ML19249E856
| ML19249E856 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/08/1979 |
| From: | Comella P, Jamgochian M NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT |
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| REF-10CFR9.7 SECY-79-499, NUDOCS 7910020618 | |
| Download: ML19249E856 (7) | |
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L SD EMEP.GENCY PLANNING ACTION PLAll August 3,1979
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INTRODUCTION Purcose This plan was developed to provide SD coordination with other NRC office activities identified as " problem topics" by the NRC Task Force on Emergency Planning.
Need Because of the fragmentation within NRC of various emergency planning activities, such a plan is necessary to identify cit rly areas of Office responsibility, and more appropriately,. assure that '.to aspect of the
" problem topics" is excluded.
Scoce This Action Plan addresses only those " problem topics" identified
, orig,inally by the Working Group and later modified by the Task Force, for which SD is the lead office.
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SUMMARY
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Long-term success of the plan hinges on the explicit definition of NM's role in responding to an incident.
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SD RESPONSIBILITIES RELATIVE TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Wr'te, revise, and keep current emercency planning regulations, reculatory guides, NUREG reports, and ANSI standards.
Provide input for NRC Incident Response Program.
Provide input for the NRC Operations Center.
Coordinate with other Federal agencies in support of NRC emergency planning activities.
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CURRENT SD PROGPAM AND CAPASILITIES SD emergency planning activities are basically programmatic, which include:
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. Writing, revising, and keeping current emergency planning regulations,
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regulatory guides, NUREG reports, and ANSI standards.
. Coordination of NRC planning activities for l'RC Incident Response Program.
. Liaison with other Federal agencies, particularly through SP.
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OFFICE REQUIREMENTS AND NEEDS
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As a result of TMI and the formation of the Emergency Planning Task Force, SD has modified its current Emergency Planning program and made plans to accomplish in FY 80 tasks delineated in our assigned problem areas.
Successful completion of these tasks is, of course, dependent on coopera-tion and support by the offices of NRR, SP, IE, ELD, RES, and NMSS.
Likewise, SD has requested additionil resources in the FY 80 supplemental budget.
If the supplemental budget is granted, SD will be able to accomplish additional identified tasks in FY 80 and carry out the FY 81 program as outlined.
If the supplemental budget is not granted, SD priorities as previously outlined will require reexamination.
VI. ' SD ACTION Pl.AN Outiine
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Problem Topic Statement'of " Problem Topic" frca Task Force recort Details of Problem
. A statement or stateme:1ts of scecific creblems that are contained in the problem topic Planning Basis for Correcting Problem
. A corresponding statement outlining the philosophy nat is believed will lead to an adequate sel'Jtion of the problem ant. thus forms the basis for taking the correc.uve action listed below.
Action Plan 1.
Short Range Action - descriptica a.
Discussion b.
Schedule c.
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Long Range Action - description a.
Discussica b.
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Budget / resource impact PROBLEM C Reculations have voids or inconsistencies related to emergency alanning.
Planning Basis Part 50, Appendix E, requirements have iot been applied to research reactors ifcensed prior to its adoption.
Fart 30 does not require emergency plans or procedures.
Part 40 does not require emergency plans.
Part 70 does not require all licensees to have approved emergency response plans.
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Ip Actica Plan Short Term - SECY 79-367 will require Part 50 and Part 70 licensees to maintain emergency plans up to date and require research reactors to submit an e ergency plan for NRC review and approval.
Leng Term - Evaluate the need for an " Appendix E" for Part 30 and Part 40 1fcensass.
PROSLEM D Due to the lack of a ceneric treatment of emercency olannine issues in puolic hearings, the same content: ens receatecly occur in cublic cro-c_eec1nos and olace an undue burden on tM staff.
Plannino Basis Possibly due to a lack of earlier research in the emergency planni;c and response area, or due to other causes, a generic focus of the issues for use in rulemaking proceedings does not exist.
Secause of this lack, the staff finds itself go ~ng over the same items time after time, which is wasteful of scarce resource as well as distracting to the long-term effort.
