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The United States Coast Guard reported an oil sheen in the vicinity of the station's circulating water system effluent. Investigation by station personnel has not determined the source. The circulating water pumps were secured to mitigate the potential source. The United States Coast Guard response Center, and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have been notified. The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector. Notified DOE, EPA, USDA, HHS, FEMA.

• * * UPDATE ON 06/27/2016 AT 02:52 FROM DUSTIN SCURLOCK TO DAN LIVERMORE * * *

The source of the oil sheen has been identified. The source, main turbine lubricating oil, has been stopped and cleanup efforts are underway. Notified R1DO (Gray), DOE, EPA, USDA, HHS, and FEMA.

On January 29, 2016 James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (JAF) received notification from the site Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) operators that the January 6, 2016 monthly settleable solids result for the STP was 0.2 ml/L/hr (milliliter/liter/hour). This value exceeds the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit limit of 0.1 ml/L/hr (daily maximum). The STP operators conduct daily process control tests at the STP and did not identify any system upset issues around the January 6, 2016 sample date, or any time since, that would be symptomatic of the slightly elevated settleable solids result. The JAF environmental engineer concluded that a notification to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) was not required for this event; however, a courtesy notification for permit noncompliance was made. The NYSDEC has been notified. Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(xi), this condition is being reported as an event or situation for which notification to a government agency has been made. The NRC resident has been notified. JAF is currently at 0 percent power in Mode 2 following a forced outage resultant of events on January 23, 2016.

• * * RETRACTION ON 1/29/16 AT 1630 EST FROM DUSTIN SCURLOCK TO DONG PARK * * *

Based on further review of the NRC reporting guidance relative to this criteria, JAF has concluded that this condition is below the reporting threshold outlined in NUREG-1022 Revision 3. NUREG-1022 states the following (page 54), 'Licensees generally do not have to report media and government interactions unless they are related to the radiological health and safety of the public or onsite personnel, or protection of the environment.' The condition originally reported in ENS 51694 is considered a minor deviation in sewage process limits, and has no impact on the radiological health and safety of the public or onsite personnel, or protection of the environment. Therefore, JAF is retracting ENS 51694. The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified. Notified R1DO (Bickett).

The purpose of this report is to provide a telephone notification under 10CFR50.72(b)(2)(xi) to notify the NRC of the inadvertent actuation of Oswego County emergency notification siren number 34 at approximately 17:40 EDT on 7/13/12. Personnel have been dispatched to the siren location and it has been deactivated pending further investigation. Backup measures are in place to notify residents if an actual emergency were to occur while the siren is out of service. The NRC Senior Resident Inspector has been notified. Oswego County Emergency Management Office has issued a press release as follows: EMERGENCY SIREN SOUNDS INADVERTENTLY Fulton - One of the emergency notification sirens surrounding the nuclear power plants in Scriba inadvertently sounded at about 5:40 p.m. today, July 13, due to a malfunction. There is NO emergency at the three nuclear power plants in Oswego County. (The) Director of the Oswego County Emergency Management Office, said siren repair personnel from Constellation Energy and Entergy responded to the site near the intersection of Middle Road and Route 104 in Scriba as soon as they were notified the siren was sounding. The cause for the sounding is under investigation. The other sirens in the system are functioning properly. While the siren system is being repaired, backup measures are in place to notify residents if an actual emergency occurs at one of the plants. The siren is one of 37 located within a 10-mile radius of the nuclear power plants in Scriba. A system of sirens and tone-alert weather radios is in place to alert residents in the event of an emergency. In the event of an emergency at one of the plants that would require protective actions for the public, the sirens would be sounded for three minutes to alert residents of the area to turn their AM/FM radios or televisions to local Emergency Alert System (EAS) stations for further information and instructions. EAS stations are listed in the Emergency Public Information Calendar mailed to residents of the Emergency Planning Zone surrounding the plants and in local telephone books. The calendar can be viewed online at www.oswegocounty.com/emo. See related event notification from Nine Mile Point - EN #48105

• * * UPDATE ON 7/16/12 AT 1613 EDT FROM SMOLINSKI TO HUFFMAN * * *

As of 1349 EDT on 7/16/12, the siren vendor had completed repairs and retuned siren number 34 back to service. The licensee will notify the NRC Resident Inspector. R1DO (Dimitriadis) notified.

OFFSITE NOTIFICATION FOR ELEVATED TRITIUM LEVELS

On 12/23/09, station management was notified that a sample taken from (James A. Fitzpatrick) JAFs west storm drain was positive for tritium. The sample results were confirmed at 984 pCi/L. The sensitivity of the analysis is 800 pCi/L. The Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (ODCM) lower limit of detection (LLD) requirement for tritium is 3,000 pCi/L with a reporting level of 30,000 pCi/L. Comparing the confirmed activity level in the sample with the reporting criteria, there is little environmental impact, as the sample is more than an order of magnitude below the reporting criteria.

Although no regulatory limit was exceeded these results were evaluated against the NEI 07-07 guidance for voluntary informal communication of state/local authorities. Since the storm drains communicate with native soil and Lake Ontario, it has been determined that the voluntary informal communication criteria applies. That determination was made at 1515 (EST) on 12/28/09.

Since the state and local agencies will be notified of the slightly positive indication in the storm drain sample, reporting criterion 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(xi) was reviewed and based on the public sensitivity to tritium issues, it was determined that a notification to the NRC should be made.

The site has developed an action plan to address locating the source of the tritium (including) potential remediation actions, inclusion in the annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP) report, and evaluation for inclusion as an NRC IN 80-10 pathway. In the interim, both the reactor building perimeter sump and west storm drain have been placed on an increased sampling frequency. The storm drain will be sampled weekly and the reactor building perimeter sump will be sampled daily.

Background: On 11/03/09 station management was notified that a sample from the reactor building perimeter sump was positive for tritium at 1474 pCi/L. The reactor building perimeter sump was placed on increased monitoring frequency due to the positive indication. Since the sump only communicates with the environment, through the west storm drain, and there was no positive indication of tritium in the west storm drain or in the ground water monitoring wells, it was determined that no 'voluntary informal communication' criteria applied, at that time.

The licensee has notified the NRC Resident Inspector.

The licensee will notify the state, local, and other government agencies.