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| Issue date: | 05/07/1984 |
| From: | Cotter B Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | Mcpherson W WASHINGTON POST |
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ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENslNG 80ARD PANEL wasm=ctom. o.c. roses May 7, 1984 William McPherson, Editor
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Dear fir. McPherson:
This is to correct the false inpression in that portion of th ar*.icle on Shoreham (May 6,1984 page 3) concerning the appoint e Post critical facts:new Licensing Board in that proceeding.
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On March 20, 1984, filed a motion seeking a low-power license using anLIL n and backup separate from the diesel generators; and emergency 4
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ear hearing in another case. embers were comitted to three months' Board to decide the new LILCO motion to afford th a separate due process owed any party to our proceedings administrative devices used to avoid delaadditional Licensing Boards is but one Appointment of our Administrative Judges'y caused by schedule conflicts arising from s rative heavy workloads.
have the motion heard, muchIn my judgment, a three-month delay be a denial of due process. less whether the answer was yes or no,d even coul I did not (and would not) tell the new would W!E1*Ji!"
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.By Dek,Rummek.off mur Long h!and's Shoreham nuclear bewer plant. one of the most imper-God in the country because of nnan-tial and technological problema. has become the focus of an unusual re.
P ausettstaan effort by the Rossan ad.
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aificance because the mimmistrataan Armly opposes the notion of federal rescues for faltermg pnvate compa-mes.
It has not moved to save several other utilitus facing bankruptcy be-cause of troubled nuclear plants, in.
duding Public Service Co. of New W_.i@
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facihty u almost complete, but
- Because these agencies repre Scials contend that it would be im-Shorehams chance of receiving an the admmistration to which you possible to evacuaw Long kland.
Deratmg license from the Nuclear subordinate in your role as et which aufers fmm unmc gndid Regulat rv Commission in consid.
man, your contact with them cre on normal days, in the event d a ered alita becaun its emergency die.
the reasonable infmnce that nuclear accident.
7 *W/n very c,ncerned and asw _sel generators do. not met federal have bee napprophate manner.*
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'df'tY "tandards and hecause the. wrnte in a lette o
d state and local duties. Aner all, state of New President Reapn was a gowrnor York and Suffolk day.
himself
- said. White Houne,cienc,County have refused to participate Palladino did not return a rep, adviser George A. Keyworth it a kay - m an emergency evacuatmn plan, a eri phone calla. Aides prerequinite to licensing.
he was out of town and unavaila participent in the re= rue effort.
- *But I think it wuuld be un un. One proponal under review by the for comment.
udministration in a federally fi.
The adminiatration's etTorts tinual gewrnment that *ouki sit back and not be interested in a $4 nanced dnll. estimated ta ennt 'up to Ulcui behalf follow a series o bulion potential testunony to non-
$2 million. to test a Ulco plan for ings from th Ulco chairman %
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evacuatmg th ans.
liam J. Catacosince that the util
! New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and Another calls for TEMA and DOE wal be fed to scrap Shorehe other entics call tbe flurry of activity e esercise police pows in place d unkse th government intuvenes a deeperation move by an admins-local omcials in tne event of an De c mpany psys 4L$ mdlion tration that voegd to encourage nu-emergency, an arrangement day in interest on the plant's co-ques-clear power. and now faces the po-tioned for its legality by the Con-and
- y run out of money bv fa tantial benkruptcy of several nuck-gnssional Rmuch Service in a se.
- tthi.t an infusion of cash Cataci ar-dependent utuitus.
port nkasd Fnday.
sma. has sa;d.
"This isn't rational planning
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Wa!! Street analvsta say cred Cuomo said. "Ibir enmon orec.Mud 2 loan his d
i markets are n t likely come t tivity now are because they find t Nue Mtwy Cenmuswn Ulco's rescue if it has an idk. mu.
themselves in extremis. Thy are to help the agency respond to a fed. tibillion-dollar fant.
more corkerned about the health nf wal cart ade striking den a pn*
At this point. the Street is sti' the utility than about the people.
Ulco ruling by an NRC bcenamt skeptical
- a:d Mark Luftig. chie They're working to open the plant,houd. NRC chairman Nunzw
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utilities analyst for Salomon Broth not to make th peuple sale.-
Psiladino reported the ennrace en ers in New YA
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worth. Enugy Secretary Donald P'. fellow comamoners in an Aprd W gno, ggg gg g,,, i,,y;,,,,,,
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Markev tD-Specifically. Catacosirke asised the ment Agentv director Lain Giuf.
frida and their sides how been Maw 3. chairman of the Hwee suh.
admnstration to help Ulco imple vornm ttee that overe the NRC ment ita nwn emerrercv evacuarior meeting and drafting penpumals on and who obtained a copy of th*
plan. hvpaname the state and ince saw the plant from pounible moth-how the tederal government could.
