ML19312D447
| ML19312D447 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 03/18/1980 |
| From: | Utley E CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NO-80-429, NUDOCS 8003240418 | |
| Download: ML19312D447 (2) | |
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li March 18, 1980 i
File: NG-3514(B)
Serial.: NO-80-429 1
Mr. Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT UNIT "0S. 1 AND 2 DOCKET NOS. 50-325 AND.r 324 LICENSE NOS. DPR-71 AND DPR-62 EMERGENCY PLANNING
Dear Mr. Denton:
Your staff recently has informed Carolina Power & Light Company (CP&L) that the Brunswick Plant emergency planning site visit by the NRR Team will take place on March 25 and 26, 1980. The staff also has informed CP&L that the criteria to be used in assessing our emergency plan and that of,he State of North Carolina are set forth in the proposed emergency planning regulations published in the Federal Register on December 19, 1979, and in NUREG-0654, Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans in Support of Nuclear Power Plants, released on February 12, 1980.
Boch CP&L and the State are now reviewing the adequacy of their existing emergency plans in light of these recently proposed revised acceptance criteria. As a result, changes may be necessary in the emergency plans.
CP&L would like to use the NRR Team review for the purpose of better understanding precisely what is intended by the new criteria. We see the public meetings as an opportunity for the NRR Team to explain each of the criteria to CP&L, and to receive back from us a preliminary view as to how CP&L intends to satisfy the_ intent of the criteria. Obviously, there may be differences of opinion between CP&L and tha MD* Taa-a-
to the best methods for achieving particular objectives, and we would hope that an open and frank dialogue on these matters between CP&L and the NRR Team would be possible.
Such a dialogue is fully consistent with the current status of both the proposed rule changes and NUREG-0654. The proposel rules have not yet~ been adopted by the C 0,,41asion.
The-NRR Team sits visit will thus-allow CP&L to provide.ner ccecrete comments in the ontext of a specific situation thes t1 9t'.rwise possible through mota generalized, written comments on tf( jsa t.,3 rules. Similarly, NUREi-0654 is designated l O45 s
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"foriinterim;use.and comment'," which we understand to mean that further (changes.are1 1kely: to be forthcoming. CP&L-believes that a review of 1
the criteria set forth in'NUREG-0654.in the context of the-Brunswick'
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, Site:EmergencyfPlan will be constructive ~ and useful.
- Based on Mr.'B. K. Grimes letter of March 4, 1980, we now under--
stand that:the Brunswick meetings.are not for the' purpose of " judging" the adequacylof'~the Brunswick-Site Emergency. Plan and the State Plan against
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.this.recently' proposed guidance. We-understand-that the NRC team leader.
'will note.that theisite emergency plans meet current NRC-regulations but
" improvements are being sought by NRC and FEMA.
Having said this, please do not assume that we do not intend to implement suggested 1 improvements in our plan as rapidly as practicable.or:
.tofencourage~the State and County officials to do likewise, notwithstanding the~ draft status:of the regulations and agency guidelines. All we are trying to protect against are possible assertions that the plans do not now conform to agency guidance.-
'We'look' forward to the. site. visit and to cooperating.with the
-NRC/FEKA team to further enhance the' state of emergency preparedness at
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Brunswick. Please feel free to call me or my staff concerning-this matter fif there are' questions or it'would be helpful to explore the matter further.
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