IR 05000133/2008003

IR 05000133-08-003; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; 09/22-26/2008; Humboldt Bay Power Plant, NRC Inspection Report

ML082970815
Person / Time
Site:	Humboldt Bay
Issue date:	10/23/2008
From:	Whitten J NRC/RGN-IV/DNMS/NMSBB
To:	Conway J Pacific Gas & Electric Co
References
IR-08-003
Download: ML082970815 (19)

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October 23, 2008 Mr. John Site Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Pacific Gas and Electric Company P.O. Box 3 Mail Code 104/6/601 Avila Beach, California 93424 SUBJECT: NRC INSPECTION REPORT 050-00133/08-003

Dear Mr. Conway:

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection was conducted on September 22-26, 2008, at your Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3 facility. This inspection was an examination of activities conducted under your license as they relate to safety and compliance of the Commission's rules and regulations and with the conditions of your license. Within these areas, the inspection included reviews of your organization, management, and cost controls; safety reviews, design changes, and modifications; spent fuel pool safety; maintenance and surveillances; decommissioning status; occupational radiation exposure; and radioactive waste treatment, effluent and environmental monitoring. On September 26, 2008, at the conclusion of the onsite inspection, an exit interview was conducted with Mr. Mark Smith, Engineering Manager, and other members of your staff. The enclosed report presents the scope and results of that inspection. The inspection determined that you were conducting decommissioning activities in compliance with regulatory and license requirements.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its enclosure, and your response, if you choose to provide one, will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the NRC's document system (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To the extent possible, your response should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be made available to the Public without redaction.

Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, please contact Mr. Emilio Garcia, Health Physicist, at (530) 756-3910, or the undersigned at (817) 860-8197.

Sincerely,

/RA/ Jack E. Whitten, Chief Nuclear Materials Safety Branch B

Docket No.: 050-00133 License No.: DPR-7 UNITED STATESNUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONREGION IV612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125 Mr. John Enclosure: NRC Inspection Report 050-00133/08-003 cc w/enclosure: Donna Jacobs, Vice President Nuclear Services Pacific Gas and Electric Company Diablo Canyon Power Plant P.O. Box 56 Avila Beach, CA 93424

Antonio Fernandez, Esq.

PG&E P.O. Box 7442 San Francisco, CA 94120 Loren Sharp, Director and Nuclear Plant Manager Humboldt Bay Power Plant, PG&E 1000 King Salmon Avenue Eureka, CA 95505 Chairman Humboldt County Board of Supervisors County Courthouse 825 Fifth Street Eureka, CA 95501

Law Office of Linda J. Brown, Esq. 300 Drake's Landing Road, Suite 172 Greenbrae, CA 94904 Regional Radiation Representative U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IX Office 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105

Dr. Richard Ferguson, Energy Chair Sierra Club California 1100 11th Street, Suite 311 Sacramento, CA 95814 Dr. James F. Davis, State Geologist Department of Conservation Division of Mines & Geology 801 K Street MS 12-30 Sacramento, CA 95814-3531

Mr. John