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Testimony of SD Coleman,Me Bolch,Jt Pugh,Pr Lunsford,Be Phillips,Lw Broome & Ps Thomas Re Emergency Planning Contention 18.Related Correspondence
ML20083N479
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Issue date: 04/16/1984
From: Bolch M, Broome L, Coleman S, Lunsford P, Phillips B, Pugh J, Thomas P
DUKE POWER CO., GASTON COUNTY, NC, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NC, NORTH CAROLINA, STATE OF, SOUTH CAROLINA, STATE OF, YORK COUNTY, SC
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APPLICANTS' TESTIMONY ON EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 Duke Power Company (Stan D. Coleman, Jr.

Michael E. Bolch)

North Carolina (J.T. Pugh, III)

South Carolina (P.R. Lunsford)

Gaston County (Bob E. Phillips)

Mecklenburg County. (Lewis Wayne Broome)

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l' TESTIMONY OF DUKE POWER COMPANY 2 (STAN D. COLEMAN, JR. & MICHAEL E. BOLCH) 3 ON EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 4 Background Informa tion on Mr. Bolch 5 Q. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT.

6 A. I am Michael E. Bolch and I am employed by Duke Power 7 Company as Emergency Preparedness Coordinator at 8 Catawba Nuclear Station, York County, South Carolina.

9 My~ assigned responsibility is to coordinate emergency 10 planning at the Catawba Station and with outside 11 agencies in preparation for any possible emergency at 12 Ca tawba Nuclear Station.

13 Q. PLEASE SUMMARIZE YOUR BACKGROUND TRAINING AND ,

14 EXPERIENCE.

15 A. My educational and professional qualifications are 16- set forth in Attachment A to my testimony.

17 EPC 18 Testimony 18 Q. HAVE YOU READ THE CESG/ PALMETTO ALLIANCE EMERGENCY 19 PLANNING CONTENTIONS?

20 A. I have read Contention 18. (SC, MB) 21 -Q. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE.OF.YOUR TESTIMONY?

22 A. The purpose of my testimony is to address Contention 23 18, dealing with overloading of the local telephone 24 system. (SC, MB)

e 1 Q. IF THE LOCAL BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM SERVING THE 2 CATAWBA PLANT BECAME OVERLOADED IN THE COURSE OF A 3 RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY, WHAT OTHER COMMUNICATIONS ARE 4 AVAILABLE FOR CALLING EMERGENCY PERSONNEL?

5 A. If the local Lake Wylie, S.C. exchange was 6 overloaded, telephone calls originating at the 7 Catawba Plant could be placed via other lines 8 connecting to the following additional exchanges:

9 a. Rock Hill, S.C. -- four lines, and 10 b. Gastonia, N.C. -- one line.

11 In the event that all of the above facilities 12 are unavailable, telephone calls originating at e-13 Catawba could gain access to Charlotte local 14 exchanges by way of the Duke Power microwave network, 15 These calls would make use of the following circuits 16 interconnecting the Catawba telephone system with the 17 Duke Power network telephone switch located in 18 Charlotte:

19 a. eight tie trunk circuits, and 20- b. two Charlotte centrex lines.

-21 If the above facilities are unavailable, then by 22 dialing the appropriate _ access code, calls may be 23 routed through the Catawba Construction Department 24 telephone system operator 1to the Duke network 25 telephone switch in Charlotte utilizing nine other 26 tie trunk circuits. The- following dedicated or

i 3-1 " hotline" telephone circuits are independent of any 2 local switched telephone network and provide 3 communications into and out of Catawba plant:

4 a. Catawba control room to Duke system 5 dispatcher in Charlotte, and 6 b. Crisis Management selective ringdown 7 telephone system -- ties the Catawba 8 control room to county emergency 9 centers in Rock Hill, Gastonia, and 10 Charlotte.

