ML19318B708
| ML19318B708 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Maine Yankee |
| Issue date: | 06/09/1980 |
| From: | Grimes B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Garrett E AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8006270351 | |
| Download: ML19318B708 (1) | |
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June 9, 198o Mr. Emil G. Garrett P. O. Box 91 1
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Dear Mr. Garrett:
l In response to your request of December 21,'1979, I am enclosing copies of the Februan 11, 1980 and May 23, 1980 submittals from Maine Yankee in response to our November 29, 1979 letter, j
Since ly, l
f-Brian K. Grimes, Program Director Emergency Preparedness Program Office Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosures:
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2/11/80 Letter from Maine Yankee 2.
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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Attention: Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Mr. Brian K. Grimes, Director Emergency Preparedness Task Group
Reference:
(1)
License No. DPR-36 (Docket No. 50-309)
(2) MYAPC letter to USNRC, dated January 31, 1979 (3) USNRC letter to MYAPC dated October 10, 1979 (4) USNRC letter to MYAPC dated November 29, 1979 (5)
KMC, Inc. letter to USNRC, L. V.jGossick dated January 11, 1980 Dear Fir
Subject:
Evacuation Time Estimates of Various Areas Around Nuclear Power Reactors It has come to our attention that the KMC letter es inadvertently omitted in our letter, Reference (2).
To correct this omaission and eliminate any confusion, wa are sending another cover letter with the applicable attachment.
Reference (4) requested "information regarding estimates for evacuation of various areas around nuclear power reactors". This information, according to Reference (4) is " expected to be prepared in the course of the upgrading of the state of emergency preparedness" previcusly specified in Reference (3),
but, now the information according to Reference (4), "is being requested on an accelerated time scale".
Reference (5), attached, is a KMC* letter for which a response from your staff has not been received: therefore, Maine Yankee has had to proceed on the assumption that your letter, Reference (4) still requires our attention.
Maine Yankee, with twenty six other utilities, is a member of the KMC coordinating group on emergency planning, g3 5
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United St0 toc Nucl Or Regulatory Cosmticolon F;bru3ry 11, 1980 Att ntitna Mr. Brita K. Grimes, Dircctor P ga 2 Maine Yankee has retained the services of the E. C. Jordan Company to assist in preparing estimates for evacuation times. The Jordan Company, in determining an approach for estimating times, initially researched available national computer programs. They found a highway capacity program but they felt that the program did not provide a complete basis for analysis. They
,I therefore developed their own programs to assess road capacities both by route and section, first by individual links, then by routes; to estimate contributary population for each linkt and to provide a total evacuation time determination fo. each route and each sector.
Existing rough data at the Maine Department of Transportation is sufficiently detailed to provide a sound basis for travel time estimates.
Currently, the Jordan Company is collecting this data and using it in their program.
Once calculated, evacuation times by sec' tor and route will be discussed with municipal officials of each of the twenty towns within the emergency planning zone for concurrence.
Based on the aforementioned information we expect to provide the requested information in early March.
We trust this information is satisf actory, however, if you have any questions please feel free to contact us at your convenience.
Very truly yours, MAINE YANKEE A20MIC POWER COMPANY W
Robert H. Groce Senior Engineer - Licensing RHG/ncj Attachment 9
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January 11, 1980 I: %u-w n CR OCNALD F KNUTH Prescent Nim Mr. Lee V. Gossick Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Gossick:
KMC, Inc. is working with utilities on the many problems associated with emergency preparedness implementation.
Our work, as well as contact with other organizations, convinces us that the industry is doing the best it can to cons'ider all of the priority tasks to meet the current demands for emergency preparedness.
In the course of upgrading emergency preparedness many requests have been made of the licensees and applicants, and they have responded to the best of their ability.
One request from the NRC, however, cannot be responded to in a meaningful manner in the time requested by most utilities.
We believe this request falls within the purview of the EDO, anc we are thus directing this letter of explanation to your attention.
On November 29, 1979 a generic letter from the NRC's Emergency Preparedness Task., Group was sen't to all power reactor licensees requesting estimates on evacuation times around their facilities.
The letter is quite specific in its request for data, and states that the information should be submitted no later than January 31, 1980.
However, the letter'does not indicate any basis by which the NRC is entitled to require the submission of this information.
The blanket GAO authorization was not used, and in fact may not be appropriate, nor was the need envisioned that this information is required pursuant to E50.54 (f) of the Com-mission's regulations.
(We agree that that citation is not appropriate for this information.)
Laying aside for a moment these legal and procedural con-siderations, there is a more signifi^ ant consideration.
The licensees and applicants, in most instances, are not able to provide the information with the degree of precision they would l
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Page 2 find acceptable in responding to the' request.
We have been ad-vised, in discussions with representatives of FEMA, that meaning-ful evacuation data can only be obtained for a specific site after the details cf an acceptable local emergency plan have been devel-oped.
Applying general assumptions to the question will just result in developing generalized data that would not be too useful, owing to the lars a inherent error band.
Many utilities do not want to be sidet2acked from ongoing important emergency planning activities to F s'
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Recogniz.,
the request was formulated before FEMA was assigned off-v.t- _..:ergency planning responsibility by the President, we believe it would be appropriate for the NRC to rescind the request.
At such future time, when FEMA has reviewed and approvied specific loc'l plans, we believe meaningful evacuation a
data could be developed and provided to the NRC.
We appreciate the House pass'ed NRC.FY 80 Authorization Bill now requests an assessment of the Maximum zone of evacuation around each nuclear plant site.
This requirement was approved by the House after the November 29 request.
However, the report to the Congress providing this information does not carry a time limit for submittal, and it would be far better to develop this aspect of the report with good, reasoned data than with hurriedly accumulated data.
In fact, it appears to us that it would be far better for the NRC to wait until the Congress passes the final version of the Authorization Bill and it is signed into law by the President so that if any such requirement is in the Act, the necessary information to enable the NRC to conduct any required assessment of evacuation sapability could be precisely formulated, perhaps in consultation kith FEMA, and requested on a meaningful time scale.
We believe most utiltiies are not anxious to decline to respond to the request, but many feel they have no other respon-sible choice.
We would appreciate your considering this matter and advising us of the resulting action you would propose we take.
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B.3.2.1 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Attention:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Mr. Brian K. Grimes, Director Emergency Preparedness Task Group
Reference:
(1)
License No. DpR-36 (Docket No. 50-309) _
1979 (2)
USNRC letter to MYAPC dated November 29, (3)
MYAPC letter to NRC, WMY 80-17, " Evacuation Time Estimates of Various Areas Around Nuclear Power Reactors"
Dear Sir:
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Subject:
Evacuation Time Estimates Enclosed is a study report presenting the inrormation requested in Reference (2).
The study was designed as instructed in 1
Reference (2).
The evacuation times presented in the report indicate the time required for the last evacuee starting from within a sector, f
following the planned evacuation route, to exit the area defined by a 360* are at a radius equal to the outer radius of the sector of interest. -
These are useful estimates.
However, it must be kept in mind that every evacuee except the (last) one for whom evacuation times are indicated would exit the evacuation zone more quickly, some almost immediately, particularly those starting near the outer boundary of the zone and those nearer the
" head of the line" than the tail end. It must also be remembered that, to avoid plume exposure by evacuation, it is necessary only to move out of the plume, perhaps by moving to an adjacent sector within the same radial zone, rather
.than to escape the entire radial zone.
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MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY 2
PA4E WMY 80-81 United Stater Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attn:
Mr. Brian K. Grimes, Director May 23, 1980 I
l We trust this information is satisfactory, however if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
1 Sincerely, MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY
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