ML20040C112

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Confirms Agreements Reached Between NRC & Util on 820119 Re Corrective Actions to Significant Appraisal Protection, Offsite Radiological Monitoring & Radiation Monitoring
ML20040C112
Person / Time
Site: Fort Saint Vrain 
Issue date: 01/21/1982
From: Jay Collins
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To: Lee O
PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF COLORADO
References
NUDOCS 8201270279
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January 21, 1982 In Reply Refer To:

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P. O. Box 840 to Denver, Colorado 80201 Gentlemen:

This letter is to confirm the agreements reached between Mr. Don W. Warembourg, Huclear Production Hanager and Mr. Charles A. Hackney, Emergency Coordinator, Region IV, on January 19, 1982. These items were discussed between Mr. Oscar R. Lee, Vice President Electric Production and others of your staff, and Mr. Charles A. Hackney, Emergency Coordinator, Mr. Sheldon A. Schwartz, Deputy Director, Division of Emergency Preparedness, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, and other members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff on January 15, 1982, during the management meeting held to discuss the results of the NRC Emergency Preparedness Appraisal of Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Guerating Station.

We understand that you intend to take corrective action for the significant appraisal findings as stated in the following:

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Emergency Action Levels A.

Required Actio_n i

The licensee's Emergency Action Levels (EALs) shall be integrated into the present Operating Procedures such that they are site specific.

The flow of procedures shall be written to reflect continuity from the station emergency operating procedures into the emergency implementing procedures (RERP-Station).

8201270279 820121 B.

Agreed Upon Date of Completion fDRADOCK 05000267 PDR The response for corrective action, including a description of the action and time projections for accomplishing these actions, shall be submitted to the NRC by March 1, 1982.

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Respiratory Protection

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Required Action The licensee shall determine the expected number of onsite emergency j

personnel who may be required to perform essential duties under condi-tions of significant airborne radioactive contamination and who, 4

therefore, require self-contained breatning apparatus in order to safely perform their assigned tasks. The licensee shall make provisions for acquisition of the necessary quantities of appropriate respiratory protection equipment and for locating the equipment in areas safely and quickly accessible to all onsite emergency response personnel. The licensee shall assure the NRC that all emergency response personnel will maintain their capability to safely and efficiently don appropriate respiratory protective equipment.'

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Agreed _Upon Date of Completion The licensee shall submit plans and schedules to the NRC by March 1, i

1982, on how all essential emergency response personnel including anticipated offsite emergency support personnel are to be provided with appropriate respiratory equipment, including plans for the acquisition of necessary additional equipment.

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Offsite Radiological Monitoring Capability i

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The licensee shall describe their capabilities to perform offsite radiological monitoring to a sufficient level of detail to demonstrate that the offsite radiological monitoring teams can find and character-ize an airborne release plume and obtain the necessary information with which the licensee can perform dose calculations, consequence assessment, and provide input to the decision making for recommending offsite protective actions to appropriate officials. The licensee's response shall include at a minimum; location, availability, and capability of vehicles which would be used by the offsite radiological monitoring team during an emergency; location, availability, and capability of necessary radiological detection and measurement instrumentationandequipment(referenceNUREG0654-Rev.1,Section I.9.); e.g., capability to determine in the field radiofodine i

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Radiation Monitoring A.

Required Actio_n The licensee shall describe the mechanism for indicating radiological conditions in the Control Room. Technical Support Center, and all Emergency Assembly Areas during and following an incident. The licensee shall describe how personnel in each facility will be made aware of radiological conditions, e.g., radioactive airborne contamination and direct radiation; upon entering the facility and during occupancy of each facility.

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Agree Upon Date of Completion The licensee shall submit the above corrective action including implementing plan to the liRC by March 1,1982.

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Develop Emergency Plan Implementing Procedures A.

Required Action The licensee shall develop and implement specific procedures in the EPIP, which implements the provisions of the RERP and which identify what tasks must be performed and how to perform those tasks, includ-ing adequate referencing to other supporting plant procedures. The procedures shall also identify the specific individual by title, responsible for the performance of the tasks and shall contain adequate checklists or other methods to insure that all required steps are performed in the proper sequence.

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Agreed Upon Date of Completion The licensee shall submit the above corrective actions including implementing plan and schedule to the fiRC by March 1,1982.

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Emergency Coordinator Authority _

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Required Action The licensee shall correct the RERP, EPIPs and Station Orders to unambigously define the authorities of the Emergency Coordinator (including the Shift Supervisor, until relieved by another EC) such that the EC has the ultimate PSC authority to classify emergencies, make notifications to offsite authorities, and provide reconraendation to offsite authorities for offsite protective actions without the need for concurrence or consultation by upper management.

Implementation of this correction shall include both the physical writing of such changes as required in the reference documents as well as the performance of formal training of all EC qualified t>ersomel is-to-the-dranges.

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Agreed _Upon Date of Completion The licensee shall make the above stated corrections, perform the required training and submit to the NRC documentation that the actions have been completed by February 15, 1982.

If our understanding of your planned actions described above is not in accordance with your actual plans and actions being emplemented, please contact this office by telephone (817) 465-8100, within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />.

Sincerely.

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.lohn T. Collins John T. Collins Regional Administrator cc:

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