ML083430279
| ML083430279 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Callaway  |
| Issue date: | 11/10/2008 |
| From: | Hainje R Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| To: | Collins E Region 4 Administrator |
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| Download: ML083430279 (15) | |
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i November 10,2008 Elmo E. Collins Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV 612 East Lamar Blvd., Suite 400 Arlington, Texas 760 1 1-4 125
Dear Mr. Collins:
Enclosed is a copy of the final report for the September 10,2008, MS-1 Drill of the off-site radiological emergency response plans site-specific to the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant. The state of Missouri and the Support Jurisdictions of The University of Missouri Medical Center and The University of Missouri Ambulance Service participated during the drill. The report was prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region VI1 staff. Copies of the final report will be provided to the state of Missouri.
There were no Deficiencies and no Areas Requiring Corrective Action (ARCAs) identified. Based on the results of this drill, the offsite radiological emergency response plans and preparedness for the state of Missouri and the affected local jurisdictions, site-specific to the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant, can be implemented and are adequate to provide reasonable assurance that appropriate measures can be taken offsite to protect the health and safety of the public in the event of a radiological emergency at the site. Therefore, the Title 44 CFR, Part 350, approval of the off-site radiological emergency response plans and preparedness for the state of Missouri, site-specific to the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant granted on March 2 1, 1984, will remain in effect.
If you have questions or concerns regarding the report, please contact Mrs. Judy Dodgen at (8 16) 283-709 1.
Sincerely, L/ Regional Administrator Enclosure cc:
Vanessa Quinn & Lisa Banks-Robinson, Hq REP w/o enclosure Bill Maier, NRC IV w/o enclosure NRC Headquarters, Document Control Desk Lisa Gibney, NRC Hq (electronic cy) www.fema.gov
Callaway Nuclear Power Plant Drill Report - 2008-09-10 Final Report - Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program 2008-1 1-1 0
Drill Report Callaway Nuclear Power Plant Drill Date: 2008-09-1 0 Report Date: 2008-1 1-1 0 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Federal Emergency Management Agency REP Program 9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 300 Kansas City, MO 641 14
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Executive Summary Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Drill Overview Section 3.1 EPZ Description Section 3.2 Drill Participants Chapter 4 Drill Evaluation and Results Section 4.1 Summary Results of Drill Evaluation Section 4.2 Status of Jurisdictions Evaluated 4.2.1 Support Jurisdictions 4.2.1. I University of Missouri Medical Center 4.2.1.2 University of Missouri Ambulances Appendices Appendix I - Drill Evaluators and Team Leaders Appendix 2 - Drill Scenario and Timeline
- 1. Executive Summary On September 10,2008, VII, conducted a medical the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Region services drill at the University of Missouri University Hospital and with the University of Missouri Hospital Ambulance Service. The purpose of the events was to assess the ability of the hospital and its associated ambulance service to respond to a radiological emergency, involving a simulated medical injury to a member of the public with radioactive contamination. This drill was held in accordance with FEMA's policies and guidance concerning the exercise of State and local radiological emergency response plans and procedures.
The previous medical services drill at this site was conducted on: September 27, 2006.
The qualifying emergency preparedness exercise for this Power Plant was conducted on March 21, 1984, and a remedial exercise was held on April 19, 1984.
FEMA wishes to acknowledge the efforts of the staffs of The University of Missouri University Hospital, the University of Missouri Hospital Ambulance Service and Missouri's State Emergency Management Agency who participated in this drill. The efforts of the state should also be commended for their work on training and drill preparation.
Protecting the public health and safety is the full-time job of some of the exercise participants and an additional assigned responsibility for others. Still others have willingly sought this responsibility by volunteering to provide vital emergency services to their communities. A special thank you is once again extended to those wonderful volunteers. Cooperation and teamwork of all the participants were evident during this exercise.
The Hospital and Ambulance service demonstrated knowledge of their emergency response plans and procedures and adequately implemented them. No Areas Requiring Corrective Action (ARCAs) or Deficiencies were identified as a result of this drill. There were no previous ARCAs to be corrected during this drill.
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- 2. Introduction On December 7, 1979, the President directed FEMA to assume lead responsibility for all offsite nuclear planning and response. FEMA's activities are conducted pursuant to 44 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 350,351, and 352. These regulations are a key element in the Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program that was established following the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station accident in March 1979.
FEMA Rule 44 CFR 350 establishes the policies and procedures for FEMA's initial and continued approval of State and local governments' radiological emergency planning and preparedness for commercial nuclear power plants. This approval is contingent, in part, on State and local governments' participation in joint exercises with licensees.
FEMA's responsibilities in radiological emergency planning for fixed nuclear facilities include the following:
- Taking the lead in offsite emergency planning and in the review and evaluation of radiological emergency response plans (RERP) and procedures developed by State and local governments.