11 The Gastonia and Charlotte circuits are carried 12 by the Duke Power microwave system from the Catawba

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15 _following independent radio systems can be utilized 16 to communicate from Catawba:

17 a. Crisis Management Radio Network.- This 18 links the Catawba control room with 19 county law enforcement centers at 20 Charlotte ( for Mecklenburg County),

21 Rock Hill (for York County), and 22 'Gastonia.(for Gaston County).

23 b. Catawba Security Radio System. This 24 links Catawba central and secondary

. 25 alarm stations with'the York County Law 26 Enforcement Center.

27 'c. Duke Production and Transmission Radio 28 System. This links.the Catawba control 29_ room.with other key operating points on L30 the Duke system such as power. system 31 . dispatchers in Charlotte.and Great-32  : Falls.

'33 'd.- South Carolina Emergency Preparedness 34 Division Radio System. This' links 35 Catawba with-South Carolina officials 36' in Columbia.

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1 In addition to the above facilities, two 2 independent tone and voice radio paging systems are 3 available for calling out emergency personnel.

4 First, a telephone dial-connect system is accessible 5 directly from the plant telephone system for alerting 6 personnel in the plant area- second, an operator-7 controlled, wide-area paging system is available for 8 reaching personnel outside of the plant area. This 9 system is supported by the Duke microwave system and 10 the operator control point is located in Charlotte.

11 (SC) 12 Q. WHAT IS A MICROWAVE SYSTEM? , . -

13 A. A microwave system is a communications. network that 14 provides communications circuits from point to point 15 that do not rely on telephone company facilities. At 16 Catawba Plant, the Duke Power Microwave System may

.7 be used to bypass the local telephone company 18 switching centers. Essentially, calls are routed 19 from Catawba to Charlotte via microwave, then connect 20 to the telephone company network in Charlotte. (SC) 21 Q. PLEASE EXPLAIN THE METHODOLOGY FOR ACTIVATING THE 22 EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM AT CATAWBA.

23 A. 'The methodology to call out the Catawba Nuclear 24 ~ Station' Emergency Response Team following'an event at 25 Ca tawba is as follows:

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l 1 That the Control Room Shift Supervisor or designee 2 upon declaration of an emergency class (Notification 3 of Unusual Event, Alert, Site Area Emergency, General 4 Emergency) obtain the appropriate Emergency Response 5 Procedure (RP), which has the list of three 6 positions / individuals to be notified, also for 7 individuals there are two or more alternates that can 8 be called if the primary individual is inaccessible.

9 These notifications can be made by use of:

10 1. Private telephone lines 11 2. Duke Power Company Microwave Communication 12 System .-

13 3. Radio-pagers to certain individuals 14 The first three individuals notified by the Shift 15 Supervisor have been provided with an Emergency 16 Response Team Telephone Directory that includes 17 instructions for making other notifications to the 18 remainder of the Catawba Nuclear Station Emergency 19 Response Organization. These individuals each have 20 three -other Emergency Response Team members to notify 21 plus alternates who can be notified in the event that 22 the primary cannot be notified. These telephone 23 notifications are made by use of private telephone 24 lines,_which. include the 'various private telephone 25 companies in this area. (MB) 26 Q. DO~ANY INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEPERS?-

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1 A. Yes, we have both on-site and off-site beepers.

2 Off-site beepers are assigned to the Operations Duty 3 Engineer, the Health Physics Duty Supervisor, the 4 Chemistry Duty Supervisor, the Maintenance Duty 5 Supervisor, and the Safety Duty Supervisor. A Duty 6 List is prepared monthly and beepers are assigned 7 weekly to those persons who have been assigned duty 8 that week. (MB) 9 Q. HOW MUCH TIME IS REQUIRED FOR COMPLETING THE CALL-10 OUT?

11 A. The time estimated from initial notification to 12 completion of the call-out is twenty-seven (27) ..

13 minutes, assuming an average time per notification to 14 be three (3) minutes. This period of' time (27 15 minutes) is less than the specified period of time 16 (30 minutes) that it takes to notify the general 17 public. The requirements of 10 C.F.R. 50 Appendix E 18 Section IV D.3 specify a total of about 30 minutes 19 within which the public shall be initially notified.

20 Therefore, the station's emergency responders could 21 be activated before the public becomes aware of the 22 situation at the site, this would ensure that,the 23 phone systems could be available for call-outs. (MB) 24 Q. HAS THIS TIME BEEN TESTED?

o 1 A. Yes, in the recent Catawba exercise, the time for 2 activating the emergency response team at Catawba was 3 19 minutes. (MB)

1 TESTIMONY OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 2 (J.T. PUGH, III) ON 3 EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 4 Q. DOES THE STATE PLAN CONTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING 5 THIS CONTENTION?

6 A. Yes, Part 1,Section IV.B. and Part 1, figure 20 of 7 the N.C. State Plan.

8 Q. PLEASE EXPLAIN WHETHER YOU ANTICIPATE OR ARE PREPARED 9 FOR DIFFICULTIES IN NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY 10 PERSONNEL BECAUSE OF OVERLOADING OF THE LOCAL 11 TELEPHONE SYSTEM. PLEASE EXPLAIN IN PARTICULAR HOW 12 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND WHETHER 13 OVERLOADING OF THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM WILL INTERFERE ..

14 WITH SUCH NOTIFICATIONS.

15 A. We do not anticipate difficulties in notifying 16 emergency personnel since this notification will j 17 normally occur before the general public is aware of 18 the accident situation. Additionally,1 difficulties 19 are unlikely because State personnel,_in the.first 20 instance, will be located outside the' area of impact.

21 School bus drivers will be notified.through the i

22 school-tone alert system. It!is anticipated that the-12 3 bus' drivers:will bejavailableion school property and i

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f I 1 TESTIMONY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 2 (P.R. LUNSFORD) ON

, 3 EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18

, 4 Q. DO THE STATE PLANS CONTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THIS

5 CONTENTION?

6 A. Yes, Annex A of SCORERP.

7 Q. DO YOU ANTICIPATE DIFFICULTIES IN NOTIFYING EMERGENCY

'8 PERSONNEL BECAUSE OF OVERLOADING OF LOCAL TELEPHONE 9 SYSTEMS?

10 A.- At the state level we do not anticipate any ,

11 difficulty. We are not working in the local area i '

12 where we do our notifying. Most of the state people 13 come from other areas. ..

14 Q. WITH RESPECT TO COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN COLUMBIA-AND 15 THE FEOC AND- COMMUNICATIONS WITH REPSONSIBLE AGENCIES 16 AND ORGANIZATIONS, COUNTIES AND THE STATE OF NORTH.

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18 BECAUSE OF INADEQUATE TELEPHONE _ CAPABILITIES?

19' A. No. Even the case of the recent tornados when some I

20 -lines were out:in'the area I was.in we were able to-

21 have adequate communication,Jand this was statewide, 22 not-just'in one local area..

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! 23 Q.- IN THE EVENT THAT THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM IS OVERLOADED I- , .24. .AND INOPERABLE DO YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO c25 COMMUNICATE BETWEEN THE hPEOC AND 'SEOC AS WELL- AS TO 26 COMMUNICATE WITH THE COUNTIES, THEl STATE:OFz NORTH R27. CAROLINA,fAND WITH DUKE POWER COMPANY?

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1 A. Yes, we have used those systems. We rely on radio as 2 one of the backups. We have been furnished a 3 duplicate telephone system by Duke Power which 4 operates independently of the local telephone systems 5 with a microwave communication system.

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e l 1 TESTIMONY OF GASTON COUNTY 2 (BOB E. PHILLIPS) ON 3 EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 4 Q. DO THE COUNTY PLANS CONTAIN INFORMATION RELATED TO 5 THIS CONTENTION?

6 A. Yes, Part 2,Section IV.B. and Part 2, figure 8 of 7 the N.C. State Plan.

8 Q. EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 FOCUSES ON THE 9 ADEQUACY OF LOCAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM DURING AN 10 EMERGENCY. DO YOU ANTICIPATE DIFFICULTIES IN 11 NOTIFYING EMERGENCY PERSONNEL.BECAUSE OF OVERLOADING 12 OF THE LOCAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM?

