ML061530290

Endorsing NEI White Paper, Enhancements to Emergency Preparedness Programs for Hostile Action

ML061530290
Person / Time
Issue date:	07/19/2006
From:	Ho Nieh NRC/NRR/ADRA/DPR
To:
Norris M, NSIR, 415-4098
References
RIS-06-012
Download: ML061530290 (5)

See also: RIS 2006-12

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UNITED STATES

NUCLE AR RE GULATOR Y COM MISS ION OFFICE OF NUC LEAR REAC TOR REGU LATION WASHINGTON, DC 20555-0001

July 19, 2006 NRC REGUL AT ORY ISSUE SUMMA

RY 2006-12

ENDORSEMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE GUIDANCE

"EN HA NC EMEN TS TO EMER GEN CY PRE PA RED NES S PR OGR A MS FOR HOSTILE ACTION"

ADDRESSEES

All holders

of oper ating lic enses f or nuclea r power rea

ctors , except t

hose who have

permanently

ceased operati

ons and hav

e certified that fuel

has been p

ermanently re

moved from the react

or vessel.

INTENT The U.S. Nuclear Regulator

y Commission (NRC) is issuing this regulatory issue summ

ary (RIS)to endorse the

Nuclear Ene

rgy Institute (NE

I) guidance enti

tled "Enhanc

ements to Emergency

Prepar ednes s Progra ms for Ho stile Actio n," dat ed M ay 20 05 (rev ised in No vembe r 18, 2 005). The NRC finds th

is document to

contain an a

cceptable i

mplementation meth

odology for

licensees

to apply in adoptin

g the program enhancemen

ts discussed

in NRC B ulletin 2 005-02,"Emergen cy Pr epared ness a nd Res ponse Actio ns for S ecuri ty-Ba sed Ev ents." This R IS requires no acti

on or wri tten response b

y addressee

s.BA CKGROU ND INF ORMA TION Nuclear pow

er plant emergency

preparedness (EP) programs are de

signed to addre

ss a wid e range of event sce

narios. After the

terrorist attacks of Septe

mber 11, 2001, N

RC eval uated the EP planni ng basis to en

sure it conti

nued to protect

the public

health and

safety in the

current threat envi

ronment. In 2002 , NRC issu

ed Orders requirin

g compensatory mea

sures whi ch include n uclear securi

ty and EP. The NRC staff has re

viewe d all of the re

sponses to thes

e 2002 Orders. The N

RC staff has observ

ed license

e performance durin

g security-ev

ent-based EP drill s and exe rcises and se

curity force-on-force e

xercises.

The NRC staff has di

scussed securi ty-rel ated E P iss ues w ith Fe deral , State and l ocal govern ment offic

ials and w ith l icens ees. The NRC staff determined

that the EP p

lanning basi

s continues

to protect publ

ic health

and safet y, however, t

he NRC staf

f reco gnizes t hat enha ncemen ts are de sirable t o ensure eff ective plan imple

mentation duri

ng security-rel

ated events.

Examples

of such enhancemen

ts include

more timely

NRC notificati

on, improvemen

t to onsite pro

tective acti

ons and rev

ision of emergenc y act ion l evel s to i denti fy secu rity-relate d emerge ncies more su ccinc tly. ML061530290

RIS 2006-12

Pag e 1 of 4

The NRC staff issued

NRC Bull etin 2005-02

on July 18, 2005, to ob

tain information

from licensees

on progress in

implementing sec

urity-eve nt-related EP

program enhancements. The

NRC s taff's ev aluat ion o f licen see re sponse s to th e bul letin indi cate th at all lice nsees are considering or

have impl emented enhance

ments to their pro

grams. NEI deve

loped the enclosed guidance, entitled "Enhancem

ents to Emergency Prepare

dness Programs f

or Hostile

Actio n" (M ay 20 05, rev ised Nove mber 18 , 2005), to cl arify the v ariou s opti ons av aila ble to licensees

to implement the

se enhancements , and NEI al

so requested NRC

endorsement of

these optio ns in a let ter dat ed Nov ember 2 2, 200 5. SUMMARY OF ISSUE

The NEI guidance

clarifies i

ssues, enhance

s emergency acti

on level s, and provi

des implementation methods

in support of Bulletin 2005-02. The NRC staf

f finds that the

NEI guidan ce rema ins co nsiste nt wi th the inten t of the bull etin a nd is appro priate for li censee use. As suc h, the NRC s taff endor

ses thi s NEI gu idanc e docu ment with the following cl

arifications:

