ML19347C605
| ML19347C605 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Summer  |
| Issue date: | 12/24/1980 |
| From: | Nichols T SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS CO. |
| To: | Bursey B AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8012310424 | |
| Download: ML19347C605 (7) | |
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Pursuant to agreement, South Carolina Electric & Gas Company and South Carolina Public Service Authority (Applicant) submit their Answers to the " Interrogatories" posed by Intervenor, Brett A.
Bursey.
The answers below are numbered the same as the Intervenor's questiens except that Applicant has subnumbered Intervenor's multipart questions where necessary.
la. A list of up-to-date county and State governmental agencies participating in the emergency planning for the V.
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Summer Nuclear Station is contained in Section 2.5.2 of the V.
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Summer Nuclear Station Radiation Emergency Plan (Summer Station Emergency Plan).
lb. Personnel responsible for implementing the Emergency Plan and their organization and respective responsi-bilities are discussed in Section 5.0 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
2.
Training and education program-for the participating agencies listed in Section 2.5.2 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan are discussed in Section 5.0 of that Plan.
3.
Applicant's management responsibilities during an off-site or on-site emergency are discussed in Section 5.0 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
4a. The participating governmental officials to be con-tacted in an emergency are discussed in Section 5.5 and Table 6.2 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
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4b. Communications with these agencies during an off-site emergency will be made as prg=ptly as reasonably possible.
In accordance with current applicable guidelines, those communications will occur within fiftean minutes from the determination of an off-site emergency as specified in the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
5.
Copies of letters of agreement with the participating governmental agencies are found in Appendix C of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
6.
The actions necessary on the part of participating governmental agencies to fulfill their responsibilities during an emergency are discussed in Section 5.5 of the i
St=mer Station Emergency Plan.
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Communications available during an emergency, including 24-hour communications, are described in Section 7.5.2 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
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Recornended protective actions for emergencies are discussed in Section 6.4 and Table 6-1 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
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In keeping with what Applicant currently understands to be the requirements in this area, a public alerting or warning system will be installed around the su=mer Station within the ten mile emergency planning zone.
The system will consist of a n:; work of acoustical devices (sirens) to warn the general public.
The system will be installed and operational prior to the commercial operation of the Summar Station.
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The NRC resident inspector does not have authority to declare a state of emergency.
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Applicant's policy as reflected ir. actions to be imple-mented and followed to initiate the emergency class or condition are discussed in detail in Section 4.0 of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
12.
Proposed programs for educating the general public-around the Summer Station are discussed in Section 8.2 i
of the Summer Station Emergency Plan.
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Literature to be used to educate the general nublic are presently being developed and are expected to L.
ready for distribution to the general public in February, 1981.
At such time as they are available, they will be provided to Intervenor.
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Methods of distribution of Emergency Plan information to the general public include direct mailing and place-ment in participating retail establishments.
15.
Organizational responsibilities for the implementation of the Summer S;ation Emergency Plan are discussed in Sections 4.0 and 5.0 of that Plan.
16.
Applicant's correspondence regarding emergency planning matters with participating governmental agencies is quite voluminous.
Applicant is assembling this corre-spondence and if Intervenor will contact Randolph R.
Mahan, he will arrange a mutua.lly convenient time for Intervenor to review the same in Applicant's offices.
Intervenor may at that time mark items of which he
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desire copies and Applicant will provide copying service at a reasonable charge.
17.
Messages to be conveyed to participating governmental agencies in the event of an emergency are discussed in the State of South Carolina Operational Radiological Emergency Response Plan, Annex C, Public Information Procedure, which Applicant understands is available to the Intervenor.
The Summer Station Emergency Plan will have initial and follow-up messages proposed to be issued to State and local agencies as well as examples of public information messages.
These will be con-tained in Revision 3 to the Summer Station Emergency Plan scheduled to be submitted to NRC in mid-January.
Intervenor will be given a copy.
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See response to 17.
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The Emergency Preparedness Division, Office of Adjutant General, State of South Carolina, will be responsible for release of messages to the general public in the event of an emergency.
20.
