ML19282A079
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April 27,1979 For:
The Commissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant to the Executive Director for Operations
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING APRIL 20, 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
Calendar of Significant Events L
Items Approved by the Commission M*
- Calendar of Speaking Engagements N
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/T. A. Re 21stant to the Executive Director for Operations
Contact:
T. A. Rehm 49-27781
- No input this week
- Deleted from Commissioners and PDR copy
SUM.SARY OF KEY EVENT 5 Week Ending Aoril 20,~ 1979 McGuire Units 1 & 2 On 4/18 the ASLB issued an Initial Decision that requires the staff to address the status of the ALAB-444 type generic issues before issuing the operating license.
Evaluation of ' Health 'Imoact SD staff met with men 6ers of the State Health Department in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to discuss the State's strategy for the evaluation of the public health impact on the TMI incident. ' The proposed approach involves development of population registries in affected areas. NRC, among others, was asked by State personnel if they could provide funds for prompt initiation of the registry.
Ionizing Radiation Report On 4/7 the Interagency (Libassi/ HEW) Task Force on Ionizing Radiation report on " Institutional Arrangements" was published for public comment.
One of the report's recommendations is to establish an Interagency Radiation Research Committee to coordinate all Federal research on low-level radiation effects, that NIH, HEW, should chair this commi.ttee and that NIH(rather than DOE) should assume a major role in research intb the biological effects of ionizing radiation.
In anticipation of the President's authorizing establishing an interagency committee, NIH is establishing an " HEW" Radiation Research Cormittee in which other Federal agencies will participate.
Study Group Established A study group has been established to prepare a Headquarters Radiological and Industrial Safety Plan, license-specific incident response procedures, and a guide to development of FC capabilities for participation in the NRC Incident Response Program as specified in NRC-0502.
Generic Environmental Imoact Statement on Uranium Milling NRC issued the draft generic environmental impact statement (GEIS) on uranium milling for public comment. The document focuses primarily on the problens of uranium mill tailings management and disposal.
Emeroency Precaredness NRC staff attended California Assembly subcommittee hearings.
The purpose of the hearings was to take testimony on the Three Mile Island accident and its consequences and to discuss NRC's role in emergency planning.
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0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending April 20, 1979 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial
-Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 158 14 Granted 72 2
Denied 27 4
Pending 59 8
ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received (An NRC employee)
Requests all documents concerning Vacancy (79-116)
Announcement No.78-523.
Robert Ruby, Requests all documents relating to Three Mile The Baltimore Sun Island 1 and 2 since March 28, 1979.
(79-117)
James R. Mann, Requests the diary, calendar, and telephone log of Law Offices Commissioner Gilinsky for 1978.
(79-118)
Pat Minarcin, Requests transcripts of investigatory interviews Pennsylvania Illustrated conducted with control room personnel at the Inc.
Three Mile Island Unit 2.
(79-119)
Mary E. Conley, Requests the outline of the organization of the Bentley College NRC, the basic health and safeguard standards, (79-120) and any important cases involving the NRC.
Darryl W. Doss, Requests the names and other available information Pilot Life Insurance on NRC employees working in the Tidewater, Virginia Company area.
(79-121)
Jeffrey D. Littlejohn, Requests daily release rate data for all gaseous (79-122) and liquid radioactive isotopes for the Three Mile Island Plant and the results of the Confirmatory Measurement Program.
Coral Rose Ryan, Requests a copy of Prehearing Conference Order Citizens Concerned About Ruling Upon Intervention Petitions served April 4, Nuclear Power 1979 and a copy of 10 CFR Part 2.
(79-123)
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton OSURE A 492-7211
2 Received, Cont'd W. Alexander Willlams, Requests a copy of an internal memo referred to (79-124) in Newsweek alleging.that the SL-1 nuclear reactor accident in Idaho Falls, Idaho may have involved a
" lover's triangle".
Senator Michael C. Kendall, Requests a copy of a 3/69 ACRS report on reactor State of Indiana safeguards, a 6/69 internal staff study by AEC (79-125) regarding safety of large nuclear reactors, a 11/12/69 ACRS report on reactor safeguards, and a copy of a letter to the AEC Chairman Seaborg regarding safety questions.
Sheila Allee, Requests all documents on radiation levels in and United Press International surrounding the Kerr-McGee plant and the town (79-126) of Crescent, Oklahoma.
