ML063000489

E-mail from T. Burns of Entergy, Regarding Nrc/State Fishing Trip

ML063000489
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Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	09/13/2006
From:	Burn T Entergy Nuclear Operations
To:	James Adler, Axelson W, Gregory Bowman, Czuhanich A, Mayer D, Rice T, Sachatello R, Youngberg B Entergy Nuclear Operations, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, State of NY, Dept of Environmental Conservation
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FOIA/PA-2006-0314
Download: ML063000489 (3)

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From: "Burns, Thomas F" <tburnsl @entergy.com>

To: "Timothy Rice" <tbrice@ gw.dec.state.ny.us>, "Mayer, Donald M"

<DMayerl @entergy.com>, "Bowman, Greg " <gbowm9O@entergy.com>, "Adler, Joseph J."

<jadler@entergy.com>, "Sachatello, Ronald " <rsach90@entergy.com>, "Axelson, William"

<waxel90@entergy.com>, "Alex Czuhanich" <agczuhan@gw.dec.state.ny.us>, "Barbara Youngberg"

<bayoungb @gw.dec.state.ny.us>

Date: 09/13/2006 1:36:48 PM

Subject:

RE: NRC/STATE FISHING TRIP reminder Afternoon Alex, As a reminder Friday we are to meet at IPEC between 7 and 8 AM at the EOF. When you arrive at IPEC call me at 734-5690 and I will come and pick up there. It will take us around Y2 hour or so to get to the marina from here so the sooner the better.

The EOF is the first building on the left as you come off Broadway into the site and you can park you car there.

Regards Tom Burns RP/NEM supervisor 734-5690 From: Timothy Rice [1]

Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:43 PM To: Mayer, Donald M; Bowman, Greg ; Adler, Joseph J.; Sachatello, Ronald; Burns, Thomas F; Axelson, William; Alex Czuhanich; Barbara Youngberg Cc: Loope, Dennis Clyde; Parry, John 0; John White

Subject:

Re: NRC/STATE FISHING TRIP Tom,,

The DEC and NRC have agreed to share the split sample observation responsibilities to the extent practicable in order to eliminate duplication of effort. For samples that the State has a representative present for, NRC will not be sending a rep to observe, and the State will retain custody of the split samples and provide one to the NRC. For sampling activities that the State needs splits from, but is unable to supply a representative to attend, the NRC rep will be present, retain custody of the split samples, and provide one to the State.

This coming week, NYS DOH will provide a person to observe the Lafarge well sampling effort, and the DEC will provide a person to observe the fish sampling effort. Thus with only one agency rep (Alex

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Czuhanich from the DEC) present on the fish sampling effort, Mr. Burns will likely have space to participate even if the small boat is used. I have been in touch with Patrick Donahue and he is aware of our arrangement with the NRC, and agreed to contact their resident inspectors on this to ensure that we all had the same understanding.

Please note that collection of a true "split" sample from biota is not a trivial matter. A simple dividing up of the available fillets from the fish collected in each sample area of the river does not meet this requirement.

Without a true split sample the potential for non-trivial differences in analytical results increases substantially. This potential source of differences in analysis results can be minimized through proper sample preparation prior to splitting three ways for analysis. The contract laboratory DEC will utilize stated that one of the first sample preparation steps that they perform is to mince, or puree, the fish flesh. This is the same for all analytes of interest to us. If it can be verified that this is also part of the sample preparation process for the Entergy and NRC contract labs, the easiest way to deal with the issue would be to mince or puree the fillets for each sample area and then divide the results into three splits.

I will be out of the office tomorrow, and in training next week from Mon through Thursday. I will check my e-mail remotely, however if you need to communicate with someone directly, please contact Alex Czuhanich or Barbara Youngberg by e-mail, or by calling 518-402-8579, or by calling my cell at 518-368-5442.

Thank you, Tim Rice

>>> "Burns, Thomas F" <tburnsl @entergy.com> 9/7/06 2:44:57 PM >>>

Tim Current plans NRC/STATE FISHING TRIP:

• The smaller boat if used can hold 1 NRC and 1 State person to observe the fishing exercise. If a larger boat is used Tom Burns will also go.

• Need to be at IPEC at 0700 hrs on Friday September 15, 2006 to get an escort by Tom Burns to the boat by no later than 0800 hours0.00926 days <br />0.222 hours <br />0.00132 weeks <br />3.044e-4 months <br />. The earlier the better since the marina is located in west Haverstraw Rockland county.

• The current plan is to go fish during the day of September 15th, and leave enough time to get back to the fish lab, and fillet the fish (all in the same day).

• We assume the fish will be ready for the State and NRC to take (with ice, appropriate containers, labels, etc) at the end of the day, and if enough is caught we would have a split of this same fish catch.

A reminder will be sent out on September 13th to confirm Friday. Any questions please e-mail me or Call.

Regards Tom Burns RP/NEM supervisor

Rho~nAN ite- -RE: NRC/STATE FIS-H-IN-G-T--R-l--P re-mi n-de r Tburnsl @entergy.com <mailto:Tburnsl @entergy.com>

914-734-5690 CC: "Loope, Dennis Clyde" <dloope@entergy.com>, "Parry, John 0" <jparry@entergy.com>,

"John White" <JRW1 @nrc.gov>