ML20126B581

Requests Info Re Util Plans for Providing Ofc Space for NRC Resident Inspectors.First Inspector Will Assume Duty Station by 800630 & Second Inspector by Oct 1981.FR Notice of Final Rule Re Resident Inspector Program Encl

ML20126B581
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	02/25/1980
From:	Stello V NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:	Hill D NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT
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NUDOCS 8003140182
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Docket No. 50-298: l Nebraska Public Power District LATTN: Mr. 0..W. Hill General Manager

'P.' O. Box 499 Columbus, Nebraska 68601 Gentlemen:

A revision to NRC regulations implements existing NRC authority to require that power reactor licensees provide (1) on-site, rent-free, exclusive-use I office space and (2) immediate facility access to Consission inspection [

personnel . I enclose a copy of the final rule that was effective '

Septembes 17, 1979.

The NRC plans to assign two resident inspectors to your Cooper Station facility. The first resident inspector will assume his new duty station by June 30,~1980. The second resident inspector will be on site prior to October 1981. In accordance with the regulation, the NRC expects you to .

. provide appropriately located and adequately sized office space. Please-infom the NRC Region IV Director, Karl V. Seyfrit, within 60 days of your plans to accommodate these inspectors.

Should you have any questions or concerns about this rule, please contact the Regional Ofrector.

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space nannaDy providad to unsasse '. . of Federal Regulations, Parts so and 70 ta a-d andEnforcement, provide

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faa'11ty (the sama as regular Beansee rentese oGIce space ist theh.6 . providee-=ad=+= . a fsD time inspector. a '

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shan befundshed byeach Beensee and facGities at esdie. A space of2so .

necessary for their safaty, secanty, and eachholderof a consaustionpermit. square feet eitherwithin the she's esce 1

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protaction practides, specific raMW1 additional spacemay berequestad to

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sostaminated with radioactive matadal. .transientNRCpersonnelandwG1be ~ " Lou forthoseNRCpersonnalwho ganaraDy - suppuesandcommunication Infrequently visit a site. A's a result of te with other .

equipment'wulbe fundshad by the .

the -==** on the ruta the omesfacG! des at the sita. A space of 250 square feet either within the site's

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otheron site spaceis aggested as a resident inspector assigned to that sita.

de af5ae space and detarndnad ,- guida.For silas cent orotherNRC!nspectors idatiSedby t the ry 1. multiple wais nauher en.

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As a result of tha amusern's' expressed ' provided ).N ofBee be subject to the space thati.s .

properidendScaden"and comphance in the comuments over susessive space approvalof the Director. OfEse of . wie appucable requirements, the r %=ad=-w has . ' Inspection and Enforcement. AR for secarity. r= ,accus coment moeurea A --" the posed area requirmaant-, famiture, and ===aa*= tion . personal safety., ;f-sal protection an to saidanes,wita prothe seedition that the e

.'*qafyment be fundshed bythe space with shaR be saunanserate "t ..

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.. Inspector assigned to that site, or other Deted at Washiestse. *D.C, thle toth 'day of InspendasandIntersammat. * , Assust.1sts. -

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