ML20059M620

Affidavit of GL Iverson.* Responds to Statements Made in Mc Sinclair 900907 Supplemental Affidavit.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20059M620
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	09/24/1990
From:	Iverson G MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

. 1 before the 4 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION -

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. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF. ) Docket Nos. 50-443-OL 1 3 NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al. ) 50 444-OL-1'

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'(Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2) ) Planning and Safety

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t AFFIDAVIT OF GEORGE L IVERSON 3 J

- 1 George'L Iverson, being on oath, depose and say as follows:

I am the Director of the New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management (NHOEM). b

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,1 2.' . I have read and am familiar with the Supplemental Affidavit of Michael C. Sinclair dated' 4 September 7,1990, and' attached to intervenors' Motion to File ' Supplemental: Affidavit in Support of Emergency , Motion to Reopen the Record on the Adequacy of the Staffing of the NHRERP and [

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- for immeolate Shutdown *, dated September 7,1990. The purpose of this affidavit is to respond to

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o < ~ some statements that Mr. Sinclair made in his Supplemental Affidavit. ]

l t In paragraphs 7 and 8 of his Supplemental Affidavit, Mr. Sinclair states that ther . ppears -

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y - to be confusion regarding the number of personnel required to implement the NHRERP in its entirety.

The following ciarlfles the numbers of personnel required. First, the 671 number attributed to my l

office in the media was for certain State response personnel only and did not include either ,

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i participating Emeryncy Planning Zone (EPZ) community or Host community personnel, The 1263 . q personnel referred to in my, affidavit of August 16,1990 is the total of State and EPZ' community personnel. ~ While the 1263 does not include local staffing for the four EPZ communities who have recently begun planning or who do not yet participate in planning, it does include all State personnel ,

who provide staffing for those four communides,

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4. If the Host communities are included, 49 additional personnel are required to staff Host community emergency operations center (EOC) positions. While on August 16,1990 two of those 49 positions were vacant, the Fire Chlet for Rochester and the Town Manager for Salem, these _ j i

positions have been filled.

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5. Adding the 49 Host Community EOC positions to the 1263 State and EPZ community ,

positions results in the 1312 positions referred to in Mr. Strome's report. j r

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6. In addition to the 1312 positions identified above, 364 monitoring and decontamination  !

l positions are _ raquired to staff one shift at the reception centers located in the four Host communities. Additionally, there are 48 monitoring and decontamination positions required to staff ~

both the first and second shifts (24 per shift) at the Emergency Worker Facility. Currently, there are -

l sufficient trained host community and' mutual aid fire department personnel available to staff these positions, 2

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L 7. In his affidavit, Mr. Sinclair rains the issue of training of ' emergency response personnel.

- The State of New Hampshire offers an on-going training prograrn to emergency responders in accordance with'the New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan. As of' August 1990,  ;

b ili8 persons assigned to fill the 1312 State and local positions identified in paragraphs 3 through 5 above had not yet received training for the position for which they are currently assigned. These The skills of I 138 persons will be offered training for their position before the end of 1990.

emergency response personnei are evaluated on an 'on going basis during periodic drills and in particular~ during the FEMA evaluated exercises. A FEMA evaluated exercise is scheduled for >

Seabrook Station in December 1990. In addition, many State personnel who staff NHRERP positions also receive training and participate in drills and exercises to support emergency preparedness at-the Vermont Yankee nuclear generating station.

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8. Maintenance of an adequately staffed and trained organization is ensured by the provisions Jof the NHRERP. NHRERP staffing rosters-are reviewed annually based.on training records and consultation .with State department administrators and. local emergency management directors.

NHRERP Telephone Lists are updated on a quarterly basis in compilance with NUREG 0654, ll.P.10.

Where personnel changes are identified during the quarterly updates of telephone. numbers those.: .;.

changes.are included in the update of the staffing rosters, in addition, in accordance with FEMA- .

Guldance Memorandum PR 1, I am required to certify on an annual basis the availability of an adequately trained emergency response organization. As a result, the State of New Htmpshire:

maintains training records for personnel who staff NHRERP positions. These records consists of both' computerized and hardcopy records.