13 A. No. We could use the phones, but I don't doubt there .

4 14 may be an overloading of the phone system. I can't 15 say whether there will or not, but there probably 16 will. However, we have radio receivers in our-17 schools which can receive broadcasts from EOC tx) the 18 principal'of the school of any impending danger to

'19. the students, either from nuclear stations, 20 tornadoes,-' ice storms, or whatever. And also we~have

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-22 Defense (CD) personnel,:which can receive broadcasts b Here again directed by EOC broadcast, 23 from the EOC.

24 our police officers can also stop the school buses if 25 the need arose, and we didn't need-them in the area. j

~ 26 Q. WHO IS THE FIRST LPERSON IN GASTON COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

27 WHO IS NOTIFIED OF A RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY AT.

28- CATAWBA AND HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN 7

1 A. If an emergency occurs, the county warning point and 2 the County Communications Center located in the 3 basement of the county police building will receive 4 the call. Duke would call on the telephone or use 5 the radio from the plant.

6 Q. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

7 A. The person receiving the message at the county 8 warning point will notify me of the emergency. The 9 county warning point is staffed 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day, 7 10 days a week. The county telecommunicators who man

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12 Q. AFTER YOU WERE NOTIFIED, WOULD YOU THEN HAVE TO CALL ,

13 ANYBODY INVOLVED IN THE GASTON COUNTY ~ RESPONSE?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE CALLED?

16 A. At least 2 telecommunicators would notify on a 17 priority basis 25' county department personnel.

18 Q .- HOW LONG DO YOU ANTICIPATE.THAT THAT WOULD TAKE YOU?

19 .A. Fifteen to twenty minutes.

20 Q. ASSUMING THAT' MATTERS WERE ESCALATING' RAPIDLY, WHAT'S 21 THE EARLIEST THAT THE SIRENS MIGHT BE SOUNDED AFTER

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l' Q. HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU ESTIMATE WOULD ELAPSE BETWEEN 2 THE TIME THAT THE COUNTY WARNING POINT WAS CALLED BY 3 DUKE POWER COMPANY PERSONNEL AT CATAWBA AND THE TIME 4 WHEN YOU WERE NOTIFIED?

5 A. I would be notified immediately.

6 Q. WOULD THE COUNTY WARNING POINT COORDINATE REGARDING 7 THE TIMING OF THE SIRENS AND THE CONTENT OF THE EBS 8 MESSAGE BEFORE HE WOULD CALL YOU?

9 A. The county telecommunicator would probably call me -

10 first but he does have the authority to call the EBS 11 and to initiate the sirens. The county 12 telecommunicators have pre-planned. messages for use ,.-

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14 Q. IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE DISPATCHER, DOES THAT MAKE

'15 A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR ANSWER?

16 A. No.

17 Q.= WOULD THERE BE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THERE WOULD BE 18 'MORE THAN ONE INDIVIDUAL AT THE COUNTY WARNING POINT?

19 IF SO, PLEASE EXPLAIN.

20 A.. I've- got at. least 2 people on duty with a maximum of 21 4 working all the time.

22- Q. COULD YOU ESTIMATE HOW RAPIDLY.THE. TELEPHONE SYSTEM 23 MIGHT BECOME OVERLOADED AFTER-THE ACTIVATION OF THE 24 SIRENS?

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2 ALREADY GONE OFF BY THE TIME YOU ARE NOTIFIED, DO YOU 3 STILL ANTICIPATE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH 4 BY TELEPHONE TO THE PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO -

5 TALK TO?

6 A. If I couldn't, I would use the radio or dispatch 7 police to deliver the messages.

8 Q. HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE YOUR EMERGENCY 9 OPERATION CENTER OPERATIONAL? -

10 A. . Fifteen.

11 Q. DO YOU HAVE ANY CONTINGENCY PLANS IN THE EVENT THAT 12 YOU OR THE. PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD CONTACT ARE ,. -

13 UNAVAILABLE?

14 A. We have alternates for each one of the departments, 15 as well. as an alternate for myself, who would be-16 contacted in case the other1 people are unavailable.

17 Q. HOW WOULD YOU REACH SCHOOL BUS ~ DRIVERS IF'YOU NEEDED 18 SCHOOL. BUSES?

19- A .- By calling.the-principal of the school if the school 20 was in' session.

21 Q. IF THE SCHOOL WAS NOT IN SESSION.DO1YOUJNEED SCHOOL 22l JBUSES?

23 A. No.

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1 A. In that situation, we would use county transportation 2 rather than school buses in order to pick up the 3 people who need transportation.

4 Q. SO DO YOU REALLY HAVE THE PROBLEM OF NOTIFYING HIGH 5 SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS WHEN SCHOOLS ARE NOT IN SESSION?

6 A. No.

7 Q. WHAT IF ANYTHING CAN OR WILL BE DONE FOR RESIDENTS 8 WHO ARE NOT PICKED UP IN YOUR FIRE DEPARTMENT CENSUS, '

9 WHO TURN OUT NOT TO HAVE HAVE A VEHICLE ON THE 10 PARTICULAR DAY THE EMERGENCY ARISES? IF THE 11 TELEPHONE SYSTEMS ARE OVERLOADED HOW CAN THEY REACH 12 SOMEBODY TO GET A RIDE? r.

13 A. Emergency vehicles will be throughout the area.

14 These vehicles can.be flagged down. Individuals can 15 either be transported in these vehicles or the fire 16 department will be contacted by the . emergency vehicle 17 . driver. We will have personnel at the fire 18 departments if people need a ride and.we can dispatch 19 personnel.to pick.them up.

20 Q. WOULD YOU HAVE EBS. MESSAGES THAT TOLD PEOPLE WHAT TO 4

21. DO IF THEY DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO. VEHICLES?

22 A. Yes.,

23' Q. WHAT MIGHT-THE'EBS MESSAGE ADVISE.THEM~TO DO?.

. 24 A. Call a designated county office to~ arrange'to-be 25 ' picked up or go out:andiflag down an emergency 26 ' vehicle.

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e i-i 1 TESTIMONY OF MECKuENBURG COUNTY 2 (LEWIS WAYNE BROOME) ON 3 EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 4 Q. DOES THE COUNTY PLAN CONTAIN INFORMATION RELATED TO 5 THIS CONTENTION?

6 A. Yes, Part 3,Section IV.B and Part 3, figure 8 of the 1

7 N.C. State Plan.

8 Q. EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 DEALS WITH 9 OVERLOADING OF LOCAL TELEPHONE SYSTEMS DURING AN 10 EMERGENCY. DO YOU THINK THAT THERE IS A POTENTIAL ,

11 FOR OVERLOADING LOCAL TELEPHONE SYSTEMS? IF SO, 12- WOULD THAT INTERFERE WITH YOUR ABILITY TO NOTIFY 13 EMERGENCY PERSONNEL TO REPORT TO ASSUME EMERGENCY ,,

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r 15 A. . I.think you probably would have an overload, but to Eli6 what extent I' don' t know. There would be enough 17 emergency workers on hand on a shif t basis for the 18 initial. response.- The emergency workers that would' 19 be notified ~as backup or support of relief would be 20 notified.via radio or via telephone or via one-on-one 21 contact'(by sending vehicles into an area) or:by an 22 emergency. broadcast system announcement that all 23 emergency workers tor' all City of Charlotte Police 24- Department personnel- or_ all: City of Charlotte . Fire 25 Department personnel report to ' station. - So, I don' t

'26. -believe it's a problem.

27 Q.- WOULD. IT ALSO ' BE POSSIBLE THAT SOME WORKERS WOULD - BE 12 8 : CONTACTED BEFORE THE SIRENS WERE~ SOUNDED 7 ,

l 1 A. It could be. If the Mecklenburg County EOC was 2 activated at the alert stage and we thought that the 3 situation was going to develop on a more critical 4 level, we would make arrangements, I think. Prudent 5 judgment would dictate making arrangements to insure 6 that we have sufficient resources and relief 7 personnel to carry on sustained operations.

