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Responds to 811229 Request for Comments on Strategy to Coordinate Requirements & Guidance for Safety Parameter Display Sys,Reg Guide 1.97 & Reg Guide 1.23 Re Emergency Response Facilities.Detailed Comments to Be Proposed 820111
ML20040C514
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Issue date: 01/05/1982
From: Deyoung R
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To: Stello V
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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CRGR REQUIREMENT COORDINATION This is in response to your memorandum dated December. 29,1981 which requested i

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guidance far' the:SPDS, Regulatory Guide 1497 and Regulatory Guidesl.23:withm those'for emergency response. facilities and to negotiate case by case datesi:

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January,11, 1982 on these proposals.

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In th~e interim, we have a few general thoughts.

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The paper could be read to create a new type of requirement.' If this is.the intent, the relationship to Comission regulations.should be well >

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i thought out in tenns of whether a similar pmcess to rulemaking is a:':H -

appropriate for approval.which allows coordination by offices within' :r

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Some of the. list of " requirements" attached to your memorandum appear to

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Comission for use in the same manner as Regulatory Guides.: Simultaneous a 1.. :

i changes to these guides should be considered to avoid confusion. Some:

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" requirements" might be better stated as changes to acceptable positions !

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The Division of Emergency Preparedness is examining the substance of it i

'the proposed changes to current guidance and;Will' provide coments by

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January 11,1982 as discus' sed above. We note that the guidance in the i

i area of emergency planning and response facilities were extensively l

coordinated and discussed within the staff, with the Comission, with.

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the nuclear industryind with the public through :neetings, workshops l

and coment' periods before issuance of NUREG-0654 and HUREG-0696.

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We agree with your efforts to expedite. installation of the SPDS andiWe;

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recently forwarded a rule change which we.think serves this purpose.,..

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the negotiated dates.can be kept within reason.

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