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Ucs/Ny Pirg First Set of Interrogatories to & Request for Documents from Rockland County
ML20052D158
Person / Time
Site: Indian Point  Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 04/28/1982
From: Blum J, Holt J, Potterfield A
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, NEW YORK, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
To:
ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY
References
EP, ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8205060322
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BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK ) Docket Nos. 50-247 SP

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POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK April 28, 1982 (Indian Point Unit 3) ) i UCS/NYPIlU'S FIRST SET OF INTERBOGA70 RIES TO

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The New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. and the _Unidst:of, I982A on ,

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Concerned Scientists serves on Rockland County the first det o % .m,bhMS j interrogatories and request for production of doctments that A,- ljiel A sworn response to than nust be provided to the New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. and the Union of Concerned Scientists at 5 Beekman Street, New York, New York 10038 in accordance with the terms of 10 C.F.R. 2.740(b) and 2.741(d) and in accordance with the Order of the Atanic Safety and Licensing Board of April 23, 1982. If the answer to any question is not known when the response is filed, the answer must be provided as soon as the missing information hvv w s available.

As used in the interrogatories and request for production of doctments, the following definitions apply:

1. "Rockland County" is meant to include its officers, agents, enployees, and consultants. Q

" Facts" include the calculational or other assumptions, if any, S 2.

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3. " Include" and " including," as used in these interrogatories, mean

" including, but not limited to."

4. "Docunent" means any handwritten, typed, printed, recorded or graphic matter, however pMM_ or repicAM, including material stored for use in autcznatic data processing systerns, whether or not in the possession, custody or control of the County and whether or not cla4M_ to be privileged against discovery on any ground, including: reports; records; lists; memoranda; oor-respondence; telegrams; scMlaa; pMis ei s; t sound recordings; films; hand, machine and conputer calculations; cxxtputer codes; data; and written statements of witnesses or other persons having knowledge of the facts.
5. " Studies or observations" include physical, stpirical, calculational, assuiptional, and other types of work whether recorded in writing or not.
6. " Emergency plans" or "the plans" refers to the Radiological Dnergency Response Plans for the county and, where applicable, for New York State.

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Plaam have the following set of questions answered by the chief executive [

for the County:

1. Identify all individual (s) , that you intend to present  !

as witnesses in this proceeding on the subject matter of any of the order's questions. The identification should include the following:

a. What is the person's full name?
b. What is the person's address?
c. What is the person's present or last known position and  ;

business affiliation?

d. What is the person's field of expertise? ,
e. If the person is not a county employee,' dn what date did the comaty first contact or consult the person?
f. What are the dates of all subsequent contacts or consult-ations with the person?
g. Were any reports made to the county by the person?
h. If the answer to question is anything other than a simple negative,, indicate for each such report:

(1) the date of the report; ,

(2) whether the report was written or oral; and (3) whether the report was submitted by the person while acting in an advisory capacity, as a prospective witness, or both.

i. What is the subject matter of the witness' testimony?
j. What are the facts and/or opinions to which the witness will testify and the grounds for each fact or opinion?
2. Provide a reasonable description of all documents that will be relied upon in the testimony presented by each witness. ,

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3. 20 prepared the radiological emergency response plans for your county?
4. Did you participate in the developnent of the emergency plans for .

your cotmty? If so, please describe this participation.

5. To what extent and in what specific ways were your conments or suggestions about emergency planning for your county incorporated into the emergency plans?_
6. 'Ib what extent and in what specific ways were your conments or suggestions about emergency planning for your county mitted frm the emergency plans?
7. Is it your position that the emergency plans prepared for your county are, in their present form, adequate and sufficient to protect the health and safety of the residents of your county? Explain fully.
8. Do the emergency plans provide Hate protection for all residents of your count.y, or are there special population grotps that are inadequately provided for in the plans? Plea w explain fully.

. 9. mat are the major problems with the emergency plans for your county? Please be specific as to which preres cannot be carried out given the Cototy's present structure and resources.

10. Please identify any and all asstmptions about your county- its physical plant; its topographical features; its transportation capabilities; its employees, residents and transients; its special institutions and facili-ties - dtich you believe to be erroneous in the emergency plans. Explain fully.  :
11. Plaae identify those problens or deficiencies in the energency

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plans for youir county Wiich you believe can be resolved through the provision of added funding by the state and/or the Indian Point licensees. Explain.

