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Weekly Info Rept for 790119
ML19269C188
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Issue date: 01/24/1979
From: Rehm T
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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WIR-790119, NUDOCS 7901290293
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January 24, 1979 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS POOR QUAUTY PAGES To:

The Commissioners From:

T. A. Rehm, Assistant to the Executive Director for Operations

Subject:

WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JANUARY 19, 1979 A summary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.

Contents Enclosure Administration A

Nuclear Reactor Regulation B

Standards Development C

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards D

Inspection and Enforcement E

Nuclear Regulatory Research F*

Executive Legal Director G

International Programs H

State Programs I

Management and Program Analysis J

Controller K*

Cakodar of Significant Events L

Items Approved by the Commission M**

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T. A. Re.., nssistant to the Executive Director for Operations

Contact:

T. A. Rehin 49-27781

  • No input this week.
    • Deleted from Commissioners and PDR copy.

7901290FA3

0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending January 19, 1979 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Ini tial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 43 7

Granted 5

0 Denied 2

0 Pending 36 7

ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received John A. Volpe, Requests the names of all occupants The National Italian of supergrade positions.

American Foundation (79-10)

NRC Employee Pequests report on NRC EE0 Program.

(79-11)

!!ina Bell Requests 9 categories of records relating to (79-12) fire protection at the Trojan, Hatch 1 and 2 and Ft. St. Vrain Nuclear Power Plants.

Granted 78-349 GANNIS In response to a request for an NRC organizational chart and titles and names of occupants of all organiza-tional units, made available the information.

79-5 H0 DEN In response to a request for records relating to an " Events Coordinating Committee", created to deal with security and potential terrorist activities during the 1984 Olympics in California, informed the requester that NRC has no records.

ENCLOSURE A

DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week Ending January 19, 1979 PENDING COMPETITIVE REQUIREMENTS RFP RS-NMS-79-032 Title - System Analysis of Snallow Land Burial Description - The contractor will be required to (1) identify potential radionuclide release pathways from Shallow Land Burial Waste Disposal, (2) develop a model to assess Shallow Land Burial Sites, (3) perform a parametric study based on the model, and (4) to assess pathway and isotope doses and total site impacts using the model.

?eriod of Performance - Twenty months Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Status - Solicitation being developed.

RFP'S ISSUED RFP ADM-79-377 Title - Photographic Services Jescription - Photographic reproduction services consisting of furnishing all labor, material, and equipment in connection with processing and printing negatives and production of slides.

?eriod of Performance - One year Sponsor - Office of Administration Status - Solicitation issued January 17, 1979; due February 16, 1979.

PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP RS-NRR-ll8 Title - Engineering Support for Operating Reactor Licensing Actions Jescription - The NRC is seeking assistance with its review and evaluation of pending operating reactor licensing actions.

Assistance is needed to:

(1) review licensee submittal, (2) perform comparative evaluations relative to established regulatory guides, (3) provide a report documenting conclusions reached and (4) provide a definition of additional information needed to complete the action.

Period of Performance - Three to five years Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status - Responses received from offerors have been forwarded to the Source Evaluation Panel for their appropriate review and evaluation.

ENCLOSURE A

DIVISION OF SECURITY Item of Interest Week Ending January 19, 1979 The Division of Security completed revisions of the NRC employees' security handbook. The new handbook, "NRC Security: Your Responsibilities," has been distributed to all NRC Headquarters and Regional Office personnel.

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ENCLOSURE A

  • DIVISION OF TECHNICAL If1 FORMATION'AND DOCUMENT C0f4 TROL Week ending January 19, 1979 This entry deleted from PDR copy.

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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WEEKLY ITEMS OF INTEREST (WeekEndingJanuary 19,1979)

Kewatnee On January 9,1979, the staff was informed by Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that nine control rods were not able to be stepped during conduct of a routine control rod surveillance exercise at the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant. The licensee and Westinghouse had begun diagnostic efforts and were able to trace the cause of the problem to a malfunctioning printed circuit card which prevented cycling of current through the lift coils of nine CRDM's. The NRC staff required that the licensee demonstrate mechanical operability of the affected rods or shut down the plant by midnight, January 11, 1979. The licensee replaced the affected printed circuit board and on January 11, 1979 successfully tested the nine affected rods.