8 Q. HOW MUCH TIME WOULD YOU ESTIMATE IS REQUIRED FOR 9 NOTIFICATION OF THE ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL NEEDED TO 10 ACTIVATE THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER IN 11 MECKLENBURG COUNTY?

12 A. About ten minutes would be the maximum time that I ,.-

13 would be looking at for notification for what we 14 would term as essential personnel. These essential 4

. 15 personnel that have been mentioned are already on 16 duty, so there would be a matter of radio or 17 . telephone and advising them to proceed to the'EOC.

18 That would be a very, very short period of time.

19 Q. WOULD YOU PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO THE BUSES FOP.

20 THOSE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL WITHOUT VEHICLES?

21 A. That's correct.

22 'Q. IF THE TELEPHONES WERE OVERLOADED, HOW WOULD PEOPLE

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. :24 TRANSPORTATION?.

1 1 A. The Duke brochure indicates that if you need 2 assistance to contact the local emergency management 3 office. I have not received any requests at this

,- 4 point in time, however, in the event of an actual 5 emergency we would use the EBS to announce where 6 people could be picked up either along specified 7 routes or specific locations. Moreover, our 8 supplemental system for sirens will be in effect; 9 these persons who need assistance should, if 10 appropriate, contact the personnel in these emergency 11 vehicles to inform them of their special needs. ,

12 Q. WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN WE DO ABOUT PEOPLE WHO.CANNOT ,.

13 GET OUT OF THEIR HOME?

14 A. The Duke brochure tells these-people to notify us l

15 ahead of time for assistance.

16 Q. COULD PEOPLE ALSO BE NOTIFIEh BY AN EBS MESSAGE TO 17 REPORT TO CERTAIN LOCALITIES IF THEY NEEDED

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19 A. EBS messages could also be used . to tell people that 20 .there are buses at_such and such pickup points for 21 those who are transportationidependent and th4y can 22 just go to those p$ints.: ,,

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_4-1 A. We would make that announcement. Human nature being 2 what it is, though, I don' t know how much good it 3 would do.

4 Q. PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS WILL BE 5 NOTIFIED AND WHETHER OVERLOADING THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM 6 WILL INTERFERE WITH SUCH NOTIFICATION.

7 A. If school is in session, the drivers are going to be 8 in place and will be notified by the tone alert 9 system in the schools. There would not be a problem 10 there with regard to any kind of overload of the

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11 telephone system. If school is not in session, then 12 school evacuation does not become a concern of ours. -

13 We would not have to deal with the situation. If 14 school is not in session, back-up bus drivers would 15 be notified by a voice-pager system and EBS messages.

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1 TESTIMONY OF YORK COUNTY 2 (PHILLIP STEVEN THOMAS) ON 3 EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 4 Q. EMERGENCY PLANNING CONTENTION 18 DEALS WITH POTENTIAL 5 DIFFICULTIES IN NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL 6 BECAUSE OF THE OVERLOADING OF THE LOCAL TELEPHONE 7 SYSTEM. IS THERE A SECTION OF THE YORK COUNTY PLAN 8 THAT DEALS WITH THE ISSUES OF CONTENTION 18?

9 A. Yes. Annexes B and E of the York County Emergency 10 Operations, Plan.

'll Q. WHO IS THE FIRST PERSON IN YORK COUNTY GOVERNMENT WHO 12 IS NOTIFIED OF A RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY AT CATAWBA 13 AND HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? ..-

14- A.- That would'be the dispatcher at the sherif f's -

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17 Q. WHOiDOES THE SHERIFF'S DISPATCHER CALL OR WHAT-DOES 18 HE DO:NEXT?

19 A. -He has a predesigned program to follow once he is 20 notified an,d the first. person he would contact would I

21. be the director of the Emergency Preparedness Agency.-

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24.. ^Q U iWOULD HE' CALL ANYGODY-ELSE7- ,

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1 Q. AFTER YOU WERE NOTIFIED BY THE SHERIFF'S DISPATCHER, 2 WOULD YOU THEN HAVE TO CALL ANY EMERGENCY WORKERS OR 3 OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE COUNTY RESPONSE?

