CARROLL TOWNSHIP -- Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station's parent corporation FirstEnergy announced Tuesday it was restructuring to help tie together operations at other company-owned plants.

The change creates a new organization called the FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Corp. Engineering and Services Group, which is expected to be in place by the end of the month.

It will be headed up by FENOC Executive Vice President Gary Leidich, and will staff about 55 to 65 people, according to a statement released Tuesday by the company.

The organization will tie together operations at Davis-Besse, the Perry Plant in Lake County and the Beaver Valley Plant in Shippingport, Pa. as well as the Akron headquarters.

"This organization will help supply what we've learned at Davis-Besse across our other sites," said spokesman Todd Schneider on Tuesday afternoon via phone from his Akron office. "We don't have a problem at the other sites, but the improvements that we are making at Davis-Besse in policies and procedures would be applied at our other sites."

Those policy and procedure changes at Davis-Besse stemmed from the ongoing routine refueling outage from February, when workers found an unprecedented amount of corrosion on the reactor head.

Since then, the company has not only replaced the reactor head and made several technical changes, but has changed personnel drastically as well.

The restructuring is part of the effort to strengthen the senior management oversight, which is part of the reason cited for failing to notice the reactor head corrosion.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency that regulates nuclear power plants, has kept a watchful eye over the progress at Davis-Besse, and throughout FirstEnergy.

And while the NRC doesn't get involved in changing leadership at the plant, it will watch to see how it affects the end result, said spokesman Jan Strasma on Tuesday.

"Typically how the utility chooses to organize its activities is up to them," he said. "If this is something they think will make them both more effective and efficient, then that's something we would look at in terms of how they continue to perform and do their job."

The following areas will fall under the newly formed Engineering and Services Group: