ML20027B837
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| Site: | La Crosse File:Dairyland Power Cooperative icon.png |
| Issue date: | 09/15/1982 |
| From: | Hind J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Linder F DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE |
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See also: IR 05000409/1982011
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September 15, 1982
Docket No. 50-409
Dairyland Power Cooperative
ATTN:
Mr. F. W. Linder
General Manager
2615 East Avenue - South
La Crosse, WI 54601
Gentlemen:
This refers to the routine safety inspection conducted by Messrs.
J. A. Pagliaro, R. M. Lickus, and T. J. Ploski of this office on
August 3 and 4, 1982, of activities at Lacrosse Boiling Water Reactor
authorized by NRC Operating License No. DPR-45 and to the discussion
of our findings with Mr. James W. Taylor at the conclusion of the
inspection.
The enclosed copy of our inspection report identifies areas examined
during the inspection. Within these areas, the inspection consisted
of a selective examination of procedures and representative records,
observations, and interviews with personnel.
No items of noncompliance with NRC requirements were 4dentified during
the course of this inspection.
We are concerned with the need to improve your emergency preparedness
exercise performance.
Several significant deficiencies were identified
and are described in Appendix A to this letter. We note some of these
deficiencies were identified in previous exercises.
Please describe
your corrective actions planned or taken regarding these deficiencies
to this office in writing within twenty-five days of receipt of this
letter. Further, we feel it necessary to meet with your staff to discuss,
in detail, these planned actions during the next regulatory improvement
meeting.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the ,ommission's regulations, a copy
of this letter and the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the
NRC's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any information
that you (or your contractors) believe to be exempt from disclosure under
10 CFR 9.5(a)(4), it is necessary that you (a) notify this office by tele-
phone within ten (10) days from the date of this letter of your intention
to file a request for withholding; and (b) submit within twenty-five (25)
days ~from tue date of this letter a written application to this office
to withhold such information.
If your receipt of this letter has been
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delayed such that less than seven (7) days are available for your review,
please notify this office promptly so that a new duc date may be estab-
lished. Consistent with Section 2.790(b)(1), any such application must
be accompanied by an affidavit executed by the owner of the information
which identifies the document or part sought to be withheld, and which
contains a full statement of the reasons which are the bases for the
claim that the information should be withheld from public disclosure.
This section further requires the statement to address with specificity
the considerations listed in 10 CFR 2.790(b)(4). The information sought
to be withheld shall be incorporated as far as possible into a separate
part of the affidavit.
If we do not hear from you in this regard within
the specified periods noted above, a copy of this letter and the enclosed
inspection report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
We will gladly discuss any questions you have concerning this inspection.
Sincerely,
. A. Hind, Director
Division of Emergency Preparedness
and Operational Support
Enclosure:
Inspection
Report No. 50-409/82-11(DEPOS)
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APPENDIX A
As a result of significant deficiencies identified during the Aagust 3-4,
1982 emergency preparedness exercise the following improvements are needed:
1.
Facilities and Equipment
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In the EOF and TSC, the licensee should utilize status boards,
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visual displays, trend plotting and-plant parameter displays to
improve tracking of emergency activities, in-plant status, and
followup on recommendations made to the control room.
b.
Adequate forms for logging' data should be maintained in the TSC.
Maps and charts should be mounted and displayed on the walls of
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the EOF.
d.
The High Range Containment Building Area Radiation Monitor readouts
are poorly located in the control room and do not allow easy read-
ing by a short person. Also, the labeling of these monitors
(Channel 2 West and Channel 1 East) did not correspond to item 4,
A and B on the Radiological Assessment Director's data sheet.
Maps and charts used in the JPIC were too small for briefing
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purposes. Larger, colored maps would aid in making more effective
presentations.
2.
Communications
a.
The telephone system and working area in the TSC for the
Radiological Assessment Director needs improvement.
b.
There should be public address announcements in the plant at
each classification phase of the escalation and deescalation
of the exercise.
c.
A more reliable means of communication should be provided between
the environmental teams and the TSC and EOF especially during
inclement weather conditions.
d.
Ensure that written procedures are follcwed by the environmental
teams.
Telephone calls should not be made from the JPIC directly to the
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Control Room, instead of to the EOF.
f.
The NAWAS system should be repaired and maintained to ensure it
is operational.
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3.
Command and Control
The duties of the TSC Radiological Assessment Director should be better
defined. He was too occupied with constant telephone conversations and
filling out forms to track activities during the exercise, making it
difficult, if not impossible, to manage or direct the health physics
coverage.
Much more time should have been available for data digestion, leader-
ship, and monitoring of the exercise. There were an insufficient
number of health physics personnel in the TSC.
4.
Procedures
a.
Habitability surveys for airborne concentrations of radioactivity
and radiation background in the TSC and the Control Room should
be performed during emergency situations.
b.
Provisions for a communicator for the ENS and HPN lines, JPIC
communications, and appropriate communications with State and
local agencies should be provided for exercises.
c.
Security measures need to be improved for the EOF.
d.
The interface procedures between the licensee and the State and
local agencies should be upgraded to ensure that the early warning
system is sounded in a timely manner in accordance with 10 CFR 50
Appendix E III.D.3.
e.
An cooldown rate for emergency situations should be established
for the reactor.
f.
An individual should be assigned to operate the cascade self-
contained breathing apparatus air bottle charging system.
5.
Training
a.
Additional training should be provided for personnel in the EOF
and TSC regarding responsibilities for classification of events,
notification of State and local agencies and the content of
messages,
e.g.,
radiological and meteorological information and
sectors affected. The procedures should be adhered to in this
training program, particularly with respect to responsibility
for recommending protective actions and the sounding of the
prompt public warning system. The communications link with the
Joint Public Information Center (JPIC) should be improved. A
dedicated periodic contact between the EOF and JPIC is needed.
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