ML12331A381

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.'S Notice of Supplemental Exhibits to Motion to Supplement the Record with Relevant New Information That Became Apparent After Hurricane Sandy

ML12331A381
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	11/26/2012
From:	Raimundi K, Webster R Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Public Justice P C
To:	Lathrop K, Lawrence Mcdade, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
RAS 23796, 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, ASLBP 07-858-03-LR-BD01
Download: ML12331A381 (3)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Before Administrative Judges:

Lawrence G. McDade, Chairman Dr. Kaye D. Lathrop Dr. Richard E. Wardwell In the Matter of ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR

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) 50-286-LR ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. )

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) )

__ ) Date: November 26, 2012 HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER, INC.S NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL EXHIBITS TO MOTION TO SUPPLEMENT THE RECORD WITH RELEVANT NEW INFORMATION THAT BECAME APPARENT AFTER HURRICANE SANDY On November 14, 2012, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. (Clearwater) filed a Motion to Supplement the Record with Relevant New Information that Became Apparent after Hurricane Sandy. The Motion included evidence of how Hurricane Sandy had a disparate impact on environmental justice populations, including low income individuals, the elderly and the disabled, as well as those in prisons, hospitals, and nursing homes. Moreover, through its Motion, Clearwater indicated that it would continue to send the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (the Board) additional information on relevant topics as more analyses of the disparate impact of Hurricane Sandy become available. To that end, Clearwater files four additional articles for the Boards consideration.

The first article illustrates how Hurricane Sandy added thousands to New York Citys homeless populations while the storm exposed the citys acute lack of affordable housing options, 1

revived outlawed practices of housing the homeless on armory floor, led chaotic, unsanitary conditions, and scattered hundreds of homeless people all oer New York City. CLE000072. The second article explores the disparate impact that the storm had on those living in New York Citys public housing developments. CLE000073. Speaking about a meeting with public housing residents, The New York Times reports that in addition to power outages far more prolonged than private residents experienced, mostly what one heard was a litany of miseries, testament to all the ancillary misfortunes of poverty and all the accompanying expressions of frustration and rage: from the diabetic woman who had no place to safely store her insulin during the power failure and nowhere to safely care for her autistic son; from the woman with sickle-cell anemia whose apartment was still cold; from the lifelong resident who spoke of a young girls rape. Id. The third article explains how the natural disaster has added to the ranks of the unemployed, CLE000074, while the fourth article describes the difficulties that area food banks have had in their attempt to provide services to disaster-affected families in low income communities. CLE000075.

These articles present new materially different relevant information because they illustrate yet more ways in which environmental justice communities are disparately affected by major disasters such as storms and nuclear accidents. This Board should therefore admit these Exhibits.

Clearwater consulted regarding this Motion on 11/21/2012. Entergy intends to oppose this Motion, while Clearwater did not yet hear from the NRC Staff.

Respectfully Submitted,

_________/s/__________

Richard Webster, Esq.

Public Justice, P.C.

1825 K Street, NW Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20006 rwebster@publicjustice.net 202 797-8600 2

_________/s/____________

Karla Raimundi, Esq.

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

724 Wolcott Avenue Beacon, N.Y. 12508 karla@clearwater.org 845-265-8080 Dated: November 26, 2012 3