4 A. Yes.

.5 Q. HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD YOU HAVE TO CALL?

6 A. Four.

7 Q. HOW LONG DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT THAT WOULD TAKE YOU?

8 A. Not greater than 5 to 7 minutes.

9 Q. ASSUMING THAT MATTERS WERE ESCALATING RAPIDLY, WHAT'S ,

10 . THE EARLIEST THAT THE SIRENS MIGHT BE SOUNDED AFTER ll THE NOTIFICATION BY THE STATION TO THE DISPATCHER IN 12 THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE? ,.-

13 A. The dispatcher would have the ability to sound the 14 sirens on the direction of an individual at the ,

15 Catawba station. With notification from the 16 individual at the plant that a situation had 17 occurred, the dispatcher would have a period of ten-18 to fifteen minutes to coordinate the sounding of the 19 -sirens and;the release and. development of the EBS 20 ' message with~Mecklenburg-and Gaston counties.

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1 A. Again, depending upon the length and duration of 2 discussion with the plant operator or someone from 3 Catawba and the development of the EBS message and 4 the sounding of the sirens, assuming that that took 5 from ten to fifteen minutes, within the next two to 6 three minutes.

7 Q. HOW MANY PERSONS ARE YOU ASSUMING WILL BE AT THE 8 DISPATCH CENTER?

9 A. One.

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11 OF THE SIRENS AND THE CONTENT OF THE EBS MESSAGE 12 BEFORE HE WOULD . CALL YOU? ,

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE DISPATCHER, DOES THAT MAKE 15 A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR ANSWER?

16 A.. Yes, it could cut the time considerably. They could 17 simultaneously be getting in touch with me and 18 actively responding to the plant at:the same time, so 19 .that would move that up several minutes.

20 Q. WOULD THERE BE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THERE WOULD BE 21 MORE THAN ONE INDIVIDUAL-AT THE DISPATCH CENTER? IF

22. SO, PLEASE EXPLAIN.

23 A._ Yes, typically,~I think you would find more than'one 24 pdrson on the lfirst and second. shif t and maybe onL an 25- early weekend evening where they;-have a lot of

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4 Q. COULD YOU ESTIMATE HOW RAPIDLY THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM 5 MIGHT BECOME OVERLOADED AFTER THE ACTIVATION OF THE 6 SIRENS?

7 A. In my opinion, overloading of the telephone system 8 would not impede my getting the information or me 9 getting in touch with my four contacts. .

10 Q. . WHY?

11 A. I feel.it would not take me any more than five to 12 seven minutes to contact everyone necessary (4 , , .

13- . people) af ter I have been notified.

14 Q. SO EVEN IN THIS SITUATION WHERE THE SIRENS HAVE 15- ALREADY GONE.0FF BY THE TIME YOU ARE NOTIFIED, DO YOU 16 STILL ANTICIPATE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH 17- BY TELEPHONE TO THE FOUR PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD NEED 18 TO TALK TO?

19 A. Yes.

20' O. HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE.YOUR EMERGENCY

~21 OPERATION CENTER. OPERATIONAL?

22 A. Our EOC would bei fully operational af ter I call the 23 .three or_four people. We"would~not have to make any 24 further calls after that.- The _ plan would tre _ that 25 :they-could call from their home the people that they 26 ~ should contact up to'three, depending upon which

1 person we are talking about of the ones I call, but 2 that's not necessary. We are operational with just 3 myself and the other four.

4 Q. DO YOU HAVE CONTINGENCY PLANS IN THE EVENT YOU OR THE 5 FOUR PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED PERSONS ARE UNAVAILABLE?

6 A. Yes, and our recent December 1983 nursing -home 7 evacuation confirms that such contingency plans are 8 promp't and effective.

9 Q. IF THE SCHOOLS ARE IN SESSION WHEN A RADIOLOGICAL ,

10 EMERGENCY OCCURS , HOW WILL THE SCHOOLS GET THE WORD 11 TO LISTEN TO THE EBS BROADCA9T?

12 A. Duke's tone' alert system, which will be each. school, ,

13 will be activated by EBS. In addition, the schools 14- are on our specialty notification list. We would 15 notify them by phone, describing the situation. Then 16 theyfwould obviously turn on the radio or TV and 17 monitor from there.

