ML12059A474
| ML12059A474 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 02/24/2012 |
| From: | Billy Dickson Division of Reactor Safety III |
| To: | Kaminskas V FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co |
| Desiree Smith | |
| References | |
| Download: ML12059A474 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 February 24, 2012 Mr. Vito Kaminskas Site Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Perry Nuclear Power Plant P. O. Box 97, 10 Center Road, A-PY-A290 Perry, OH 44081-0097
SUBJECT:
NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE PERRY OCTOBER 2012, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE (INGESTION PATHWAY ONLY)
Dear Mr. Kaminskas:
The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) routinely participates in licensees emergency preparedness exercises to ensure that the NRCs Incident Response capabilities are effectively maintained and to provide licensees an opportunity to exercise the interface with the NRC that may occur during the response to an incident at their sites. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our intent to participate in the Perry Emergency Preparedness Exercise that is scheduled to occur on October 3, 2012. Currently, the extent of participation will only involve regional response staff.
During the exercise, the NRCs response will involve activating our Region III Incident Response Center with regional responders and coordinating with our resident inspectors in your facilities.
In preparation for the Regions participation in the Ingestion Pathway Phase, the Region will staff the Region III Incident Response Center on October 2, 2012. We will not dispatch any NRC Site Team members to any of your emergency response facilities. The Region will send a limited number of regional staff to the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) on October 3, 2012.
If our scope of participation changes, we will contact your emergency preparedness staff to discuss the changes. Due to the limited planned interface between our staff and yours, we will provide an opportunity to schedule a pre-exercise outreach presentation. The emergency response coordinators will conduct the presentation and provide your staff with training materials to assist your staff in exercising with the NRC. These NRC outreach efforts are tools to further reinforce concepts related to NRC incident response activities.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).
V. Kaminskas If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at (630) 829-9853, Michelle Garza, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9719, or myself at (630) 829-9827.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Billy Dickson, Branch Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-440 License No. NPF-58 cc: Distribution via ListServ'
V. Kaminskas If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at (630) 829-9853, Michelle Garza, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9719, or myself at (630) 829-9827.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Billy Dickson, Branch Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-440 License No. NPF-58 cc: Distribution via ListServ TM DISTRIBUTION:
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