ML20054E931
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| Site: | 05000000, Beaver Valley |
| Issue date: | 01/29/1982 |
| From: | Carey J DUQUESNE LIGHT CO. |
| To: | NRC |
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| FOIA-82-161 NUDOCS 8206150044 | |
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January 29, 1982 11219 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Chairman Washington, DC 20555 RefeJence:
Beaver Valley Power Scation, Unit No. 1 Docket No. 50--334, License DPR-66 Emergency Public Warning System
Dear Chairman Palladino:
Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50-54(s)(2) and Section IV, D.3 of Appendix E requires the licensee to demonstrate'that administra-tive and physical means have been established for alerting and providing prompt instructions to the public in the event of an emergency at the Beaver Valley Power Station.
The compliance date was extended to February 1,1982 by the Commission on August 27, 1981.
f' Duquense Light is committed to the installation of a public warning
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system responsive to the guidance of Appendix 3 to NUREG-0654 and has been actively pursuing the installation of this system.
However, the install-ation of this system has been delayed as a result of several factors.
Specifically:
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The Beaver Valley Power Station emergency planning zone is comprised of three counties in three states and numerous local municipalities.
Although cooperation by offsite authorities has been excellent, negotiations for locations, system design, right-of-way and other similar considerations have been com-pounded by the numerous political entities that we have had to work with.
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Relocation of sites, due to right-of-way refusals, complaints.
from nearby property owners, legal problems, etc. has had a significant impact on the schedule.
The siren locations were chosen using the following criteria:
- To site sirens at the highest elevation in the immediate area to reduce range losses from natural barriers.
- To site sirens near existing distribution poles which do not have existing transformers, to minimize modification to the
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- To maximimize the distance from siren sites and adjacent homes as much as possible.
- To site sirens on public lands (schools, fire departments, manicipal properties, etc.) where possible.
The siren locations, which were originally chosen, met the above criteria.
However, relocation has been necessary in several instances which has resulted in added delays.
Any relocation involves a re-evaluation of an alternate siren location, draw-ing revisions, additional right-of-way permit requirements, and physical relocation by construction, which has resulted in unerpected delays.
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Duquesne Light Company, a utility franchised to operate in the state of Pennsylvania has found it legally impossible to obtain property rights along state / municipal roadways in Ohio and West Virginia.
In Hancock County, WV, and Columbiana County, OH, the local fire departments have been helpful in granting approval for siren locations at-their fire stations.
However, for the majority of the siren locations, we have had to seek private property authorization.
The sirens that are to be installed in Ohio and West Virginia vill not be within our service area. Service agreements for power supply requirements had to be arranged through other util-ities which include:
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The terrain of the Beaver Valley Power Station emergency planning zone is largely characterized as tree-covered hills with deep valleys and pockets of population along the river valleys.
Be-cause of this terrain, siting siren locations has been more difficult and additional sirens have been necessary to adequately cover the EPZ.
Duquesne Light performed field testing to verify calculated ranges over this difficult terrain.
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Large portions of the Beaver Valley Power Station emergency plan-ning zone have population densities too sparse to justify notifi-cation by fixed sirens.
In order to provide a supplementary system that would be effective, reliable and under the control of the utility, Duquesne Light has developed a residential electric meter box-mounted mini-siren system that would be activated by
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the county via digitally encoded signals transmitted on a power N.
line carrier.
Since there are only minimal precedences (and none directly related to sirens) for such a system, the engineering effort has been, of necessity, extensive.
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there vill be a greater assurance that these devices will be in place and operable during an emergency than there exists for the other suggested supplementary systems.
-In our letter of December 23, 1981, Duquesne Light summarized the status of the installation efforts of the Emergency Public Warning System.
As of the date of this letter seventy-eight (78) of the eighty (80) pole-mounted siren units are mounted and in-place within the applicable Beaver County EPZ area (see attached map).
