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> Mr. Epstein,

> We met yesterday during the Susquehanna scoping meeting. I want to

> clarify whether or not you would like to be placed on our mailing list

> to receive future information regarding the license renewal process?

> Please email me back and indicate your preference. I have your card with

> address listed.

> Thanks

> Alicia Mullins

> Environmental Project Manager

> Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

> U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

> 301-415-1224

> axm7@nrc.gov

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I Alicia Mullins - EFMR 05 Report.paf Page 2 11 I Alicia Mullins - EFMR 05 Report.pdf Page 2j1 2005 Biennial Report The EFMR Monitoring Group EEFMR Accomplishments EFiM R Completes Settlement Requirements With the publication of this report, the EFMR monitoring group has fulfilled its obligations under the settlement agreement which launched the organization in 1992.

The settlement of a lawsuit initi-ated by Eric Epstein against Gen-eral Public Utilities, then the own-er of Three Mile island, resulted in the establishment of a state-of-the-art monitoring system around Three Mile Island which was sup-plemented by citizen involvement through the use of hand-held Rad-PAert monitors.

Inthe 13years since Epstein reached his landmark settlement, another agreement was reached as part of the merger settlement when PECO (then the Philadel-phia Energy Corporation) merged with Commonwealth Edison. The PECO agreement added the area around the Peach Bottom power plant to the monitoring network.

In addition, in 1999, the new own-ers of TMI agreed to continue funding the EFMR program through early 2005.

Through the agreement, EFMR advanced its stated objectives of increasing public and worker safe-ty. The key achievements include the following:

• State-of-the-at gamma monitor-ing equipment, which is continu-ously monitored, was deployed at sixteen locations within three miles of TMI.

- The 16 Reuter-Stokes monitors were augmented with more than 75 RadAiert monitors deployed to a wide cross-section of the com-munity-individuals, high schools, colleges, community-based orga-nizations and others-actively in-volved in gathering daily radiation data. The collected data is for-warded to the Dickinson Collge Department of Physics and As-tronomy which has been respon-sible for compiling and analyzing the data for more than a dozen years.

- In the last two years the moni-toring system was enhanced with the addition of five state-of-the-art monitors which provide real-time Page 2 monitoring of the plant. The Ther-mo Eberline monitors feed infor-mation to a central control station at Penn State University.

- EFMR won agreement from both PECO and AmerGen not to store spent fuel or radioactive waste from any other nuclear facility at TMI or Peach Bottom during the term of the agreement. First En-ergy, the owner of TMI Unit 2, has agreed it will not trade TMI-2's high-level radioactive waste to any other nuclear utility which would delay the decommissioning of TMI-2.

- In two separate agreements, EFMR negotiated $900,000 in re-mote robotics research from GPU and $500,000 from PECO. These programs have significantly re-duced worker exposure at both TMI and Peach Bottom.

• PECO agreed not to use mixed uranium oxide fuel at Peach Bot-tom, Limerick, and Salem nucle-ar plants. -o

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- The distribution of potassium iodide pills, both directly by EFMR and by the Pennsylvania Depart-ment of Health, are the result of EFMR efforts.

- AmerGenagreed to payTMI Unit l's excess decommissioning costs without transferring the bur-den to ratepayers.

- AmerGen agreed not to conduct business with nor transfer tech-nology to any company, organiza-tion, or nation that the United States is boycotting for econmic or military reasons, including na-tions that haven't signed a nucle-ar arms non-proliferatio n treaty.

- EFMR negotiated with First En-ergy to maintain community in-vestments at current levels from 2001 through 2004.

• EFMR negotiated an additional agreement with AmerGen at TMI Unit 1 that removes the plant from the rate base and insulates rate payers from any additional costs to clean-up the plant.

- EFMR participated in negotia-tions with PECO leading to the provision of more than a million dollars in funds for a York County program to provide heating assis-tance to low-income families.

- EFMR assisted in the creation of the Greater Middletown Eco-nomic Development Chapter.

