ML20151Z296

Responds to ,Sent to NRC Region I Office,Re Changes to Haddam Neck Plant Security & Emergency Plans.Nrc Completed Reviews of Plant Defueled Security Plan & Defueled Emergency Plan

ML20151Z296
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Site:	Haddam Neck File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	09/17/1998
From:	Weiss S NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Galloway D CONNECTICUT, STATE OF
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,,,,, September 17,1998 Mr. D. Galloway i Supervising Radiation Control Physicist State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection I Air Monitoring and Radiation Division 79 Elm Street Hartford, CT 06106-5127 i

Dear Mr. Galloway:

1 I am responding to your letter dated January 6,1998, originally sent to the NRC's Region I i office, regarding changes to the Haddam Neck Plant (HNP) Security and Emergency Plans.

It was not possible to provide the answers to your questions until after our reviews of the licensee's exemption requests were complete.

The NRC has completed its reviews of the Haddam Neck Defueled Security Plan and Defueled Emergency Plan. Exemptions necessary to allow the licensee to implement the

- plans were issued on July 15 and August 28,1998, respectively. Copies of the exemptions are enclosed.

I With regard to the Defueled Security Plan, the NRC has determined that the alternative measures for protection against radiological sabotage proposed by the licensee meet the assurance objectives and general performance requirements of 10 CFR 73.55 for a permanently shut down and defueled reactor site that has placed all of its spent fuel in the spent fuel pool.

With regard to the Defueled Emergency Plan, the NRC considered scenarios such as a resin liner fire and a beyond design basis earthquake. The NRC found that the analyses )O submitted by the licensee were consistent with the commitment made in its Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, which stated that any radiation exposure to an offsite individual would be bounded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Protective Action Guides. The NRC found that the HNP Defueled Emergency Plan provides for an acceptable level of emergency preparedness at the HNP in its permanently shut h i. I down and defueled condition. Therefore, the NRC approved the HNP Defueled Emergency Plan.

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Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-213 cc: See next page

Enclosures:

1. Exemption from Certain Requirements of 10 CFR Part 73 at Haddam Neck Plant (ACN 9807240177)

2. Exemption from a Portion of 10 CFR Section 50.54(q) and Approval of  :

Defueled Emergency Plan at Haddam Neck Plant (ACN 9809030182) ,

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Docket No. 50-213 cc: See next page

Enclosures:

1. Exemption from Certain Requirements of 10 CFR Part 73 at Haddam Neck Plant (ACN 9807240177)

2. Exemption fiom a Portion of 10 CFR Section 50.54(q) and Approval of Defueled Emergency Plan at Haddam Neck Plant (ACN 9809030182) l l

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Lillian M. Cuoco, Esq. Resident inspector Senior Nuclear Counsel Haddam Neck Plant

' Northeast Utilities Service Company c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Hartford, CT 06141-0270 East Hampton, CT 06424-3099 i Mr. Kevin T. A. McCarthy, Director- Mr. James S. Robinson Monitoring and Radiation Division- Manager, Nuclear investments and- .

Department of Environmental Administration Protection - New England Power Company .

79 Elm Street 25 Research Drive Hartford, CT 06106-5127- Westborough, MA 01582 Mr. Allan Johanson Mr. G. P. van Noordonnen Assistant Director Manager - Nuclear Licensing Office of Policy and Management Northeast Utilities Service Company Policy Development and Planning 362 injun Hollow Road Division East Hampton, CT 06424-3099  ;

450 Capitol-Avenue-MS#52ENR P."O. Box 341441 - Regional Administrator Hartford, CT 06134-1441 Region I j U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission  !

Mr. F. C. Rothen 475 Allendale Road  ;

Vice President - Work Services - King of Prussia, PA 19406 Northeast Utilities Service Company P. O. Box 128 Board of Selectmen Waterford, CT 06385 Town Office Building  ;

Haddam, CT 06438 l 1 Mr. D. M. Goebel

- Vice President - Nuclear Oversight Northeast Utilities Service Company P. O. Box.128 Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. J. K. Thayer Recovery Officer, Nuclear Engineering and Support Northeast Utilities Service Company P. O. Box 128

-Waterford, CT 06385