ML19343C744

Summarizes Comments on Emergency Operation Facility Requirements as Part of Overall Emergency Preparedness Upgrading.Habitability Requirements Deemed Inappropriate. Suggests Facility Be Located at Site

ML19343C744
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Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	02/18/1981
From:	Burstein S WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO.
To:	Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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S WISCONSIN Ele::tnc ma ec:ma 2E f.EST MICrilGAN."4WAUKEE.WIS;0NSIN 53201 February 19, 1981 Mr. Samuel J.

Chilk Secretary of the Cc==ission U.

S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COFDIISSION Washington, D.

C.

20555

Dear Mr. Chilk:

EMERGENCY OPERATICSS FACILITY We recentiv. orally resc.onded to an NRC Staff question-naire regarding the E ergency Cperations Facility (EOF) to be established at each nuclear power plant as part of the required everall upgrading of e=eruency preparedness.

We also are aware that the Co==issioners have been considering the final requirements for the EOF.

We have conmented'several times on EOF require =ents, both in writin and in oral presentations to the NRC Staff at e

varicus public meetings.

We believe it may be helpful to su =arize cur Oc==ents in a form which =ay be useful to the Cc==ission in its c:nsideration of final ECF require =ents.

Based on guidance provided in late 1979, we began planning what we believe to be an appropriate set of facilities to serve as the EOF.

At our Point Beach Nuclear Plant (PBSP), there is an Energy Information Center (EIC), an all-brick structu;e about 1/8 mile from the plant, and a Site Soundary Control Cencer (53CC),

a small wooden building located about one mile southwest of the plant at the site boundary.

Che SECC houses basic emergency equipment, such as environmental sampling equipment, traffic control gear, decontamination supplies, and protective materials.

We believe that the ideal EOF for P3NP.would include both the EIC and an enlarged and improved S3CC.

The EIC would serve as the primary neeting point for Federal,' state, local, and Corporate officials.

The upgraded SBCC would serve as a health physics and security -

centrol coint at the nor=al site entrance, and would house emergency material's and a basic health physics laboratory for the screening of environ = ental samples.

In the event of temporary habitability problems, the SBCC would serve as back-up to the EIC.

In the the Two Creeks Town Hall could serve as an alternate to extre e, the 53CC.

We believe these facilities-afford a natural and effective means for handling any emergency that could arise at PSNP.

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Mr. Samuel J.

Chilk February 18, 1981 To put these facilities in complete perspective with overall c=ergency capabilities at P3NP, it should be noted that our Technical Support Center (TSC), which is currently under construction, will have approximately 18,000 feet of floor space.

About half of this is below grade and will remain habitable at any ti=e after an accident; the remaining half, above 3

grade, is habitable for all except the first few hours of the acci-dent when direct radiation would limit time of stay.

The OSC also will house a laboratory for reactor coolant and health physics sample analysis.

Recovery management will best be effected from the TSC.

Since our TSC affords ample acco=nodation for both plant and government personnel in the event of an accident, the need for data transmission to the EOF is eliminated for all except voice com=cnications.

All personnel with a legitimate need for i==ediate access to raw data can be accommodated at the TSC.

When the NRC began to promulgate requirements for upgraded emergency facilities, we began, in good faith, to develop what we considered, and still believe to be, the most appropriate arrange.4.ent to accc=modate the suggested functions.

Priority was given, correctly we believe, to the construction of a complete and spacious TSC.

Auxiliary facilities (the EOF in the form cf our EIC and S3CC) were planned to cope with site access control, enviren= ental =cnitoring, and the coordination of offsite activities.

We have'been distressed with the " moving target" presented by the ever-changing criteria for the EOF.

The first change was the suggestion that filtration be provided.

Then, shielding and filtra-tion were required to afford habitability comparable to the control roc =.

A data link was added to the requirements for the EOF.

Finally, a location 5-15 miles distant was proposed.

f As a result of these changes, we have suspended implementa-tion of our plans for the EOF, particularly with respect to the 1

construction of a new S3CC.

Plans for the TSC, of course, cannot be changed since that facility is well under construction.-

It was our original intent to build a new SBCC during calendar year 1981.

That is no' longer pessible.

If habitability requirements are imposed, the' facility could not be provided until 1983.

If a distance of 5-15 miles is required for the EOF, further delay would result.

We submit the following for your consideration in finalizing criteria for the EOF:

1.

Eabitability requirements comparable to the control room and TSC are inappropriate for the EOF.

2.

The EOF should be located at the site to allow effectively the performance of site access control and health physics functions.

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