ML20113A405

Informs That Failure to Contact Local School Districts Re Participation in Evacuation Plan Inexcusable.School Boards Have Responsibility to Designate Bldgs to Be Used as Care Ctrs During Radiological Emergency.Served on 850409

ML20113A405
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	04/03/1985
From:	Koenig H EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY
To:	Rasbury F AMERICAN RED CROSS NASSAU COUNTY CHAPTER, MINEOLA
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CON-#285-447 OL-3, NUDOCS 8504100291
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April 3, 1985 c:mi.- nhta5 Mr. Frank M. Rasbury, Executive Director 00CKEb 4 A 5EF AU Nassau County Chapter of the American Red Cross BRANCH 264 Old Country Road Mineola, New York 11501 SERVED APR 91985

Dear Mr. Rasbury:

In your letter of March 11, 1985 you " clarified" the basis of your testimony before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with respect to the participation of local school districts in an evacuation plan developed, sponsored and implemented by the Lilco Corporation.

Unfortunately, your letter failed to address many of the substan-tive issues which Leon Campo, Executive Assistant for Finance, raised in his letter to you of February 12, 1985.

First of all, your failure to contact school districts with regard to your testimony is inexcusable. School Boards, under the law, not the Red Cross, possess not only the authority, but the respon-sibility to determine whether or not the public buildings in their charge are to be used as " congregate care centers" during a radio-logical emergency. Your testimony before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission specifically implied that school buildings would be available for such purposes and you submitted letters of agreement to substantiate this claim.

While your recent letter indicates that your total testimony simply represents your " opinion," this point was obscured by your testimony and that of Lilco which causes reasonable people to con-clude that the Red Cross has pledged, by a contract with Lilco, to provide congregate care centers through the use'of the public schools of Nassau County.

Specifically, question 24 which was directed to you,as well as other representatives of the Lilco Corporation, asked if a "means of relocation would be provided for evacuees from an emergency at Shoreham?" Your response, in conjrnction with that of Lilco rep-resentatives, was "yes, relocation centers will be available for those who require shelter should there be an emergency at Shoreham." On that matter of fact, as your testimony related to the use of Nassau County school buildings, I believe your testi-mony was not true.

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