Lloyd Etheredge, Requests transcripts of NRC meetings, public Massachusetts Institute statements, and testimony of NRC officials and of Technclogy other documents dealing with the.Three Mile Island (79-127) accident.
Michael Hungerford, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION the denial of a memo to Syracuse University Shapar from. Kelley concerning the meaning of the (79-A-8-79-47) term " material alteration of a licensed facility" as contained in 10 CFR.50.91.
Granted Anthony Z. Roisman, In response to a request for communications between Natural Resources the NRC and any person regarding the report'of the Defense Council, Inc.
Interagency Review Group on Nuclear Waste Management (79-81) since October 1,1978, made available four documents in the PDR, informed the requester one document was already in the PDR, and made arrangements for the requester to review other documents in the Willste Building.
Susan Baumann, In response to a request for all documents regarding (79-85) plant accidents and safety defects at reactor sites owned by Carolina Power & Light Company and the Duke Power Company, and information regarding emergency evacuation plans, made available a printout of Licensee Event Reports and informed the requester other pertinent information is available at the LPDR for each plant.
ENCLOSURE A
3 Granted, Cont'd L. Alan Kenton, In response to a request for the name and present (79-94) duty stations of all employees located in the Southeast, made available a computer printout of NRC employees in Headquarters and Regions 1 and 2.
Dennis Sanders, In response to a request for a copy of Dr. Hanauer's (79-108)
" nugget file", made available a list of the documents contained in the file and informed the requester he may write directly to the PDR to purchase a copy.
(An individual requesting In response to a request for the results of the information about himself) tests and examinations as a result of an accident (79-115) involving radiation exposure at the Nevada Test Site in 1963, informed the requester that the NRC has no records relating to the accident and that he should write to the DOE.
Darryl W. Doss, In response to a request for the nanes and other Pilot Life Insurance available information on NRC employees working in Company the Tidewater, Virginia area, informed the (79-121) requester there are no employees working in this area.
Denied Citizens for a Better In response to a request for documents relating Environment to the Pipe Cracking Study Group Report, and (78-268) documents relating to GE's Boiling Wat2r Reactor pipe cracking problems occurring since 1975, made available 1,006 documents. Denied 72 documents in total or in part under exemptions 1 and 4.
Michael Hungerford, In response to a request for interpretations made Syracuse University regarding the meaning of the term " material (79-47) alteration of a licensed facility" as contained in 10 CFR 50.91, made available four documents and denied one document under Exemption 5.
ENCLOSURE A
4 Denied, Cont'd Eric Schulman, In response to a request for documents relating (79-56) to the Big Rock Point facility, made available the requested documents in the LPDR located in Charlevoix, Michigan. Denied portions of two documents, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal prir.cy.
John W. Sullivan, In response to a request for documents pertaining (79-61 )
to the operation of Metals and Controls, Texas Instruments, Makepiece, Inc., and Englehard, Inc.,
informed the requester these documents may be purchased from the NRC Public Document Room.
Denied portions of one document containing commercial or financial (proprietary) information.
9 ENCLOSURE A
DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week Ending April 20, 1979 PENDING COMPETITIVE REQUIREMENTS RFP RS-RES-79-183 Title - Limiting Conditions for Operations (LCO)
Description - Develop a methodology to calculate allowable ratio's of LC0's based on probabilistic approaches. To apply the methodology, system logic models such as fault trees will be constructed for specific safety systems in nuclear power plants and the allowable values for the LC0's will be calculated using available reliability data.
Period of Performance - Anticioated to be two years.
Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status - Solicitation to be issued May 3,1979 with a closing date of June 19, 1979.
RFP'S ISSUED 1.
RFP RS-NMS-79-039 Title - SECOM Test Description - Participation of a commercial transporter of special nuclear material in an extended field test to determine the increase in transportation safeguards capability which might result from the use of the SECOM Communications System.
Period of Performance: Eighteen months Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Status - RFP issued April 10, 1979.
Closing date, May 10, 1979.
2.
RFP RS-0TE-79-261 Title - General and Refresher Courses in Concrete Technology and Codes Description - This technical assistance is required by the Office of Inspection and Enforcement to provide NRC personnel the detailed training in concrete technology and the applicable codes necessary to permit them to conduct in-depth inspection at NRC licensed facilities under construction or modification.