The two siren locations that remain are #43 (location designated at the Beaver County Courthouse) and #34 (location designated at the Center Volunteer Fire Department).
Both locations are on privete property.
Negotiations for obtaining approval has been on-going, and authorization for installation is expected very shortly.
In the applicable portions of Ohio and West Virginia, the completion of the system vill depend on satisfactory negotiations with private / govern-mental agencies, construction installation and testing of the siren system.
In Hancock County, West Virginia, seven (7) of the eleven (11) pole-mounted siren units are mouated and in place within the applicable EPZ area.
In Columbiana County, Ohio, five (5) of the thirteen (13) pole-mounted siren units are mounted and in-place.
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Duquesne Light has been actively pursuing the installation of the
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siren warning system as evidenced by the Attachment I-System Chronology.
Although we have been working to resolve the difficulties encountered with this project, it will not be possible to have the complete system installed and operational by February 1, 1982.
In addition to the pole-mounted siren units, a supplemental system is still being engineered, which will cover the sparsely populated areas and fill in the " dead spots" not covered by the large sirens.
Large portions of the Beaver Valley Power Station emergency planning zone have population densities too sparse to justify utilizing large pole-mounted sirens.
In order to provide a supplementary system that would be effective and re-liable, Duquesne Light has developed a residential electric meter box-mounted mini-siren system that would be activated by the county via digit-ally encoded signals transmitted on a power line carrier.
The control hardware (computer equipment) for this supplemental system vill not be available until May, 1982, and the software is now scheduled for August, 1982.
Duquesne Light Company respectfully requests relief from the February 1, 1982 compliance date.
The attachments to this letter describe the system chronology, a projected schedule, and the interim, compensatory measures for each respective county within the Beaver Valley Power Station EPZ.
If you have any questions, please call my office.
Very truly yours, J. J. Carey
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Enclosures cc: Mr D. A. Beckman, Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Beaver Valley Power Station Shippingport, PA 15077 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission c/o Document Management Branch Washington, DC 20555 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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, E=ergency Public Warning System SYSTEi CHRONOLOGY 1.
In Dece=ber 1979, Duquesne Light contracted the A.M. Voorhees and Associates, Inc. to perform a mass notification and evacuation study of the Beaver Valley Pcwer Station e=ergency planning sene.
Although the pri=ary purpose of this study was to provide the evacuation time estimates required to be submitted to the USNRC in January 1980, the study scope included an assess =ent of alternative catheds to provide area-vide mass notification and to identify a cathed or ce=bination of =ethods for the 3eaver Valley Pcwer Station emergency planning ene.
The final report was presented to Duquesne Light at a meeting on Mn:ch 27, 1980.
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The Voorhees report was given a preliminary review, and a Cens =ction Order was issued on April 18, 1980.
Follcuing sc=e initial g:cundwork, an initial design concept was approved by the Duquesne Light Corporate Cc==ittee on April 30, 1980, and was issued May 1,1980.
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, Engineering activities for the Beaver County portion of the e=e:gency plann Mg ene ce==enced.
Di~scussiens were held with siren vendors in early May 1980 and with Westinghcuse Electric (=ini-sirens) in
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early June.
Out of these efforts ca=e proposed siren locations,
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siren specifications, siren control syste=s design and a siren field test procedure.
4 A field test of sirens frem two =enufacturers was cenducted on September 18, 1980, to determine the effective range under cenditions typical to the Beaver Valley Pcwer Statica e=ergency planning =cne.
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The preposed Beaver County system was presented to the Director, Beaver County E=ergency Manage =ent Agency and the Director of the Beaver County Cc==unicaricns Center at two meetings held in October 1980.
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On Nove=ber'14, 1980, a purchase c: der was issued to Westinghouse Electric for equip =en: and engineering related to the =ini-siren syste=.
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On November 31, 1980, a purchase ceder was issued to ACA E : 16-125 db and 30-112 db sirens.
Delivery was received June 19, 1981.