Salem Unit 2 PublicServiceElectric&GasCompanyhasadvisedthestaffthat they will request an exemption to 10 CFR 50 Appendix G re-quirements regarding lateral expansion measurements and energy impact properties of the Salem Unit 2 reactor vessel bolting material. The PDD for the operating license currently is schedcled for March 1979.

McGuire Unit 1 Duke Power Company has requested, and the staff contemplates issuing, an exemption to certain requirements in 10 CFR 50 Appendices G, H and J for McGuire Unit 1.

These exemptions, if granted, would be similar to those recently approved for other plants at the time of operating. license issuance. The PDD for the operating license currently is scheduled for February 1979.

Diablo Canyon Units 1 & 2 The safety hearing has adjourned. We expect that it will resume on February 5 to address rebuttal testimony from intervenors' witnesses on ceology, completion of staff testimony on electrical equipment qualification and introduction of the staff's generic items report.

ENCLOSURE B Ouad Cities Unit 1 Quad Cities Unit 1 was deinerted Saturday morning, January 13, 1979, in preparation for a nonnal shutdown for refueling.

Later in the morning a revised forecast of a severe winter stonn indicat6d the possible need for Unit 1 to meet the load demand on Monday, January 15'.

B" evening i

During the day a 460 MW fossil plant was lost from service.

1 be January 13, it was apparent that without Unit 1, the system wo 785 MW short of projected demand on Monday, January 15 and that only 55 MW of replacement power was available for purchase. There was insufficient nitrogen onsite to reinert Unit 1 within the 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> period after startup as required by their Tech Specs. Weather conditions made it unlikely that the needed nitrogen could be brought onsite by Monday, January 15.

Following numerous preliminary conversations with Commonwealth Edison Company on Saturday evening and Sunday, we received from CECO a telecopy request to extend the allowed. period of operation in deinerted condition to beyond the 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> period allowed by Tech Specs.

Because of logistical difficulties, D0R accepted an amended version of the telacopy by telephone as the application for an amendment. By about 4:00 P.M., Sunday, January 14, DOR granted an amendment that provided the needed relid based on compensatory measures, based on calculations preywusly submitted by the licensee which relate to the recently issued Section 50.44 on deinerting, combined with the low likelihood of a loss of coolant accident during this period to assure that hydrogen concentrations in the drywell could be controlled by air dilution after a LOCA.

The amendment would allow operation of Unit 1 in the deinerted condition to a time nc later than midnight January 21, 1979, provided nitrogen cannot be made available onsite despite best efforts to do so.

Salem Unit 1 On January 12, 1979, Salem was at 100% powe when due to an operator error, the Technical Specification limit for boron concentration in the baron injection tank was violated.

The Technical Specifications allow an hour to return the concentration to within limits or within six hours be in hot standby condition. The licensee requested extension of the s;x hour limit for an additional eighteen hours since the concentration could not be returned to the limit within the time allowed.

Based on the fact that adequate shutdown margin existed with the baron concentrations available, we granted a e,e time extension to the six hour limit on Januhry 12, 1979.

ENCLOSURE B

3-Turkey, Point Units 3 and 4 and St. Lucie Unit 1 By letter dated January 10, 1979, Florida Power and Light Company requested an exemption from 10 CFR 73.55. The licensee's request relates to implementing all parts of the Modified Amended Security Plan no later than February 23, 1979 for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4 and for St. Lucie Unit No.1.

Staff evaluation of the request is underway. Similar requests for exemptions have been denied and licensees have been required to provide compensatory n.easures until construction and installation of their security systems is complete.

Zion Un'ts 1 and 2 As the result of a NRC staff required Westinghouse reanalysis of n

ECCS cooling performance for Zion Station, Units 1 and 2, the Commonwealth Edison Company has further reduced the maximum peaking factor it will allow for these plants. To accommodate the decreased peaking factor, Zion 1 was reduced to 93% power on Januny 10, 1979.

Since Zion 2 is in a coastdown mode, its power level is not presently affected by the decreased peaking factor.

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OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 19, 1979 1.

On January 15, 1979, SD and NMSS staff met with the Department of Transportation staff to discuss comments received by D0T on its Advance Notice of Rulemaking on routing controls over truck transportation of radioactive material.

00T has received 350 public comments to date. NRC is providing technical assistance to D0T at this stage of the rulemaking, and is expected to provide recomendations on the substantive issues.

2.