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12. Plamaa identify those pre =a or deficiencies in the energency plans for your comty Wtich you believe could not be resolved merely by the provision of improved funding by the state and/or the Indian Point licensees.
Explain.
13. Is it your position that NBC/PEm energency plaming guidelines, rules and regulations are adequate to protect the health and safety of your county's residents? Ple na explain in detail.
14. Is it your position that the roads in your cotrity are capable of I

insuring a rapid evacuation of your county's residents if nemaary?

15. Is it your position that residents of your county outside the 10-mile evacuation zone could be %9tely protected by ad hoc emergency l

=aamnus?

16. mat specific changus in the emergency plans would you suggest?

Please be specific about changes in such areas as: authority, jurisdiction and coordination between utility, nunicipal, county, state and federal officials; sine and shape of evacuation zone; ir4G=t accident aaaaa=nant canahility for tiv dasty (on- and off-site); independent off-site radiation monitoring Ma.1.1'ty; notif1 cation procedures, and so forth. M inin fully.

17. H at swJic ocnnents and suggestions do you have, if any, about the piblic information brodmres distributed by the Indian Point licenaapa to the residents of your county?
18. What further measures would you propose to increase public awateress of the emergency plans, understanding of the public information brochures, and knowledge about the risks of an accident at lidian Point?
19. Provide all phone logs, reports, surveys and h-its in your possession that relate to the'public information brochures.
20. 14nt is your assessnent of the successes and failures of the March 3,1982 emergency preparedness exercise for Indian Point? Please discuss in detail and provide your evaluation of nunicipal, county, state, federal and licensee performance.
21. What is your position on the intervenors' representatives who r*wrved the Indian Point exercise on March 3,1982 in accordance with the terms of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board?. Please include in your response any ocuments you have regarding specific effects on the drill, if any, that you attribute- to the intervenor observers.
22. Provide all phone logs, reports, surveys and th -- nts.in your possession that relate to the March 3,1982 exercise and to the performance of the alert-notification system during that exercise.
23. Is it the County's position that the on-site and off-site emergency plans for Indian Point should be required.to be in full conpliance with the federal emergency planning rules and regulations as set forth in 10 TR 50, Appendix E,10 GR 50.47 and NUREG-0654, Rev.1, as a condition of operation for the Indian Point plants?
24. If yes, do you believe that the Indian Point licensees should not be allowed to operate their plants when any ccuponent of the emergency plans, on- or off-site, are not in full conpliance with federal rules and regulations? .

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25. If no, which energency planning neasures do you believe need not-be met as a condition of operation for the Indian Point plants?
26. Are there any additional emergency planning requirements the County believes should be inposed upon the Indian Point licensees as a con-dition of operation? Please list and describe fully.

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27. m at specific plans exist to notify the public beyond the 10-mile EPZ of an accident at Indian Point and to keep them informed of the travel of a radiation pime that might affect their health and satety?
28. How will the movement of evacuees through your county beyond the 10-mile EPZ affect the ability of the people in the 10-mile EPZ to affect their own protective actions following an off-site emergency from Indian Point. Please explain in detail.
29. What plans does the County have to provide protection for residents of the county beyond 10-miles who may ome in contact with people and vehicles contaminated by radiation during the course of evacuation procedures? Please explain in detail.
30. Does the County Executive consider " spontaneous" evacuation outside the 10-mile EPZ a possibility? A likelihood? How would this affect evacuation of residents from within the 10-cile EPZ? Is it the County Executive's opinion that the issue of " spontaneous evacuation" beyond 10 miles has been adequately considered in the energency plans for your county? Please explain fully l 1

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31. Have you, as the chief executive for your county, signed onto or endorsed the radiological emergency response plans for your county?

If not, please expluin fully why not and under what conditions you will sign onto the plans.

In addition to anwering the above interrogatories, please respond to any of the following questions asked of the County's department heads which the County Executive deems are relevant to his/her responsibilities.

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Planae have the following interrogatories answered individually by each Health, of the following departments or their closest equivalent departments:

Hospitals, Transportation, Public Works, Social Services, Disaster and Emer-gency Services, Police and/or Sheriff, and the Fire Ccamission , as well as by any other department, agency or official having a key responsibility in the Radiological. Bnergency Response Plan , including the County Executive where appropriate. f

1. How nuch contact did your departmcnt have with the consultants hired by the utilities during the preparation of the emergency plans?
2. To what extent and in what specific ways were your departnent's connents or suggestions about emergency planning for your county incorporated into the emergency plans? Please be specific and explain fully.
3. 'Ib what extent and in what specific ways were your department's o'amments or suggestions cunitted frcan the emergency plans? Please be specific and explain fully.
4. Does the head of your department understand his/her own and his/her department's duties as assigned in the plans or do the plans contain anbiguities or contradictions with respect to such duties? Please explain.

