IR 05000309/1989012

Mgt Meeting Rept 50-309/89-12 on 890601.Violations Noted. Major Areas Insp:Presentations of Corrective Actions to Resolve FEMA Deficiencies from 1987 Exercise & Schedule for Implementation

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'[ . Lictnsee: Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company W- 83 Edison Drive M6 Auousta. Maine 04336 q. . ,

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Areas Discussed: Maine Yankee representatives presented the corrective actions to resolve-the FEMA deficiencies.from the 1987 exercise, as well as a schedule for implementation. Representatives from the State of Maine and FEMA also attended this meeting.

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FE DETAILS Persons' Contacted The following persons attended the meeting held on June 1,198 ' Garrity, Vice President, Licensing and Engineering

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D.. Whittier, Manager, Nuclear Engineering and Licensing S. Evans, Licensing Supervisor i~ J. Temple, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator D. Brown, State Director,: Maine Emergency Management Agency

- R. Mulaney, Operations Officer, State of Maine J. Dolan, Regional Assistance Committee Chairman, FEMA Region I R. Peters, FEMA Region I C. Holden, Senior Resident Inspector, Maine Yankee:

M. Knapp, Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards R. Bellamy, Chief, facilities Radiation Safety and Safeguards Branch W. Lazarus, Chief, Emergency Preparedness Section C. Conklin,~ Emergency Preparedness Section R. Hogan, Nuclear Reactor Regulation Meetina Summary Mr. John Garrity opened the meeting by presenting an overview of the Alert and Notification system and Maine Yankee's involvement with the State of. Maine in the design of this system. Their intent has always been to meet regulatory requirements and at the same time not be unduly disruptive of the local lifestyle. Notifier teams were selected as one of the means to meet these criteri FEMA Deficiency 1 Mr. Douglas Whittier presented Maine Yankee's position on the offsite Alert and Notification system. Mr. Whittier indicated that the 45 minute criteria applies to Maine Yankee from five to ten miles because of the low population density of the Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). He stated that imposed changes may in fact constitute a backfit. M Whittier presented data to show that when 45 minutes has elapsed, the notifier routes completed alert and notification for 95.6% of the population. Maine Yankee concluded thet this performance was acceptable and there was no public health and safety concern. Nonetheless, Maine Yankee is working with the State of Maine to further improve the

. capability of the Alert and Notification system. Those improvements accomplished include: identifying primary fixed sirens; inclusion of existing fire department sirens; and reconfigur5ng and updating of mobile alerting routes. Improvements planned loclude: selected siren replacements; installation of fixed sirens for each town outside of five miles; reconfiguring of remaining mobile alerting routes; and distribution of tone alert radio The Alert and Notification system when completed will include: tone alert radios for selected locations throughout the Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ); fixed sirens with mobile alerting routes as a backup within five miles; and fixed sirens in each town su f emented by mobile

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! ten miles. The schedule i.s to have 25% of the sirens installed by l December 1989, 75% of the sirens installed by June 1990 and 100% of the sirens installed by December 1990. View graphs presented by Maine Yankee are .ontained in Attachment Mr. John Dolan, FEMA, indicated that due to past problems with alert and l notification, FEMA would no longer accept mobile alerting routes as the

, primary means of notification to the public. He indicated that sirens I

and tone alert radios were the preferred method of notification. M Dolan also indicated that FEMA would still evaluate mobile alert routes on a case-by-case basis, but would be adverse to this method. When asked about acceptance criteria for public notification, Mr. Dolan stated that FEMA uses 90% of the population as the acceptance criteri ftr. Dolan further explained that in the case of mobile alert routes notifying 90% of the population was not acceptable if the routes weren't complete Further comments are contained in Attachment Mr. Steven Evans then presented the status of FEMA Deficiencies two through eigh FEMA Deficiency 2 The state lacked the mechanism to properly analyze and respond to local protective action decision including appropriate emergency broadcast station (EBS) message State and local emergency plans will be revised by October 1,198 FEMA Deficiency 3 Public Emergency Alerting System (PEAS) telephone inoperable in two towns and its operation was sporadic in several other The system was evaluated and redesigned by AT&T in March 1988 and there are multiple backup communications available. These areas will be fully resolved by training by October 30, 198 FEMA Deficiency 4 Preliminary Maine Yankee protective action recommendations were transmitted over the PEAS telephone along with those actually adopted by the state, which caused confusion in the town Procedures have been revised and training conducted to resolve this issue. Action complet FEMA Deficiency 5 PEAS multipoint telephone operator failed to transmit some messages to local E0C's in a timely manne _ - _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ .

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'15 minute Prescripted EBS_ messages have been developed and were implemented in December 1987. This area was partially demonstrated in a December 9, E 1987 drill evaluated by FEM FEMA Deficiency 7 Several . islands within Phippsburg have no means for alerting the residents / tourist Maine will provide tone alert radios to islands within the EPZ with seasonal / permanent residents by August 15, 1989. Maine Yankee pointed out that.the islands identified by FEMA (Bear and Lee) were unoccupied at the time of the exercis FEMA Deficiency 8 Alerting teams ~ not cognizant of procedures for alerting tourists at campgrounds, beaches, et Maine will provide tone alert radios to campgrounds, state parks, recreational' areas, etc. in the EPZ by August 15, 1989. Additional training will be accomplished by October 15, 198 Summary e

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. NUMEROUS INADEQUACIES IN THE ALERT AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM ,

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MEET REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS REFLECT COMMENTS FROM TOWNS MULTIPLE USAGE .

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1n 25%- SIRENS INSTALLED DECEMBER 1989 75%- SIRENS. INSTALLED' . JUNE 1990 100% SIRENS' INSTALLED DECEMBER 1990 PLANS AND DESIGN REPORT REVISED ~ DECEMBER 1990

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STATE LAWS (25 MRSA550 AND 37-B MRSAS701) AUTHORIZES GOVERNOR TO PROTECT PUBLIC FROM RADIATION HAZARD PROPOSED CORRECTIVE ACTION

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STATE AND/0R C0tMUNITY PLANS WILL BE APPROPRIATELY REVISED BY 10-1-8 ;

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COPMJNITY RETRAINING WILL STRESS NORMAL AND BACKUP C0tmUNICATIONS BY 10-30-89.

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EOC DEFICIENCY 4 PRELIMINARY MAINE YANKEE PROTECTIVE ACTION REC 0tEENDATIONS TRANSMITTED.OVER PEAS TELEPHONE ALONG WITH THOSE ACTUALLY ADOPTED BY STATE, CCNFUSING COPMUNITY OFFICIAL PROPOSED CORRECTIVE ACTIONS

E0C IMPROVEMENTS IMPLEMENTE *

TWO PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO PEAS TELEPHONE (MESSAGE HANDLING AND TRANSMISSION).

PROCEDURES REQUIRE ALL OFFICIAL MESSAGES AND PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE APPROVED, IN WRITING, BEFORE BEING TRANSMITTED TO C0tNUNITIE ,

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SATISFACTORILY DEMONSTRATED CAPABILITY IN DECEMBER 9, 1987 MINI-DRIL EVALUATED BY FEMA REGION !

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DISTRIBUTE TONE ALERT RADIOS TO CAMPGROUNDS, STATE :

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