IR 05000482/1988012

Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations in Insp Rept 50-482/88-12

ML20195D065
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	06/16/1988
From:	Callan L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Withers B WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORP.
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NUDOCS 8806230026
Download: ML20195D065 (2)

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Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation ATTN: Bart D. Withers President and Chief Executive Officer P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839

, Gentlemen:

Thank you for your letter of May 24, 1988, in response to our letter and Notice of Violation dated April 25, 1988. We have reviewed your reply and find it responsive to the concerns raised in our Notice of Violation. We will review the implementation of your corrective actions during a future inspection to determine that full compliance has been achieved and will be maintaine

Sincerely, Original Signed By L 1. Callan L. J. Callan, Director

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Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

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ATTN: Otto Maynard, Manager I of Licensing P.O. Box 411

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Wo1f Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation ATTN: Gary Boyer, Plant Manager P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839 (cc continued next page)

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, Reference: Letter dated April 25, 1988 from L. J. Callan, NRC t  ;

B. D. Withers, WCNOC Subject: Docket No. 50-482: Response to Notice of Violation 482/8812-01 '

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Attached is a detailed response to violation 482/8812-01 which is documented in the Re fe re nce . The violation concerns the failure to meet staffing 1 requirements for emergency response team personne l l

If you have any questions cor.cerning this matter, please contact me or Mr. O. L. Maynard of my staf Very truly yours, l

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Bart D. Withers ,

President and I Chief Executive Officer I BDW/jad Attachment cc: B. L. Bartlett (NRC), w/a D. D. Chamberlain ( NRC), w/a C. A. Hackney (NRC), w/a R. D. Martin (NRC), w/a P. W. O'Connor (NRC), w/a (2)

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i Violation (482/8812-01): Emegen_cy] Plan andimplement inLP_rocedure

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j Wolf Creek Nuclear Station Technical Specification 6.8, Procedures and  !

Programs, states (6.8.1) that written procedures shall'be established, j

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implemented,'and maintained covering emergency plan implementatio '

Section 1.2.2.1.2 of the Plan states that there- are two designated  :

communicators, the NRC Communicator and the Of fsite Communicator (OC) in the i control roo Emergency Preparedness Procedure (EPP) 01-3.4 shall be  ;

implemented to ensure that sufficient personnel are availble to staf f onsite l

., Emergency Response Facilities (Section 2.1). EPP 01-3.4 directs the Oc to  !

contact offsite noncesponding emergency communicators (NREC's). A pyramid !

call-out system, supplemented with pagers, is used to contact emergency j response personne ;

l Contrary to the above, announced and unannounced call-out _ drills were  !

conducted by licensee personnel on January 11 and February 1, 1988, ;

re.pectively, to determine the availability of emergency response team i personnel in the event of an emergency. Based on results from the two call- l l out drills, the licensee emergency response team did not meet staffing l requirements for emergency response team personne i i

Reason for Violation:

The fourth quarter Emergency Response Organization call-out drill was conducted on December 21, 1987 and documented in a report dated January 11, 198 The fourth quarter call-out drill failed to meet the Wolf Creek  ;

Cenerating Station (WCGS) emergenc;' staf fing requirements when personnel to  ;

i fill the following positions could not be staf fed within the required tim Health Physics Technicians - 4 Electrical Maintenance - 1 Electrical Engineer - 1 Radiological Assessment Supervisor - 1 Emergency Operations Facility Coordinator - 1-The existing call-out system did not provide for timely notifications of f emergency response personnel to meet the requirements of Table 1.1-1 of the

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Radiological Emergency Response Pla It should be noted that the two dates identified in the finding are actually the dates on which the reports were issued for the call-out drills and not

{ the dates of the drill As stated above, the January 11, 1988 report l j documents the fourth quarter drill conducted on December 21, 198 The l February 1, 1988 report documented the results of two call-out tests

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being used to evaluate a new, unapproved call-out system being developed to correct the deficiencies from previous drill 'ince these two tests were

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conducted on a new unapproved call-out system, WCNOC does not believe the ]

results from these tests should have been included in the violatio l l

Corrective Steps Whi_ch_Hav_e_Been Taken and Results Achieved:

As stated above, WCNOC had been developing a new method for conducting Emergency Response Organization call-out notification As a result of the tests conducted on December 30, 1987 and on January 14, 1988 additional improvements to the modified call-out system were mad This new methodology involves the use of a contract paging service and two automatic  ;

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, dialing unit The new methodology of call-outs was implemented on March 23, 198 The -!

implementation of the new methodology required the addition of a new series j of Emergency plan Procedures and revisions to an additional fourteen 1 procedure l On March 28, 1988, WCNOC cor. ducted an unannounced call-out drill which resulted in meeting the staffing requirements for emergency response ,

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Corrective _S,t_eps,_Wh_ich Wi_11 Be_Then To Avoid Further _ Violations t

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The corrective steps discussed above should avoid further violations in this are Quarterly Emergency Response Org4nization call-out drills will continue to be pe r fo rmed to demonstrate the capability to meet call-out ,

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E.a_te__ _Wh e n Ful l__ Comp 1,i_ance Will Be Achie v ed t j

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Full compliance was achieved on March 28, 1988 with the successful pe r fo rmance of an Emergency Response Organization call-out drill using the revised call-out methodolog l

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