Period of Performance - Eighteen months Sponsor - Office of Inspection and Enforcement Status - RFP issued April 19, 1979.
Proposals due May 17, 1979.
ENCLOSURE A
PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP RS-NMS-79-029 (formerly 78-065)
Title - Synthesis for Physical Security and Material Control and Accounting Assessment Results Description - Develop methods for combining observations of MC&A Assessment Team members, develop a method for synthe-sizing the results of the Physical Security and MC&A assessments, and develop a draft handbook that explains the methodology for deriving the measures of effective-ness and synthesizing them into the final statement of adequacy.
Period of Performance - Ten months Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Status - Discussions scheduled for April 20-23, 1979 with offerors in the competitive range.
CONTRACTS AWARDED 1.
RFP RS-ADM-79-378 Title - Design of NRC Supply and Maintenance Modules of the Property and Supply System Description - This was an SBA Section 8(a) procurement. The con-tractor shall provide ADP Systems Analysis and Design services to the NRC in support of the Supply and Maintenance Subsystems - Modules II and'III of PASS.
The Functional and Data Requirements Document (DFSR) plus Work Orders for System Maintenance since September 25, 1978, shall be used as the basis for this work. The resulting design document will be of sufficient detail to provide maximum guidance for future development.
Period of Performance - Four months Sponsor - Office of Administration Status - A firm fixed price contract (No. NRC-10-79-378) in the amount of $45,129.60 was executed with Rehab Group, Inc.,
an eligible 8(a) minority concern, on April 3,1979.
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RFP RS-ADM-79-372 Title - System Maintenance Programming Description - This was an SBA 8(a) procurement. The contractor shall provide services to accomplish corrections, changes, and enhancements required to support s'
ected NRC administrative, financial, and mai,agement reporting systems.
Period of Performance - One year Sponsor - Office of Administration Status - A labor-hour contract (No. NRC-10-79-372) was executed with International Business Services, an eligible 8(a) minority concern, in the amount of $96,949.00 on April 10,1979.
CONTRACTS CLOSED OUT (All administrative action complete and final payment made)
Contract No.
Organization Close-Out Date NRC-02-78-075 Coolfont Re-C:eation 04/10/79 AT(49-24)-0125 Environmental Protection 04/17/79 Agency s
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DIVISION 0F SECURITY Items of Interest Week Endino Acril 20, 1979 Bulletin on Transfer of Classified Non-military information to Foreign Governments by NRC, which relates to access by foreign government personnel to classified information in the custody of NRC and to the transmission of classified documents to foreign governments, has been forwarded to MPA for publication.
ENCLOSURE A
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WEEKLY ITEMS OF INTEREST (Week Ending April 20,1979)
McGuire Units 1 & 2
._ See Enclosure _G for compl.ete.wr.ite up on_.McGuire Units 1 & 2.
- "**a eneaw Maine Yankee The licensee has informed the staff that four different versions of the SH0CK-I computer code were used to analyze piping systems at the Maine Yankee plant. The licensee is currently performing a more detailed review to define the differences in these methods.
Beaver Va' ley By letter dated April 20, 1979 the licensee has informed the staff that they will use soil structure interaction techniques for develop-ing amplified response spectra (ARS) to be used in the reevaluation of the piping at Beaver Valley.
In support of this, they have sub-mitted a comparison of ARS based on both the original set of FSAR spectra and damping values and the set of input parameters based on Regulatory Guides 1.60 and 1.61.
This information is currently under review by the staff.
FitzPatrick Twelve piping reanalyses have been completed.
A modelling change has increased the total number of piping reanalyses to be performed from 95 to 96.
Analyses of 151 pipe supports have been completed out of a total of 1156. The results are within allowables.
Surry No change in status.
ENCLOSURE B
OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 20, 1979 1.
Guy Arlotto will participate in the Second Biennial EEI Standards Conference on April 20. The theme of the conference is " Government Interface with the Voluntary Consensus Standards Organizations and EEI's New Posture in the Standards World." Mr. Arlotto, who will appear on a panel with representatives from other Federal agencies, will focus his remarks on "NRC Interfaces with the National Consensus
. Standards Program."
2.
Cayuhoga Falls, Ohio is considering a city ordnance to reouire a permit for rail and truck shipments of 20 grams or 20 curies of fissile material, reactor fuel and large-quantities according to Steve Hoffman, a reporter from the Akron Beacon Journal who called Robert Barker, SD, on April 17.
