ML20090C485

Comments of State of New Hampshire Re Nhrerp Sheltering & LBP-90-12.* Concurs W/Aslb Request for Further Guidance from ASLBP Re Implementation of Sheltering Provisions Which Are Part of Nhrerp.W/Svc List

ML20090C485
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	05/28/1990
From:	Huntington G NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF
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CON-#192-12629 ALAB-924, LBP-90-12, OL, NUDOCS 9203050051
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!!UCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIOt1 I Kr.l 16 0 U$NHC BEFORE THE ATOMIC At D S AFETY LICE!! sit 1C APPEAtt__ BOARD

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JUDGE G. PAUL BOLLUERK, CHAIRMAt1  ;

JUDGE ALAll S. ROSEt1 THAL cri c i, :!Gdtin'  :

JUDGE HOWARD A. WILBER IOC^i IM 3N><?! ' 3 i-In the_ matter of )

) May 28, 1990 Public Service Co. of !!ew Hampshire, )

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(Seabrook Station, Units 1 L 2) )

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COMME!1TS OF TFE STATE OF f1EW HAMPSHIRE REGARDIt1G !!HPERP SHELTERIt1G At1D LDP.90-12 In ALAB-944, 30 t1RC 331 (1989), this Board remanded four issues to the Licensing Board concerning the State of !1ew Hampshire's Radiological Emergency Response Plan (11HRERP). One of those issues, implementing detail of the t1HRERP sheltering option, has been the subject _of significant discussion and has, most

-recently, been addressed by *he Licensing Board in its Memorandum and order of May 3,-1990. In that May 3, 1990 order, the Licensing Board discussed the 11HRERp provisions relating to sheltering of the beach population and requested this Board to provide further guidance regarding the necessity to amend the NHRERP '

to include suae type of implementing detail for the shelter-in-plac'e option as it is presently articulated.2 As the State of !!ew 1

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• Hampshire finds its sheltering provisions to be the focal point of ,

significas.t discussion, it offers the following commente to this i

Appeal Board for its consideration.

As noted by +he Licensing Board, the NHRERP contains no provision calling for " actual sheltering" as a protective action recommendation in any circumstance.3 Rather, the State of New Hampshire has employed the concept of

• shelter-in-place" as part of the NHRERP. This concept quite simply envisions that people already

• in buildings or who may access buildings without delay or direction

• from emergency management officials will utilize those buildings as shelter, and others will be expected to evacuate. This shelter-in-place concept const itutes a significantly dif f erent  ;

protective action recommendation than one-calling for " actual sheltering

• of the population at specific locations as may have been contemplated by this Board in ALAB-924. ,

Evacuation is the preferred protective action recommendation for the beach population. Though the shelter-in-place option has not been precluded f or t he Condition 1 (" puff release *) scenario, New Hampshire decision-makers would necessarily require advance notice that all the elements comprising a true puff release scenario were present and would remain present throughout the emergency, and that no potential existed for later evacuation, prior to directing the population-to shelter-in-place. While the State agrees that.it is highly unlikely its decision-makers will possess the full 3

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complement of necessary information to implement the shelter-in-place option in this-condition, it is New Hampshire's position that the "HRERP not preclude implementation of this option so long as appropriate preconditions cannot be categorically ruled

'out. I The State of New Hampshire respectfully suggests that the Licensing Board's analysis of the Condition 2 (impediments to evacuation) scenario accurately reflects the State's position. We agree with the Licensing Board that the potential that a large beach population will be present on New Hampshire beaches in any ot the conditions underlying the physical impediments scenario approaches  ;

i the absolute " edge of _ reasonable possibility".4 In this vein, New Hampshire retains the shelter-in-place concept as an option not  ;

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_ pIecluded_under the Condition 2 scenario so that emergency  ;

, management officials may have a starting point if faced with an unforseen need to identify some ad hoc protective response outside

, _rt plan. With that said, however, the State reiterates that the NHRERP does not provide for " actual sheltering" as a planned

~ response!to Condition 2; nor should emergency planners be required to amend thezplan to include such a provision given that-the l

l probability for occurrence is but-a fleeting glimmer, greater.in-size in the context of 1.tigation than in reality.

The-State of New Hampshire, therefore, respectfully concurs with-the-Licensing Board's request for further guidance from this 4

Id. at 53.