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' 9. As set forth above, and as developed in my two previous affidavits,'_it is still my opinion that an adequate number of trained staff is available to implement the NHRERP in the event of a radiological emergency at Seabrook. Moreover, the State remains comraitted to ensuring that-adequate personnel are available to implement the NHP.ERP regardless of future budgetary actions.

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' George L.-iverson Merrimack County, NH September 24,1990 m

The above subscribed George L Iverson appeared before me and made oath that he had read the s

foregoing affidavit and that the statements set forth therein are true to the best of his knowledge.~

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Notary PubtlG My Commission Expires: h 7,/7il V'

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'90 ' SEP 25 All :10 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE GmCE OF SECRETARY . '

I, Thomas ' G. Dignan, Jr. , one of -the attorneys for16hWf M #

Licensees herein, hereby-certify _that on September 24,1990[k 1made service of the within document.by depositing copies thereof with Federal Express, prepaid, for delivery to- (or, where

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indicated, by depositing in the United' States mail, first class postage paid, addressed to):

Administrative Judge Ivan W. Smith Adjudicatory File [

Chairman,-Atomic Safety and Atomic Safety and Licensing Licensing Board Board Panel Docket = (2- copies)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission .

Commission 1 East West Towers Building East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway ~4350 East West Highway Bethesda, HD 20814 Bethesda, MD 20814 Administrative Judge Richard F. Cole Robert R. Pierce, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing- ,

<U.S.._ Nuclear Regulatory Commission Board _

East West Towers Building U.S. Nuclear Regulatory _

4350 East West Highway Commission Bethesda, MD 20814 East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway ~

l Bethesda,- MD .20814 Mitzi A. Young, Esquire' L

L Administrative Judge Kenneth A.

McCollom Edwin J. Reis,- Esquire.

[ 1107' West Knapp Street

. Office:of the General Counsel '

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l Stillwater, OK 74075 U.S.fNuclear Regulatory

-i Commission L One White Flint North, 15th F1. I 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-George Dana Bisbee, Esquire Diane Curran, Esquire' Asscciate: Attorney General- Andrea C.-Ferster, Esquire n

Office of the Attorney General Harmon, Curran &cTousley 25' Capitol Street Suite 430 Concord, NH 03301-6397 2001 S Street, _ N.W.

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Washington, DC 20009 Robert A. Backus, Esquire t

• Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel 116 Lowell Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory P. O. Box 516  :

l- Commission Manchester, NH 03105 Mail Stop EWW-529 I Washington, DC 20555 3

I l" i Philip Ahrens,. Esquire Suzanne P. Egan, City Solicitor- ,

Assistant-Attorney General Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton &

Department:of the Attorney Rotondi General 79 State Street Augusta, ME 04333 Newburyport, MA' 01950 ,

Paul' McEachern, Esqui'ce Stephen A._Jonas

Shaines & McEachern. Leslie.Greer 25 Maplewood Avenue Matthew Brock q P.O. Box 360 Massachusetts Attorney General y

Portsmouth, NH 03801- One Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108

• Senator Gordon J. Humphrey R. Scott Hill-Whilton, Esquire U.S. Senate Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton &

Washington, DC 20510 Rotondi (Attn: Tom Bucack) 79 State Street Newburyport, MA 01950-

• Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Barbara J. Saint Andre,_ Esquire

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Concord, NH 03301 101-Arch Street l

- ( Attn :: Herb Boynton) Boston, MA 02110 H. Joseph Flynn, Esquire Judith H. Mizner, Esquire Office of General' Counsel 79 State Street, 2nd Floor Federal Emergency _ Management Newburyport, MA 01950

_ Agency

.500 C_ Street, S.W.

Washington, -DC 20472 Gary W. Holmes,' Esquire- Ashod N. Amirian, Esquire Holmes 1& Ells 145 South MainLStreet l 47 Winnacunnet Road' P.O. Box'38 Hampton, NH 03842 Bradford, MA 01835

-l Mr. Richard R. Donovan Mr. Jack Dolan l Federal Emergency Management Federal Emergency Management j

-Agency Agency - Region I l Federal Regional Center J.W. McCormack Post Office & l 130 228th Street, S.W. Courthouse Building, Room,442 i Bothell, Washington 98021-9796 Boston, MA 02109

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107 Pleasant Street concord, NH- 03301 Thomas 6. D%n, -Jr.

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