He indicated Shaker Heights and perhaps 30 other towns in the Cleveland area have adopted similar ordnances. He was particularly interested in D0T's pre-emotion authority and was piven Mr. Crockett's phone number for information on the DOT routing rule.
3.
On April 12, 1979, Robert Purple and Robert Goldsmith atter.ded a meeting at the State Health Department in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to discuss the state's strategy for the evaluation of the public health impact on the TMI incident.
Their proposed approach involves the development of population registries in the " impact" area and in an area about 50 miles away in which expcsures were negligible.
The size of the oopulation included in the overall registry will depend upon the level of funding provided. The HEW is acoarently committed to suoporting this effort, but because of delays expected in obtaining funds, other Federal agencies, including the NRC, were asked by state personnel if they might be able to assist by oroviding funds for prompt initiation of the registry.
(R. Goldsmith) 4.
Interagency Task Force Report on Institutional Arrangements: The Interagency (Libass1/ HEW) Task Force on Ionizing Radiation report on " Institutional Arrangements" was published for public comment on April 17, 1979. Copies of this report were provided to the Commission on April 18, 1979. The report is being widely distributed, ENCLOSURE C
_2 as were the Task Force's five work group reports, with a request for comments and suggestions by March 18, 1979. The draft Institutional Arrangements report and the comments thereon will provide a major input to the Task Force's final report to the White House. The draft Institutional Arrangements report differs from the work group reports in that it generally does not make specific recommendations on issues.
Rather, it presents alternatives on issues and invites comments and suggestions thereon.
Notable exceptions to this are that the report does recommend establishing an Interagency Radiation Research Committee to coordinate all Federal research on low-level radiation effects, that NIH, HEW, should chair this committee and that NIH (rather than DOE) should assume a major role in research into the biological effects of ionizing radiation.
Related to this, NIH is proceeding to establish an " HEW" Radiation Research Committee with the invited participation of other Federal agencies, including the NRC, in anticipation of the President's authorizing establishing an interagency committee.
(See report on 4/18/79 meeting of this committee in the RES section of this Weekly Events Report).
(Karl Goller)
Publications Issued Reg. Guide 3.11.1 - Operational Inspection and. Surveillance of Embankment Retention Systems for Uranium Mill Tailings (Issued for Comment)
ENCLOSURE C
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_ OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending April 20, 1979 Table S-3 Radon Value Preliminary drafts of a Commission Paper and Federal Register notice covering the inclusion of an upgraded value for radon in Table S-3 have been forwarded to NRR, ELD and PA for review.
Table S-3 Occupational Excosure The occupational exposure task for the Table S-3 update is proceeding on schedule.
Representatives of NUS Corporation visited the Continuous Melting Facility for Commercial High Level Waste at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, the Waste Calcination Facility at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Kerr-ficGee's mine and mill. This tour is part of a data gathering task which includes a visit to the Chem iuclear Comnany at Barnwell, S. C., and the Hot Laboratory used in support of the design of the Defense Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River.
Study Group Established A study group has been established to prepare a Headquarters Radiological and Industrial Safety Plan, license-specific incident response procedures, and a guide to development of FC capabilities for participation in the NRC Incident Response Program as specified in NRC-0502.
Schedule and staffing planning is now in progress.
A Tc-99 Source Terms Development of Tc-99 source terms for testimony in individual reactor li-censing cases is about three-fourths completed.
Exocrt of Fuel for Research Reactors A representative of the Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety attended a meeting at the Department of State on the Environmental Impact of U.S. Export of Research Reactors. The preliminary results of an FCTA analysis of the radiological impact to the U.S. and the global commons resulting from mining, milling, converting, enriching, fabricating and transporting a one year supply of fuel for U.S. exported research and test reactors was presented.
ENCLOSURE D
Items of Interest 2
Evaluation of Scent Fuel Shipoing Casks On April 11, 1979, NRC and DOE representatives met with their respective contractors, Battelle Columbus Laboratories (BCL) and Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque (SLA), to discuss their programs to evaluate the vulnerability of spent fuel shipping casks tiexplosive attack and their potential health consequences. Agency and contractor personnel presented briefings on the scope and technical approach to be used. Working level discussions focused on work done to date and the establishment of project advisory groups to provide for information exchange.
