ML20128F231
| ML20128F231 | |
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| Site: | 07000824 |
| Issue date: | 02/01/1993 |
| From: | Christopher Boyd BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. |
| To: | Jim Hickey NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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. @*, B&W Nuclear Environmental Servic a McDermott company P.O. Box 11165.
bochtwrg, VA 245061165 (804) 522 5414 rAX(804) 522 6860 February 1,1993 i
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Coimnission Attn: John W. N. Hickey, Chief l'ue: Cycle Safety Branch Division of Industrial & Medical Nuclear Safety Washington D.C. 20555 y
L Gentlemen:
The ll&W Nuclear Environmental Services, Inc. I,ynchburg Technology Center (11rC),.is I
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requesting an amendment to Section 8 of our license, SNM 778, to incorporate a revision i
to our Radiological Contingency Plan (RCP).
Attached are the revised pages for Section 8 of our license and a copy of Revision 4'to the RCP The !!TC believes these changes are an improvement and upgrade to the current RCP i
in that the revision reflects _ the recently approved. changes to our; organization and improvements recommer.ded by the NRC Region 11 office. Changes are indicated on the -
text pages by a vertical line in the right hand margin.' Also attached is a detailed description.
of the changes by page niid paragraph number,.
We believe that this request should not require an envimnmental review since it meets the categorical exclusion criterion outlined in 10 CFR 31.22 (c) (11),
if you sliould have any further questions,' please contact me at (804) 522-5753.
Sincerely, f.
O ar se '.-lloyd, Jr,--
Licensing & Compliance Officer Attachment CC;
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- Attn: Stewart Ebneter, Regional
. Administrator.
-- 101 Marietta ST,, N.W.
Atlanta GA 30323 P. R. Rosenthai-000010
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l 8.O J1AE.Q1DCICAL CONTllLQJ2[QL1LMi The site shall maintain and execute the response tneasure s of the Radiological Contingency Plan submitted to the NRC on November 15, 1983, in accordance with provisions of the February 11, 1981 order.
The site shall maintain implementing procedures for the Radiological Contingency Plan as necessary to implement the Plan. The site rhall make no change in the Radiological Contingency Plan that would decrease the responso ef fectiveness of the Plan without URC approval. The site may inake changes to the Radiolegical Contingency Plan without prior NRC approval if the changes do not decrease the response effectivenosa of the Plan. The sito shall maintain records of changes that were nado to the Plan without prior approval for a period of two years from the date of the change and shall furnish the Chief, Fuel Cycle Safety Branch, Division of Industrial &
Medical Nuclear Safety, USNRC, Vanhington, DC 20555 and Region 11, a report containing a description of each change within six reonths af ter the change is made.
81 IlEVIS10E Revisions to the Radiological Contingency Plan, that do not reduce the effectiveness of the Plan, are listed below:
Date RCP Vas Date Submitted
__ Revised To ERC June, 1987 August, 1987 January, 1991 July, 1991 9etober, 1992 February, 1993 l
License No SNM 778 Docket No. 70 824 Date Feb., 1993 Amendment No.13 Revision No.
15 Page 81 Babcock &Wilcox a McDermott company
NITACilMENT-SUMMAltY OEJCP CfIANGES The Itadiological Contingency Plan (ItCP) has been modified to conform with the latest, NitC approved, organizational changes. Changes within the text of the llCP are indicated by a vertical line in the right hand margin. Other editorial changes were also made at this time to reflect refinements and corrections discovered since the last revision was published. The following is a list of the changes which were made, i
Eagc_El Paragraph 1.1.2
" Nuclear Environmental Services Division" has been changed to "Il&W Nuclear Environmental Services, Inc."
Paragraph 1.1.3, item No. 2 The unit "Kg" was added to the numerical amount shown.
Yacc.1:b in Figure 1-3, "NNFD Ilescarch Laboratory" has been changed to "Lynchburg Technology-Center",
bgc_l-1 In Figure 14, the security trailer now located behind Huilding D has been added to this figure.
hye2-1 Paragraph 2.1 The words, "which may threaten the site or site openttions" have been added to "llomb Treat" and " Civil Disturbance" The words, "which may threaten the site" have been added to " Nearby Forest Fire" arn! " Nearby --
Industrial Fire" -
The word, " Uncontrolled" has been added to _"Itelease of Flammable or Toxic Gas".
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Paragraph 2.1 (cont'd)
The word, " Unexplained" has been indded to "lligh Radiation".
The difference between ma, lor and minor explosion or fire has been defined.
DigC 2d.
I Paragraph 2.2.3 The words "outside the buildings" have been climinated from the sentence which reads, "upon sounding of tne evacuation alarm...".
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Paragraph 3.1.5 The last item, "a major fire, necessitating a request for assistance from hical fire depanments" has been deleted.
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The word " minor" has been added to Gre or expl'usion and the words,."directly involving or -
threatening radioactive materials" have been deleted.
Paragraph 3.2.2.4
- The words, "or other type of event" have been added 'to the first sentence.
Paragraph 3.2.2.6-
'i.his paragraph has been a' ded to address additional situations which arose out of our response d
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i A'ITACilMl!NT Eage 3-4 Paragraphs 3.2.2.'i This paragraph has been added to address additional situations which arose out of our response to NRC llulletin No. 91-01.
Paragraph 3.2.3.1 The words "which requires off-site assistance" have been deleted..