• EFMR secured an anonymous contribution of $500 to enable East Hanover Township to ad-dress environmental problems caused by an aging sewage treat-ment facility and the application of sludge to farmland. EFMR as-sistance helped the community procure a flood waste bin.

- EFMR published its newsletter, maintained a web site, and main-tained relations with the news media to help keep the public in-formed on nuclear issues.

- EFMR, throughout the settle-ment period and to this day, con-tinues to attend NRC meetings and receive briefings from Amer-Gen, Exelon, PECO Energy, and First Energy.

- EFMR Coordinator Eric Epstein presented at the NRC's 1 5 th An-nual Regulatory Information Con-ference in 2003. Epstein partici-pated as a panelist in a breakout session regarding the Reactor Oversight Process.

- EFMR developed three energy-related curriculums on the TMI accident, wind power, and coal energy under contract from the Page 3 Sustainable Energy Fund of Cen-tral Eastern Pennsylvania.

- EFMR held annual RadAlert training sessions at Dickinson College for twelve years. A train-ing manual was developed and distributed to attendees and made available to the general public.

- EFMR assisted Dickinson Col-lege's Community Studies Center in its oral history project and in funding the creation of the TMI Ajert archives at the Waidner-Spahr Library.

- EFMR continues its advocacy of TMI and Peach Bottom paying their fair share of municipal and school taxes. A change in tax laws redefined most of the plants' fa-cilities to be mere "equipment" rather than "real" property, result-ing in drastic, community-harming reductions in the taxes paid by the utilities.

- EFMR worked with TMI Aiert and local resident Larry Christian in collecting thousands of signatures on a petition to include day care centers in local emergency pre-paredness plans. EFMR also con-ducted a survey of more than 70 local day care facilities to see if they had plans on how to evacu-ate clients in the event of a nude-ar emergency.

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EFMR Going Forward EFMR Looks to Continue Community Service Efforts With almost 400,000 RadAlert readings documented to date, EFMR maintains its commitment to monitoring the operation of nu-clear power plants in central Pennsylvania and its role in the advocacy of the safe generation of electricity.

EFMR will continue to assist com-munities, organizations, and indi-viduals with emergency planning around TMI and Peach Bottom, provide educational material on Pennsylvania Energy Issues, par-ticipate in economic development projects in south central Pennsyl-vania, maintain the RadAlert net-work around Peach Bottom and TMI, and will continue to advocate for rate reductions and consumer protections at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, includ-ing negotiated settlements that mandate cost sharing for nuclear decommissioning at Susquehan-na 1 and 2 (PPL), Peach Bottom 2 and 3, Limerick Units 1 and 2, and Salem, New Jersey 1 and 2 (PECO & Exelon).

In addition, the group is actively involved with security and radio-active isolation and safety issues at the Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission affecting Peach Bottom 1, 2 and 3, TMI 1 and 2, and Sus-quehanna 1 and 2.

Finally, to keep the monitoring program going, EFMR is seeking sponsors, either individuals or or-ganizations, willing to underwrite the annual cost of individual mon-itors.

Those interested should contact EFMR at 717-541-1101.

EFMR Plays Key Role on TMI Advisory Panel A Citizens' Awareness Panel cre-ated in the aftermath of the TMI accident continues to meet at least twice each year with the op-eratorsof TMI Unit I. AmerGen of-ficials including the site manager, inspectors, security officials, com-munity relations personnel, and others have met with the panel over the last few years. EFMR volunteer Bill Cologie serves as the organization's representative to the panel.

Cologie says the meetings are useful in that it complements the regular communications EFMR has with the utility and provides insight into the thinking of Amer-Gen's on-site management and their approach to both plant oper-ations and community relations.

The meetings are regularly at-tended by local elected officials, but the panel also includes retired plant personnel and other vocal supporters of the utility.

Over the last two years the group has been provided tours of the island's enhanced security sys-tems, including a first-hand look at the high tech security controls Page 4 on the plant's restricted areas and a subsequent visit to see new guard towers and security gates at the entrance to the plant's pro-tected zones. The most recent meeting included a re-visit to the simulated control room, said by plant personnel to replicate the control room in Unit I.