Generic Environmental Imoact Statement on Uranium Millina The Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch has issued the draft generic envricamental impact statement (GEIS) on uranium milling for public comment.
Because of the intense interest in this report, an extended comment period of 90 days has been allotted.
In the document, which focuses primarily on the problems of uranium mill tailings management and disposal, the staff draws conclusions regarding both technical and institutional aspects of mill operations.
In addition, the staff recommends specific changes to NRC regulations governing mill operations.
The staff will hold several public meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Denver, Colorado, this summer on the GEIS and associated proposed rule changes that will be shortly submitted to the Commission for approval to issue.
Atlas Uranium Mill License Renewal Following publication of a Final Environmental Statement and the required 30-day waiting neriod, the Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch issued a renewal source material license to Atlas Minerals Corporation on April 19, 1979, authorizing processing of uranium ore at their Moab uranium mill in Grand County, Utah.
The mill will have an alkaline leach circuit and a typical acid leach circuit designed to process about 1600 tons of ore per day and produce about 850 MT of yellowcake per year over its anticipated 15-year operating life.
ENCLOSURE D
OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Items of Interest Week Ending April 20, 1979 1.
Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions Jere dispatched during the past week:
a.
PNO-79-67U through 67AA Three Mile Island Unit 2 - Nuclear Incident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 - These Preliminary Notifi-cations were issued to provide updated status information regarding the incident.
b.
PNO-79-81 H. B. Robinson Unit 2, Turkey Point Units 3 & 4 - Safety Related Pipe Stress Methology Concern - A potential problem was identified during review of information received by NRR concerning methods utilized by the licensees in determination of pipe stresses.
This concern related to the Westinghouse method of summing pipe stresses for these facilities.
An Immediate Action Letter was issued by Region II (Atlanta) to both licensees confirming that the units will not be returned to power until authorized by NRC.
(Closed.
See Item 1.c below.)
c.
PNO-79-82 H. B. Robinson Unit 2, Turkey Point Units 3 & 4 - Safety Related Pipe Stress Methodology Concern - A meeting was held on April 13, 1979 among representatives of NRR, Florida Power and Light Co. and Westinghouse. The meeting achieved satisfactory resolution of the concerns relating to Florida Power and Light Co.
facilities - Turkey Point Units 3 and 4.
Restrictions were lifted for these facilities. Robinson 2 is presently in a refueling shut-down which is expected to last until early June 1979.
(Closed) d.
PNO-79-83 Surry Unit 2 - Personnel Overexposure - A shift super-visor investigating a water leak in the space beneath the Unit 2 reactor vessel received an apparent whole body exposure of 10.09 Ren,s. Upon exit, it was found that the employee's direct-reading pocket dosimeter was off-scale.
His thermoluminescent dosimeter was then evaluated and indicated the 10.109 Rems exposure. An IE radiation specialist was dispatched to the site to review this occurrence.
(Closed) e.
PNO-79-84 Sellefonte Units 1 & 2 - Allegations of Inadequate QA/QC Program for Welding - An individual made allegations to Region II (Atlanta) regarding the adequacy of the quality control program at Bellefonte. The specific example cited was that installed piping which had been inspected and accepted by QC inspectors was subsequently cut out and replaced without the knowledge of the QC inspectors or construction management.
Although the individual was unable to identify specific welds or individuals, Region II plans to conduct appropriate followup.
(Closed)
ENCLOSURE E
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PNO-79-85 Oconee Units 1, 2 and 3 - Injury to Employee - A contractor employee fell about 10 feet while working in the auxiliary building and received possible back injuries. His clothing was contaminated and was removed prior to being transferred to a Greenville, South Carolina hospital. The employee was held overnight at the hospital and released the next day.
(Closed) 9 PNO-79-86 Three Mile Island Unit 1 - In Service. Inspection -
The news media reported on certain irregularities in inspection records related to nondestructive examinations performec on welds and other components in Unit 1.
Preliminary review of licensee records indicates some validity to the news article although it appears to contain several inconsistencies.
A Region I (Philadelphia) inspector is examining this matter.
(Closed) h.
PNO-79-87 Surry Unit 2 - Three Men Become Ill While Working in Containment - Three Daniels Construction Co. personnel were taken to the hospital when they became ill while working in the Unit 2 con-tainment building. The men were working in a tent and were wearing fresh air hoods. The air in the tent and the fresh air supply were sampled and found satisfactory.
