ML20039G216

Direct Testimony of Rl Sutton Addressing ZAC-ZACK Contentions 25(3) & (4).Related Correspondence

ML20039G216
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Site:	Zimmer
Issue date:	01/06/1982
From:	Sutton R ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS - ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS OF KY
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ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8201150392
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ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD cdCEII !i.iG3h(Mr C'.M:CH In the Matter of  :

CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC  : DOCKET NO. 50-358 COMPANY, et al.  :

(William H. Zimmer Nuclear  :

Power Station)  : APPLICATION FOR AN OPERATING LICENSE c)

DIRECT TESTIMONY OF ROBERT L. SUTTON ADD g ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS-ZIMMER AREA CITIZEN KENTUCK CONTENTIONS 25(3) and (4). n er .__

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J/} g .3 8 h E I2 County of Clermont ) -g- astadr an WDamme Robert L. Sutton, being first cautioned an 1D" '

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I am'the Clermont County Extension Agent, Agricultural and Community and Natural Resource Development. My business address is 76 S. Riverside Drive, Batavia, Ohio. I received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree from The Ohio State University in l'965, a Master of Agriculture Education degree from The Ohio State University in 1977, and I am a member of The Ohio State University t

Extension Service and maintain a faculty position with the College of Agriculture of The Ohio State University Extension Service.

Within Clermont. county, Ohio, there are approximately 1000 dairy cows providing milk for human consumption as milking animals.

There are 6 dairy herdsmen who are engaged in a large operation as a milk producer. There are, in addition thereto, 15 to 18 small dairy herds providing milk as.an agricultural product. As to the l 40Y 8201150392 820106 PDR ADOCK 05000358 bI (

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- .--=m six large milking herds, there would be little or no difficulty in the maintenance of feed storage and roughage or the confinement and housing of cows during and following a Zimmer Station emergency which would require corrective actions to be taken at the agri-cultural level for the protection of milking animals and feeds for the protection of the public as ultimate consumers. As to the 15 or 18 small milking cow herds, there would be difficulty in the maintenance of stored feeds, and especially the maintenance under storage of roughage, i.e., hay, and some problem to be experienced in the sheltering of the cattle during their removal from pasture.

There are several goats present in the county, generally a l few at several farms, which provide goat's milk for human con-sumption. i The monitoring and maintenance of milking goats would be a problem.

Such facilities have inadequate storage facility

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and it would be difficu.t to maintain roughage under cover.

There are several beef herds present in the county, generally w y

of 15 to 20 head herds, which would generally involve what one r..

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were 12,400 beef cattle, including calves, present in Clermont County. 5 I am unaware of any feeder lot productions with beef E cattle. - w Beef cattle present'would be maintained on pasture, W k

generally without sheltering facility for the animal and generally .

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hays.

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shelter circumstance for such beef cattle, as well as storage facility for hays and grains. Several of these herds would be without the facility for covered feeds and shelter of animals.

As of January 1, 1981 there were 5,400 swine present in Clermont County. There are a few generally large swine producers who would have the physical circumstance for confinement and sheltering of the animals and the storage in closed container of grain. There are several small pork producers, running a few animals as a part-time venture, or in combination with other livestock, and of those producers there would be several that would not have the physical availability of confining and sheltering the animals or in the storing of feeds.

There is one sheep producer, maintaining 60 to 100 ewes, in the county and the remaining sheep population would be located within the county at farms which would not have the facility to shelter sheep or to maintain feeds in closed containers; the n,ature of sheep production being based primarily upon the avail-ability of pasturing with extremely limited. utilization of sheltering.

In dairy cattle production, this office would have to rely l upon the Ohio Department of Agriculture, with which this office would work in cooperation during a Zimmer Station accident, for the minitoring of milk. At this time, and at the current level of the planning stage, it is difficult to say whether the Ohio Department of Agriculture has the capabilities and personnel i

required to take monitoring samples of the milk within the required time limitations, following a Zimmer related accident, especially 3

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if that accident is severe and its consequences of a duration of two or more weeks. The Ohio Department of Agriculture will be provided with helicopter use for the purposes of transporting milk

, samples from this area to Columbus, Ohio for analysis. The dairy farmer, in most instances, has the capabilities for the storage of bulk milk at the farm site for a period of two days, and within that period of time milk samples would have to be conducted, in which the general practice is to milk dairy cattle twice daily, and in some instances three times. daily where higher production limits are sought t'o be obtained.

The monitoring and supervision of goat's milk for human consumption is a problem. I am unaware of whether goat's milk is transported within or without this county for retail sales and subsequent human consumption. There is little testing done for goat's milk, there being two goat production establishments in this county which are tested. The remaining goat's milk present ih this county is consumed at the farm of its source or from farm site related sales, and possibly in some other sales relation-ships.

There is further the difficulty to be experienced in the i

Clermont County farmer following the protective action directions from'this office. The ability to follow and to continue to follow protective action directions will be directly dependent on the severi y and duration of the accident at the Zimmer Station. The majority of farmers will maintain the protective actions as s

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., . . . i directed if the duration of the necessity to take protective action is short. In the event that the protective action duration is of a two-week or longer period, the large producer, having the facilities, will continue to follow the protective action directions. However, the marginal producer is not in a position, due to his facilities, to continue to handle the situation and to follow the protection action directions and will conclude that it will be all right to return the animals to pasture before it is advisable to do so.

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Rob rt L. Sutton Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of January, 1982.

b MAXINE 5. LOUX Notary Pu%c. State of Ohio My Commlaske bpJrgs Jan. 2% 126 e

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