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Annual Assessment Letter - Fort Calhoun Station (NRC Inspection Report 05000458-07-001)
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Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	03/02/2007
From:	Clark J; NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-E
To:	Ridenoure R; Omaha Public Power District
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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

R E G I O N I V

611 RYAN PLAZA DRIVE, SUITE 400

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4005

March 2, 2007

R. T. Ridenoure

Vice President

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

SUBJECT: ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - FORT CALHOUN STATION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000458/2007001)

Dear Mr. Ridenoure:

On February 7, the NRC staff completed its performance review of Fort Calhoun Station. Our

technical staff reviewed performance indicators for the most recent quarter and inspection

results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2006. The purpose of this letter is

to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for

future inspections at your facility.

This performance review and enclosed inspection plan do not include physical protection

information. A separate letter designated and marked as "Official Use Only - Security-Related

Information" will include the physical protection review and resultant inspection plan.

Overall, Fort Calhoun Station, operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and

fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as

for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response column

of the NRC's Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low

safety significance (Green) and all performance indicators indicating performance at a level

requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Although plant performance was within the

Licensee Response column, the significance of an inoperable train of the containment spray

system is still under review as part of the Significance Determination Process. The results of

our review will be provided by separate correspondence. This issue is not a current safety

concern because it was corrected during the recently completed refueling outage.

The NRC staff has identified a substantive crosscutting issue in the human performance area at

Fort Calhoun Station. There were a total of 13 Green findings with crosscutting aspects in the

human performance area. A crosscutting theme was identified in the area of Work Practices

(instances of ineffective use of human error prevention techniques). Five Green findings were

related to this theme, affecting the Mitigating Systems and Occupational Radiation Safety

cornerstones. These include: the inadvertent pump down of the intake bay resulting in less

than the minimum number of required raw water pumps being available, the overpressurization

of chemical and volume control system and high pressure safety injection piping, a failure to

maintain shutdown cooling in service, and a failure to obtain high radiation area access

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authorization before entering the area. To address these problems, we understand your staff

has conducted a root cause determination and formed a cross-disciplinary team to identify

potential recommendations for improvements in this area. However, full implementation of

these actions is not complete. Therefore, this substantive crosscutting issue will remain open

until we determine, through the implementation of focused baseline inspections, that corrective

actions implemented in accordance with your improvement initiative have addressed these

issues.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, except those related to physical

protection, scheduled through September 30, 2008. The inspection plan is provided to allow for

the resolution of any scheduling conflicts and personnel availability issues well in advance of

inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and

continuous nature. The inspections in the last 9 months of the inspection plan are tentative and

may be revised at the midcycle review.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its

enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public

Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs

document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at

h t t P : //www. n rc . CI ov/ re ad in CI - r m/a d a m s . h t m I (the P u b I i c E I ect ro n i c Read in g Roo m ) .

If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to

discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at (817) 860-8147 with any

questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

/Jeff

Clark, Chief

Project Branch E

Division of Reactor Projects

Docket: 50-285

License: DPR-40

Enclosure:

Fort Calhoun Station Inspection/Activity Plan

cc w/enclosure:

Joe I. McManis, Manager - Licensing

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

Omaha Public Power District

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David J. Bannister

Manager - Fort Calhoun Station

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-1-1 Plant

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

James R. Curtiss

Winston & Strawn

1700 K Street NW

Washington, DC 20006-3817

Chairman

Washington County Board of Supervisors

P.O. Box466

Blair, NE 68008

Julia Schmitt, Manager

Radiation Control Program

Nebraska Health & Human Services

Dept. of Regulation & Licensing

Division of Public Health Assurance

301 Centennial Mall, South

P.O. Box 95007

Lincoln, NE 68509-5007

Daniel K. McGhee

Bureau of Radiological Health

Iowa Department of Public Health

Lucas State Office Building, 5th Floor

321 East 12th Street

Des Moines, IA 50319

Chief, Radiological Emergency

Preparedness Section

Kansas City Field Office

Chemical and Nuclear Preparedness

and Protection Division

Dept. of Homeland Security

9221 Ward Parkway

Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 641 14-3372

Timothy F. Dunning, Sheriff

Douglas County

3601 N. 156th Street

Omaha, NE 68116

Kyle Hutchings, Chairperson

Douglas County Board of Commissioners

Civic Center

1819 Farnam LC2

Omaha, NE 68183

Steve Lee, Director

Douglas County Emergency

Civic Center, EOC, Room 114

1819 Farnam Street

Omaha, NE 68183

Man age m e n t Agency

Larry Oliver

Emergency Management Agency

Harrison County

11 1 South 1st Avenue

Logan, IA 51 546-1 305

Terry Baxter, Sheriff

Harrison County

11 1 South 1 st Avenue

Logan, IA 51546

Robert Smith, Chairman

Harrison County Board of Supervsiors

I

I 1 North 2nd Avenue

Logan, IA 51546

The Honorable Randy McHugh

Mayor of Missouri Valley

City Hall

223 E. Erie

Missouri Valley, IA 51 555

Terry Hummel, Coordinator

Pottawattamie County Emergency

Management Coordinator

227 S. 6th Street, Court House

Council Bluffs, IA 51501

Loren Knauss, Chairman

Pottawattamie County Board of

227 South 6th Street

Council Bluffs, IA 51501

Supervisors

Omaha Public Power District

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Mike Robinson, Sheriff

Washington County Courthouse

1535 Colfax Street

Blair, NE 68008

Gary Fanoele, President

Blair City Council

218 S. 16th Street

Blair, NE 68008

The Honorable Jim Realph

Mayor of Blair

218 South 16th Street

Blair, NE 68008

The Honorable Paul Oestmann

Mayor of Fort Calhoun

P.O. Box 394

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023

David Genoways, President

Fort Calhoun City Council

P.O. Box 577

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023

Bill Pook, Director

Region 5/6 Emergency Management

435 N. Park Avenue, Suite 400

Fremont, NE 68025

Dick Hainje, Regional Director

Fed era I Em erg en cy Man age men t Agency

Region VI1

9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 641 14-3372

John Norris, Chairperson

Department of Commerce

Utilities Division

Iowa Utilities Board

350 Maple Street

Des Moines, IA 50319-0069

Donald A. Flater, Chief

Bureau of Radiological Health

Iowa Department of Public Health

Lucas State Office Building, 5th floor

321 East 12th Street

Des Moines. IA 50319

Robert Leopold, Administrator

Nebraska Health and Human Services

Division of Public Health Assurance

Department of Regulation and

301 Centennial Mall, South

P.O. Box 95007

Lincoln, NE 68509-5007

Licensure

John Blackhawk

Tribal Chairman

Winnebago Tribal Coucil

P.O. Box 687

Winnebago, NE 68071-0687

Gary Lasley

Tribal Chairperson

Omaha Tribal Council

P.O. Box 368

Macy, NE 68039-0368

AI Berndt, Assistant Director

Nebraska Emergency Management Agency

1300 Military Road

Lincoln, NE 68508-1090

Ron McCabe

Chief, Radiological Emergency

Preparedness

CNPPD, Kansas City Field Office

9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 200

Kansas City, MO 641 14

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