ML20059A998

Affidavit of Jc Dolan Re Adequacy of Staffing for Implementation of New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan for Plant

ML20059A998
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	08/21/1990
From:	Dolan J Federal Emergency Management Agency
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i-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGUI.ATORY COMMISSION Before the Commission:

Kenneth M. Carr, Chairman Thomas M. Roberts Kenneth C. Rogers James R. Curtis Forrest J. Remick i

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) Docket No. 50-4 43-OL . '

Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, ) 50-444-OL-et al.

) Offsite Emergency

) Planning Issues (Seabrook Station, Units 1 & 2) ) ,

) August 21, 1990 l AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN C. DOLAN e

John C. Dolan, after first being duly sworn, deposed and says; .

1. I am John C. Dolan, Chief of the Technological Hazards ~ >

Branch, Natural and Technological Hazards Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Region I, Boston, Massachusetts. I am Chairman of the Regional Assistance Committee, established under 44 C.F.R. 351.10(b).

2. On August 6, 1990, George Iverson, Director of the New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management (NHOEM), wrote to Richard Strome, Regional Director of FEMA, to invite FEMA Region I to review New Hampshire's staffing records in response to the affidavit of the same day by Michael Sinclair. Also on August 6th, FEMA received a request from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Staff to investigad the concerns raised by Mr. Sinclair's affidavit and Motion to Reopen the Record filed by the Seabrook Intervenors.

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3. On August 16, 1990, I visited the offices of NHOEM in  !

Concord, New Hampshire, along with Joseph Austin, of my staff. We [

examined the staffing rosters under the New Hampshire Radiological  !

Energency Response Plan (NHRERP) and discussed with the NHOEM staff the procedures they used to update those rorters. As of the close of business August 16, 1990, there were only three vacancies among  ;

t the 1263 positions needed to staff the NHRERP in the Plume Emergency Planning Zone.

4. Following the visit to the offices of NHOEM, I prepared  ;

a report for the Regional Director of FEMA Region I, which has been forwarded to NRC Staff in response to their request received on August 6. A copy of that report is attat%d to this dolcaration as Exhibit A. In the report I have set forth accurately the steps that Mr. Austin and I took to investigate Mr. Sinclair's allegations and the information gleaned from inspection of the records of the NHOEM. The conclusion expressed in that report is that staffing is adequate for implementation of t'. NHRERP for Seabrook.

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August 21, 1990 at Boston, Massachusetts  ;

Y Subscribed end sworn to before me this M/4I day of August 1990.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 1 J.W. McCormack Post OHice and Coun House Boston, Massachusetts 02109 August 21, 1990 MEMORANDUM FOR: Grant C. Peterson Associate Director State and Local Programs and Suppcrt TROM:

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Staffing Levele Under the N w Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan This is to describe steps taken by Federal Emergency Management Agency Region I to address concerns raised in the August 6, 1990, affidavit of Michael C. Sinclair related to staffing to respond to a radiological emergency at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station under the New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan (NHRERP). In his affidavit and in his July 20, 1990, letter to Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Jydge Ivan Smith, Mr. Sinclair expressed the concern that expenditure reductions instituted for the State of New Hampshire in February 1990, including employee layoffs and a hiring freeze, had caused staffing of emergency response positions under the NHRERP to fall below minimum acceptable levels.

On August 6, 1990, George _ Iverson, the Director of the New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management (NHOEM), requested FEMA to review the New Hampshire staffing records. We also received on August 6, 1990, a request from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission i (NRC) to examine the questions raised by Mr. Sinclair, on August 16, 1990, Jack Dolan and Joseph Austin of FEMA Region I visited the office of NHOEM to examine the rosters of personnel '

assigned as responders under the NHRERP and discuss procedures used to update personnel resources data. Information in the rosters is current as of August 16,-1990, as a result of an updated personnel resources assessment performed by the staff of NHOEM in ccoperation with the staff of New Hampshire Yankee (NHY) . The assessment shows

, a total of 1263 positions needed to staff the NHRERP in the plume Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ), including both the State and local level, for two shifts. The number increases to 1312, if host community activities are included. The results of the assessment reveals that only 3 of these positions have vacancies as of close of business August 16, 1990. A vacancy in the position of Health Of ficer in the Town of Exeter was filled on the af ternoon of August 16, 1990.

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The three current vacancies are in the following positions: 1) the second shift Joint Telephone Information Center Media Relations / Rumor control Supervisor, 2) the Town of Kingston second shif t RADEF officer and 3) second shift Governor's Media Center Representative. Efforts are being made to fill these positions in i an organized manner, as part of the ongoing staffing maintenance procedures.

l In compliance with FEMA periodic requirements under Guidance Memorandum PR-1, New Hampshire submitted its Annual Letter of I Certification (ALC) on January 31, 1990. This contained a detailed i report on staf fing and training records and was reviewed by the 1 Seabrook Regional Assistance Committee Chairman prior to the I issuance of FEMA's February 1990 updated review and evaluation of {

Revision 3 of the NHRERP. 1 Since June 1988, FEMA has followed a program of reviewing, about  !

every 6 months, the staffing and training rosters specified in the NHRERP. Prior to issuance of the February 1990 review, FEMA had ,

also reviewed New Hampshire's procedures for reviewing and t maintaining training and staffing resources under the NHRERP. '

, Under New Hampshire's procedures, the staffing rosters listing names, and home and business telephone numbers of emergency response personnel are updated quarterly. This process, described in more detail below, also provided the information for quarterly

updates to the NHRERP Emergency Phone Listing.

The NHOEM verifies the accuracy of the rosters of personnel from l State agencies. They verify their own rosters, then call the designated point of contact at each State agency to verify those Sometimes, NHOEM verifies host community rosters; at l

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other times, NHY personnel perform the verification. Other I

miscellaneous Government and private agencies are also called by l NHOEM. Among these are, for example, Federal Aviation Administration, private resource providers with which there are letters of agreement, the American Red Cross, Civil Air Patrol, etc.

The rosters of communities in the plume EPZ were verified by NHY Community Relations personnel who took the roster to the Emergency Management Director or Town Clerk of the community. The local-officials updated the rosters and telephone numbers and returned them to the NHY Community Relations Officer. NHY personnel spot l_

checked names and telephone numbers and, upon completion, forwarded the updated rosters to NHOEM.

New Hampshire also maintains computerized records of the

, specialized training received by its responders. The computerized I database is updated subsequent to the completion of training l

sessions to reflect the training received by each responder.

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i performance in, maintaining staffing and training rosters and-2) the nuinbers of personnel currently available to respond to a radiological emergency at Seabrook under the NHRERP, FEMA continues to conclude that the staffing-is adequate to enable New Hampshire to carry out its plan. In our view, three vacancies in 1312 positions, as~ identified above, reflect normal changes which would take place within any organization of the size of the response l

" corps" called for by the NHRERP. I I

If you have any questions abcut this information, please feel free i to cal' me at FTS 223-9540. l 6

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