ML081120496

Notification of an NRC Triennial Fire Protection Baseline Inspection 05000285-08-006

ML081120496
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	04/21/2008
From:	Laura Smith NRC/RGN-IV/DRS/EB2
To:	Bannister D Omaha Public Power District
References
IR-08-006
Download: ML081120496 (7)

See also: IR 05000285/2008006

Text

April 21, 2008

D. J. Bannister

Vice President and CNO

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

SUBJECT:

FORT CALHOUN STATION - NOTIFICATION OF AN NRC TRIENNIAL FIRE

PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION 05000285/2008006

Dear Mr. Bannister:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC),

Region IV staff will conduct a triennial fire protection baseline inspection at your Fort Calhoun

Station in July and August of 2008. The inspection team will be comprised of reactor inspectors

from the NRC Region IV office and a contractor. The team will conduct the inspection in

accordance with the baseline Inspection Procedure 71111.05T, "Fire Protection (Triennial)."

The schedule for the inspection is as follows:

Information gathering visit: July 8-10, 2008

Onsite inspection:

July 28-August 1, 2008

August 11-15, 2008

The team will visit the Fort Calhoun Station on July 8-10, 2008, to gather information, select the

fire areas for evaluation, identify documents needed to support the inspection, obtain

unescorted access, and to become familiar with your fire protection program. The enclosure to

this letter provides an initial list of the documents the team will want to review. The team leader

will request that you transmit copies of some of the documents to the NRC Region IV office for

team use in preparation for the inspection. We would appreciate it if you could send this

information so that it will arrive in our office in Arlington, Texas, by the dates listed in the

enclosure.

We request that during the onsite inspection weeks, you ensure that copies of analyses,

evaluations, or documentation regarding the implementation and maintenance of the fire

protection program, including post-fire safe shutdown capability, be readily accessible to the

team for their review. Of specific interest are those documents that establish that your fire

protection program satisfies NRC regulatory requirements and conforms to applicable NRC and

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industry fire protection guidance. Also, appropriate personnel knowledgeable of: (1) plant

systems required to achieve and maintain safe shutdown conditions from inside and outside the

control room, (2) the electrical aspects of the post-fire safe shutdown analyses, (3) reactor plant

fire protection systems, and (4) the fire protection program and its implementation should be

available to support the team at the site during the inspection.

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

enclosure will be 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 http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Your cooperation and support during this inspection will be appreciated. If you have questions

concerning this inspection or the inspection team's information or logistical needs, please

contact Greg Pick at 817-860-8270.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Linda J. Smith, Chief

Engineering Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-285

License: DPR-40

Enclosure: Triennial Fire Protection

Inspection Supporting Documentation

cc:

Joe l. McManis,

Manager - Nuclear Licensing

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

Winston & Strawn

Attn: James R. Curtiss

1700 K Street NW

Washington, DC 20006-3817

Chairman

Washington County Board of Supervisors

P.O. Box 466

Blair, NE 68008

Omaha Public Power District

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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

Melanie Rasmussen

Bureau of Radiological Health

Iowa Department of Public Health

Lucas State Office Building, 5th Floor

321 East 12th Street

Des Moines, IA 50319

Ronald L. McCabe, Chief

Technological Hazards Branch

National Preparedness Division

DHS/FEMA

9221 Ward Parkway

Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 64114-3372

Omaha Public Power District

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Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Dwight.Chamberlain@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Roy.Caniano@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (John.Hanna@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/E (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (George.Replogle@nrc.gov)

Team Leader, DRP/TSS (Chuck.Paulk@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

SUNSI Review Completed: _GAP__ ADAMS: X Yes

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ENCLOSURE

Triennial Fire Protection Inspection Documentation Requested

Please provide the following documentation prior to the onsite information-gathering trip,

preferably no later than June 23, 2008. Where practical, please provide copies electronically.

1.

The current version of your fire protection program and fire hazards analysis.

2.

Post-fire safe shutdown analysis and the supporting calculations that demonstrate

acceptable plant response.

3.

Copies of the licensing basis documents for fire protection (Safety Evaluation Reports,

pertinent sections of the Final Safety Analysis Report, exemptions, deviations, letters

to/from the NRC regarding fire protection/fire safe shutdown, etc.).

4.

The Fire PRA or portions of the plants IPEEE addressing fire events.

Please provide the following documentation during the information-gathering visit or by

July 18, 2008, in order to support inspection preparation. Where practical, please provide

copies electronically. However, drawings should be provided as paper copies of sufficient size

that all details are legible.

