ML22047A231

Email Between NRC NSIR and FEMA Regarding Callaway Sirens 021122

ML22047A231
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Site:	Callaway
Issue date:	02/11/2022
From:	Dante Johnson Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response
To:	Mark Haire, Hedger M Division of Reactor Safety IV
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From: Johnson, Don To: Hedger, Sean; Haire, Mark Cc: McCoppin, Michael

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FW: RE: 2/10/22 FEMA/NRC Meeting Follow-up Date: Friday, February 11, 2022 9:20:10 AM Attachments: image002.png

Good morning!

Sean, here is FEMAs response to your follow-up question. Do you need anything else?

Please let me know if you do, or if you have what you need.

Thanks, and have a great weekend everyone!

DJ

Don A. Johnson Pronouns: he-him-his

Senior Emergency Preparedness Specialist Policy and Oversight Branch Division of Preparedness and Response Office of Nuclear Security & Incident Response U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Mail Stop: TWFN-07A03 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852

Office: TWFN-08D53 Telephone: 301.287.9230 E-mail: don.johnson@nrc.gov

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From: Foreman, Bruce <Bruce.Foreman@fema.dhs.gov>

Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 10:13 AM To: Johnson, Don <Don.Johnson@nrc.gov>; McSwain, Alonzo <Alonzo.McSwain@fema.dhs.gov>

Cc: McCoppin, Michael <Michael.McCoppin@nrc.gov>; Rosales-Cooper, Cindy <Cindy.Rosales-Cooper@nrc.gov>; Anderson, James <James.Anderson@nrc.gov>; Fiske, Jonathan

<Jonathan.Fiske@nrc.gov>

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[External_Sender] RE: 2/10/22 FEMA/NRC Meeting Follow-up Hi Don,

Happy Friday! Thanks so much for sharing the FCC rulemaking efforts link.

Regarding your request for information (RFI), FEMA Regional Administrators make the initial significance determination and generally handle these types of changes as non-significant.

The proposed changes should have been highlighted to FEMA HQ in order to assess how to assist the region with any appropriate engineering analysis to support the proposed changes.

Nevertheless the Region assessed and based upon our qualitative and quantitative analyses, agree that the siren height change would not rise to the level of a significant change for the following reasons:

the type of system was not changed or removed, the same sirens are being used, there was no change in siren location same locations are being used, and lastly overall system was not reduced in capability for the EPZ population (this is a regulatory trigger).

Hope that helps. We will clean up the language in the RPM update for 2023. Have a great weekend.

Respectfully, Bruce

From: Johnson, Don < Don.Johnson@nrc.gov>

Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 9:14 AM To: Foreman, Bruce < Bruce.Foreman@fema.dhs.gov>; McSwain, Alonzo

<Alonzo.McSwain@fema.dhs.gov >

Cc: McCoppin, Michael <Michael.McCoppin@nrc.gov>; Rosales-Cooper, Cindy <Cindy.Rosales-Cooper@nrc.gov>; Anderson, James <James.Anderson@nrc.gov>; Fiske, Jonathan

<Jonathan.Fiske@nrc.gov >

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2/10/22 FEMA/NRC Meeting Follow-up

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Good morning, thanks for another great meeting!

Here are the two action items I promised coming out of this meeting:

Question from our (NRC) RIV EP Inspectors related to the Callaway siren height issue:

Would this modification constitute a significant change per 44 CFR 350.14? If so, would it have been reviewed/evaluated by the FEMA Region or would it have needed FEMA HQ review/evaluation?

Here is the link to the FCC FRN for comment on proposed changes to the EAS:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/09/2022-00146/the-emergency-alert-system

Thanks, have a great week, and be safe!

DJ

Don A. Johnson Pronouns: he-him-his

Senior Emergency Preparedness Specialist Policy and Oversight Branch Division of Preparedness and Response Office of Nuclear Security & Incident Response U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Mail Stop: TWFN-07A03 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852

Office: TWFN-08D53 Telephone: 301.287.9230 E-mail: don.johnson@nrc.gov

This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman G. Rickover