Initial diagnosis indicated that illness was due to heat exhaustion. The men have been released from the hospital.
(Closed) i.
PNS-79-33 Indian Point Units 1, 2 and 3 - Planned Peaceft.1 Demon-stration - On April 14, 1979, a planned peaceful demonstration took place without incident at the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station.
Extensive publicity was given to the demonstration.
(Closed) j.
PNS-79-34 L 34A - Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., Erwin, Tennessee -
Operators Strike - On April 14, 1979, plant operating personnel went on strike.
Limited operations are being concocted by manage-ment personnel.
The contract guard force and NRC officials have been allowed to cross picket lines.
Inspectors are on site mon-itoring security, health and safety requirements.
(Closed) k.
PNS-79-35 Diablo Canyon Units 1 & 2 - Bomb Threat - No bombs were found and none exploded.
(Closed) 2.
The following IE Bulletins were issued:
a.
IE Bulletin No.79-06A, " Review of Operational Errors and System tiisalignments Identified During the Three tiile Island Incident,"
was issued on April 14, 1979 to all utilities with an operating pressurized water reactor of a Westinghouse design.
Revision 1 to the Bulletin was issued on April 18, 1979.
ENCLOSURE E b.
IE Bulletin No.79-06B, " Review of Operational-Errors and System Misalignments Identified During the Three Mile Island Incident,"
was issued on April 14, 1979 to all utilities with an operating pressurized water reactor of a Combustion Engineering design.
c.
IE Bulletin No. 79-07, " Seismic Stress Analysis of Safety-Related Piping," was issued on April 14, 1979 to all power reactor facilities with an operating license or a construction permit.
d.
IE Bulletin No. 79-08, " Events Relevant to Boiling Water Power Reactors Identified During the Three Mile. Island Incident," was issued on April 14, 1979 to all BWR power reactor facilities with an operating license.
e.
IE Bulletin No. 79-09, " Failures of GE Type AK-2 Circuit Breaker in Safety Related Systems," was issued on April 17,1979 to all power reactor facilities with an operating license or a construction permit.
3.
IE Circular No. 79-06, " Failure to Use Syringe and Bottle Shields in Nuclear Medicine," was issued on April 19, 1979 to all holders of medical licenses except teletherapy' licenses.
4.
IE Information Notice No. 79-10, " Nonconforming Pipe Support Struts,"
was issued on April 16, 1979 to all power reactor facilities with a construction permit.
ENCLOSURE E
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Imoortant Items - Week Endina Acril 21, 1979 Interacency Meeting on Research on the Bioloaical Effects of Ionizina Radiation Representatives of RES and SD participated in the second interagency meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 17, 1979.
Dr. T. Frederickson, Director of NIH, HEW announced the formation of an HEW Committee on Research into the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, by authority of Secretary Joseph A. Califano, Jr., HEW.
Dr. Fredrickson is Chairman of this Committee and he appointed Dr. Arthur C.
Upton, Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH as Vice Chairman.
Under the Charter of this Committee, representation was offered to D0D, DOE, DOL, EPA, NASA, NRC and VA in addition to several constituent agencies of HEW. The participating agencies would agree under the Charter to
" consult" with the Committee and to take the Committee comments into account before making commitments to fund research into the biological effects of ionizing radiation." RES is the lead NRC office on this Committee, with active participation of OSD.
Pending White House action resulting from recommendations contained in the Report of the Interagency Task Force on Ionizing Radiation on Institutional Arrangements (Libassi/ HEW: See OSD input in this Information Report), this HEW Committee will most likely be reconstituted as an Interagency Committee on Federal Research into the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation.
It appears that NIH/ HEW will almost certainly retain the Chairmanship.
Dr. Frederickson decided to form a Subcommittee under the Chairmanship of Dr. Upton to make recommendations regarding possible epidemiological studies of population living in the vicinity of Three Mile Island Nuclear Station.
NRC is to be represented on this Subcommittee.
He also instructed Dr. J. G. Perpich, Associate Director for Program Planning and Evaluation, NIH and the General Counsel, NIH to contact the offices of the General Counsel of participating agencies in order to determine the statutory responsibilities of various agencies in the subject areas.
Future meetings of the Committee will be cc..
' by Dr. Fredrickson.
