ML20039G074

Direct Testimony of s Slemmer Addressing ZAC-ZACK Contentions 20c(5),23(1)-(5) & 24(10).Related Correspondence

ML20039G074
Person / Time
Site:	Zimmer
Issue date:	01/08/1982
From:	Slemmer S ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS - ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS OF KY
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NUDOCS 8201150256
Download: ML20039G074 (6)

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ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD '82 JAN 12 P3:27 In the Matter of  :

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CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC  : DOCKET NO. 50-558' i l COMPANY, et al.  :

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l Power Station)  : APPLICATION FOR AN OPERATING LICENSE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF SANDRA SLEMMER ADDRESSIN

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Sandra Slemmer, being cautioned and sworn, as G) state as follows.

I am the Executive Director of the Clermont Metropolitan Housing Authority and my business address is 65 South Market Street, Batavia, Ohio. I am a graduate of William Smith College with a Bachelor Degree in Arts, major Anthropology, minor in Sociology, 1963.

My employment commenced with the Clermont Metropolitan Housing Authority January 1, 1977, at which time I was a Housing Specialist.

In the summer of 1978 I became the Assistant Director of the agency and on September 1, 1981 I became Executive Director of the agency.

The persors to whom this agency providea services are low to moderate income individuals, or families,and for whom housing is found and the rental subsidized through the Department of Housin'g and Urban Development. The units provided for rental to 'these persons are public housing in which this agency is the owner-lessor of the property leased for a residence and private landlords providing rental property qualifying for rental to persons provided service by this ok k$ 0 -

agency. This agency currently supervises the rental of 338 units consist'ing of rental by private landlord and agency-owned property ,

rental. An additional 65 agency-owned units will be available f'or rental in April, 1982, the complex being located in Bethel, Ohio, in which the units will be rented to the elderly and handicapped, -

seven of the units being equipped for handicapped residency.

There are currently 100 units supervised or owned by this

- agency which are located within the 10 mile radius of the Zimmer Station and being situated in the Villiages of New' Richmond, Bethel, Moscow and the Townships of Ohio,' Monroe and Washingt'on. In

- addition to the county-wide 338 units currently rented there is a waiting list of approximately 322 families seeking housing super-vised by'this agency. ,

The ability of the person-family services by this agency to, take protective action, especially evacuation, is of concern to this

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agency in the event that it may be required in the future due to a Zimmer Station accident. On January 4 and 5, 1982, this agency conducted a random survey of the families serviced by this agency, including families on the waiting list. 330 families were used in the rdndom survey which constituted 7,81 people. The following inform-ation was obtained:

number of families with a car 184 number of families without a car 146, percentage of families with a car 56%

percentage of families without a car 44%

percentage of elderly and disabled with a car 47%

percentage of elderly and disabled without a car - 53%.

The survey includes approximately 50 percent for each of families currently residing in agency serviced housing and families on the

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the waiting list.

Approximately 76 percent of the families serviced by this e agency are unemployed. It would be exceptional if there is more than one motor vehicle present in any family unit possessing a vehicle.

Of the families serviced 74 percent receive public assistance.

Approximately 12 to 15 persons currently living in supervised housing are illiterate. having executed their written leases by the mark "X".

This agency has obtained a government grant to assist the individuals serviced in obtaining public assistance, to clarify written communications from the Department of Energy and the Welfare Depart-ment, employing the device of rewriting materials received by the families serviced and resubmitting it to them, and to conduct oral explanations to the families. This grant was obtained because many of the families could not obtain public assistance without this agency's intervention to instruct and guide them.

It has been my experience in the matters described above, as well as written communications directed to the families from this agency, that numerous telephone calls would be received inquirying what the communication meant. By way of example, a repetitive situation is the requirement that the housing be inspected annually and this agency transmits a letter to the family advising that their unit is scheduled to be inspected at a stated date and time, which results in telephone calls inquirying what the notice means.