TMI Communications Manager Ralph DeSantis says, "TMI values the participation of all the mem-bers of the Citizens Awareness Panel, including that of EFMR.

Representatives of EFMR have brought a healthy, questioning at-titude to the meetings."

Cologie says he approaches each meeting with hopes of gathering information without being confron-

tational, but that he finds the AmerGen personnel to be too guarded with their answers, sometimes to the point of obf us-cation. "Sometimes answers to questions are comfortable recita-tions of the industry line rather than site-specific responses,"

Cologie said, "but most attending don't seem to mind."

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2005 Biennial Report The EFMR Monitoring Group IM Education Efforts EFMR Aids Dickinson College TMI Project In early 2003, in preparation for observing the 25th anniversary of the accident at TMI, the Commu-nity Studies Center at Dickinson College launched an oral history project to supplement the 400 in-terviews done by students and faculty in the months following the accident. The project, undertak-en with assistance from EFMR, also resulted in the creation of a web site where, eventually, the public will have access to these audio files. The web site is:

www.Three Mile!l and omr The project acquainted today's Dickinson students with the efforts of college administrators and fac-ulty in keeping the campus calm and open during the accident.

Dickinson physicist, Dr. John Luetzelschwab-re cently retired consultant to EFMR-took radia-tion samples in the days follow-ing the accident and calmed stu-dents with reports that radiation levels on campus, some 22 miles from TMI, were normal.

The 2 5 th anniversary of the acci-dent also saw Dickinson's cam-pus library, the Waidner-Spahr Li-brary, get 55 boxes of files from ThreeMile Island Alert which have been organized into a special ar-chive. EFMR helped Dickinson obtain an $8700 grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Mu-seum Commission to finance the cataloging and organizing of the documents.

Plans provide that some of this material will be fea-tured on the aforementioned web site, but at this point, there was too much material to be reviewed during the "monumental" process of establishing the web site. Dr.

Lori Malsheimer, director of the Community Studies Center, says the material in the archives will keep students busy for years.

EFMR Coordinator Eric Epstein says the accident at TMI is con-sidered by many to be the third most significant event in Pennsyl-vania history following the found-ing of America and the Battle of Gettysburg. "As it stands, we who have been involved with TMI Ajert benefit from having our records at this prestigious institution, while the college benefits from the fact that going forward no scholar will be able to research what hap-pened at TMI without visiting Dick-inson, either physically or through cyberspace."

EFMR Creates Energy Lesson Plans EFMR has developed a series of energy-relate d lesson plans for school teachers to use in educating students about The Accident at Three Mile Island, Wind Power, and Coal Energy. Each subject has individual plans for elementary students, middle school students, and high school students, while the wind power packet also contains a lesson plan for adult learners. Each of the plans, created by profes-sional educators, complies with the National Science Foundation's Content Standards and the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Academic Standards.The plans areavailable freeof chargeand down-loadable from EFMR's web site, www.efmr.org.

Seven Wilson College Students Track Radiation Using RadAlert monitors supplied by EFMR, seven Wilson College students monitored radiation on campus for five days during the Fall of 2003. Each of the students took the RadAlert training at Dickinson prior to participating in the project. Readings were taken in dormito-ries, classrooms, and elsewhere on campus. In addition, one student took the monitor to a friend's home in Maryland where she found Radon levels eight times higher than average.

Dr. Edward Wells, the instructor overseeing the exercise said it pro-vided an excellent opportunity for students to not only learn about radiation, but to understand how it surrounds them. Since the stu-dents found no high levels of radiation on campus, they were some-what comforted, but they now realize that radiation continuously sur-rounds them and that materials emit varying amounts of radiation.

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Emergency Preparedness Survey Shows State Abdicates Responsibility on Planning EFMR conducted a survey of child-care facilities located in the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) around TMI. Federal law requires that state and local officials protect people in the cus-tody of institutions such as schools, nursing homes and pris-ons, but child-care facilities were not included in the state's emer-gency plans. The survey was con-ducted to ensure that preschool children within the 10-mile EPZ in Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York Counties were provided radiological emergency services as required by law.