1. The NR C staff re

cogniz es the need for the U.S. De partmen t of Home land Securi ty (DHS) to be i

nvolve d in the rev

iew and endorsement of prop

osed enhance

ments to the

drill and e xerci se pro gram that impac t the d emonstr ation and e valu ation of offsite

respon se organ izat ion c apabi liti es in respo nse to a secu rity even t-base d scen ario. In coordination

with DH S, the NRC s

taff will ev

aluate changes

to the scenari

o scope or

extent of play for the proposed sec

urity event-based EP biennial exercise after NEI

submits forthcoming in

dustry guidel

ines for the dev

elopment of EP d

rill and exercise threat-based scen

arios. Lice

nsees are not

expected to

schedule se

curity-based

biennial exercises

until NRC endorses, in

coordinatio

n with D HS, forthcoming indu

stry guideli

nes and completes

revision s to regulation

and guidance , as deemed ap

plicable.2. Attachment 4 ("Ex

ample Tools for the

Developme nt of Onsite Protecti

ve Action s") to the

NEI guidance states in the discussion of

possible actions, that the phrase "tak

e cover" is

an action i

ntended to al

low the use of an immedi

ately av ailable structure to prov

ide person nel p rotecti on. The se stru ctures shoul d be i n desi gnated locat ions that ar e locat ed aw ay from potent ial t arget bu ildi ngs as d iscus sed i n NRC's Sa feguards Advi sory for O peratin g Power Rea

ctors (SA 05-02

). In add

ition, t he example

s of th e protec tive action deci

sion-making tools

also shoul

d provide site-specific

guidance for these

locations.

3. Attach ment 5 ("Integra tion a nd Dem onstra tion o f Emergenc

y Res ponse Secur ity Events") to N

EI guidance ex

pects that ov

er a 3-year

period, each

site wi ll initi ate an integrated dril

l, using a se

curity ev ent-based scena

rio, during a y

ear when the license

e does n ot hav e to de monstra te a bi ennia l EP exerc ise i n acco rdance wit h Appe ndix E to Title 10 of the

Code of Fede

ral Regula

tions (10 CFR) Part

50. Howe ver, the projec

t timeline i

n Attachment 5 i

ncorrectly s

pecifies this

period as Ju

ly 2006 through December

2008, whi ch is only a 30-m onth p eriod. Base d on d iscus sions wit h NEI, the ap propri ate period for condu

cting site in

tegrated drills

is from September 2

006 through August 2

009 to all ow th e oppo rtunit y for N EI to p rovi de furth er guid ance a nd trai ning to indu stry. RIS 2006-12

Pag e 2 of 4

Licensees u

sing the NEI gui

dance to chan

ge their emergency

plans shoul

d ensure that p

lan changes are coord

inated w ith offsite response

organization

s. Although the

NEI guidance

provides an acceptabl

e method for imple

menting enhancemen

ts, licensee

s may sele

ct other methods. If licens

ees adopt the

changes as w

ritten in Bu

lletin 20 05-02 and the

NEI guidance, the NRC staff believes that thos

e changes, on their own, would likely not pose a decrease in

effectiv eness and co uld b e perfor med und er 10 C FR 50.54(q) w ithou t prio r NRC approv al. Howeve r, licensees

