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Forwards FEMA 860905 Memo Re 860415 Exercise of Offsite Radiological Emergency Preparedness Plan & Util to HR Denton Requesting Exemption from 10CFR50 App E.Related Correspondence
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Site:	Perry
Issue date:	10/31/1986
From:	Johnson G; NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
To:	Hiatt S, Lodge T, Sigler S; OHIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY, OHIO, STATE OF, SUNFLOWER ALLIANCE
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8275 Munson Road 618 N. Michigan Street Mentor, OH 44060 Suite 105 Toledo, OH 43624 Sharon Sigler, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General :"

Office of the Attorney General of the State of Ohio State Office Tower 30 East Broad Street ~

Columbus, OH 43266 In the Matter of CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY, ET AL.

(Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Unita 1 and 2)

Docket Nos. 50-440 OL, 50-441 OL

Dear Sir and Madames:

Enclosed please find the followng two documents which were recently received by this office:

1. . Memorandum dated September 5,1986, from Richard W. Krimm, Assistant Associate Director, Office of Natural and Technological Hazards Programs, Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency (FEMA), to Edward L. Jordan, Director, Division of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering Response. Office of Inspection and Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission:

Subject:

Exercise Report of the April 15, 1986 Exercise of Offsite Radiological Emergency Preparedness Plan for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, with attached exercise report; and

2. Letter, dated October 30, 1986, from Murray R. Edelman ,

Senior Vice President, Nuclear Group , Cleveland Electric illuminating Company, to liarold R. Denton, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, re: Request for Exemption to 10 C.F.R. 50, Appendix E.

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PY-CEI/NRR-0550 L MURRAY R. EDELMAN sa va emsaar Nucuan Mr. Harold R. Denton Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington. D.C. 20555 Perry Nucicar Power Plant Docket Nos. 50-440; 50-441 Request for Exemption to

_10CFR50, Appendix E

Dear Hr. Denton:

The of purposeEoftothis Appendix 10 CFRletterPart is to50.

request an exemption from Section IV.F.1 Section IV.F.1 requires that a full participation emergency preparedness exercise for the Perry Nuclear Power '

Plant (PNPP) be conducted within one year before issuance of a full power operating cbove 5% of license for PNPP, Unit 1 and prior to operation of the reactor rated power. ,

l A full participation emergency preparedness exercise was conducted on N:vember 28, 1984, a ses11 cesic cxcrcise un November 20, 1985, and what thethe of NRCNRC hasrulestated on Aprilto be a full participation exercise in the context 15, 1986. The conclusion of the April 30, 1986 NRC report stated the 1986 exercise was a full participation exercise.

FEMA, w:s to aindegree its September 5, 1986 report, stated that the State participation only partial. CEI requests this exemption to ensure the without undue delays and the resultant cost to the ratepayer and/or theprom otockholder.

CEI requests this exemption pursuant to 10CFR50.12(a) as discussed in tha attachment to this letter. Please feel free to contact me if you h:ve any questions.

Very truly yours, Murray R. Edelman Senior Vice President Nuclear Group MRE:nje Attachment C3: Jay Silberg, Esq.

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PERRY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (PNPP)

JUSTIFICATION FOR EXEMPfl0N FROM 10CFR50 APPENDIX E.

SECTION IV.F.1 The NRC may grant exemptions from Part 50 requirements which, pursuant to 10CFR50.12(a) are (1) " authorized by law, will not present an undue risk to the public health and safety, and are consistent with the common defense and security," and (2) present special circumstances. Section 50.12(a)(2) identifies six categories of special circumstances; three of these categories

((ii), (iii), and (v)), are applicable to the PNPP exemption request; each of which is discussed below. Compliance.with Section 50.12(a)(1) is achieved by maintaining an acceptable level of energency preparedness as discussed under exemption criterion (ii). Therefore, this exemption will not present an undue risk to public health and safety, and is consistent with the common defense and security.

Exemption Criterion (ii). Application of the regulation in the particular circumstances would not serve the underlying purpece of the rule or is not necessary to achieve the underlying purpose ot the rule.

The " underlying purpose" of the Appendix E Section IV.F.1 schedule requirement is presumably to ensure that emergency response capability is adequate at the time of the full power licensing. As adopted in 1980,Section IV.F.1 required a full-scale exercise "within one year before the issuance of the operating license for full power." At that tima, the NRC also required each state and local government in the plume exposure pathway Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) to participate in a least one full-scale exercise each year following licensing.

In 1980 the NRC considere J t necessary to conduct annual full participation cxercises to maintain emerg icy planning capability; however, in 1984 the NRC changed the annual exercise requirement for offsite emergency response (Section IV.F.3(b)) to once every two years on the basis of both the high level of readiness and disproportionate expenditure of resources used to support annual cuercises as demonstrated in over 150 exercises. The commission stated Because emergenr.y response personnel at the State and local government level cuntinuously respond to actual emergencies, the -

Commission does not consider that relaxing the frequency of State and local government participation in emergency preparedness exercises would adversely affect the health and safety of the public.

49 Fed. Reg. 27733, 27734 (July 6, 1984).

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Apnendix E Section IV.F.1 states,

A full participation exercise which tests cs much of the licensee, State and local energency plana se is reasonably echievable cite at which without a power mandatory public participation shall be conducted for each reactor is for that ette to tesued af ter Julylocated for which the first operating license

13. 1982. This exercise shall be conducted within one year before the issuance of the first operating license for full power and prior to operation above 5% of rated power of the first reactor, and chall include participation by each State and local government within the plume exposure pathway EPZ and each State within the ingestion exposure pathway EPZ."

" Full participation" is further defined in footnote 4 " Full participation" i when used in conjunction with emergency preparedness exercises for a particular

) cite means appropriate offsite local and State authorities and licensee p3rsonnel physically and actively take part in testing their integrated cepability cuclear to adequately power plant. assess and respond to an accident at a commercial

" Full participation" includes testing the major observable portions of the onette and offsite emergency plans and mobilization of State, 15 cal and licensee personnel and other resources in sufficient numbers to ,

v:rify the capability to respond to the accident scenario." !

A full participation exercise which literally meets the regulatory definition i occurred April on November 28, 1984. Another such exercise occurred ou 15, 1986.

In its report dated April 30, 1986, Report No.

50-440/86009 (DRSS); 50-441f86003 (DRSS), the NRC characterized the April 1986 Chio." as "a full participation exercise for these counties and the State of cxtreise cxsrciseHowever, as "a joint,FEMA's report dated September 5,1986 characterized this cnd Lake Counties of Ohio. full participation evercise for the Astitabula, Ceauga, State of Ohio." This was a partial participation exercise for the Accarding following areas to FEMA's report, the State of Ohio demonstrated ice ability in the o

Activation and Staffing o Emergency Operatione Management o Facilities o Communications o

o Dose PublicAssessment Alerting and andInstructions Protective Recommendations o Protective Actions o Radiological Esposure Control o Media Relatione o Field Nonitoring '

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The St ate Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at Worthington Ohio has been evisluated during numerous previous radiological emergency preparedness excrelses. This was a partial participation exercise for the Stato. The EOC staff consisted of representatives from the Ohio Departments of licalth and Agriculture, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEpA), and the Ohio Disaster Services Agency (ODSA). Additional State staff were prepositioned for the exercise at the County EOCs, EOF, JPIC, and at predesignated staging areas for the communications van and field monitoring team.

The State of Ohio objectives included 18 of the 35 exercise objectives listed in Table "M" of the " Modular Format for Uniformity of Radiological Emergency Preparedness Observations .ind Evaluations," dated June 1983.

Thus, the exercise was much greater in scope than a " partial participation" oxercise, which is limited to exercising " direction and control functions" cnd " communication capabilities." During the exercise, the State fully d:monstrated all but one of the 18 objectives. Additionally, the State of Ohio has previously demonstrated (either in the November 1984 or the April 1986 exercisc) all but 4 of the 35 objectives.

The results of the April 15, 1986 exercise, as documented in both the FEMA and NRC reports, cIcarly show the capability of the emergency response organizations of the State of Ohio Lake, Ashtabula and Geauga Counties, cnd CEI.

FEMA's assessment of the April 1986 exercise as a partial participation cxercise does not change these results. Therefore, the underlying purpose of the rule has been met by the conduct of both the November 1984 and April 1986 exercises.

Exemption Criterion (111). Compliance would result in undue hardship or other costs that are siRnificantly in excess of those contemplated when the regulation was adopted, or that are significantly in excess of th*se incurred by others similarly situated.

The NRC did not appear to contemplate that more than one full participation c::Orcise might actually have to be conducted for a given reactor prior to full-power licensing when it adopted Section IV.F.1 of Appendix E.

The first full participation exercise'at PNPP which included the State, w:s held in November 1984 and was deemed highly successful. When full power licensing of PNPP was deferred until late 1985 an exemption request t*:s illed to enable the facility to utilise that successful full-scale carrcise to fulfill the requirements of this regulation. When the April 1986 full participation exercise was held and the plant was still not f 11y licensed the previous exemption request was no longer pursued since that 1986 exercise was believed to fulfill the requirement of 10CFR50 Appendix E Section IV.F.1. Therefore. PNPP has to date actually conducted tuo full-scale exercises prior to receipt of the full-power operating license, as explained above. If a determination is made that the most r:s:nt full-scale exercise actually involved only

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" partial" State participation, and this exemption request is not granted,Section IV.F.1 would require that another full participation exercise be held prior to PNPP's exceeding 5 percent of rated thermal power. This would result in the following undue hardships and costs:

1. State and Local Agencies The next scheduled exercise for the PNPP is in May 1987, which, in accordance with the requirements of 10CFR50 Appendix E Section IV.F.2 and IV.F.3, is scheduled as an onsite exercise with participation by the State and Counties limited to communications interfaces. The next scheduled exercise for PNPP with full participation at the State and County level is in May 1988. Within the last two years the State has been involved in full participation exercises in November 1984 and July 1985, with another full participation exercise scheduled for Novembe r 19, 1986. In addition, the State is presently involved in planning for exercises in March and April of 1987. Scheduling of another full-scale exercise at PNPP in May 1987 or earlier would place an unnecessary and severe strain on State resources. A similar burden would be placed on the local Counties since they have not budgeted for full-scale participation in an exercise at PNPP within the upcoming year.

2. Onsite If this exemption is not granted and the PNPP therefore is required s to conduct another full participation exercise prior to exceeding 5 '

percent power, the earliest possible opportunity would be to change the designation of the May 1987 exercise to a full participation exercise. This would require an unnecessary expenditure of resources above and beyond those required to conduct a small scale annual emergency plan exercise, since all State agencies involved in direct interactions with the site organization participated in the April 1986 exercise, and since substantial additional resources would be required to interface with State and local County officials in the preparation for and execution of a full participation exercise.

In addition, substantial economic injury to the Licensee, their customers and stockholders would result as detailed in the September 2, 1986 affadavit of Hurray R. Edelman attached to the " Licensees' Response To OCRE Motion For Continuance." That affadavit notes that the cost for every day that operation above 5 percent power of Unit 1 is delayed will total about 2.2 million dotters without even considering the higher fuel costs for replacement power. The PNPP is expected to be ready to exceed 5 percent power by November 16, 1986 and assuming the May 13, 1987 exercise could be expanded to a full participation exercise, this would result in nearly three months of accrued costs at this 2.2 million dollar per day total.

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L j Attachment PY-CEI/NRR-0550 L Exemption Centerion (v). The exemption would provide only temporary relief .

f rom the appl.icable regulation and the licensee or appiteant has made good faith efforts to comply with this regulation.

The exemption requests would provide relief from a one-time requirement. Since PNPP currently expects to be prepared to exceed 5 percent power by November 16, 1986, the November 1984 exercise falls outside the rule's schedule. The April 1986 exercise however, is within the rule's scheduled time f rame.

PNPP has made a good faith effort to comply with the rule. When it became obvious in 1985 that the November 1984 exercise might be outside the time limits of the rule, PNPP requested an exemption (PY-CEI/NRR-0372 L, October 17, 1985). Additional information supporting the exemption request was provided on December 6,1985 (PY-CEI/NRR-0410 L). It was made clear in both filings that PNPP expected the April 1986 exercise to be a full scale exercise. Subsequent to the filings, the scope and objectives for the April 1986 exercise were provided to both the NRC and FEMA. This described exactly what would and would not be demonstrated during the exercise. Concurrence on all objectives was obtained from both the NRC and FEMA prior to conducting the exercise. The NRC inspection report of April 30, 1986 characterized the exercise as a " full participation exercise" meeting the intention of the rule, and the pending exemption request was no longer pursued. Until October 29, 1986, PNPP believed the NRC accepted the April 1986 exercise as a full participation exercise.

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SEP 5 1986 MEMCFANDUM FOR: Edward L. Je Ian Director, Division of Dnergency Preparedness ,

and Engineering Response ice of Inspection and Enforcement U .hbgle r latory Canission FROM: ded- ir k /A Assistan$ t Assopiate Director Office of Natural and Technological Hazards Prograns SUR ECT: Exercise Report of the April 15, 1986, Exercise of the offsite Radiological Dnergency Preparedness Plans for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.

R is is to transmit a copy of the Exercise Report of the April 15, 1986, joint exercise of the offsite radiological emergency preparedness plans for the Pe'rry tbclear Pcwer Plant, near North Perry, in I.ake County, Ohio. This was a joint, full participation exercise for the Ashtabula, ~s Geauga, and Iake Counties in chio, nis was a partial participation exercise for the State of anio. ne three counties are inpacted by Perry's p1trne exposure 10-mile Dnergency Planning Zone (EP2). n e report, dated July 14, 1986, was prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region V.

In the April 15, 1986, exercise there were no Deficiencies observed, but there was an inadequacy observed as requiring a corrective action. He State of Ohio has received a copy of the exercise report ard will re-spond to FEMA Region V with a schedule for the corrective action. After !

the Region has received the schedule, and consulted with appropriate members of the Regional Assistance Ocmnittee (RAC), it will forward an evaluated schedule for the corrective action to this office. n e schedule will be transmitted to NRC after FD(A review and analysis.

If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Robert S. Wilkerson, Chief, Technological Hazards Division, at 646-2861.

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Cleveland Electric illuminating Cortpany Joint Exercise Facility Location: Located in the State of Ohio, near the village of North Perry Exercise Date: April 15, 1996 Date Of Report: July 14, 1986

Participants:

State of Ohio (partial); Ashtabula County (full); Geauga County (full); Lake County (full) and the Cleveland

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Federal Ehergency Managenent Agency .

Region V Natural And Technological Hazards Division 300 South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60606 .

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. TABLE OF, CONTENTS page 2 EXECUTIVEkUMMARY page 3 State of Ohio page 3 Ashtabula County page 5-Ceauga County page S ake County page 10 EXERCISE REPORT page 12 Introduction page 12

1. Exercise Background page 12

2. Participating and Non-Participating State and Local Governaents page 12

3. List of Evaluators page 12

4. Evaluation Criteria page 13

5. Exercise Objectives page 14

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6. Strm.ary of Scenario page 19

7. State and Local Resources Planned To Be Used In The Exercise page 21 S. Exercise Findings In Past Exercises page 22

9. . Exercise Objectives Still To Be Effectively.

Achieved page 23

?:arrative page 24

1. State of Ohio page 24

2. Ashtabula County page 31

3. c#auga Cnonry page 33

4. Lake County page 44

SUMMARY

LISTING OF EXERCISE FINDINGS page 53 State of Ohio page 54

1. Deficiencies Affecting Public Health and Safety page 54

2. Required Corrective Actions page 55

3. Reconnendations For Inprovenent page 56

. Ashtabula County page 57

1. Deficiencies Affecting Public Health and Safety page 57

2. Required Corrective Actions page 58

3. Reconcendations For Inprovenent page 59 Geauga County page 60

1. Deficiencies Affecting Public Health and Safety page 60

2. Required Corrective Actions page 61

3. Reconcendations For Inprovenent page 62 Lake County page 63

1. Deficiencies Affecting Public Health and Safety page 63

2. Required corrective Actions page 64

3. Reconcendations For Inprovenent page 65 2

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SUMMARY

7 STATE OF OHIO The State acergency Operations Center (EOC) at Worthington, Ohio has been evaluated during nunerous previous radiological energency preparedness exercises. This was a partial participation exercise for the State. The

DC staff consist?d of representatives frorn the Ohio Departnents of Health and Agricultare, the Ohio Environaental Protection Agency (OEPA), and the Ohio Disaster Services Agency (ODSA) . Additional State staf f were prepositioned for the exercise at the County EOCs, EOF, JPIC, and at predesignated staging areas for the connonications van and fielql nonitoring team.