MGcial ars owner. Ims 14and aa **ll as an eanier meetmit between Keyworth. Hodel and other ad-balling bv Palladina and Giuttn mmintraten officials have called ughtma Co konwn a. Enen. wha n
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erators mere rendved. Hearmp mere scheduled to last imo September, bv ubch ume Catamamos had warned Illco ndght run out of cash.
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But s:s weeks later, NRC chief
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Cotter Jr. appointad a sew I-smf board that ruled that Shoreham could be started under certain cir.
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l The switch came after Panadino held a meetmg with Coczer and the NRC staf!. in which he expressed concern aboat 'licensmg delays
- at Shoreham, and suggested expediting the baarmss, accordmx to a memo by Palladmo on the session.
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' g a--eny no unproprieues, but has come un-ics-wantina plan, gpened by New York sense and Seenk Ceuty,is pmpment der fire for the move by two of the other four mmmmmaners. Alsa UK District Judge Norma Johnson iillion Marble Hill plant in Indiana, "It's not that we'n unwilling to halted the new bearing, saying the vnich ran out of money in mid-evacuata,* said SuffcJk County dep. - hasty schedule appeared to compro-
- romet, Shoreharn is almost can-uty executive Frank Jones. *lt's that :nise the plamtiffa' rights ta due pro-uete. And it has not been found to it simply can't be done. We spent cess.
iave serious technical defects, as at one year and 4600.000 studymg this.
De full commmmon has since he $1.6 bilhen Zunmer plant in ne bng Island Expressway is wned to take control of the case,and enio and the 83.4 billion Midland jammed nght this minute. If we had is scheduled to hear argunenta to.
Lnt in Michigart an accident, we'd have 1.5 milhon m mrow.
Until problems surfamd in Shore. -people on a 6v=-rnel nerunrtfleein,... That decision marks the first set -
ami emergenev dweel renerators. into New York City. It'd be absolute, back for Luco since the administra-
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mich are needed in operat+ safety tota!, completa chaosf tion began trying to assist the com-autpment iri the event of a black-hre an 2.6 million people IW pany.
.r the only bar to its licenne was-on Ung laland.
Since then, other pitfalls have ne lack of an approved evacuation Administration officials said that emerpd. FEMA general counsel
' e dn Hodel utote in a 1983 memo that p hjjg gg[ggy jg gh, gop gangg7g g, George Jett said a federal role re-they examine possible aid to Luco, mams only a
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- and will not ne case could *estabbsh a precedent but Maritey, Cuomo and Sundk beenme a reality ualees LDco ar-nat will comphcate hcensing power uants in other states,* posing a po*
Coumy <M have charpd that recta m re than 30 defects formd by antial threat to the w bihty nf the fM mnarns a a be guid. FEMA m its evecuation plar.
- uciear power mdustry..
ing the government even more.
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"I felt as secretary of energy I sim-Notes of '" Apr0 4 in County appears 2 k Mning dv could not stand by and permit gind b* M A group of 450 kng Island busi-ne closure or nonoperation of a
,,gggg ness people last week began runnmg jant on a technicahty when it ap-written by a DOE emplove state that anti-Lileo radio ac.a. warnmg that was that the plant has been con-Hodel and Giuffrida were scheduled rates wiD soar if Shore-ham is beensed, a move that would
- ructed adequately.* Hedel toid to awet e on on the subiect of emer-aliow the company to bul consumers ewsday, the kre Island daily pa.
gucy pnpandman, addms *1mpor-for much c.f the construcuan cost of tant for lilco to know this ao they the power plant.
The requirement for an emergen.
d n't throw in the towel. April 27 "Luco in at it again, looking for evacration plan around nuclear hoe of creda due..
e ants is one of the chief legacies of The line of cred t refers to a loan favors fur the fderal government
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+ 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear - on which Lilen was m danger of dt-the ad. *. Imk Lucu. vuu dun't wer plant accident in Pennsviva, fauhing. but cnditors nemtly par for our mistakes We don't
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wre bmeauv a conservanve mon. Contree and the NRc Marker ahu has raised questions Republican communirv.* said Suf-med the requirement in the wak, about a change in an NRC boardi folk County deputt execuuve Jones.