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F_ tion P1an SLA Term - CD has budgeted resources to support the following activities in or'.r to ensure as much generic treatment of emergency planning issues as possib -
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Regulation and Regulatory Guide changes (SD lead, NRR/SP support) a.
Revision to the-August 16,1978, proposed changes to Appendix E to ref?ect NUREG'0396 guidance.
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Revision of Appendix E to provide more specifics (parts of Regulatory Guide 1.101) in the regulations.
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Revision of Regulatory Guide 1.101 (and perhaps Appendix E) to provide for specific, uniform action levels based on specified plans parameters (to be developed by NRR teams).
d.s Revision of Regulatory Guide 1.97 to reflect current efforts and experience gained in upcoming implementation.
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Preparation of a proposed regulation requiring concurrence in State /
local plans as a condition for power reactor licenses (including crf-
+-t teria for granting and withdrawing licenses and any grace periods or
-::r-hearing opportunities afforded licensees / States when licenses are thre:tened because of $ tate plan problems).
(SP will provide the main input'to SD in this area.)
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Preparation of a proposed regulation requiring joint test exercises once each five years and within one year of initial plant operation.
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Issuance of Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.89 on qualif,1 cation of equipm'ent (has been held pending determination of whether ECCS equipment should be qualified to TID ty;'e source term or semething less).
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Issuance of a proposed rule or policy statement indicating what role emergency planning feasibility is to play in the consideration of alternative sites in the licensing proc.ess.
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If SD supplemental budget is approved, the following tasks can be accomplished in FY 80:
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Resolution of Critical Mass Petition for Rulemaking.
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Revision of Regulatory Guides 1.101, 3.42, 2.5.
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In FY 81, SD plans to develop emergency planning regulations for research
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E L - The incident reseonse criteria for tirelv notification of the NRC need to be tichtened.
Plannino Basis Some basic develop.nent of methods for triggering licensee ne'.ification procedures and of ensuring NRC recognition of the sign 4ficance information.
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Setting of criteria for notification and p/edetermined action is a delicate process of balancing the expense of notification /
shutdown / response to some nonemergency against the need to ensure early detection of developing emergencies.
' Action Plan Brcadly interpreted, this problem could require immediate notification of NRC and designated State agencies by all licensees whenever radioactive products are released to air.or water.
Narrower interpretations are that immediate notice is to be required only for unscheduled releases of radio-active materials to the air or water; and that a proposed amendment would only apply to incidents at nuclear power plants. The other technical alterna-tives to be considered in this assessment, which will be conducted in the centext cf the CURE petition, address the specification of the following technical s_gg; partmeters concerning NRC requirements of licensees for notification of
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scheduled vs. unscheduled events; 3.
quantities of radioactive materials released; 4
time period within which notification is required; 5.
type of agencies to be designated for notification; and 5.
geographical relation between location of release and agencies to be designated.
The SD staff will review and analyze several pertinent areas in NRC's current rules and practices that apply to the petitioner's considerations:
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Radioactivity in effluents to unrestricted areas (120.106).
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Nctifications of incidents (520.403).
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L:.ergency plans for production and utilization facilities (s50.34(b)(5)(v)).
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Ensrgency plans for Part 70 licensees (s70.22(i) and s70.23(a)(11)).
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5." Requirements for the above emergency plans (Part 50, Appendix E).
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Regulator / Guide 1.16, " Reporting of Operating Information - Appendix A Tachnical Specifications."
The staff will also review NRC records and additional information.
