ST-HL-AE-5668, Forwards Change (QA-032) to Operations QA Plan Submitted to NRC 970522.Change Incorporates Items Discussed in 970529 Telcon
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 06/10/1997 |
| From: | Martin L HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO. |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) |
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. O. Box 289 Wsworth, Texas 77483 out exas liouston Lighting & Power i
June 10, 1997 ST-HL-AE-5668 File No.: G02.05 10CFR50.54(a)
I U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attention: Document Control Desk Washington, D.C. 20555 i
South Texas Project Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. STN 50-498 and STN 50-499 Change OA-032 to the Oncrations Ouality Assurance Plan. Revision 13 The South Texas Project submits the attached change (QA-032) to the Operations Quality Assurance Plan provided to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on May 22,1997 (ST-HL-AE-5661).
This change incorporates those items discussed in a phone conversation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on May 29,1997.
Change QA-032 to the Operations Quality Assurance Plan will be implemented as part of the methodology for the South Texas Project's Graded Quality Assurance Program.
If there are any questions regarding this matter, please contact Mr. R.J. Rehkugler at (512) 972-7922 or me at (512) 972-8686.
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Houston Lighting & Power Company ST-HL-AE-5668 South Texas hoject Electric Generating Station File No.: G02.05 Page 2 Ellis W. Merschoff Rufus S. Scott Regional Administrator, Region IV Associate General Counsel U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Houston Lighting & Power Company 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 P. O. Box 61067 Arlington, TX 76011-8064 Houston, TX 77208 Thomas W. Alexion Institute of Nuclear Power Project Manager, Mail Code 13H3 Operations - Records Center U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 700 Galleria Parkway l.
Washington, DC 20555-0001 Atlanta, GA 30339-5957 David P. Loveless Dr. Bertram Wolfe Sr. Resident Inspector 15453 Via Vaquero c/o U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm.
Monte Sereno, CA 95030 P. O. Box 910 Bay City, TX 77404-0910 Richard A. Ratliff Bureau of Radiation Control J. R. Newman, Esquire Texas Department of Health Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 1100 West 49th Street 1800 M Street, N.W.
Austin, TX 78756-3189 Washington, DC 20036-5869 J. R. Egan, Esquire M. T. Hardt/W. C. Gunst Egan & Associates, P.C.
City Public Service 2300 N Street, N.W.
P. O. Box 1771 Washington, D.C. 20037 San Antonio, TX 78296 i
l J. C. Lanier/M. B. Lee U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission l
City of Austin Attention: Document Control Desk Electric Utility Department Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 721 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704 l
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ATTN: G. E. Vaughn/C. A. Johnson l
P. O. Box 289, Mail Code: N5012 Wadsworth, TX 77483
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OF CHANGES Page 1 of 3 ALL CHANGES ARE IN BOLD TYPE CHAPTER LOCATION ACTION TEXT TOC DEFIN.
INSERT QA-032 TOC CH. 1.0 INSERT QA-032 l
TOC CH. 2.0 INSERT QA-032 TOC CH. 13.0 INSERT QA-032 DEFIN.
Critical DELETE Identifiable and Characteristics measurable variables of a commercial grade item, which once selected to be verified, provide reasonable assurance that i
the item received is the item specified.
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Critical INSERT Important design, Characteristics material, and performance characteristics of a commercial grade item that, once verified, will provide reasonable i
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will perform its intended i
safety function.
CH. 1.0 5.1.4.5 INSERT The Manager, Risk l
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the Comprehensive Risk Management Program, including oversight of Probabilistic Safety Assessment activities.
The Manager, Risk Management & Industry Relations serves as the Graded Quality Assurance Expert Panel chairperson.
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l CHAPTER LOCATION ACTION TEXT CH. 2.0 3.1 DELETE and station economics 5.3.3 INSERT Initial evaluations are performed by the Working Group.
5.3.5 INSERT between "are" and
" ultimately" in the first sentence.. developed by the Working Group and 5.3.9 INSERT Components that are highly reliable, yet whose failure would result in a significant increase in risk, will receive Full program coverage, or will be evaluated based on their risk importance to ensure that Full program controls are applied to their critical attributes.
5.3.9 CHANGE renumber to 5.3.10 5.3.10 CHANGE renumber to 5.3.11 5.3.11 INSERT at the end of the second sentence insert...that could result in recategorization of an SSC between "are" and "to" in the third sentence...also used l
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OF CHANGES Page 3 of 3 ALL CHANGES ARE IN BOLD TYPE CHAPTER LOCATION ACTION TEXT CH. 2.0 (cont) 5.3.11 INSERT add the last sentence...
Those components for which an increase in failure rates results in a significant increase in risk will have Full i
program controls established.
Table I INSERT under the Basic Program column for ANSI N45.2.13, l
1976, Section 12 - for audits of suppliers CH. 13.0 5.8 INSERT For medium and low safety 4
significant SSCs treated by the Basic program controls, measures shall be established to conduct apparent cause determination and to trend failures to assist in evaluating the need i
for more detailed root i
cause analysis (if excessive failures occur) and proper corrective action.
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will be given to assessing the potential implications of such failures generically to similar SSCs treated by the Full program.
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