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Pilgrim - Response to NRC Request for Additional Information Regarding Emergency Plan Changes to Emergency Response Organization
ML063320549
Person / Time
Site: Pilgrim
Issue date: 11/17/2006
From: Ford B
Entergy Nuclear Operations
To:
Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
%dam200612, 2.06.097, TAC MD2814
Download: ML063320549 (3)


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SEuntergy Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Pilgrim Station 600 Rocky Hill Road Plymouth, MA 02360 November 17, 2006 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attn: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555

SUBJECT:

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Docket 50-293 License No. DPR-35 Response to NRC Request for Additional Information Regarding Emergency Plan Changes to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Emergency Response Organization (TAC No. MD2814).

REFERENCE:

1. NRC letter dated October 16, 2006.

Subject:

Request for Additional Information Regarding Emergency Plan Changes to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Emergency Response Organization LETTER NUMBER: 2.06.097

Dear Sir or Madam:

By Reference 1, the NRC requested additional information regarding Emergency Plan changes to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Emergency Response Organization. Entergy has evaluated the request and the response is provided in Attachment 1.

This letter contains no commitments.

If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact Bryan Ford at (508) 830-8403.

Sincerely, Bryan Ford, Licensing Manager FM/dl

Attachment:

1. Response to NRC Request for Additional Information Regarding Emergency Plan Changes to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Emergency Response SOrganization A YLfs

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc Letter Number 2.06.097 Pilgrim Nuclear Station Page 2 cc: Mr. James Shea, Project Manager Mr. Robert Walker, Director Plant Licensing Branch I-1 Massachusetts Department of Public Health Division of Operator Reactor Licensing Schrafft Center Suite 1M2A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Radiation Control Program U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 529 Main Street One White Flint North O-8C2 Charlestown, MA 02129 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 Regional Administrator, Region 1 Ms. Cristine McCombs, Director U.S. Nuclear Regulator Commission Mass. Emergency Management Agency 475 Allendale Road 400 Worcester Road King of Prussia, PA 19406 Framingham, MA 01702 Senior Resident Inspector Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to Letter 2.06.097 Page I of I Response to NRC Request for Additional Information Regarding Emergency Plan Changes to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Emergency Response Organization NRC RAI #1 Will the requiredpersonnel trainingfor the Chemistry Technicians be completed prior to implementing the proposed changes or will the submittal be revised to indicate that a short transitionperiod will be implemented whereby qualifications will be verified prior to assuming the revised watch standingrequirements?

Enterq¥ Response Entergy will ensure that the required training is provided prior to implementing the proposed change.

NRC RAI #2 In the evaluation section of your revised submittal, section 3.A., states that you have 4-30 minute and 4-60 minute Health Physics (HP) responders. Section 5 states that you have 2-30 minute and 2-60 minute HP responders. Please resolve the apparent inconsistency.

Enter-qy Response The information identified in Section 5 of the revised submittal was not clear and should have indicated that at the Alert or higher level emergency classification, four (4) thirty-minute and four (4) sixty-minute HP responders will report to the station.