ML16060A216

Ltr. 02/26/16 NRC Participation in the Duane Arnold May 2016, Emergency Preparedness Exercise (Ingestion Pathway Only)

ML16060A216
Person / Time
Site:	Duane Arnold
Issue date:	02/26/2016
From:	Hironori Peterson Division of Reactor Safety III
To:	Vehec T NextEra Energy Duane Arnold
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 February 26, 2016 Mr. Thomas A. Vehec Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, IA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE DUANE ARNOLD MAY 2016, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE (INGESTION PATHWAY ONLY)

Dear Mr. Vehec:

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 Duane Arnold Emergency Preparedness Exercise that is scheduled to occur on May 17 and 18, 2016. 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 May 17, 2016. We will not dispatch any NRC Site Team members from the regional office 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 on May 17 and 18, 2016.

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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding, of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's 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).

T. Vehec If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at (630) 829-9853, Brent Boston, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9764, or me at (630) 829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV

T. Vehec If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at (630) 829-9853, Brent Boston, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9764, or me at (630) 829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION:

Kimyata MorganButler RidsNrrDorlLpl3-1 Resource RidsNrrPMDuaneArnold Resource RidsNrrDirsIrib Resource Cynthia Pederson Darrell Roberts Richard Skokowski Allan Barker Carole Ariano Linda Linn DRPIII DRSIII Jim Clay Carmen Olteanu ADAMS Accession Number ML16060A216 Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Sensitive To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the concurrence box "C" = Copy without attach/encl "E" = Copy with attach/encl "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII RIII NAME BBoston:cl KStoedter HPeterson DATE 02/19/16 02/22/16 02/26/16 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 February 26, 2016 Mr. Thomas A. Vehec Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, IA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE DUANE ARNOLD MAY 2016, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE (INGESTION PATHWAY ONLY)

Dear Mr. Vehec:

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 Duane Arnold Emergency Preparedness Exercise that is scheduled to occur on May 17 and 18, 2016. 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 May 17, 2016. We will not dispatch any NRC Site Team members from the regional office 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 on May 17 and 18, 2016.

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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding, of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's 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).

T. Vehec If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at (630) 829-9853, Brent Boston, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9764, or me at (630) 829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV

T. Vehec If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at (630) 829-9853, Brent Boston, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at (630) 829-9764, or me at (630) 829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION:

Kimyata MorganButler RidsNrrDorlLpl3-1 Resource RidsNrrPMDuaneArnold Resource RidsNrrDirsIrib Resource Cynthia Pederson Darrell Roberts Richard Skokowski Allan Barker Carole Ariano Linda Linn DRPIII DRSIII Jim Clay Carmen Olteanu ADAMS Accession Number ML16060A216 Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Sensitive To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the concurrence box "C" = Copy without attach/encl "E" = Copy with attach/encl "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII RIII NAME BBoston:cl KStoedter HPeterson DATE 02/19/16 02/22/16 02/26/16 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY