ML20209D508
| ML20209D508 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 04/24/1987 |
| From: | George Thomas PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| References | |
| CON-#287-3292 NYN-87058, OL, NUDOCS 8704290299 | |
| Download: ML20209D508 (10) | |
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soorge s.momos UI vice heedent Nuclear Moducnon April 24, 1987 6
of h 6 NYN-87058 N:;w Hampshire Yankee Division United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Attention:
Document Control Desk
References:
(a) Facility Operating License NPF-56, Construction Permit CPPR-136, Docket Nos. 50-443 and 50-444 (b) PSNH Letter (NYN-87046), dated April 8,1987,
" Radiological Emergency Response Plan for Commonwealth of Massachusetts", G. S. Thomas to the USNRC
Subject:
Radiological Emergency Response Plan for Commonwealth of Massachusetts Centlemen:
In Reference (b), New Hampshire Yankee (NRY) submitted the Seabrook Station Radiological Emergency Response Plan for The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and requested a meeting with the NRC Staff to discuss the submittal. Since it is not apparent that such a meeting is forthcoming, to this letter provides additional clarification which will assist in the review and understanding of this submittal. The following is a brief discussion of the clarifications provided in.
NHY submitted a complete set (25 volumes) of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and procedures for The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
These plans and procedures were developed by The Commonwealth and local communities with the assistance of consultants. Collectively, these plans and procedures describe a total program of response by The Common-wealth, the six towns within the Seabrook Station EPZ and the two host communities. Further, these plans were informally reviewed twice by FEMA f or compliance with NUREG-0654/ FEMA-REP-1 guidelines and upgraded in response to these reviews. The extensive planning efforts provided by The Commonwealth, the towns and their consultants have culminated in a plan which provides a reasonable basis and framework by which the health and safety of the public will be protected.
l The Seabrook Station onsite Emergency Response Organization is fully trained to respond and has the capability to implement those key elements of of fsite emergency preparedness which interf ace with a state and local response such as notification, requesting and using assistance, and accommodations of state and local representatives at the Emergency Operations Facility.
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United States Nuclear Regulatory Comm15sion NYN-87058 Attention: Document Control Desk Page 2 It is NHY's position that the responsible governmental bodies would implement the respective portions of the plan to protect the health and safety of the general public during any emergency. Furthermore, the capabilities exist to implement such a plan for the following reasons:
a) several hundret members of the area and local response organizations have been trained to implement these plans; b) equipment to supplement area and local response organization resources (e.g., communication equipment, dosimet ry, etc.) has either been dia-tributed or is available; c) certain portions of the plan are in common with those plans already implemented and periodically demonstrated for other nuclear facilities whose EFZ's lie wholly or partially within The Commonwealth; and, d) the capability of implementing certain response functions has been recently demonstrated while responding to actual natural and man-made emergency situations (e.g., April,1987, flooding conditions and de-clared State of Emergency in The Commonwealth).
Based on the above, there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the state of emergency preparedness for that portion of the Seabrook Station EPZ which lies within The Commonwealth, in combination with the State of New Hampshire emergency response capabilities, provides reasonable assur-ance that the health and safety of the public can be adequately protected.
In regards to continuing emergency planning ef forts for Seabrook Station, every ef fort to obtain the full cooperation of the Commonwealth and the local governments is.tontinuing. However, given the present posture of noncooperation, NRY is prepared to develop and implement effective measures, which are reasonable and achievable, to compensate for this lack of cooperation.
If you require any further information regarding this matter please contact the NHY Bethesda Licensing Of fice (Mr. R. E. Sweeney) at (301) 656-6100.
Very truly yours, A
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Mr. Victor Stello Executive Director for Operations U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission l
Washington, DC 20555 Mr. Victor Nerses, Acting Director PWR Project Directorate No. 5 Division of PWR Licensing - A U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 4
Washington, DC 20555 Regional Administrator
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King of Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. A. C. Cerne NRC Senior Resident Inspector 4
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Atomic Safety Licensing Board Service List Lando W. Zech, Jr. Chairman Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 1717 H Street, N.W.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20006 East West Tower Buildinig 4350 East West Highway James K. Asselstine, Commissioner Bethesda, MD 20814 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
Gustave A. Linenberger Washington, DC 20006 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Kenneth M. Carr, Commissioner East West Tower Building U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 4350 East West Highway 1717 H Street, N.W.
Bethesda, MD 20814 Washington, DC 20006 Dr. Jerry Harbour Thomas M. Roberts, Commissioner Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
East West Tower Building Washington, DC 20006 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 Frederick M. Bernthal, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission William C. Parler, Esq., General Counsel 1717 H Street, N.W.
