ML20058D868
| ML20058D868 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 07/23/1982 |
| From: | Murphy M NEW YORK, NY |
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| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8207270423 | |
| Download: ML20058D868 (3) | |
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l UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION f
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ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Before Administrative Judges s
Louis J.
Carter, Chair sm" Frederick J.
Shon Dr. Oscar H.
Paris
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i In the Matter of:
Docket Nos.
CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK 50-247 SP Inc.
(Indian Point, Unit No. 2),
50-286 SP POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (Indi~an Point, Unit No. 3)
July 23, 1982
g Testimony Submitted on Behalf of "New York City Council" Intervenors By MIGAEL MJRPHY
.This Document Has Been Filed By:
g NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE i
175 Fifth Avenue Suite 712 l
(212) 673-2040 CRAIG KAPLAN, l
SPECIAL COUNSEL 8207270423 820723 PDR ADOCK 05000247 y
PDR N.
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My name in Michael Murphy and I am the Public Affaira Coordinator for Covenant House /Under 21.
I have been employed here since 1972.
As Public Affairs Coordinator, I have developed the expertise to speak about the existing needs and problems of homeless youth in New York City.
In this statement, I will project the problems that one can i
expect to develop in evacuating this population in the event of a nuclear emergency at.the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.
The Runaway Unit of the New York City Police Department estimates that nearly 15,000 runaway youth enter the City each year and that another 10,000 nun away from homes within the City.
Although estimates differ.regarding the exact number of young people 17 years of age and under who inhabit or,:more_peoperly, subsist in the area, one police report notes that there are 10,000 homeless youth in the Times. Square area at any one time.
In 1980, according to the New York Runaway and Homeless Youth l
Advocacy Project, only 8,855 youth received shelter and services at NNO York City runaway and homeless youth-serving agencies.
Many live in subways, abandoned buildings, with friends or in emergency shelters.
Their life on the street consists of hiding, stealing, hustling, and surviving.
The enormous' dimensions of the problem are substantiated by the fact that Under 21 Multi-Service Crisis Intervention Center in Times Square has served 27,000 youth since April 1977.
Of that total, 11,000 (or 40%) wdte 17 years of age or younger.
Additionally, during 1981, an average of 300 youth age 17 and under were provided program services each month.
I repeat that these are not insignificant numbers with which we are concerned.
The vast majority of these youth have no shelter base and no familial network and little relationship with any part
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of settled society.
In the event of an order to evacuate during an emergency at Indian Point, this population could not be notified.
We owe our young people more than that.
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