The emergency operations facility is identified and described in Section 2.2 of the Summer Station Emer-gency Plan.
21.
Transportation facilities to be-available for evacu-ation during an emergency will be described in the four local plans (Fairfield County, Newberry County, Lexing-ton County, and Richland County) and in the State of South Carolina Operational Radiological Emergency Response Plan.
Applicant understands that the local plans are in final stages of preparation and are expected to be submitted to the State of South Carolina for Federal Energy Management Agency _ review in January, 1981.
Upon review by the State they will be incor-porated as a part of the Summer Station Emergency Plan. -
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Applicant expects to have copies of the proposed final local plans at the time they are submitted to the State for review and submittal to FEMA.
Applicant will provide Intervenor with the proposed final local plans as they are submitted for FEMA approval.
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Refer to response to 20.
23.
Applicant's Corporate Communications personnel will edit and produce the information brochures for the general public.
Technical input will derive from Applicant's in-house technical experts, i.e.,
personnel with degrees in nuclear engineering and health physics and experience in emergency planning.
Upon final development of the public information brochures, Applicant will provide to Intervenor a listing of key personnel involved in that effort and a description of their educational and professional qualifications.
In addition, planners from State and local agencies may also provide emergency planning information for the brochures.
To the extent Applicant is able to identify which individuals are involved in supplying this input, Applicant will seek to supply a listing of those individuals along with their educational and professional qualifications.
24.
When a final version of the public information brochures is produced, Applicant will provide Intervenor with a bibliography of published source materials for the information used in the preparation of the brochures.
Such a bibliography is not currently available.
Applicant notes further, for the record, that it has provided Intervenor with a map of the area surrounding the plant site and showing the emergency planning zones.
Inter-venor had informally requested such a map subsequent to the Third Prehearing Conference.. _ _.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROI.INA
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T. C.
Nichols, Jr., being first duly sworn, states that he is Vice President & Group Executive - Nuclear Operations for South Carolina Electric & Gas Company; that he has been duly authorized to execute, verify, and file the foregoing document, Applicant's Answer to Intervenor's Interrogatories for Applicant; that he has read the contents of same and that the statemants contained therein are true and correct to his best information, knowledge and belief.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this [//
day of December, 1980.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of:
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC &
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Docket No. 50-395 OL SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC
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SERVICE AUTHORITY
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(Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
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CERTIFICATE CF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Applicant's Answer to Intervenor's Interrogatories for Applicant" in the above captioned matter were served upon the following persons by deposit in the United States mail, first class postage crecaid or by hand delivery as indicated bv an asterisk this
~24th day of December, 1980.
Herbert Grossman, Esq.
Chairman, Atomic Safety and Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Licensing Board U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Washington, D.
C.
20555
- George Fischer, Esq.
Dr. Frank F.
Hooper Vice President & General School of Natural Resources C'ounsel University of Michigan South Carolina Electric &
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Gas Company Post Office Box 764 Mr. Gustave A.
Linenberger
- Columbia, S.
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29202 Member, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Steven C.
Goldberg, Esq.
U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Office of the Executive Commission Legal Director Washington, D.
C.
20555 U. S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman, Atomic Safety and Washington, D.
C.
20555 Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.
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Nuclear Regulatory Mr. Brett Allen Bursey Commission Route 1, Box 93-C Washington, D.
C.
20555 Little Mountain, S.
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29075
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i Mr. Chase R. Stephens Joseph B.
Knotts, Jr.
1 Docketing and Service Section Debevoise & Liberman office of the Secretary 1200 17th Street, N.
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U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, D.
C.
20036 Commission Washington, D.
C.
20555 Richard P. Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General Samuel J.
Chilk South Carolina Attorney Secretary of the Commission General's Office U.
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Nuclear Regulatory Post Office Box 11549 Commission Columbia, S. C.
29211 Washington, D.
C.
20555 Lacnard Sichtit, Esq.
Charles McGlothlin, Esq.
General Counsel General Counsel U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory South Carolina Public Cc= mission Service Authority Washington, D.
C, 20555 Post Office Box 398 Moncks Corner, S.
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