ML18092A767

Updates 850225 Memo Re Category B Deficiencies Identified During 831026 Emergency Preparedness Exercise.Two Defects Re Habitability Problems at State of DE Emergency Operations Ctr Remain Uncorrected

ML18092A767
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	09/06/1985
From:	Krimm R Federal Emergency Management Agency
To:	Jordan E NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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Agency Washington, D.C. 20472 SEP 61985 MEMORANDLM FOR: Edward L. Jordan Di rector, Division of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering Response Office of Inspection and Enforcement U.

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FROM: -_k::.... "Richard 'i4. Krimm -/ Assistant Associate Director Office of Natural and Technological Hazards Programs I

SUBJECT:

Update on Delaware's Outstanding Ca_tegory B Deficiencies Resulting Fr011 the Salem Nuclear Generating Station Exercise on October 26, 1983 This is an update to my memorandum to you of February 25, 1985, which discussed the Category B deficiencies identified during the Salem Nuclear Generating Station Exercise on October 26, 1983. The two deficiencies which remain uncorrected at this time relate to ability problems at the Del aware State Emergency Operations Center (EOG} and are listed in the November 25, 1983* Exercise Evaluation Report as Deficiencies Nos. 5 and 6. Attached is a copy of a memorandum fran State of Delaware and a letter-fran Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE & G) which propose correction of the deficiency concerning the air filtering system in the State EOC. PSE & G has agreed to install an air filtering and pressurizing system in the State EOC canparable to the air filtering and pressurizing system installed in the Salem Emergency Operations Facility which has been approved by the NRG. Pl ease note that the Del aware Di vision of Emergency Planning and Operations and the Accident Assessment and Advisory Groop have accepted the proposed corrective actions. The Accident Assessment and Advisory Group had previously expressed reservations about renaining within the State EOC in the event of a plume exposure without a suitable air filtering system. The attached infonnation has been forHarded to the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Nuclear Regulatory G011mi ss ion Regi ona 1 Assistance Cammi ttee (RAC) members far review and canment. *The projected date for canpletion of installation of the system is the date of the upcaning Salen/ Hope Creek radiological emergency preparedness exercise on October 29, 1985, which will provide an opportunity for evaluation of the operation of the system. The FEMA Region III staff has requested additional information on Deficiency No. 6 regarding showering and decontamination facilities.

You will be advised as additional information is developed.

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

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