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A series of =eetings were held with fire depart =en officials in Beaver County.
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Preli=inary engineering activities cc =enced f:: the siren syste=s
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in Hanc=ck County, Ves: Virginia, and f== Colu=biana County, Ohio.
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During tha wesk of Jcnuary 19, 1981, fiva drys cf mini-circn tasting was conducted.
Similar testing was conducted again during the weeks of February 10, 1981, and March 2,1981.
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11.
On January 30, 1981, a request for bid for the radio / encoding equip-ment for siren control was issued.
A proposal was received on March 25, and a purchase order issued on April 27.
Delivery of the system was projected to be late October.
An interim manual system which will be rented to Duquesne Light was received June 19, 1981.
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On February 20, 1981, representatives of Duquesne Light met with fire department and emergency services personnel in Rancock County to acquaint these personnel with plans for siren installation in Hancock County and to solicit their input and cooperation.
A similar meeting was held in Columbiana County, Ohio. on March 12, 1981, with local, county and state officials.
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In late February,1981, letters were sent to the mayors, the local fire departments and local emergency management agency directors in Beaver County identifying the proposed locations in their respective juris.
dications, outlining the Duquesne Light offer to incorporate fire signals and discussing other pertinent aspectc of the proposed system.
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letters were sent to Hancock County, West Virginia, and Columbiana County, Ohio, in March 1981.
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On April 16, 1981, the purchase order to ACA was revised to provide for 40-125 db and 6-112 db additional sirens.
Delivery was projected for late August.
The Westinghouse purchase order was also revised.
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In early June, acceptance tests for the initial siren order were held.
Delivery of the initial order of sirens was received June 19, 1981.
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Right-of-way authorizations are presently being obtained from state, municipal and private parties for installation purposes.
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Late August, 1981, received partial order of siren equipment from ACA.
only 15 complete siren units were received out of the 2nd order of 43 sirens.
Shortage of parts identified by manufacturer.
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End of November, 1981, received complete order of 43 siren units with parts coming piece-meal during this period.
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November 24, 1981, Westinghouse iricatifies supplemental alerting system -
computer equipment to be available for installation by. April, 1982.
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Final order of 15 siren units (total 104) delivered January 9,1982.
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Janua ry 13, 1982, initiated individual siren testing in Beaver County.
Testing to continue for the next few weeks until all have been complete-ly tested and verified by local county agency representatives.
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Attachment II f
BEAVER VALLEY POWER STATION
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Emergency Planning Zone Emergency Public Wa rning System PROJECTED SCHEDULE NOTE:
All projections in this attachment are pending no unforeseen delays such as property right-of-way or power supply (Hancock/
Columbiana Counties) difficulties, and upon satisfactory testing of equipment.
Milestone
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o Beaver County Pole-mounted Siren System, February 28, 1982 Installation and Testing o Hancock County Pole-mounted Siren System, March 31,1982 Installation and Testing o Columbiana County Pole-mounted Siren System.
March 31,1982 Installation and Testing
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As sirens are installed, they will be made operational on the interim control system.
o Permanent Control System Installed July, 1982 l
o Supplemental Mini-siren System, Installed and August, 1982 Tested.
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o DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY Beaver Valley Power Station Letter dated January 29, 1982 Attachment III Prompt Notifications and Instructions to the Public in the event of an Emergency (Compensatory measures)
Beaver County, PA The Director of the Beaver County Emergency Management Agency (BCEMA)
?.i has indicated the following actions would be taken until the permanently le installed public notification system is in service, and as back-up measures should the installed system fail.
Upon notification that protective actions are required offsite, BCEMA will mobilize municipal police and fire vehicles to alert the public in affected areas.
The public address systems and/or sirens on these vehicles and/or hand-held bu11 horns vill serve as the signal-ling devices.
Once alerted, persons residing in the affected areas would turn to the Emergency Broadcasting Stations on radio and television, as they would when the fixed sirens are available.
