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Motion for Summary Disposition of Kensington Contentions 2 & 10.Statement of Facts Not in Dispute Encl
ML20195B951
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Site: Seabrook  NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 05/20/1986
From: Dignan T
PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ROPES & GRAY
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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APPLICANTS' MOTION FOR

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DISPOSITION OF KENSINGTON CONTENTIONS NOS. 2 AND 10 Fursuant to 10 CFR S 2.749, on the basis of the Affidavit of Gary J. Catapano re Kensington Contentions Nos.

2 and 10 ("Catapano Affidavit") and the statement of undisputed fact- - ached hereto and for the reasons set forth be.,e the .pplicants move the Board to enter an order summarily disposing of Kensington Contentions Nos. 2 and 10 in Applicants' favor.

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I' REASONS FOR GRANTING THE MOTION Kensington Contention No. 2. reads:

"The Kensington emergency response plan does not provide for adequate notification, by the licensee, of State and local. response organizations and for notification of emergency response personnel by organizations, as required by 10 CFR $ 50.47(b)(5). Provision for notification of the town emergency response organization is inadequate in that it depends upon notification through the Rockingham. County Dispatch and does not assure that the contact person will be available or can be reached in the event of a nuclear emergency. In each instance, there must be direct contact between the site and the town, and there must be a dedicated telephone line to a location where an individual will always be on duty to receive the communication and then take action."

Kensington Contention No. 10 reads:

"The December 1985 draft radiological emergency response plan for the Town of Kensington'does not provide for communications with contiguous State / local governments within the plume exposure pathway EPZ, as required by 10 CFR $ 50.47 App. E, E.(9)(a), because provisions for communications with the

. State government are inadequate."

4 Kencington Contention No. 10 was admitted by the Board "with limitation to the specific basis stated." ASLB Memorandum and Order of April 19, 1986 at 23. That basis was:

"NUREG 0654 L.1.b. requires provisions for communications with contiguous State / local governments within the EPZ.

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t Center currently has only one telephone (red phone) for communications with State /, local governments, located on the ground floor of the EOC, while the command post is located on the second floor of the EOC. This system is not adequate to allow necessary emergency response communications."

The Catapano Affidavit ($ 2-6) establishes that the notifiction sequence in Kensington will be changed to assure ,

that verification will occur and that in the event the fact that the police officer charged with notifying the emergency response organization has himself been notified cannot be verified a knowledgeable alternate will undertake that duty.

The Catapano Affidavit (11 7-11) also describes the new and sophisticated radio equipment purchased for Kensington and demonstrates that fully adequate sources of communication with the State and contiguous local governments are available to Kensington.

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Robert K. Gad Ropes & G 225 Franklin Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 (617) 423-6100 l

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4 STATEMENT OF FACTS NOT IN DISPUTE

1. The notification sequence for the Town of Kensington has been revised to reflect changes in the Town's Police Department and to improve the notification sequence described in earlier planning documents. Those revisions will appear in a plan revision due to be completed on or about June 1,'1986.
2. The proposed new sequence of notification is as follows: Rockingham County Dispatch (hereafter RCD) will notify the police officer on duty or on call, this

-notification will be made via radio pager.

3. At the same time the radio page is sent to the police officer on duty or on call a simultaneous notification will also be provided by RCD to the selectmen,

.the civil defence director and the fire chief via radio pagers. The police officer then has the primary responsibility for verifying the receipt of the message from RCD and for notifying the emergency response organization for the Town. The police officer has 10 minutes to make the verifications to the fire chief, civil defense directors, and the selectmen. The fire chief is the first verification of notification that the police officer makes. In the event that the fire chief is not notified within 10 minutes of the receipt of the radio page, the fire chief would attempt to l

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r-contact the police officer via telephone, portable radio or mobile radio and if unable to do so they would follow the procedures outlined for the. police officer on duty and make the appropriate verifications. If the chairman of the board of selectmen has not received verification from the police officer or the fire chief within 15 minutes of the receipt of the radio page he should attempt to contact them and in the event he is not successful he should implement the notification sequence for the police officer on duty.

4. Additional radio equipment was purchased for the Kensington Police Department as part of a complete reconfiguration of the existing communications network and installation of this equipment was begun. (Installation was

-halted at the direction of a Town official). When installed, the on-duty police officer will be equipped with a new high power portable, a new pager and new mobile to communicate with RCD. It is important to recognize that this radio equipment will be in daily use by the Department and any malfunctioning radio equipment would be identified on a daily basis. Sufficient radio equipment was purchased to allow for units that may be out of service for repairs.

5. New radio pagers have been purchased for all key municipal officials as outlined in Kensington's RERP.
6. As part of an EPZ wide effort to upgrade the existing communications systems, discussions were held with Kensington public safety officials. Based upon an b ,

t evaluation.of the existing communications equipment, input from local public safety officials, consideration of technical parameters and an analysis of the communications requirements of the RERP a reconfiguration of Kensington's communications systems was developed. A complete complement  ;

Kof radio communic 'i.ons equipment was purchased for Kensington Police Department to allow each officer to have a portable unit and a pager, new mobile units and a base station _with a backup AC power source were also purchased.

7. New mobile units, portables, and pagers were also purchased for the F.4re Department. All of the equipment purchased is wide band multifrequency capable of allowing communications to occur on numerous frequencies.
8. A complete communications package was also purchased for the EOC which is located at the fire station on the second floor. Included in this package is a NHCDA command and control radio and a (2) meter RACES radio which provides the backup system for command and control. A new high power multifrequency scanning base station was also purchased to allow communications with surrounding communities emergency response organizations and other agencies that might be sent in to assist Kensington. A new multiline telephone system and additional phone lines will be added to the EOC to provide adequate communications.

Sufficient portables, pagers and mobiles have been purchased to allow the fire and police departments to conduct their j

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q-routine public' safety activities at the same time that communications resources are being utilized for communicating information related to the RERP.

9. This communications network is engineered to allow the EOC in Kensington to coordinate and control the Town's emergency response activities and communicate directly with RCD, the State, surrounding EPZ communities, the host communities and other agencies that may be sent in to assist Kensington. At RCD center a numbar of improvements have been made to allow for the additional communications associated with Seabrook Station and the RERP. Special paging encoders have been installed to facilitate the required paging notifications and to simplify the actions required by the dispatcher to achieve them. The transceiver primarily utilized for the paging notifications is being i

replaced with a new continuous duty rated, high power station. A new phone system has been installed at the dispatch center along with specialized emergency line and call logging recorders. An additional communications console and fire dispatch area have been added to allow greater flexibility for dispatch operations.

10. The signal strength from the transmitter sites utilized by RCD to. communicate with Kensington is more than adequate for all paging and mobile communications. Numerous channels exist for RERP communications to occur on,

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O any reasons. These improvements coupled with the improvements planned for Kensington's own internal communications systems and the installation of an emergency power generator planned for the EOC/ Fire Station will make this a highly reliable and effective communications network.

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