- Determining whether such plans and procedures can be implemented on the basis of evaluation of exercises of the plans and procedures conducted by State and local governments.
- Responding to requests by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding between the NRC and FEMA (Federal Register, Vol. 58, No. 176, September 14, 1993).
- Coordinating the activities of the following Federal agencies with responsibilities in the radiological emergency planning process:
-U.S. Department of Commerce
-U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
-US. Department of Energy
-U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
-U.S. Food and Drug Administration 2
-U.S. Public Health Service
-US. Department of Transportation
-U.S. Department of Agriculture
-U.S. Department of the Interior Representatives of these agencies serve on the FEMA Region VI1 Regional Assistance Committee (RAC), which is chaired by FEMA.
REP medical service drill was conducted on September 10,2008, by FEMA Region VI1 to assess the capabilities of the hospital and its associated ambulance service to respond to a radiological emergency involving a simulated medical injury to a member of the public with radioactive contamination. The purpose of this drill report is to present the exercise results and findings on the performance of the medical drill response teams during a simulated radiological emergency.
The findings presented in this report are based on the evaluations of the Federal evaluator team, with final determinations made by the FEMA Region VI1 RAC Chairperson and approved by the Regional Administrator.
The criteria utilized in the FEMA evaluation process are contained in:
- NUREG-0654/FEMA-REP-II Rev. 1, "Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants," November 1980.
- Radiological Emergency Preparedness: Exercise Evaluation Methodology as published in the Federal Register September 12, 2001 and April 25, 2002.
Section Ill of this report, entitled "Drill Overview," presents basic information and data relevant to the exercise. This section of the report contains a description of the plume pathway EPZ, a listing of all participating jurisdictions and functional entities, which were evaluated.
Section IV of this report, entitled "Drill Evaluation and Results," presents basic information on the demonstration of applicable exercise criteria at each jurisdiction or functional entity evaluated in a jurisdiction-based, issues only format. This section also contains: (1 ) descriptions of all Deficiencies and ARCAs assessed during this exercise, recommended corrective actions, and the State and local governments' Schedule of 3
Corrective Actions for each identified exercise issue and (2) descriptions of ARCAs assessed during previous exercises and the status of the OROs efforts to resolve them.
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- 3. Drill Overview Contained in this section is data and basic information relevant to the September 10, 2008, medical services drill to assess the ability of the hospital and its associated ambulance service to respond to a radiological emergency, involving a simulated medical injury to a member of the public with radioactive contamination. This section of the drill report includes a description of the plume EPZ, a listing of all participating jurisdictions and functional entities, which were evaluated.
3.1. EPZ Description The Callaway Nuclear Power Plant is located in Callaway County, Missouri, ten miles southeast of Fulton, 25 miles northeast of Jefferson City, and 80 miles west of St. Louis.
The site is four and a half miles north of the Missouri River on a plateau 300 feet above river level. It is owned and operated by the Ameren UE, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri.
The 10-mile EPZ contains a total population of approximately 16,635 within the four risk counties of Callaway, Gasconade, Montgomery, and Osage. The land use within the EPZ is predominantly ruraVagricultura1. Within the 5-mile radius of the plant, the topography consists of 60% forest, 20% farmkrops, and 20% pasture. Various forms of transportation serve the area. Interstate Highway 70 passes within I 2 miles to the north of the site, U.S. Highway 54 passes within 13 miles to the west, and Amtrak passes approximately five miles to the south along the Missouri River.
The EPZ is divided into 15 subareas within the four counties listed above. In addition to Fulton, eleven municipalities are within the EPZ - Reform, Readsville, Steedman, Mokane, Portland, Deer, Chamois, Calwood, Rhineland, Bluffton, and Morrison.
3.2. Drill Participants Agencies and organizations of the following jurisdictions participated in the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant drill:
Support Jurisdictions University of Missouri Medical Center University of Missouri Ambulance 5
- 4. Drill Evaluation and Results Contained in this section are the results and findings of the evaluation of all jurisdictions and functional entities, which participated in the September I O, 2008 medical drill events to test the response capability of the hospital and its associated ambulance service to respond to a radiological emergency, involving a simulated medical injury to a member of the public with radioactive contamination.
Each jurisdiction and functional entity was evaluated on the basis of its demonstration of criteria contained in exercise evaluation areas delineated in Emergency Preparedness:
Exercise Evaluation Methodology as printed in the Federal Register September 12, 2001 and April 25,2002.
