On November 10, 2003, at
1740 hours0.0201 days <br />0.483 hours <br />0.00288 weeks <br />6.6207e-4 months <br /> it was determined that a Fitness-For-Duty program condition existed which required a 24-hour report to the NRC.
Personnel with unescorted access are placed into different groups within the Fitness-For-Duty program. One of these groups, the Immune group, is for personnel not eligible for random test selection at our site, such as the NRC. The remaining groups become part of the random eligible population.
During a review of the Fitness-For-Duty program it was discovered that the total number of personnel in the Immune population group was higher than normally expected (133 vs. 24). Some personnel required to be in the random eligible population were discovered to be in the Immune group, which rendered them ineligible for selection. (This primarily affected personnel transferring from an approved program within 30 days.). This resulted in non-compliance with 10 CFR 26.24.
Security personnel are manually correcting the group listings, identifying the affected individuals, scheduling individuals still on site for testing, and notifying the plants where individuals potentially affected may have gone.
A root cause investigation is presently being conducted to identify the extent, time frame, and cause of this event. If relevant information is uncovered as a part of the root cause investigation that affects the reportability determination, the NRC will be notified.
This condition is being reported in accordance with 10CFR26.73.
The licensee has notified the NRC Resident Inspector
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Based on subsequent research, the licensee determined that the above event is not reportable as a significant event under 10 CFR 26.73.
The licensee will notify the NRC Resident Inspector.
Notified R2DO (Bonser)