These activities supplement the original civil defense sirens and the sirens already installed as part of the current upgrade.
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Each of the 27 municipalities in the affected area has devised alert-
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ing route maps for the fire and police vehicles under their jurisdiction.
Mobilization scheme used for normal police / fire supression activities would be used to mobilize the necessary vehicles.
In each municipality, these arrangemento are documented in the municipality's response plan.
The Director, BCEHA, has indicated that with the interim warning system (less new sirens) approximately 80% of the population within 5 miles of the site would receive the initial warning within 15 minues and the remaining persons would receive the warning in the next 15 minutes.
In the 5-10 mile zone, approximately 50% of the population would receive the warning in 15 minutes, 90% in 45 minutes, and 100% expected following one hour.
As part of the Beaver County public information program l Duquesne Light Company has completed the preparation of the BCEMA brochure, which is present-ly in publication.
The brochure will be distributed by mail in February.
Duquesne Light Company has also completed the prepartion of full page ads for insertion in area newspapers during the first week in February.
The inform-ation in these ads parallel that information contained in the brochures.
A copy of the counties brochure and a copy of the full page newspaper ad is attached for your information.
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- DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY Beaver Valley Power Station Letter dated January 29, 1982 Attachment III Prompt Notifications and Instructions to the Public in the event of an Emergency (Compensatory measures)
Hancock County, WV The Director of the Hancock County of Emergency Services (HCOES) has
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indicated the following actions would be taken until the permanently in-stalled public notification system is in service, and as back-up measures should the installed system fail.
Upon notification that protective actions are required offsite, HCOES will mobilize the Hancock County United Fire-fighters to alert the public in affected areas.
The fire vehicles will attract the attention of the.public by passing over pre-designated routes in the risk portion of the county with sirens and public address systems in operation.
Once alerted, persons residing in the affected areas would turn to radio and television as they would when the sirens are available.
The fire fighters are activated by a County controlled Plextron alerting system.
Although these departments are volunteer forces, experience in previous fire supression emergencies indicate the ability to activate the I
firefighters in a timely period.
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The Director, RCOES, has indicated that with the interim warning ' system (less new sirens) approximately 100% of the population within 5 miles of the site would receive the initial warning within 15 minutes.
In the 5-10 mile zone, approximately 45% of the population would receive the warning in 15 minutes, the remainder in the next 30 minutes.
The notification arrangements are documented in the HCOES " Beaver Valley Site Emergency Response Plan" as Attachment I to Annex P.
As part of the Hancock County public information program, Duquense Light Company has completed the preparation and publication of the public information brochures.
The county has distributed the flyers in their respective areas.
Duquesne Light Company has also completed' the prepar-ation of full page ads for insertion in area newspapers during the first week in February.
The information in these ads parallel that information contained in the brochures.
A copy of the counties brochure and a copy of the full page newspaper ad is attached for you information.
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DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY Beaver Valley Power Station Letter dated January 29, 1982 Attachment III Prompt Notifications and Instructions to the Public in the event of an Emergency (Compensatory measures)
Columbiana County, Ohio The Director of the Columbiana County Disaster Services Agency (CCDSA) has indicated the following actions would be taken until the permanently installed public notification system is in service, and as back-up measures should the installed system fail.
Upon notification that protective actions are required offsite, CCDSA will mobilize fire departments in the risk portion of the County.
Fire department vehicles will alert the public using public address systams. When alerted, the public is expected to turn on radio and television for further instructions.
The Director, CCDSA, has indicated that with the interim warning system (less new sirens) approximately 50% of the population within 5 miles of the site would receive the initial warning within 15 minutes with the remainder
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receiving notification in the next 30 minutes.
In the 5-10 mile zone, ap-proximately 30% of the population would receive the warning in 15 minutes, q -
70% in the next 30 minutes, with the notification complete within one hour.
