ML061530290
| ML061530290 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 07/19/2006 |
| From: | Ho Nieh NRC/NRR/ADRA/DPR |
| To: | |
| Norris M B, 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
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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
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.
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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