We State EOC staf f denenstrated the ability to nobilize staff, activate facilities and inaintain staffing around the clock at the State EOC, the utility's EOF, the JPIC and field teaus. This was acconplished through the use of current rosters of parsonnel of the errergency response organizations, and the actual and sinalated call-up of energency response personnel of agencies represented in the EOC. The denonstration of around the clock (24-hour) staf fing at the. EOF by the State of Ohio corrects an area which required corrective action f rom the exercise of Noverber 28, 1984.

The EDC staff denonstrated ability to nake decisions; to coordinate energency activities, and to connonicate with all appropriate locations, organizations, and field personnel. Connonications was via a five-way dedicated telephone between the utility, the State and the three (3)

Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake. A problem with the five-way dedicated telephones existed briefly during the early part of the exercise.

Extraneous noise was heard over the receiver of the telephone in the EOC, but was quickly corrected when it was discovered that two (2) lines were being used at the licensee's EOF and control center sinoltaneously. To prevent future recurrence of the problem it is reconcended that the utility's control center cease nonitoring the line innediately af ter the EOF is activated and EOF personnel tegin aonitoring the line. Connonications by use of the five-way dedicated lines was an area requiring corrective action during the Novenber 1984 exercise of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.

However, the ininor problem that occurred on the telephone line during the exercise did not warrant. required corrective action but a need for the users

- to be aware of the potential problem.

'Ihe EOC staff was able to project dosage to the public via the plune exposure based on plant and field data. Appropriate protective measures, such as sheltering and evacuation, were also reconnended by the State assessnent tearn based on protective action guides. 'Ihe State along with the counties also denonstrated ability to inglenent reconnendations to shelter lactating farm aninals and place thern on stored feed.

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us. u de State. field nonitoring team actively participated in the exercise. This included denonstration of radiological inonitoring equipnent, connonications capabilities, field team exposure control, and collection of sangles.

However, sagpling site F1 is located in a heavily wooded area. Because the .

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site is sheltered by a vegetative ca ,opy it is not a representative site to a:curately assess air deposition of radionuclides on soil and surface vegetation. We site needs to be relocated. At sanpling site F2 radio connonications could not be established with the connunications van using the prinary vehicular radio system. However, connonications was re-established at a distance away from the site by use of a secondary hand held elkie-talkie radio. The F2 sangling site also needs to be relocated.

Be Field team consisted of OEPA personnel from Colunbus and the Winsburg, Ohio District Office. OEPA staff of the Colunbus office denonstrated a high level of proficiency, however, the Twinsburg staff was less familiar with personnel protection procedures and criteria and sanpling procedures. It is reconcended that additional training be provided to the Twinsburg staff.

Mditional cpportunities for the Winsburg staff to exercise would be useful.

l Calibration record keeping needs to be kept up to date. Calibration dates were missing on a calibration sheet for one instrunent and another instrunent lacked a calibration sticker. This appeared to be a record keeping problem instead of a calibration problem. Routine calibration record keeping should be inproved.

Be State, Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties denonstrated six (6) objectives at the Joint Public Infornation Center (JPIC). Bey included the l weakness (Area Requiring Corrective Action) identified in the exercise of i Novenber 1984, for the State and Counties failure to release information

! contained in EBS nessages at the JPIC.

We initial activation of the JPIC began at 10:27 A.M., when the Lakeland concunity College Police established security in the area designated for use

! as the JPIC. The State DSA staff arrived at 11:35 A.M., while the Ashtabula County spokesperson arrived at 12:40 P.M. The Counties initiated staffing of the JPIC in real tine. Twenty-four (24) hour staffing capability was shown by double staffing and presentation of a roster.

De auditorium of the Performing Arts Building at Lakeland Connunity College is used as the nedia briefing rooni. The ODSA and the Counties had a work room on the second floor of the building adjacent to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Conpany's work rooni. Tables, chairs, and telephones were l available for nedia use.

Each County had a dedicated telephone to their EDC and the State had a ckdicated telephone to the IDF. There was hard-copy capability between the JPIC and the various EOCs. The ODSA also had a radio link to their mobile van. JPIC nedia briefings were held. The briefings were accurate and couplete. The various spokespersons were prepared and responded to questions.

Printed releases directed citizens to listen to their Energency Broadcast Station (EBS) . However, none of the printed or oral releases contained the call letters or frequencies of the EBS stations. Bis is an area reconnended for inprovenent.

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. he JPIC staf f received copies of the CBS nessag::s relcased by the counties. They provided the nessages to the nedia present at the JPIC.

~5is corracted the weakness (Area Requiring Corrective Action) f ron the

. previous, exercise.

ASHTABULA dblWrY here were twenty (20) exercise objectives to be evaluated during this exercise. The Federal evaluation concluded that all exercise objectives for Ashtabula County were fully denonstrated. No deficiercies or areas requiring corrective actions were identified. Sone reconnendations for inprovenent are reflected below.

he PNPP initially inforned Ashtabula County of the Unusual Event at 7:35 A.M. via the five-way dedicated telephone systeni. Written call lists were used to alert and nobilize EOC and field staff at each accident -

classification level. W e Ashtabula County EOC was staffed and operational by 9:25 A.M. All agencies listed in the plan were represented in the EOC.

Extended capability to continue operations was denonstrated through the use of a roster and double staffing of selected EOC positions. The EOC' staff denonstrated that they were trained, capable, and knowledgeable of their duties ard responsibilities. Teata work was evident in naking decisions and coordinating energency activities. Facilities staffed and activated during the exercise included the Ashtabula County EOC, one (1) energency worker nonitoring/ decontamination center and one (1) care center. County i representatives were dispatched to the utility's energency operations I facility and the joint public infornation center. Appropriate displays were used to support energency operations.

The Federal evaluation team reconcends that: (1) The Ashtabula County DSA Executive Grou'p hold periodic briefings in the operations room where each departaent/ agency representative reports action taken by their agency /departnent. (2) More care and attention needs to be given by staff to accurately reflect the neaning of tine noted in nessages and log entries.

t Does the tine reflected nean the tine an event occurred, or the tine the utility declared an accident classification level, or protective action reconnendation; the tine the State concurred with a utility reconcendation or decided on a protective action order; the tine the County received a nessage, concurred with a nessage or the tine the County decided to take action? (3) The adoption and use of a " standard" type status board with j

columns and headings / captions. (4) Consider the use of color coded t

transparent overlays on the radiological plotting naps, particularily the ten (10) mile EPZ nap where pre-arranged conbinations by sectors could be used to display the plune and protective actions taken by Ashtabula County.

We Ashtabula County (Sherif f's) Connonications Center is located in the EC. Both prinary and back-up co'munications systens are available. Hard-copy capability was available between the WC and the JPIC. The five-way dedicated telephone systern is the prinary conmunications system between Ashtabula County, the PNPP, the State of Ohio, and the Counties of Geauga and Lake. The five-way telephone system was nore reliable than denonstrated during the 1984 exercise, but it did have several false rings and sene static noise. The County dispatcher was able to work through this noise and continued to answer the telephone in spite of the nunerous false rings. The Federal evaluation team reconnends that effort be continued to correct the situation and inprove the system so that a clear and interference free level 5

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of perforr'ance is denonstrated in the next exercise. The thrne-way 3Micatd3 telephone system between the tri-counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake perf orned well and with no observable problens by the Federal evaluatiog team. The Federal evaluation teani would also like to conplinent _

tne anateur radio energency services personnel who denonstrated their capability at the EOC and the care center.

At 12:27 P.M. the PNPP recomended sheltering 360 degrees 0-2 miles of the PNPP, and 2-5 miles in subareas 1,2, and 3. W e State concurred and issued this rwonnendation to Ashtabula County at 12:35 P.M. Ashtabula County coordinated with Lake County concerning the activation of the pronpt alert notification system and the EBS. Ashtabula County added to the shelter protective action reconnendation that lactating aninals out to ten (10) miles should be sheltered and put on stored feed. Wis infornation was put in the EBS cessage prepared by Lake County. Ashtabula County conpleted its coordination with Lake County by 12:40 P.M. and the sirens were activated at 12:47 P.M. The EBS announcenents were started at 12:50 P.M. and were re-broadcasted at fif teen (15) minute intervals fo'r a one (1) hour period.

Given' these tines the public was alerted and received an instructional nessage within twelve (12) minutes of the tine the State issued the shelter protective action reconnendation to Ashtabula County.

The Ashtahula County assistant public infornation officer (PIO) at the County EN established contact with the Ashtabula County PIO at the JPIC and coordinated infornation and news nedia noterial betwen the County EOC and the JPIC. The County PIO at the JPIC briefed the nedia in a clear, accurate and tinely nanner. He coordinated his information with the other spokespersons to ensure the infornation was accurate and consistent.

Infornation from the EOC was received via the two-way dedicated telephone and the facsiinile nachine. Information contained in EBS nessages was released at the JPIC.

Runor control was established in the County EOC. The rumor control nunber was announced to the nodia for use by the public. Eight (8) telephone calls were received by the runor control staff. Responses were innediately provided or an answer was obtained from the proper departnent/ agency representative.

At 1:25 P.M. the State of Ohio concurred with the PNPP reconnendation to evacuate 360 degrees 0-2 miles around the PNPP, and 2-10 miles in subareas 1,2,3,4, and 5. Lactating aninals out to ten (10) miles were to be put in shelter and placed on stored feed. We County concurred with the reconnendation at 1:27 P.M. and coordinated with Lake County to have the sirens activated at 1:37 P.M. and EBS activated at 1:39 P.M.

Access control was established on-a tinely basis. One (1) traffic control point was actually denonstrated at Interstate Route 90 and Highway 45. The renaining access control points were procedurally demonstrated in the EOC.

Sufficient resources are available to the County to deal with inpedinents to evacuation such as bad weather or traffic obstructions.

We EDC staff was aware of the location of nobility inpaired individuals and

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he Spencer Elenentary School evacuation was initiated by the Superintendent of the School System. Per FEMA procedures there was no actual novenent of nudents. The Geneva School District transportation supervisor actually dispatchdd two (2) drivers and buses to the Spencer Elenentary School.

Infornatios on the school evacuation plan for Ashtabula County was provided to the Federal evaluator at the Spencer Elenentary School by the school crincipal and the two (2) bus drivers. Further interviews by the Federal evaluator with the school superintendent and the Geneva School District transportation supervisor indicated that these school officials and the bus drivers understood the school's evacuation plan and the inglenenting procedures.

Ashtabula County denonstrated the ability to continuously nonitor and control energency worker exposure. Proper dosinetry were worn by energency field workers and they were .famihiar with recording and reporting procedures. Energency workdrs were instructed to report their readings to their respective supervisors or. dispatcher (s) on an hourly basis. They were aware of the naximuni dose allowed without authorization, and knew the location of the energency worker nonitoring/ decontamination center.

A reception / congregate care center was activated and staffed at the Rowe Junior High School in Conneaut, Ohio. The center was staffed by representatives f rom the Conneaut Fire and Police Departaents, the Anerican

?.ed Cross, and the Conneaut Aaateur Radio Energency System (CARES) .

Staffing capability for continuing extended operations was denonstrated via a roster, showing replacenent staff. Procedures were denonstrated for registration and ncnitoring of evacuees. Se center had four (4) nonitoring teans (2 for wonen and 2 for nen) participating in the denonstrations. All individuals entering the center were scanned by the nonitoring teams for potential radiological contamination. We decontamination process was adequately denonstrated with proper handling of contaminated individuals, clothing, and pos' sessions. Additional centers are listed in the plan and were considered for potential activation by the EDC staff during the exercise. Foodstuffs already in the school's cafeteria and/or local purchases would be nade available for feeding evacuees. The Anerican Red Cross would provide cots, blankets and a nursing station.

We energency worker nonitoring/ decontamination center was located at the Saybrook Fire Station. The Saybrook Elencntary School is the actual facility identified for the decontamination center but was not available for this exercise. The center staff displayed knowledge of decontamination procedures. Measures were taken to control energency worker exposure and the spread of contamination. The Saybrook Elenentary School is adequate in terns or showering facilities and space. An adequate supply of dosinetry, survey equipnent and other necessary supplies were available. Deficiencies identified at the Saybrook Fire Station during the 1984 exercise have been corrected. -

We denonstration of adequacy of hospital facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals consisted of a tour of the Ashtabula County Medical Center (ACMC). The walk through of the hospital revealed

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i GEAUGA COUNTY Geauga County selected and successfully denonstrated twenty-one (21) objectives during this exercise. The County denonstrated their ability to nobilize their staff and activate facilities in a tinely nanner, in accordance with the County plan and current standard o;x? rating procedures.

Twenty-four (24) hour staf fing was denonstrated by double staffing and/or presentation of personnel rosters for the various positions.

Decision naking and coordination with Ashtabula and Lake Counties was ef fectively acconplished. Routine decisions are nade by staff nenbers with aajor problens elevated to the executive staff for reconnendations and final

&cisions. The system is efficient and effective.

W e Geauga County EOC facilities contain all the anenities necessary for twenty-four (24) hour per day operations on a- continuous basis. All required naps and charts are pernanently displayed in the EOC, with furniture and telephones in place. Diergency electrical power was available. Each staff nenber brought his/her agency's current SOPS and reference naterial to the EOC in readiness for operation. According to County EOC officials the EOC operations will be noved to a new EOC location within the next few nonths.

We EOC staf f denonstrated capability to connunicate with appropriate locations using prinary and secondary systens.

Alerting the public is acconplished through coordination of the tri-counties. When protective actions are agreed upon personnel in the Lake County EOC are responsible for sounding the siren systen. Geauga County has the ability to independently sound -sirens for the tri-county area if required. Prescripted EBS nessages are used where possible. The nessages are agreed upon by the three (3) Counties and released to EBS stations by Lake County. Hard copies of the EBS releases are sent to Ashtabula and Geauga Countics, the JPIC and the State EOC, to give the widest dissemination of ' the released infornation. The alert and notification system was activated twice during the exercise. The initial activation was when sheltering was reconnended and the second activation was when evacuation was reconnended. On both occasions public alerting was acconplished within the fif teen (15) minute criteria of NUREG-0654.

In the EBS notification nessages the sector reconnendations are converted to subareas that are easily described, using familiar landnarks and geo-political boundaries. This corrects an area requiring corrective action from the 1984 exercise of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.

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At the general energency when sheltering was reconnended the Sherif f's Departneilt placed deputies at traf fic control points to assist people who

- might voluntarily evacuate the EPZ. Unen evacuation.was ordered deputies were in place to control traffic until relieved by State Highway Patrol _

personnel .' We County Highway Departnent sinalated the dispatch of nen and equignent to assist evacuation and control access to evacuated areas.

Status boards in the EOC were narked to show road blocks and traffic control points. In addition to County resources available, the National Guard staged their resources to assist the County with evacuation, clearing of inpedinents, and military policenen to help control access to the evacuated area.

The Fire Departnent/Drergency Medical Services (EMS) representative had a printed list of those persons, within the, ten (13) mile EPZ, in Geauga County who are noblilty inpaired. EMS personnel would use anbulances belonging to the fire departnent, private conpanies, and the National Guard for transportation of the nobility inpaired.

There is one (1) school within the ten (10) mile EPZ of the PNPP in Geauga County. One of the considerations nede at the alert status was early dismissal of the schools, so that school buses would be free to assist persons without transportation if evacuation becane necessary.

The County provide all energency workers in/or near the EPZ with dosinetry kits that contain low and mid range dosineters, TLDs, a record form and an instruction sheet. Energency workers at roadblocks, decontamination stations and traffic control points displayed broad understanding of how the dosinetry is used and what it indicated.

All inquiries ~ nade to the EOC for infornation were referred to the JPIC.

