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Summary of a Regulatory Conference to Discuss the Safety Significance of a Columbia Finding Emergency Plan Implementing Procedures Did Not Implement Some Protective Action Recommendations Required by the Emergency Plan
ML15187A444
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Site: Columbia Energy Northwest icon.png
Issue date: 07/06/2015
From: Mark Haire
Plant Support Branch-1
To: Reddemann M
Energy Northwest
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION IV 1600 E LAMAR BLVD ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511 July 6, 2015 EA-15-038 Mr. Mark E. Reddemann, Chief Executive Officer Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968 (Mail Drop 1023)

Richland, WA 99352-0968

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY

OF A REGULATORY CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE SAFETY SIGNIFICANCE OF A COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION FINDING THAT EMERGENCY PLAN IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES DID NOT IMPLEMENT SOME PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS REQUIRED BY THE EMERGENCY PLAN

Dear Mr. Reddemann:

On June 15, 2015, members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff met with representatives of Columbia Generating Station to discuss the apparent violation as documented in NRC Inspection Report 05000397/2015502 (ML15127A534). The purpose of the regulatory conference was to discuss your position with respect to the facts and assumptions used by the NRC to make our preliminary safety significance determination, and to allow you to present any new information that may assist us in arriving at the final significance of the finding.

During the meeting, your staff described your assessment of the finding and its significance.

Specifically, your staff provided information that,

  • Columbia Generating Station developed emergency plan implementing Procedure 13.2.2, Determining Protective Action Recommendations, Revision 18, in consultation with cognizant offsite authorities and according to the guidance of NUREG-0654 Supplement 3, Guidance for Protective Action Strategies, dated November 2011;
  • The Columbia emergency response organization understands Procedure 13.2.2 to require consideration of shelter-in-place in arriving at any change to an initial protective action recommendation;
  • The Columbia emergency response organization understands Procedure 13.2.2 to require development of a protective action recommendation for planned and puff releases of airborne radioactive material, and

M. Reddemann

  • Procedure 13.2.2 directs that protective action recommendations for areas outside of the plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone be developed by the technical support center or emergency operations facility because such recommendations require actual environmental measurements to be accurate and to avoid unnecessary protective actions. Only the technical support center or emergency operations facility can direct the collection of environmental measurements.

Your staff acknowledged that Procedure 13.2.2 was not clear in all respects concerning a shelter-in-place recommendation and planned or puff releases, and that you relied upon an Emergency Coordinators training and experience to use Procedure 13.2.2 to make the appropriate recommendations to offsite authorities.

A copy of the handout you provided at this meeting can be found in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) (ML15163A180).

The NRC staff asked questions during the regulatory conference to clarify its understanding of the information presented. The NRC will continue to review the information that you provided during the regulatory conference and the subsequent information that was requested to reach a final significance determination. We are developing our final risk significance and will issue a final significance determination letter in July 2015.

Meeting attendance rosters for Region IV and teleconference are provided as enclosures to this letter. This regulatory conference was transcribed; the transcript is available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS, ML15168A238). This Category 1 public meeting was attended telephonically by five members of the public, six individuals from other government agencies, one individual from Energy Northwest, and other staff of the NRC, licensee, and nuclear industry.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mark S. Haire, Branch Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-397 License No. NPF-21

Enclosures:

1. Meeting Attendance at Region IV
2. Meeting Attendance by Teleconference

M. Reddemann

  • Procedure 13.2.2 directs that protective action recommendations for areas outside of the plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone be developed by the technical support center or emergency operations facility because such recommendations require actual environmental measurements to be accurate and to avoid unnecessary protective actions. Only the technical support center or emergency operations facility can direct the collection of environmental measurements.

Your staff acknowledged that Procedure 13.2.2 was not clear in all respects concerning a shelter-in-place recommendation and planned or puff releases, and that you relied upon an Emergency Coordinators training and experience to use Procedure 13.2.2 to make the appropriate recommendations to offsite authorities.

A copy of the handout you provided at this meeting can be found in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) (ML15163A180).

The NRC staff asked questions during the regulatory conference to clarify its understanding of the information presented. The NRC will continue to review the information that you provided during the regulatory conference and the subsequent information that was requested to reach a final significance determination. We are developing our final risk significance and will issue a final significance determination letter in July 2015.