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5. Are the duties assigned to your department appropriate for its expertise? Do you feel that the role outlined in tPa plans is the appropriate one for your department? Please explain.
6. Do you have the legal authority to carry out the duties assigned to your department? Please explain.
7. Is your department adequately equipped to carry out its assigned tasks?

If not, what is currently available and what additional equipment is needed?

Please be specific.

8. Has your department received funding for aMitional equipnent, staff, or training necessary for carrying out radiological disaster relief efforts assigned to you? Have these funds, if provided, been adequate? How nuch do you estimate your department will require in additional funding to carry out the functions assigned to you in the plans? How and when do you expect this additional funding need to be met?
9. To what extent does your department depend on volunteers? Could this create any special problems during a radiological emergency? Please discuss in detail.
10. In you anticipate any particular difficulties in getting emergency personnel to stay and serve rather than to take protection for themselves or to seek to guarantee protection for their families? Please be specific about what these difficulties might be and how you propose to handle them. Please also indicate whether your responses to this question are based upon your own judgment or upon an actual survey of your personnel. If you have not undertaken such a survey, do you have any plans to do so? Do you intend to secure written agreenents frun your personnel that they will perform their 1

duties according to the energency plans despite any perceived conflict betmen these duties and the i_n-diate needs of their families?

11. Miat auarwamits have been made for the care of emergency workers' ,

familias during a radiological emergency?

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12. What is the current status of your department's ocxmunications system. Describe. Is this system adequate for performing the duties assigned to your department in the emergency plans? If not, describe its shb.wdngs and indicate idiat inprovements are needed. How do you anticipate securing these inprovements? How soon?
13. If called to duty during off-hours, how long (approximately) will it take the head of your department and other department enployees or volun-teers to reach the County Bnergency Operations Center or whatever other location is appropriate to inplement emergency efforts?
14. Wat problems, if any, do you see in the present description of the 10-mile EPZ (Dnergency Planning Zone)? Should it be larger? Smaller? Does it exclude major population centers, institutions, hospitals, schools or other facilities that should be included in the emergency plan?
15. Who is the person in the department responsible on a day-to-day basis for ensuring the capability of the department to perform the duties assigned to it under the radiological response plan for your county?
16. What is the professional background and training of that person?
17. Has that person received any special training in radiological emergency procedures? When? Wiere? Who conducted the training? What was the extent of the training? How many hours or days? What subjects were covered? Was any literature or other written information distributed as part of the training? Please list-titles and/or descriptions.

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18. Who else in the Depart 2nent has received gvv ial radiological einu.pcy training? W&th respect to each individual listed please answer all parts of question #17.
19. Has any effort been made to ccrmunicate with the consultants who prepared the radiological emergency plans your concerns about the plans as they affect your Department? Who made that contact? To whm? What was the result?
20. What is the number of personnel in your department and how many of these people does the department believe it could count on in the event of a radiological emergency? What is the basis for this belief?
21. What is the nunber of staff needed to fulfill the responsibilities of your depart 2nent in a radiological emergency? What steps, if any, have been taken to ensure that adequate personnel dll be available to the departsnent in an emergency?
22. In what specific instances in the plans do the lines of authority cross frm county into nunicipal govw.mamt and thus create a proble for ensuring that responsible lines of authority are clearly understood?
23. In what specific instances in the plans do lines of authority cross frm the county government into the private sector and thus create a problem for ensuring that the lines of authority are clearly understood?  ;

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24. What statutes would have to be amended to provide emergency powers to the Omnissioner of your department to allow him to make denands of local govern-ments and to ensuce the fulfillment of responsibilities under the plans? ]

Have any steps been taken to begin consideration of new legislation? ,

25. In what ways do the plans fail to address the basic problems of human response to a radiological emergency, and in what ways could the plans be trproved '

to take into account the foreseeable problems of gaining the cooperation of l

Department personnel and the general public?

26. What, if anything, is being required of your department, either inplicitly or explicitly, which your department cannot provide, regardless of the funds that could be allocated for it?
27. What do you estimate to be the costs to your department incurred during the preparation of radiological energency response mpahilities?
28. Is the radiological emergency response plan a good working docant?