On January 16, 1979, SD and NMSS staff met with the Department of Transportation and criticality experts D. R. Smith from LASL and J. T. Thomas from ORNL, to formulate responses to questions raised by a Swedish representative to IAEA regarding criticality safety criteria for the transportation of fissile material.

3.

NRC-EPA Joint Hearing on Occupational Radiolooical Health Standards In a telephone conversation between R. B. Minogue and David Hawkins, Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise and Radiation, EPA, agreement in principle was' reached on joint participation in a fact-finding hearing on occupational radiological health risks and standards.

It was agreed that the"in EPA might take the lead in arranging for the hearing, NRC and other Federal regulatory agencies that might want to participate (such as OSHA) would have standing in some formal way as co-sponsors.

It was understood that if such a hearing cannot be scheduled by late Spring, the NRC would probably proceed with a hearing with OSHA or on its own.

Details were left to be resolved by staff.

The staff is now working out the details (scope, notice, composition, and timing) with Mr. Hawkins' staff.

(Contact: R. Purple) 4.

Report on Cancer Risks in a Comunity with a Nuclear Facility NRC (SD and Region II) and HEW /CDC representatives met ' Atlanta on January 10, 1979, to discuss Health, Education and Weifare/Public Health Service / Center for Disease Control (CDC) draft ~ report on

" Cancer Risks in a Rural Community with a Nuclear Facility, Unicoi County, Tennessee." The CDC report was prepared in response to a newspaper article which linked a two-fold increase since 1957 in county cancer mortality to a nuclear fuel processing plant operating in the county. The report concluded that there was a "small but statistically insignificant increase in the risk to cancer," and that "two-thirds of this increase over the past twenty years can be attributed to an aging of the population."

(Contact: R. Goldsmith)

ENCLOSURE C

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Final Rule on Calibratina and Checking Teletherapy Units A notice of final rulemaking to amend 10 CFR Part 35 to require medical licensees to (1) calibrate each teletherapy unit annually and (2) perfonn monthly spot checks on those calibrations was published in the Federal Register on January 8,1979 (44 FR 1722).

The amendments will help ensure that a patient receives only the prescribed radiation dose.

(Contact: E. Podolak) 6 ~. Other Federal Agencies Review Work Scope of Epidemic 1ogy Feasibility /

Plannina Study On Friday, January 12, 1979, representatives of EPA, NRC, VA, D0D, and HEW met to discuss the Work Scope for the RFP on the Epidemiology Feasibility / Planning Study. This meeting was held to consult with other Federal agencies having interest in the area of radiation health effects studies. The Work Scope was well received, only minor changes were suggested, and these were incorporated.

It is anticipated that the Request for Proposal will reach the Commerce Business Daily by the end of January.

(Contact: M. A. Parsont)

Regulatory Guides to'be Issued in the Near Future 1.

Title:

Calculational Models for Estimating Radiation Doses from Airborne Radioactive Materials Resulting from Uranium Milling Operations Expected Issuance Date: March 1979

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Description:==

Provides guidance to nuclear materials facility license applicants on acceptable methods for estim? ting doses for compliance with 10 CFR Part 20 and EPA's 40 CFR Part U0.

Contact:

H. T. Peterson 443-5966 2.

Title:

Occupational Radiation Dose Assessment in Lignt-Water Reactor Power Plants - Design Stage Man-Rem Estimates (Reg. Guide 8.19, Rev. 1)

Expected Issuance Date: June 1979

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Description:==

This guide describes the format and content for assessments of the total annual occupational (man-rem) dose at LWR-principally during the design stage.

Contact:

F. C. Skopec 443-5970 ENCLOSURE C 3.

Title:

Nuclear Criticality Safety in the Storage of Fissile Materials (Reg. Guide 3.43, Rev. 0-R)

Expected Issuance Date: April 1979

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Description:==

This guide provides guidance by describing acceptable procedures for the prevention of criticality accidents in the storage of fissile materials outside nuclear reactors.

Reissue to remove "For Comment" overprint. No changes made to guide after public conment period.

Contact:

M. S. Weinstein 443-5910 4.

Title:

Entry / Exit Control to Protected Areas, Vital Areas, and Material Access Areas (Reg. Guide 5.7, Rev.1)

Expected Issuance Date:

February 1979

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Description:==

Revision to entry / exit control guidance to reflect upgraded regulatory and licensing criteria.