The notification arrangements are documented in the CCDSA " Beaver Valley Site Emergency Rcmponse Plan" as a Standard Operating Procedure.
As part of the Columbiana County public information program, Duquesne Light Company has completed the preparation and publication of the public information brochures.
The county has distributed the flyers in their re-spective areas.
Duquesne Light has also completed the preparation of full page ads for insertion in area newspapers during the first week in February.
The information in these ads parallel that information contained in the brochures.
A copy of the counties brochure and a copy of the full page news-paper ad is attached for your information.
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.d/h, a NotargPublic in/jhd for said Commonwealth me, g and/C6unty, personally appeared J. J. Carey, who bMng duly sworn, deposed, and said that (1) he is Vice President of Duquesne Light, (2) he is duly authorized to execute and file the foregoing Submittal on behalf of said Company, and (3) the statements set forth in the Submittal are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief.
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Reference (1): Letter from E. R. Mathews (WPS) to J. G. Keppler (NRC) dated November 20, 1981 Reference (1) provided a description of the combined Kewaunee/ Point Beach Public Notitication System.
Since that transmittal, members of the WPS staff
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have kept members of the Region III NRC staff appraised of the installation progress of this system through frequent telephone conversations.
The purpose of this letter is to provide a formal status update as of January 22, 1982, and to inform you of our expected actions to complete the system prior to February 1, 1982.
Physical installation of the sirens (for WPS) began the first week in December; delays in the delivery of component parts (to our vendor) prevented the installation of the last siren until December 22, 1981.
As we indicated in Reference (1), we expected delays in the delivery of the radio control equipment past January 1, 1982. On December 23 WPS authorized the payment of overtime charges to the radio equipment supplier (Plectron Corporation) and air freight shipping charges.
The siren vendor, Alerting Communicators of America (ACA), was also directed to determine the feasibility of installing locally mounted, key operated, weather proof activating switches as an interim means for activating the sirens in the event the radio activation circuit is unavailable.
On January 5, WPS authorized procurement of the switches 1
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and related hardware (this equipment has been received by ACA). An interim procedure to utilize security personnel to activate the sirens has been
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January 29, 1982 Page 2 prepared and will be issued prior to February 1,1982 (following approval of the Plant Operations Review Committee) to provide a compensatory siren activation technique if the radio equipment is non-functional at that time.
Installation of the tone encoding equipment in the Kewaunee County Sheriff dispatch office has also experienced delay.
The tone encoding equipment currently installed could supply only an "all call" system. At a meeting with Kewaunee County Division of Emergency Government (DEG) personnel on December 3, WPS learned of ACA's intention to utilize the "all call" feature and activate all sirens simultaneously.
This scheme was not consistent with our concept of system operation and action was initiated to provide selective activation as well as group activation. WPS has been working with Motorola Communications and Electronics directly to provide an interim encoding device compatible with the decoder / receivers installed on the sirens (Motorola has been in direct contact with ACA to assure compatibility). The installation of the encoding equipment is continuing and expected to be completed prior to February 1.
Installation of the receivers is presently scheduled for January 25.
Co=ponent testing will be performed at the completion of installation at each site by coordinated arrangements with the Kewaunee County Sheri#f's office if the
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Each siren will be growl tested, or fully
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started for a short time, from the dispatcher. A full system test will be s.
3 conducted on 1200 on January 30.
Lastly, a detailed map from U. S. Geological Survey plates has been prepared and provided to Manitowoc County DEG, Kewaunee County DEG, and Wisconsin Electric Power Company in draft form for comment. Upon revision, the map will be formally issued to assure all agencies involved have access to the precise location of each siren and that a unique designator is established for each siren.
We will continue to keep your staff informed of our progress on this system.
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D E. R. Mathews, Senior Vice President Power Supply and Engineering snf cc - Mr. Jesse Pagliaro, US NRC Mr. Robert Nelson, US NRC Mr. C. F. Riederer, PSCW
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