Meeting attendance rosters for Region IV and teleconference are provided as enclosures to this letter. This regulatory conference was transcribed; the transcript is available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS, ML15168A238). This Category 1 public meeting was attended telephonically by five members of the public, six individuals from other government agencies, one individual from Energy Northwest, and other staff of the NRC, licensee, and nuclear industry.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mark S. Haire, Branch Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-397 License No. NPF-21

Enclosures:

1. Meeting Attendance at Region IV
2. Meeting Attendance by Teleconference Distribution:

See next page ADAMS Accession Number: ML15187A444 ADAMS Package Number: ML15187A445 SUNSI Review ADAMS Publicly Available Non-Sensitive Keyword:

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DATE 7/1/15 7/1/15 7/2/15 7/2/15 7/6/15 7/6/15

Letter to Mark E. Reddemann from Mark S. Haire, dated July 6, 2015

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY

OF A REGULATORY CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE SAFETY SIGNIFICANCE OF A COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION FINDING THAT EMERGENCY PLAN IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES DID NOT IMPLEMENT SOME PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS REQUIRED BY THE EMERGENCY PLAN cc w/ encl:

Electronic Distribution for Columbia Generating Station DISTRIBUTION:

Regional Administrator (Marc.Dapas@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Ryan.Lantz@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Jeremy.Groom@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Dan.Bradley@nrc.gov)

Site Administrative Assistant (Douglas.Bodine@nrc.gov)

Acting Branch Chief, DRP/A (John.Dixon@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/A (Ryan.Alexander@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/A (Daniel.Bradley@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer (Michael.Stafford@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)

Project Manager (Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov)

Team Leader, DRS/TSS (Don.Allen@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Technical Support Assistant (Loretta.Williams@nrc.gov)

Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

RIV Congressional Affairs Officer (Angel.Moreno@nrc.gov)

RIV/ETA: OEDO (Michael.Waters@nrc.gov)

ATTENDEES NRC Columbia Generating Station

  • Marc Dapas, Regional Administrator
  • Grover Hettel, Vice President of Operations
  • Andy Black, Emergency Services
  • Jeff Clark, Deputy Director, DRS General Manager
  • Karla Fuller, Regional Counsel
  • Kurt Gosney, Acting Emergency Services General Manager
  • Wayne Walker, Branch Chief, DRP
  • Don Gregoire, Regulatory Affairs
  • Dave Brown, Manager of Preparedness and Response, Office Planning/Scheduling/Outage of Nuclear Security and Incident Response
  • A. J. Fahnestock, EP Program Manager
  • J. R. Trautvetter, Regulatory Compliance Supervisor
  • Desiree Wolfgramm, Compliance Engineer
  • Christi Maier, Enforcement Specialist, RIV Enclosure 1

PARTICIPANTS ON TELECONFERENCE William Maier, Regional State Liaison Officer, Region IV, U.S. NRC Jeremy Groom, Senior Resident Inspector, DRP, Region IV, U.S. NRC Steven LaVie, Senior Emergency Preparedness Specialist, Division of Preparedness and Response, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. NRC Randolph Sullivan, Senior Emergency Preparedness Specialist, Division of Preparedness and Response, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. NRC Eric Schrader, Emergency Preparedness Specialist, Division of Preparedness and Response, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. NRC Todd Smith, Emergency Preparedness Specialist, Division of Preparedness and Response, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. NRC Gladys Figueroa, Enforcement Specialist, Office of Enforcement, U.S. NRC Lauren Casey, Enforcement Coordinator, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. NRC Mary Johansen, U.S. NRC Bill Webb, Branch Chief, Technological Hazards Branch, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region X Ryan Brice, Washington State Department of Health David Jansen, Washington State Department of Health Mark Henry, Washington State Department of Health Mark Reese, Oregon Department of Energy Sean Davis, Franklin County, Washington, Emergency Management John Dobken, Energy Northwest Michael Kirk, Intercon Charles K. Johnson, OR and WA Physicians for Social Responsibility Mr. Kirk, WRPS D. Kidwell Deborah Nichols Enclosure 2

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