EFMR identified 74 child care fa-cilities within the EPZ. All of them were licensed by the Department of Public Welfare and cared for at least 12 children. Each was sent a survey in late 2004. Those who did not respond werecalled or vis-ited during early 2005, netting a final response rate of 51.35 per-cent. Those responding cared for 1,480 children. Following the sur-vey, EFMR provided many of the facilities, regardless of their par-ticipation in the survey, with po-tassium iodide tablets for the chil-dren and day care workers.

Of those responding, 45. percent said "No" when asked if state or local agencies had provided their facility with emergency planning in the event of a radiological inci-dent.

66 percent said "No"when asked if state or local agencies provided transportation as-sistance for their facility in the event of a radiological evacuation.

Of those who said "Yes" to the trans-portation question, 87 percent could not report who would be providing the transportation or how many vehicles would be in-volved.

87 percent said they had no sup-porting letters from transportation providers.

58 percent said "No," when asked if state or local agencies provid-ed directions and assignments to prearranged relocation centers in the event of an evacuation.

Of those respond ing"Yes," 63 per-cent were not sure or were unable to answer when asked to identify their assigned relocation center.

The survey results made it clear that the state has not met their legal requirement to review plans or coordinate transportation for these facilities. Even where they have complied with the law, day care workers were unsure asto how things would work in the event of an emergency._-

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.... e 7]I 2005 Biennial Report The EFMR Monitoring Group Emergency Preparedness EFMR Puts the KI in Kipona The survey also showed that:

-The state does not review plans or coordinate transportation;

-Few state and local entities pro-vide for or coordinate transporta-tion;

-in some instances, transportation for day care children is only avail-able after other populations have been moved;

-Many facilities assume they can evacuate to public schools and presume those schools will pro-vide transportation;

-Many facilities depend on the phone book for planning;

-Frequent expressions of exas-peration and frustration included:

"Who do we contact?" "Where do we go?" and "How do we get there?"

• Several facilities were unaware that they were within the ten mile zone;

'Emergency planning is a recent development; and, numerous pro-viders were confused by the sep-arate regulations recently promul-gated. The Rendell administration in 2003 required all day-care fa-cilities to have an emergency plan in place by July 1, 2004. Senate Bill 922, passed in July 2004 and signed into law by Gov. Rendell, exempted non-profit child-care centers from compliance.

An EFMR volunteer distributes potassium iodide at the 2004 Kipona.

Given the refusal of the Pennsyl-vania Department of Health to make potassium iodide (KI) tab-lets available to anyone except residents of a ten mile zone around TMI, EFMR decided to make the pills available to anyone requesting them.

With booth space provided by the City of Harrisburg, EFMR and Three Mile Island Alert volunteers handed out the pills free of charge to those attending the Citys an-nual Kipona festival every Labor Day weekend since 2002. Over that time, thousands of pills have been provided to residents re-gardless of where they live.

"Some people work downwind of TMI, but live outside the area and don't qualify for the Department of Health's pills," explained one booth volunteer. Others who live within the ten-mile zone, it was noted, have no way of getting to the Department of Health's offic-es during their limited office hours because of work schedules.

"People who need the pills just weren't getting them, so we felt we had to do something,"

said EFMR Coordinator Eric Epstein.

Befuddled at the Department of Health's refusal to widely distrib-ute the small mountain of KI pills provided by the Nuclear Regula-tory Commission, EFMR ap-proached the Department with an offer to distribute the state's pills.

The DoH refused, so EFMR pur-chased thousands of doses and had thousands more donated by the manufacturer to give away to central Pennsylvanians.

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.... Page 8 1 2005 Biennial Report The EFMR Monitoring Group Radiation Monitoring Five New Radiation Monitors Deployed Of all the governments on the planet, Germany is probably the most advanced when it comes to the monitoring of nuclear power plants. Now, the same state-of-the-art equipment used through-out Germany is deployed around Three Mile Island.

