ML20203P524

Forwards FEMA Ltrs Re Offsite Public Notification Sys. Approval Being Withheld Due to Lack of Notification Coverage on Mississippi River.Description of Compensatory Actions Requested within 30 Days

ML20203P524
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	04/17/1986
From:	Gagliardo J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Pilant J NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT
References
NUDOCS 8605070395
Download: ML20203P524 (4)

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g, , 1 APR I T 1986 In Reply Refer To:

Docket: 50-298 Nebraska Public Power District ATTN: J. M. Pilant, Manager, Technical Staff-Nuclear Power Group P. O. Box 499 Columbus, Nebraska 68601 Gentlemen:

Attached are copies of letters from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) concerning the Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) Offsite Public Notification System. It was noted that approval of the system is being withheld due to a lack of notification coverage on the Missouri River. It is requested that representatives from Nebraska Public Power District and the appropriate state agencies coordinate with FEMA to reach a timely resolution to this problem.

Additionally, it is requested that interim compensatory measures be in place for notifying the affected sectors until approval -for the system is achieved.

You are requested to submit to this office, within 30 days, a description of those compensatory actions that you have taken.

If you have any further questions, please contact this office.

Sincerely, sghidnal Signed by3

J. E. Gagliardo, Chief Reactor Projects Branch cc w/ enclosure:

Frank Begley, Division Chief Natural & Technological Hazards Division Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII 911 Walnut Street Kansas City, Missouri 64106 Guy Horn, Division Manager of Nuclear Operations 8605070395 860417 Cooper Nuclear Station PDR ADOCK 05000298 F PDR P. O. Box 98 Brownville, Nebraska 68321 Kansas Radiation Control Program Director Nebraska Radiation Control Program Director

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s Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII 911 Walnut Street Kansas City, Missouri 64106 0 0 APR 3 1986 j; ' APR - 81986 MEMORANDUM FOR: Fran Laden, Assistant Director l ,

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SUBJECT:

Cooper Alert and Notification System (ANS) Design Review Response Due June 1, 1986 Attached is a copy of a recent memorandum from Robert Wilkerson addressing issues related to the Cooper ANS.

You vill note that approval of the system is being withheld due to a lack of siren coverage on the Missouri River.

In addition to the aforementioned " alert" problem, we also have the concern that transients on the Missouri River are without " notification", since they would not be expected to have radios.

Also attached is a copy of FEMA REP-11. This document allows for the use of signs (pp.. 9 and 10) as a means for notification in the absence of other notification methods.

If the use of signs is selected as a notification methodology, they should be placed in such a way as to be readable by boaters entering the EPZ via the river and at other access points to the river.

Please inform us by June 1, 1986, of the licensee's proposed remedies and an estimated time frame for completion.

Attachments cc: Jay Pilant, NPPD Charles Hackney, NRC IV Robert Wilkerson, FEMA HQ Ken Green, FEMA HQ Tom Carter, IEAL

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SUBJECT:

Cooper Nuclear Station Alert and Notification System (ANS)

Design Review In recent discussions between mernbers of our staffs, it was agreed that procedures for alerting and notifying the transient population along the Missouri River within the Cooper Nuclear Station plume exposure emergency planning zone (EPZ) are not adquate. 'Ihe purpose of this mertorandum is to reiterate our concurrence with Region VII's assessment that the States of Missouri and Nebraska and the Nebraska Public Power District nust develop adequate ocoprehensive alert and notification procedures for stretches of the Missouri River not covered by sirens.

Many options for providing an alert signal to persons on or along the river are available; however, regardless of which procedures are adopted they nust fully comply with all EUA rquirements (e.g.15- and 45-minute alerting re-quirements as outlined in NUREG-0654/EUA-REP-1, Rev.1, Appendix 3 and EUA-REP-10).

The Cooper Nuclear Station ANS will not be approved until this issue is sat-isfactorily addressed. Despite the fact that the Missouri River in the EPZ is mostly rural and used predczninantly by camercial river traffic, it is large enough and potentially accessible enough to the surrounding population to warrant further consideration and the developnent of special alerting procedures by the aes us iate authorities.

If you have any questions please contact me at 646-2860.

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