ML18017B443

Advises That Licensing Schedules Projecting Plant Completion in 1984 Are Being Developed.Requests Updated Const Completion Date within 14 Days

ML18017B443
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Site:	Harris
Issue date:	08/10/1981
From:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Jackie Jones CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO.
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NUDOCS 8108310555
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50-400/401 and 50-402/403 Mr. J. A. Jones, Senior Executive Vice President Chief Operating Officer Carolina Power 8 Light Company 411 Fayetteville Street Mall Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

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LICENSING SCHEDULE FOR SHEARON HARRIS We are developing licensing schedules for facilities projecting plant completion in 1984,"..

Your licensing schedule will be developed using your estimated con-struction completion date and a set of standard hearing assumptions.

The preliminary'chearing schedules will assume a standard eleven-month time period from the issuance of the final Supplement to the Safety Evaluation Report

{SSER) to tlie Comission decision date.

This time period incorporates the efficiency measures projected to be",in place in the near future.

This time period is based on five months from issuance of the SSER to the start of hearing, five months from start; of. hearing. to the initial decisj'on by, the Atomic Safety

-Licensing Board, and one month from the initial decision by the Atomic Safety Licensing Board to the Commission decision date.

These assumptions, and your relative priority, will be re-examined on a case-by-case basis after the Commission completes its consideration of proposed changes to the regulations.

To assure proper allocation of resources it is important that you provide us a realistic and up-to-date projected construction completion date.

Because of manpower limitations each review will be scheduled to fall in a "window" of time wherein our reviews must be completed.

An unexpected change of your completion date will likely,',have an impact on the schedule for your review.

Accordingly, you should examine your construction completion date in the attached Table and confirm or change the date within 14 days of receipt of -this letter.

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UNITEDSTATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSlON WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 July 2, 1980 ALL APPLICANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND OPERATING LICENSES Gentlemen:

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REGARDING EVACUATION TIMES This letter is being sent to all applicants for construction permits and licensees of plants under construction.

The purpose of the letter is a request for informa-tion regarding estimates for evacuation of various areas around, proposed nuclear power plants.

The information sought is described in our letter of December 26, 1979 (copy enclosed).

The requested submittal date for this information was suspended by our letter of March 11, 1980.

We are requesting that you submit evacuation time estimates on an accelerated basis to enable the NRC staff to identify, in a timely manner, those sites where evacuation constraints exist and special planning measures should be considered.

In some cases of extreme difficultywhere a large population is at risk, special facility modifications may also be appropriate.

The information requested in the enclosure should be submitted by August 1, 1980.

This time is shorter than provided in the December 26, 1979 letter because of the need +or timely information and because the content of the information desired has been available to you for some months.

Units sharing the same site need not, of course, submit separate time estimates.

This special request for information has been submitted to the General Accounting Office and cleared by GAO as noted in the clearance block below:

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON,D. C. 20555 December 26, 1979 APPLICANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND LICENSEES OF PLANTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION Gentlemen:

SUBJECT:

RE(}UEST FOR INFORMATION REGARDING EVACUATION TIMES This letter is being sent to all applicants for construction permits, and licensees of plants under construction.

The purpose of the letter is a request for information regarding estimates for evacuation of various areas around future nuclear power plants.

The requested information is, in addition to that requested by the November 21, 1979, letter to all applicants for an operating license and licensees of plants under construction from Domenic B. Vassallo, Acting Director, Division of Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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Although evacuation time estimates are expected to be prepared in the course of the upgrading of the state of emergency preparedness as previously specified submission of these estimates to the NRC is being requested on an accelerated time scale so that the NRC can identify those instances in which unusual evacuation constraints exist and special planning measures should be considered.

In some cases of extreme difficulty where a large population is at risk, special facility modifications may also be appropriate.

The information requested in the enclosure should be submitted no later than March 31, 1980.

Previous correspondence indicated that efforts.to develop a model plan were continuing.

It now appears that the model plan will not be completed on a

schedule which will be of use in developing upgraded plans in the near term.