All briefings to the nodia were conducted at the JPIC. Infornation was coordinated on the three-way telephone between the Counties before it was released to EBS or the JPIC. A dedicated telephone is used between the JPIC and Geauga County to coordinate infornation.

The County controlled runcrs from the EOC. The runor control officer receives infornation from the executive staf f and the JPIC.. Injected problens were used to test the runor control function which perforned well.

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The reception and congregate care center was simulated to be activated at the site area energency notification during the exercise play. However, it .

was actually activated late in the evening on the exercise date and out of sequence with the regular exercise play, per pre-exercise agreenent between the ODSA and FEMA. 'Ihe West Geauga High School is used as the prinary care facility. The Anerican Red Cross provides registration and support for shelter operations. The Geauga' Anateur Radio Association provides back-up connonications to the EOC in the event connercial telephones are inoperable. The Chester Police Departnent provided security at the center, and the Chester Fire Departnent denonstrated that they were well versed in the use of radiological equipnent to nonitor evacuees and to provide decontamination as necessary. The Geauga County Health Departnent insures the adequacy of sanitation. The center provided child care, a nursing station, feeding area, and sleeping facilities.

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~5e denonstration of decontamination of energency workers, equipnent and 1 mhicles was conducted at the Hanbden Volunteer Fire Departnent. The

. facility ,is well staf fed and workers are well trained. The station is equipped with a drive through bay for decontamination of vehicles. The ~

aopropriat# nonitoring equipnent was available and the team had a thorough u.x3erstanding of its use. In accordance with energency worker decontaniination SOPS, areas of the body found contaminated are narked on the registration sheet showing the area and anount of contamination. If contaminated the person (s) are taken to the appropriate facility (nele or feaale) for decontamination. After decontamination in accordance with the SOP, only those areas found contaminated are to be renonitored, instead of a conplete whole body renonitoring of individuals. It is reconnended this SOP be reviewed for accuracy and rewritten so that the whole body is renonitored.

Appropriate neasures were taken to control the spread of contamination.

Break-down procedures were denonstrated to show control of the spread of contaminants and the proper disposition of waste natorials.

During the decontamination of a vehicle a contaminated worker was sinclated to have been injured. The EMS anbulance unit at the worker decontamination station was used to transport the victim to the Geauga Connonity Hospital.

The appropriate steps were taken to isolate and protect the victim. The EMS a:.bulance is equipped with two-way radio for direct connonications with the hospital.

The energency room doorways, closet doors, and air ducts were sealed by energency room staf f at the hospital in preparation for receiving the contaminated victim. Other areas were delienated using rope and/or warning tape. Floors were covered with plastic to contain contamination. The plastic was sl'ippery on the floor and caused problens in naneuvering the hospital cart when attenpting to renove the victim from it. 'Ihis is an area reconnended for inprovenent. The nurses, radiological nonitors, and physicians were properly dressed and wore naue labels to enable recognition of persons.

A beta button was used to sinclate contamination. The patient was surveyed for contamination and the beta button source was readily located by the energency rooni team. Decontamination procedures were inglenented while aedical treatnent was proceeding.

LAKE COUNTY The Lake. County EOC housed a staff that ef fectively nanaged the situation, cade tinely decisions, and had conprehensive knowledge and resources to ef ficiently carry out the radiological energency response plan.

Coordination and cooperation was evident internally as well as with the utility, State and other participating Counties.

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3e coi <m:nications with the State, utility, other Counties, field nonitoring teaus an:1 JPIC were denonstrated during the exercise and found to be effecti've. 'No (2) Lake County field nonitoring teans were nobilized and ~

5eployed in a ti rely fashion. They deuonstrated equipnent and procedures saitable for determining anbient radiation levels in the plune EPZ.

Appropriate equipnent and procedures were denonstrated for the neasurenent of radioiodine concentrations in air as low as 10-7 uCi/cc in the presence of noble gases. It is reconnended that the field teans equipnent include all appropriate naps for interpretation of connonications received from the EOC.

The executive group was efficient in performing their responsibility to alert the public and disseminate the initial instructional nessage within the fifteen (15) minutes as set forth in'the guidelines. The organizational ability and resources to carry out an evacuation for part of the plune EPZ was ef fectively accoriolished during the course of the exercise. Personnel at the evacuation referral point were well prepared and knew how to cope with the problens that would arise at their respective stations. Deviation from the written plan appears to have created a slight problem on how nany people were sent to a care center. The plan as written should be followed, i.e. , " hand out one strip nap per person".

The traf fic and access control areas were nanned by capable officers who were knowledgeable of their tasks. They were able to naintain radio connonic' a tions with the County EOC and other traf fic control points. The procedures for evacuation of the nobility inpaired was denonstrated at the

' EOC. The Madison School District has the necessary resources and organizational ability to effect an evacuation of schools within the plune EPZ. -

'Ihe East Lake Fire Departnent denonstrated their ability to prepare and operate a decontamination center. They denonstrated the registration and total body scan by use of the CDV 700 geigher counter.

The anbulance crew knew,what procedures they were to follow in transporting the contaniinated injured person to the hospital. The hospital denonstrated their capability to handle an injured contaminated patient.

The Lake County'PIO's assigned position is at the JPIC with a liaison PIO at the EOC. The connunications between the EOC and JPIC was by dedicated telephone and facsimile. The news releases were coordinated through the executive group. The runor control was handled by a well trained EOC staff person. -The Ancrican Red Cross denonstrated their ability to prepare, open and operate the reception and care center to full capacity. They successfully denonstrated their capability to work under adverse conditions.

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1. EXERCISE BACKGROUND W is was the second joint exercise for the Ohio Disaster Services Agency and the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake resulting from a sinclated accident at the Perry Nuclear Power. Plant. The first joint exercise was on Novenber 28, 1984 and involved full scale participation by the State of Ohio and the aforenentioned Counties. This report addresses the ucst recent joint exercise for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant which was conducted on April 15, 1986. ,

2. PARTICIPATING AND NON-PARTICIPATING STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS We ten (10) mile inhalation energency planning zone (EPZ) of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant inpacts on parts of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties, as well as Lake Erie, with the nejor portion of the zone falling within Lake County. The 1980 pernanent population within the ten (10) mile EPZ is estinated at 93,867. The influx of sunner vacationers increases the population considerably.

We fif ty (50) mile ingestion pathway zone enconpasses parts of eight (8).

Counties within the State of Chin and three (3) Counties within the State of Pennsylvania. The remaining portion of the fif ty (50) mile ingestion pathway zone is located over Lake Erie. In addition to Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties other. Ohio Counties within the fif ty (50) mile EPZ include Cuyahoga, Sunshit, Portage, Trunbull, and Mahoning. The Pennsylvania Counties are Erie, Crawford and Mercer. The foregoing Ohio and Pennsylvania Counties beyond the ten (10) mile EPZ did not denonstrate the procedures for inplenentation of ingestion EPZ protective actions as this activity was beyond the scope of the exercise. This exercise ~ was conducted during nornal working hours.

3. LIST OF EVALUATORS For this exercise there was a total of twenty-one (21) federal evaluators observing off-site exercise activities. On-site exercise activities were evaluated by a separate team from the Nuclear Regulatory Conenission. The of f-site evaluation team included eight (8) evaluators from FEMA Region V, two (2) from the Environnental Protection Agency (EPA), one (1) from the U.S. Departnent of Transportation (DCyr), one (1) from Health and Hunan Services (HHS) and nine (9) from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) . The evaluator assignnents were as follows:

OFF-SITE EXERCISE EVALUATION TEAM DIRECTOR Wallace J. Weaver, FEMA 12 l

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STATE OF OMIO in) die C ttis, Ten Leader, FE'%

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tarry Jensin, EPA Pete Tedeschi, EPA Willian Knoerzer, ANL Patricia Buckley, FEMA Ray Kellogg, FE'%

ASHTAButa COUNTY Dan Benent, Tearn Leader, FEMA Jerry Staroba, ANL Kenneth Rose, ANL - .

Roxanne Izzo, ANL Patricia Buckley, FEMA Ray Kellogg, FEMA GEAUGA COUNTY Wiley Howell, Tearn Leader, FEG Bob Neisius, ANL Walter O'Keefe, FEVA/ ARC Kent Jaffe, HHS Roger Stokes, DOT Patricia Buckley, FEMA Ray Kellogg, FEMA LAKE COUNTY Ed Robinson, Tearn Leader, FEMA Bill Chatibers, ANL Carolyn Hirshberg, ANL Les Conley, ANL Walter O'Keefe, FEMA / ARC-Kent Jaffee, HHS Patricia Buckley, FEMA Ray Kellogg, FEMA

. 4. EVALUATION CRITERIA l

'Ihe plans being evaluated by this exercise were developed by using the

" Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Energency Response j Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants (NUREG-0654/FD%

REP-1, Revision 1) . '1herefore, these criteria and the exercrit based on I

^ these criteria, " Modular Fortnat For Uniforniity of Radiological hergency Preparedness Exercise Observations and Evaluation", dated June 1983 were used for exercise evaluation.

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5. EXEP,CISE OBJB~TIVES objectives for this exercise were selected from anong the thirty-five (35) standard gbjectives listed in Tab "M" of the " Modular Fornat For Uniformity -

of Radioloaical Ehergency Preparedness Exercise Observations and Evaluation", dated June 1983. The objective nunbers listed below correlate to Tab "M".

The State of Ohio selected the following eighteen (18) objectives, including those applicable to the Joint Public Infornation Center (JPIC) to be denonstrated during the exercise.

1. Denonstrate ability to nobilize staff and activate facilities pronptly.

2. Denonstrate ability to fully staff facilities and naintain staffing around the clock.

3. Denonstrate ability to nake decisions and to coordinate energency activities.

4. Denonstrate adequacy of facilities and displays to support energency operations.

5. Denonstrate ability to connonicate with all appropriate locations, organizations, and field personnel.

6. Denonstrate ability to nobilize and deploy field nonitoring teans in a tinely fashion.

7. Denonstrate appropriate equipnent and procedures for determining anbient radiation. levels.

8. Denonstrate appropriate equipnent and procedures for neasurenent of airborne radiciodine concentrations as low as 10-7 uCi/cc in the presence of noble gases.

9. Denonstrate appropriate equipment and procedures for collection, transport and analysis of sanples of soil, vegetation, snow, water, and milk.

10. Denonstrate ability to project dosage to the public via plune exposure, based on plant and field data, and to determine appropriate protective neasures, based on PAG's, available shelter, evacuation tine estimates, and

- all other appropriate' factors.

12. Denonstrate ability to inglenent protective actions for ingestion pathway hazards.

13. Denonstrate ability to alert the public within the ten (10) mile EPZ, and disseminate an initial instructional nessage, within fifteen (15) minutes.

14. Denonstrate ability to fornulate and distribute appropriate instructions to the public, in a tinely fashion.

15. t>anonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to nanage an orderly evacuation of all or part of the plune EPZ.

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24. Denonskrate ability to brief the nodia in a clear, accurate and tinely -

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25. Denonstrate ability to provide advance coordination of infornation released.

32. Denonstrate ability to identify need for, request, and obtain Federal assistance.

Ashtabula County selected the following twenty (20) exercise objectives, including those applicable to the JPIC, to be denonstrated during the ,

exercise.

1. Denonstr ate ability to nobilize staf f and activate facilities pronptly.

2. Denonstrate ability to fully staff facilities and naintain staffing around the clock.

3. Denonstrate ability to nake dacisions and to coordinate energency activities.

4. Denonstrate adeqJacy of facilities and displays to support energency operations.

5. Denonstrate ability to connonicate with all appropriate locations, organizations., and field personnel.

13. Denonstrate ability to alert the public within the ten (10) mile EPZ, and disseniinate an initial instructional nessage, within fif teen (15) minutes.

14. Denonstrate ability to fornulate and distribute appropriate instructions to the public, in a tinely fashion.

15. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to nanage an orderly evacuation of all or part of the plune EPZ.

16. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to deal with inpedinents to evacuation, as inclenent weather or traffic obstructions.

17. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to control access to an evacuated area.

18. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to effect an orderly evacuation of nobility inpaired individuals within the plune EPZ.

19. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to effect an orderly evacuation of schools within the plune EPZ.

20. Denonstrate ability to continuously nonitor and control energency worker expcaure.

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26. Denonstrate ability to establish and operate runor control in a coordinated fashion.

27. Denonstrate adequacy of procedures for registration and radiological tronitoring of evacuees.

28'. Denonstrate adequacy of facilities for ness care of evacuees.

29. Denonstrate adequate equipnent and procedures for decontamination of energency workers, equipnent and vehicles.

31. Denonstrate adequary of hospital facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals.

Geauga County selected the following twenty-one (21) exercise objectives, including those applicable to the JPIC, to be denonstrated during the exercise.

1. Denonstrate ability to nobilize staff and activate facilities pronptly.

2. Denonstrate ability to fully staff facilities and neintain staffing around the clock.

3. Denonstrate ability to neke decisions and to coordinate energency activities.

4. Denonstrate adequacy of facilities and displays to support emergency operations.

5. Denonstrate ability to conaunicate with all appropriate locations, organizations, and field personnel.

13. Denonstrate ability to alert the public within the ten (10) mile EPZ, and disseminate an initial instructional nessage, within fif teen (15) minutes.

14. Denonstrate ability to fornulate and distribute appropriate instructions to the public, in a tinely fashion.

15. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to nanage an orderly evacuation of all or part of the plune EPZ.

16. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to deal with inpedinents to evacuation, as inclenent weather or traf fic obstructions.

17. De onstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to control access to an evacuated area.

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19. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to ef fect an. orderly evacuation of nobility inpaired individuals within the p'.uae EPZ.

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effect an orderly evacuation of schools within the pitme EPZ.

20. Denonstrate ability to continuously nonitor and control energency worker exposure.

24. Denonstrate ability to brief the nedia in a clear accurate and tinely nanner.

25. Denonstrate ability to provide advance coordination of infornation

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26. Denonstrate ability to establish and operate runor control in a coordinated fashion.

27. Denonstrate adequacy of procedures for registration and radiological nonitoring of evacuees.

28. Dencastrate adequacy of facilities for nass care of evacuees.

29. Denonstrate adequate equipnent and procedures for decontamination of energency workers, equipnent and ve.hicles.

30. Denonstrate adequacy of anbulance facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals.

31. Denonstrate adequacy of hospital facilities and procedures for handling conta:ninated individuals.

Lake County selected the following twenty-four (24) exercise objectives, including those applicable to the JPIC, to be deacnstrated during the exercise.

1. Denonstrate ability to nobilize staff and activate facilities pronetly.

2. Denonstrate ability to fully staff facilities and maintain staffing around the clock.

3. Denonstrate ability to nake decisions and to coordinate energency activities.

4. Denonstrate adequacy of facilities and displays to support energency operations.'

5. Denonstrate ability to cormonicate with all appropriate locations, organizations, and field personnel.

6. Denonstrate ability to nobilize and deploy field nonitoring teans in a tinely fashion.

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7. Denonstrate appropriate equipaent and procedures for determining anbient radiation levels.

9. Denonstrate appropriate equipnent and procedures for neasurenent of airborne sadiciodine concentrations as low as 10-7 uCi/cc in the presence of noble gases.

13. Denonstrate ability to alert the public within the ten (10) mile EPZ, and disseminate an initial instructional nessage, within fifteen (15) ainutes.

14. Denonstrate ability to fornolate and distribute appropriate instructions to the public, in a tinely fashion.

15. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to nanage an orderly evacuation of all or part of the plune EPZ.

16. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to deal with inpedinents to evacuation, as inclenent weather or traffic obstructions.

17. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to control access to an evacuated area.

18. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to effect an orderly evacuation of nobility inpaired individuals within the '

plune EPZ.

19. Denonstrate the organizational ability and resources necessary to ef fect an orderly evacuation of schools within the plune EPZ.

20. Denonstrate ability to continuously nonitor and control emergency worker exposure.

23. Denonstrate ability to effect an orderly evacuation of on-site

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24. Denonstrate ability to brief the nedia in a clear, accurate and tinely nanner.

25. Denonstrate ability to provide advance coordination of infornation released.

26. Denonstrate ability to establish and operate rumor control in a -

coordinated fashion.

