ML20210E289
| ML20210E289 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Calvert Cliffs  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/1986 |
| From: | Krimm R Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| To: | Jordan E NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| NUDOCS 8603270308 | |
| Download: ML20210E289 (6) | |
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4gpp f p[y j Federal Emergency Management Agency Yig Washington, D.C. 20472 M i 9 1986 S*.317 3iI l
MEMORANDUM FOR: Edward L. Jordan b
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SUBJECT:
Exercise Report for the September 10, 1985, Exercise of Offsite Radiological Emergency Preparedness Plans for Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Attached is a copy of the exercise report for the September 10, 1985, full-participation exercise of the offsite radiological emergency pre-paredness plans for the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.
The exercise report dated December 12, 1985, was prepared by the Region III staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
There were no deficiencies identified during this exercise. However, there are several areas requiring corrective actions as well as several areas recommended for improvement.
In addition, several Category B deficiencies remaining from the September 14, 1983, exercise will now be identified as areas requiring corrective actions. This report has been sent to the State of Maryland and a schedule of corrective actions has been requested. Based on the results of this exercise, FEMA considers that off site radiological emergency preparedness is adequate to provide reasonable assurance that appropriate measures can be taken offsite to protect the health and ' safety of the public living in the ' vicinity of the site in the event of a radiological emergency. Therefore, the 44 CFR 350 approval granted August 8,1985, will remain in effect.
If you should have any questions, please contact Robert S. Wilkerson, Chief.
Technological Hazards Division, at 646-2860, 1
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Dear Mr. Murray:
Enclosed are two copies of the final report on the September 10, 1985 Calvert Cliffs exercise. This version of the report is modified somewhat from the draft distributed on October 10.
Modifications were made following review of the draft by the Regional Assistance Committee (RAC) and following receipt of your November 7,1985 response to the draft.
Recommended Improvement Item 12 (as numbered in the draft) has been dropped in response to your November 7 comments. Required Improvement Item 12 (as numbered in the draft) has been modified in order to avoid the inference that assembly area and mass care centers should be provided detailed infomation about plant conditions. The RAC does believe, however, that it is important that all response personnel be kept apprised of the general status of an accident. As to whether the mass care and assembly center staffs received appropriate information concerning county response actions in a timely manner we must stand by the report of the observer who was onsite at the assembly area and mass care center.
We appreciate the difficulties involved in proposing corrective actions within the short time between your receipt of the draft report and the date of your response. Accordingly, we request a more detailed presentation of proposed corrective actions based on the enclosed final report. We ask that January 31, 1986 be set as a target date for submission of the proposed corrective measures.
If you have any questions concerning this matter please contact James Asher or Joseph Gavin at (Area Code 215)597-8664.
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Mr. James R. Asher
Dear Mr.Giordano:
This correspondence represents the State of Maryland's re-sponse to the evaluation report for the radiological emergency re-sponse exercise with Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant on Septem-ber 10, 1985.
Included with this response are some general com-ments on the methods used to evaluate exercise performance.
Any proposed corrective actions must be considered tentative due to our inability to fully investigate and evaluate such actions in the time frame provided.
We feel the need to state our displeasure with the exercise evaluation process as it progrepses toward a very one-sided i
judgement.
The State and counti,es must have more opportunity to
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explain their methods which may have been misinterpreted by obser-vors. *It is obvious from the evaluation report that certain ob-servors were not familiar with the applicable plans and proced-ures. As a result, inaccurate statements are indisputably included in your report to FEMA Headquarters.
Additionally, the report ap-pears to include more deficient items than were expressed at the Post-exercise debriefing.
The response has been summarized to address several items si-multaneously due to the similarity of corrective measures.
Four (4) categories are used in the response and corrective actions are keyed to the summary of " Areas requiring improvement" and " Areas recommended for improvement" provided in the FEMA repotL.
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EQUIPMENT (required improvement items 1,4,8,15,16 and 21)
(recommended improvement items 3,5,6,7, and 20)
Communication system failures have been corrected or are in the process of being improved / corrected.
