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Dear Mr. Chaimm:
Enclosed for your infomation is an announcement that the Nuclear Regulato y Comission staff has proposed a $120,000 civil penalty against the Tennessee Valley Authority for alleged noncompliance
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with NRC requirements at the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant.
It is planned to mail this infomation to the news media today, July 20, 1984.
Sincerely, Carlton Kamerer, Director Office of Congressional Affairs
Enclosure:
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Washington, D.C. 2066ti No. 84-90 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel. 301/492-7715 (Friday, July 20 1984)
NRC STAFF PROPOSES $120,000 CIVIL PENALTY AGAINST TVA FOR ALLEGED NONCOMPLIANCE AT BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has proposed a $120,000 civil penalty against the Tennessee Valley Authority for alleged noncompliance with NRC requirements at the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, located near Athens, Alabama.
In a letter to TVA, James P. O'Reilly, Administrator of the NRC's Region II Office in Atlanta, said the proposed civil penalty was due to plant management's failure to promptly identify and correct conditions adverse to quality during post-trip (shutdown) reviews, post-modification testing, monthly surveillance, and after identification of component design incompatibilities; failure to make required reports of these conditions to the NRC; and failure to perform a required test of reactor protection system function when one channel of the system was inoperable.
O'Reilly said the NRC attributes these events to " insufficient management oversight" which has been the subject of several senior management meetings with TVA. He said these meetings have led to TVA's develcpment of a
" Regulatory Performance Improvement Plan" for Browns Ferry which the NRC expects will improve performance at all levels of plant operation.
TVA has 30 days from receipt of the letter to either pay the civil penalty or to protest its imposition, in whole or in part.
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