Given the Reuter-Stokes monitors have been in place since the ear-ly 1990s and technology has ad-vanced dramatically since then, EFMR secured five Thermo Eber-line monitors and strategically placed them in the area around Three Mile Island. Based on care-ful study of population concentra-tions and prevailing wind currents, five monitors have been located in Etters, Yocumtown, Lower Swa-tara and South Harrisburg..

The new monitors have a series of gamma dose rate detectors which use the NBR (National Background Rejection) method to discriminate between normal background gamma radiation and other sources of radiation. This clearly indicates whether an in-crease in radiation was due to artificial sources in the environ-ment or merely a normal, natural event due to changes of weather, temperature, or rain. Therefore, these devices are ideally suited for environmental monitoring.

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Worker Safety Robots Take the Heat Thanks in part to EFMR's settle-ment, a $1.4 million investment in robotic technology keeps workers free from excessive exposure to radiation.

Before the development of robots to do this dangerous work, nucle-ar power plant workers would don multiple layers of protective cloth-ing including hot rubber suits be-fore crawling deep into the reac-tor. Even at high-tech plants, hu-man inspectors would go into highly radioactive areas looking for corrosion, loose parts, and damaged equipment. Today, spe-cial robots carry cameras into ar-eas that are too dangerous for humans.

R. Brooks Associates, Inc., a com-pany that contracts with nuclear power plants to do inspections, says the robots have changed their business. "The whole nucle-ar industry has shifted from doing reactive maintenance, repairing things when they break, to proac-tive inspections, searching out potential problems before they occur," said John M. Gay, presi-dent of R. Brooks. The new tech-nology is good for both the work-ers and the utilities. It keeps the workers healthier and it enables the utilities to maintain equipment and avoid costly shutdowns due to equipment failures. "The long-er you can keep a plant up and running safely," says Gay, "the more money they can make."

Robotic inspections are now cen-tral to plant operations. One loose bolt or fragment of metal inside a pipe can wreak havoc. Such a problem led to the 1982 shutdown of New York's Ginna nuclear pow-er plant when a metal fragment cut a pipe and released radioac-tive steam. Brooks, then an engi-neer at Ginna, played a key role in discovering that damage and working to repair it, which led him toward a career in inspecting plants.

Back in 1982, it was common practice to take plant components apart to look for broken parts.

Now, using small robots that crawl through pipes, welds can be in-spected and corrosion can be found from the inside of pipes.

Some robots are small enough to go into the steam generator tubes and deploy cameras to look for blockages.

The Mid-Atlantic Region Opera-tor Group (MAROG),

which in-dudes Peach Bottom and TMI, benefited from the following ad-vances in robotics:

underwater robotic core verification, mini-sub surveillance, robotic crawler used for suveillance and steam leak examination, remote camera de-ployment for reactor head inspec-tion and fuel floor diving, robotic vacuuming, fiber optic scoping, and remote monitoring.

The estimated annual Person-Rem savings for MAROG was 108, as opposed to a 40 Person-Rem savings for the Midwest Re-actor Group employees during the same period.

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Economic Development EFMR Initiative Saves Rate Payers $50 Million As a direct result of EFMR' s agreement with PECO-the sec-tion titled "Community Responsi-bility and Corporate Culture"--

EFMR ensured a5 percent an-nual increase in community spending by the utility. The terms of the Agreement are in place though 2006 and include sponsor-ships and donations separate and apart from what Peach Bottom employees contribute to the Un-tied Way. Various community groups have benefited, including emergency and medical provid-ers, public schools, recreational programs, and senior support ser-vices.

EFMR Monitoring is also a mem-ber of PECO Energy' s LIURP (Low Income Usage Reduction Program) Advisory Committee on Universal Services and, in that capacity, successfully pressed for increased contributions to the Matching Energy Assistance Fund.

In what may be EFMR' s greatest achievement, the group, working with the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA), won an agreement that shields PECO rate payers from -more than $50 million in the decommissioning costs for the plants at Limerick, Peach Bottom, and Salem, NJ.

