ML20099D886

Requests Emergency Plan Implementation Period Be Extended to Originally Requested 180 Days or Preferably 210 Days,Per .Completion of Training & Drills Will Be Difficult W/Holidays Approaching

ML20099D886
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Columbia
Issue date:	11/16/1984
From:	Brugger R, Mckibben J MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO
To:	Thomas C Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8411210001
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e earc eactor Facility UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Research Park November 16, 1984 coeurnbia. Missouri 65211 Telephone (314) 882-4211 Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Attention: Cecil 0. Thomas, Chief Standardization and Special Projects Branch Division of Licensing

Subject:

Extension of time required to implement the Emergency Plan for the University of Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia, Missouri.

Dear Sir:

The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) requested the time to implement the Emergency Plan approved in your July 12, 1984 letter be extended to 180 days in our letter dated September 7,1984. You stated in your September 26, 1984 letter, that you agreed with our reasoning and granted the extension of time. However, the extension granted was until December 17, 1984 which cocresponds to a 150 day implementation period instead of the requested 180 day period. We are now requesting the implementation period be extended to at least the originally requested 180 days or preferably 210 days.

After receiving your September 26, 1984 letter, I called and discussed the situation with our NRC project director, Mr. Robert Carter. I agreed we would see how much progress could be made by the middle of November, and.if the addi-tional time was still needed, a request would be submitted at that point. Our original concern which was understated due to NRC safeguards regulation, has proven to be well justified. Our small staff was tied up from early September through November 5 with four shipments. During this time we completed our first ever shipment of large activated metallic reactor components to South Carolina waste burial grounds and three spent fuel shipments to the D.O.E.

facility in Idaho. With these evolutions completed, we should have sufficient time available t2 complete the writing of the new inplementing procedures with-in the originally requested 180 day period. However, our training and drills, which need to be completed in the final phases of implementation, will be dif-ficult to schedule and complete as effectively as desired due to the Christmas and New Year's holidays occurring during this period. Therefore the preferred time to impleuent the Emergency Plan is 210 days.

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As : stated - previously, .an extension will! not-present a safety ~ problem .for -

the general public; we still have our,old emergency procedures in effect which-areladequate for the protection aof the general public but do not. use the new '

terminology or organization required by the new regulation. .Your consideration of this extension in the schedule fer'. implementation of our. Emergency Plan is greatly appreciated. -

Sincerel ,

o J. C. McKibben

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Robert M. Brugger Director xc: J. Keppler, Regional Administrator U.S. N.R.C., Region III J. Tolan, Radiation Safety Officer University of Missourf J

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