ML20215F734
| ML20215F734 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/17/1986 |
| From: | Zech G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | White S TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY |
| References | |
| IEIN-85-080, IEIN-85-80, IEIN-86-097, IEIN-86-97, NUDOCS 8612240047 | |
| Download: ML20215F734 (2) | |
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O& Ctal DEC 171996 Tennessee Valley Authcrity ATTN: Mr. S. A. White Manager of Nuclear Power 6N 38A Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Gentlemen:
SUBJECT:
USE OF THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DURING EXERCISES AND EMERGENCIES This is to inform licensees of a change in NRC onsite staffing and function during an emergency. NRC policy for manning the Emergency Communication Network (Emergency Notification System (ENS) and Health Physics Network (HPN)) telephones has called for each licensee to assign a knowledgeable individual to communicate essential reactor safety and protective measures data over these networks.
Previous Region II Incident Respor.se Team Procedures have called for NRC staff to assume communication responsibility on these networks when sufficient NRC staff arrived onsite.
However, the Region II Incident Response Teams, including the Resident Inspector, will no longer provide a primary communicator for the ENS and HPN at your Emergency Response Facilities (Emergency Operations Facility, Technical Support Center, or Control Room). Licensee responsibility tn man these two positions will now continue even after NRC staff arrives onsite. NRC will still provide ENS and HPN monitors for the Incident Response Team at your Emergency Response Facilities. The bases for this change are outlined below:
- a. 10 CFR 50.72(c)(3) requires that each licensee, during the course of an event, "maintrin an open, continuous communication channel with the NRC Operations Center upon request by the NRC." Thus, the responsibility for communication is the licensee's. This requirement is also discussed in IE Information Notice No. 86-97, " Emergency Communications System."
- b. NUREG-0845, " Agency Procedures for the NRC Incident Response Plan,"
Chapter III, Page W-6, Paragraph 2.a. prevents the Resident Inspector from relieving the licensee of the responsibility for telephone communication with the NRC.
- c. IE Information Notice No. 85-80, " Timely Declaration of an Emergency Classification. Implementation of an Emergency Plan, and Emergency Notifications," further clarifies the licensee's responsibility to ensure that adequate personnel, knowledgeable about plant conditions and emergency plan implementing procedures, are available oa shift to assist the shift supervisor to classify an emergency and activate the emergency plan, including making appropriate notifications, without interfering with plant operations.
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o Tennessee Vallcy Authority 2 We are making the appropriate changes to our Emergency Response Plans by deleting the positions on the NRC Response Team of an ENS Communicator and the HPN Comunicator.
We recommend that you consider adjusting, if necessary, the staffing of your Emergency Response Teams to ensure that adequate qualified personnel, knowledgeable about plant conditions and emergency plan implementing procedures, are available on shift to assist the shift supervisor in maintaining open, continuous communication channels with the NRC Operation Center.
Sincerely, Gary G. Zech, Director Division of TVA Projects cc: H. P. Pomrehn, Site Director Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant R. L. Lewis, Plant Manager R. L. Gridley, Director Nuclear Safety and Licensing R. W. Cantrell, Acting Director Nuclear Engineering M. J. May, Site Licensing Manager H. L. Abercrombie, Site Director Sequoyah Nuclear Plant P. R. Wallace, Plant Manager M. R. Harding, Site Licensing Manager G. Toto, Site Director Watts Bar Nuclear Plant R. A. Pedde, Project Manager Watts Bar Nuclear Plant J. A. Mcdonald, Site Licensing Manager bec: J. N. Grace, RII
-H. R. Denton, NRR H. L. Thompson, NRR J. M. Taylor, IE B. B. Hayes, 01 S. R. Connelly. OIA K. P. Barr, RII NRC Resident Inspector NRC Docoment Control Desk State of Tennessee RII RII RII RI RII RII g RI 1 WSt s rry TD r DCollins JP!pohr B Q[1 Q b 11/p)/86 11/>4/86 11/p/86 1h f /86 11/p/86 11/4/86 11/z6/86
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