Information Notice 1987-15, Compliance with the Posting Requirements of Subsection 223b of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as Amended

Compliance with the Posting Requirements of Subsection 223b of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as Amended

ML031140518
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Site:	Beaver Valley, Millstone, Hatch, Monticello, Calvert Cliffs, Dresden, Davis Besse, Peach Bottom, Browns Ferry, Salem, Oconee, Mcguire, Nine Mile Point, Palisades, Palo Verde, Perry, Indian Point, Fermi, Kewaunee, Catawba, Harris, Wolf Creek, Saint Lucie, Point Beach, Oyster Creek, Watts Bar, Hope Creek, Grand Gulf, Cooper, Sequoyah, Byron, Pilgrim, Arkansas Nuclear, Three Mile Island, Braidwood, Susquehanna, Summer, Prairie Island, Columbia, Seabrook, Brunswick, Surry, Limerick, North Anna, Turkey Point, River Bend, Vermont Yankee, Crystal River, Haddam Neck, Ginna, Diablo Canyon, Callaway, Vogtle, Waterford, Duane Arnold, Farley, Robinson, Clinton, South Texas, San Onofre, Cook, Comanche Peak, Yankee Rowe, Maine Yankee, Quad Cities, Humboldt Bay, La Crosse, Big Rock Point, Rancho Seco, Zion, Midland, Bellefonte, Fort Calhoun, FitzPatrick, McGuire, LaSalle, 05000000, Zimmer, Fort Saint Vrain, Shoreham, Satsop, Trojan, Atlantic Nuclear Power Plant, Skagit, Marble Hill
Issue date:	03/25/1987
From:	Jordan E NRC/IE
To:
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IN-87-015, NUDOCS 8703230112
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SSINS No.: 6535 IN 87-15 UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 March 25, 1987 IE INFORMATION NOTICE NO. 87-15: COMPLIANCE WITH THE POSTING REQUIREMENTS

OF SUBSECTION 223b OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY

ACT OF 1954. AS AMENDED

Addressees

a construction permit and all

All nuclear power reactor facilities holding facilities.

finms supplying components or services to such

Purpose

the posting requirements of

This notice is provided to call attention ofto 1954, as amended (Act).

Subsection 223b of the Atomic Energy Act

Description of Circumstances

the provisions of Sub- Reports by NRC resident inspectors suggest that at some reactor construction

section 223b may not have been prominently posted the Act.

sites, contrary to the specific requirement of

Discussion:

Public Law No.96-295 odds subsection b to Section 223 of the Atomic Energy Act.

of the Act to any

This subsection extended the criminal penalty provisions or supplying the components

director, officer, or employee of a firm constructing

licensed under Section 103 or 104b of

of a utilization facility required to be and willfully violates or causes to

the Act who by act or omission knowingly any NRC regulation or order issued

be violated any section of the Act, or or could result in significant

thereunder, or license condition that results

impairment of a facility's basic component. Subsection 223b, among other things, shall be prominently posted

also provides that the provisions of the subsection

required to be licensed under Section

at each site where a utilization facility and on the premises of each plant

103 or 104b of the Act is under construction This posting requirement

where components for such a facility are fabricated.

took effect on June 30, 1980.

No specific written response Is required by this information notice. If you

have any questions about this Matter, please contact the Regional Administrator

or this office.

of the appropriate NRC regional office

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Attachment 1 IN 87-15 March 25. 1987 SUBSECTION 223b OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY

ACT OF 1954. AS MENDED

a firm constructing, Any Individual director, officer. or employee offacility

utilization required to be

or supplying the components of any who by act or omission, licensed under Section 103 or 104 b. of this Act knowingly and willfully

in connection with such construction or supply, of this Act, any rule.

violates or causes to be violated, any section

regulation, or order issued thereunder, orhaveany license condition, which

violation results, or if undetected could resulted, in a significant

shall, upon conviction, impairment of a basic component of such a facility for each day of violation, be subject to a fine of not more than $25,000

two years, or both. If the conviction

or to imprisonment not to exceed conviction under this subsection, is for a violation committed after a first

$50,000 per day of violation.

punishment shall be a fine of not more than or both. For the purposes

or imprisonment for not more than two years. means a facility structure, of this subsection, the term 'basic component'

system, component or part thereof necessary to assure--

boundary,

(1)the integrity of the reactor coolant pressure and maintain it

(2) the copability to shut-down the facility

in a safe shut-down condition, or of

(3)the capebility to prevent or mitigate the consequences

offsite release

accidents which could result in an unplanned

limits

of quantities of fission products in excess of the

established by the Commission.

posted at each site

The provisions of this subsection shall be prominently

licensed under Section 103 where a utilization facility required to be

and on the premises of each

or 104 b. of this Act is under construction are fabricated.

plant where components for such a facility