ML022810659

Confirmatory Action Letter - Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission Site-Specific Interim Compensatory Measures Implementation Plan

ML022810659
Person / Time
Site:	Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission
Issue date:	10/28/2002
From:	Matthews D Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs
To:	Tehan T State of RI, Atomic Energy Comm, Nuclear Science Ctr
Matthews D
References
NRR-02-003
Download: ML022810659 (5)

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October 28, 2002 CAL No. NRR-02-003 Mr. Terence Tehan, Director Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center 16 Reactor Road Narragansett, RI 02882-1165

SUBJECT:

CONFIRMATORY ACTION LETTER - RHODE ISLAND ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION SITE-SPECIFIC INTERIM COMPENSATORY MEASURES IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Dear Mr. Tehan:

By letter dated June 21, 2002, Mr. William D. Beckner of my staff initiated a process to address interim compensatory measures (ICMs) related to security and safeguards at your facility.

Mr. Beckners letter requested that you develop a site-specific ICM implementation plan. In accordance with that letter, you have transmitted your final site-specific ICM implementation plan dated September 30, 2002.

Pursuant to a telephone conversation between you and Mr. Patrick M. Madden, Chief of the Research and Test Reactors Section, on September 24, 2002, it is our understanding that you have taken or will take the actions as specified in your final site-specific ICM implementation plan.

Pursuant to Section 182 of the Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C. 2232, you are required to:

1) Notify me immediately if your understanding differs from that set forth above;

2) Notify me if, for any reason, you cannot complete the actions within the specified schedule and advise me, in writing, of your modified schedule in advance of the change; and

3) Notify me, in writing, when you have completed the actions addressed in this Confirmatory Action Letter.

Issuance of this confirmatory action letter does not preclude issuance of an order formalizing the commitments you have made in your final site-specific ICM implementation plan or requiring other actions. In addition, failure to take the actions addressed in this confirmatory action letter may result in enforcement action.

Mr. T. Tehan In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, and any response will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

To the extent possible, any correspondence between you and the NRC relating to your response to this CAL should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be made available to the public without redaction. Due to the direct relationship of the ICMs, which the NRC has classified as unclassified-sensitive information exempted from public disclosure under the provisions of 10 CFR 73.21 (safeguards information), your site-specific ICM implementation plan is considered safeguards information and, thus, is not authorized for public release. If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21. The use of non-sensitive cover letters to transmit safeguards information as a separate enclosure is encouraged.

Sincerely,

/RA/

David B. Matthews, Director Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-193 License No. R-95 cc: Please see next page plus Fred Sears, Penn State Mike Slaughter, TRTR Chairman, University of Utah

Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission Docket No. 50-193 cc:

Dr. Vincent C. Rose, Chairman, RIAEC University of Rhode Island Chemical Engineering Department 118 Crawford Hall Kingston, RI 02881 Dr. Harry Knickle, Chairman Nuclear and Radiation Safety Committee University of Rhode Island College of Engineering 102 Bliss Hall Kingston, RI 02881 Mr. Charles McMahon Supervisor, Radiation Control Specialist Rhode Island Department of Health Division of Occupational and Radiological Health 3 Capitol Hill Cannon Providence, RI 02808-5097 Test, Research, and Training Reactor Newsletter University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sciences Center Gainesville, FL 32611

Mr. T. Tehan October 28, 2002 In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, and any response will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

To the extent possible, any correspondence between you and the NRC relating to your response to this CAL should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be made available to the public without redaction. Due to the direct relationship of the ICMs, which the NRC has classified as unclassified-sensitive information exempted from public disclosure under the provisions of 10 CFR 73.21 (safeguards information), your site-specific ICM implementation plan is considered safeguards information and, thus, is not authorized for public release. If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21. The use of non-sensitive cover letters to transmit safeguards information as a separate enclosure is encouraged.

Sincerely,

/RA/

David B. Matthews, Director Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-193 License No. R-95 cc: Please see next page plus Fred Sears, Penn State Mike Slaughter, TRTR Chairman, University of Utah DISTRIBUTION:

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