ML14209A934

Prairie Island, Units 1 & 2, Notification of NRC Inspection and Request for Information

ML14209A934
Person / Time
Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	07/28/2014
From:	Bozga J V NRC/RGN-III/DRS/EB1
To:	Hammargren B J - No Known Affiliation
John Bozga
References
IR-14-005
Download: ML14209A934 (4)

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From: Bozga, John Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 9:16 AM To: Hammargren, Benjamin J.

Cc: 'Oleson, Penny S.'

Subject:

PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2

- NOTIFICATION OF NRC INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Importance:

High Good Morning Benjamin J. Hammargren, On October 6, 2014 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will begin inspection at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2

. This inspection will be performed in accordance with the NRC Temporary Instruction 2515/189, "Inspection to Determine Compliance of Dynamic Restraint (Snubber) Program with 10 CFR 50.55a Regulatory Requirements for Inservice Examination and Testing of Snubbers", issued on September 25, 2013. The onsite portion of the inspection is scheduled to take place on October 6 th thru October 10 th 2014. The onsite portion of the inspection can be subject to change dependent on when the Unit 1 inservice inspection and inservice testing of snubbers takes place.

This inspection will focus on the Unit 1 inservice inspection and inservice testing of snubbers in accordance with the regulatory requirements of 10 CFR 50.55a.

Experience has shown that the Temporary Instruction inspections are extremely resource intensive, both for the NRC inspectors and the licensee staff.

In order to minimize the inspection impact on the site and to ensure a productive inspection for both parties, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for the inspection.

I have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with Ms. Penny S. Oleson and understand that the regulatory contact for this inspection will be you Mr. Benjamin J. Hammargren.

If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the inspector, Mr. J. Bozga, at (630) 829

-9613. The request for information is attached to this email.

Please review and respond accordingly to the Information Requests (1 thru 22) by September 29, 2014.

Thanks, John V. Bozga Region III, Division of Reactor Safety, Reactor Inspector, Engineering Branch 1

Inspection Report : 05000282/2014005; 05000306/2014005 Inspection Dates

October 6 th thru October 10 th 2014 Inspection Procedure

Temporary Instruction 2515/189, "Inspection to Determine Compliance of Dynamic Restraint (Snubber) Program with 10 CFR 50.55a Regulatory Requirements for Inservice Examination and Testing of Snubbers" Lead Inspector

John V. Bozga (630) 829

-9613 I. Information Requested for In

-Office Preparation Week The following information is requested by September 29, 2014

, or sooner, to facilitate the selection of specific items that will be reviewed during the onsite inspection week. The required information identified below should be provided on compact disc (CD). Please provide a CD copy. The preferred file format is a searchable "pdf" file. The CDs should be indexed and hyper

-linked to facilitate ease of use, if possible. If you have any questions regarding this information, please call the inspector as soon as possible.

(1) A copy of document(s) which contain(s) the current snubber Inservice Inspection (ISI) and Inservice Testing (IST)

Program. (The snubber program may be found in the ISI Program, the IST Program, Technical Specifications, the Technical Requirements Manual, or any other licensee

-controlled documents/procedures.)

(2) A copy of any alternatives and/or relief requests approved by the NRC for the snubber ISI and/or IST Program. (3) Copies of any corrective action documents involving ISI and/or IST of snubbers for the current 10

-year interval, including any actions taken to address Enforcement Guidance Memorandum (EGM) 10

-001 and Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) 2010

-06. (4) A copy of the snubber ISI and IST Program based on the Technical Specification (TS) and/or Technical Requirements Manual (TRM) (if snubber ISI and IST Program governed through TS and/or TRM during any part of the 40 years of plant operation).

(5) A copy of the snubber ISI and IST Program based on American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)Section XI and/or Subsection ISTD of the ASME Operation and Maintenance (OM) Code (if snubber ISI and IST Program governed through ASME Section XI and/or ASME Section OM during any part of the 40 years of plant operation).

(6) Licensing actions (50.59s, License Amendment Requests, Technical Specification Changes, Relief Requests or approved alternatives) that changed snubber ISI and IST Program from TS to TRM, TS to ASME Section XI, ASME Section XI to ASME OM code, etc.)

(7) Copies of ISI and IST inspection records for the total snubber population (Unit 1) for the current 10

-year interval including snubbers that are attached to steam generators (SGs) or reactor coolant pumps (RCPs).

(8) List of the snubber ISI and IST activities scheduled for the Unit 1 refueling outage and timeline for when these activities will occur. List of accessible snubber ISI and IST activities scheduled either prior or during the Unit 1 refueling outage and when activities will occur.

The list should include type of snubber (mechanical or hydraulic), design function (seismic, waterhammer, etc.), Tag/Mark Number (ie. FWH-139), ASME Class I, II or III, vendor, risk

-ranking, safety classification, plant system, building location and elevation, high radiation area and accessible/inaccessible.

(9) Copy of Code of Record (ie.

, ASME Code Section XI or ASME OM Code) used for the current 10

-year snubber ISI and IST program.

(10) Copy of record/s where snubber inservice visual examination/s was extended beyond one refueling outage and the site evaluation of the inspection frequency of the snubber visual examination/s to show compliance with the requirements of the ASME Section XI code, ASME OM Code or other approved document

. (11) Copies of records where snubber inservice visual examination/s were extended beyond two refueling outages and the site evaluation of the inspection frequency of the snubber visual examination/s to show compliance with the requirements of the ASME Section XI code, ASME OM Code or other approved document.

(12) Copies of testing records for selected snubbers which had inservice test failures during the current 10 year interval and the site evaluation whether an additional sample at least one

-half the size of the initial sample was tested as required by the ASME OM Code or any other NRC

-approved alternative(s).

(13) Copy of ISI VT

-3 visual inspection procedure used for snubber ISI examinations.

(14) Copy of IST procedure used for snubber IST.

(15) Copy of site evaluation that was performed to address requirements of ASME OM Code Case 13, "Requirements for Extending Snubber Inservice Visual Examination Interval at LWR Power Plants", if applicable.

(16) Copy of NRC

-approval of OM Code Case OMN

-15, "Requirement for Extending the Snubber Operational Readiness Testing Interval at LWR Power Plants," to extend the snubber inservice testing interval, if applicable.

(17) Copy of documents that pertain to Service Life Monitoring of total snubber population (Unit 1).

(18) Copy of records (i.e. repair, replacements, maintenance, corrective work, failures, etc.) for the total snubber population (Unit 1) that are recorded and included in the Service Life Monitoring program.

(19) The most recent Quality Assurance Audit and/or Self Assessment of the snubber ISI and IST program.

(20) Electronic copy of the UFSAR, technical specifications and technical requirements manual if available.

(21) Name(s) and phone numbers for the regulatory and technical contacts.

(22) Current management and engineering organizational chart.

II. Information Requested to be provided throughout the inspection (1) Copies of any corrective action documents generated as a result of the inspection team's questions or queries during this inspection.

(2) Copies of the list of questions submitted by the inspection team members and the status/resolution of the information requested (provide daily during the inspection to inspector).

If you have any questions regarding the information requested, please contact the lead inspector, John V. Bozga (630)

-829-9613