ML19341C031
| ML19341C031 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/13/1981 |
| From: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
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| ML19341C032 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8102280463 | |
| Download: ML19341C031 (2) | |
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Dear Mr. Chairinan:
As you requested in your letter of January 5,1981, we have reviewed the draft report prepared by your Committee staff. Our response to the four specific points which you raised is contained in the enclosure to this letter.
We have also reviewed the revised version of the conclusions stated on page 247 of your staff's report. The revised version was transmitted by your January 27, 1981 letter.
Our reading of the revised conclusions is that they are consistent with the enforcement actions taken in our Notice of Violation sent to Metropolitan Edison Company on January 27, 1981, which was derived from a series of IE investigations.
The staff's most recent report on this matter was published as NUREG-0760.
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Enclosure:
Response to Specific Points in Congressman Udall's January 5 letter r
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RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC POINTS IN CONGRESSMAN UDALL'S JANUARY 5,1981 LETTER Whether the NRC's regulations did in fact require reporting of information that was not provided to state and federal agencies on March 28, 1979.
Whether the failure of Metropolitan Edison employees to report certain information on March 28, 1979 constituted a violation of the Commission's regulations.
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Specific regulations \\!iat may have been violated.
Response
As set forth in the Notice of Violation the Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement has concluded that certain information found not to have been reported on March 28 was required to have been reported under an implementing provision of the Unit 2 Technical Specifications.
The Comission must reserve its final conclusion in this matter in the event that the licensee requests a hearing. We did, however, agree (by a 3-1 vote) with the issuance of the Notice of Violation. The specific violation was of Emergency Procedure 1670.3 which implements the Three Mile Island Emergency Plan under Section 6.8 of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Technical Specifications.
The requirement of the tech spec implementing provision is a binding legal requiremer,t because it is a provision of the license itself.
NRC's regulations,10 CFR 50.10, require that a licensee operate in compliance with its operating license at all times.
The need for legislation to provide the Commission authority currently lacking with regard to requiring reporting of information.
Response
We belleve the Commission has ample statutory authority with regard to requiring the reporting of information.
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