27. Denonstrate adequacy of procedures for registration and radiological nonitoring of evacuees.

28. Denonstrate adequacy of facilities for ness care of evacuees.

30. Denonstrate adequacy of anbulance facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals.

31. Denonstrate adequacy of hospital facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals.

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3e Perry ducle.ar Power Plant radiological energency preparedness scenario, developed by writers fron the utility and the State, took into consideration areas requiring corrective actions, identified in the first exercise of the PNPP site. This was done in order to develop a scenario that would allow denonstration of past required corrective actions as well as allow denonstrati of exercise objectives selected by the State of Ohio, Ashtabul , Ceauga and Lake Countins.

Repre entatives from the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, the State of Ohio, Ashtabula, Geauga, and Lake Counties and FEMA Region V net January 21, 1986 at the take County Energency Operations Center to select the exercise

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objectives and to discuss the scope of the exercise. Submission of the scenario to FDiA Region V was according to. deadlines outlined in Nuclear Regulatory Conmission (NRC) and Federal Energency Managenent Agency (FEMA) guidance. Westinghouse Idaho Nuclear Conpany Incorporated reviewed the off-site portion of the scenario for FEMA and found the scenario adegaate to exercise the objectives selected. A sunnary of the scenario follows.

The Perry Nuclear Power Plant has been operating continuously for the last seventeen (17) nonths, since the last refueling outage. The plant is currently operating at one hundred (100) percent power and is near the end of core life. Preparations are underway for a refueling outage, scheduled to begin in four (4) weeks. Sone equipnent problens are ongoing, but all have been addressed through surveillance activities.

Weather conditions reaain constant, with the forecast indicating a high in the mid-forties with calm winds-out of the northwest.

At 0710, A PNFP operator working at the Turbine Sanpling Panel receives an electrical shock and is knocked unconscious. He is injured and contaminated. Health Physics support and a first aid team are dispatched to the area.

At 0715, the shif t supervisor requests that an anbulance be dispatched to transport the contaminated injured person off-site. An Unusual Event is declared in accordance with EPI-Al, Section N.l.1, " Transportation of contaminated injured individuals from the site to off-site hospital."

- From 0730 to 0800, the anbulance arrives, the victim is placed in the vehicle and the anbulance leaves the site.

At 0815, a resin spill occurs in the area of the Turbine Power Conplex and radiation levels in the area of the spill increases to one thousand (1000) tines nornal. An Alert is declared per EPI-Al, Section E.II.1, "High radiation levels or airborne contamination which indicates a severe degradation in the control of radioactive noterials." The Technical Support Center (TSC) and Operations Support Center (OSC) are activated.

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O e'TSC and OSC are operational by 0845. At this tine, an oil- fire is discovered in the area of the Turbine Building Chillers. The Control Room

. is notif,ied, the fire brigade is dispatched and by 0915, the fire is out.

Off-site fire fighting support is provided by the Perry Township Fire _

Depa r tnent'.

A pipe rupture occurs in the circulating water system at 1915. We break occurs in the twelve (12) foot diameter fiberglass, underground pipe section, flooding the plant-yard. We nain condenser and auxiliary condenser vacuans decrease rapidly, resulting in a turbine trip and reactor scram. Tha n.ain steam isolation valves isolate on low condenser vacuum, and reactor pressure increases. Attenpts to open safety relief valves fail as a result of solidified Safety Relief Valve (SRV) packing.

The Reactor Core Isolation Cooling systear (RCIC) is nanually started at 1921.

At 1030, one (1) of the SRVs opens. As the reactor depressures, the SRV closes, resulting in increased reactor pressure. This SRV continues to cycle between 950 psi and 1300 psi. The water level renains constant.

At 1945, reactor coolant is released through a RCIC steam line crack at the weld just upstream of Outboard Isolation Valve E51-F064. Steam Tunnel anbient tenperature and ventilation differential tenperature nonitors alarm, and the ROIC isolation tiner starts.

We RCIC isolation tiner shuts the Outboard Isolation valve at 1055. A Site Area Diergency is declared in accordance with EPI-Al, Section C.III.1,

" Steam line break outside containment without isolation." he Drergency Operations Facility (EOF) and Joint Public Infortration Center (JPIC) are activated. -

n e Plant conditions renain stable and reactor cooldowa continues.

At 1215, the RCIC steam line crack increases and vessel level begins to decrease.

A General Diergency should be declared at 1230 in accordance with EPI-Al, Section A.IV.3," Snell or large LOCA with failure of ECCS to perforru, leading to core degradation or nelt in niinutes to hours. Loss of containnent integrity nay be inminent", or per Section A.IV.1, " Loss of two (2) fission product barriers with a potential loss of a third barrier." A precautionary protective action reconnendation (shelter to two (2) n.iles,

- 360 degrees, and shelter five (5) miles downwind) should be nade. The reactor continues to depressurize through the RCIC steam line crack.

At 1245, Auxiliary Building Exhaust Fan B fails due to seized bearings. The reactor level reaches one (1) Top Active Fuel (TAF) at 1255, 20 l

At 1300, the reactor boils down to below TAF and fuel danage occurs. Area radiatiorr nonitors alarm in the area of the suppression pool. he Turbine

. Sailding, Vent low range nonitor indicates substantially increased levels of radiation.,.n e release rate peaks at 1.23 Ci/Sec. h is release results in -

a six hour' projected thyroid dose of. 52.7 Rem (unprotected) at 2.5 niiles; the corresponding whole body dose is 0.3 Rem, therefore the thyroid dose will drive the protective actions. According to PNPP procedure, this accident should result in a inininon reconnendation of evacuation out to four (4) miles. We significant release lasts for approxinately 1.5 hours5.787037e-5 days 0.00139 hours 8.267196e-6 weeks 1.9025e-6 months , ceasing at 1430. Meteorological conditions during the release are as follows:

Wind Speed 2.5 miles per hour Direction: from 310 degrees Tenperature: 45 degrees farenheit -

Pasquill Stability Class: D At 1445, inboard the RCIC valve closes and RHR B subsequently is cooling the core in shutdown cooling node.

Winds of approxinately twelve (12) miles per hour begin to disperse the plune at 1500, and by 1530, of f-site radiation levels return to background.

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W e General B ergency is downgraded, and re-entry and recovery actions are initiated at 1530.

At 1700, the exercise is terminated.

We actual occurrence of events at the utility during the exercise were as follows: -

3e Unusual Event 7:35 A.M.

3e Alert Declaration 8:30 A.M.

Site Area Dergency Declaration 11:00 A.M.

3 e General D ergency Declaration 1:27 P.M.

7. STATE AND LOCAL RESOURCES PLANNED 'IO BE USED IN THE EXERCISE During this exercise the State of Ohio planned to use the State Eoc in Worthington, Ohio and the JPIC at the Lakeland Connonity College, Kirtland, Ohio. The State of Ohio also planned to use the necessary connonications systens to conduct energency operations . We utility manned the EOF, which included representatives from the State and the three (3) Counties.

Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties planned to denonstrate their EOC facilities, energency response staff and connonications systems capabilities and runor control. Se three (3) Counties planned to have spokespersons at the JPIC to denonstrate their ability to coordinate public infornation.

take County denonstrated their ability to nobilize and deploy field nonitoring teaus in a tinely fashion. In addition, the three (3) Counties planned to denonstrate reception / congregate care and decontamination centers and the adequacy of anbulance and hospital facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals.

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. Were were four (4) weaknesses (areas requiring corrective actions) and five (5) reconcendations identified for the State of Ohio during the evaluation _

of the Nofenber 28, 1984 joint participation exercise for the Perry Nuclear Power Station. Corrective actions for the four (4) weaknesses (areas requiring corrective actions) for the State of Ohio have been denonstrated as a result of the April 15, 1986 exercise of the Perry Nuclear Power Station.

Were were five (5) weaknesses (arcas requiring corrective actions) identified for both Ashtabula and Lake Counties during the evaluation of the Novenber 28, 1984 joint participation exercise of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. Corrective actions for all the areas requiring corrective action in both Ashtabula and Lake Counties have bee'n denonstrated as a result of the April 15,1986 exercise of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.

Were were three (3) weaknesses (areas requiring corrective actions) identified for Geauga County during the evaluation of the Novenber 28, 1984 joint participation exercise of the PNPP. Corrective actions for the three (3) areas requiring corrective action have also been denonstrated as a result of the April 15, 1986 exercise of the PNPI.

9. EXERCISE OBJECTIVES STILL 'IO BE EFFECTIVELY ACHIEVED State of Ohio ne State of Ohio did not conpletely denonstrate exercise objective #9 (Appropriate equipnent and procedures for collection, transport and analysis of sanples of' soil, vegetation, snow, water and milk).

Appropriate action will be required to correct the inconpleted exercise objective. The objective nest be successfully denonstrated during the next biennial radiological energency preparedness exercise of the PNPP.

Ashtabula County All exercise objectives for Ashtabula County were denonstrated.

Geauga County All exercise objectives for Geauga County were denonstrated.

Lake County All exercise cbjectives for Lake County were denonstrated.

We following list of exercise objectives were not selected for denonstration during this exercise. They should be denonstrated during a future exercise. The appropriate jurisdictions to denonstrate each objective are noted.

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-11. Denonstrate abili y to project dosage to the public via ingestion pathway exposure, based cn field data, and to deterniine appropriate protective neasures, based on PACS and other relevant factors. (State of Ohio). g-

12. Denonstrate ability to inglenent protective actions for ingestion pathway hazards. (Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties).

21. Denonstrate ability to u.ake the decision, based on predeterniined criteria, whether to issue KT to energency workers and/or.the general population. (State of Ohio, Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties).

22. Denonstrate the ability to supply and adniinister KI, once the decision has been nade to do so. (State of Ohio, Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties).

35. Denonstrate ability to deterniine and inplenent appropriate neasures' for controlled recovery and reentry. (State of Ohio, Ashtabula, Geaugs and Lake Counties).

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A"TIVATION $AND STAFFING The State of Ohio's participation in the exercise was 'in a partial node.

All State energency response personnel were pre-positioned with limited activity at the State Energency Operations Center per pre-exercise agreenent between the Ohio Disaster Services Agency (ODSA) and FD1A.

We State staff assisted the Counties by staffing the Utility's Diergency Operations Facility (EOF), the Joint Public Infornation Center (JPIC) and the nobile connonications van, in addition to dispatching field nonitoring teans, and activation of the State EDC at'Worthington, Ohio.

The State staff denonstrated ability to staff facilities and naintain staffing around the clock by double staffing at the JPIC and the dose assessnent team. 'I5e staff of the EOC, the field nonitoring team and the connonications team were double staffed and presented rosters of personnel for subseqJent shif ts in case of an extended operation.

The State EOC is situated in the basenent of the Ohio National Guard Arnory. Connonications between the ODSA, the Perry Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP), and the three (3) Counties (Ashtabula, Geauga, and Lake) that are inpacted by the PNPP is via a five-way dedicated telephone system The lines are nonitored around the clock (24 hours2.777778e-4 days 0.00667 hours 3.968254e-5 weeks 9.132e-6 months ).

Personnel of the utility's Technical Support Center (TSC) notified the State and the Counties of the Alert conditions at the utility at 8:40A.M.via the

-five-way dedicated telephone lines. 'I5e call from the Utility was verified at the EOC by telephone call-back to the TSC by the assessnent room supervisor. Staff nobilization procedures were denonstrated through sinalation and by use of an up-to-date telephone call-up roster. Initial contact persons of respective agencies, that would non. ally be represented in the EOC, were telephoned by EOC staff and inforned of the exercise beginning at approxinately 8:43 A.M., shortly after the Utility notified the State and County EOCs of the Alert Conditions at the PNPP. Staff notification and nobilization of personnel from the ODPH, OEPA, ODA and ODSA were coupleted at 8:52 A.M. and 9:05 A.M. respectively.

According to exercise participants the use of call-up rosters as utilized during the exercise is the system in place to receive calls directing activation and nobilization of staff at any hour of any day. The EOC, the EDF and the JPIC were fully staffed for the State's partial participation in the exercise as had been agreed between the State and FD1A.

D1ERGENCY OPERATIONS MANAGD4ENT We Drergency Response Coordinator was the individual effectively in charge of the EOC operations for the State's partial participation in the exercise.

Periodic briefings were held to update the staff on the situation at the utility and other locations participating in the exercise. The staff was actively involved in decisions and decisionmaking. Copies of the plan were available for reference and nost of the staff had checklists and/or excerpts of the plan that pertained to their respective responsibilities. Message logs were kept, nessage handling was efficient, and messages were reproduced and distributed as appropriate.

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he EOC staf f received telephone notification of the Unusual Event at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant at 7:40 A.M., via the five way dedicated telephone; the Alert Conditions at 3:40 A.M.; the Site Area bergency at 11:06 A'.M. and the General B ergency at 12:32. The foregoing events had been decl$ red by the Utility at 7:35 A.M, 8:30 A.M, 11:00 A.M. and 12:27 P.M. respectively.

The ODSA was notified of the declaration of an Unusual Event at the PNPP by plant personnel at the utility's control center. % e OOSA Coordinator telephoned back to the utility's control center to verify the call and to determine the reasons for the unusual event conditions at the plant. ODSA was inforned that an injured worker required anbulance transportation from the utility to the hospital for treatnent. ODSA inplenented their notifications per standard operations procedures (SOP), which included notification of the Adjutant General and the Governor's office.- At 8:40 A.M. the ODSA was notified of the Alert Status at the PNPP, because of a resin spill in the turbine power couplex area, which had reportedly caused radiation levels to increase greatly. The call from personnel of the utility's control center was via the five-way dedicated telephone link and was again verified by a telephone call back to the control centec. ODSA partially activated the State EOC to assist in the call-down process and in preparation for the departure of key staf' .o near-site positions and to support the fornation of the State assessnent team. The call-down process included notification of the Governor's cffice, key staff, Federal agencies, the Pennsylvania bergency Managenent Agency, and the office of the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Ontario, Cana$a by the Deputy Director, ODSA.

The EOC staff sinalated the fornation and dispatch of the State assessnent teans from the Ohio Departnent of Health (ODH) and the Ohio Environnental Protection Agency; State connonications personnel and equipnent; and the Ohio National Guard's helicopter transport of personnel assigned to the EOF the JPIC, and the supervisor for the radiological assessnent team.

EOC staf f was notified at 11:06 A.M. of the Site Area Bergency at the utility, because of a steamline break outside the containnent that was causing a minor release of gas. The call was again, verified by a telephone call back to the uhlity's control center, as were all subsecpent notifications from the PNPP. EOC staff notified the remainder of the EOC energency response organizations and sinalated instructing them to have their respective personnel respond to the EOC for full activation. The Governor's office was notified and at 11:15 A.M. the Governor declared a State of Energency due to the continuing problens at the Perry site. The Governor's Declaration authorized activation of the Ohio National Guard and other State agencies to assist County officials and augnent County resources. We EOC was sinulated to have been fully activated and staffed.

The Ohio Departnents of Health and Agriculture reconnended precautionary sheltering of lactating aninals within a two (2) mile radius of the power plant. Personnel of the PNPP inforned the State and County EOCs that the U.S. Coast Guard had been notified of the plant conditions and the Coast Guard was inglenenting a precautionary evacuation of the waterway within the ten (10) mile EPZ. The EOC staff sinulated contacting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Norfolk and Western and Consolidated Railways (CONRAIL) to restrict air and rail traf fic in the 10 mile EPZ.'

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Federal assistance was requested from the Federal Energency Ma'nagenent Agency (FEMA) and the Departnent of Energy (DOE) . We request to FEMA was

, for adniinistrative assistance and logistic support for Federal response and disaster, mass care assistance, etc. The request to DOE was for field .

nonitoring'for noble gas and iodine, and field sanpling, including analysis to determine particulate depositions.

We PIO of the Adjutant General's Departnent established lines of connonications with the JPIC and coordinated infornation with the spokespersons for the State and Counties.

At 12:32 P M. the State EOC was notified of the General Ehergency which was declared by the Utility at 12:27 P.M. W e Utility reconnended sheltering of people, within the 0-2 mile radius of the plant site and from 2-5 niiles downwind, in sectors E-F-G. At 12:35 P.M". the State reconnended sheltering, in sub areas 1,2 and 3, to the Counties. The State Departnents of Health and Agriculture reconnended sheltering and feeding lactating aninals on stored feed within the ten (10) mile radius of the PNPP, as a precaution and the issuance of advisories on locally grown produce.