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Section 50.33, 550.33(g), is amended by deleting the word "[ Reserved]" and by replacing it with three sentences that read as follows: 150.33 Contents of applications; general information. (g) The State and local government energency response plans of all governmenthi entities wholly or partially within the Emergency planning Zones (EPZ) that have ~ been reviewed and concurred in by NRC shall be submitted prior to the issuance of an operating license. Generally, the EPZ for plume exposure pathway for light water nuclear power plants shall consist of an area approximately 10 miles in radius, and an area approximately 50 miles in radius for the EPZ ll ;.. ingestion pathway. In detarmining the size and configuration of the EPZs surrounding a parti ular' nuclear power plant, consideration shall be given to such local conditions as demography, topography, land characteristics, access routes, and local jurisdictional boundaries. x. 1072 042
10 CFR Part 50, s50.54 T_. L __ _.. Section 50.54 is amended by' adding two new paragraphs, (s) and (t), that read as follows: 550.54 Conditions of licenses 5 (s) Eacn licensee who is authorized to possess and/or operate a nuclear power facility shall submit the State and local government emergency response plans of all governmental entities wholly or partially within the E.mergency Planning 2:nes (EPZ) that have been reviewed and concurred in by NRC within 180 days from the effective date of this amendment.1 Generally, the EpZ for plume exposure pathway for light water nuclear power plants shall consist of an area - approximately 10 miles in radius, and an area approximately 50 miles in radius for the EPZ for ingestion pathway. In deter:'ining the size and configuration b of the EP:s for a particular nuclear power plant, cens% ration shall be given
==- to such local condit.f ons as demcgraphy, topography, and land characteristics, access route:, and local jurisdictional boundaries. .~ If during the life of the nuclear power facility the Commission determines that the State and local government emergency response plan does not warrant continued NRC concurrence and the State fails to correct such deficiencies within 3 months of the date of notification of NRC concurrence withdrawal, the Commission shall cause such determinaticn to be published in the newspaper of greatest circulation in such State, and shall order each such facility to terminate operations until a plan is submitted and receives NRC review and concurrence.
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. 'bh=. ~ 10 CFR Part 50, 550.54 (continued) (t) If during the life of a licensed facility the Commission detemines that the lice..see has failed to maintain an adequate state of emergency preparedness through periodic evaluation of licensee drills, exercises, and procedures, the licensee shall review his program and provide, within days, a report to the appropriate NRC Regional Office on all corrective action completed. A license may be revoked, suspended, or modified for failure of the licensee to maintain an adequate emerger. y preparedness capability. TKk? ~- 5 =- hhi. 10/2 ' n, 4
g-}; _ 10.CFR Part 50, Appendix E .10 CFR Part 50, Appendix E, is amended by replacing it with a new Appendi., E, which reads as follows: APFENDIX E--EF;GENCY PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS [phANS] FOR PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION FACILITIES 1 I. Introduction Each applicant for a construction permit is required by 550.34(a) to include in its prelimintry safety analysis report a discussion of preliminary plans, for coping with emi gencies. Each applicant for an operating license m: c..m_.__is required by 550.34(b) to include in its final safety anslysis report plans .m for coping with emergsncies. This appendix establishes minimum requirements for emergency plans. These plans shall be described in the preliminary safety anslysis report and submitted as a part of the final safety analysis report. Plannin'g information 'The Ccmmission has developed three regulatory cuides: 1.101, " Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power Plants,' 2.5, ' Emergency Planning for Research Reactors," and 3.42, "Emercency Plannina in Fuel Cycle Facilities and Plants Licensed Uncer 10 CFR Parts 50 and 70." [a-deswmeRt-eRE4Eled- "Gw+1e-te-ine-PFepaFai?GR-ef ~AeFjeRey-diaRS-pef-PFedWetieR-aRd-gtilizatieR-Fasilities"] to help applicants establish adequate plans recuired pursuant to !50.34 and this Appendix, for coping with emergencies. The guides is are available at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., and copies may be obtained by addressing a request to the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or Director of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, as
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used in the detailed implementation of emergency plan; [ seed-net] shall be [deseribed] submitted in the [ pre +4m4' nary-er] final safety analysis report, but should, not include details that can reasonably be exoected to chance _from cime to time, e.g., names, telechone numbers, ~ soecific items of eouioment and sucolies. ~ II. The Preliminary safety Analysis Report The Preliminary Safety Analysis Repot-t shall contain sufficient information .to assure the compatibility of proposed emergency plant with far.ility design features, site layouts, and site location with respect to such considerations ~"- g-, as access routes, ~sutNunding population distributions, and land use for the Emergency Planning Zoned. As a minimum, the follcwing items shall be described: A. The onsite and offsite organizations for coping with emergencies, and the means for notification, in the event of an emergency, of persens assigned to the emergency organizations; B. Contacts and arrangements made and documented, [er-de-he-sades] with local, State, and Federal governmental agencies with responsibility for coping,with emergencies, including identification of the principal agencies. 10/2 N 6 'ZGenerally, the E?I for plume exposure pathway for light water nuclear power plants shall consist of an area approximately 10 miles in radius, and an area approximately 50 miles in radius for the EPZ for ingestion pathway. In determining the size and configuration of the EPZs for a particular nuclear ="""+ power plant, consideration shall be given to such local conditions as demo-F" graphy, topography, land characteristics, access routas, and local jurisdictional m.. boundaries.
