ML20148C083
| ML20148C083 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/09/1979 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Haller N NRC OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS (MPA) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20148C069 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-10CFR9.7 NUDOCS 8001250065 | |
| Download: ML20148C083 (2) | |
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DRAFT PAPER ON NRC ORGANIZATIONAL OPTIONS.FOR i
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We have completed our review of MpA's draft entitied "NRC Orcanizational
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t Octions for Emergency Preparedness," and acree in principle with the draft conclusions.
Centralization in one or more offices of many of NRC's emergency oiannino anc response functions could result ir : :tt::ential T
ir prevement in emergency planning and response capabild *y i n this agency.
Your dra f t reiterates some of the serious problems which were set out in SECY 79-499 and the Kemeny Commission Report, and recocnires that any prcrosed reorganization will not, in itself, solve NRC's emergency plan-ning problems.
Clearly, tne presen craft could net, because of time and mar. cower ccnstraints, ccm:letely define the complex interrelationships between the Or::: sed " central office" for emergency plannino and tne program Offices an: :neir licensing resconsibilities.
It coes, however, cresent a t.
1 5:arting 00in: for the considerable effort neeced by all the effices i.
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us whi ch must be es ablisnec.
In considering crgar.i:a-icnal Options, F
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us; be extrerely careful not to lose sigh cf ne.sai-h and safety lice, sing responsibilities of NMSS and NRR.
Tnere are many aspects of
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.m:ers unding of :he licensees ' operations.
For nis reason proposino :
ret:ve fr:m NRR and NMSS those aspects of emercency planning and response unich dsa.1 closely with their respective licensee operations is unacceptable.
!li A major problem in discussine or planninc for emercencies appears to be tha inahility to obtain a simultaneous comprehensien Of the interrelationships
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Oc*. een se rious ;arti:irants, multiolicity cf phases, and functional c'
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Tne ED" Emerg:ncy Planning Tas: F:r:e cevelc:ed n ccm renensior.s Of NRC : blems in emergency cianning :nrough the 5.
I a-lica: Ton Of a dis:i:linec analytical ap:rgach.
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he rman M. Holl et-2 approach, the players or participants are the regulators, the licensees, the State / local participants, and Federal agencies other than URC.
The
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licensing, ir.clementation and testing, and the actual emercency response.
All of the players and the phases are intertwined by the following dimensions:
responsibilities, needs, objectives, activities, products,
.S r4 crgani:ations, and interface.
Therefore, the various aspects of emergency
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A description of
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the analytical framework and the resulting matrix used by the Emergency Pianning Task Force Working Group is enclosed.
This enclosure in effect describes NRC's pre-TMI emergency preparedness posture.
The utilization
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f of the same analytical approach would facilitate a useful redefinition of erergency planning functions and functional responsibilities and their cptimum disoosition am ng the various participants, including various existing or proposed organi:ations in HRC.
We welcome the opportunity to work with you and others in such an effort.
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