Contact:

J. Montgomery 443-5904 5.

Title:

Use of Observation (Visual Surveillance) Techniques in Material Access Areas (Reg. Guide 5.14, Rev.1)

Expected Issuance Date:

February 1.?79

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Description:==

Revision 1 to surveillance technique guidance to reflect upgraded regulatory and licensing criteria.

Contact:

J. Montgomery 443-5904 6.

Title:

Shipping and Receiving Control of Special Nuclear Material (Reg. Guide 5.57, Rev.1)

Expected Issuance Date: January 1979

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Description:==

Guidance on fundamental material accounting and control for shipping and receiving Strategic Special Nuclear Material.

(Guide should be issued before approval of revisions to 10 CFR Part 73 - Physical Security Upgrade Rule Effective).

Contact:

L. C. Solem 443-5904 ENCLOSURE C

4-Publications Issued During the Week of January 15-19, 1979 Reg. Guide 10.8 - Guide for the Preparation of Applications for Medical Programs [ Issued for Comment]

NUREG/CR-0216 - Radiation Dose Estimatas from Timepieces Containing Tritium or ~ 'methium-147 in Radioluminous Paints e

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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending January 19, 1979 RES FY79 Fixed-Site Evaluative Methodology Research Program After an extensive review of the program proposed by RES, the portions of the RES FY79 fixed-site evaluative methodology research program relevant to NMSS needs were identified. A memorandum was sent to RES detailing the level of NMSS support.

TASTEX/SSAC Commissioner Bradford and his technical and legal assistants were briefed on January 16, 1979, by fjr. C. N. Smith concerning his participation in the TASTEX Steering Committee meeting in.. pan and his involvement with the SSAC assistance program in Korea.

Public Proceedings, Table S-3, Back End of the Fuel Cycle Oral presentations to the Commission on the reprocessing and waste manage-ment aspects of Table S-3 will be held on January 19. The Fuel Cycle Division has been asked to handle several aspects of the question response covering reprocessing and economic feasibility.

Several meetings were attended and review of both written and oral testimony is under way.

Waste Manacement Licensing Study The Waste Management Licensing Study Task Force met for three days to discuss a preliminary draft of the study report. As a result, a first draft report was created by the Task Force and was sent to NRC staff, the Commission, and 00E headquarters and field offices for review and cocnent on January 15.

Research on Radon Releases from Uranium Mining Under a newly approved research project, the Argonne National Laboratory is starting field measurements of radon releases from open pit uranium -

mines in New Mexico. This research will provide data to compare with the measurements being made by Battelle PNL at open pit mines in Wyoming.

ENCLOSURE D

Items of Interest *Transoortation Safeguards Research Program Deleted from oDR copy.

  • United Nuclear Corporation Deleted from PDR copy.

EtlCLOSURE D

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OFFICE JF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Items of Interest Week Ending January 19, 1979 1.

Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company - Civil Penalty Action - The licensee has withdrawn its aopeal of the decision of the adminis-trative law judge upholding the assessment of a civil penalty in the amount of $2,000. The licensee submitted a check in the amount of S2,000 in full payment of the penalty.

2.

The following Notification of Significant Enforcement Action was dispatched:

a.

EN-79-01 Jersey Central Power and Light Company (Oyster Creek) -

A Notice of Violation and Notice of Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties in the amount of $26,000 was issued to the subject licensee on January 12, 1979. This action is based on nine alleged items of noncompliance.

Seven items of noncompliance were associated with the radiation protection program and two items related to the plant sec.urity program.

3.

Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dispatched during the past week:

a.

PNO-79-05 Duane Arnold - Alleged Licensee Acceptance of Rejectable Welds - An employee of Peabody Testing Co., the licensee's nondestructive testing contractor alleged that certain welds were accepted which, in his opinion, w"e clearly rejectable.

The welds were made in connection with rept.r of recirculation inlet nozzles.

Inspectors from Region III (Chicago) and NRC welding consultants are investigating the allegations.

(Closed) b.

PN0-79-06 Three Mile Island Unit 2 - Main Steam Atmospheric Relief Valve Discharge Piping Bellows Rupture - Following a routine turbine trip test at 15% power, condenser vacuum degraded from an undeter-mined cause, resulting in turbine bypass valve closure and main steam bypass relief and atmospheric relief valves lifting.

