ML20058B768
| ML20058B768 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 10/18/1990 |
| From: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Griffin W PLYMOUTH, MA |
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| NUDOCS 9010300419 | |
| Download: ML20058B768 (5) | |
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WASHINGTON, D. C. 20$55 October 18, 1990 CHAlHMAN
,Mr. William R. Griffin Executive Secretary Town of Plymouth Office of the Selectmen 11 Lincoln Street Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360
Dear Mr. Griffin:
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I ain responding to your September 10, 1990 letter, in which you discuss the town of _ Plymouth's need for additional assistance from the Boston Edison Company in order to meet the town's emergency planning responsibilities. You also state that. Plymouth will decline to participate in the 1991 emergency preparedness exercise at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station if the Boston Edison Company'does not supply specific equipment that the town has stated is necessary for emergency planning.
Withl regard to Boston Edison Company's responsibility to provide equipment, NUREG-0654/ FEMA-REP-1, Revision 1, does not iirpose a direct obligation on the licensee, but-rather leaves such matters largely to the utility's discretion.
The.need for Boston Edison to provide equipment is a matter to be discussed between the ' licensee and the local comunity.
- W(e-agree that weaknesses identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
' FEMA) in graded: exercises should be remedied.
Under Presidential directives and the NRC's. regulations, FEMA is the principal Federal agency responsible for assisting State 'and local-governments in developing off-site emergency plans l.-
for comercial nuclear power plants.
I note in this: regardc that the Board of. Selectmen is a' Iso'comunicating its concerns about emergency planning to FEMA.
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Although the Comission has determined in certain cases that it is possible for a
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nuclear. power plant to. meet off-site emergency )lanning criteria without the participation of' cognizant governments (e.g., S1oreham/Suffolk County, and
' Mdian Point /Rockland County), we believe that the best possible radiological.
s emergency planning and preparedness is achieved and maintained with State-and -
l local. government participation in planning and exercises.
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Comission encourages the Town of Plymouth to continue to participate in
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periodic exercises of the emergency. plans for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, j
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State Office Building One Ashburton Place Boston, Massachusetts 02108-1698 Mr. Dennis Kwiatkowski-Assistant Associate Director
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20472 Charles, V. Barry.
i Secretary of Public Safety Executive Office'of Public Safety i
. 0ne Ashburton Place Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Mr.1 Robert J. Boulay
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Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency
& Office of Emergency Preparedness
- 400 Worchester Road Framingham, Massachusetts 01701-0317 I
Mr. Ralph;G. Bird
- Senior:Vice President - Nuclear
- Boston Edison Company Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
- RFD #1, Rocky Hill Road s
Plymouth. Massachusetts 02360
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