ML20004F283
| ML20004F283 | |
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| Issue date: | 05/26/1981 |
| From: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Moffett T HOUSE OF REP. |
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May 26,1981 CHAIRMAN l
The Honorable Toby Moffett, Chairman Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resr" ces Committee on Government Operations United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
Your letter of November 6,1979 requested that NRC provide the Subenmittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources information relative to the feasibility of evacuation in the environs of ten reactor sites as soon as the NRC staff obtains the information. Mr. Carlton Kammerer, NRC Director of Congressional Affairs, initially responded to your letter on December 13, 3979.
In addition, on March 10, 1981 I forwarded to you documents which constituted NRC's. Report to Congress on Status of Emergency Response Planning for Nuclear Power Plants called for in Public Law 96-295.
Since that time, FEMA, at the request of the NRC, contracted for independent evacuation. time estimates within the 10 mile emergency planning zone around 12 reactor sites.. Five of the_ sit.e_s.irj_the FEMA sponsored studies, i.e., Beaver Valley, Indian Point, Maine Yankee, Zion and Three Mile Island, are among l
those listed in your November 6, 1979 letter. A copy of " Dynamic Evacuation i
Anal-yses:-Independent-Assessments of Evacuation Time from the Plume Exposure D-thway Emergency Planning Zones of Twelve Nuclear Power Stations," FEMA-Rep-2, February 1981, is attached. This document compares the licensees' and FEMA sponsored studies.
l the NRC staff concludes that the evacuation studies done to date are useful for investigating possible problem areas in an evacuation and possibly for comparing sites, but because of the subjective nature of many of the assumptions used, the absolute values of the time estimates should not be used uncritically.
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Dear Chai.rman Hend:
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Among the recommendations of last stinner's Report by the Committee on Government Operations, " Emergency Planning Around U.S. Nuclear Powerplants:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission for each site uhere there Oversight," was a recommendation that, operating or under construction, is now a nuclear power plant the Nuclear Regulato-y Commission review capability and existing emergency response determine the maximum sized zone around each for which evacuation is feasible within plant several differen.t times correstonding to repre-sentative warning times or various types o, accidents and advise the Committee of its findings within ISO days */
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i Your response to the Committee's report
[T]he staff is reexamining emergency response NRT. has capability, particularly evacuation.
teams reviewing, on a site-by-site basis, existing licensee emergency response capability.
Among other things, the maximum sized zone will be evaluated during their raview.
Also, the teams will evaluate the evacuation plan and/or the associatec wa,n protection measures ror the _c, r e.
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Honorable Joseph M. Hendrie November 6, 1979 Page Two 3
h'hile I am advised that the Commission will not meet the Committee's 180-day deadline, you testified in response to my cuestions at yerterday's hearing of the Energy and Power Sub-committee that the order of the Commission's current site-by-site review is based roughly on the population density in the vicinity of each site.
I would hope, therefore, that while the complete study called for in Recommendation 5(a) of the Committee's Report will not be completed within 180 days, those portions of it pertaining to certain of the sites located in the more densely populated areas will be.
Please provide the Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources information responsive to Recommendation 5(a) with respect to the following sites as soon as your staff obtains it:
Beaver Valley Ginna R.E.
Haddam Neck Indian Point Maine Yankee Quad-Cities Salem Three Mile Island Turkey Point
. Zion.
7 ould appreciate your advising me upon receipt of this
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.he approximate date by which your staff expects to have obtained the Recommendation 5(a) data for each of the above sites.
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