ML20206H059

Responds to Re Plant & Status of Offsite Emergency Preparedness for Town of Plymouth,Ma.Plant Will Not Restart Until NRC Satisfied That Plant Can Be Operated Safely.V Stello 881102 Memo Encl

ML20206H059
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	11/17/1988
From:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Hadfield J PLYMOUTH, MA
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November 17, 1988 CHAIRMAN i

Mr. J. Douglas Hadfield Civil Defense Director for the Town of Plymouth itemorial Hall 83 Court Street Plymouth, Massachusetts 02380

Dear Hr. Hadfield:

l I du responding to your letter dated October 17, 1988, concerning i

the Pilorim Nuclear Power Station and the status of off-site emergency preparedness for the Tuwn of Plymouth.

At my request, Mr. Victor Stello, Jr., Executive Director for Operations, and i

several other members of the NRC staff contacted you by telephone on the morning of Octcber 21, 1988, to obtain your views regarding emergency preparedness in Plymouth.

Mr. Stello has provided me the attached summary of the telephone conversation.

I also understand that a member of the NRC staff met with you on Tuesday, October 25.

I welcome the opportunity to obtain your views on emergency preparedness in Plymouth.

The Commission has asked the staff to provide similar information regarding the status of emergency preparedness for each of the other emergency planning zone (EPZ) communities.

The information obtained will be carefully considered by the Commission in our decision on whether to permit the restart of the Pilgrim plant.

I know that you, and the civil defense cirectors of the other EPZ communities, are taking your responsibilities very seriously.

I want to assure you that the Comuission appreciates your efforts to ensure that the health.ind safety of your citizens are pro-tected.

The Commission also bears that responsibility, and we will not permit the Pilgrim plant to restart until we are satisfied that the plant can be operated safely.

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Enclosure:

Memorandum from V. Stello dated November 2, 1988 (Orignated by RHogan, NRR)

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Chairman Zech FROM:

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Executive Director for Operations

SUBJECT:

PHONE CALL WITH MR. J. DOUGLAS HADFIELD, CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR FOR THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS At your request, I called Mr. Hadfield on Friday morning (October 21) to discuss his letter to you dated October 17, 1988. With me were Mr. James Taylor, Mr. William T. Russell, Mr. James Sniezek, and Mr. William G. Kennedy to prepare notes of the discussion. After introductions, Mr. Hadfield and I discussed his concerns.

Mr. Hadfield explained that the list of special needs people was not up to date, althcugh a three-year old list had been updated with a few people that had responded to a recent newspaper article. Although Mr. Hadfield stated that he did not personally know of any others who should be added, he felt that others probably needed to be sdded who were not on the list due to con-fidentiality concerns. Vnr.a I asked why the list had not been updated, he respended that a survey by the state department of handicap affairs was necessary but that funding had not been provided by the state or utility.

Mr. Russell added that he understood that the utility was willing to fund the survey but was awaiting the specifics.

I sumarized that the current list was the best information available today and Mr. Hadfield agreed.

The next subject was the status of implementing procedures. Mr. Hadfield explained that none of Plymouth's implementino procedures have been submitted totheMassachusettsCivilDefenseAgency(MC6A). Three of the most critical implementing proct:dures have not been approved by the Selectmen.

(In fact, close to 60 have yet to go through the Board of Selectmen.) Two of the three exist in draft fom and have been approved by their respective department heads (for Fire and Police departments). The third )tocedure was for tie schools.

The school superintendent decided to involve tie two school c.omittees in the appreval of their procedure and a meeting was plenned for Monday evening (October 24) to get oublic input. When the procedure for th9 schools is acceptable to the sciool comittees, it will have to be approved by the Selectnen. However, in Mr. Hadfield's professional opinion, all three implementing procedures were acceptable.

Mr. Hadfield also explained a concern for a point discussed at the October 14th Commission meeting. He was concerned that the discussten a')out the beach population on page 97 and 98 of the meeting transcript may leave the impression that no one stayed there overnight when, in fact, there are residents who live in the beach area, some year round, and it is only the transients who are net pemitted to stay overnight. Mr. Russell assured him that we understood that and that the discussion in the transcript related to the transient beach popu-lation only and not to permanent residents, gya H40 6 S h A/P r

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The next concern raised by Mr. Hadfield was that he was not sure that the individual procedures would work together.

I agreed that this aspect could only be evaluated by an integrated test; however, I explained that it was our exi>erience that when a good Db had been done on the individual procedures, 4

i' 11 te those at Pilgrim, the exorcises usually go well and do not identify significant problems. Mr. Haffield acknowledged our experience.

We then went back to the statt s of the implementing procedures and the staff's presentation to the Comission. Mr. Hadfield was concerned that no one on 4

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the NRC's staff could have sean his procedures because they have not been forwarded yet. Mr. Russell acknowledged that there were two places in the meeting transcript where the staff had not stated the complete status in 4

response to Comissioner questions. The staff had accurately characterfred the Plymouth status during the prepared presentation. He added that the staff was going through the transcript and would clarify the statements where necessary.

