ML20038C475

Expresses Concerns Re Statement Made by TB Conner in 810930 Ltr Re Jh Frye.Ltr Indicates That Applicants Have Been Working Intensively W/Affected State to Complete Development of Emergency Plan.No Assurance Felt

ML20038C475
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Site:	Zimmer
Issue date:	10/05/1981
From:	Sell G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Frye J Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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Campbell County Schools .

101 ORCHARD LANE ALEXANDRIA, KENTUCKY 41001 PhoneSM.2173

• ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENTS SUPERINTENDENT Dr. Williarn C. Foutch I Gene Sell lawrence E. Kinney October 5, 1981 Myron S. Reinhardt Mr. John H. Frye, III Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Frye:

I respectfully submit this letter in reference to statements 1981. made in his letter.to you dated September 30, by Troy B. Conner, Jr.

My concern with Mr. Conner's letter is prompted by his statement "The applicants have been working intensively with the affected state and local governments to complete the development of emergency As Superintendent of plans the in accor' dance with NRC and FEMA requirements."

Campbell County Schools I can not agree with Mr. Conner system will be provided for a safe and timely evacuation of our boys and girls in case of an emergency at the William H. Zimmer Nuclear Power Station.

According to 10 CFR Parts 50 and 70 the applicant / licensee will be required to submit its emergency plans as well as state and localThe NRC will th governmental emergency response plans to NRC.

finding as to whether the state of onsite and offsite emergency pre-paredness provides reasonable assurance that adequate protective measures I can can and will be taken in the event of a radiological emergency.

assure you that without the required number of buses and an adequate inhouse communications system that I can not safely and timely evacuate the students of the Campbell County Schools.

In our situation emergency planning considerations We have nothave must been an adequately extended to our " Emergency Planning Zone".

adequate number of buses if we are to safely evacuate the boys and girls To date, Mr. Robert R. Alexander, Director of the from our schcols.

Campbell County Disaster Emergency Services has proposed that TANK buses, church buses, and school buses from another county (Kenton) provide us

• I would point out that the TANK buses with the necessary transportation. ~~'

are presently housed in Newport some twenty-five minutes or longer from our closest school to be evacuated and may be moved to Covington when the new bus barn is completed. The church buses are not reliabl'c in that we  !

can not_ depend on them starting during cold The weather school andfrom buses the Kenton fact they will have to be brought in from some distance. until 8:30 A.M. and County would be in use from approximately 5:45 A.M.

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October 5, 1981 Pagn 2 again from approximately 2:00 P.M. until 4:15 P.M. Monday through Friday. '

We can not anticipate or rely upon an emergency situation occurring at the convenience of another school district's availability of buses.

It was announced by Mr. Alexander at a meeting with school officials on Tuesday, September 29, 1981, that a full-scale emergency evacuation exercise will not be held on November 18, 1981. The schools Committee of Nine is in direct opposition to Mr. Alexander's pu%posal that only a few buses be used in a " mock" exercise. It is our contention that we must have the necessary number of buses on the campus of each school and actually board the buses even if we do not move'them from the emergency zone area to insure the practice and procedure to follow in case of' an emergency. This procedure would not be considered a mandatory public participation on a full scale. This exercise would simply provide us with the opportunity to evacuate the boys and girls in our school district.

I trust that you and the Commission can understand the value of this procedure and will exercise your authority to provide fully for the pro-tection of our boys and girls.

A response to my concerns by October 10, 1981, would be appreciated as I have scheduled a meeting with the local and state DES on Monday October 12, 1981.

Sincerely,

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Gene Sell, Superintendent Campbell County Schools GS:pc Copies to: Troy B. Conner, Jr. , Esq. , Conner, Moore & Corber l Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. , Commonwealth of Kentucky Senator Wendell H. Ford Senator Walter D. Huddleston l Representative Larry J. Hopkins Representative Gene Snyder W.H. Dickhoner, President, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.

Charles A. Barth, Esq., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission I John Youkilis, Office of the Honorable William Gradison U.S. House of Representatives David Martin, Esq., Office of the Kentucky Attorney General Lambert Hehl, Campbell County Judge Executive Roger Steffen, Mayor, City of Alexandria ,

Ronald Strasinger, Mayor, City of Mentor Craig Martin, Kentucky Disaster Emergency Services Robert Alexander, Campbell County Disaster Emergency Services Greg Ficke, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.

David Pribble, Pendleton County Judge John Corlis, Bracken County Judge Executive Brig. Gen. Wilbur Buntin, Jr. , Exec. Dir. , Ky. DES

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