ENCLOSURE F
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 20, 1979 McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 & 2 On April 18, 1979, the Licensing Board, after making findings of fact and conclusions of law on matters actually put into controversy, issued an Initial Decision (Operating License Proceeding) authorizing the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, upon his making of appropriate findings in accordance with the Commission's regulations with respect to matters not embraced in the Initial Decision, to issue operating licenses for McGuire Units 1 and 2.
The Licensing Board, however, stayed the effect of the Initial Decision until further order by the Board following the issuance of a supplement to the NRC Staff's Safety Evaluation Report addressing the significance of any unresolved generic safety issues.
ENCLOSURE G
ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING APRIL 20, 1979 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TMI Activities During the week of April 15 IP made arrangements for newly-arrived official delegations from Japan, Sweden, Denmark, the FRG, Italy, the Philippines Taiwan, and the EC to receive information on the TMI accident. The 21 local Embassy scientific counselors and attaches who have followed TMI closely from the beginning were also invited to participate.
A total of 65 representatives from 20 foreign countries and one international organization were involved (Austria, Israel,i Australia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, the U.K., Korea, France, Spain, and South Africa, in addition to those named above). NRC activities included (1) a day of briefings on April 19 on TMI emercency plans, the development and course of the incident, research projects attendant to the incident, and technical details of TMI and (2) a bus trip to Middletown, Pennsylvania for brief presentations by NRC and Pennsylvania personnel on April 20. All sessions were followed by question and answer periods to allow the delegations to address their most immediate information needs.
EXPORT / IMPORT AND INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS Rulemaking on Minor Excorts The staff has forwarded to the Commission for review a draft final rulemaking proposal regarding the export of minor quantities of nuclear material.
The proposed rule would establish or expand general licenses for the export of minor quantities and should result in a 5-10% reduction in the staff's export licensing workload.
US-IAEA Safecuards Acreement Imolementation Group Meeting.
The Safeguards Agreement Implementation Group for the US offer met on April 19.
Chris Kessler of IP attended.
Preparation of the list of Eligible Facilities was the principal topic covered.
Caoitol Hill Workshoo Marvin Peterson and Hans Schechter of IP attended a Capitol Hill Workshop on April 17,18 anu 19.
The workshop focused on providing NRC officials with insights on how the Congress furmtions and inter-relates with the Executive Branch agencies.
ENCLOSURE H
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OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING ' APRIL-20, 1979 Emeroency Preparedness Hal Gaut, State Programs and Bill Axelson (IE), Region III, participated in a State interagency emerge.ncy planning session in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Key members of involved State agencies were involved as well as an observer from WCC0 (CBS) Radio. The meeting was held with a view toward Minnesota seeking an NRC concurrence in their emergency plan.
Letters were prepared for the Chairman's signature to 18 governors of States with operating nuclear power plants where NRC has not been able to concur in the State's radiciogical emergency response plan. These letters gave a brief status of the plan in each State and an offer of NRC help in moving the plan quickly to a point where it is eligible for concurrence.
On April 12, 1979, Andy Robart, the Region V State Liaison Officer attended a California Assembly subcommittee hearing in Los Angeles and again on April 16,1979 in Sacramento. The purpose of these hearings was to take testimony on the Three Mile Island accident and its consequences and to discuss NRC's role in emergency planning. Personnel from both RV and Headquarters also participated in the hearings. The subcommittee on Energy hearings were chaired by Assemblyman Mel Levine (D-Los Angeles).
In addition to Daryll Eisenhut, DOR, Bob DeFayette, OSP, Harry North, Ray Fish, Phil Morrill and Bob Engelken, Region V.
Other witnesses included:
Dr. Frank Van Hipple from Princeton University; Dr. Richard Hubbard, MHB Associates; Dr. Hal Lewis, University of California; Robert Pollard, Union of Concerned Scientists and Rusty Schweikart, Chairman Governors' Nuclear Power Emergency Review Panel. Witnesses from Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric also testified. The Sacramento hearing on the 16th also included State witnesses from the California Office of Emergency Services, Radiologic Health and Sacramento County.
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Nebraska has advised that they are ready to enter into a water quality agreement with NRC similar to those with Indiana, Virginia and South Carolina.
State Aareements Kathleen N. Schneider will join the State Agreements staff on April 23, 1979.
Ms. Schneider is a graduate of Youngstown State University and University of Florida with degrees in physics ar.d nuclear engineering and is coming on board as an intern.