Mr. Hadfield did provide in.'ormation that was new to Mr. Russell in that the Jordan Hospital administrator was not yet satisfied with their procedure but that a draft existed. Mr. Hadfield and I agreed that the procedures were not "final" j

j until after an exercise and will always be living documents subject to revisions.

i The next issue raised by Mr. Hadfield was a question of manpower. He stated that no polls had been taken in Plymouth although the experience is that in 3

emergencies, usually more people volunteer than are necessary.

I acknowledged this.

l We discu sed the limitation on speakers at the NRR pubite meeting'on 4

October 5 and the Comission meeting.

I explained the Comission s policy on l

hearing speakers at their meeting and our expectation that the Comonwealth would integrate and present all local public concerns.

I also stated that j

given the apparent loss of pubhc confidence after the NRR meetinfl, we probably should have allowed Mr. hadfield and the other local off< cial to present their statements. He stated that he recognized the need to impose some j

limits on public meetings, j

The last issue discussed was a question Mr. Hadfield had concerning any i

NRC requirements for calibration of radiological survey instruments.

l explained that we had requirements for those inside the plant but looked to l

civil defense authorities to apl>1y comon sense to keep their instruments in

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working condition. He stated tiat the questions stemed from the fact i

that FEMA will only reimburse the state based on a four year cycle.

Mr. Hadfield stated that the above covered all of his concerns but still i

requested a meeting.

In response to Mr. Hadfield's request, I agreed to direct Mr. Russell to have one of his professionals meet with Mr. Hadfield, A Tuesday afternoon meeting (October 25) was tentatively agreed to.

j Finally, I asked Mr. Hadfield if he agreed with me that the overall f

planning and state of preparedness was substantially and significantly l

improved in all areas over what had existed in 1985. He agreed saying that they were "light years ahead". We also agreed that the real issues were complete planning versus ad hoc response.

.Chaiman Zech..

Mr. Hadfield has reviewed this description of our discussion and agrees with its contents. We have accomodated his coments which are provided in the attached letter dated October 26, 1988, VictorStello,J/.

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Dear Mr. Sti!!10,

I have reviewed the memorandum covering our telephone 1988.

After reviewing the conversation of October 17,ing comments.

document, I have the follow Page 2 'Three implementing procedures have not been approved by the Selectmen.'

This afatement gives the Lapressior. that there are only three procedures remaining that have not yet been approved by the selectmen.

In fact, close to 40 have yet

.to go through the Board of Helectmen.

The statement should be changed to include this fact, included in this statetent should be the fact that 3 of the most aritical implementing procedures have yet to be seen by the Selectmen.

(These are the onen mentioned further on in the paragraphs Fire, Police: and schools.)

Other than t.he above sentioned changes, I agree with the memorandum.

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Dear Mr. gti!!10,

1 I have reviewed the memorandum covering our telephone conversation of October 17, 1908 After reviewing the document, I have the following co.mments.

Page 2 'Fhree implementing procedures have not been approved by the Selectmen.'

This statement gives the impression that there are only three ytooedurea remaining that have not yet been i

approved by the selectmen.

In fact, close to 60 have yet to go through the Board of Belectmen.

The statement should be changed to includn this fact. :ncluded in this statement eheuld be the fact that 3 af the most arttical i

taplementing procedures have ynt to be seen by the Selectmen.

(These are the onen sentioned further on in i

j the paragraph Fire, Police, and schools.)

I Other than ihe above mentioned changes, I agree with the memorandum.

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EDO CONTROL: 0004021 DOC DT: 10/17/88 FINAL REPLY:

J. Douglas Hadfield. Director i

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, Town of Plymouth TO:

Chairman Zech FOR SIGNATURE OF:

• • GRN CRC NO: 88-0931 DOL 7)':' A ROUTING:

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i Stello REQUEST MEETINO OR PHONE CALL TO DISCUSS THE Taylor EMERGENCY PLANS FOR PILGRIM PRIOR TO RESTART Hoyle Russell DATE: 10/19/08 ASSIGNED TO:

CONTACT:

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Murley SPECI AL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMA.'ES:

Fcr Appropriate Action 1 NRR RECEIVED: OCTOBER 19, 1988 ACTION:

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CRC-88-0931 LOGGING DATE: Oct 18 88 ACTION OFFICE:

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J.D. Hadfield AFFILIATION:

MA (MASSACHUSETTS)

LETTER DATE:

Oct 17 88 FILE CODE: ID&R-5 Pilgrim

SUBJECT:

Req personal utg or phone call to discuss the emergency plans for Pilgrim prior to restart ACTION:

Appropriate DISTRIBUTION:

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DATE DUE:

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