5.

Fire protection program implementing procedures (e.g., administrative controls, operator

response procedures for fires, fire fighting procedures, etc.).

6.

Operating procedures used for achieving and maintaining hot and cold shutdown

conditions from the control room in the event of a fire outside the control room (III.G.2

areas).

7.

Operating procedure(s) used to implement an alternative shutdown (III.G.3 areas)

capability with or without control room evacuation.

8.

Pre-fire plans for the selected fire areas (areas to be selected by the team during the

information-gathering trip).

9.

A list of equipment used to achieve and maintain hot standby and cold shutdowns in the

event of a fire (safe shutdown equipment lists).

10.

Piping and instrumentation (flow) diagrams showing the components used to achieve

and maintain hot standby and cold shutdowns for fires outside the control room and

those components used for those areas requiring alternative shutdown capability. Two

copies of the piping and instrumentation (flow) diagrams for these systems of a size

sufficient to read all details. These should include the systems used for RCS makeup,

RCS pressure control, decay heat removal, and reactivity control, including the essential

support systems.

11.

Plant layout and equipment drawings for the selected fire areas that identify (a) the

physical plant locations of major hot standby and cold shutdown equipment; (b) plant fire

area and/or fire zone delineation; and (c) the locations of fire protection equipment, such

as detection, suppression, and post-fire emergency lighting units, and (d) fire area

boundaries.

12.

A listing of design change packages, which were determined to impact fire protection

and post-fire safe shutdowns, performed in the last 3 years.

13.

Copies of Generic Letter 86-10 evaluations performed in the last 3 years.

14.

A listing of open and closed corrective action documents initiated in the last 3 years,

which relate to the fire protection program or equipment. Include corrective action

document number, date, and subject.

15.

A listing of the applicable codes and standards (with the versions) related to the design

of plant fire protection features and evaluations of any code deviations.

16.

Drawings of the portions of the emergency lighting system which support fire response.

17.

Procedures used to remove smoke from safety-related areas and the engineering

studies or calculations which support the design basis.

18.

Drawings of communication systems credited in the license basis for firefighting and

plant operations during fires where control room is occupied and/or evacuated.

19.

Piping and instrumentation (flow) diagrams for the fire water and sprinkler systems.

20.

A listing of maintenance and surveillance testing procedures for alternative shutdown

capability and fire barriers, detectors, pumps and suppression systems.

21.

Maintenance Rule performance criteria and a summary of the last 3 years performance

history for fire protection program systems or functions monitored within the

Maintenance Rule program.

22.

A copy of fire protection program requirements (e.g. limiting conditions for operation,

surveillance test requirements) covered by Technical Specifications, Technical

Requirements Manual, UFSAR, or similar documents.

23.

Copies of internal and external self-assessments, audits, peer-assessments or similar

reviews related to post-fire safe shutdown capability or the fire protection program

completed since July 1, 2005.

24.

A list of manual actions taken outside the control room which are credited to mitigate the

consequences of fires in III.G.2 areas (non-alternative shutdown areas). The list should

group actions by the initiating fire area or zone and indicate where the action must take

place.

25.

Electronic copies of operator study guides (i.e. lesson plan text and graphics) or design

basis documents that describe the purpose/function/operating characteristics of the safe

shutdown systems (RCS makeup, RCS pressure control, decay heat removal, and

reactivity control, including the essential support systems).

26.

Two copies of one-line diagrams of the electrical distribution system. These should

depict how power gets from the switchyard to ESF loads (480V and 4160V). Also,

include the vital DC distribution system one-line diagrams.

27.

A list of automatic and manually initiated gaseous fire suppression systems in the plant,

giving location and the key equipment being protected.

28.

A list of repairs (and the procedure that controls the actions) needed to: a) reach and/or

maintain hot shutdown and b) reach and/or maintain cold shutdown.

29.

A list of high to low pressure interface valves.

30.

A copy of procedures governing the training and operation of the fire brigade.

31.

Organization charts of site personnel down to the level of fire protection staff personnel.

32.

A contact list of key site personnel who will be supporting this inspection, giving location

of their office and phone number onsite.

33.

The team would like to observe a fire brigade drill in the plant, if possible, during the

week of August 11, 2008. Please put us in contact with the appropriate personnel for

planning drills during the onsite information gathering trip.

34.

The team would like to perform a walkthrough of the procedure for control room due to

fire with qualified operators in the plant during the week of July 28, 2008. Please put us

in contact with the appropriate personnel for planning the walkthrough during the onsite

information gathering trip.