ML19337A484
| ML19337A484 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 09/09/1980 |
| From: | Reid R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Arnold R METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. |
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| NUDOCS 8009290077 | |
| Download: ML19337A484 (6) | |
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Docket No. 50-289 Mr. R. C. Arnold Senior Vice President Metropolitan Edison Company 100 Interpace Parkway Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
Dear Mr. Arnold:
The Emergency Preparedness Program Office, NRR has completed its review of the Emergency Plan for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1 (TMI-1), dated June 1980. This review was conducted against the emer-gency preparedness planning objectives stated in the " Criteria for Pre-paration and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and
.I; Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants (For Interim Use and
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.j-Comment)", NUREG-0654, January 1980.
Our review of your Emergency Plan has indicated that additional infor-e; ntion and commitments are required be' fore we can conclude that your
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Onsite Emergency Preparedness Program meets the evaluation criteria of NUREG-0654.
Our review has determined that several elements are not adequately addressed in your plan. These deficiencies are described in the enclosure. Accordingly, your Emergency Plan should be revised to k
meet the evaluation criteria of NUREG-0654.
A revision to your plan should be provided within 45 days of receipt of this letter.
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Sincerely, rm NY, s i k/ 1 a
Robert W.
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Operating Reactors Branch #4 Division of Licensir.g
Enclosure:
Coments on TMI-l Emergency Plan cc w/ enclosure: See next page f
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Metropolitan Edison Company -
cc w/ enclosure (s):
Mr. Marvin I. Lewis Dr. Walter H. Jordan 6504 Bradford Terrace 881 W. Outer Drive Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Walter W. Cohen, Consumer Advocate Dr. Linda W. Little Department of Justice 5000 Hermitage Drive Strawberry Square,14th Floor Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17127 i
Holly S. Keck Robert L. Knupp, Esq.
Anti-Nuclear Group Representing Assistant Solicitor York Knupp and Andrews 245 W. Philadelphia Street P. O. Box P York, Pennsylvania 17404 407 N. Front Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 John Levin, Esq.
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Com.
John E. Minnich, Chairman Box 3265
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Dauphin Co. Board of Commissioners Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 i
Dauphin County Courthouse Front and Market Streets Jordan D. Cunningham,,Esq.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 Fox, Farr and Cunningham 2320 North 2nd Street
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Theodore A. Adle, Esq.
WIDOFF REAGER SLLK0WITZ & ADLER
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel P. O. Box 1547 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Washington, D. C.
20555 Ms. Marjorie M. Aamodt
- Docketing and Service Section R.D. #5 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320 Washington, D. C.
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- j Ms. Karen Sheldon Robert Q. Pollard Sheldon, Harmen & Weiss 609 Montpelier Street 1725 I Street, N.W. - Suite 506 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Washington, D. C.
20006 Chauncey Kepford Earl B. Hoffman Judith H. Johnsrud Dauphin. County Commissioner Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power Dauphin County Courthouse 433 Orlando Avenue Front and Market Streets State College, Pennsylvania 16801 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 1
I Ms. Frieda Berryhill, Chairman Ms. Ellen R. Weiss, Esq.
5 Coalition for Nuclear Power Plant Sheldon, Harmon & Weiss Postponement 1725 I Street, N.W.
2610 Grendon Drive Suite 506 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 Washington, D. C.
20006 Mrs. Rhoda D. Carr Mr. Steven C. Sholly 1402 Marene Drive 304 South Market Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17139 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055
Metropolitan Edison Company Mr. Thomas Gerusky Ms. Jane Lee Bureau of Radiation Protection R.D. 3; Box 3521 Department of Environmental Resources Etters, Pennsylvania 17319 P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Karin W. Carter, Esq.
505 Executive House Mr. G. P. Miller P. O. Box 2357 Mr. R. F. Wilson Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Mr. J. J. Barton Metropolitan Edison Company Honorable Mark Cohen P. O. Box 480 512 D-3 Main Capital Building Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 G. F. Trowbridge, Esq.
Dauphin County Office Emergency Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Preparedness 1800 M Street, N.W.
Court House, Room 7 Washington, D. C.
20036 Front & Market Streets Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 Mr. E. G. Wallace Licensing Manager Department of, Environmental Resources GPU Service Corporation ATTN:
Director, Office of Radiological 100 Interpace Parkway Health Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Pennsylvania Electric Company Mr. R. W. Conrad Director, Technical Assessment Vice President, Generation Division 1001 Broad Street Office of Radiation Programs Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15907 (AW-459)
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Miss Mary V. Southard, Chairman Crystal Mall #2 Citizens for a Safe Environment Arlington, Virginia 20460 P. O. Box 405 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 Mr. Robert B. Borsum Babcock & Wilcox Government' Publications Section Nuclear Power Generation Division State Library of Pennsylvania Suite 420, 7735 Old Georgetown Road Box 1601 (Education BM1 ding)
Bethesda, Maryland.20014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126
- Ivan W. Smith, Esq.
Mr. David D. Maxwell, Chairman Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel Board of Supervisors U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Londonderry Township Washington, D. C.
