ML032330134

May 13, 2003 Township of Berkeley Resolution Requesting Emergency Preparedness Plan for Oyster Creek

ML032330134
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	05/13/2003
From:	Wolf A Township of Berkeley, NJ
To:	Office of Public Affairs
References
TAC MA7658
Download: ML032330134 (4)

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Document Control Desk Personnel Peter S. Tam, Senior Project Manager @?(

DOCUMENT FROM TOWNSHIP OF BERKELEY, NJ (attached)

Attached please find a Resolution by the Township of Berkeley, dated May 13, 2003. It came as a copy addressed to the NRC Office of Public Affairs. Please enter it into NRC official agency records with these particulars:

Plant Name:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Docket No.

50-21 9 License No.

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TAC MA7658 Thanks.

A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWNSHTP COuNclL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BERKELEY OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR aENEUTlNC3 STATION TO PROTECT BERKELEY TOWNSHIP AND ARERESIDENT$.

REQUESTENO AN INDDFWDENT EVACUA~ON STUDY AND PIAN FOR THE May 13,2003 WHEREAS, the oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in the Townsbip of Lacey has not providedadequate d t y or m adequate evacuatiOnplan inthe event of anem-,

and WHEREAS, part of the evacuation p h is based upon the I990 census and Ocean county's population has incmsed by about 63,000 residents and is one of the fastest growing co@F-@New Jersey; and it impossible for emergency vehicles to reach their destination. The trafEic congestion included the roads to and h m Oyster Creek. This was atest of the dangerous shortwmiq of the c

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WHEREAS, the fire last June at Double Trouble State Park tied up trdlic all day, making-n "

WHEREAS, the tourist population swells during the summer months, and WHEREAS, 9/11 was awake up calI that we am vulnerable and we need to take seribusly alf fixtors that may cause a catastropht or worsen the outcome; and WHEREAS, the Oyster Creek Generating Station's Mark 1 *Reactor's radiation containment system is obsolete and has been @eaViry criticized by f-er Nuclear Regulatory commissio~;8nd I

WHEREAS, the on-site moddei filled with nuclear

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pool may pose and attractive target or terio-,

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the Nuclear kgul PdOryCornmission~c) and Exelon, OwnGIs of Creek Nuclear Facility have not provided cxediile seaxity for Citizens, wen &being by Channel 12; NOW, THEREFORE, BE ITT RESOLVED by Township Council of the Township'of Bakeky that the Township call for an independent comprehensiyc ey8cu8fi

'on study, that all Oyster creek oenerating Station's ~mponents be reevaluated, and that the eyBcuation mutes are r e v i e d inlightthe$opdation growth, trends and the current terrorist threat; andbe it fixrther RESOLVED,~acertifiedoopyofthewithinRtsolutionbe forwarded by the Township Clerk'to the following:

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Governor James E. McGreevey U.S. Nudear Regulatory Commission offict of Public Affairs (OPA)

Washington, D.C. 20555 9* and lO*New Jersey State Legislators Mr. wlliam Dressel-New Jersey League of Municipalities 407WeStStatestreet' T m b q New Jersey 08618 or and Council us~Administrzlso f

Chief Ficial Officer

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