We Counties concurred with the State reconnendations and advised the State EOC that the EBS and sirens would be activated at 12:47 P.M. The infornation and concurrence by the Counties was relayed to the State Liaisons at the EOF and the JPIC. At 12:50 P.M. the EOC was inforned by the respective Counties of their intent to activate all prinary care centers, as a precaution to escalation and/or spontaneous evacuation. The EOC and Counties were notified at 1:11 P.M. by the PNPP of increasing release rates of radioactive naterials at the plant. The Utility reconcended the evacuation of the 0-2 mile radius of the plant, sheltering within the 2-3 mile radius and downwind 3-5 miles in sectors E-F and G. W e State's assessnent of the Protective Action Guide (PAG) from the utility was taken under advisenent. However, the State upgraded the PAG and at 1:25 P.M.

issued reconnendations to the Counties to evacuate sub areas 1-2-3 and 5, to which the Counties concurred. At 1:29 P.M the Counties advised the State EOC that the Drergency Broadcast Stations (EBS) and the siren system would be activated, at 1:35 P.M., with appropriate nessages for the public.

W e State nonitoring teans were dispatched to pre-selected sites within the plune exposure pathway and provided field radiological data to the State assessnent team through the ODSA connonications van. At 1:30 P.M. the EOC was advised by the PNPP of a change in their reconcendation of 1:11 P.M.

We change by the Utility in the prior reconnendation enconpassed the need to shelter people within the 2-4 mile radius of the plant, instead of the 2-3 mile radius, and the need to include the evacuation of children and wonen of child bearing years within the sheltered areas and downwind out to ten (10) miles in sectors E-F and G. Since the State had already upgraded the Utility's reconnendation, which included evacuation of the areas in question, no additional adjustnents in protective actions were necessary.

At 4:02 P.M. the PNPP advised the State EOC and Counties that the release of radiation had terminated. The EOC notified the appropriate agencies and officials per SOP and reconnended that protective actions renain in place until further nonitoring was perforned and sanple results were returned.

We exercise' was downgraded to an Alert Status at 4:05 P.M. by the PNPP and the State in concert with the Counties was notified at 4:07 P.M. We exercise was terminated at 4:30 P.M.

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'"he State energency operations center is a nodern facility with sufficient furnitureg space, lighting, telephones, television nonitors, caneras, .

electrical generators, cooking and eating facilities, showers, locker roons, etc. W e EOC facility is in excess of 150 miles from the utility and can easily support extended operations indefinitely. During the exercise the operation was conducted within the radiological assessnent rooni and the adjacent connonications room, which are both a part of the EOC. A status board was available and was kept up to date on significant events by EOC staff assigned that responsibility. The status board was clearly visible to the staff participating in the exercise. All required maps were posted in the EOC and were available in the assessnent room. We naps depicted the plune EPZ with sectors labeled; evacuatipn routes; relocation centers; access control points; radiological nonitoring points, and population by evacuation areas.

COMMUNICATIONS The five-way dedicated telephone linkup between the State EOC, the three (3)

County EOCs and the EOF was operational subsequent to the initial notification of the Unusual Event at the PNPP. We five-way telephone system was nonitored throughout the exercise. Extraneous noise was reported on the line at approxinately 9:03 A.M. The reason for the noise was discovered at the licensee, where the control center and the EOF were both nonitoring the line. The problem was resolved when the control center ceased nonitoring the line after the utility was inforned of the situation by the EOC assessnent room supervisor.

We staff of'the D3C denonstrated prinary conconications links with the Governor's office by connercial telephone; the State of Pennsylvania by Civil Defense National Teletype; the JPIC by concercial telephone and facsimile nachine, and the radiological nonitoring tearts through the State Connonications van.

Connonications links between the EOF /TSC, the State of Ohio, the JPIC and the Counties are prinarily by dedicated telephone lines as previously noted in this report. Back-up connonications rely on a nunber of concercial lines fed into the EOF. The hard-copy facsimile device was used extensively without any difficulty.

Both the State and utility were able to feed infornation from the EOF to the Counties and the JPIC via the dedicated lines. This is intended to provide personnel in the JPIC with two (2) sources of tinely information. The ODSA liaison in the EOF also used the five-way dedicated telephone line to present infornation to the Conmissioners in the Counties.

We State Connonications ' van was in continuous connonications with the State and County EOCs, D)P, JPIC, and the field nonitoring team. Additionally, the cotmunications van can connonicate directly with the radio nets of Sheriff's Departnents, the Ohio National Guard and the State Police. The connonications van is capable of around the clock (24-hour) operations.

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- Dose assessnent and protective action reconcendations were acconplished at the ' State liaison f 'with at the EOFassistance from the was constantly State with in touch liaison theatutility the EOF. The State staff concerning underlying reasons for the utility's decisions. Personnel of the EOF calculated dose assessnent by conputers supplied with scenario data. The field monitoring teams displayed adequate training and equipnent to relay data back to the EDF. The ET used plant radiation levels, plant status infornation, etc., in presenting protective action suggestions to State and County officials.

3 i 'Ihe State assessnent group in the EOC used a microprocessor and appropriate software to project expected doses to the public. Calculations were based on sinclated data received directly from the plant via conputer and i infornation radioed from the field by three (3) field nonitoring teans.

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Hand calculations were also denonstrated. Findings at the State EOC were correlated with similar calculations done by the utility. Field monitoring teans were directed to new locations by the OEPA Coordinator in order to track the plune. The OEPA Coordinator also received data from two (2) Lake County field nonitoring teaus through the OEPA Liaison at the Lake County 5DC. Updated data was displayed on a chart and a nap in the EOC.

PUBLIC ALERTING AND INSTRUCTIONS Activation of the siren system and EBS is a local responsibility in the State of Ohio. 'Ihe State action under this objective is to support the Counties by confirming, through the EOC, the energency conditions necessitating sheltering in place and evacuation. Inplementation of the protective action reconnendations is addressed in the Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Counties portion of this report.

PROTECTIVE ACTIONS Evacuation activities such as the activation of reception centers, congregate care facilities, relocation of special needs' individuals, and access control are the responsibility of local governnent.

RADIOLOGICAL EXPOSURE CONTROL State personnel of the field nonitoring team, EOF, and other sites near the I utility were issued low, nedium and self reading dosineters. The teans were equipped with dosineter chargers and record keeping cards for readings.

Appropriate instructions on the use of the equipnent were included.

MEDIA RELATIONS

'Ihe Joint Public Infornation Center (JPIC) is located in the Performing Arts Building at Lakeland Connonity College, Kirtland, Ohio. '!he auditorium is used for nedia briefings. 'Ihe required naps and other briefing aids were 4

available for the briefings and were used effectively. Tables, chairs, and i telephones were available in the auditorium lobby area for use by the j media. The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Conpany and ODSA personnel had

adjacent work roons on the second floor of the building. '!he personnel from

, the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake were co-located with ODSA.

I Additional space is available for Federal response personnel. An area, renoved from the work roons, was used by the briefers to coordinate their

statements and organize the briefings.

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Concercial telephone was available to the ODSA and personnel from the Counties. Additionally, each County had a dedicated telephone link to their respective County EOCs. The ODSA staff had a dedicated telephone link to the EOF. Chere were fascimile nachines that connected the three' (3)

Counties and the State EOC with the JPIC. We ODSA also had, and denonstrated, radio capability with the State's nobile connonications van.

Kits containing infornation about the Perry Nuclear Power Plant; the general operation of nuclear power plants; the local area, and radiation were available for the nodia.

Six (6) briefings were held with the first beginning shortly after 12:00 P.M. The PIOS exchanged infornation and coordinated their releases. The briefings seened to be accurate and conplete. Technical terns were adequately explained. The briefers were prepared for and responded to questions from the nedia. They were clearly abreast of events and understood their conconity's energency plan. Hard copies of releases were nade available to the nedia. Printed releases directed citizens to listen to the EBS. The nedia briefers asked the media representatives to urge people to listen to the EBS. None of the news releases, written or oral, contained the call letters or frequencies of the EBS stations.

Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: News releases and oral briefings should include the call letters and frequencies of the EBS stations.

The JPIC staff received copies of the EBS nessages released by the Counties and provided these nessages to the nedia present at the JPIC. The receipt and release of the County EBS nessages at the JPIC eliminates a required corrective action noted during the last exercise.

The JPIC staff released the runor control telephone nunbers for the three (3) Counties and the 800 nunber at the State in briefings and printed copies.

FIELD MONITORING The Field Assessnent Team was prepositioned at the Ohio State Patrol Post (staging area), Chardon, Ohio per pre-exercise agreenent between the State and FE".A. The team was activated at 11:50 A.M. via radio connonications from the field connonications van (van 1), which relayed the call from the State EDC.

The field nonitoring team consisted of OEPA personnel from Colunbus and the District Office, at Twinsburg, Ohio. We nonitoring team was kept aware of utility and meteorological conditions by listening to radio transmissions from the controller in the connonications van, which was situated at the Ledgenont School near Thonpson, Ohio. Equipnent check procedures and division of responsibilities were known through prior training. he OEPA staff from Coltmbus were well versed in peraonnel protection criteria and procedures. However, the OEPA staff from W insburg were not fully aware of personnel protection criteria as evidenced by failure to know action levels at which personal protection action should be initiated.

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. Area nended For Inprovm ent: OEPA field nonitoring staff of the Twinsburg District office needs additional training in field monitoring. -

4 The field monitoring teans were well prepared for the anticipated energency. Air sanpling equipnent was adequate and functional. Soil, vegetation, and water sanpling equipment was appropriate and adequate.

Calibration dates were noted on calibration sheets and the equipnent.

Calibrations had been perforned as recently as February 1986. However, in the case of one (1) rateneter and one (1) air sanpler, calibration dates were not noted on the calibration sheets nor were calibration stickers affixed to the instrunents. This appeared to be a lapse in record-keeping rather than an actual lack of calibration. The team had backup equipment for the foregoing equipment itens and indicated that the equipnent checked out with accuracy, during their equipnent check, prior to coming into the field.

Area Reccnnended For Inprovenent: The field monitoring teams should ensure that equipnent brought to the field is properly labeled and calibration dates are properly recorded.

' Unit 13 of the three (3) field teans was the team evaluated. The team cknenstrated activation and checking of their survey instrunents, although the team did not have a check source available. They explained that the equipnent had been checked with a check source prior to their departure to the field. The team monitored for exte sanples during the transport.

The nonitoring team was familiar with the area assigned to them and found the nonitoring points easily. However, field sanpling site F1 is located in a wooded area. Because the Fl Site is heavily wooded it is not a representative site to accurately assess' air deposition.

At sanpling site F2, the nonitoring teans van radio connonications to the State connonications van was tenporarily lost. A hand held portable radio, held outside the nonitoring teans van corrected the problem. The connunications problem appeared to be due to overhead electrical lines and/or the terrain. When the teans van was noved down the road a few tenths of a mile the problem Jisappeared.

Area Requiring Corrective Action: NUREG 0654, criteria item I.8 -

Radiological sanpling sites nust be re-evaluated for sanpling representativeness and radio connunications.

The controller in the State connunications van (van 1) maintainedHowever, contactthe with the field monitoring team almost throughout the exercise.

field team's OEPA radio operator did not appear to have been adequately trained in the use of the portable radio. A team netber from van 1 had to be dispatched to aid the OEPA radio operator in the operation of the radio.

1he State Canunications van had a nultiplicity of radios with a variety of frequencies available. There appeared to be good back-@ connunications capabilities. When connonications was lost with the unit 13 field team connunications van the teams hand held portable radio worked as the back-up means of connonicaf fons.

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-~he field teans have adequate quantities and types of protective clothing.

Members of the field nonitoring teani wore pernanent and self reading

- dosineters. The OEPA personnel frnni Colunbus were proficient in the use of dosinetry,' dose assessnent and decontaniination procedures. However, team .

nenbers of OEPA from the Twinsburg District Office were not very familiar with the use of dosinetry, dose assessnent, and decontamination procedures.

Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: Field nonitoring team nenbers of the OEPA's Twinsburg District Office need training in the use of dosinetry, dose assessnent, and amontamination procedures.

RECOVERY AND REENTRY Recovery and reentry was not an objective selected to be denonstrated during the exercise. -

2. ASHTABULA COUNTY he five-way dedicated telephone link between Ashtabula County, PNPP, the State EOC and the Counties of Geauga and Lake is continuously nonitored ,

twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days a week at the County Sherif f's cono.unications center.

We utility initially inforned Ashtabula County of the Unusual Event at 7:35 A.M. The Alert, Site Area Energency, and the General Energency were announced at 8:48 A.M.,11:09 A.M. and 12:34 P.M. Written call lists were used to alert and nobilize the EOC staff. The County EOC staffing was conpleted and operational by 9:25 A.M. All agencies / organizations listed in the Ashtabula County plan for EDC staffing were represented in the EOC.

Extended capability to continue operations was denonstrated through the use of a roster and double staffing of sone EOC positions. The EOC staff -

denonstrated that they are trained and knowledgeable of their duties and responsibilities. The County liaison at the PNPP's energency operations facility was dispatched to the EOF at 12:33 P.M.

ENEFCENCY OPERATIONS MANAGD4ENT ne Ashtabula County Disaster Services Agency coordinator, working with the executive group, was effectively in charge of County operations. Periodic updates on the situation were announced by the County coordinator via a public address (PA) system to the EOC staff. The DSA coordinator net -

individually with appropriate EDC staff to facilitate decisionnaking.

Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: The Federal evaluation team reconnends the DSA coordinator / executive gro@ hold periodic briefings in the operations room where each departnent/ agency representative report actions taken by their respective agencies /departnents. The evaluation team feels this would enable the entire EOC staff to better know the County situation / posture and would further inprove inter-departnent awareness and coordination.

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l All nessages coming into. the central connonications center were recorded on tape in the connonications center. There were nany connercial telephones strategically. placed throughout the EOC. Anateur radios with operators, and the State radio system were asserbled in line on a wall utilizing sound -

contr01 booths.

We three-way dedicated telephone link perforned well with no problens. The five-way dedicated telephone system was enployed and functioned, but with sone operational difficulties occurring at tines. A hard-copy device was centrally available, frequently used and reliable.

Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: The five-way dedicated telephone link should be inproved and corrected to obtain a clear and interference free level of perfornance. -

The County EOC staff fully denonstrated their ability to establish and naintain connonications with the necessary agencies, organizations, and personnel under energency conditions. All applicable objectives and i criteria for perfornance were net. l DOSE' ASSESSMENT AND PROTIETIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATION Dose assessnent and protective action reconnendations are prirrarily the

, responsibilities of the State of Ohio. Dose assessnent infornation and

- protectivs action r_econnendations developed by the State are given to Ashtabula County. .The County inglenents the protective action reconcendations developed by the State. The County in their decisions to inglenent protective action reconnendations considered EPA exposure guidelines, plant status, evacuation tines, and local weather conditions.

We protective action reconnendations were pronptly reviewed and updated as

conditions changed.

PUBLIC ALERTING AND INSTRUCTION Lake County is the lead County for public alerting and instructions for the tri-county areas of Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula. Ashtabula County plays a support role in public alerting and instructions but could becone f responsible for the lead role in the event that Lake and Geauga County could not perforni this function. The Ashtabula County siren system control is located in the connonications center and activation is coordinated by the connaissioners from the three (3) Counties over the three-way dedicated telephone lines. .

The sirens and the EBS were activated on the notification to shelter and again upon. notification to evacuate. We list of key tines is tabulated below in order to' evaluate the requirenent that the public be alerted and inforned wi't hin a fif teen (15) minutes titre frane.

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At the general energency when sheltering was reconnended the sherif f's Departnerit placed deputies at traf fic control points to assist people who might voluntarily evacuate the EPZ. '4nen evacuation was ordered deputies sere in pipce to control traffic until relieved by State Highway Patrol _

personnel. The County Highway Departcent sinalated the dispatch of nen and equipnent to assist evacuation and control access to evacuated areas.

