Headquarters Daily Report

                         NOVEMBER 21, 1997

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PRIORITY ATTENTION REQUIRED  MORNING REPORT - HEADQUARTERS NOV. 21, 1997

MR Number: H-97-0145

                           NRR DAILY REPORT ITEM
                           GENERIC COMMUNICATIONS



NRC Information Notice 97-81, "Deficiencies in Failure Modes and Effects 
Analyses for Instrumentation and Control Systems," dated November 24,    
1997.                                                                    
                                                                         
The NRC is issuing this information notice to alert addressees to design 
inadequacies in safety-related instrumentation and control systems in    
which the original failure modes and effects analysis failed to identify 
the inability to perform intended function(s) in the presence of a single
failure, which defeats the system applicability to their facilities.     
                                                                         
Technical contacts:  S. V. Athavale, NRR                                 
                     301-415-2974                                        
                                                                         
                     Thomas Koshy, NRR                                   
                     301-415-1176                                        
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