Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

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• Classifying Transportation Events At SRS
• John Riley

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ERG As Technical Basis For SRS Transportation EPHA

• ERG is international standard for transportation
  emergency response
• ERG performs the function of screening and hazard
  identification
• Isolation zones and protective action distances
  based on extensive modeling

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ERG As Technical Basis For SRS Transportation EPHA

• DOE-HQ agrees the ERG can serve as EPHA for both
  radiological and chemical transportation events
• OST shipments excluded

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ERG Used In Conjunction With Site Classification
EPIP

• At SRS, all transportation accidents are
  classified per ERG
• Definition of shipment IAW sites 19Q Manual
  (DOT or equivalent packaging)

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• 19Q shipments within controlled area of site
  will be classified if protective actions are
  required per green pages OR evacuation section of
  orange pages

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• Transportation accidents that do not involve DOE
  owned materials are not classifiable.
• EMG Parag. 3.2.1 (2)

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• An offsite hazardous material event not
  associated with DOE operations that is observed
  to have or is predicted to have an impact on a
  DOE site such that protective actions are
  required for onsite DOE workers.
• Discussion. This example applies to any release
  of hazardous material from external sources that
  requires onsite personnel to evacuate or take
  shelter. Such releases may originate from fixed
  facilities or transportation activities outside
  the site boundaries from non-DOE transportation
  accidents on roads, railroads, or rivers that
  traverse the site or from private industrial
  activity being conducted on the DOE site.

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• Offsite DOE Transportation Activities
• Events or conditions that represent an actual or
  potential release of radiological or
  non-radiological hazardous materials from a DOE
  shipment outside a DOE site are Operational
  Emergencies. ...Initial response to an accident
  involving an offsite shipment will most likely
  come from a local police or fire department.
  These responders will most likely use the ERG to
  determine what protective actions should be
  implemented at the scene. While the language used
  in the various guides in the ERG differs
  slightly, it is clear that, if there are
  indications that a hazardous material or
  radiological shipment is leaking, responders will
  establish a zone surrounding the accident where
  protective actions, such as evacuation, are
  implemented. Once DOE becomes aware that such a
  zone, or such protective actions have been
  implemented by the responsible local responders,
  the event would be classified as an Operational
  Emergency.

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• Offsite any area outside of controlled areas
• SRS shipment offsite requiring protective actions
  unclassified OE
• Non-SRS offsite accident requiring onsite
  protective actions unclassified OE

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• Facility Classification EPIPs
• All facility EPIPs need to acknowledge EDO
  classification authority for transportation
  events within facility boundary
• Facilities that have analyzed some or all
  transportation events may choose to have the FEC
  classify analyzed events, and procedures need to
  document those nuances

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Classifying Transportation Events At SRS

• Malevolent Acts
• Phase II, III or IV security declaration for
  transportation event and protective actions
  onsite gt30 meters Alert
• Phase III or IV for transportation event and
  protective actions onsite gt100 meters SAE
• Phase IV for transportation incident and
  protective actions required offsite GE

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Lessons Learned

• Ensure all Command Staff are trained, not just
  consequence assessment staff
• Brief facility management
• Develop implementation plan and procedure
  revision schedule with buy-in from facilities

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Lessons Learned

• Offsite Protective Action Recommendations (PARs)
  may be necessary for Operational Emergencies
  below Alert

• Expand PADs if multiple containers are breached