Status boards in the EOC were narked to show road blocks and traffic control points. In addition to County resources available, the National Guard staged their resources to assist the County with evacuation, clearing of inpedinents, and military policenen to help control access to the evacuated area.

The Fire Departnent/Drergency Medical Services (EMS) representative had a printed list of those persons, within the ten (13) mile EPZ, in Geauga County who are noblilty inpaired. EMS pe'rsonnel would use anbulances belonging to the fire departuent, private conpanies, and the National Guard for transportation of the nobility inpaired.

There is one (1) school within the ten (10) mile EPZ of the PNPP in Geauga County, One of the considerations nade at the alert status was early dismissal of the schools,'so that school buses would be free to assist persons without transportation if evacuation becane necessary.

The County provide all energency workers in/or near the EPZ with dosinetry kits that contain low and mid range dosineters, TLDs, a record form and an instruction sheet. Energency workers at roadblocks, decontamination i stations and traffic control points displayed broad understanding of how the l dosinetry is used and what it indicated.

All inquiries'made to the EOC for infornation were referred to the JPIC.

I All briefings to the nedia were conducted at the JPIC. Infornation was i coordinated on the three-way telephone between the Counties before it was released to EBS or'the JPIC. A dedicated telephone is used between the JPIC and Geauga County to coordinate infornation.

The County controlled runcrs frorn the EOC. The ruaor control officer receives infornation from the executive staff and the JPIC. Injected j problens were used to test the runor control function which perforned well.

The reception and congregate care center was simulated to be activated at the site area energency notification during the exercise play.- However, it was actually activated late in the evening on the exercise date and out of sequence with the regular exercise play, per pre-exercise agreenent between the ODSA and FD1A. We West Geauga High School is used as the prinary care facility. The Anerican Red Cross provides registration and support for shelter operations. The Ceauga Amateur Radio Association provides back-up connonications to the EOC in the event concercial telephones are inoperable. The Chester Police Departnent provided security at the center, and the Chester Fire Departnent denonstrated that they were well versed in the use of radiological eg;ipnent to nonitor evacuaes and to provide decontamination as necessary. The Ceauga County Health Departnent insures the adequacy of sanitation. The center provided child care, a nursing station, feeding arer, and sleeping facilities.

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ORDER 12:27 P.M PNPP reconnended sheltering 12:35 P.M .c ' State reconcended sheltering .

12:40 P.M I Ashtabula County coordinated with Lake County 12:47 P.M Sirens were activated 12:50 P.M EBS was activated A twelve (12) minutes tine differential between State reconnended action and the activation of sirens is reflected. W e objective of not exceeding fif teen (15) rninutes was net.

Public alerting and instructions for the evacuation order was also conpleted in tWeleve (12) minutes as reflected below:

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EVACUATION ORDER 1:25 P.M. State reconnended evacuation 1:27 P.M. Ashtabula County coordinated with Lake County 1:37 P.M. Sirens were activated 1:37 P.M EBS was activated Ashtabula County denonstrated, in a tinely fashion that the public could be notified and given instructional infornation in the event of an energency.

PROTECTIVE ACTION te activation of traffic control points were pronptly. ordered by the executive group. 'Ihe appropriate EOC staff indicated that resources are available to keep evacuation routes clear during bad weather or in the event of stalled or wrecked cars. One traffic and access control point was actually set-up and denonstrated during the exercise. Other traffic and access control points were procedurally denonstrated through discussion and nap displays within the County EOC. All roads were blocked, air traffic was re-routed, water and rail traffic were stopped. The EDC staff indicated that local resources are adequate to cover all traffic and access control points simultaneously. Receptions / congregate care centers were staffed and ordered to be activated in a tinely fashion.

he EOC staff were aware of the location of nobility-inpaired individuals and their special needs. The County Agricultural Extension Agent in the EOC had available his updated list of farners and their crops. He knew the locations of dairy farns and food processing plants. Trained staff is available to work individually with farners, food workers, etc., to inglenent protective actions.

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RADIOLOGICAL EXPOSURE CONTROL

- The Ashtabula County EOC is located outside the ten (10) niile energency planning zpe'of the PNPP. Dosiiretry equipnent was available at the EOC for -

the EOF liaison, the JPIC spokesperson, and the County Sheriff's deputies canning the traffic control point at Interstate 90 and highway 45.

Appropriate instructions were issued along with the dosineters. The County Radiological Officer and the energency workers in the field were aware of the naxinum dose allowed without authorization. The radiological officer was also aware of decontarnination procedures. The EXX' staff actively nonitored energency worker exposure. The energency workers reported their readings once an hour to their respective supervisors or their radio dispatcher. This was done at 12:52 P.M., 1:49 P.M., and 2:51 P.M. during the exercise. ,

MEDIA RELATIONS n e Ashtabula County EOC was a controlled access area which contained a conbined runct control and public infornation section within a portion of the operations room in the EOC. This runor control /public infornation section was activated at the Alert Notification stage of the exercise. At the Site Area Drergency notification the Public Infornation Officer (PIO) departed the EOC and went to the JPIC when notified that the JPIC had been activated.

A second floor room at the EOC had been designated as a possible nedia briefing rooni, in the unlikely event that nedia personnel atterrpted to obtain infornation at this location.

i At 2:03 P.M. the assistant PIO received infornation that a photographer from the Ashtabula Star Beacon wanted to obtain photographs of the County EOC.

%e assistant PIO net with the photographer in the second floor nedia briefing room-and inforned the individual that his request was denied, whereupon the individual departed the building.

Eight (8) runor inquiries were received by the runor control section and handled properly. Additionally, it was demonstrated that EOC personnel knew that any inquiries by the nedia were to be referred to the JPIC.

@e Assistant PIO/nedia representative established and naintained liaison with the Ashtabula County representative at the JPIC. A nunber of nessages and news releases were received at the EOC via the telecopier linked to the nedia center.

FIELD ACTIVITY We Ohio State Highway Patrol tranned the access control point at the intersection of Interstate Route 90 and Ohio State Route 45. The State Patrolnen arrived at his post at approxinately 12:15 P.M. The Patrolnan was later followed by an energency worker from the County Transportation Departnent that had been requested by the Patrolnan, via patrol radio connonications, to transport barricades to the site. We Patrol Officer was knowledgeable of evacuation procedures, evacuation routes, and the locations of reception / care centers. He was in direct connonications with the Highway Patrol Post, other State Patrol Personnel, and had radio connonications 35 l

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the capability to comnunicate directly with the Ashtabula County EOC.

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l received @ dates from the State Highway Patrol Post and was to report hourly via radio. 'Ibe Patrolman had an extensive resource listing of available tow trucks / wreckers, etc., that would be used for. clearing road obstructions.

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'Ihe Ohio State Patrolnan and the energency worker, from the County Transportation Department, wore mid and high range Bothdosineters andwere individuals TLDs.

'Ibey also had instructions and recording forns. familiar with the recordin

'1 hey were also aware of the locations for emergency worker decontamination stations and referral points for evacuees. .

'Ibe Spencer Elenentary School evacuation was initiated by the Superintendent of the School System. Per FEMA procedures there was no actual novenent of students. 'Ibe Geneva School District transportation supervisor actually dispatched two (2) drivers and buses to the Spencer Elmentary to the Federal evaluator at the Spencer Elenentary School by the school principal and the two (2) bus drivers who demonstrated their procedures t evacuate the students.

school superintendent and the Geneva School District transportation supervisor irxficated that these school officials and the bus drivers understood the school's evacuation plan and the inplementing procedures.

h Ashtabula County plan calls for school evacuation to be by both, bus and parential pickup of students. A nts that ordina gThe walk to school renainder wil p of r.ne bo eir parents pick them up.

g either walk hdie utstudents would be bused to the Ashtabula County Joint Vocational S

'Ibe parents or guardians would then pick-up their children at the Ashtabula school. Students that are not picked up by parents and/or guardians at the Ashtabula school would later be transferred to the Edgewood Senior High1he School, so that long term care (food, shelter, etc.) can be provided.

authwization to evacuate the schools would be given by the Superintendant of Schools via connercial telephone or two-way radio, if telephone capability is unavailable.

'Ihe two (2) bus drivers interviewed were equipped with dosineters and film badges and through questioning appeared to be aware of their proper use.

The drivers knew the naxinn dose and how often to check the dosineters.

'Ibe transportation supervisor informed the drivers of the location of the'1he tran energency worker decontamination facility.

in constant contact with the drivers via two-way radio connunications.

Based on the amonstrated activity and verbal descriptions it appears that the capabilities and resources are present to carry out the schoolBoth p evacuation according to plan. School officials had systens (telephone and two-way radio) were adequate.

detailed written evacuation procedures readily available and were well TVo-way radio communications with the buses were informed of the content. Both bus operators interviewed had their own copy of in place and adequate.

the evacuation route and were well inforned of the evacuation procedures.

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Diergency System (CARES) operated the reception and congregate care center

! at the Rowe Junior High School. Staff present at the center was adequate in terms of nunbers, background and training to perform their energency functions. The staff displayed knowledge of their respective responsibilities and training in energency procedures. Around the clock (24 2

hour) staffing capability was denonstrated by presentation of a roster and double staffing at the center.

i The registration and nonitoring process was well defined and adequately I denonstrated. Evacuees arriving at the r,eception/ congregate care center would be nonitored for contamination and decontaminated, if needed. . The j evacuees would thereafter be registered by center staff from the Anerican-1 Red Cross. They will be provided food, shelter, medical attention, etc., as i necessary. The decontamination process was adequately denonstrated, with

proper handling of contaminated individuals, clothing and possessions.

3 ne Center was nanned by four (4) radiological nonitoring teans, which were l Conneaut Fire Departnent Personnel. The nonitoring teans consisted of three j (3)nenbers for each team. Every individual entering the center would be scanned by a nonitoring team (2 for nales and 2 for fenales) for potential radiological contamination. If found to.be contaminated evacuees would be decontaminated by use of the school's showering facilities. Clothing and personal articles would be secured in plastic bags and tagged for identification of the owner (s) . Contaminated persons would be asked to shower and would be scanned a second tine after showering. If readings of contamination" persists the individual (s) would be transported to the hospital, by personnel of the Conneaut Fire Departnent, for further decontamination efforts. Menbers of the radiological monitoring and decontamination team displayed thorough knowledge and training in their responsibilities.-

The Rowe Junior High School Reception / Congregate Care Center is well outside

the 10 mile EPZ of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. We center could acconodate an excess of 1700 persons for feeding, sleeping, showering,. etc.

l The facility is adequate for the extended care of evacuees. Se Rowe School

j Center serves as the central feeding point for the entire School District.

Existing supplies of foodstuffs in the center would be utilized for the energency feeding of evacuees. Additional supplies would be obtained as

, necessary through local purchasing. We center was staffed and is equipped.

. to handle evacuees in wheelchairs. % e school's regular and several pay I station concercial telephones are available for connonications. The facility is equipped with a nursing station which was operated by the.

Anerican Red Cross; It is in close proximity to the Ashtabula Connonity Hospital and the Conneaut Fire Departnent.

! he energency worker decontamination facility was located at the Saybrook

Township Fire Departnent for exercise denonstration. %e Saybrook j Elenentary School, per the County's plan, is the location for l

decontamination in the e' vent of an energency requiring energency worker decontamination. Since school was in session it was not available for the l exercise. The Fire Departnent personnel manning the facility displayed

knowledge of procedures for determining the need for decontamination and the decontamination process. We staff demonstrated neasures to control energency worker exposure and the spread of contamination.

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The facility at the Saybrook Elenentary School is adequate in terus of

. showering units and space. An adequate supply of dosinetry (CDV 730, 742, TLDs), CDV .702 geigher counter type equipnent and reporting forns were available.4 The recent installation of sewer lines in the Saybrook Fire

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Departnent energency worker decontaniination station was in direct response to correct previous problens with the septic tank that was used in the past.

Procedures for radiological nonitoring of evacuees /energency workers and procedures for handling radioactive wastes are standardized per the routine cited for evacuees at the reception / congregate care center in Ashtabula County.

MEDICAL SUPPORT The denonstration of adequacy of hospital facilities and procedures 'for handling contandnated individuals consisted of a tour of the Ashtabula County Medical Center (ACE) . The walk through of the hospital revealed that the hospital has the necessary equipnent to adequately treat contaminated patients. The equipnent observed included equipnent nentioned as deficient during the 1984 exercise. This included waste water collection containers, faucet hoses, and a whole-body wash tray. Other inprovenents to the facility since the last exercise include non-absorbent paint in the treatuent room, grounded faucets, grounded electrical outlets in the room, and increased lighting in the hallway leading to the treatnent room.

RECOVERY AND REENTPY Recovery and reentry was not an objective selected to be denonstrated during the exercise.-

3. GEAUGA COUNTY ACTIVATION AND STAFFING We Dispatch Center of the Geauga County Sheriff's Departnent received the initial telephone call of the Unusual Event Conditions at the Perry Nuclear Power plant, in concert with the State of Ohio, Ashtabula and Lake Counties, at 7:40 A.M., via the five-Way dedicated telephone line between the utility, the State of Ohio and the three Counties. The notification from the utility's Technical Support Center was verified by a telephone code word at the end of the nessage. Sheriff's personnel in the dispatch center notified nenbers of the County h ergency Response Organization from currently dated written call lists and/or at the direction of the DSA Director in accordance with standard operations procedures. The Alert Notification was classified by the utility at 8:22 A.M., and was received by the County at 8:34 A.M. via the five-Way dedicated telephone. Personnel of the County Sheriff's Dispatch Center notified key energency response personnel in accordance with the plan, and the County EOC was partially activated. We renainder of the EOC staff were activated at the Site Area Bergency notification. The initial staffing was conpleted at 9:45 A.M. and the EOC was conpletely staffed at 11:40 A. M.

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me five-Way dedicated telephone system to the County consists of two (2) telephones, one of which is located in the. Dispatch Center of the County Sheriff's Departaent and the second in the Bergency Operations Center.

de Sherif f's.Departnent personnel discontinues nonitoring the dedicated telephone kine upon the arrival of the County DSA Director and the activation of the EOC.

Representatives of all agencies nakirrg up the County's Energency Response Organization were present and effectively operational in the County EOC.

We EOC staff denonstrated around the clock (24 hour2.777778e-4 days 0.00667 hours 3.968254e-5 weeks 9.132e-6 months ) staffing capability by double staf fing positions and presentation of a roster of personnel for additional shifts as necessary. In addition to the EOC staff the County assisted in the staffing of the Joint Public Infornation Center and activated and staf fed a reception / congregate care center, a decontaniination center, nanned access control points and coordinated with the support hospital's denonstration of treatnent for injured and contaniinated workers. At 9:15 A. M. the three (3) Counties initiated activation of all prinary care centers as a precaution against escalation and/or spontaneous evacuation. The reception / congregate care center at the West Geauga High School was adequately staf fed with personnel from the County Health Departaent, Chester Fire and Police Departnents, the Anerican Red Cross, and the school system. Agency representatives reportedly had been activated by their respective agencies by use of energency response call lists. The staff also had copies of the rosters of personnel of their respective agencies that were to be used in cases of extended operations and to denonstrate twenty-four (24) hour staffing capabilities.

EMERGEtCY OPERATIONS MANAGD4ENT W e County Director, Disaster Services Agency effectively coordinated the activities within the EOC. Periodic briefings were held to update the staff on the situation at the plant, and other activities inpacting on the progress of the operation. The staff was involved in decision naking with najor decisions being nade by the executive group, which included the DSA Director, the County Consnissioners, the County Sheriff's representative, and the Public Infornation Officer liaison in the EOC. Copies of the plan were available for reference and staff had copies of procedures and/or checklists pertaining to their respective agencies. Message logs were kept and nessages were reproduced and distributed as appropriate. Access to the EOC was controlled by representatives of the County Sheriff's Departnent and by use of a control roster and personal identification.

We County EOC in concert with the State, Ashtabula and Lake Counties were notified by the Perry Nuclear Power Plant of the Alert Conditions at the plant at 8:34 A.M.; the Site Area mergency Conditions at 11:08 A. M., and the General Dergency at 12:32 P.M. Geauga, Ashtabula and Lake Counties were notified at 11:15 A. M. of the Governor's Declaration of a State of Ehergency due to the continuing problens at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.

