| (D) Detection of accidents. Identification of the means
of detecting each type of accident in a timely manner.
(E) Mitigation of consequences. A brief description
of the means and equipment for mitigating the consequences of each
type of accident, including those provided to protect workers onsite,
and a description of the program for maintaining the equipment.
(F) Assessment of releases. A brief description of
the methods and equipment to assess releases of radioactive materials.
(G) Responsibilities. A brief description of the responsibilities
of licensee personnel should an accident occur, including identification
of personnel responsible for promptly notifying offsite response organizations
and the department; also, responsibilities for developing, maintaining,
and updating the plan.
(H) Notification and coordination. A commitment to
and a brief description of the means to promptly notify offsite response
organizations and request offsite assistance, including medical assistance
for the treatment of contaminated injured onsite workers when appropriate.
A control point shall be established. The notification and coordination
shall be planned so that unavailability of some personnel, parts of
the facility, and some equipment will not prevent the notification
and coordination. The licensee shall also commit to notify the department
immediately after notification of the appropriate offsite response
organizations and not later than one hour after the licensee declares
an emergency. These reporting requirements do not supersede or release
licensees from complying with the requirements in accordance with
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know-Act of 1986, Title
III, Publication L. 99-499 or other state or federal reporting requirements.
(I) Information to be communicated. A brief description
of the types of information on facility status, radioactive releases,
and recommended protective actions, if necessary, to be given to offsite
response organizations and to the department.
(J) Training. A brief description of the frequency,
performance objectives, and plans for the training that the licensee
will provide workers on how to respond to an emergency, including
any special instructions and orientation tours the licensee would
offer to fire, police, medical, and other emergency personnel. The
training shall familiarize personnel with site-specific emergency
procedures. Also, the training shall thoroughly prepare site personnel
for their responsibilities in the event of accident scenarios postulated
as most probable for the specific site, including the use of team
training for such scenarios.
(K) Safe shutdown. A brief description of the means
of restoring the facility to a safe condition after an accident.
(L) Exercises. Provisions for conducting quarterly
communications checks with offsite response organizations at intervals
not to exceed three months and biennial onsite exercises to test response
to simulated emergencies. Communications checks with offsite response
organizations shall include the check and update of all necessary
telephone numbers. The licensee shall invite offsite response organizations
to participate in the biennial exercises. Participation of offsite
response organizations in biennial exercises, although recommended,
is not required. Exercises shall use accident scenarios postulated
as most probable for the specific site and the scenarios shall not
be known to most exercise participants. The licensee shall critique
each exercise using individuals not having direct implementation responsibility
for the plan. Critiques of exercises shall evaluate the appropriateness
of the plan, emergency procedures, facilities, equipment, training
of personnel, and overall effectiveness of the response. Deficiencies
found by the critiques shall be corrected.
(M) Hazardous chemicals. A certification that the applicant
has met its responsibilities in accordance with the Emergency Planning
and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, Title III, Publication L.
99-499, if applicable to the applicant's activities at the proposed
place of use of the radioactive material.
(4) The licensee shall allow the offsite response organizations
expected to respond in case of an accident 60 days to comment on the
licensee's emergency plan before submitting it to the department.
The licensee shall provide any comments received within the 60 days
to the department with the emergency plan.
(ii) Physical protection of category 1 and category
2 quantities of radioactive material.
(1) Specific exemptions. A licensee that possesses
radioactive waste that contains category 1 or category 2 quantities
of radioactive material is exempt from the requirements of paragraphs
(2) - (23) of this subsection, except that any radioactive waste that
contains discrete sources, ion-exchange resins, or activated material
that weighs less than 2,000 kilograms (4,409 pounds) is not exempt
from the requirements of this subsection. The licensee shall implement
the following requirements to secure the radioactive waste:
(A) use continuous physical barriers that allow access
to the radioactive waste only through established access control points;
(B) use a locked door or gate with monitored alarm
at the access control point;
(C) assess and respond to each actual or attempted
unauthorized access to determine whether an actual or attempted theft,
sabotage, or diversion occurred; and
(D) immediately notify the local law enforcement agency
(LLEA) and request an armed response from the LLEA upon determination
that there was an actual or attempted theft, sabotage, or diversion
of the radioactive waste that contains category 1 or category 2 quantities
of radioactive material.
(2) Personnel access authorization requirements for
category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material.
(A) General.
(i) Each licensee that possesses an aggregated quantity
of radioactive material at or above the category 2 threshold shall
establish, implement, and maintain its access authorization program
in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph and paragraphs
(3) - (8) of this subsection.
(ii) An applicant for a new license and each licensee
that would become subject to the requirements of this paragraph and
paragraphs (3) - (8) of this subsection upon application for modification
of its license shall implement the requirements of this paragraph
and paragraphs (3) - (8) of this subsection, as appropriate, before
taking possession of an aggregated category 1 or category 2 quantity
of radioactive material.
(iii) Any licensee that has not previously implemented
the security orders or been subject to this paragraph and paragraphs
(3) - (8) of this subsection shall implement the provisions of these
paragraphs before aggregating radioactive material to a quantity that
equals or exceeds the category 2 threshold.
(B) General performance objective. The licensee's access
authorization program must ensure that the individuals specified in
subparagraph (C)(i) of this paragraph are trustworthy and reliable.
(C) Applicability.
(i) Licensees shall subject the following individuals
to an access authorization program:
(I) any individual whose assigned duties require unescorted
access to category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material
or to any device that contains the radioactive material; and
(II) reviewing officials.
(ii) Licensees need not subject the categories of individuals
listed in paragraph (6)(A)(i) - (xiii) of this subsection to the investigation
elements of the access authorization program.
(iii) Licensees shall approve for unescorted access
to category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material only
those individuals with job duties that require unescorted access to
category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material.
(iv) Licensees may include individuals needing access
to safeguards information-modified handling in accordance with Title
10, CFR, Part 73, in the access authorization program under this paragraph
and paragraphs (3) - (8) of this subsection.
(3) Access authorization program requirements.
(A) Granting unescorted access authorization.
(i) Licensees shall implement the requirements of paragraph
(2), this paragraph, and paragraphs (4) - (8) of this subsection for
granting initial or reinstated unescorted access authorization.
(ii) Individuals who have been determined to be trustworthy
and reliable shall also complete the security training required by
paragraph (10)(C) of this subsection before being allowed unescorted
access to category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material.)
(B) Reviewing officials.
(i) Reviewing officials are the only individuals who
may make trustworthiness and reliability determinations that allow
individuals to have unescorted access to category 1 or category 2
quantities of radioactive materials possessed by the licensee.
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