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EA-10-077 · ORDER · Severity SLIII · Issued 2011-02-08 · Materials Licensees

Action

EA Number
EA-10-077
Licensee
ORDER
Category
Materials Licensees
Action type
ORDER
Severity level
SLIII
Date issued
2011-02-08

Description

On February 8, 2011, the NRC issued an Immediately Effective Confirmatory Order to the Superior Well Services, Ltd. (SWS) to confirm commitments made as a result of an Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) mediation session held on January 4, 2011. The licensee requested ADR following the NRC's October 21, 2010, Notice of Violation and Proposed civil penalty of $34,000, for five violations that were categorized into two severity level (SL) III problems. The first SL III problem involved three violations related to the temporary loss of two radioactive well logging sources. The second SL III problem involved two violations related to the deliberate failure to conduct radiological surveys and the creation of inaccurate survey records. As part of the agreement, SWS took number of actions addressing all of the violations, to ensure that the corrective actions are effective, and to ensure that lessons learned from these events are extended to the well logging industry. In addition, SWS took several corrective actions prior to the ADR mediation session. In recognition of SWS's proposed extensive corrective actions, in addition to corrective actions already taken, the NRC agreed to reduce the civil penalty originally proposed to $17,000.

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