In conjunction with the Governor's Declaration, the Counties were inforned by the State of the activation of the National Guard and other State agencies to assist County officials and augnent County resources. At 12:32 P.M. the County in concert with the State, Lake and Ashtabula Counties were notified of the General Dergency by the Utility. We Utility reconcended inplace sheltering of people within the 0-2 mile radius of the plant, and 2-5 miles in the downwind sectors E-F-G . The State upgraded the protective actions and reconnended sheltering in sub areas 1-2-3. @ e State Departnents of Health and Agriculture recontnended sheltering and feeding all lactating aninals on stored feed within the 10-mile radius of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, and the issuance of advisories on locally grown produce.

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FACILITIES he Geaoga County EOC is located in the basenent level of the County Safety Center (13281 Ravenna - Road, Chardon, Ohio) . % e County Disaster Services -

Agency operates in the EOC facility during nornal working hours. The DSA.

naintains the EOC and operate it during energencies, ensuring that it renains operational 24-hours a day throughout the energency period. We EC has suf ficient lighting, furniture, telephones, and other anenities to support an extended operation. Drergency classification levels were posted in the EOC. A status board was available and was kept up to date on significant events. All required naps were posted, depicting the plune'EPZ with sectors labelled, evacuation routes, relocation centers, access control points, radiological nonitoring points, and population by evacuation areas.

Other facilities denonstrated during the exercise are adequate -for their intended purpose, including the Reception / Congregate Care Center at the West Geauga High' School, and the Decontamination Center at the Hanbden Volunteer Fire Departaent.

COMMUNICATIONS We County denonstrated the prinary and backup neans of conconications with the State EOC, the Utility, other Counties, the JPIC and other centers that were activated durino the exercise. The prinary neans of connonications between Geauga County, the Utility, the State of Ohio and the Counties of Lake and Ashtabula is via the five-Way dedicated telephone hook-up that provides several extensions at each location. Additional neans of connonications between Geauga County, the State and Counties is via radio and or regular telephone. A separate three-way dedicated telephone system links the Geauga County EOC with the Lake and Ashtabula County Diergency Operations Centers. Conconications between the County EOC and the JPIC is via a two-way dedicated telephone line between the two (2) locations. Local schools and the support hospitals are prinarily contacted by connercial telephone. During energencies ham-radio contact is established between the EOC, the schools and support hospitals as necessary. Fire / rescue anbulances are contacted by radio through the County Sheriff's Dispatch Center, which is upstairs from the basenent level EOC, where connonications to the EOC is by concercial telephone and police radio. Additionally, the County EOC is equipped with twenty-two (22) connercial telephones, two-way radio equipnent, the Anateur Radio Association support, pagers, a high-speed facsimile nachine and a telephoto-copier. A nessage center is staffed by a nessage controller, a nessage logger, a status board plotter and nessengers. The center ensures nessage flow and naintains a record of all nessages being received or transmitted.

DOSE ASSESSMENT AND PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS Dose assessnent and protective action reconnendations are the responsibility of the State.of Ohio.

PUBLIC ALERTING AND INSTRUCTION

, We executive staff of the Geauga County EOC in joint consultation with EOC staffs of Ashtabula and Lake Counties is responsible for alerting and instructions to the public in the tri-county area.

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_m Ceauga. County, in consultation with Lake and Ashtabula Counties, nede the decision.to reconcend the early dismissal of schools within the ten (10) a

.ile EPZ of the utility at 9:15 A.M., af ter being notified of the Alert 4 Conditidns at.the plant by the Utility at 8:34 A.M. A telephone call was nade advising the' principal of the one (1) school that is located in' the ten -

(10) mile EPZ wittiin Geauga County.

Public alerting and instructions were effected by the County beginning at 11:13 A.M., af ter .the State Departnents of Health and Agriculture's reconnendation for precautionary sheltering of lactating aninals.

We County in consultation with Lake and Ashtabula Counties (through Lake County as the activation point) activated sirens and the energency broadcast system (EBS) at 12:47 P.M., af ter receiving notification of the General Drergency Conditions at the plant froni the Utility at 12:32 P.M. %e

. activation of the siren system and the EBS was initiated a second tine at 1:25 P.M., when the Counties were instructed to evacuate, sub areas 1 through 5, by the State because of increasing release rates of radiological contaminating gas from the plant.

Energency public instructions are draf ted and released by the Lake County EOC,- for the three (3) counties inpacted by the PNPP, af ter consultation between the three (3) counties. W e Counties used prescripted nessages during the exercise. Protective action areas were described in ' terns of familiar boundaries and landnarks. We instructions to take shelter were fornulated and included guidance on sheltering nethods and instructions for i transients without shelter.

PROTECTIVE ACTION The nanning and activation of traffic control ';nints were initiated by the County following directions froni the State. According to EOC staff of the~

County Sheriff's . Departnent appropriate resources in terns of personnel and equipaent are available to keep evacuation routes clear during bad weather and/or in the event of stalled or~ wrecked cars. Aaple resources were denonstrated by the Ohio State Police and Highway Conniission personnel for covering all routes and traffic control points that were the responsibility of Geauga Co'unty.

At 1:15 P.M. a two (2) nan County crew, operating a truck loaded with barricades, arrived at the access control point at the junction of State Routes 166 and 86 which was nenned by an Ohio State Trooper. The trooper was familiar with the evacuation routes, the location of reception / congregate care centers and procedures to request tow trucks and

! other equipnent to insure that roads and highways are kept clear of inpediments to traf fic. We County was advised that the State had contacted the responsible railway coupanies to reroute rail traffic and the Federal Aviation Adainistration (FAA) had been requested to reroute air traffic.

We ' Utility inforned the Counties and the State that the U.S. Coast Guard had been notified and was inglenenting a precautionary evacuation of the waterway within the. ten (10) mile EPZ. The County had initiated activation of all prinary care centers at 9:15 A.M. as a precaution for escalation and/or spontaneous evacuation.

I We County maintains a list of the nobility inpaired residents with addresses, telephone nunbers, and identification of special needs. We County sinclated arrangenents for the required nunber of buses and anbulances needed to acconodate the nobility inpaired individuals.

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De Ledgenont High School is the only school within the ten (10) mile EPZ of the PNPP in Ceauga County. According to the EOC staff there are enough bases and drivers available to cover the transport and evacuation of the school. 'The bus drivers are contacted by cormercial telephone during non- '

duty hoursf Arrangenents were nade by the three (3) Counties to preclude traf fic jans at the school by issuance of an EBS nessage. The nessage inforned parents that if their child (ren) were at a school located within the evacuating area the school would safely nove the children to a receiving school located at least ten (13) miles away from the PNPP. We parent (s) were instructed to neet their children at the receiving school.

RADIOLOGICAL EXPOSURE CONTROL he Geauga County EOC is located well outside the ten (10) mile EPZ of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. Dosinetry equ'ipnent was observed in the County EOC, traffic control points, the support hospital and the decontamination station. The County's dosinetry kits contain low (0-200 nR) and mid range (0-20R) dosineters, TLDs, record keeping cards, chargers for the dosineters, and instructions to be issued along with the dosineters. We County radiological officer and energency field workers queried on the use of the dosinetry were aware of their use, record keeping and exposure controls.

We workers and radiological officer were also aware of decontaniination procedures and where to go for decontamination.

RELOCATION / CONGREGATE CARE CENTER We County operated a reception / congregate care center at the West Geauga High School. The. school can acconodate approxinately 1200 individuals as a shelter and approximately 3000 for daily feeding. We facility has sufficient anenities for sleeping, feeding, recreation and care for evacuees for an extended period. The Anerican Red Cross by agreenent with the County will provide cots, blankets, and other items needed for sleeping evacuees at the care centers. The school food supply in addition to local purchases would be utilized for feeding purposes.

Staf f of the reception / congregate care center denonstrated procedures for registration and radiological nonitoring of evacuees. Representatives from the Anerican Red Cross were responsible for the registration, nursing station, feeding, and other evacuee health and confort needs. The Chester Fire Departnent denonstrated procedures for radiological nonitoring and decontartiination of evecuees and/or energency workers. We center was further staffed by the County Health Departnent, the Chester Anateur Radio Association and the Chester Police Departnent which was responsible for security. We staffing of the center was adequate in terrrs of nunbers, background and training to perform their energency functions. 'IVenty-four (24) hour staffing capability was denonstrated by double staffing positions and/or presentation of rosters of personnel designated as replacenents for the initial and subsequent staffing.

me four (4) radiological nonitoring teaus of the Chester Fire Departnent denonstrated radiological nonitoring by use of CDV 700 geigher counters, and sinalated decontaniination, with the assistance of individuals role playing as evacuees.

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DECONTAMINATION We Hanb' den Volunteer Fire Departnent Decontamination Facility has the ~

i capacity t6 nonitor and decontaminate approximately 6-8 persons per hour and 2-3 vehicles per hour. Additional energency worker and equiprrent decontamination centers are defined within the County plan. Radioactive waste is collected in plastic bags and/or drums and is disposed by the Ohio Jepartnent of Health. The personnel of the- Hanbden Fire Departnent' denonstrated exceptional knowledge, training and understanding of radiological nonitoring and decontamination procedures. However, the j decontamination standard operations procedures (SOP) provides for personnel 3 to te nonitored, areas contaminated noted and a decontamination shower. The SOP thereaf ter only requires renonitoring of those areas noted to have been

contaminated during the initial nonitorini3 for contamination. In the-

process of renoving clothing or while showering the contamination could be

spread to other parts of the body. merefore, after decontamination the entire body should be renonitored.

Area Reconcended For Inprovenent: We SOP for decontamination of energency workers should be reviewed and rewritten so that the whole body is renonitored.

- MEDICAL SUPPORT Additionally, the County denonstrated the adequacy of anbulance facilities

and procedures for handling contaminated individuals. Bis denonstration

! was in conjunction with the Hanbden Volunteer Fire Departnent's denonstration of the adequacy of equiptrent and procedures for decontami-nation of energency workers, equipnent, and vehicles, and the Geauga Connonity Hospital's denonstration of the adequacy of hospital facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals.

An energency worker that was sinulated to have been injured and radiologically contaniinated was transported to the Ceauga Connonity Hospital by anbulance fron, the energency worker radiological nonitoring and decontamination station at the Hanbden Fire Departnent. The floor of the anbulance was covered with protective plastic and the energency nedical team (EMT) donned throw-away clothing, gloves, head and feet coverings, etc.,

prior to receipt of the patient for transport to the hospital. The anbulance crew was able to connonicate with the hospital while enroute by

use of a two-way radio. We hospital's energency room staff accepted the patient, whereupon the anbulance EMT proceeded back to the Hanbden Fire Departnent Decontamination Center where the team, vehicle, and the energency equiprrent used for the patient's transport and care would be nonitored for contamination and decontaminated.

We energency room staff of the Geauga Connonity Hospital was proficient in the handling and treatnent of the injured and contaminated worker and the avoidance of the spread of contamination. A health physicist from the utility was present. The hospital denonstrated the necessary equipnent for determining whether or not the patient was contaminated. %e hospital staff also denonstrated decontamination procedures. It was noted that the energe'ncy room staff experienced difficulty in maneuvering the patient cart on the plastic floor covering that was used instead of a herculite tarp.

ee plastic was slippery and kept noving underfoot and/or with the rolling cart wheels.

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o Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: It is reconnended that a herculite tarpaulin or other suitable naterial be used as a runway floor covering in the treatnent. area for potentially contarninated patients, ~

i MEDIA RELATIONS

Ihe County dispatched the County Public Infornation Officer (PIO) to the JPIC upon it's activation at 12:00 P.M. 'Ihe County PIO liaison at the JPIC coordinated with the executive group of the EOC through the PIO liaison in the County EOC. All nedia inquiries were referred to the JPIC.

R KOVERY AND REENTRY Recovery and reentry was not an objective to be denonstrated during this exercise.

4. LAKE COUNTY ACTIVATION AND STAFFING The Lake County EOC is a pernanent twenty-four (24) hours per day facility with around the clock conplenents of tele-connonicators (dispatchers) and advanced connonications equipnent, both fixed and portable, so that alnost innediate notification of key staff is assured. 'Ihe EOC received notification from the PNPP at 8:46 A.M. and was fully staffed and activated by 9:50 A.M.,. with perhaps an approxinate twenty (20) minutes delay caused by the arrival of a substitute nedical officer as fill in for the unexpectedly out of town regular doctor. Initial notification of the Unusual Event was conpleted in nine (9) minutes and additional notification for the Alert Status required twenty (20) minutes. 'Ihe elected officials were all present and participated fully in all areas of their responsibility, including very effective decision-naking in their executive group. Every organization as depicted in the County plan was represented by double staf fing or via roster, except the Ohio National Guard and the OEPA.

All organizations actively participated in their areas of responsibility.

Each staf f nenb2r, when interviewed, indicated thorough knowledge of their responsibilities and reacted well throughout the exercise. Copies of the plan were available for reference. EOC staff had copies of procedures and/or checklists that pertained to their respective responsibilities.

Pessage logs were kept and nessages were reproduced and distributed as appropriate. 'Ihe handling of nessages were ef ficient. Access to the EOC was controlled by use of personal identification, a roster and sign in/out log.

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. he Diergency Managenent Director conducted the overall EOC operations with ef fective control by the EOC Operations Of ficer, guided by the ef ficient and ,

tinely decisions fron the elected executive group. Frequent briefings and status reports were conducted, serving to give each participant a good j picture of the overall incident and response status. 2ere was excellent

intra-connonications and coordination. Regular contacts were established and nade with other participating centers. The only negative connent would be that the quarters for the radiological assessnent tean., within the EOC were rather constricting for the nany activities, and the noise level within the office was higher than it should have been.

We Lake County EOC staff was notified of the Alert status at the utility at 8:46 A.M.; the Site Area Drergency at 11:11 A.M., and the General Diergency at 12: 37 P.M. W e notifications from the utility was verified by telephone calls back to the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.

4 Protective action orders to take shelter were issued at 12:41 P.M. for sub areas 1,2, and 3. Sirens and the EBS were activated at 12:50 P.M.

Protective action orders to evacuate were issued at 1:27 P.M. for sub areas 1,2,3,4, and 5. The sirens were sounded and EBS activated.

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We Lake County EOC facility has the necessary furniture, anple space, i lighting, telephones, and all other anenities to support operations of the EOC. There is a fully equipped kitchen; separate bunk areas for nen and wonen; showers in one area for workers, and showers near the front entrance,

, if needed for decontamination. There is energency power available and it was effectively demonstrated during the exercise. The'energency classification levels were posted in several locations within the EOC.

Were were two (2) status boards in the operations room which were kept up to date throughout the exercise. One (1) was for general infornation and one (1) for significant events. Exercise events were also typed so there would be a pernanent record of events. A third status board was located in the room with the executive group. All status boards were clearly visible to the participants. All necessary naps were posted and infornation on them was updated as necessary.

COMMUNICATIONS The prinary connonications with the utility, State, Ashtabula and Geauga Counties is a five-way dedicated telephone line, with connercial telephone and radio as back-up. During the early part of the exercise there was a slight problem with the five-way dedicated telehone line. However, the i problem did not affect the operation. Upon identification of the problem

the connonicators incediately switched to the back-up telephone and within five (5) minutes the five-way telephone was back in operation. There is also a three-way dedicated telephone line that is used by the three (3) counties that are inpacted by the PNPP. A dedicated telephone is also available for connonications with the JPIC and a facsimile nachine is used for hard-copy. All EBS nessages originating at the EOC were sent to the

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past there had been difficulties with radio connonications, but the problens appeared to have been resolved with the installation of supplenentary radio equipnent in the area. We~ teans had vehicle nounted radios which had the additional capability of telephone connonications. In addition, the teans had hand-held portable radios which were denonstrated and used for a period of tine by each team.

DOSE ASSESS. MINT AND PRMECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATION Dose assessnent and protective action reconnendation are pritrarily the responsibility of the State of Ohio. The Counties received and' inplenented protective actions based on reconnendations from the State EOC.

