

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GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY

RIVER BEND STATION POST OFFICE BOX 220 ST. FRANCISVILLE. LOUISIANA 70775

AREA CODE 604 635 6094 346 8651

November 21, 1986

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Mr. Robert D. Martin, Regional Administrator

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Dear Mr. Martin: ,_

River Bend Station - Unit 1

Refer to: Region IV

Docket No. 50-458/ Report 86-24

This letter responds to the Notice of Deviation contained in NRC

Inspection Report No. 50-458/86-24. The inspection was performed

by Mr. W. R. Bennett during the period August 18-22, 1986 of

activities authorized by NRC Operating License NPF-47 for River

Bend Station.

Gulf States Utilities Company's (GSU) response to Notice of

Deviation 8624-01, " Failure to Verify and Validate Certain

Abnormal Operating Procedures", is provided in the enclosed

attachment. This completes GSU's response to the Notice of

Deviation.

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Senior Vice President

River Bend Nuclear Group

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EUCLEAR REGULATORY COBSEISSIDE

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FARISE OF WEST FILICIAEA 5

In the Matter of 5 Docket Bos. 50-458

GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY l

(River Bend Station,

Unit 1) .

AFFIDAVIT

W. J. Cahill, Jr., being duly sworn, states that he is a Senior

Vice President of Gulf States Utilities Company that he is authorized

on the part of said Company to sign and file with the Nuclear Rggulatory

Comunis sion the documents attached heretos and that all such documents

are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief.

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Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public in and for the

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ATTACHMENT

RESPONSE TO NOTICE OF DEVIATION 50-458/8624-01

REFERENCE

Notice of Deviation -

J. E. Gagliardo letter to W. J. Cahill, Jr.

dated October 23, 1986.

FAILURE TO VERIFY AND VALIDATE CERTAIN ABNORMAL OPERATING PROCEDURES

REASON FOR THE DEVIATION

During the initial Emergency Operating Procedure (EOP) verification

and validation (V&V) phase, it was determined that some EOP steps were

event oriented. To provide cohesive guidance to the operator and

utilize good human engineering principles, event oriented EOPs were

combined into existing plant Abnormal Operating Procedures (AOPs). In

this process, documentation of the V&V of the new AOPs is not

available. It is believed to have been an isolated oversight of

OSP-0008, " Verification and Validation of Emergency Operating

Procedures".

CORRECTIVE STEPS WHICH HAVE BEEN TAKEN AND THE RESULTS ACHIEVED

AOP-0020, " Alternate Shutdown Cooling", AOP-0021, " Anticipated

Transient Without Scram", and AOP-0022, " Radioactive Release Control",

are undergoing a rewrite in accordance with OSP-0009, " Authors

Guide / Control and Use of Emergency Operating Procedures", to be

incorporated as EOPs. Prior to approval and implementation they will

receive a documented V&V in accordance with OSP-0008.

CORRECTIVE STEPS WHICH WILL BE TAKEN TO AVOID FURTHER DEVIATIONS

A review was performed to ensure no other procedures exist outside the

EOP's requiring V&V. Based on this review it is believed that this

was an isolated event requiring no further corrective actions.

Procedures (OSP-0008, OSP-0009) are in place to require revisions to

the EOPs to be done in accordance with the procedure generation

package (PGP).

DATE WHEN FULL COMPLIANCE WILL BE ACHIEVED

V&V will be conducted on procedure revisions by January 30, 1987.

Further revisions necessitated from the V&V process will be

incorporated, reviewed and approved by February 15, 1987. Shift crew

training on the subject revisions will be provided prior to

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