ML20079G790
| ML20079G790 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 09/18/1991 |
| From: | Groux T DUXBURY, MA |
| To: | Murley T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 9110090287 | |
| Download: ML20079G790 (3) | |
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Opi:c cf Tcwn Manc9er Tfwmm). Grour September 18, 1991 Thomac. E. Murley, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Deer Mr. Murley:
Thank you for sending um copies of recent exchanges of correspondence between the NRC and Duxbury resident Jcne Fleming.
All leplementing Procedures for Emergency Planning in Duxbury must be approved by the Board of Selectmen.
Ms. Fleming's letter regarding monitoring of school children at host schools is a bit misleading. Although the School Coc=i t t e e, at Ms. Fleming's urging, voted in June to say students are to be monitored at the host school in Needham and voted to request portable monitors to accomplish that the Com=ittee has not asked the Board of Selectmen to consider changing the current version of the School IPs which calls fot stu-dents to be sent (or re-routed) to the Wellesley Reception Center if in fact there is any reason to suspect the students might have been exposed to radiation.
t I write to you to clarify this matter and to advise you that although you may and obviously do receive cor.counications from residents (as you just have f rom
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Ms. Fleming) all positions and policies of the Town regarding emergency planning are cnly official when approved by the Board of Selectmen. Furthermore, the Board has advised Ms. Fleming that when she corresponds directly with the NRC, FEPA, MEFA, etc. she cannot speak for the Town.
Ms. Fleming has acknowledged that and has assured the Board that when she does make those direct contacts she is speaking as a prisate citizen and not as a representative of Duxbury.
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Dr. Donald Kennedy, School Superintendent FROM:
Thomas J. Groux, Town Manage SUBJ:
Monitoring of School Children Please see attached letter from Thomas E. Murley of the NRC, dated September 12th, addressed to Jane Fleming which letter discusses monitoring of school children.
Mr. Murley is responding to Ms. Fleming's letter of August 8th addressed to the NRC (also attached) in which she states in the first paragraph that Duxbury has an agreement with Needham School officials assuring them that Duxbury children will be monitored in Needham.
Ms. Fleming's letter refers to an Exhibit A which turns out to be a letter from you dated May 7, 1991 to Dr. Tirrall. Your letter made no such assurance.
In fact it states that monitoring, if deemed necessary, would be done at the Reception Center in Wellesley. You do suggest in your 1990 letter that monitoring can be done at Needham. However that is not in any agreement I'm aware of.
Ms. Fleming goes on in her letter to refer to the School Committee's vote of June 3, 1991, stating that students will be monitored at Needham.
It is my impression that Needham officials will not be a host school for Duxbury if students who may have been exposed to radiation are going to be brought to Needham.
The present School IPs do not call for moaitoring at the host schools. About a_
year ago when Ms. Fleming asked the Board of Selectmen to write to the State Federal and Pilgrim officisls in order to obtain portable monitors to use at Needham the Selectmen referred her back to the School Committee saying that the Selectmen did not wish to make decisions regarding-School IP issues until the School Committee had reviewed such matters and made a request of the Selectmen. So far, to our knowledge the' School Com=1ttee has not asked to change tne School IPs regarding this matter.
My memo of June 17,1991 (attached) makes further comment on this particular subject.
I believe the School Committee may need to review this matter further and advise the Selectmen just how they wish to proceed.
If children are to be monitored in Needham have you told Needhar that and will they accept the children? If not, would you ask the School Comittee to review its June 3,1991 votes on this subject?
Please bear in mind that the present IPs are consistent with all the other commu-nities sending children to host schools and as Mr. Murley points out in his letter
"...........the task f or ce finds the concept of monitoring school c'a11dren a t reception centers is acceptable. This is the State's option and is not unique to Pilgrim emergency planning or to that of Massachusetts."
In any event before additional confusion develops on this I think it would be helpful for the School Committee to review the matter.
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%-l OG)f) Of UXhuff MEMO June _17, 1991 Date 70:
Dr. Donald Kennedy FROM:
Thohas J. Groux
SUBJECT:
School Committee Position on June 3rd on Emerpocy Planning and Implementing Procedures On the evening of June 12th, while attending a public hearing in Plymouth conducted by the NRC Task Force reviewing Off-Site Emergency Preparedness 1 learned that the Dumbury School Counittee had voted on June 3rd to take certain positions regarding Implementing Procedures for th. Schools.
School Committee's June 3rd votes were contained in a lette; dated June 10th The from the Superintendent.---That letter was attached to the end of a 25-page g
statement. submitted at Radiological Emes gency Response Plan Advisory Connittee.-the hearin The letter was not read at,the hearing by Ma. Flemiss although she'did read her entire statement.
After the hearing Tas concluded Jack Dolan of FEMA asked me if 1 was aware-of your letter. The next dayo Robert Erickson, Chairman of the Task Force came'into Towr Ball and gave me_a copy of the letter and he also asked me if I was aware of the letter.
(During the hearing Ma. Fleming stated to the Task
~ Force _that a statement I had made earlier in the evening was inaccurate and that her statements were accurate because they were from the School Superintendent In actuality my statement had nothing to do with anything in your letter but the imprassion var-imparted-by Ma.~ Fleming that I was in error although I wasn't.)
I am concerned as to-how the School Coesnittee arrived at the positions it voted on June 3rd.
RERP Advisory Committee, by the Selectmen, by Chief O'Ne Civil Defense Agency.
parties and/or may not be the most-appropriate policies _to have.Some It would seem to ac that it would have been reasonable to review these issues within Duxbury, only before voting them but also before sending them to ths j
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practice over the yearn, as changes in plans and procedures are made, is to
. process them through the Board of Selectmen before they are forwarded to MCDA, FEMA und/or the NRC.
'If it is the desire of the School Committee to adopt new proc > Lures apart involvement of _ the Civil Defense Director and process those changes directly from to the NRC-(instead of through the Selectmen to MCDA for eventual submission to FDiA and the NRC) we should clarify that approach to avoid misunderstandings in the future.
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