ML20064C383

Supplemental Testimony of AR Marasco Critiquing Westchester County Emergency Response Plan.Notification & Educ of Public,Emergency Worker Training,Resources,Reception Ctrs, Communications & Recovery Discussed

ML20064C383
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	01/03/1983
From:	Marasco A WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY
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NUDOCS 8301040387
Download: ML20064C383 (22)

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SUPPLEMENTAL TESTIMONY OF -

ANTH0Ef R. MARASCO, DIRECTOR, WESTCHESTER COUNTY /

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b4 EDUCA?PSIhE' N f FESSIONAL BACKGROUND:  % ,

Former Attorney of Record for the Nationwide Insurance Companies; FormerUnitedStatesMarshalfortheSouthernDistrictofhewYork,withthe United States Department of diistice; Graduate of numerous Emergency Management Courses at the Staff College, and various other in-service training courses conducted by State and Federal Agencies; Past-president of the New York State Disaster Preparedness Directors' Association; Past New York State Representative to the United States Civil Defense Council; Recipient of the 1979 Inter-Governmental Affairs Fellowship (IGAF) from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Cem=ission; Representative of the United States Civil Defense Council on the Inter-Organizational Advisory Commitfee (IOAC) on Radiological Emergency Planning and Preparedness.

CRITIOUE OF E}ERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN FOR WESTCHESTER COUNTY:

Notification of Populace The primary means of notification was by 43 sirens in the ten-mile EPZ in West-chester, controlled by radio from County Police Headquarters in Hawthorne. This system proved unsatisfactory during the March 3, 1982 exercise. Some sirens were inoperative; and those that did work were not audible in many parts of the ten-=ile EPZ. Since the exercise, we have been advised by the utilities that all the original sirens have been tested individually, and the inoperative ones have been repaired. An additional 12 sirens have been installed, and a control to radio-activate the sirens has been set up in the E=crgency Operating Center.

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o There has been no full-scale, county-wide test as required by NUREG 0654. Tone alert receivers have been purchased and are in the process of being distributed to special facilities in the county.

Education of Inhabitants of the Ten-Mile EPZ in Westchester Public Education / Awareness of the Emergency Response P,lan has been inadequate.

The pamphlets were published by the utilities with no input from the County.

There were numerous errors and omissions; and the general instructions were vague. There were no maps showing the school reception centers, and the evacuation bus routes did not show to which reception centers they were going. Some of the schools listed are no longer in existence, and most of the BOCES were left out.

Some EBS stations in Westchester County were omitted. New pamphlets are being prepared by the State and utilities. Also posters and telephone book inserts are in the planning stage, but these have not been distributed yet. Spot announcements and advertisements h' ave been made in the newspapers advising the availability of the pamphlets to newly-arrived people and those who did not receive them; and a spotty reply has been received. No progress has been made

.on the notification for transients in the area. .

e Training of Emergency Workers .

Since the March 3, 1982 Exercise, the State has assisted'in the training of police and are planning training for other emergency workers. knaddition,theOffice of Disaster and Emergency Services' Radiological Officer for Westchester County has been conducting training sessions for fire personnel and police recruits.

Since the March 3rd exercise, 341 police officers, 224 firemen, and 45" health

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department personnel have been trained. No other emergency service workers have

received the required training. Due to the 1Laited numbe.r of instructors, it will take years to complete th,e training of all emergency workers in the county.

Resources The present supply of self-reading, low-range dosimeters is still inadequate.

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250 0-5R Dosimeters have been received from the State, and more are promised; but 7,000 are required for all emergency workers in the county. No TLD's have been received. Of the $1.8 million request submitted by Westchester County for resources and personnel only $94,000 has been received. The funds are for protective clothing, radiological equipment, cognunications equipment, and ID cards.

School Reception Centers In the present plan all school reception centers for a given school district are not always located in the same' locality. In some areas where a family has children in elementary, middle, and high schools, their childre.n might be sent to school reception centers in Westchester and Dutchess Counties, making family reunifications extremely difficult. We recommend that all school reception centers for a given school district, including private schools and BOCES students from the district, be established in schools in the same locality as the general populace reception center for their home areas. I don't believe that the private schools have had enough infor=ation distributed to them about the plan. No direction or training has been given to school personnel. The schcols to be evacuated and the receiving schools have not been fully involved in the planning effort and have no knowledge of their roles in the total plan.

Communications County-wide communications between police departments is, inadequate. Funds have been received from the State but not yet released to furnish Base Radio Stations in each police station in the EPZ, and some additional radio equipment for county departments participating in the plan. This will help, but additional funds are needed to couplete the MRD (Mobile Radio District) Plan, which would provide a comnon radio channel in each police car in the county. Backup communications by amateur radio is available; but that must depend on volunteers. All Communications between reception centers, congregate care centers, and the county EOC must be by telephone or by volunteer amateur radio operators in the R.A.C.E.S. (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) system. Much of the notification procedures and total co=munications are by telephone only, which would be unreliable in the event of an actual incident.