If not, why not? What could be done to inprove it? What is wrong with it that could not be inproved?

29. How would a radiological disaster differ from any other sort of disaster !

your department might have to aml with? How would any of these differences I affect your general energency response m,mhilities?

30. What letters of agreenent, other than those listed in the August,1981 version of the plans, have been obtained frcm individmla and organizations, both public and private, assigned duties in the plans?
31. Have any other methods been used to determine the willingness and ability of the above-mentioned individuals and organizations ot participate as outlined in the plans? If so, please specify the methods and the full extent ,

of their application.

32. What criteria will be used for determining the most efficient and most productive use (in terms of pro *W the public health and safety) of available services and resources should such services and reosurces hw a n wholly ,

or partially unavailable or should such services and resources be inadequate to respond to a particular energency situation?

33. Have resources reccanended and available ever been tabulated against  ;

any specific hypothetical accident consequence scenario to determine adequacy?

If not, how were resource baselines determined? -

34. Wat is your assessment of the successes and failures of the March 3, 1982 emergency preparedness drill for Indian Point? Please discuss in detail.  ;

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35. Planaa identify those problems or deficiences in the emergency plan that relate to your department which you believe can be resolved through the provision of additional funding by the State and/or the Indian Point utilitie.s.

Explain your response.

36. Please identify those problems or deficiencies in the emergency plan that rulate to your department which you believe cannot be resolved through the provision of additional funding by the State and/or the Indian Point utilities. Explain your response fully.
37. Please consider all the probl e s you have identified in the plans that relate to your department's specific responsibilities and provide a tine-table for eliminating these probims. In answering this question, assune for the moment that your department has been provided with all the funding you feel you require. In other words, we are interested in your time estimates for the non-monetary factors involved in achieving a full state of readiness for your department to carry out the responsibilities assigned to.it in the energency plans.
38. What specific conments and suggestions do you have about the public information brochures distributed to the residents of the 10-mile EPZ by the Indian Point utilities? 'Ihough we are interested in any and all of your conments about the brochure, we hope you will give special attention to matters that might relate specifically to areas of concern to your department.

In addition to the above, please have each department or agency head answer the specific questions addressed to that department or its closest equivalent which follow.

Please have the following questions answered by the Department of Disaster and Bnergency Services:

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1.What is your departments assessment of sheltering capabilities in your county? What research has been done to make this sort of assessment? If this sort of assessment has not been made, how can the department advise sheltering without knowing its effectiveness?

2. What kinds of personnel rarliation monitoring devices does the department possess? What quantity of each type exists? Is this sufficient? Is this equipment checked and maintained regularly? How bften? By whom?
3. What types of radio-protective clothing does the departrent have? In what quantities? What types and quantities would it be advisable for the department to have?
4. What will be done with the tear-offs frcm the public information panphlets which will be (have been) sent in by those people who may require assistance during a radiological energency? Will any attempt be made beforehand to correlate those needs of assistance with existing capabilities? If capabilities do not meet needs, when will the decisions about who will receive assistance and who will not be made? Who will make these decisions? How will they be assured of not being held responsible for those deaths and injuries which occur due to the allocation of resources elsewhere?
5. What are the county-wide frequencies presently in existance for ccmnunication with all county emergency services? Are these adequate? If not, is there any way to make more available?
6. Have any provisions been made for having county personnel involved with Indian Point onsite assessment and notification?
7. What is the status of the alert notification siren system? Please be specific. How many sirens are known to function adequately? What problems exist with those that do not? What is being done to assure alert notification capabilities
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i to those areas that cannot be adequately otrvered by sirens alone? Has it been j de6mbed which areas those are? If so, was the county involved in such a ada,.mination? If not, will such a determination be made and will the county be involved? If so, how and when?