Office of the General Counsel Washington, DC 20006 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
Helen Hoyt, Chairperson Washington, DC 20006 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Martin G. Malsch, Esq., Deputy General East West Tower Building Counsel for Licensing and Regulation 4350 East West Highway Office of the General Counsel Bethesda, MD 20814 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
Administrative Judge Sheldon J. Wolfe, Washington, DC 20006 Esq., Chai rman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Sherwin E. Turk, Esq.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Executive Legal Director East West Tower Building U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 4350 East West Highway Tenth Floor Bethesda, MD 20814 7735 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, MD 20814 H. Joseph Flynn, Esq.
Office of General Counsel Federal Emergency Management Agency 500 C Street, SW l
Washington, DC 20472
Atoalc Safety Licensina Board Service List (continued)
Diane Curran, Esq.
Andrea C. Perster, Esq.
Senator Gordon J. Humphrey*
Harmon & Weiss U.S. Senate Suite 430 Washington, DC 20510 2001 S Street, NW (ATTN:
Tom Burack)
Mashington, DC 20009 Carol S. Sneider Esq.
Assistant Attorney General Senator Gordon J. Humphrey*
Department of the Attorney General 1 Pillsbury Street One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor Concord, NH 03301 (ATTN: Herb Boynton)
Boston. MA 02108 Robert A. Backus Esq.
116 Lowell Street Philip Ahrens, Esq.
P.O. Box 516 Assistant Attorney General Manchester, NH 03105 Department of the Attorney General Statehouse Station so Augusta, NE 04333 Paul McEachern, Esq.
Matthew T. Brock. Esq.
Mrs. Sandra Gavutis Shaines & McEachern Chairman, Board of Selectmen 25 Maplewood Avenue RFD 1 - Box 1154 P.O. Box 360 Kensington, NH 03827 Portsmouth NH 03801 Mr. Ed Thomas PEMA Region I Thomas F. Powers III 442 John W. McCormack PO & Courthouse Town Manager Boston, MA 02109 Town of Exeter 10 Front Street Exeter, NH 03833 Stephen E. Merrill, Esq.
Attorney General Brentwood Board of Selectmen George Dana Bisbee, Esq.
RFD Dalton Road Assistant Attorney General Brentwood, NH 03833 Office of the Attorney General 25 Capitol Street Concord, NH 03301-6397 Richard A. Hampe. Esq.
Hampe and McNicholas Calvin A. Canney 35 Pleasant Street City Manager 1
City Hall Concord, NH 03301 i
126 Daniel Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 i
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Mr. J.P. Nadeau Selectmen's Office Mr. William S. Lord 10 Central Road Board of Selectmen Town Hall - Friend Street Rye, NH 03870 Amesbury, MA 01913 Gary W. Holmes. Esq.
Holmes & Ells Peter S. Mathews, Mayor City Hall 47 Winnacunnet Road Newburyport, MA 01950 Hampton, NH 03842 Robert Carrigg Town Office Judith H. Mizner Atlantic Avenue Silvergate, Gertner, Baker, Fine, Good & Mizner North Hampton, NH 03862 88 Broad Street Boston, MA 02110 Mr. Angle Machiros Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Charles P. Graham, Esq.
Town of Newbury McKay, Murphy and Graham 100 Main Street Newbury, MA 01950 Amesbury, MA 01913
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ENCLOSURE 1 TO NYN-87058 I.
PLANS New Hampshire Yankee submitted to the NRC a complete set (25 volumes) of the Massachusetts State and Local Radiological.
Emergency Response Plans and Procedures. This set consists of the following:
o Massachusetts State Plan Nuclear Incident Advisory Team (NIAT) Handbook o
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}bssachusetts Area I Plan o
Massachusetts Compensatory Plan o
6 - Two Volume Sets of EPZ Town Plans / Procedures o
2 - Two Volume Sets of Host Town Plans / Procedures o
One Volume containing 10 Special Facility Plans o
Four Volumes of 4 School Plans These plans and procedures were developed by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (hereinaf ter referred to as The Commonwealth) and local communities with assistance fron consultants under the technical direction and supervision of the Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency. The consultants assisting The Commonwealth have successfully developed over 71 plans for various state and local governments.
Collectively, these plans and procedures describe a total program of response (by The Commonwealth, the six towns within the Seabrook Station EPZ and the two host communities) to an incident at Seabrook Station. These plans were developed to meet the guidelines of NUREG-0654/ FEMA-REP-1 and have been informally reviewed twice by FEMA at the request of The Common-wealth. The most recent informal technical assistance review by FEMA was conducted at the request of the Secretary of the Of fice of Public Safety in February 1986. The plans and pro-cedures were subsequently upgraded under the direction of the Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency to address the identified concerns. The resultant plans and procedures are the documents submitted by NHY to the NRC.
