Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: b647b09e-9948-474b-8b4a-d2e08837ffa5
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Guidance on Making Changes to Emergency Plans for Nuclear Power Reactors (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1505/ML15054A370.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.219
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to 10 CFR Part 50, 10 CFR 50.54(q), 10 CFR 50.54(t), commitments made in the emergency plan, Commission orders, and commitments made with regard to compensatory actions under 10 CFR 50.47(c) or 10 CFR 50.54(s)(2)(ii). “Regulatory requirement” includes a licensee’s self-imposed requirements necessary for demonstrating compliance with the planning standards and Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50. b. Any licensee that is considering a change to its emergency plan should first review the regulatory requirements (i.e., licensing basis) for its plan to ensure that it understands the basis of the existing program elements and why the elements were incorporated in the plan. In some cases, applicants for licenses may have committed to particular program elements in response to site-specific considerations. For example, a licensee may have increased its commitment for the numbers of onshift ERO personnel to compensate for long staff augmentation times because of the remoteness of a site from residential areas. A change to align the onshift staffing with that of sister plants without compensatory actions to address the long staff augmentation times could reduce the effectiveness of the emergency plan. c. Section IV.D.3 of Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50 requires a licensee to demonstrate that it has established the administrative and physical capability necessary to alert and provide prompt instructions to the public within the plume exposure pathway. Many licensees have taken on the responsibility for the maintenance of the ANS on behalf of the offsite authorities. In these cases, commitments made in the FEMA-approved ANS design report constitute regulatory requirements as defined above.3 3 However, note that 44 CFR 350.14 describes the process used to effect changes to the FEMA-approved ANS or changes to testing and maintenance commitments made in the ANS design report. DG-1324, Page 17 3.5 Emergency Plan a. “Emergency plan” means the document(s) that the licensee prepared