Recovery and Re-entry .

Recovery and Re-entry Operations, as described in the Emergency Response Plan, are inadequate inasmuch as they refer to the State Plan; and no specific duties for emergency workers are described. Training for this aspect has been ignored.

Evacuation Plan Routing Permanent evacuation route signs, which are called for in-Appendix A of Volume One of the Westchester County Emergency Response Plan, have not been posted as required by the Plan. No bus drivers have been recruited or trained for evacu-ation of the populace without private transportation. The State has offered the v.

use of National Guard troops as bus drivers, but no determination as to the time lag involved in nobilization and the subsequent delay in evacuation has been =ade.

No provision has been =ade for evacuaticn of the identified mobility-i= paired individuals.

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Table of Contents and Indexing The overall Radiation Emergency Response Plan is too cumbersome and difficult to work with: and some method of streamlining the plan should be worked out.

There is t .dequate table of contents or index where peo~p le. required to work with the plan can readily find the portions that deal with their response.

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A Hach men 1 4 WESTCHESTER COUNTY RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BUDGET October 20,1982 O

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SUMMARY

IIEALTH DEPARTMENT S 209,625 OFFICE OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY SERVICES 789,624 DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS 28,000 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 897,630 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES 58,175 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 11,400 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY 75,500 TOTAL S1,861,163

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EQUIPMENT BUDGET A. Associate Sanitarian, Procram Specialist, Survey Teams, E.H. Technician 9 Portable Survey Kits **. _

@ S 4000. S 36,000.

11 Handy Talkies 900, 9,900, 2 Mobile Phones 200./ month 4,800.

70 Anti-Contamination Suits 50. 3,500.

50 Respirators and Filters 25. 1,250.

100 TLD Chips 5. 500, 1 TLD Reader 10,000. 10,000.

34 Pocket Pagers 400. 13,600.

50 KI Doses 1 50.

Sampling Supplies and Lab Analysis _. 20,000.

TOTAL $99,600.

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• • Contains: Eberline PRM-7 and RM-14 RadeCo Model H-809c Air Sampler Sample Holder /Dstector for RM-14 -

Respirators and Filters, Flashlight, Stopwatch, Maps, etc.

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT BUDGET B. Decontamination Sites -

18 Anti-Contamination Sulis @S 50. $ -900, 18 Respirators and Filters- 25. 450 6 Dosimeter Chargers 80 480.

18 TLD Chips 5. 90.

18 KI Doses 1 18, 6 Portable Personnel Monitoring Kits 3000. 18,000.

Miscellaneous Medical Supplies (6) 1000. 6,000.

30 Radiological Waste Disposal Containers 100. ,

3,000.

Change of Clothes (6 Sites x 1000/ Site) 6000 Disposable Coveralls' . 2. 12,000.

6000 Disposable Slippers .28 1,680.

Tota 1, S41,618.

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2 Medical Emergency Kits 500. 1000.

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1. Title Grade Tirid in ' Salary & Fringe Plan Cost to Plan 1 Assoc. Sanitarian 12 ,

Part-tiiCe S 9,523 1 Prog. Specialist 10 FUl1-time 29,926 1 E.H. Technician 7 Full' time 22,477  %. .

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1 - Two-frequency low ' band base in ECC for communications 53,000 with various police stations within the EPZ - 60 watts ,

1 - Two-frequency high-band base in EOC for communications 3,000 with various police station within the EPZ - 60 watts-s 1 - Two-frequency low-band base' in EOC for communications 3,000 with Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Southern District EOC's and with mobile response teams within Westchester County - 60 watts ,,

1 - Two-frequency low-band base in EOC for communications with 3,000 Red Cioss at the Reception Centers outside the EPZ - 60 1, , watts' q s ~

Note: Base ststions supplied with 2 receivers each, coax ino antennas. -

4 - Pagebc.y II Pagers O S350 1,400 20 - Motorola'Maxar 25-watt Mobile Radios with cigarette lighter 10,000 power cord, magnetic mount-antenna single frequency with PL to stockpile in EOC for use by emergency response teams' -

$500 each - under State Contract POO645 20 - Protective gear kits for each response team - 20 teams @ $50 1,000 7,960 - Pencil-type, self-reading Personal Losimeters (0-200 mR) 597,000*

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Training aids - audio-visual and course preparation .

4,000 materials-10 - To install radios in police stations in EPZ .

7,800 500 -Identification Cards 3,984 S665,044

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OFFICE OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

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PERSONNEL Deputy Director, Grade 13 (salary and fringe) 38,820 Operations Officer, Grade 11 (salary and fringe) 33,280 Training Officer, Grade 11 (salary and fringe) 33,280 Secretary, Grade 6 (salary and fringe) 19,200 124,580 e

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DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS EQUIPMENT BUDGET A. UHF EMS administrative control radio system 1 repeater station - Grasslands tower site $10,000 1 control module - EMS Com Center 2,500 1 control base EOC 2,000 1 mobile - Mobile Com Center ~~

1,500 10 Handie Talkies for dept. staff 12,000 TOTAL $28,000 M

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ,

TRAINING COSTS Driver Training- To assure that the required number of drivers are trained and availab,le at any given time, DOT estimates a list of 1,000 trafned volunteer drivers must be available. To generate 1,000 volunteers would require the training of an estimated 1,250 drivers.