ene TMI occxient ruhng on the issue of lilco's detec-
"We're not a_ bunch of left-wmg
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pmkos. Ise been a Repubhcan com-widav mterwer was prblished to An NRC beensing board ruled on nutteeman for 20 vena. I voted for ne did not curhider the lack of Feb. 22 that. unoer NRC regula. Nixon twirt. !~m voting for Reagan evacuauon plan a
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EP and Shoreham Correspondence 1/9/84 Letter, Jordan to L. Joe Deal, Acting Director, Radiological Controls Division, DOE re Dose Assessments & Interagency Exchange of Info 1/10/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Jordan re Federal Assistance with Emergency Planning
- 1/11/84 Memo, Jordan to Richard W. Krimm, Assistant Associate Director, Office of Natural and Technological Hazards Programs, FEMA re FEMA Review of LILCO Transition Plan for the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant Attachments 12/28/83 - Memo, Jordan to Krimm re FEMA Support for the NRC Licensing of Shoreham Nuclear Station 12/21/83 - Letter, Stuart M. Glass, Regional Counsel, FEMA Region II to Donald Erwin, Hunton &
Williams re Confirming Telecon re LILCO Transition Plan 12/22/83 - Memo, Krimm to Jordan re RAC Review of LILC0 Transition Plan for the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station 1/11/84 Note, DeYoung to Dircks encicsing Governor Cuomo's emergency response proposals (letter of 6/16/83 to Members of Congress) 1/12/84 Memo, Dircks to Commission, Federal Field Exercise, enclosing memo Joe Winkle, FEMA to Members of the Subcommittee on Federal Response, FRPCC, i.e., Invitation of Visitors to the FRERP Field Exercise 1/13/84 Letter, Perkins to Deal, DOE re Meeting on Intercomparisons of Dose Assessment Models
- 1/13/84 Memo, Krimm, FEMA, to Jordan, NRC, Regional Assistance Connittee (RAC)
Review of Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) Transition Plan for the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station 1/17/84 Letter to Aubrey V. Godwin, Director, Bureau of Radiological Health, State of Alabama 1/17/84 Memo, B. Weiss to Glen Woodard, FEMA re Supplies Needed for March FFE 1/19/84 Memo, Jordan, NRC and Jones, FEMA to Principal FFE Participants re FFE 1/22/84 Draft joint Letter (NRC/ FEMA) to Governor Cuomo Regarding Federal Role
- Shoreham Correspondence
. 1/24/84 Memo, Jordan to Krimm re Review of Public Safety Information Borchures
~*1/26/84 Letter, Dircks to Speck re Requesting that FEMA Continue its Review of the LILC0 Plan 1/27/84 Memo, Jordan to Krimm re Review of the Radiological Emergencies Training Package 1/27/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Federal Response Subcommittee Members re Meetings of the Federal Response Subcomittee 2/6/84 Memo, Jordan to Krimm re Agenda for NRC/ FEMA Steering Committee Meeting 4
2/7/84 Memo, Perkins to L. Joe Deal, DOE; Marvin Rosenstien, HHS; David Jones, EPA; George Bickerton, USDA; William F. Jones, FEMA re Meeting to Fonnalize Interface Arrangements at the NRC Operations Center 2/7/84 Memo, Winkle to Federal Response Subcommittee Members Participating
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in the FFE re Identification of FFE Participants 2/8/84 Me'no, Davis, FEMA Region VIII to B. Weiss re FFE Dry-Run 2/9/84 Letter, Jordan to Winkle, FEMA re Procedu're for Emergency Response for Handling a Second Event During the FFE 2/9/84 Memo, Winkle to FFE Participants re Managing Exercise Scenario During Complicating Real World Events 2/10/84 Comment Paper, FEMA, " Unresolved Exercise Frequency Issues" 2/14/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Federal Response Subcommittee Members re Minutes of Meeting, February 1,1984 2/15/84 Letter, Perkins to Deborah Schilling, FEMA re Visitors at the FFE 2/15/84 Memo, B. Weiss to Members, National Emergency Preparedness Policy Development Work Group re NRC Role in the Continuity of Government Enclosures - Letters Palladino to Secretaries of Energy State, Defense, Director of FEMA and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
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a 3-2/16/84 Memo, B. Weiss to Glenn Woodard, FEMA re Logistics Requirements for March FFE 2/16/84 Memo, Sjoblom, EPA to NRC, DOE FEMA re March 1984 Exercise of the Federal Radiological Dnergency Response Plan 2/17/84 Letter, B. Weiss to John Heard, FEMA Region IV re Attendees at FFE 2/22/84 Letter, DeYoung to Bernard A. Maguire, FEMA re Review of Federal Prenaredness Circular 6 2/22/84 Memo, Winkle to FFE Exercise Management Group re FFE Exercise 2/23/84 Letter, Speck, FEMA to Dircks re FRERP and FFE 2/23/84 Memo, B. Weiss to Dick Michener, White House re Federal Field Exercise -
March 6, 7 and 8, 1984 2/27/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to FFE Participating Organization re Players Material for the FFE 2/29/84 Letter, Vernon Adler, FEMA to B. Weiss re FFE Scenario 3/1/84 Memo, Jordan to Krimm re Guidance Memorandum 21 " Acceptance Criteria for Evacuation Plans," Guidance Memorandum 23 "The Ingestion Pathway,"
and Guidance Memorandum 24 " Radiological Emergency Preparedness for Handicapped Persons" 3/8/84 Letter, Krimm to Jordan re FEMA travel funds 3/12/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Members of the Subcommittee on Federal Response Subcommittee Meeting on March 20, 1984 3/13/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to FFE Management Group re Final Meeting of the.