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Board regarding implementation of the sheltering provisions which are currently part of the NHRERP. New Hampshire emergency planning officials have exercised rneir best judgment and expertise eo develop a radiological emergency response plan which will afford the greatest possible protection to its citizens. Yet, the State views planning as an ongoing process, and will thus continue to endeavor to improve the NHRERP pursuant to guidance from this Board, t

Respectfully submitted, THE ST/.TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE JOHN P. ARNOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL Dated: W N , 1990 By: Dr.O 6' .

NQ m (J Geoffrey M.gHL ntington f g

Assistant - Attterney General Environmental Protection Bureau Office of the Attorney General

-25 Capitol Street Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Tel. (603) 271-3679 cc: Seabrook Service List

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NRC APPEAL BOARD SERVICE L'IST I, Geoffrey M. Huntington of rhe !!ew Hampshire office of &he ,

. Attorney Genera 1, hereby certify.that'on-May 28, 1990, I made service-of the within document by depositing copies in United States First Class Mail or,.as indicated by an asterisk, express mail to:

Alan S. Rosenthal Adjudicatory File Atomic Saf ety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel Board Panel Docket (2 copies)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. t;uclear Pegulatory Commission East West-Towers Building East West Towers l Building 4350. East West Highway 4350 East Uest Highway

- Bethesda,.MD 20814 Bethesda, MD 20814 Howard A. Uilber Adjudicatory File Atomic Safety and-Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel Appeal Board U.S. ::uclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear RegulP*ory Commission East West Towers Building Washington, DC 20M S 4350 East West Highway ,

Bethesda,.MD 20814 G. Paul Bollwerk, Chairman Mr. Richard R. Donovan Atomic Safety and Licensing Federal Emergency Management Appeal Panel Agency U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission- Federal Regional Center East-West Towers Building 130 228th Street, S.W.

4350 East West-Highway Bothell, WA 98021-9796 Bethesda, MD 20814

- H. Joseph Flynn, Esquire Gary W. Holmes, Esquire Office of GenerallCounsel Holmes.& El1s Federal Emergency Management Agency 47 Uinnacunnet Road 500.c Street, S.W. Hampton,'NH-03842

Uashington, DC 20472

-Judith H. Minner, Esquire Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., Esq.

79 State Street, 2nd Floor Ropes &-Gray Newburypor t , i M A 019 50 - One International Place Boston,--MA 02110-2624 Mitzi_A.-Young,= Esquire Diane Curran, Esquire Edwin J. Reis, Esquire -Andrea C.-Ferster, Esquire Office of the General Counsel Harmon, Curran & Tousley U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Suite 430

-One Uhite Flint North, 15th Floor 2001 S Street, N.W.

11555 Rockville Pike- Washington, DC 20009 '

Rockville,-MD 20852 Robert-A. Backus, Esquire Jack-Dolan 116 Lowell Street Federal Emergency "anagement

! P.O. Box 516 Agency Manchester, Un 03105 442 J.W. McCormack (POCH) i Boston, MA 02109 i

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5 Ashod N. Amirian, Esquire Philip'Ahrens, Esquire 145 South Main Street Assistant Attorney-General ,

P.O. Box 38 Department-of the Attorney General Bradford, MA 01835 August, ME 04333 4 John Traficonto, Esquire Paul McEachern, Esquire Assistant Attorney General Shatnes & McEachern Department of the Attorney General 25 Maplewood Avenue One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor P.O. Box 360 Boston, MA-02108 Portsmouth, NH 03801 R. ScorL'H111-Whilton, Esquire George Ivetson, Director Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton & Rotondi NH Office or Emergency Management 79 State Street State House Office Park South Newburyport, MA 01950 107 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301

-Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Barbara J. Saint Andre, Esquire U.S. Senate ropelman & Paige, P.C.

Washington, DC 20510 77 Franklin Street (Attn: Tom Burack) Bost on , MA 02110 Jane Dcherty Mr. William S. Lord Seacoast' Anti-Pollution League Board of Selectmen 5-Market Street Town Hall - Friend Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Amesbury, MA 01913 George W. Watson, Esq.

FEMA 500 C Street, S.W.

Washington, DC 20472 Respectfully submitted, THP STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE JOHN P. ARNOLD ATTORNEY GENERAL-

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Geotfiey M. Huntingtqp Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Bureau Office of the Attorney General 25_ Capitol _ Street '

Concord, New-Hampshire- 03301 Tel. (603) 271-3679

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