3 C. Protective measures to be taken in the event of an accident within 22~ and outside the site boundary to protect ~public health and safety; corrective measures to prevent damage to property; and the expected response in the event of an emergency of offsite agencies; D. Features of the facility to be provided for onsite emergency first aid and decontamination, and for emergency transportation of individuals to offsite treatment facilities; E. Provisions to be ma'dc er emergency treatment at offsite facilities of individuals injured in succort of licensed' activities; F. [Th e-tra i n i n g -p re g F aE-fe F-eRpieyee S -an d-fe F-e t h e F-p e F 5 e n s T-n e t emp l eye e s -e f-t h e- ? ? s e n se e 3 -wh e s e -s e Fv is e s -may-b e-Fe qW i F e d-4 n - e S p i n g-- W4 th ..an-emergancy]; Provisions for a training orogram of emoloyees of the licensee who are assigned soecific authority and resconsibility in the event of an - 1::n emercency and of other oersons whose assistance may be needed in the event of
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a radiation emeroency-G. Features of the facility to be provided to assure the capability for actuating onsite orotective measures (plant-evaewaties] and the capability for facility reentry in order to mitigate the consequences of an accident or, if appropriate, to continue operation; H. A creliminary analvsis shall be submitted which orojects the time and means to be emolayed in the notification of State and local covernments and the oublic in the event of an emercency. A oreliminary evacuation feasibility analysis shall also be submitted within the Emergency Planning 2 Zone, 10/2 0;7
4 III. The Final Safety Analysis Report The Final Safety Analysis Report shall'.contain plans and orocedures for coping with emergencies. The plans and orocedures shall be an excression of the overall concent of ooeration, which describes the essential elements of advance planning that have been considered and the orovi.e;ons that have been made to cooe with emeroency situations. It should incorocrate infomation about the emergency rescanse roles of succorting organizations and offsite agencies. That infomation should be sufficient to ensure coordination amono the succorting arouos and between them and the licensee. The details of these -plans and.[the-detaHs-ef] their implementation procedures need [ net] 1;o_ be submitted. However, the submitted imolementation crocedures,should not include details that can reasonably be exoected to chance from time to time, e.o.,
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5 ~!== IV. Content of Emergency Plans 3 shall contain, but not necessarily be The acolicant's emergency plans limited to, the following elements: A. ORGANIZATION The organization for coping with radiation emergencies, in which specific authorities, responsibilities, and duties are defined and assigned, and the means of notification, in the event of an emergency, of: (1) persons assigned to the licensee's emergency organization, which will include detailed identification of Normal clant ooerating organization a. b. Onsite emergency organization - with a detailed discussion of ~))$$[ (1) the resconsibilities and authorities of the individual (s) that Nill take charge during an emergency, and (2) clant staff emergency assignments Licensee headouarters augmentation of onsite emergency c. organization d. Local services suoport of licensee emergency organization, (2) appropriate State, local and Federal agencies with responsibilities ~- for coping with emergency, and 3 Supporting offsite emergency respcnse plans shall be submitted with the applicant's emergency plans. . i"E- =s 1072 019
6 (3) written identification, by position or function, of other employees _ _ ~ of the licensee'with special qualifications for coping with emergency conditions which may arise. Other persons with special qualifications such as consultants who are not employees of the licensee and who may be called upon for assistance for short-and/or long-tem emergenciesishall also be identified. The special qualifications of these persons shall be described; B. ASSESSMENT ACTIONS Means for determintag the magnitude and continued assessment of the relecse of radioactive materials, including emergency action levels that are to be used as criterk for determining the need for notification and partici-iiM-3 pation of local and State agencies and the' [Atemie-E.sergy] Comission and -is.F w. other Federal agen~cies, and the emergency action levels that are to be used as criteria for determining when protective measures should be considered within and outside the site boundary to protect oublic health and safety and prevent damage to property. These emergency actions levels that are to be used as criteria for notification and action shall be based on in-clant ccnditiens and instrumentation in addition to onsite and offsite monitorino; C. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY ORGANIZATICN Describe the entire soectrum of emergency conditions which involve the alertinc or activation of crocressively larger sec=ents of the total emergency orcanization. Describe the communication steos taken to alert or activate e.7-ergency cersonnel under each class of emergency. Emergency action levels . = =. 10/2 50
'~ 7 (based on readings from a number of sen containment', the resconse of'the ECCS, etc ) fosors, su a .g 4--- ~ p._ acencies shall be described. r notification of offsite The existence, but not the details messace authentication scheme shall be not d f , of a e or such acencies_. D. PROTECTIVE MEASURES [Presedures] Administrative and physical means f _ or notifying, and agreements reached with local State, e.nd Federal offi i the early warning of the public and for publi c als and agencies for measures should such warning, evacuation c evacuation or other protective necessary or desiralle, including identification, or other prot by title and agencies; for the Emergency Pl of the principal officials, anning Zones 2 (EPZ). Provisions. shall'be made for the ceriodic_ dissemination Planning Zones, of basic simnlified emercen, to the occucants of th =N=m=.l_ cy olannina information. -Administrative anduhysical means, and the ti i alertino and crovidina instructions to the aubli me recuired, for oremet Emergency Plannino Zene. c within the 1 halation_ ] It is the licensee's resoor.2it' sucn means exist, regardless of who imolements such _ ty to ensure that [E r --PFe vi s ie R s - fe F-Ea 4 R ta iR $R g -up - te -da te means. esp?Rg-with-e=ergeReiesr-2r-the-pFeeedwres-fer use 4r--Ir 2r-the-lists-ef-perseRs-with-spesial-qualifieati - R-emeFjeReieS -aRd T emeFjeREy-esRditieRs3 eRs-feF-espiRg-with-l 4 = D 10./92 U"
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9 '.T.25? 1. Dire: tors or coordinators of the olant emergency organization. 2. Personnel resconsible for accident assessment, including control room shift personnel. 3. Radiological monitoring teams. 4. Fire control teams (fire bricades). 5. Reoair and damage control teams. 6. First aid and rescue ' teams. 7. Local, services eersonnel, i.e., local Civil Defense director, local law enforcament eersonnel, etc. 8. Medical succort eersonnel. 9. Licensce's headcuarters succort eersonnel. The olan shall describe provisiens for the conduct of ceriodic drills shhhh and exercises to test the adecuacy of timing and content of imolementing
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~ orocedures and methods, to tes't emergency ecuioment, and to ensure that emergency organization ce sonnel are familiar with their duties. All traininc crevisions shall include delineatien of methods to evaluate its effectiveness and to correct weak areas through feedback with emchasis on schedules, lesson clans, oractical traininc, and oeriodic r. aminations. G. KAINTAINING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Provisions to be emoloyed to en:ure that the olan, its imolementing procedures and emercency ecuioment and sucolies are maintained uo to date, as well as (1) the orcani:ation for cooinc with emercencies, (2) the crocedures for use in emergencies, and (3) the lists of cersens with special cualifications for cocine with short-and lonc-term emercency conditions. 10/2 ELi3
r e. 10 ~ p.: H. RECOVERY' v==== Criteria to be used ta detemine when, following an accident, reentry of the facility is appropriate or when operation should be continued. l V., Imolementino Procedures Within 180 days prior to scheduled issuance of an Operating License and as necessary to maintain them uo to date thereafter, controlled cooies of emergency plan implementing orocedures shall be submitted to the accroariate NRC Regional Office. lb' ' 7 Z::." = O e* 4. g g -.- 1.0/2 Os4 re L.. .}}