ML20076E143

Discusses Problems W/Recent Evacuation Training & Emergency Plan Workability

ML20076E143
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	08/14/1983
From:	Toscani K AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8308240158
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I 00CKETED August 14, 1983 USNRC Dear 7A/

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13 AUG 23 P1:33 Rockland County's recent evacuation training points out the 4 year old CFF;"E CF sh,q,.

problems involved with the evacuation plan for Indian Point and dW$r:EstrtG tosEpyg.,

BRANCH solve them by the August, 1983 Drill.

According to the July 24th Citizen Register, problems, euphemistically termed " details", to be resolved by August 24th include: (1) bilingual nuclear emergency booklets, (2) an answer to evacuation of handicapped and disabled, (3) chain of command for key emergency workers to know where and when to meet and what to do once there, (4) czergency bus transportation contracts, (5) role of school districts, and (6) training of 500 state and utility employees to substitute for Rockland emergency officials during the drill.

Therefore, for the drill to work, the following problems will have been solved thusly: Bilingual booklets will.have been received and thoce peopic will know what to do; enough ambulances, will materialize to evacuate all handicapped and disabled, at homes and at hospitals; the chain of command will be ingrained in ercrgency personnel like immediate action during a fire drill; bus companics will suddenly be cager to sign their equipment and workers to drive in potentially radiated areas thus becoming radiated; school personnel will know by August 24th if and when they'll cooperate in an evacuation and know the legalities involved; and 500 substitute offb1Als will be trained well in key rolls and as bus drivers.

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The long standing probica of vast amounts of money for evacuation plan impicmentation must have been magically solved.

I think it is safe to assume bushels of enney will be needed for booklet publication and dissemination, for "X" number of ambulances (driver s from whero?), money for testing the chain of command before the drill, money to pay for overtime or whatever agreed to amount

. to bus drivers and for decontaminat19n of then and the hundreds of buses, money 8308240158 830814 PDR ADOCK 05000247 DI-

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Page 2 August 14, 1983 to train school personne?. in their evacuation rnles, money to train substitute officials and eventually mnre money to train Rnckland of ficials in lieu of substi tutes.

The money from heaven I suppose emanates from the state; le. from nur taxes. Don't you wonder how these amounts vere approved all of a sudden, when for 4 years, no state agency wanted to give a nickel to implement the cvacuation plans?

Covernor Cunmo must have blinders on, subsidizing this Plan when the mnney could be better spent closing Indian PoLnt. Lately, however, he seems to be enamored by nuclear power, as evident by his subsidization of Grum. nan's utility rates. Why not subsidize all enunties serviced by Iddian Point and Shoreham, making such subsidization democratic?

Did you know Con Edison plans to pass on to us ratepayers a $40 millinn bill for partial construction of a hydro-electric plant in Orange County, abandoned in 19747 " Lack of need" (Citizen Register, July 27) is one of the primary reasons.

New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams is going to enurt to stop Con Ed from passing this massive mistake on to us.

How about closing Indian P91nt, which supplied in 1982 only 77. of our electricity (per Alliance to Close Indian Point) and finishing the safer, cheap hydro-electric plant and give us power from it?

Just think--no funding for evacuation plans, nn legal problems for evacuation i

plans, no back room political jockeying n'f the evacuation plans.

Af ter all, no one wants the Plans, no one likes the Plans, no one truthfully believes in the workability of the Plans. With the Nuclear Regulatory Commission giving the plants involved more and more time to sidestep evacuation planning, we knnu how they really f eel--the commissinners believe the utilities' e

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Page 3 August 14, 1983 statements tha t an accident will never occur, so why treat evacuatinn planning as a reality?

Independent studies have shown serious likelihood of a mejor accident. Planning fer our future must include closing the plants and getting other sources of electricity.

P. S. I called Con Ed Mnnday 8/15 9:45 am for their figure of the Sincerely, percentage of power supplied by

,pp Indian Point II, but the spokes.

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person did not call back by 11 am.

Kathy Thscani Iliis letter had to be at the 15 Piney Pt. Ave.

weekly newspaper by 8/15 noon.

Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10520 Their gtgure is still invited for (914) 271-4626 future reference.

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Croton-Cortlandt News Ossining Citizen Register Peekskill Evening Star Forth C6unty News New York Times Daily News NRC Co:nmissioners FE"A Region II Director Mr. F, Petrone Governor Mario Cuomo Lt. Gov. A. Del Bello State Senator Mary Goodhue State Assemblyman R. Brodsky Westchester County Executive A. O'Rourke Cortlandt Town Supervisor C. D1Giacomo Westbhester County Legislator E. Gibbs Rockland County Legislator S. Gdanski Reprepentative R. Ottinger Representative S. Gilman Representative H. Fish, Jr.

I Senator D. Mohnihan Senator A. D' Amato-I m

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