4.1. Summary Results of Drill Evaluation The matrix presented in Table 2, on the following pages, presents the status of all exercise criteria, which were scheduled for demonstration during this exercise, at all participating jurisdictions and functional entities. Exercise criteria are listed by number and the demonstration status of those criteria is indicated by the use of the following letters:
M - Met (No Deficiency or ARCAs assessed and no unresolved ARCAs from prior exercises)
D - Deficiency assessed A - Area Requiring Corrective Action (ARCA) assessed or unresolved ARCA(s) from prior exercises)
N - Not Demonstrated (Reason explained in subsection B) 6
Table 1 - Summary of-Drill Evaluation DATE: 2008 10 SITE: Callaway Nuclear Power Plant, MO A: ARCA, D: Deficiency, M: Met Emergency Operations Management Mobiliration la1 Faci litics Ibl Direction and Control IC1 Communications Equipment Id1 Equip & Supplies to support operations Protective Action Decision Making Emergency Worker Exposure Control 2al Radiological Assessment and PARS 2bl 7
4.2. Status of Jurisdictions Evaluated This subsection provides information on the evaluation of each participating jurisdiction and functional entity, in a jurisdiction based, issues only format. Presented below is a definition of the terms used in this subsection relative to criteria demonstration status:
Met - Listing of the demonstrated drill criteria under which no Deficiencies or ARCAs were assessed during these drills, and under which no ARCAs assessed during prior drills or exercises remain unresolved.
Deficiency - Listing of the demonstrated drill criteria under which one or more Deficiencies were assessed during these drills. Included is a description of each Deficiency and recommended corrective actions.
Area Requiring Corrective Actions (ARCA) - Listing of the demonstrated drill criteria under which one or more ARCAs were assessed during the current drills. Included is a description of the ARCA(s) assessed during these drills and the recommended corrective action to be demonstrated before or during the next biennial exercise.
Not Demonstrated - Listing of the drill criteria which were not demonstrated as scheduled during these drills and the reason they were not demonstrated.
Prior ARCAs - Resolved - Description of ARCAs assessed during previous drills, which were resolved in these drills, and the corrective actions demonstrated.
Prior ARCAs - Unresolved - Descriptions of ARCAs assessed during prior drills, which were not resolved in these drills. Included is the reason the ARCAs remain unresolved and recommended corrective actions to be demonstrated before or during the next biennial exercise.
The following are definitions of the two types of drill issues, which are discussed in this report.
- A Deficiency is defined by FEMA as 'I... an observed or identified inadequacy of organizational performance in a drill that could cause a finding that offsite emergency preparedness is not adequate to provide reasonable assurance that appropriate protective measures can be taken in the event of a radiological emergency to protect 8
the health and safety of the public living in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant."
- An ARCA is defined by FEMA as 'I... an observed or identified inadequacy of organizational performance in a drill that is not considered, by itself, to adversely impact public health and safety."
FEMA has developed a standardized system for numbering drill and exercise issues (Deficiencies and ARCAs). This system is used to achieve consistency in numbering drill and exercise issues between FEMA Regions and site-specific drill and exercise reports within each Region. It is also used to expedite tracking of drill and exercise issues on a nationwide basis.
The identifying number for Deficiencies and ARCAs includes the following elements, with each element separated by a hyphen (-).
- Plant Site Identifier - A three-digit number corresponding to the Utility Billable Plant Site Codes.
- Exercise Year - The four digits of the year the drill or exercise was conducted.
- Criterion Number - A three-digit number corresponding to the criteria numbers in FEMA Exercise Evaluation Areas.
- Issue Classification Identifier - (D = Deficiency, A = ARCA). Only Deficiencies and ARCAs are included in drill or exercise reports.
- Drill or Exercise Issue Identification Number - A separate two (or three) digit indexing number assigned to each issue identified in the drill or exercise.
4.2. I, Support Jurisdictions 4.2. I.
- 1. University of Missouri Medical Center
- a. MET: l.e.1, 3.a.1, 6.d.l.
- b. AREAS REQUIRING CORRECTIVE ACTION: None
- c. DEFICIENCY: None 9
- d. NOT DEMONSTRATED: None
- e. PRIOR ISSUES - RESOLVED: None
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PRIOR ISSUES - UNRESOLVED: None 4.2.1.2. University of Missouri Ambulances
- a. MET: l.e.1, 3.a.1, 3.b.l,6.d.l.
- b. AREAS REQUIRING CORRECTIVE ACTION: None
- c. DEFICIENCY: None
- d. NOT DEMONSTRATED: None
- e. PRIOR ISSUES - RESOLVED: None
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PRIOR ISSUES - UNRESOLVED: None 10
APPENDIX I DRILL EVALUATORS AND TEAM LEADERS DATE: 2008-09-1 0, SITE: Callaway Nuclear Power Plant, MO 1 LOCATION IEVALUATOR l AGENCY 11