During this transient, the atmospheric relief valve discharge piping bel-lows ruptured, releasing steam to the Control Area.

An automatic reactor trip occurred.

Equipment damage included loss of pressur-i:er heaters due to motor control center exposure to steam. The plant was taken to cold shutdown to continue investigation of' possible component damage and complete necessary repairs. The plant was expected to remain shut down for four to five days.

(Closed) c.

PNO-79-07 Davis Besse Unit 1 - Unplanned Reactor Shutdown - Follow-ing completion of the 100% ioad rejection test on January 15, the licensee initiated plant cooldown operations in order to replace a failing reactor coolant pumo snaft seal. The outage is scheduled to last two weeks.

(Closed)

ENCLOSURE E

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PN0-79-08 Nagnaflux Corporation - Exposed Radiographic Source -

Wisconsin Electric Power Co. reported an incident involving a radiographic source at the company's Pleasant Prairie fossil power plant under construction near Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Radi-ography was being performed by Magnaflux Corp.

During radio-graphic operations using a 90 curie Ir-192 source, the source guide tube fell off and the source became snagged and could not be retracted. The source was eventually freed and cranked back into the exposure device. No overexposures occurred.

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PN0-79-09 Allied Chemical Corp., Metropolis, Illinois - Truck Accident Involving Yellowcake (U 0 ) - On January 17, 1979, 12 38 drums of yellowcake fell from a truck on I-70 near St. Louis Lambert Airport.

Minor contamination at the accident scene was removed and the highway reopened after about a one-hour delay.

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PNS-79-02 Waterford Unit 3 - Bomb Threat - No bombs were found and nonc exploded.

(Closed) 9 PNS-79-03 Browns Ferry Units 1, 2 and 3 - Bomb Threat - No bcmbs were found and none exploded.. (Closed) h.

PNS-79-04 Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 - Bomb Threat - No bombs were found and none exploded.

(Closed) 4.

The following IE Circulars were issued:

a.

IE Circular No. 79-01, " Administration of Unauthorized Byproduct Material to Humans," was issued on January 12, 1979 to all medical licensees except teletherapy medical licensees and to all radio-pharmaceutical suppliers. The circular described two recent inci-dents in which reagent grade compounds containing byproduct material were administered as intravenous radiopharmaceuticals to humans.

b.

IE Circular No. 79-02, " Failure of 120 Volt Vital AC Power Supplies,"

was issued on January 16, 1979 to all holders of power reactor operating licenses and construction permits.

ENCLOSURE E

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 18, 1979 Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company (Byproduct Material License, No. 37-02607-02)

Following the filing by Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company of its withdrawal of exceptions to the decision by the Administrative Law Judge in this proceeding imposing civil penalties, the Appeal Board dismissed the appeal. The pending appeal in Atlantic Research Corooration which had been consolidated earlier with Pittsburch-Ces Moines Steel Company still remains before the Appeal Board for hearing and decision.

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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING JANUARY 19, 1979 IhTER';ATIONAL COOPERATION Sabotage at Brennellis IP was advised by a January 19 cable from the CEA that two 220,000 volt electrical power evacuating lines of the Brennellis nuclear power plant in Brittany were sabotaged during the night or early morning of January 13-14. The turbo alternator was isolated at once and 18 minutes later connected to the still available 63,000 volt emergency lines.

The plant has operated through these lines at half power since.

The standby diesel did not have to be activated.

Tne CEA has assessed plant conditions during this incident as less serious then those of the December 19 power outage.

Fmnch Power Outage Tne CEA, by separate cable of the same date, advised IP that, during the December 19 power outage, Chooz and Fessenheim (PWRs) were affected only by degraded voltage or frequency. Other nuclear sites experienced comolete loss of power of variable duration.

Reactors were shutdown, but energency supply systems operated satisfactorily.

Tqe Central Service for the Safety of Nuclear Installations, which has requested a detailed report from each nuclear unit to assess its safety dJring the event, will send us its findings as soon as available.

Ele:tricitd de France (EdF) meanwhile, has been asked to respond more i rediately, probably through an experts meeting, to an NRC questionnaire en the matter.

Meetings Attended

!? and NMSS(SG) representatives attended a meeting at State on January 15 to discuss the status of U.S. interagency efforts to help upgrade fore'ign state systems of accounting and control for nuclear materials.