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18 .Q. IF THE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS WERE OVERLOADED SO THAT YOU 19 COULDN'T GET THROUGH TO THE SCHOOLS BY TELEPHONE, 20 WOULD THEY STILL BE ALERTED TO LISTEN TO THE EBS L 21 STATION BECAUSE OF THE' TONE ALERT?-

22 A. Yes. 'The purpose of the tone alert is to notify 23 without resorting to the telephone. Thus, it is 24 reasonable to expect schools,~ upon hearing the tone-25 alert, to listen to the EBS.

1 Q. ASSUMING THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE IN SESSION, WILL THE 2 NORMAL SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS BE NOTIFIED BY THIS TONE 3 ALERT SYSTEM?

4 A. Yes, by the school officials.

5 Q. IF A RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY ARISES OTHER THAN ON A 6 SCHOOL DAY WHO WILL THE BUS DRIVERS BE AND HOW WILL 7 THEY BE NOTIFIED?

8 A. In that particular situation, we will be calling on 9 our volunteer firemen to act as the drivers. They ,

10 will be notified by contacting the volunteer fire 11 department through the fire marshall's office, which 12 is one of the agencies that has a representative in ,

13 the EOC. They would sound the notification system 14 that they are normally notified through. They would

-15 be told by a voice transmittal pager to report to a 16 specific location where, depending on the situation,-

17 they would be brought together collectively to pick 18 up the buses at a specific site or taken collectively 19 as-a group and let.off one by one at the buses.

20 Q. ARE YORK COUNTY'S VOLUNTEER FIREMEN USUALLY NOTIFIED 21 BY A PAGER OR DEVICE WHICH ALLOWS VERBAL 22~ COMMUNICATION WITH THE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN?

23 'A. There is a paging system that they use whe're they can p 24 have - verbal communication, one way communication, or 25 messages given to them to report'or to call, 26 depending upon that situation.

1 Q. SO ARE YOU DEPENDENT UPON A TELEPHONE SYSTEM TO REACH THE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN?

2 3 A. No.

I 4 Q. ARE YOU DEPENDENT UPON THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM TO REACH 5 THE PERSON WHO HAS THE KEYS FOR ALL'THE BUSES?

6 A. We would reach them by telephone from the EOC.

7 However, we have duplicate keys at the school bus 8 maintenance office and such could be provided to the 9 volunteer firemen as they are picked up and '

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, Bolch Attachment A l Exhibit A Statement Of Education and Professional Qualifications MICHAEL E. BOLCH My name is Michael E. Bolch. Since September of 1981, I have been Emergency Preparedness Coordinator at Catawba Nuclear Station I have been an employee of Duke Power Company for 8 years. My responsibilities are to:

1. Assure that the CNS Emergency Plan is accurate and current.
2. Assure that procedures necessary to implement the CNS Emergency Plan are developed and current.
3. Assure that training necessary to support the plan is conducted. ~~
4. Assure that the necessary equipment to support the plan is available and maintained properly.
5. Conduct training drills as necessary.
6. Coordinate Emergency Planning activities among all station

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7. Coordinate Emergency Planning activities with local agencies.

l I have worked on the installation of the Catawba Prompt Alerting Siren System, Evacuation Time Estimates, Technical Support Center Layout and Education of the Public at .various

. meetings-and presentations.

I am currently an undergraduate senior at Queens College, Charlotte, .N.C. I received my indoctrination to nuclear power j from - the U.S. Navy through' intensive training . at . Mare Island,-

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California and Idaho Falls, Idaho and subsequent tours of duty aboard the USS Lewis & Clark SSBN644 and USS Ray SSN653. In January of 1976, I came to work for Duke Power Company's McGuire Nuclear Station. In October of 1977 when I was assigned as an Associate Instructor at the Duke Power Company Technical Training Center until I assumed my present position.

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