8. Does the Department of Disaster and Bnergency Services believe that the public information brochures prepared by the utility were adequate? If not, what should have been different? What should have been included that was not?
9. Does the Department of Disaster and Bnergency Services find that the method of distribution of the above-mentioned public information brochures was adequate? If not, how should it have been done differently?
10. What additional measures does the Department of Disaster and Bnergency Services believe should be taken to adequately prepare the public for a radiological energency? Who would be involved in handling these additional measures?
11. What percent of the population within the 10 mile EPZ within your county is likely to require mass care?
12. List and describe the decontamination facilities, other than those in hospitals , which are available. How are they presently equipped?
13. What is the method to be employed for periMically estimating the total population exposure to radiation during an emergency?
14. Are there any objective criteria upon which to base decisions regarding the return of the general public to areas affected by a nuclear power plant accident at Indian Point?
15. List the significant equignent and the staffing to be in place in i the Bnergency Operations Center.during an energency. Which of this equipnent and staffing wil be in place before an emergency 7

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16. What protection is c.vailahlo for emergency workers in order for those workers to safely perform accident assessments and other activities which require direct exposure to rarliation?
17. liow will the public beyond the 10 mile radius EPZ be infonrad of the travel of a pitme?
18. liow will the movment of evacuees through the 50 mile radius EPZ affect the ability of the people in this area to inpleent their own s.vt.ection in the event of exposure to the pltme?
19. Does the Department of Disaster and anergency Services consider

" spontaneous" evacuation outside the 10 mile EPZ a possibility? A likelihood?

liow would this affect a general evacuation? Is it the Department's position that this has been a&quately considered in the emergency plans?

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Plamaa have the folllowing questions answered by the Department of Health:

1. Have any efforts been made to re-assign the duties in the energency plans which may have been inaan.wiately assigned to the Department of Health, l

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responsibilities in these matters?

2. What arrangenents have been made for the use of lahnratory facilities for radiological analysis of samples of food, milk, water, soil, air, etc. as part of the duty of the Department of Health to provide pubdc health and environ-mental services, in the event that State lahnratories are suddenly unavailable or insufficient? List the facilities that are available. Have any agreements been put in writing? If not, why not? What efforts have been made, or are expected to be made by the Department of Health or the County to 4 T 1- nt these provisions of the plans?
3. Wat arrangements have been made for the use of w=u.yacy vehicles on a 24-hour basis as required by the Department of Health'to carry out its duties under the plans? Have any agreenents been put in writing? If not, why not?

mat efforts have been made or are Wusa to be made by the Department of Health i

or the County to inplanent these provisions of the plans?

4. What arrangements have been made for short-term storage and ultimate disposal of material contaminated with radina M vity as a result of an accident at Indian Point? mat facilities are available? Have any agreements for their 1 .

use been put in writing? If not, why not? What efforts have been made by the Department of Her lth or the County to inplement this element of ww@cy planning?

f 5. bt provisions have been made by the Department of Health for the i i . l provision of adequate supplies of food, milk, and water and for the protection l i

of such supplies as required by the edg&cy plans? Please answer the additional l l

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6. Miat institutions which may have to be evacuated during a radiological i

energency are under the jurisdiction of the %rtment of Health? Describe the 4

ptwisions e for evacuating all of those listed. What problems are foreseen 4

in carrying out such evacuations? What additional measures would have to be carried out in advance in order for successful evacuations to be possible?

7. Please list and describe any other problems the Department of Health foresees in carrying out its role as defined under the energency plans?
8. What is the status of asa .psy persmnel radiological mmitoring nanahilities? Is adaquate equipnent available for this? Please describe what 1

kind of aqnit =mt.is availahla and in what quantities. Is it checked and maintained regularly? By wh m? Has county personnel been trained in its use?

Which personnel? Trained by wh m?

9. Miat is the Department of Health's assessnent of sheltering capabilities i

in the county? Please be as specific as possible. What research has been done to aamartain such information?

10. What public shelters exist in your county which could give adequate protection from ionizing radiation in the event of any foreseeable accident at Indian Point? How many people could such shelters house? Do these shelters contain necessary supplies such as food, medicine, water and haMing?
11. What is the position of the Department of Health on the provision i of potassiun iodide to the residents of the EPZ for Indian Point?
12. What is the position of the Departsnent of Health on the provision of j I

potassian iodide for radiological energency workers? State all opinions and docunents on which the position of the Department is based and identify the person or persons who fornulated the opinions and/or developed the hunants, for this question and question i11.

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Plaaaa have the following questims answered by the nsivartment of Hospitals:

1. Have the emergency duties of the Department of Hospitals beendrafted?
2. Would it be.useful to have letters and descriptive packets on the subject l of radiation and large-acala radiological annirlants sent to hospital and nursing l h me personnel? Has this been done? Will it be done? Why not? Will meetings  ;

and conferences on these subjects take place? i 4.Have signedJagreements been obtained fran hospital and nursing hane personnel?

