[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR12.22]

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           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 12_SAFETY OF WATER POWER PROJECTS AND PROJECT WORKS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C_Emergency Action Plans
 
Sec. 12.22  Contents of emergency action plan.

    (a) Contents--(1) The plan itself. An emergency action plan must 
conform with the guidelines established, and from time to time revised, 
by the Director of the Office of Hydropower Licensing (available from 
the division of Inspections or the Regional Engineer) to provide:
    (i) Instructions to project operators and attendants and other 
responsible personnel about the actions they are to take during a 
project emergency;
    (ii) Detailed plans for notifying potentially affected persons, 
appropriate Federal, state, and local agencies, including public safety 
and law enforcement bodies, and medical units; and
    (iii) Procedures for controlling the flow of water, including 
actions to reduce in-flows to reservoirs, such as limiting outflows from 
upstream dams or control structures, and actions to reduce downstream 
flows, such as increasing or decreasing outflows from downstream dams or 
control structures, on the waterway on which the project is located or 
its tributaries.
    (2) Appendix to the plan. Each copy of the emergency action plan 
submitted to the Regional Engineer must be accompanied by an appendix 
conforming with the guidelines established by the Director of the Office 
of Hydropower Licensing that contains:
    (i) Plans for training project operators, attendants, and other 
responsible personnel to respond properly during a project emergency, 
including instructions on the procedures to be followed throughout a 
project emergency and the manner in which the licensee will periodically 
review the knowledge and understanding that these personnel have of 
those procedures;
    (ii) A summary of the study used for determining the upstream and 
downstream areas that may be affected by sudden release of water, 
including a summary of all criteria and assumptions used in the study 
and, if required by the Regional Engineer, inundation maps; and
    (iii) Documentation of consultations with Federal, state, and local 
agencies, including public safety and law enforcement bodies, and 
medical units.
    (b) Special factors. The applicant or licensee must take into 
account in its emergency action plan the time of day, particularly hours 
of darkness, in establishing the proper actions and procedures for use 
during a project emergency.
    (c) Additional requirements for projects near nuclear power plants--
(1) Radiological response plan. If the personnel operating any 
powerhouse or any spillway control facilities, such as gates or valves, 
of a project would be located within ten miles of a nuclear power plant 
reactor, the applicant or licensee

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must file, separately or as a supplement to any required emergency 
action plan, a radiological response plan that provides for emergency 
procedures to be taken if an accident or other incident results in the 
release of radioactive materials from the nuclear power plant reactor.
    (2) A radiological response plan must:
    (i) To the maximum extent practicable, include sufficient procedural 
safeguards to ensure that, during or following an accident or other 
incident involving the nearby nuclear power plant reactor, the project 
may be safely operated and, if evacuation is necessary, the project may 
be left unattended without danger to the safety of any project dam or to 
life, health, or safety upstream or downstream from the project; and
    (ii) Explain the provisions, developed after consultation with the 
direct purchasers of project power, for cessation, curtailment, or 
continuation of generation of electric power at the project during or 
following an accident or other incident involving the nearby nuclear 
power plant reactor.
    (3) Time of filing radiological response plan. (i) For a constructed 
project with an otherwise acceptable emergency action plan on file, any 
radiological response plan required must be filed:
    (A) If an operating license for the nuclear power plant has been 
issued on or before March 1, 1981, not later than three months from 
March 1, 1981; or
    (B) In all other instances, not later than three months after the 
date an operating license for the nuclear power plant is issued.
    (ii) For any project not described in Sec. 12.22(c)(3)(i), any 
radiological response plan required must be filed contemporaneously with 
the emergency action plan or, if the project has been exempted from 
filing an emergency action plan, at the time the emergency action plan 
would otherwise have been required to be filed pursuant to Sec. 12.23.

[Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981, as amended at 49 FR 29370, July 
20, 1984]