In April 2005, Exelon acknowl-edged in its Annual Report that its decommissioning liabilities will exceed "provisions of the PUC order" negotiated by EFMR and the OCA. The Agreement insu-lates PECO rate payers from in-creased decommissioning costs at Peach Bottom, Limerick and Salem nuclear generating sta-tions. Exelon now "expects total decommissioning costs to exceed this threshold established by EFMR and the OCA and expects to be held responsible for the en-tire $50 million over the remain-ing life of the assets" in addition to a 5 percent cost sharing formu-la approved by the PUC.

Under state law, consumers pay all the costs of decommissioni ng power plants. Thanks to EFMR and the OCA, PECO rate payers escaped paying the first $50 mil-lion and PECO will also be as-sessed five cents on the dollar for any costs exceeding $50 million.

In another victory for rate payers, AmerGen agreed that rate payers would not pay any excess decom-missioning costs for Unit-1. In oth-er words, the rate payers are not liable for any additional cost to decontaminate, decommission or return TMI to "greenfield" status.

EFMR recently served as a con-sultant to the Dauphin County Commissioners in an unsuccess-ful attempt to have the owners of TMI Units 1 and 2 (AmerGen and First Energy, respectively),

pay their fair share of property taxes.

Though the county and some municipal governments settled at a tremendous cost to taxpayers, EFMR believes its Agreement with First Energy, in which it agreed to maintain "corporate in-vestment and involvement in the local community," may hold prom-ise to raise Unit 2' s assessed val-uation.--

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$50 Million in Savings EFMR Operated Middletown Office The utility was successful in a re-quest to have the plant' s value reduced from $16.2 million to zero. EFMR found value in the plant since it is well situated to host another electric generating fadlity due to access to water, the PJM grid, and proximity to air, rail, and highway systems. TMI-2 also has immense value as an interim high-level, radioactive waste stor-age site for TMI-1, which loses off-load refueling capacity in 2018.

According to the NRC, as of Sep-tember, 2004, there is $421 mil-lion residing in the TMI-2 Decom-missioning Fund (2003 dollars).

Still local governments agreed TMI-2 had no value, resulting in higher taxes for local residents.

The settlement also required Dau-phin County, Lower Dauphin School District, and Londonderry Township to refund to the utility real estate taxes for $1.07 million collected from 2002 to 2004.

For almost a year, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2003, the EFMR Monitoring Group had an office on Middletown's main drag-213South Union Street, right in the heart of downtown-whic h enabled the or-ganization to get more involved with economic development and oth-er activities in the Middletown area.

"Though I ran the organization out of my home office since its incep-tion in 1992," explained EFMR founder Eric Epstein, "I thought it would be important to raise the organization's profile in the final year of our operating grant from the utility."

According to Epstein, the downtown location paid off as it provided a base for building relationships with local governments, economic de-velopment organizations, and the community in general.

"Though we ended up subleasing the space at the end of the one-year lease period to conserve funds, having the office allowed the organization to play an instrumental role in the development of Mid-dletown's economic development organization," Epstein concluded.

EFMR Helps Launch GMEDC EFMR's Eric Epstein was one of the founding members of the Great-er Middletown Economic Development Corporation (GMEDC), an in-dependent not-for-profit corporation formed in 2004 to bring econom-ic development to the greater Middletown area, including Highspire, Londonderry Township, Lower SwataraTownship, and Royalton. Eric helped the fledgling organization obtain $30,000 in state grants and matching funds to seed the organization's start-up.

The key initial thrust of the GMEDC is to qualify a section of Middle-town in the Pennsylvania Main Street Program, a grant program that would help revitalize Middletown. GMEDC has individual and corpo-rate sponsors from throughoutthe Middletown area and Epstein serves as a founding member of their board of directors. To date, EFMR has contributed $5,800 to the GMEDC.

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2005 Biennial Report The EFMR Monitoring Group About EFMR In 1992, Eric Epstein reached a landmark settlement with GPU Nuclear to establish a state-of-the-art radiation monitoring sys-tem around Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant. He set up the EFMR Monitoring Group-named after his grandfather, Emanuel

Fievish, and his uncle, Max Rosenberg-as a not-for-profit,

non-partisan organization to run the program.

