ML16208A592

Letter Announcing NRC Participation in Quad Cities Emergency Preparedness Exercise (Plume) on 11/16/2016

ML16208A592
Person / Time
Site:	Quad Cities
Issue date:	07/26/2016
From:	Hironori Peterson Division of Reactor Safety III
To:	Bryan Hanson Exelon Generation Co
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 July 26, 2016 Mr. Bryan C. Hanson Senior VP, Exelon Generation Company, LLC President and CNO, Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE QUAD CITIES NUCLEAR POWER STATION EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE (PLUME)

Dear Mr. Hanson:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) routinely participates in licensees emergency preparedness exercises to ensure that the NRCs Incident Response capabilities are effectively maintained and to provide licensees an opportunity to exercise the interface with the NRC during response to an incident at their sites. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our intent to participate in the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station Emergency Preparedness Exercise that is scheduled to occur on November 16, 2016. Currently, the extent of participation will involve both headquarters and regional response staff.

During the exercise the NRCs response will involve activating the Headquarters Operations Center and Region III Incident Response Center and dispatching an NRC Site Team, including our resident inspectors, to your emergency response facilities. If our scope of participation changes, we will contact your emergency preparedness staff to discuss the changes. We will also be coordinating with your staff to schedule pre-exercise outreach activities that we offer to our licensees. The emergency response coordinators will conduct a presentation and provide training materials to assist your staff in exercising with the NRC. The NRC outreach efforts, conducted by my staff, are tools to further reinforce concepts related to NRC incident response activities.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding, of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

B. Hanson If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator, at 630-829-9853; Brent Boston, Emergency Response Specialist, at 630-829-9764; or myself at 630-829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-254; 50-265 License Nos. DPR-29; DPR-30 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV

B. Hanson If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator, at 630-829-9853; Brent Boston, Emergency Response Specialist, at 630-829-9764; or myself at 630-829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-254; 50-265 License Nos. DPR-29; DPR-30 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION:

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