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RFD!l - Geyers Church Raod Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Ms. Kathy McCaughin Three Mile Island Alert, Inc.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency 23 South 21st street Region III Office Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17104 ATTN:
EIS C0ORDINATOR Curtis Building (Sixth Floor)
Mr. L. W. Harding 6th and Walnut Streets Supervisor of Licensing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Metropolitan Edison Company Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 ATTN:
J. G. Herbein, Vice-President P. O. Box 542 Reading, Pennsylvania 19603
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Metropolitan Edison Company Mr. R. J. Toole Allen R. Carter, Chairman Manager, TMI-l Joint Legislative Committee on Energy Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 142 P. O. Box 480 Suite 513 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Senate Gressette Building Columbia, South Carolina 29202 Mr. W. E. Potts Radiological Controls Manager, TMI-1 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Governor's Office of State Planning and Development Mr. I. R. Finfrock, Jr.
ATTN: Coordinator, Pennsylvania Jersey Central Power & Light Company State Clearinghouse Madison Avenue at Punch Bowl Raod P. O. Box 1323 Morristown, New Jersey 07950 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 J. B. Lieberman, Esq.
Berlock, Israel & Liberman 26 Broadway New York, NY 10004 Mr. J. J. Colitz Plant Engineering Manager, TMI-1 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 York College of Pennsylvania Country Club Road York, Pennsylvania 17405 Mr. G. K. Hovey Director, TMI-2 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Mr. B. Elam Manager, Plant Engineering, Unit 2 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 General Counsel Mr. Richard Roberts The Patriot Federal Emergency Management Agency ATTN: Docket Clerk 812 Market Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 725 I Stree NI Mr. R. W. Heward Manager, Radiological Control, Unit 2 Metropolitan Edison Company P. O. Box 480 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057
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nc sure COMMENTS ON THE THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT 1 EMERGENCY PLAN 1.
Letters of agreement with the organizations listed below and which are relied upon in your plan to provide support services or technical assistance during an emergency are not contained in Appendix C.
Revise your plan to include agreements with all organizations which may participate in your emergency response including:
(a) Cumberland County (b) Hershey Medical Center 2.
Expand your description of the conditions and Emergencf Action Levels which will be used to declare each of the four emergency categories, including all of the applicable example initiating conditions set forth in NUREG-0610 and all postulated accidents in the Final Safety Analyses Report. The specific instrument readings, setpoints, or equipment conditions which constitute Emergency Action Levels for each class shall be listed.
Backup instrementation or conditions used to confirm the EALs should also be included.
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Include in your standard followup message format the projected and integrated dose rates at 5 miles, in addition to the doses at 2 and 10 miles currently included.
4 Provide a description of your capability to provide initial values and continuing assessment throughout the course of an accident including post accident sampling capability, radiation and effluent monitors, in plant iodine instrumentation and containment radiation monitoring capability in accordance with NUREG-0578 and NRC letter to licensees dated October 30, 1979, 5.
The backup meteorological information relied upon in your plan (Section 4.7.6.2.2) conflicts with the services offered in the National Weather Service (NUS) letter of agreement in which the NWS has agreed only to provide all severe weather warning and information.
6.
Describe your provisions for ensuring that you possess sufficient reserves of emergency equipment / instruments to replace those removed from emergency kits for calibration or repair.
7.
Provide a table showing duty section personnel for onsite support available within 30 minutes and 45 minutes of notification in a format similar to Table 8.
8.
Describe the special qualifications of the personnel from offsite agencies who may be called upon for assistance in emergencies.
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Provide a sample of a standard initial accident report form and a followup message form.
10.
Describe your contingency plan to notify the five counties if PEMA fails to contact them within 15 minutes of their notification, of an alert, site emergency or general emergency.
11.
Identify by title or position personnel manning the onsite emergency organization and the offsite emergency support organization, 12.
Confirm that at least one onsite and one offsite communications system have backup power source.
13.
Revise the definition of Protective Action Guide to read:
" Projected radiological dose or dose comitment values to individuals in the general population and to emergency workers that warrant protective action before or after a release of radioactive matertC.
Protective actions would be warrented provided the reduction in individual dose expected to be achieved by carrying out the protectire action is not offset by excessive risks to individual safety in taking the protective action. The protective action guide does not include the dose that has unavoidably occurred prior to the assessment."
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Describe the duties and responsibilities of the Environmental Assessment Coordinator and his staff.
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Describe the role of the REMP in emergency planning and accident j
assessment.
16.
Describe periodic training of chemistry personnel.
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Confinn that the TMI Emergency Preparedness Program will receive an independent audit annually.
18.
Confirm that the Lancaster County EOC fn manned 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per day, 7 days per week.
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Provide Appendix A to the plan.
20.
Identify special offsite emergency planning training provided for the Emergency Planning Coordinator.
21.
Describe the current system to notify the EPZ plume population. Provide warning time estimates.
22.
Provide a description of and a completion schedule for the means for providing prompt notification to the population meeting the objectives of NUREG-0654, Appendix 3.
Include in the schedule the following milestones: System (s) ordered, system (s) received, construction completed testing completed and in-service.
23.
Provide a description of and a complelion schedule for an upgraded meteorological program meeting the objectives of NUREG-0654, Appendix 2.
Include significant schedule milestones.
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