ML062970234
| ML062970234 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Harris  |
| Issue date: | 10/16/2006 |
| From: | Baker D Orange County, NC, Board of Commissioners |
| To: | Reyes L NRC/EDO |
| Shared Package | |
| ML063310078 | List: |
| References | |
| 2.206, G20060852, G20060858, G20060861 | |
| Download: ML062970234 (6) | |
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM: DUE: 11/27/06 EDO CONTROL: G20060861 DOC DT: 10/16/06 FINAL REPLY:
Donna S. Baker Orange County Board of Commissioners Hillsborough, North Carolina TO:
Reyes, EDO FOR SIGNATURE OF : ** GRN ** CRC NO:
Dyer, NRR DESC: ROUTING:
2.206 - Emergency Enforcement Action - Suspension Reyes of Operating License No. NFP-63 for Shearon Harris Virgilio Nuclear Plant Until Recurring Fire Protection. Kane Issues are Brought Into Compliance Silber Johnson Burns DATE: 10/23/06 Sheron, RES Carpenter, OE ASSIGNED TO: CONTACT: Travers, RII Cyr, OGC NRR Dyer Williams, NRR Jones; OGC SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMARKS:
Ref. G20060858, G20060852.
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BARRYJACOBS, CHAIR ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS STEPHEN H. HALKIOTIS, VICE-CHAIR MOSES CAREY, JR POST OFFICE Box 8181 VALERIE P. FOUSHEE ALICE M. GORDON 200 SOUTH CAMERON STREET HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 October 16, 2006 Luis A. Reyes Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washingtdn, D.C. 20555-0001 RE: Petition for Emergency Enforcement Action Pursuant to 10 CFR §2.206 -
Suspension of Operating License No. NPF-63 for Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant Until Recurring Fire Protection Issues are Brought Into Compliance
Dear Mr. Reyes,
The Board of Commissioners of Orange'County, North Carolina, at its October 3, 2006 regular board meeting, adopted the enclosed resolutions entitled "A Resolution Calling for Coordinated Emergency Management and Evacuation Planning Within the 50-Mile Radius Ingestion Pathway for Potential Discharge of Airborne Nuclear Waste Material from the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant" and "A Resolution In Support of an Emergency Petition to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the NC Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Nuclear Information and Research Service, NC Fair Share and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment Seeking Regulatory Action by the Commission to Enforce Existing Fire Protection Standards and Regulations Applicable to the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant."
If you have any questions, please call Barry Jacobs, Chair of the Board of County Commissioners, at (919 732-4941.
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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS A Resolution Calling for Coordinated Emergency Management and Evacuation Planning Within the 50-Mile Radius Ingestion Pathway for Potential Discharge of Airborne Nuclear Waste Material from the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has a long and well-established practice of advocating for any and all activities that would promote the public health, safety and welfare, particularly in regard to feasible threats to that health, safety and welfare; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has a long and well-established record of concern and activism related to the potential magnitude and catastrophic consequences of an airborne release of nuclear waste materials from the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant; and WHEREAS, information developed within the least eight years has demonstrated the vulnerability of spent nuclear fuel to combustion with ensuing airborne release and dispersion of extremely harmful and dangerous nuclear waste
-i material as a consequence of accident or sabotage/ terrorism; and WHEREAS, there exists an area of a ten-mile radius around the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant for which there are in place emergency management and evacuation plans of debatable efficacy'in case of a catastrophic accident and airborne release of nuclear waste material from the plant; and WHEREAS, an airborne release of nuclear material may stem from an uncontrollable event of several days or greater duration that would affect at least all of the fifty-mile radius ingestion pathway area; and WHEREAS, the fifty-mile radius ingestion pathway around the Shearon Harris plant contains approximately two million persons, the state capital, Fort Bragg, the Research Triangle, four major universities and a number of smaller universities, hundreds of public and private schools, thousands of businesses, dozens of local government jurisdictions; millions of pets, and a rich natural environment; and WHEREAS, there is no coordinated emergency management and evacuation planning for the portion of the ingestion pathway beyond the area defined by the ten-mile radius around Shearon Harris; and
WHEREAS, fairly recent ice and snow storm events of a far less catastrophic level of severity have proven capable Qf reducing Research Triangle area traffic to a state of extended gridlock; and WHEREAS, orderly. or effective evacuation of the fifty-mile radius ingestion pathway under current emergency-management and- evacuation planning and coordination conditionswould be fraughtwith difficulties, if not impossible; and WHEREAS, protection of public health, safety and welfare in regard to the atmospheric release of nuclear waste material is a responsibility that must be shared by Progress Eniergy/CP&L; local law enforcement-and emergency management/ response agencies and others; the NC Utilities Commission; the N.C. Department of Crime.Control & Public Safety and others; and the US Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency and others; as well as the pUbblic; NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, hereby resolve to request and recommend that Progress Energy/CP&L; the NC Utilities Commission, Department of Crime Control & Public Safety and others; and the US Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency work with the appropriate local, state and federal government transportation planning, law enforcement and emergency management/response agencies and personnel to develop and coordinate emergency management, response and evacuation plans for the' entire fifty-mile. radius surrounding its Shearon Harris nuclear power plant.
This is the 3rd day of October, 2006
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS "
A Resolution, In Support of an Emergency Petition to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the NC Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, the Union. of Concer'ned Scientists, the 'Nuclear.Information and Research Service, NC Fair Share and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment Seeking Regulatory Action by the Commission to Enforce Existing Fire Protection Standards and Regulations Applicable to the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has a long and well-established practice of advocating for any and all activities that would promote~the public health, safety and welfare, particularly in regard to feasible threats to that health, safety and welfare; and WHEREAS, approximately 50 percent of the risks of catastrophic nuclear plant failure are associated.
with fire-related accidents, as calculated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners also have a long and well-established record of concern regarding security and safety issues at the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant, related to the potential magnitude and catastrophic consequences of a nuclear power plant
'fire leading to anr 'ýirborne release of nuclear waste materials;, and.
WHEREAS, information has recently been presented to the.Board of County.Commissioners as to.
ongoing problems with fire safety and fire. protection practices at the Shearon Harris, nuclear power plant;.and . . . .. ..
WHEREAS, Progress Energy/CP&L has indicated that it-will apply.to the NRC for permission totake up to nine more years to bring the Shearon Harris nuclear power plan't into compliance with fire safety standards and regulations; and WHEREAS, Progress Energy/CP&L has indicated that it will apply to the NRC for a twenty-year extension of its operating license for the Shearon Harris plant while the plant is not in compliance with existing fire safety standards and regulations; and WHEREAS, Progress Energy/CP&L has indicated that it is in the process of evaluation of permitting, designing and constructing two nuclear power reactors at the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant while the existing plant is not in compliance with existing fire safety standards and regulations; NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, hereby resolve to support the petition of the NC Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Nuclear Information and Research Service, NC Fair Share and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking that the NRC compel Progress Energy/CP&L to immediately bring the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant into compliance with existing federal fire safety standards and regulations applicable to nuclear power plants.
This is the 3rd day of October, 2006 Aawyla-c ob sfg5a-ir Orange un Boar of Co
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 200 SOUTH CAMERON ST. - P0. BOX 8181 HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. 27278 0063603 $OO1 290 AtAILED-FRONM ZiP CODE 27127"3 Luis A. Reyes Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 I I I You Count in Orange County 1