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Forwards Revised Page 4 Reflecting NRC Guidance on Activation of Public Alert & Notification Sys,Re 821014 Emergency Plan Exercise
ML20071N512
Person / Time
Site: Prairie Island  Xcel Energy icon.png
Issue date: 09/28/1982
From: Ward E
NORTHERN STATES POWER CO.
To: Axelson W
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
References
NUDOCS 8210080184
Download: ML20071N512 (2)


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Northern States Power Company 414 Nicollet Mall Minneapohs, Minnesota 55401 Telephone (612) 330-5500 PRINCIPAL STAFF September 28, 1982 RA Di D/RA EHF Regional Administrator A/ A 1

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Att: W L Axelson PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT Docket Nos. 50-282 License Nos. DPR-42 50-306 DPR-60 Emergency Plan Exercise - October 14,.1982 With our Aug 3,1982 letter we are furnished a 6 page list of Objectives and Guidelines for the subject exercise.

Attact.ed is page 4 revised to reflect your recent guidance on activation of the Public Alert and Notification System (PANS).

The involved state and local governmental agencies are in concurrence with this revision which deletes siren operation, NOAA and EBS broadcasts for the exercise. This is based on independent periodic ongoing testing of these elements.

E C Ward, PE Manager-Nuclear Environmental Services ECW/js cc: Kenneth C Parsch, MDES Joseph L LaFleur, WDEG Brian K Grimes, US NRC-Division of Emergency Preparedness B210000184 820928 PDR ADOCK 05000282 OCT 1 082

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, S pte b:r 24, 1982 Revision l' B. Exercise Guidelines (continued)

5. Exercise participants will perform, as appropriate, radiological monitoring, dose assessment, and ingestion pathway sampling activities.
6. NSP radiological monitoring field teams will be dispatched for the purpose of testing re sponse time, communications, and monitoring and sampling procedures. The field teams will gather sample media and simulate routing such samples to the appropriate laboratory facilities for analysis. State radiological monitoring field teams will communi-cate data on monitoring and sampling.

Each NSP radiological monitoring field team will be accompanied by a controller / evaluator team throughout the exercise. Each NSP field team will rendezvous with its controller / evaluator team at the loca-tion at which it obtains its emergency kits. The rendezvous locations are as follows:

NSP Construction Building (2) - Prairie Island NOTE: The Monticello Plant survey teams will come with their controllers on the day of the exercise. They will meet drivers at the Prairie Island EOF.

7. All of NSP's on-site and off-site emergency response facilities and the County E0C's will be manned and perform their prescribed func-tions. State and area EOC's will function only to support the county exercise, with state agency operations simulated.
8. The Joint Public Information Center (JPIC) located at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, MN will be manned and perform its prescribed functions. Members of the press in the Twin Cities area will be identified and invited to participated in the exercise.

Simulated releases will be prepared by tha Minnesota and Wisconsin Public Information Officers and NSP Commut.tcations Department and will be released at the JPIC. In addition, there will be exercise press releases issued at Pierce County and Red Wing /Goodhue County Press Rooms. Exercise press releases may be made to the public.

9. As appropriate, Emergency Broadcast Station (EBS) announcements should be prepared and passed to the appropriate stations, but not released to the general public with one exception described below in Item 10.
10. As appropriate, procedures for the activation of the PANS will be demonstrated up to but not including siren activation. This includes message preparation for the NOAA and EBS networhs but no transmission of alert signal nor instructional message. In addition to simulate mobile alerting, public safety vehicles will traverse at least one sector in the 5-10 mile zone. .

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