1 Paragraph 3.2.3.2 The sentence was modified to add the words "the actual hands-on assistance of off-site responders".
Paragraph 3.2.3.3 In the last sentence, the words, "in the area which caused the alarm" have been added after ",..
radiation levels".
. Paragraph 3.2.4.1 The word, " major" has been added to explosion.
Page 3 5 Paragraph 3.2.4.2 The word, " major" has been added to fire.
Pages 3 6imd 3-7 Table 3-1 The word " Red" has been deleted from the ENS Phone since the NRC has removed the red telephones from service and replaced them with normal telephones.
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'k k NITACilMENT Page 3-8 In the first line of Table 3-2, " Nuclear Environmental Services Division" has been changed to
" Naval Nuclear Fuel Division".
la n'e second item of this table, "NNFD" has been changed to *NESI".
Page.4d Paragraph 4.1.1 The "Vice-President and/or General Manager, Nuclear Environmental Services Division (NES)"
has been changed to "The president, ll&W Nuclear Environmental Services, Inc. (NESl)".
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" Virginia Operations" has been changed to " Environment, Safety & Ilealth".- Also this position now reports to the " President, NESI" vice the " Manager, Virginia Operations",
I Paragraph 4.1.3 This position has been deleted and its functions shown as a part of the new Paragraph 4.1.2l Paragraphs 4.1.3, 4.1.4, and 4.1.6 These positions now report to the Manager, ES&H, Paragraph 4.I'.5 -
This position now reports to the Supervisor, llealth' Physics.
Eitge_4-2 Paragraph 4.1.8L 4
This position reports to the ' Advanced System Division Mariager Facilitics" vice the *NNFD)
Manager, industrial Engineering". Also, the note that this position is'not shown on figure 4-1 was added.
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- Paragraph 4.2 The license number was changed to #42 vice #778. Also, the Eafety and Licensing Manager was changed to the Manager, ES&ll.
Pasc13 Paragraph 4.2.1. Third Paragraph The sentence, "A Communications Officer is assigned '..." has lwn changed to read,."A Communications Officer may be assigned...".
The third paragraph on emergency planning, has been modified to shew this as the responsibility of the Emergency Officer who is appointed by the Manager, ES&H vice the responsibility of the Emergency Director.
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in the paragraph on the Emergency Preparedness Committee, the sentence requiring a member.
of the NNPD-RL Safety & Licensing Section to be a member of the EPC has been changed to -
require a member of the LTC, ES&ll Department to fill this requirement.
Paragraph 4.2.2. I "NNFD" has been added before "liculth & Safety Unit" in the last line.'
Pagc.A4 Paragraphs 4.2.2.5, 4.2.2.6, and 4.2.2.7 "NNFD" has been added before the section/ group name.
The paragraph on the Hazardous Materirls Response Team (old paragraph number 4.2.2.6) han-been deleted since this functim is now incorporated into the existing Emergency Response Team.
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" Safety & Ucensing. Manager" has been changed to " Manager, ES&H" "LTC Coordinator"-
g has been changed to " Plant Operations Director'. The Licensing & Compliance Officer will-l:
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-ATTACllMIINT function as the "On Scene Technical Advisor" vice as "a Technical Advisor" Paragraph 4.3.2 The last sentence has been deleted.
Page 4-6 The old Paragraph 4.4 has been deleted, j
bgc4.2 The organizational chart (Figure 4-1) has been updated to reficet the new, NRC approved, !!fC organization.
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Figure 4-2
- The timergency Organization Chart has been updated.
Paces 4-9. 4-10. and 4-11 Figures 4-3,4-4, and 4-5 LUpdated agreement letters with the various off-site agencies have been incorporated.
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-- E The second paragraph in this section has been modified to show the h> cation of the alitrm panel..
and that only selected alarms register at NNFD.
<The-third paragraph in' this section-has the ' word " Site" added before "limer;;ency Control:
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4 JATTACllMENT Paragraph 5.2 Safety & l.leensing Manager has been changed to Manager, ES&H.
bge5-2 Paragraph 5.4.1 The next to last sentence has been modified to show that roll call results are reported to the site's Emergency Ollicer if the NNPD EOC has not been activated, htc_li:4 Paragraph 5.7 The word "on-site" was deleted from the first sentence, hye6-1 Paragraph 6.1
'In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the word " alternate" was added.
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, " Emergency ' Director" has been changed to
" Emergency Officer" Paragraph 6.2.2 This paragraph has been modified to reflect that the NRC has climinated the ficalth PhysicsL Network and therefore only one telephone (the ENS Phone) is left on the site.-
a Pace 7-1 Paragraph 7.2 Security Response Guards now receive, for emergency purposes, training in."the use of portable-fire extingishers".
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bge.2-2 Paragraph 7.3 in the first paragraph, the second sentence has been modified to reflect that the time of drills will no longer be announced.
Paragraph 7.5 The first sentence now reads, "... specific items are intact..." instead of, "... specific items is
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bge 81 Paragraph 8.3 In the last sentence, the word "done" was replaced with " performed",
bgc_El Paragraph 9.1 The word " emergency" has been added before " evacuation" in the first sentence, in the first paragraph, the last sentence has been modified to show that the decision to re-enter the plant is made by the Emergency Director only "during a real emergency".
Paragraph 9.2 In the last two sentences, " Emergency Director" has been replaced with " Manager, !!S&li",
- Paragraph 9.2, item a.
t The wotd " rescue" was removed.
Page 9-2 Paragraph 9.3 " Emergency Director" has been replaced with " Manager, ES&ll.".
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