ML19050A434

NRC Participation in the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Emergency Preparedness Exercise

ML19050A434
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	02/19/2019
From:	Ann Marie Stone Division Reactor Projects III
To:	Bezilla M FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, ILLINOIS 60532-4352 February 19, 2019 Mr. Mark Bezilla Site Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co.

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station 5501 N. State Rte. 2, Mail Stop A-DB-3080 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE

Dear Mr. Bezilla:

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 during response to an incident at their sites. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our intent to participate in the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Emergency Preparedness Exercise, during both the plume and ingestion pathway phases, that is scheduled to occur on April 16 and 17, 2019. Currently, the extent of participation will involve only regional response staff. Regional participation will occur on both days.

During the plume phase of the exercise, the NRCs response will involve activating our Region III Incident Response Center and dispatching an NRC Site Team, including our resident inspectors, to your emergency response facilities on April 16, 2019. A liaison team responder will participate, in the ingestion pathway phase only, at the Ohio Emergency Management Agency along with staff from the Department of Energy, Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center and the Federal Advisory Team on April 17, 2019. If our scope of participation changes, we will contact your emergency preparedness staff to discuss the changes.

We will also be coordinating with your staff to schedule pre-exercise outreach activities that we offer to our licensees. The emergency response coordinators will conduct a presentation and provide training materials to assist your staff in exercising with the NRC. The NRC outreach efforts, conducted by my staff, are tools to further reinforce concepts related to NRC incident response activities.

If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Brent Boston, Region III Emergency Response Specialist at 630-829-9764, Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at 630-829-9853, or me at 630-829-9729.

M. Bezilla This letter will be made available for public inspection and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document Room in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Ann Marie Stone, Team Leader Technical Support Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-346 License Nos. NPF-3 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV

M. Bezilla Letter to Mark Bezilla from AnnMarie Stone dated February 19, 2019

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE DISTRIBUTION:

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