ML20215F828
| ML20215F828 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/04/1986 |
| From: | Verrelli D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Utley E CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| IEIN-85-080, IEIN-85-80, NUDOCS 8612240079 | |
| Download: ML20215F828 (2) | |
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DEC 0 41986 Carolina ower and Light Company ATTN:
. E. E. Utley Senior Executive Vice President Power Supply and Engineering and Construction P. O. Box 1551 Raleigh, NC 27602 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.
Region II Incident Response Team procedures have called for NRC staff to assume communication responsibility on these networks when sufficient NRC staff arrived onsite.
Howeves che 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 to 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, " maintain an open, continuous communication channel with the NRC Operations Center upon request by the NRC."
Thus, the responsibility for comunication is the licensee's.
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, Irglementation 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 on 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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We are making the appropriate changes to our Emergency Response Plans by deleting the positions on the NRC Response Team of an ENS Comunicator and the HPN Communicator wherever they are manned by the licensee.
We recommend that you consider adjusting as 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 an open, continuous comunication channel with the NRC Operation Center.
Sincerely, David M. Verrelli, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 2 Division of Reactor Projects cc:
W. Howe, Vice President Brunswick Nuclear Project R. Dietz, Plant General Manager
. P. Beatty, Jr., Manager Robinson Nuclear Project Department
. E. Morgan, Plant General Manager
. A. Watson, Vice President Harris Nuclear Project
. L. Tibbitts, Director of
/ Regulatory Compliance
/J. L. Willis, Plant General Manager
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