FFE Management Group 3/13/84 Memo, B. Weiss to Scenario Development and Control and Evaluation Work Group re Success of the FFE
- 3/15/84 Letter, Speck, FEMA to Dircks re FEMA Findings on LILC0 Transition Plan for Shoreham 3/29/84 Letter, Jordan to Krimm re FEMA travel funds 4/6/84 Letter, B. Weiss to Stephen S. Trott, Dept. of Justice re Handling of Resource Compilation Data
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4/9/84 Letter, Perkins to Cecil G. Goal, Dept. of the Army re Designation of' Contact for Water Resource Responsibilities in a National Emergency
'4/10/84 Letter, Perkins to William Jones, FEMA re Review of the National Contingency Plan for Consequences of an Extraordinary Situation at Special Events 4/11/84-Memo, B. Weiss to Scenario Development and Control and Evaluation Work Group re Report of Work Group Lessons Learned 4/16/84 Letter, Jordan to Glen L. Sjoblom, EPA re Review of Proposal Revisions to the Inhalation Exposure Pathway Portions of the EPA PAG Manual (EPA-520/1-75-001, Revised June 1980) 4 1
4/20/84 Letter K. Perkins to Duane S. Cooley, NOAA re Distribution List for Technical Procedures Bulletins 1-4/23/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Members of the Subcommittee on Federal kesponse re Minutes of the March 20., 1984 Meeting 4/23/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Members of the Subcomittee on Federal Response i
4/24/84 Memo, DeYoung to Speck, FEMA re Emergency Preparedness Exercises re Minutes of the March 20, 1984 Meeting l
4/26/84 Letter, DeYoung to Speck, FEMA re Success of FFE 4/26/84 Memo, Krimm, FEMA to Jordan re NRC/ FEMA Steering Comittee 3
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4/27/84 Memo, B. Weiss to Members, National Emergency Preparedness Policy Development Work Group re NRC Role in the Continuity of Government j
Enclosing letters from White House, State, Defense FEMA, Energy 1
4/30/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to Federal Response Subcomittee re FRERP Coments, 1
Senior Officers Nuclear Accident Course i
4/30/84 Letter, Perkins to Vernon Adler, FEMA re NRC Participation in FRERP Training Sessions 5/2/84 Memo, Jordan to Krim re NRC Agenda Items for NRC/ FEMA Steering Committee Meeting 5/3/84 Letter, Jordan to Winkle, FEMA re NRC Impressions and Coments Related to the FFE 5/4/84 Memo, Speck, FEMA to Executive Board Members of the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors re Seminars on Federal Emergency j
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5/7/84 Letter, Perkins to Hugh Richardson, FD*.A re Comments on Federal Radiological Dnergency Response Plan (FREI?)
5/7/84 Letter, Dircks'to Rep. William J. Hughes te Prompt Public Notification Systems 5/9/84 Memo, Winkle, FEMA to FFE Management Group and Subcommittee on Federal Response re Draft FFE Evaluation Report 5/9/84 Letter, DeYoung to Bernard A. Maguire, FEh4 re Review of Federal Preparedness Circulars 7,11, 22, 41 and 45 5/10/84 Letter, Jordan to Winkle, FEMA re Comments on FRERP
- 5/11/84 Memo, Jordan to NRC/ FEMA Steering Committee Members re Highlights of May 2,1984 NRC/ FEMA Steering Committee Pketing 5/15/84 Letter, B. Weiss to James C. Williams, FEMA Special Facility re Access to Area B - May 16, 1984
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We recognize that for some time you have been concerned about the appropriate response of Federal agencies in a nuclear power plant accident.