Plans call for initiating and expanding activities on several fronts.

I? and RES representatives met on January 16 regarding a draft Commission

aper on nonproliferation language for NRC's international agreements. The staff developed an approach which would split the agreements into three s:ecific categories, with differing recommendations for each.

IP is seeking the views of the Executive Branch on this approach.

ENCLOSURE H

2 Advisory Group Meeting on IAEA's Environmental Protection Procram Richard E. Cunningham, NMSS, has been named to head a three-person US delegation to a February 5-9 IAEA Advisory Group Meeting in Vienna to consider improvements in IAEA's environmental protection program.

Alex Perge, DOE, and David Smith, EPA, are the other two US representatives _.

Waste Management Committees A letter has been sent to DOE proposing that John B. Martin, NMSS, be

.iamed as a US participant on two international standing ccmmittees in the waste management area:

the NEA Committee on Radioactive Waste Manage-ment and the IAEA Technical Review Committee on Underground Disposal of Radioactive Waste.

Foreign Reports Deleted from PDR copy.

OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMb ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING JANUARY 19, 1979 Emercency Preparedness The Regional Advisory Committee for Radiological Emergency Response Planning (RERP) in Standard Region IV has completed -

its review of the Alabama State plan and has recommended that NRC concur in it.

Concurrence is anticipated for early February.

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On Saturday, January 13, Messrs. J. P. S tohr (IE RI) and Tom Elsasser attended a Workshop in Wiscasset, Maine.

The purpose of the Workshop was to evaluate the State of Maine's Emergency Response Plan for responding to incidents at the Maine Yankee facility.

Procram Develcoment The Office of State Programs sponsored a 3-day workshop January 16 through 18 for the States to comment on NUREG-0513, "Me an s for Improving State Participation in the Federal Nuclear Waste Management Program. "

There were approximately 75 participants, representing some 30 States, industry and other Federal agencies.

The final report is due to Congress by March 1, 1979.

ENCLOSURE I

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest Week-Ending:Januar;y 19,1979 Annual Reco~t to Congress on Domestic Safeguards The first Annual Report to Congress on Domestic Safeguards (FY 1978) was sent to the Commission for review on January 17, 1979.

Latest NASAP Schedule DOE has established a final schedule for the NASAP activities. NRC.is to comment on preliminary documents in April 1979. DOE internal review will follow in May and.a final interagency review will take place in June 1979. OMB-White House review is scheduled for late August.

A 60-day public connent period will follow with the report to the President, Congress and public due on December 24, 1979.

Orcanization-Charts Issued Issued new 1 page NRC Organizational Chart and 45 page Functional Charts -

(N'JREG-0325).

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CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TWD-WEEK PERIOD ENDING FEBRUARY 5, 1979 January 24 Mr. Teiichi Aoyama, Senior Researcner of the Japan Techno-Economics Society and Mr. Katsuo Kiju of the Nippon Research Center have requested NRC apprintments for discussions on the develop-ment of environmental impact assessments.

Details being arranged Salem 2 - ACRS Subcommlttee meeting in Washington and site visit on January 25, 1979 January 26 Mr. E. C. Stokes, Principal Systems Planning Engineer, and Dr. J. P. James, Principal Projects Planning Engineer, of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Australia, have requested NRC appointments for discussions on licensing criteria and regulatory procedures concerning spent fuel handling, storage, and disposal.

Details being arranged Erie - SER Supplement to be issued during week ending January 26th January 29 Susquehanna 1 & 2 - Prehearing Conference Perkins - Hearing on alternative sites and generic issues is scheduled to begin on January 29 and last through February 2,1979 The Swedish ASEA-Atom has requested NRC appointments for a three-man delegation to discuss licensing procedures for reload BWR fuel deliveries from Sweden to the U.S.

Details being arranged C.NCLOSURE L

' January 30 Dr. D. L. Reed of the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) has requested NRC appointments for ATWS discussions.

Details being arranged January 31 Mr. Manuel Barroso, the Spanish Director for International Technical Cooperation is being scheduled for 0CM appointments.

Details being arranged Salen 2 - Meeting with applicant to discuss Fire Protection Program Zimmer 1 - Issue SER February 1 LaSalle 1 & 2 - Meeting with applicant to discuss status of safety review February 2 SER Supplement to be issued during week ending February 2 E

ENCLOSURE L