ML19247A694
| ML19247A694 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 05/17/1979 |
| From: | Deyoung R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Ryan R NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP) |
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| REF-10CFR9.7 NUDOCS 7908010687 | |
| Download: ML19247A694 (2) | |
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- MAY 171979 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Robert G. Ryan, Director Office of State Programs THRU:
Harold R. Centon, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM:
Richard C. DeYoung, Uirector Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED COMMISSION RESPONSE. TO GAO RE? ORT ON RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation recermiends that the proposed respcnse enclosed with your memorandum dated May 7, 1979, be modified in the following respects.
In order to more explicitly state the NRC position on emergency planning, replace the first sentence of the proposed respense to :ne first GAO recerm:endation with:
"The NRC has not censidered it necessary to recuire concurrence in State radiological emergency response plans submitted pursuant to the program described by the Federal Preparedness Agency (GSA)'in its Federal Register Notice of December 24, 1975, as a condition precedent to the issuing of a nuclear pcwer plant cperating lice-This is because the NRC staff requires licensee - State - local government coordina:icn in emergency planning and an assessment cf preparedness capabilities as set for th in its Regulatory Guide (1.101) " Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power Plants", the principal staff dccument setting forth its views as to hcw the Ccmmission's regulations (10 CFR Part 50, Appendix E) can acceptably be implemented."
Further, we rec:m end that cur response shculd ackncwledce that the NRC neecs :: reexamine its program in the emergency res::crse area wi:n es;ect :: :ne respctsibilities cf licensees, 5:2 e anc lccal ;cvernments, anc Feceral agencies and that acci:icnal recuirements may be necessary
- assure tha: the ".eal:n and safe y Of the public are Or:cerly ;rc:actac, ra:ner tnan s:ecifically c:=ii ting c make cnanges in :ne reguia-icns 1: this time.
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/3 R. G. Ryan We have no obje:: ions to the proposed responses to the other rs:om-mendations of GAO.
j ?mY f0A44 Richard C. CeYoung, Director Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis Office of. Nuclear Reactor Regulation cc:
L. V. Gossick, E00 S. Levine, RES N. Haller, MPA
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