ML19325C683
| ML19325C683 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 10/02/1989 |
| From: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Humphrey G SENATE |
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| CCS, NUDOCS 8910170177 | |
| Download: ML19325C683 (1) | |
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Y The Honorable Gordon J. Humphrey United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 l
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Dear Senator Humphrey:
I am responding to your September 26,1989,. letter in which you raised several questions concerning rqy involvtment in the Federal Emergency Maragement Agency's (FEMA) change in position regarding the adequacy of the State of New Hampshire's energency plans for Seabrook area beach populations. Two independent booies have reviewed the details of the events which led to the FEliA change in position.
Both of these third party reviews corcluded that FEliA reached its decision
. independently, without undue interference or pressure from NRC officials.
On December 30, 1988, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, after hearing testimony from senior FEl4A officials, issued a Partial Initiai Decision on the New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan which stated:
"The Board found no' basis whatever to support a charge that FEMA's chenge in sosition was a result of political piessure or NRC threats -- or that suc1 pressure or threats ever existed. Rather, FEMA's change was brought about by a thorough evaluation of the technical, regulatory and legal issues involved."
Similarly. the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a report on February 18, 1989, regarding FEMA's position concerning the adequacy of the emergency response plan for the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in which the GA0 concluded that "...the' record in this matter demonstrates that various programatic, technical, and legal factors caused FEMA to determine that the New Hampshire plan met FEMA's energency planning reculations for the beach perulation....The record also shows that FEMA reached this determination on the basis of its own L
deliberations and information provided by an outside consultant, the state.
l and NRC."
Responses to the specific questions raised in your letter, along with relevant documentation, are enclosed.
I am confident that after you have reviewed the L
facts of the mattei, you will agree with the conclusions of the Atcric Safety l
and Licensing Board and the GAO.
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