This settlement and some subse-quent legal actions have resulted in EFMR adding the area around the Peach Bottom nuclear plant in York County to its monitoring network, in the acquisition of new monitors, in some significant en-vironmental guarantees from the utilities, and in a significant invest-ment in robotic research by the utilities which has increased work-er safety at the plants.

EFMR has also undertaken edu-cational activities relating to en-ergy production and use in Penn-sylvania, initiated advocacy ac-tions on behalf of the safety of nuclear plant neighbors including the evacuation of day care cen-ters in emergency preparedness plans and the distribution of po-tassium iodide pills to the general public. The group has also inter-vened at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to protect the economic interests of Pennsylva-nia rate payers.

Since its inception, EFMR has worked with AmerGen, Dickinson College, the Environmental Pro-tection Agency, Los Alamos Na-tional Laboratories (SWOOPE Program), GPU Nuclear, the Nu-clear Regulatory Commission, Peach Bottom REMP Program, PECO Energy, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection, the Susquehanna Valley Alliance, Three Mile Island Alert, the Sus-tainable Energy Fund, and the University of Tennessee, as well as other national and internation-al organizations.

The EFMR staff includes:

Coordinator: Eric Epstein Editor (Annual Report & Newsletter): Bill Cologie Office Manager & KI Program Coordinator:

Russell Cohn Statistician: Richard Stober, Economic InSights Physicist & Technical Advisor: Rodger Granlund Web Master: Melanie Rutkowski Reuter-Stokes Technician: Deborah Davenport Security Consultant: Scott Portzline Education Advisor: Maureen Mulligan Proofreader: Bernard Epstein Coal & Nuclear Education Projects Coordinator: Eric Epstein Education Development & Research: Diane Uttle, Janna & Ezra Match Principal Contributors: Diane Uttle and Janna Match Web Support: Melanie Rutkowski Wind Education Project Coordinator: Eric Epstein Editors: Melanie Rutkowski and Dr. James Young Education Development & Research: Bill Cologie & Dr. James Young Principal Reviewers: Diane Little and Janna & Ezra Match Support Staff: Russell Cohn and Bernard Epstein Page 12

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[Alicia MulIins-EFMR 05 Report.pdf Page 13 EFMR Monitoring Group Summary of Readings January 1993 - December 2004 Total Readings: 383,327*

Mean of all Readings: 14.095 cpm Total Readings, 2004: 26,038 Mean of 2004 Readings: 13.562 cpm With regard to the method of recording 2004 readings from certain stations, the same practice as was used in previous years was continued, more specifically:

1. Only the first five (5) recorded readings from Nottingham Station were entered into the electronic database. Additional readings from Nottingham (all of which were 30 cpm or higher and labeled "alert')- have been retained in hard copy, but were not entered into the electronic database.

2. Readings fromCarnp Hill 3 Station were recorded by the reader as one (1) average reading per day, rather than as five (5) one-minute readings. Readings fromCamnp Hill 3 station were therefore entered into the electronic database as five (5) individual readings, the average of which equaled the reading actually reported.

Otherwise. all readings were entered into the electronic database as reported.

The following accompanying reports relate to the 2004 data:

1. Summary Table: 2004 Readings by Station (Descending Average).

2. Summary Table: 2004 Readings by Station (Alpha Order of Station).

3. Summary Table: Readings (in Alpha Order of Location) by Location for 1993-2004.

4. Summary Table: 2004 Frequency Distribution of Readings.

5. Summary Table: Frequency Distribution of Readings, 1993-2004.

6. Graph: Summary of Readings: January 1993 through Decermber 2004.

7. Graph: Average Daily Reading January 1,2004 to December 31,2004.

8. Table: Average CPM Reading per Day for All Reporting Stations, January 1,2004 to December 31,2004.

• NOTE: Asmalldiscrepancy (128 Readings, or 0.03% of tota readings) hasarisen inthel993-2003 data This discrepancy islikdy tobeduetothereceipt and entry of datafor ayear after thecompilation of thefinal report for thal year. This discrepancy has no mrteid effect on the overal I stisti cs.

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