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that last spring you made several proposals to members of Congre:s which you believed would provide a more appropriate role for the Federal government in a
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nuclear reactor emergency.
We believe that some aspects of your proposals are currently planned for in a Federal radiological response, although they may not be well advertised.
There are other aspects of your proposal that we are less cos.fortable with, but we recognize the concerns which prompted all of your
't proposals.
We ' ould like first to describe those aspects of your proposals that we believe w
are currently addressed in Federal plans for radiological emergency response.
Under these' Federal plans there are extensiye' resources which would be'availab1'e to support the State and local authorities in response to any major radiological emergency.
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FEMA has the responsibility for assuring that the Federal response is coordinated under an "unbrella" response plan, i.e., a plan which provides the outline of Federal responsibilities, notifications, deployment of personnel to the site ~,
functions of various facilities, etc.
The current plan is the Master Plan ~
(Enclosure 1) which is expected to be superseded in 1984 by the Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan (FRERP).
The FRERP is an expansion of the Master Plan to include guidance for a Federal response to all types of civil radiological emergencies, including nuclear weapons and transportation accidents.
Under both of these plans, significant Federal resources have been committed to provide assistance to support State and local authorities.
As you are aware, the Federal government has a broad range of resources. The Federal government i
is prepared, upon State request, to bring a significant portion of these resources to bear to help protect the public health and safety.
Some of the major functions which the Federal government is ready to provide to the State and local authorities are:
Radiological Monitoring Assistance - The Department of Energy (DOE) has a mandate to provide radiological assistance to State and local authorities to monitor the offsite effects and evaluate the radiological iapacti.
This is done by providing radiological assistance teams from the National laboratories plus the specialized DOE response teams such as the Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) and the Aerial Measurements System (AMS).
The Environmental Protective' Agency (EPA) and other Federal agencies will also provide similar assistance.
These resources include field radiological survey teams,, sample collectors, analytical capability, aerial surveillance,
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communications equipment, and means for consolidating, collating, and distributing the data and evaluations to offsite authorities and the other Federal agencies. At THE Three Mile Island emergency, there were in excess of 150 technicians at the scene performing this function.
This,'was a small portion of the total Federal resources that could have been made available to this effort.
Technical Assistance - The NRC has developed a comprehensive incident response program in which the NRC will independently evaluate the status of the reactor core and containment, estimate potential offsite impacts, and develop an independent assessment of utility protective action recommendations. This is accomplished by a continuous exchange of data between NRC and the utility and evaluation of that data by NRC technical expertise with some consultation with other Federal agencies, as necessary.
These evaluations and assessments are continually discussed with State officials in an effort to assure that the protective action decisionmaker is provided with the assessment of the major participants in an appropriate context.
Military Assistance - After declaration of a Presidential Disaster, Public f)
Law 92-288 authorizes FEMA to assist the State when their resources have
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These powers reside with the State and local governments.
Prior to the declaration of a Presidential Disaster, FEMA can request support from D0D.
In accordance with the Fe.1eral response plan, D00 has agreed to provide resources in a major radiological emergency.
At TMI, which was not a Declared Disaster, the D00 provided a significant amount of support in transporting emergency supplies and samples, providing communications support, and locating needed equipment.
D00 radiological expertise was available but not needed.
Other Assistance - Each of the Federal agencies who have a role, i.e.,
either technical response, logistical support, or recovery, have delineated the actions and support they will provide to State and local authorities l
in the FRERP.
This assistance will be coordinated by FEMA and includes tasks as diverse as:
use of Federal assets and r.pertise in meeting communications i
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A more complete listing of the assistance that can be provided by the various Federal agencies is provided in Enclosure 2.
WepouldalsoliketopointoutthatFEMAconductsacomprehensiveandweli-respected program of training to State and local officials on radiological emergency response operations at its National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
This outline of potential Federal support is rather brief.
However, we wanted to bring to your attention that the Federal government has an extensive plan to assist State and local authorities in a major radiological emergency and is prepared to bring these extensive resources and capabilities to bear on the 1
problem inj, coordinated and timely manner.
We are vitally interested in your views on the support that the Federal government is prepared to provide, and what additional support the Federal government should consider providing.
Further, senior management of FEMA and NRC would be pleased to meet with you or your representative < to discuss the question of Federal support if you feel that such a meeting would be useful.
We would appreciate receiving your views l
on Federal support and the possibility of a meeting at your earliest convenience.
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Louis 0. Giuffrida Nunzio J. Palladino e
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LETTER TO GOVERNOR CUOMO Requestor's ID:
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Bernie Weiss Document Comments:
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