[1,250 drivers x 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> course x (S10 driver salary per hour x time-and-one half for training during non-work hours + S2 per hour fringe benefits).] Drivers only. S170,000.00 Other Training DOT and bus company staffs mu,st be trained in required actions [(3 employees per company x 8 companies

+ 15 DOT staff) x S15 per hour salary and fringe x 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> training.] S4,680.00 Subtotal for Initial Training

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l ~*0nly includes labor cost for participants. Does not include costs for trainers to run the classes.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Ecuipmen-t and Supplies 8 Telephone lines for DOT offices . S2,500.00 Annual Line Rental S1,200.00 1 " Squawk" box _. S250.00 1 Micro-computer or AOS work station $3,000.00 Software or programing time to :'.mplement this compu*.erized system. - S15,000.00 1

2 Eight-channel remote base stations (SS,000 per remote station; one station in mid-County, one in northeast .$10,000.00 County or Putnam County; costs of tie line to base station) ~

Annual Tie Line Cost $1,000 00 91 1 Full base station outside the EPZ to extend radio

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PERSONNEL Additional Plan development and modification tasks:

Cost of consultant to resolve -problems with Plan Preliminary estimate of: S610,000.00 Procram Coordinator Grade 13 - Salary and Fringe $40,000.00 Operations Assistant Grade 10 - Salary and Fringe --

$29,000.00 Consultant Total -$ 610,0 0 0. 0 0 DOT Personnel Totals Initial Cost S69,000,00

• A' cost proposal is now being prepared. Upon reviewing the existing

. Plan, a detailed work program will be agreed upon bp all parties and a range of overall costs is expected based upon the consultant's

( assessment of the deficiencies in the existing Plan. The preliminary

',st estimated is expected to be in the range of S500,000 to S800,000.

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D_EPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES PERSONNEL BUDGET

1. Title Grade Time in Plan Salary Cost to Plan 1 Staff Associate 13 Full-time' 38,820 1 Secretary 5 Part-time 4,681 1 Information Assistant 6 Part-time 7,025 i

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Six Reception Centers 12 Mobile phones @ S162.24/mo. $1,946.88

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12 Portable blackboards @ S25.00/each 300.00 i

Miscellaneous supplies for each Reception Center:

(Clipboards, markers, pens, envelopes, armbands 1,200.00 for workers identification, etc.

6 Handy Talkies --

500.00 S4,546.88 Central Of fice Control Center Staff .

1 Osborne portable computer for reuniting families ~

2,000.00 6 Mobile phones @ $81.121 monthly 973.44 Installation of all Mobile phones (Reception Center, Main Office) 129.00 total S3,102.44 O

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14 Two-Way Mobile Radios B.S600 each 8,400 l 1 Repeater 3,000 11,400 1

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75 1.2,750 50 Portable Radios 1,000 50,000 S75,000

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H t h c h a m n'l t; WESICEESTER COUNTY'S EXPENDITURE PLAN FOR CHAPTER 708 MAINTENANCE UND1STRIBUIED FUNDS ALLOCATION $94,724 ,

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QUAhIITY COST (EACH) TOTAL ODES Identity Cards 500 $ 8 $ 4,000 Pagers 3 350 1,050 Mobile Radios 15 . 500 7,500 2 Frequency Low Band 1 3,000 3,000 Ease Radio for EOC

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Sub-Total $15,550 PUBLIC SAFETY Respirators 170 25 4,250 Portable Radios 10 1,000 10,000 Coverall Unifor=s 170 30 5,100 Radios for Police Stations 10 780 7,800 in E.P.Z.

Sub-Total $27,150 SOCIAL SERVICES Bull Horns 6 100 600 Portable Blackboards 12 25 300 Miscellaneous Supplies 500 Ozborne Micro Co:puter 1 2,000 2,000 Sub-Total S 3,400 HEALTH Portable Survef' Kits 2 4,000 8,000 Disposable Coveralls 6,00D 2 12,000 Disposable Slippers 6,000 .28 1,680 Emergency Medical F.its 2 500 1,000 Eandi-Talkies 5 500 2,500

• Pagers 6 350 2,100 Anti-Conta:1 nation Suits 60 30 1,800 l '

l Respirators & Filters 60 . 25 1,500 i Misc. Medical Supplies 2,800 Radiatien Waste Disposal 30 100 3,000 l Containers .

Sub-Total $36r,380 PULLIC WORKS Mobile Radios 4 500 2,000 Sub-Total S 2,000 TRANSPORTATION Interco: Speaker 1 250 250 Micro-Computer 1 3,000 3,000 Software 7,000 " 7,000 Sub-Total 510,250 GRAND TOTAL S94,730 1