have the

responsibil

ity to ens

ure that changes d

o not decrease

the effectiveness of the e

mergency plans

and that the

changed plans

continue to mee

t the standards of 10 C

FR 50.47(b) an

d the requirements

of Appendix

E to 10 CF

R Part 50. The

NRC staff recognizes

that other methods

for implementing the

enhancements a

lso may be

acceptable, b

ut note that li

censees shoul

d review these methods to

ensure they

do not decrease the e

ffectiveness of the emergenc

y plans. Without application to

and approv

al by the NRC, lice nsee may no

t implement prop

osed changes tha

t decrease the

effectiveness of the

approved e

mergency plans

.BA CKFIT DISCU SSION This RIS endo

rses NEI guidan

ce entitled

"Enhancements to

Emergency Prepa

redness Programs for Hos tile Actio n", rev ised Nove mber 20 05, as an ad equate methodo logy to implement the e

nhancements di

scussed in

Bulletin 2005-02. Any

action on

the part of

licensees

to use the guid

ance endorsed

by this RIS is stric

tly vol untary. This

RIS neither

imposes any new or modified NRC staff

requirements, nor prescribes a unique way to comply

with the regulations, nor does it requir

e any action or written response. Theref

ore, this RIS is

not a backfit under

10 CFR 50.1

09 and the N

RC staff did not pe

rform a backfit analysi

s.CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW ACT

This RIS is

a rule as d

esignated by

the Congressio

nal Rev iew Act (5 U.S.C. §§ 8

01-808) and, therefor e, is subjec t to the Act.FEDERAL REGISTER

NOTIF ICA TION A notice of opp

ortunity for pub

lic comment on

this RIS w

as publish

ed in the

Federal Reg

ister (71 FR 12716) on March

13, 2006. C

omments were re

ceived from the

public an d comment resolution c

an be found in

the Agencyw

ide Documents

Access and

Management Sy

stem under

Accession N

o. ML0615 10364.PAPERWORK REDUCTION A

CT STA TEMENT This R IS doe s not c ontai n infor mation coll ectio n requi rements that a re sub ject to the Pa perw ork Reduction A

ct of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et se

q.). Existing co

llection requirements under

10 CFR Part

50 were a pproved by

the Office of Management

and Budget (OM

B), approval

number 3150-0011. The NR C may not co nduct or spo nsor, a nd a p erson is no t requi red to respond to, an inform

ation collection unless the requested docu

ment displays a currently valid

OMB c ontrol number. RIS 2006-12

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CONTACT Pleas e dire ct an y que stio ns ab out t his m att er to one of the t echn ical c onta cts l iste d belo w./RA/Ho K. Nieh , Acting Directo

r Divisi on of Policy

and Rulema

king Office of Nuclear Reacto

r Regulation

Technical Contacts: Michael B. Norris, NSIR/DPR

Joseph D. Anderson, NSIR/DPR

(301) 415-4098

(301) 415-4114

E-mail: mbn@nrc.gov

E-mail: jda1@n

rc.gov Enclosure: N

EI Guidance, "E

nhancements to E

mergency Prepared

ness Programs Hosti

le

A

ction", Ma

y 2005 (rev

ised Nov ember 18, 2005) (Agencywi de Document Ac

cess

a

nd Managemen

t System (ADA

MS) Acces sion No. M

L053290326)

Note: NRC gene

ric communicati

ons may be

found on the NR

C public Web site, http://www.nrc.

gov, under Elec

tronic Readi

ng Room/Document Co

llections.

RIS 2006-12

Pag e 4 of 4 CONTACT

Pleas e dire ct an y que stio ns ab out t his m att er to one of the t echn ical c onta cts l iste d belo w./RA/Ho K. Nieh , Acting Directo

r Divisi on of Policy

and Rulema

king Office of Nuclear Reacto

r Regulation

Technical Contacts: Michael B. Norris, NSIR/DPR

Joseph D. Anderson, NSIR/DPR

(301) 415-4098

(301) 415-4114

E-mail: mbn@nrc.gov

E-mail: jda1@nrc.gov

Enclosure: N

EI Guidance, "E

nhancements to E

mergency Prepared

ness Programs Hosti

le Action", M

ay 2005 (re

vised No vember 18, 20

05) (Agencyw

ide Document

Access

and Mana gement System (ADA

MS) Acces sion No. M

L053290326)

Note: NRC gene

ric communicati

ons may be

found on the NR

C public Web site, http://www.nrc.

gov, under Elec

tronic Readi

ng Room/Document Co

llections.

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