If yes, plaaaa enclose sanple copies and list those persons for whan they have been obtained. If not, will they be obtained in the future? When? '

5. What reemmendations would you make to the baMin=W living outside i

of institutions for preparatica for a radiological emergency?  !

6. Has a emputer system capabla of providing location and status of dependent  !

persons, available beds or care facilities, transportation, equipnent, alternate j route and traffic patterns been obtained? If not, when will it be? [

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7. Have tone alert or plectron devices for rapid energency notification (

been installed in all hospitals in the EPZ? If not, when will they be installed? I If so, are they all working? When were they last tested? f

8. By what means will you collect and update a list of those people who will require assistance during an evacuatim? l
9. Please list all hospitals and maMeal facilities which might '

i receive patients contaminated and/or injured during a radiological energency [

at Indian Point. Please have all'of these facilities fill out the questionnaire 1

in attachment A. In Westchester, this should include at least the following ,

l facilities: Mt. Vernon Hospital; Tuxedo Msnorial Hospital; Westchester County  !

f Medical Center; Dobb's Ferry Hospital; New Rochelle Hospital Medical Center;  !

Northern Westchester Hospital Center; Peekskill Comunity Hospital; St. Agnes l Hospital; St. John's Riverside Hospital; St. Joseph's Hospital; United Hospital; White Plains Medical Center; and Yonkers General Hospital. In Ibckland this list

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should include at least the following facilities: Eli n W Horton Memorial; Nyack Hospital; Doctor's Sunnyside Hospital; St. Francis Hospital of Port Jervis; and Good Samaritan Hospital.

10. For any deocmtamination facilities not covered by question 99, please have the survey in attachment A filled out as ocmpletely as possible for them as well.
11. For all hospitals in your jurisdiction which canoeivably could have to evacuate, please answer the following questions:
a. To where will the people in the hospital be evacuated?
b. Do them receiving hospitals know it? Are there written apacummits?

Please provide copies of any such agreements.

c. 20 will pay for the evacuation?
d. Ibw many evacuation transport vehicles will be rwwhl? How many of each sort?
e. Wat special adaptations nust be made to these vehicles? Can they carry wheelchairs, stretchers, etc.?
f. If the facility does not own enough vehicles, frun where will u.ay be obtained? How much will this cost? Who will pay?'
g. Is there a designated staff which will remain and serve in an emergency?

Is this in their contracts? If so, please provide a copy. If not, is there any other way that their participation is assured? mat? Will splayees be paid i

overtime?

12. For any interrogatories that may have been inaan.vg.iately addressed to the' Department of Hospitals, please redirect the questions to the Department of Health or whatever other body in the county that can most appropriately answer them.

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i GENERAL QUESTIWS ABOUT THE EM!BGENCY DEPARDENT ,

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1. mat is your anergency Department's total patient nar=-ity?

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2. How many major trauma patients can your Bnergency Department i

handle if a ntstel of than arrive at the same time?  :

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4. How many nurses staff the Bnergency Department at one time during the:

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5. Have you or your Bnergency Department staff had in-service training on the managemnt of ionizing radiation and/or patient hiAtion
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YES NO DCE'T ENOW If YES, plane fill out the list below:

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6. Have you or your staff had any other training pertinent to the management of ionizing rarliaticn and/or decontamination? ,

YES 10 DON'T ENOW If YES, please fill out the list below:

Description of f of staff IE:s;irdi of Dates training trained training Phys. Nurses Other (in hours)

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7. 'Ib the best of your knowl@, how anny of your Beargency Department staff are competent in the numwraart, of ionizing radiation injury and decantamination r -- twes?

6 campetent Physirfans Nurses Other

8. 'Ib the best of your knowledge, how prepared is your staff to annage a najor rMin1@r=1 disaster? (nore than 5 persons with radiation injury) cracrz aa: massa 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 lbt at all 'Ibtally prepared prepared

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i DEGNUNDATICN PROCEDURES

9. e Does your @rtment'have a written s iccol for decantanination Prrvwhwes?

YES NO DON'T ENOW If YES, please include a copy of the s elecol with this survey.

If YES, 9a. Have the decontamination s< v tires ever been prac+iM?

YES NO DCN'T ENOW If YES, please fill out the table below:

Dates # of par +4Mnants

  • Physicians Nurses Others 9b. In your estimation, is this plan feasible at this time with your present facility?

