[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12577-12578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-5494]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-245]


Northeast Utilities Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, 
License No. DPR-21; Receipt of Petitions for Director's Decision Under 
10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that Anthony J. Ross (Petitioner) has filed 
four Petitions with the Executive Director for Operations requesting 
that escalated enforcement action be taken with regard to alleged 
violations at Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1.
    By Petition dated December 30, 1994, the Petitioner requests that 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)(1) ``force'' Northeast 
Utilities (NU) to review all existing work orders for the past 10 or 12 
years, with NRC oversight, to ensure that no quality assurance (QA) 
motor and connection work has certain deficiencies; (2) assess a 
Severity Level I violation against NU and its managers for apparent 
violations of 10 CFR 50.7 and a Severity Level III violation against a 
gas turbine system engineer at Millstone for his apparent violation of 
10 CFR 50.7 and the company's ``Code of Conduct and Ethics''; and (3) 
institute sanctions against the system engineer and NU and its managers 
for engaging in deliberate misconduct in violation of 10 CFR 50.5. As 
grounds for these requests, the Petitioner asserts that (1) work 
control and procedure compliance are inadequate at Millstone, as 
evidenced by the use of standard commercial-grade lugs in a gas turbine 
fuel forwarding pump and motor (QA subsystems of the emergency gas 
turbine generator) that had apparently been crimped using diagonal 
pliers; improper Raychem splices, cable bend radius, and connections in 
the connection boxes of major safety-related QA equipment; and non-QA 
lugs crimped improperly and installed in fire protection quality 
assurance emergency lights; and (2) he had been subjected to ridicule 
by the gas turbine system engineer for raising concerns regarding the 
lugs on the gas turbine fuel forwarding pump and motor.
    By Petition dated January 2, 1995, the Petitioner requests that the 
NRC: (1) Assess a Severity Level II violation and a Severity Level III 
violation against his department manager and first line 
[[Page 12578]] supervisor for their apparent violations of 10 CFR 50.7; 
(2) institute sanctions against his first line supervisor, NU, and the 
Millstone Unit 1 organization for engaging in deliberate misconduct in 
violation of 10 CFR 50.5; and (3) remove his first line supervisor from 
his position until a ``satisfactory solution to the falsifying of 
nuclear documents'' by this individual can be achieved. As grounds for 
these requests, the Petitioner asserts that (1) his first line 
supervisor willfully falsified nuclear documents in that he signed off 
on a surveillance of the gas turbine battery as having met acceptance 
criteria when the requirements had not been met; (2) he was ``unjustly 
chastised'' by his first line supervisor and department manager about 
absenteeism, and his department manager threatened him in a memorandum; 
and (3) the Unit 1 organization failed to enter into a four-day 
limiting condition for operation as required by technical 
specifications when the operations department was notified of the 
failed surveillance, in violation of 10 CFR 50.5. In addition, the 
Petitioner asserts that a number of violations occurred in 1992 and 
1993 with regard to the emergency gas turbine battery, which have not 
been handled appropriately by the NRC and NU, and that the utility and 
NRC are engaged in an apparent ``cover-up'' of the problems.
    By Petition dated January 5, 1995, the Petitioner requests that the 
NRC institute sanctions against his department manager, first line 
supervisor, and two coworkers for engaging in deliberate misconduct in 
violation of 10 CFR 50.5. The Petitioner also asserts that the NRC 
``desperately needs to conduct an investigation'' of the procedure 
violations, and to audit the Unit 1 maintenance department measuring 
and test equipment (M&TE) folders to reveal widespread problems 
regarding noncompliance with this procedure. As grounds for this 
request, the Petitioner describes several examples of what he alleges 
have been violations of procedure WC-8, which requires that M&TE be 
signed out from and returned to a custodian.
    By Petition dated January 8, 1995, the Petitioner requests that the 
NRC institute at least three sanctions against his department manager, 
and institute sanctions against his coworker and maintenance first line 
supervisor for engaging in deliberate misconduct in violation of 10 CFR 
50.5. As grounds for this request, the Petitioner alleges that on 
numerous occasions since January 1994, his department manager 
instructed his coworkers to shut off or turn down the volume on the 
site paging system and site siren evacuation alarm in the Unit 1 
maintenance shop, and his first line supervisor and coworker complied 
with this request, in violation of Technical Specification 6.8.1 and 
NUREG-0654.
    The requests are being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the 
Commission's regulations. The requests have been referred to the 
Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
    Copies of the Petitions are available for inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC, 
and at the local public document room for Millstone Unit 1 located at 
the Learning Resource Center, Three Rivers Community-Technical College, 
Thames Valley Campus, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, CT 06360.

    Dated at Rockville, MD, this 23rd day of February 1995.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William T. Russell,
Director, Office of the Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 95-5494 Filed 3-6-95; 8:45 am]
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