Resource constraints in an exercise preclude demonstration of additional redundancy in com-munications capability, such as use of Maryland State Police, radio as backup for field monitoring teams and Radiation Control / Acci-dent Assessment Center.
A phone link or intercom will be established between the Mary-land Accident Assessment Center and the utility's Dose Assessment office.
Calvert County is installing radios in their Health Depart-ment vehicles, thus providing radio communications with all vehi-cles used for field monitoring.
Calvert County also plans to build a new EOC, with new status boards capable of listing sequential events, to be completed in perhaps 18 months.
St. Mary's County will investigate the availability of 0-20 R dosimeters, but cannot justify purchase of these dosimeters.
PLANS / PROCEDURES (required improvement.tems 22 and 23)
(recommended improvement item 15)
St. Mary's County Civil Defense has a list of mobility and hearing impaired individuals. based on response from mail back cards distributed with annual Public Information brochures.
The County Civil Defense augments their list with information from the Board of Education, Social Services, and the Commission on the Aging.
Thus the County has the capability and resources to notify and evacuate mobility and hearing impaired individuals.
As the numbers are not great in this relatively small portion of the 10-mile EPZ, the County will go so far as to provide special evacuation for the elderly also.
The Standard Operating Procedures for St. Mary's County will be revised to reflect the correct dosimetry that is available at s
the county.
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Dorchester County has a plan in effect, formulated by the Board of Education, with instructions to the schools and trans-portation personnel to adequately handle school evacuation.
TRAINING (required improvement items 2,3,4,5,6,8,11,13,14,15, 17,18,20, and 24).
(recommended improvement items 1,4,9,10,12,13,17, and 18)
Tasks ci,ted in the referenced improvement items will be given emphasis during annual training.
Training is projected to occur throughout 1986 in the form of classroom instruction or practico during drills and/or real emergencies.
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Subsequent to the September 10 exercise the State and counties have had to respond to two real emergencies (Hurricane Gloria and flooding of November 3-7).
In each emergency evacuation and mass j
care were demonstrated adequately, thus providing opportunities to increase the knowledge and skill of emergency personnel.
EXERCISE PARTICIPATION / CONDUCT (required improvement items 7, 9,10, and 19)
(recommended improvement items 2,8, 11,14, 16 and 19)
The referenced improvement items in this category are the re-sult of scenario deficiencies and player deviation from exercise participation guidance published in the State of Maryland exercise directive.
This directive is distributed to all players prior to each REP exercise.
In the future, scenarios will be expanded to provide data for county field monitoring, include more messages to inject play for State and county agencies, and provide for more ingestion zone re-sponse.
The exercise directive will emphasize full participation, to include expeditious response to assignments, during future full scale exercises.
Finally, we must challenge the accuracy and validity of re-quired improvement item 12 and recommended improvement item 12.
Required improvement item 12, indicates lack of knowledge of the Calvert County plan and perhaps observational error.
County offi-cials believe they provided updates to the assembly area and mass care center either directly or through EDS.
The county will not provide plant status updates to these centers, as the staff in these centers will not understand plant status.
County response actions will be included in updates to assembly areas and mass care centers.
Recowaended improvement item'12 resulted from the observor's failure to see all actions.
The Assistant Radiological Defense Officer for Forchester County, who issued dosimetry in the field, did conduct oral briefings as well as distributing written instruc-tions for dosimetry use.
This must have occurred before the obser-vor arrived at the scene.
Should there be any questions regarding our response or comments, please contact my Assistant Director for Operations, Mr.
Edwin O. Tremper, at (301) 486-4422.
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Sincerely, A 6-EDWARD MURRAY Director EM CRalw
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INFORMATION ADDRESSEES:
Mr. Vernon D. Horsmon, Director Calvert County Emergency Management and Civil Defense Agency Mr. Otto B. Cheesman, Jr.,
Director Dorchester County Civil Defense and Disaster Preparedness Agency Mr. Thomas L. Oliver, Director St. Mary's County Civil Defense and Disaster Preparedness Agency Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Attention:
Mr. David Resh, Jr.
State Public Information Officer Attention:
Mr. Chuck Jackson Baltimore Gas & Electric Company Attention:
Mr. Thomas E.
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