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10. Do you have a written pM1 for the et of a major radiolarrir=1 disaster?

YES X) DON'T 100f If YES, planna include a copy of the phl with this survey.

If YES,4 10a. Has this disaster plan ever been practiced?

YES NO DCM'T 100f If YES, plamaa fill out the table below:

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11. Has your anergency Department ever been contacted by anyone from the county or frtzn the Bnergency Response Planning Cbunittee about the ,

Indian Point Response Plan?

DON'T KNOW j YES NO If YES, please indicate what was involved with this contact in the space below:  ;

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12. Are you aware of your role as a hospital emergency facility in the currently proposed Indian Point Response Plan?

YES NO DON'T KNOW ap

13. Is your hospital designated as a receiving hospital or as an evacuation hospital in that plan? (check one)

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14. Are decontamination procedures clearly posted in your Dnergency Department?

YES }O DON'T IMOW If YES, plea::e include a copy with this survey.

15. Wo is/are considered the itost skilled person (s) in dealing with ionizing radiation injury in your hospital?

Nane Titi.d Title Rune Re Title

16. ibuld patients need to be transferred fr a your hospital to another facility,if they were suffering from an ionizing radiation injury?

YES NO DCN'T 100W 16a. If YES, to what hospital would your patients be tranferred '

if they were suffering fr m an ionizing radiation injury?

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17. Do you have the facilities to provide an auxilliary entrance to the Diergency Department for use by contaminated patients?

YES NO DON'T KNOW

18. Do you have an isolation room in the Dnergency Department?

YES NO DON'T 100W

19. Do you have the capacity to isolate one section of your Dieu.pcf Department to be used as a contaminated and buffer area?

YES NO DON'T KNOW

20. Do you have a decontamination table in the Dndrgency Department on which patients can be washed and fran which contaminated water can drain into a leaded recepticle?

YES NO DON'T100W 20a. If YES, How many decontamination tables are there in your Emergency Department?

20b. Approximately how nany feet is it fran the emergency room door which would be used in a radiological emergency to the decontamination table?

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21. Do you have decontamination showers in the Bnergency Boom?

YES NO DON'T 1007 IfYES,4 21a. Ibw many Decontamination showers are in your Ernapcy Department?

21b. Does the water from the showers drain into a la w holding tank?

YES E DON'T ENOW 21c. If YES, what is the capacity of the ho1HUig tank? (in gallons)

Don't know

22. Do you have lW containers for the disposal of contaminated arHclan?

YES NO DON'T 1007 If YES: h 22a. How many lW containers do you j have? ,

22b. W at is the total holding capacity of the containers? (in gallons)

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23. Do you have a disaster cabinet containing the supplies neaaary for treatment and decontamination in the event of a radiologimi esnergency?

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24. Please indicate the nunber (if any) of the following protective equipnent that you have available in the Eumpcy Departnent .

- for use by your staff in the event of a radiological emergency.

(Please enter 0 for none and D.K. for don't know).

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Protective masks Respirators Protective boots Warning Markers Absorbent floor covering Personal Dosimeters i

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25. Do you have any radiation survey instrunents?

YES 10 DON'T ENOW If YES, please otmplete the following tables TYPE i of staff latest 9 of Date last Calibration with know- CALIBRNFICE/ instrunents tested date ledge to RAK E (mo./yr.) (mo./yr.)

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1. Ibw many buses are owned by the Department of Transportation?
2. How many buses are owned by private espanies in the county? How many privately owned buses are depended on to carry out the transportation requirenants of the radiological emergency plans? Which espanies own which ntaber of buses which would be depended on?
3. Are the phone ntabers of all privately owned bus ocmpanies readily available to the Transportation Department? When were phone nubers for these conpanies last verified?
4. How many bus drivers are arployed by the county? Are they organized into a union? What are the terms of their contracts with regard to salery and overtime work? Is there any provision in the arployment contracts for driving during an arcrcf:rcy? ,
5. How many bus drivers are ertployed by private empanies? Do they also belong to a union? How many? Do you know the terms of their contracts? If so, please explain thcm.
6. Has the county or the State entered into any av ic,=icait with the private bus ccrpanies for use of their buses and drivers during an aimsycacy? Plamaa provide a copy of any such a s tuamits.
7. What method is used by the Department of Transportation for keeping an inventory of the vehicles available in the county in the event of a radiological energency?
8. Does the county have any ambulences, ambulettes or specialized vehicles accessible to the handicapped? Please describe these vehicles and list how many of each type are currently owned by the county or are aval bble to the county.