The upgraded plan development should therefore proceed on a site-specific basis.,

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Brian K. Grimes, Director Emergency Preparedness Task Group Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Encl os ure RE UEST FOR EVACUATION TIME ESTIMATES (AFTER NOTIFICATION)

FOR AREAS HEAR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Back round Prior to recent NRC requests that means for prompt notification to the public be installed around each nuclear power plant site, a significant component of evacuation time estimates was the time required to notify the public of a need for evacuation.

Studies of actual evacuations that have taken place generally do not distinguish between the time required for notification, the time required to implement the evac~~tion, and the time required to confirm that an evacuation has taken plaice.

The estimates for time required for evacuations now requested relate primarily to the time to implement an evacuation as opposed to the time required for, notification.

These estimates may be based on previous local experiences (e.g.,

cnemical spills or floods) or may be based on studies related to population density, local geography and road capacities.

No standard method for making such estimates is identified for use at this time.

The basis for the method chosen should be described in the response.

As a check on the evacuation time estimates, comments on the time estimates made should be obtained from the principal local officials responsible for carrying out such evacuations.

Such corments should be included in the submittal.

The format given below is appropriate for reporting to the NRC estimates of the time required to implement evacuation of areas near nuclear poser plants.

These estimates, are to. be made for the primary purpose of making available, to those officials who would make evacuation decisions in an emergency situation, knowledge of the time required to complete one of the protective action options (evacuationj available for a particular potentially affected segment of the population.

A second purpose of these estimates is to identify to all concerned those instances in which unusual evacuation constraints exist and that special planning measures should oe considered.

In some cases of extreme difficulty where,a large population is at risk, special facility modifications may also be considered, Given a decision to evacuate rather than shelter in an actual

event, fewer or more sectors or different distances than given in the reporting format might be evacuated should this be the chosen protective action.

For

example, three 22-1/2'ectors might be initially evacuated in a downwind direction (the sector containing the plume and an adjacent sector on each side),

followed by the evacuation of other. sectors as a precautionary measure.

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and T. C. Sell, 1974 Evacuation Risks - An Evaluation, U.

S. Environmental Protection Agency, itational Environmental Research

Center, Las Vegas, EPA-520/6-74-DD2.

Format for Re ortin Information The areas, for which evacuation estimates are required must encompass, the entiire area within a circle of about 10 miles radius, and have outer boundaries corresponding to the plume exposure EPZ.

These areas are as follows:

,Distance Area 2 miles 5 miles

.about 10 miles two 180 sectors four 90'ectors

four 90'sector.s Estimates for the.,outer;sectors should;assume that the inner adjacent sectors are being evacuated simultaneously.

To the exent,practical, tne.sector

,boundaries should not divide..densely popul.ated areas.

hnere a directi,on corresponding to the, edges of.ar'eas for.which.estimates have been

..maae is thought not to be adequately -represented by the time estimates for.adjacent

areas, an..additional area should be..defined and a separate.estim~te.made for,this.case.

The format for submittal should include moth a table and a

figure (overlaid on a map) which,each give the information requested. in i'tems 1

and 2 below.

Additional, material may be provided in.associatea text.

Re uired Information 1.

Two estimates are requested in each of the areas defined i n item 1 for

.a general evacuation of the population (not including,.special facilities).

A best estimate is'required and,.an aaverse weather estimate is required

.for movement of the popul.ation.

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The total time required to evacuate special facilities (e.g., hospitals) withi,n.each area.must be specified (best estimate and.aaverse weather).

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The time required for confirmation of evacuation should oe indicated.

Confirmation times may consider..special instructions to the public (e.g.,

tying a hankerchief to a door or gate to indi cate the occupant has l.eft the premises).

4.

Mhere plans and prompt notification systems have not been pu-. in place for areas out to,about lU miles, estimates of tne times required to evacuate

'until such measures are in place for the plume exposure er r,-.ency planning zone (EPZ) should also.be.gNen.

Notification times greater than 15 minutes should be includea i~ the evdcuation times and footroteo to inaicate the notification time.

Mhere special evacuation problems are identified (e.g., in high population density areas),

specify alternative protective actions, such as sheltering, which would reduce exposures and the effectiveness of these measures.

A short background document should be submitted giving the methods used to make the estimates and the assumptions made including the routes and methods of transportation used.

This document should also note the comments of principal local officials regarding these stimates.

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