PUBLIC ALERTING AND INSTRUCTION me Executive Group has the responsibility for alerting the public according to the plan. Af ter receiving the nessage from the State EDC, via the five--

way dedicated telephone line, the executive group proceeded in a very orderly and business-like nanner to alert the public. The initial call was received at 12:37 P.M., the sirens were activated at 12:47 P.M. and the EBS at 12:50 P.M. Prior to activation of the sirens the executive group contacted Geauga and Ashtabula Counties to coordinate the activation of the alert and notification system. As indicated in the plan, it is Lake County's responsibility to activate the system for the tri-counties of Lake, Ashtabula and,Ceauga. The sinalated activation of the alert and notification system was handled very efficiently. We sirens were activated a second tine at 1:37 P.M. The EBS nessage was re-broadcasted every fif teen (15) minutes for a period of one (1) hour. At 1:41 P.M. a new nessage was broadcast and it was also re-broadcasted every fifteen (15) minutes for one (1) hour. We EBS nessages were telephoned to the radio station but were not actually broadcasted.

PRMECTIVE ACTION Protective actions were carried out by sinulated sheltering and evacuation of nost County areas, in coordination with efforts of the other two (2) counties. Traffic referral control points and access control points were quickly nanned, with tinely notice and instructions given to evacuees and host support facility personnel. We County Sheriff's police , fire departnent personnel, Ohio Highway Patrol and National Guard reacted pronotly to directives. We school systems, Anerican Fed Cross, Hunan Services, and the Cooperative Extension Agency perforned well in their notifications and inplenentation. We entire ganut of protective actions were effectively carried out by staff at the Lake County EOC.

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RADIOLOGICAL EXPOSURE CONTROL he Lake County EOC is located outside the ten (10) niile energency planning zone of'the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. Dosinetry equipnent was available at the EOC fst energency workers that nay have a need to travel into the EPZ. -

Energency personnel of the County Sherif f's Police, fire departnent personnel and the Ohio State Patrol were issued dosinetery by their respective departnents as reflected in this report. Appropriate

. instructions were issued along with the dosineters. The County Radiological Of ficer and the energency workers in the field were aware of the nexinani dose allowed without authorization, and the location of the energency worker decontamination facilities.

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We Lake County PIO's assigned position is at the JPIC, with a' liaison PIO at the EOC. No nedia representatives were present or evident, although their presence was expected at the EOC. Sinclated (controller inserted) nedia-type interruptions were snoothly handled and evidenced preparation and capacity for real visitations from nedia nenbers.

FIELD ACTIVITY Lake County set-up an access control Point at State Route 84 and Park Road and traffic control points along State Route 20 at Perry Park Road, Center Road, Madison Road, and Parndey Road. The traffic control points were nanned at 11:56 A.M. and the access control point at 1:09 P.M. by police personnel of the Lake County Sheriff's Departnent. N o Sherriff's Departnent Policenen nanned the access control point and two each nanned the three (3) traffic control points. All personnel had dosinetry equipnent, and vehicular and portable radio connunications with the Sheriff's connonication center and their counterparts at road blocks and other locations. All eight (8) of the officers had been instructed on reading and recording of dosinetry infornation. Their instructions included how often to read dosineters and when to report readings to supervisors for relay to the County EOC. We Sherif f's personnel were familiar with the evacuation routes, the location of reception / care centers, and procedures for clearing traffic obstructions. According to the of ficers and Staff in the EOC there are sufficient personnel and equipnent available to nan traffic and access control points, and keep evacuation routes clear of obstructions, even during inclenent weather.

Additionally, the County operated a Referral Point at the westbound rest area on Interstate Route 90. The six (6) person referral point team arrived at the rest area site at 11:33 A.M. They were later acconpanied by a truck, carrying traffic cones for channeling traffic from the highway into the reception area. However, the site personnel and the truck driver discovered he had not delivered a sufficient nunber of traffic cones to properly operate their planned traffic routing procedures. Signs intended to be used for notorist to identify the Referral Point location were poor. The workers ;

explained that better signs are being ordered by Lake County.

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We County plan calls for controlling the nunber of people assigned to receptior>/ care centers by the nunber of sheet naps distributed by the referral point personnel to individual evacuees and/or notorists. We sheet naps wer'e pre-packed for each reception center in two (2) packs for each center. 06e (1) of the two packs of sheet naps represented a specific -

center at three-fourths (3/4) capacity We second pack included enough '

sheet naps for the renaining one-fourth (1/4) of the centers capacity.

Instructions for the handout of the sheet naps were -intrepretated differently by referral point personnel. Sone personnel understood the instructions to nean that each individual evacuee was to receive a sheet nap. Others explained that each autonobile carrying evacuees were to receive one (1) sheet nap with no concern about the nunber of evacuees in each autonobile, thus the accountability of nunbers was lost and no substitute system was set-up.

Area Reconnended For Improvenent: We plan should be followed as written, ie. , " hand out one (1) sheet nap per person".

All referral point personnel had high and low range disimeters and TLDs.

They had record keeping logs and were prepared to turn in hourly readings to the radiological officer. Personnel seeued nentally well prepared to deal with potential evacuee problens. They were aware of school evacuation procedures, locations and capacities of care centers, the agency and contact for keeping routes clear of wrecked or vehicular breakdowns. We operational schene for the referral point depended on a sorting of persons requesting and/or needing referral services from the traffic on Interstate Route 90 as a result of an accident at the PNPP.

We referral point team had telephone contact with the EOC via use of the rest area tel phone.

e The team was kept abreast of conditions at the PNPP by use of the sane telephone. Wo-way radio contnunications, in addition to the rest area telephone, would enhance the referral point team's connonications capability. A standby kit containing the following items is reconnended for personnel: (1) reflective traffic vests, (2) suitable hats for seasons, either sun shield or warm caps, and (3) sturdy confortable shoes.

Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: Wo-way radio connunications would enhance the referral team's connonications capability.

Reflective vests would distinguish official persons from others and increase safety in working between rows of noving traffic. People who work inside often do not wear clothing suitable for extended periods of several hours outdoors A hat and suitable shoes would be valuable. The two (2) persons with open sandals and noderate high heels would have trouble fulfilling their duties on concrete, in traffic, and in the cold for an extended period of tine.

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3 e two (2) Lake County field nonitoring teans were nobilized from their places of enploynent at the General Health District Office in the County Adniinistration Building in Painesville. A telephone call from the Lake -

County Exx', advising of the Alert Status at the PNPP was received by the County Health Conmissioner at 8:57 A.M. An energency response personnel call-up roster was available but was not necessary since nenbers of the field nonitoring teans were already on duty in the County Health Departnent.

Tean, equipnent, packed for rapid deploynent, was tenporarily stored in the long terni storage area of the County Health Departnent's Laboratory in the basenent of the building. Vehicles assigned to the field teans were located in a parking lot adjacent to the County Administration Building. The director of the field nonitoring teams departed for the Lake County EOC, af ter giving the teans instructions to depart af ter conpleting their preparations. We teans departed the County Administration Building, a little before 10:00 A.M., to two (2) assigned locations downwind of the PNPP. Be teans arrived at their assigned initial locations near the PNPP at approxinately 10:11 A.M. and 10:23 A.M. respectively. We two (2) teans received briefings on noteorological conditions but a mininum of infornation about utility conditions, during radio checks with the Lake County EOC.

Area Reconnended For InprovEnent: The County should insure that the field teans receive infornation on plant conditions in addition to the noteorological information.

Radio contact was established by both Lake County field nonitoring teams with the field team director at the Lake County EOC, prior to their departure for their initial assignnents. Radio contact appeared to be naintained essentially tnroughout the exercise. According to field team nenbers, in the past there had been dif ficulties with radio connonications in the area, but the difficulties appeared to have been resolved with the installation of supplenentary radio conmunications equipnent in the area.

We teans had vehicle nounted radios which had the additional capability of telephone connianications. In addition, the teus had hand held portable radios which were denonstrated and used for a period of tine by each team.

Team nenbers were supplied with d;sposable anti-contamination suits, plastic boots, gloves,etc. The teans had bottles of potassium iodide (KI) tablets with them. Each team nenber had a TLD and three (3) self reading dosineters (low range 0-200 mR; mid-range 0-20 R, and high-range 0-200 R). The team also had dosineter chargers in each vehicle, record keeping cards and naterials.- The dosineter readings were frequently transmitted by radio to the field team director at the Lake County EOC. Team menbers knew how to read and record their dosimeters, and had infornation on dose limits and procedures. Wey were also aware of procedures for decontamination.

We Lake County plan contains a list of equipment in the field nonitoring equipnent kits and the list corresponds to what the team had available.

Fxh team had a checklist of equipnent , and they checked through the

. - pipnent carefully prior to departure. The teans were well equipped for neasuring anbient radiation levels in the plune. Each teans ec91i vent included an Eberline ESP-1 with three probes, and a Bicron sciniillator counter, as well as two (2) civil defense survey noters. Additionally, each team had an air sanpler which was powered by their vehicle's sourca of 49

4 power; a supply of silver eolite, and charcoal cartridges. All equipnent examined for calibration was narked as having been calibrated within the

, past four (4) nonths. The County teans were not specifically equipped for environnental sanpling. The team's vehicles were standard size station ~

wagons, which were large enough for the teans and their equipnent, and appeared to be suitable for anticipated terrain and weather conditions. We teams had naps of the area, but designations used during the exercise to identify sub areas for evacuation and sheltering were not present on any maps in the possession of the nonitoring teans. This led to sone confusion and the need for radio requests for interpretation of where the evacuation -

and sheltering were occurring.

Area Reconnended For Inprovenent: he field team equipnent should include appropriate naps that correspond with location infornation being disseminated by the EOC. -

Prior to departure for their assignnents the County field monitoring teans set-up and checked out their equipnent carefully and systenatically with the supervision of the County Health District technical advisor. - t is included the installation of batteries, routine equipnent checks, and use of a barium radioactive source in setting-up sone of the instrunents. Written SOPS were used both in the set-up and operations of noch of the equiment. Team nenbers used their equipnent correctly. They had instrunents turned on with audio to continually nonitor the radiation level when appropriate. Plune traversal nonitoring was conducted with a probe extending outside the window of the vehicle, and neasurenents recorded at 0.1 mile intervals from the vehicle's hodoneters. All team nonbers were familiar with the region being nonitored, and they had no difficulties in following the naps and finding the nonitoring locations. Both teams collected air sanples for particulates and radio-lodines. Written procedures were followed and the procedures appeared to be adequate for detection of radio-iodine concentrations in air ,

at the level of 10-7 uCi/ce. Cartridges from air sanpling by the two (2) teans were, af ter cessation of the release, transferred to one (1) vehicle and driven to 'the Lost Nation Airport, where they were delivered to the State field nonitoring team personnel for sinulated transport by helicopter to a State laboratory for analysis. No additional environnental sanples were collected by the Lake County teams. Discussions with County and State

! personnel of the field nonitoring teans suggest that environnental sanpling was the province of the State field nonitoring team that was observed to collect water, soil and vegetation sanples.

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At 11:15 A.M. the County Health Departnent activated a team to check the potential reception / congregate care centers for possible use. At approxinately 12:15 P.M. the energency response and support organizations, responsible for operation of the reception / congregate care and decontaminations centers in take County, were notified and placed on standby for the potential need to open and operate centers as a result of the incident at the PNPP. At approxinately 1:10 P.M. the Anerican Red Cross (ARC) shelter uanager ard other ARC team nonbers were notified by counterparts in the County EOC to ready the North High School reception / congregate care center for receipt of evacuees. We center was fully staffed and ready for occupancy at approxinately 2:45 P.M. by personnel froni ARC, the Lake County Health Department, Eastlake Fire Departnent, North High School staff, and the Eastlake Amateur Radio Club.

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The North High School reception / congregate care center is located well outside the ten (10) mile EPZ of the PNPP. The center will accoiodate approxin'a tely.1,600 evacuees. Additional care centers would be. opened to acconodatesevacuees as each preceding center reaches capacity. ~

The North High School reception / congregate core center is well equipped with facilities for cooking and feeding, showering, sleeping roons/ areas, recreation, nursing station (s), and other arrenities for the tenporary well-being of evacuees. The school supplies already in the cafeteria and the purchase of additional goods locally would be used to feed evacuees. The Anerican Red Cross by preplanned agreenent would provide cot and blankets for the evacuees and nianagenent of the center (s). Special rooms would be set-up for the handicapped and staffed by Red Cross nurses. We center used coinercial telephone as the prinary neans of conconications with the EOC and other agencies / organizations. Ham radio operators were operational in the center and were able to connonicate with their counterparts in the EDCs and other centers operating during the exercise.

We Red Cross fully denonstrated the disaster plan which includes preparing, opening and operating a reception / congregate care center. % e Red Cross spokesperson verbally described nass feeding and sheltering of evacuees.

Additionally, the reception / congregate care center staff denonstrated registration of evacuees at the center by use of two (2) volunteers role playing as evacuees.

We Eastlake Fire Departnent exhibited a thorough knowledge of procedures for radiological nonitoring and decontamination of evacuees and energency workers. They prepared the nonitoring and decontamination areas with professionalism. No (2) volunteer evacuees arrived at the North High School reception / congregate care center by privately owned autonobile. Both Persons passing through the station wore beta buttons to enhance denonstration of the radiological nonitoring teams ability to properly nonitor and detect radiological contamination. me nonitoring team very capably located the beta buttons, by use of the CDV 700 geigher counter and satisfactorily recorded the dosages by use of a dose log for each of the volunteers. Decontamination procedures were inglenented.

MEDICAL SUPPORT Diergency rooti staf f of the Lake County Menorial Hospital East denonstrated the adequacy of hospital facilities and procedures for handling contaminated individuals. We hospital's energency room staff was ' contacted by PNPP personnel advising the hospital of the incident at the plant and that the patient would be enroute by anbulance. While enroute the an.bulance, from the Perry Fire Departnent, connonicated with the hospital by two-way radio installed in the anbulance. Connercial telephone is the nethod used by the hospital to connonicate with the utility, DOC, reception / congregate care centers and other locations. A health physicist from the utility acconpanied the anbulance crew from the plant to the hospital. We hospital's energency room staff, by use of the necessary equipnent, nonitored the patient for radiological contamination and denonstrated patient handling and decontamination procedures. We hospital is equipped with it's own nuclear nedicine departuent. We hospital's handling was satisfactory in denonstrating their ability to treat a contaniinated patient.

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W e anbujance crew from the Perry Fire Departuent followed procedures for renoving the patient from the anbulance and transferring and assisting the hospital staf f in getting the patient into the treatnent room. We crew awaited tly arrival of the second health physicist and departed the hospital -

af ter being nonitored for potential radiation contamination.

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1. The Ohio Environnental Protection Agency (OEPA) field nonitoring staff of the winsburg District Office needs additional training in field nonitoring.

2. Field nonitoring team nenbors of the OEPA's Ninsburg District Office 2

neel training in the use of dosinetry, dose assessnent and decontaniination

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3. The field.nonitoring team should ensure that equipnent brought to the fleld is properly labeled and calibration dates are properly recorded.

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1. The DSA coordinator / executive group should hold periodic briefings in the operations room, where each departnent/ agency representative report actions taken by their respective agencies /departnents.

1. Events and conditions should be reflected with the proper occurrence and receipt tine f rom the utility, State, other Counties and/or other sources.

'the neaning of tine on County forns need to be note accurately reflected.

3. The adoption and use of a " standard type" status board, with colunns and headings /captiens would enhance EOC operations.

4. Transparent overlays on the radiological plotting naps would be helpful for the ten (10) mile EPZ nap, where prearranged conbinations by sectors could be used to display the plune EPZ and protective actions taken by the County.

5. The five-way dedicated telephone link should be inproved and corrected

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1. The SOP for decontamination of energency workers should be reviewed and rewritten so that the whole body is renonitored.

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1. The County should ensure that the field teans receive infornation on plant conditions, in addition to the neteorological infornation.

2. 'Ihe f feld tean. equipnent should include appropriate naps that correspond with location infornation being disseminated by the EOC.

3. 'No-way radio connunications would enhance the referral point team's connunications capability.

4. To ensure an accurate account of the nunber of persons being referred to reception / care-centers, County staf f assigned to the referral point should follow the plan as written (i.e., " hand out one (1) sheet nap per person").

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