How many handicap d or ill persons can be transported in each of Gese vehicles?

9. What Wal measures could be taken during an energency to outfit ordinary buses or cars for the transport of handicapped or stretcher-bound persons?
10. Has the county or the State entered into any at ==imit with the owners of the owners of the private arrbulences and specializai vehicles for use of these vehicles in an anergency? Please attach a copy of any such agn=vuits.
11. Ilow many ambulence or specialized vehicle drivers are onployed by the county? Are they organized into a union? What are the terms of their contracts with regard to salery and overtime work? Is there any provision in their contracts for driving in an anergency? mat are the terms of any such provision?
12. Please describe the provisions in the emergency plans for evacuating patients of the Veterans Mninistration Hospital and explain what problens, if any, are foreseen in such an evacuation?
13. Please list any other institutions for which the Depart 2nent of Transportation would play a role during an evacuation. Describe the provisions for carrying out evacuations of such facilities during a radiological energency.

Dcp1&in what problans, if any, are foreseen in such evacuations? What measures could be taken in advance to facilitate such evacuations?

14. What problans are envisioned by the DeparLTent of Transportation with respect to the routes described in the energency plans fran the various pick-up points within the EPZ to the llost Reception Centers outside of the EPZ?

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15. What canmunications systan exists between dispatchers and their transit tuses in the ficid?
16. What provisions exist for notifying and gathering for work the bus drivers at night, on weekends or holidays, or at any other time not corresponding to their usual shifts? Do these provisions apply to private as well as county drivers?
17. mat is the status of street lighting on evacuation routes described ,

in the plans? ,Is there any back-tp power systan for these lights?

18. Are there any evacuation routes described in the plans that annot be r=y*inted by a full-size transit, charter or school bus? Wich routes at which locatims? If this is not known, will any efforts be unde to aamartain such infonnation? men?
19. What problerns are there with road and street signs on the evacuation routes described in the plans?
20. Have evacuation route identification signs been prvuma? If not, will they be? men? By the Department of Transportation? M en will they be insta11ad?
21. Wat steps have been taken or need to be taken to infonn all pctiardal drivers of einerycncy vehicles and dispatchers of erwu.pcy vehicles of alternate routes to be used in the event of probles with the routes described in the plans? ,
22. At provisions exist in the plans that call for the re-entry of energency vehicles into t.he EPZ after nekiry one evacuation run ouNida the EPZ? How many times is a round trip envisimed? In what instances? On what routes?
23. mat efforts have toen unde to whmte p.M=rdal drivers of evacuation buses about radiation and its, potential health effects?
24. In the event that regular drivers of county and privately owned buses are not available, who will d:-ive these vehicles? Is any special training required for driving diesci powered tuses? How nany buses to be used in an evacuation m uld be diesel-run? Where could alternato drivers with the a M e iate training c

be obtained at the last minute.

25. What are the legal probims involved with having anyone other than the regular drivers drive county and private buses during an evacuation?

! 26. Please list and describe any other probims the Department of Transportation foresees in carrying out its role as defined under the mergency plans.

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27. Does the Department of is w^ tiona consider " spontaneous evacuation" outsida the 10-mile EPs a possibility? A likelihood? How would this affect evacuation of residents fran within the 10-mile EPE?

In respading to this interrogatory we ask you to omsider all ways in Waidt traffic and road use, m 1 i.a- + ^ation novenant, and other relevant factors beyond the lOeila EPZ wmld affect the ability of residents within the 10-mile EPz to evacuata and the ability of maary energency personnel to travel in and out of the 10-mile EPZ as required by the plans.

28. Is it the Departmait of Ti w'stion's view that the issue of

" spontaneous evacuation" beyond 10 miles has been adequately considered in the energency plans for your comty? Plaama discuss.

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Please have the following questims answered by the Department of Social Services:

1. What provisims have been made for fulfilling the duty assigned under the plan to the Department of Social Services of housing, clothing, and f = H ng 32,000 people? Is this a realistic expectation for the Department?
2. What problems should be anticipated as arising from the n=h of special population groups such as the aged, the handicaN,the mentally ill and latch key children during a radiological emergency? Please explain fully.

Please have the following questions answered by the Department of Public Works: 1

1. Mat specific problems do you see in the division of responsibilities outlined in the plans for semge treat: ment, eter supply, power generation and ,

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