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BASIS: The minimum staffing requirements ensure that sufficient resources are available to
fulfill credited safety operations. Four hours is considered suficient t he for the
facility to restore minimum staffing requirements or make appropriate notifications
within the facility and to the Site Shift Superintendent. Four hours is also considered
sufficient time to terminate affected operations and place the facility in a safe
configuration.
Revision 1
September 1999
The Site Fire and Emergency Services Department is essential for nuclear and life
safety at the Site. The BUILDING 991 COMPLEX relies on the Fire Department to
minimize material at risk involvenient in the event of an accident involving a fire.
The safety analysis in NSTR-011-98 does riot specifically credit the Site Fire
Demrtment since the size of the fires analvzed inside Building 991 (Le.. 1 klW and
3 MW fires) would be expected to self-extinguish Dfior to resDonse from the Fire
Demrtment. For the fires analvzed to occur under the West Dock Canopy. it was
assumed that Dersonnel would not notice the frre and reDort it to the Fire Department
in a timelv manner. Since a DrornDt Fire Deuartment response could mitigate the
effects of a fire in the BLXDING 991 COMPLEX. the Fire DeDment was credited
as discussed in Chapter 5 of the F%R Four hours is considered sufficient time for
the facility to terminate all hot work in the facilitv and to terminate affected
ODerations and place the facilitv in a safe confieuration.
A-1 11 Buildmg 991 Complex FSAR
Appendix A