It is extremely difficult to achieve a means of communication and related following of directions by the majority of families. At the institution of agency service the family is presented a two-hour indoctrination program, including an explanation of how the 6

program works, an explanation of the written lease and its impor-tance, the necessity to place appropriate'information in simple forms, and the family's responsibility in the program to continue to receive

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its benefits. Papers are returned incorrectly prepared; an inability to understand whether a unit qualifies for housing based on entering figures in appropriate sections and conducting simple addition and substraction based upon the rental and utilities allowance, are commonplace in the administration of the program.

There is a severe inability to follow simple directions necessary to remain in the program. Persons are instructed that in order to remain on the waiting list for housing as it becomes avail-able, they must telephone this agency each six months and'to advise this agency of address or telephone change. If the individual' fails to telephone each six-month interval, or if the agency cannot com-municate with them by mail or telephone because of change without advising the agency, they must be automatically removed from the list and, upon a new request for assistance, be placed at the end of the list. At,least a third of the applicants fail to follow the instructions to remain active on the list and thus are excluded and return to the last place after directions have been given and rein-

- forced and with the knowledge that it takes two to three years to obtain a certificate for rent payment by advancing on the waiting list.

Families currently occupying program housing are advised and reinforced with the information that it is vital to their retention in the program that their units must be inspected yearly and if there is a failure to' inspect due to the inability of the inspector to gain unit entry that they must be removed from the program. Again, A

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the experience has been that importance written notices are ignored and disregarded and inspection appoitments missed, averaging 4 to 6 per 20 units inspected, resulting in placing continuation in the program in jeopardy.

It will be most difficult for the families serviced by this agency to follow directions in the event of a Zimmer emergency. I have briefly scanned the " Circle of Safety" publication and based upon agency experience most of the persons serviced by this agency will begin to read the document, but the majority will not read it.

They wil) stop reading the publication because they don't understand what is being communicated. The circumstances are simply that written directions will not be followed; better response will occur with verbal directions, but this will be limited where the individual does not have the opportunity to ask questions.

Not caly are there problems present in the communications area -- very few will follow the directions to place a notification verification at their residence in the event of evacuation -- but this population,'in most part, is unable to evacuate: first, because approximately one-half do not have a private vehicle within which to evacuate and to my knowledge no provisions have_been made to ident-ify these people or to cope with their travel needs; and, two, they generally do not have gasoline to drive their vehicle any distance.

It is commonplace to be advised at this agency that they cannot come to the office until the first of the month because they have no money for gasoline.

Because of my experiences generally related above as examples and by no means exhaustive, this segment of the population cannot e

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promptly evacuate for their own safety. .They will in numerous instances block evacuation roadways because of the simple lac,k of gasoline to evacuate. They will be most prone to panic and to take action as they deem necessary for their self preservation, including probable societal misconduct to the point of being criminal _.

A major deficiency is the iriabiTity;of this segment. of the

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involved population to evacuate without assistance and I have not been directed to any planning formula which attempts to provide assistance. This in many respects applies to the general population within the affected area. One must not lose sight of the anxiety present wichin the community by its fear cf Zimmer accident, based upon the wide publication in the media of inspection failure during 4

construction and of construction flaws resulting in the imposition

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of fine lodged against the utility constructing this plant. A basic trust has been violated and once violated in the event of accident panic will overtake the rational mind resulting in the inability to evacuate orderly and without incident and unaccounted for problems of magnitude.

An emergency plan' based upen assumed rational conduct, absent secondary plans assuming irrational conduct and appropriate coping, does not consider either the segment of the affected population of which I have had experience, or for that matter the general affected population. The plan provides no reasonable anticipation of being capable of being implemented during a 'mmer emergency.

I h@& . Nb SANURA SLERMER'

' Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of January, MAXINE S. LOUX Notary Pur;c. stat 3 of CM

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