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. A training course in Medical Use of Radionuclides for State Regulatory Personnel will be presented at Baylor University, Texas, April 23-27, 1979.
Eight State personnel will attend.
In addition, six NRC regional inspectors and one NRC license reviewer will attend.
State Agreement staff, including the Assistant Director, will meet with Rhode Island representatives April 26 and 27 to review the final draft of a request for a section 274b Agreement.
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0FFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest Week Ending April 20, 1979 TMI Support Provided support to the ED0 and the DEDO in planning for the agency response to TMI.
Briefed en L0EB Operational Safety Data Gathering & Analysis Responded to Commission for summary of NRC efforts in gathering and analyzing operating experience data.
Responses to Reo. Dingell and Sen. Glenn Completed letters to Rep. Dingell transmitting 37 Q's & A's, and to Sen. Glenn on March 6-7 Hearing on Low-level Radiation.
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e OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Endino Acril 20, 1979 FY 1979 REPROGRAMMING SECY-79-53 AND SECY-79-53A The majority of the Commission has now voted in favor of increasing Waste Management funding over and above the amount identified in SECY-79-53A. A memorandum has been sent ot the Commission responding to this change.
INITIAL FY 1979 REPROGRAMMING TO CONGRESS As reported earlier, all five Congressional Subcommittees had approved this except the House Appropriations had disapproved the increase to NRR travel.
As a result of heavy travel due to Three-Mile Island, the Subcommittee staff was contacted and approved the use of additional funds for travel associated with Three-Mile Island.
FY 1980 BUDGET The tentative dates for Congressional Subcommittee mark-up of NRC's budget are as follows:
Senate Authorizaticn (Hart)
May 3, 1979 House Appropriation (Bevill)
May 10, 1979 House Authorization (Udall)
May 15, 1979 OMB SPRING PREVIEW OMB held their annual Spring Review on the. upcoming budget (FY 1981).
The Controller and Director, Division of Budget met with OMB officials and discussed resource impacts on the FY 1979, FY 1980 and FY 1981-1985 budgets as identified by the Offices.. Also, recent reactor incidents (5-plant a
closing and Three-Mi_le Island) were identified as having potential resource impacts.
RESOURCE IMPACT OF THREE-MILE ISLAND AND 5-PLANT CLOSINGS A call was issued to all Office Directors to identify "best estimate" resources changes for the remainder of FY 1979 an.d FY 1980 due to these recent reactor incidents. This information is to be submitted by Thursday, April 26, 1979.
BUDGET REVIEW GROUP (BRG)
The first BRG meeting under the new Chairman, Kevin Cornell, was held to discuss organization and the FY 1981-1985 budget review process.
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o CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS April 23 TMI Meeting to discuss physical security plan April 24 New Haven 1 & 2 - Meeting to discuss reactor safeguards April 25-26 Palo Verde 1, 2 & 3 - Caseload Forecast Panel Site Visit April 27 North Anna 1 & 2 - Testimony regarding pump house settlement and turbile missiles to be submitted to Board May 1 Midland - Prehearing conference May 4 Salem 2 - SER Supplement No. 4 to be issued NEP 1 & 2 - SER Supplement No.1 to be issued Carroll County - Orientation meeting for reviewers and their supervisors (which was postponed because of TMI efforts) will be held during the week ending May 4 Summer - A visit to the Plant to review fire protection features will be made during the week ending May 4 '
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4 CALENDAR OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS APRIL 26 Westinghouse Research Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, - The Rasmussen Report Revisited: The Lewis Reoort on Reactor Safety Assessment - Robert J. Budnit MAY l
State of South Carolina Advanced Management Seminar, Greenwood, S,C - NRC Concurrence Program for Fixed Nuclear Facilities
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lith Annual National Conference on Radiation Control, Sheraton-Century Center Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK - Reoort on Current and Projected Federal Radiation Protection Activities with EPA and FDA - Robert G. Ryan 17 National Classification Management Society Seminar, Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, CA - The NRC Security Program -
Classification Management in a Regulatory Agency - Raymond J.
Brady 21 Radioactive Waste Management for Nuclear Power Reactors -
Rules, Reaulations and Standards - Alexandria, VA - 1. C.
Roberts 23 Annual Records Management Conference of the National Archives, Fredericksburg, VA - Automation of Records Manacement at NRC -
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