The Commonwealth and local community governments, at the time of development of these plans, had the confidence that they could implement them and had the intention to do so in the event of an incident at Seabrook. Additionally, the Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency and Department of Public Health are presently exercising these state-level plans in conjunction with emergency preparedness at three nuclear power stations whose EPZ's lie wholly or partially within The Commonwealth. During December of 1985 and through the first quarter of 1986, af ter which The Commonwealth suspended its Seabrook related emergency preparedness efforts, several hundred members of the area and local emergency response organizations were trained to implement these. plans.
During this period, the equipment (e.g., communication equipment, dosimetry, etc.) required to supplement the area and local emer-i
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ENCLOSURE I TO NYN-87058 gency preparedness capabilities was purchased and distributed or is available for distribution.
New Hampshire Yankee believes that if an incident occurred at Seabrook, The Commonwealth and local governments would respond using the personnel and resources described in the subject plans and procedures (as well as those available from the Federal Re-sponse Plan) and that this response would be adequate to pro-tect the health and safety of the general public.
This belief stems also f rom the fact that Seabrook Station has an onsite Emergency Response Organization trained to respond to incidents at the Station. This is reflected in a variety of documents, including the SSER and several NRC appraisal reports (reference USNRC Inspection Report Nos. 50-443/85-32, 50-443/
86-10, 50-443/86-18, 50-443/ 86-30). The onsite organization has proven itself not only capable of onsite response but also capable of implementing the following key elements of Emergency Preparedness necessary to interface with the state and local response described above:
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Arrangements for requesting and using assistance resources; accommodation of state and local representatives at EOF; identification of other organizations to augment response.
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Notification of state and local response organizations and the general public.
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Communications among principal response organizations and to the general public.
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Adequate emergency response f acilities to support the emergency response.
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Adequate methods and equipment to assess and monitor actual and potential offsite consequences of radiological eme rgency.
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Arrangements for medical services for contaminated injured individuals.
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Radiological emergency response training f or those who may be called upon to assist in the emergency.
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ENCLOSURE I TO NYN-87058 The aggregate response described in the above plans and pro-cedures is believed by New Hampshire Yankee to ensure the adequacy of Emergency Preparedness for that portion of the Seabrook Station EPZ within The Commonwealth.
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IMPLEMENTATION In the event of an incident at the Seabrook Station, the Onsite Emergency Response Organization would be activated and would implement the onsite response as well as the key elements inter-facing with offsite authorities described above. With regard to Massachusetts planning, the main function of the onsite organization is notification and communication. The Control Room, at the outset of any incident at the Station notifies the Massachusetts State Warning Point. The Warning Point (State Police), upon notification from Seabrook Station, proceeds to activate the Massachusetts emergency response organization and facilities in accordance with The Commonwealth plans and pro-cedures. The most recent demonstration of these capacilities was the NRC-observed February 26, 1986, emergency preparedness exercise.
The Commonwealth's emergency response would be implemented as described in the Massachusetts State Plan and NIAT Handbook.
The Commonwealth's capabilities to respond was demonstrated most recently at the June 11, 1986, exercise for the Yankee Nuclear Power Station at Rowe, Massachusetts. The draft FEMA assessment of these capabilities resulted in "no deficiencies" for The Commonwealth's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and monitoring teams. Coordination between the State of New Hamp-shire and The Commonwealth was demonstrated during the Vermont Yankee April 17, 1985 Emergency Exercise and June 6, 1985 Remedial Exercise.
The Massachusetts Area I and local emergency response would be implemented as described in the Area I and local Radiological Emergency Response Plans. The organizations that would imple-ment the response are the same organizations that would respond to a natural or man-made disaster. Many of the response functions are also common. This was demonstrated during the response to the recent floods and Declaration of Emergency by The Commonwealth (April 6-9, 1987). Some common functions included:
o Coordination with Federal response; o
Activation of the Tewksbury Area I Massachusetts Civil Defense EOC; o
Activation of the Seabrook Station Emergency Operations Facility which coordinated requests for assistance from local Civil Defense organizations (including a request f or assistance f rom West Newbury, MA.);
o Activation of the National Guard; o
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Establishing emergency communication; o
Localized evacuations; o
Opening of mass care centers; o
Establishing access control; o
Establishing traffic control; and, o
Removing of traf fic impediments.
NHY is continuing in its ef fort to obtain the full cooperation of The Commonwealth and local governments in Seabrook Emergency Pre-paredness. However, given the present posture of nonparticipation and noncooperation, NHY is prepared to develop and implement rea-sonable and effective measures to compensate for this lack of
- cooperation. These measures would address all of the required elements of offsite emergency planning and would describe the utility's role as well as The Commonwealth's, local, and. f ederal roles toward meeting the requirements of each element required by NUREG-0654/ FEMA-REP-1.
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