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during calendar years 2001 through
2008.
This Confirmatory Order is the result
of an agreement reached during an
alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
mediation session conducted on April
29, 2008.
Erica Hall,
Assistant Corporate Secretary.
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Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.,
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant,
Units 2 and 3 Combined License
Application Notice of Intent To Prepare
an Environmental Impact Statement
and Conduct Scoping Process;
Correction
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Intent; Correction.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This document corrects a
notice appearing in the Federal Register
on May 22, 2008, (73 FR 29785) that
notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement and
conduct scoping process. This action is
necessary to correct an erroneous date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please contact Dr. Donald Palmrose,
Project Manager at (301) 415–3803 or
via e-mail at donald.palmrose@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On page
29787, in the first column, in the first
line of column, the date is changed from
‘‘July 18, 2008,’’ to read ‘‘July 25, 2008.’’
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day
of May, 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nilesh C. Chokshi,
Acting Director, Division of Site and
Environmental Reviews, Office of New
Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8–12460 Filed 6–3–08; 8:45 am]
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[Docket No. 150–00017]
In the Matter of: Global X-Ray &
Testing Corporation General License
Pursuant to Houma, LA; 10 CFR
150.20, EA–08–008; EA–08–009; EA–
08–010; EA–08–011; Confirmatory
Order (Effective Immediately)
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Global X-Ray & Testing Corporation
(Global or Licensee) is the holder of a
general license pursuant to 10 CFR
150.20 issued by the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC or
Commission). This general license was
granted to Global at various times
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the NRC that it plans to conduct
announced and unannounced
inspections of its radiography crews
working on lay-barges. This
confirmatory order is issued pursuant to
the agreement reached during the ADR
process.
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During that ADR session, an
Agreement in Principle was reached.
The elements of the agreement consisted
of the following:
1. Global will develop a procedure for
additional oversight of radiography
crews working offshore. They will
incorporate into this procedure a
method for each crew to review the
special requirements for offshore work
with the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO)
or a supervisor (who is a certified
radiographer). The review is to be
accomplished prior to leaving for an
offshore job, then again when the crew
arrives at their final destination where
radiography will be performed to ensure
that they have all the equipment
necessary to conduct radiographic
operations in a safe manner.
Documentation of the second review is
to be sent by fax or other available
method to a supervisor or the RSO
within 2 hours of completion, but no
later than 8 hours in the event of
documented communication
interruptions.
2. Global will obtain an agreement
with lay-barge operators. In general, this
agreement would include provisions to
conduct radiographic operations,
respond to incidents, and facilitate
direct Global management/RSO
oversight of radiographers on the laybarge.
3. Global will agree to specific
changes or ‘‘confirmation and
acknowledgment’’ of specific changes in
Global’s supervision policy (including
supervision of assistant radiographers)
which would include field audits of laybarge radiographic operations by Global
management. Global will make
reasonable attempts to conduct a
minimum of four field audits per year.
4. As part of Global’s contract
negotiations for lay-barge operations,
Global will make arrangements for NRC
inspection of Global’s lay-barge
operations on U.S. owned lay-barges.
Global will make every effort possible to
secure, for the NRC, such access to
foreign owned lay-barges.
5. Global will write and deliver a
personal letter from licensee
management to each employee
regarding company expectations
concerning 10 CFR 30.9 issues or issue
a company policy statement
encouraging employees to self-report.
An NRC inspection was conducted in
response to an event that occurred on
April 20, 2006, involving the inability to
retract a radiation source to its fully
shielded position while conducting
radiographic operations onboard a laybarge in offshore Federal waters. The
inspection began on March 13, 2007,
and continued with in-office review
through November 26, 2007. An
investigation by the NRC’s Office of
Investigations (OI) was initiated on
April 17, 2007. Based on the results of
the NRC inspection and the OI
investigation, the NRC identified four
apparent violations which were
discussed in a letter and inspection
report dated February 20, 2008. The
violations involved: (1) The failure to
provide the NRC with complete and
accurate information, as required by 10
CFR 30.9(a); (2) the failure to prevent
workers from resuming work after their
pocket dosimeters were found to be offscale and the possibility of radiation
exposure could not be ruled out as the
cause, as required by 10 CFR 34.47(d);
(3) the failure to ensure that a
radiographer was providing personal
supervision of the radiographer’s
assistant through direct observation of
the assistant’s performance of
radiographic operations, as required by
10 CFR 34.46(c); and (4) permitting an
individual who was not wearing a
personnel dosimeter during
radiographic operations to act as a
radiographer, in contradiction of 10 CFR
34.47(a). In addition, the NRC was
concerned that the first apparent
violation, the failure to provide the NRC
with complete and accurate
information, involved willfulness.
In response to the apparent violations,
Global requested ADR. On April 29,
2008, the NRC and Global met in an
ADR session mediated by a professional
mediator, arranged through Cornell
University’s Institute on Conflict
Resolution. ADR is a process in which
a neutral mediator with no decisionmaking authority assists the parties in
reaching an agreement on resolving any
differences regarding the dispute.
During the mediation, Global provided
additional corrective actions including
developing an emergency procedure for
retrieval of radioactive sources, an
incident investigation procedure, an
incident interview policy, and informed
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Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., Shearon Harris Nuclear Power
Plant, Units 2 and 3 Combined License Application Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping Process;
Correction
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Intent; Correction.
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SUMMARY: This document corrects a notice appearing in the Federal
Register on May 22, 2008, (73 FR 29785) that notice of intent to
prepare an environmental impact statement and conduct scoping process.
This action is necessary to correct an erroneous date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please contact Dr. Donald Palmrose,
Project Manager at (301) 415-3803 or via e-mail at
donald.palmrose@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On page 29787, in the first column, in the
first line of column, the date is changed from ``July 18, 2008,'' to
read ``July 25, 2008.''
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of May, 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nilesh C. Chokshi,
Acting Director, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews, Office of
New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-12460 Filed 6-3-08; 8:45 am]
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