ML20196J328

Advises That 880115 Proposed Change to Emergency Plan Decreases Effectiveness of Currently Approved Emergency Plan,Per 10CFR50.54(q).Response Requested within 30 Days of Ltr Date

ML20196J328
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Site:	University of Michigan
Issue date:	03/09/1988
From:	Michaels T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Kerr W MICHIGAN, UNIV. OF, ANN ARBOR, MI
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NUDOCS 8803140268
Download: ML20196J328 (3)

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l March 9, 1988 Docket No. 50-2 i

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Dear Dr. Kerr:

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SUBJECT:

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, FORD NUCLEAR REACTOR EMERGENCY PLAN The staff has reviewed the revised emergency plan, subnitted by your letter of l

l January 15, 1988, against the requirements of 10 CFR 50.54(q). The staff finds that one proposed change decreases the effectiveness of the currently approved emergency plan.

In the currently approved plan, notification of an incident will be promptly reported to the NRC. The proposed revision would specify a reporting time of two hours after arrival of the Emergency Director at the facility (Section 3.2.1). The proposed time frame of two hours to notify the NRC does not provide for a timely response by the NRC to an unusual event or an alert. Further, the time period for notification begins with the arrival of the Emergency Director at the facility which allows for an additional undetermined delay in notification of the NRC. A time frame of one hour after classification of the event to notify the LRC would be an appropriate change to the emergency plan. Therefore, Section 3.2.1 should be redified to read "...within one hour after the event is classified as an unusual event or an alert," instead of "...within two hours after arrival of the Energency Director at the facility."

l You are requested to provide a response to this request within 30 days of the l

date of this letter.

If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact me at (301) 492-1102, 1

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SUBJECT:

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, FORD NUCLEAR REACTOR EMERGENCY PLAN The staff has reviewed the revised energency plan, submitted by your letter of January 15, 1988, against the requirements of 10 CFR 50.54(q). The staff finds that one proposed change decreases the effectiveness of the currently approved emergency plan.

In the currently approved plan, notification of an incident will be promptly reported to the NRC. The proposed revision would specify a reporting time of two hours after arrival of the Emergency Director at the facility (Section 3.2.1). The prnrased time frame of two hours to notify the NRC does not provide for a timely response by the NRC to an unusual event or an alert. Further, the time period for notification begins with the arrival of the Emergency Director at the facility which allows for an additional undetermined delay in notification of the NRC. A time frame of one hour aflei classification of the event to notify the NRC would be an appropriate change to the emergency plan. Therefore, Section 3.2.1 should be rodified to read "...within one hour after the event is classified as an unusual event or an alert," instead of "...within two hours after arrival of the Emergency Director at the facility."

You are requested to provide a response to this request within 30 days of the date of this letter.

If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact me at (301) 492-1102.

Sincerely, fl.ja s.dU Theodore S. Michaels Project Manager Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ec: See next page

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s The University of Michigan Docket No. 50-2 cc: Chief i

Environmental and Occupational Health Services Administration i

Michigan Department of Health 3500 N. Logan Street P. O. Box 30035 i

Lansing, Michigan 48909 Special Assistant to the Governor Office of the Governor r

Room 1 - State Capitol Lansing, Michigan 48909 i

Chief, Division of Radiological Health Department of Public Health P. O. Box 30035 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Mr. R. R. Burn Phoenix Memorial Laboratory University of Michigan - North Campus Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 F

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