ML20137H902

Requests That FEMA Be Notified That Local Emergency Plan Submitted to Hg Vickers on 851209 Was Not Authorized or Approved by Hampton Falls Community.Explanation Re Submittal Also Requested.Served on 860117

ML20137H902
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	01/09/1986
From:	Backus R BACKUS, MEYER & SOLOMON, HAMPTON FALLS, NH
To:	Strome R NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF
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CON-#186-771 OL, NUDOCS 8601220131
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Dear Mr. Strome:

Through the offices of State Senator Nicholas Costello of Massachuset ts, I have obtained a copy of your December 9,1985 letter to Mr. Henry G. Vickers, transmitting "for formal review and approval state and local emergency by Federal Emergency Management Agency" plans for those New Hampshire communities located within the emergency i

planning zone.

i Your letter recites that "The State of New Hampshire believes these plans are adequate for review and analysis by the Atomic Safety Licensing

Board, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the with reasonable assurance, Regional Assistance Committee and that, they provide for the safety of citizens of New Hampshire living within the emergency planning zones for Seabrook Station as well as for the transient population which might be found within the planning ares."

The selectmen of Hampton Falls and the Town Civil Defense Director are both amazed and disappointed that you would:

1) transmit a plan to FEMA for a formal review without notifying the town that you were taking this action, 2) transmit the plan to FEMA without affording I

indicate a copy of the material to be reviewed to the town itself, 3) those plans are acceptable to the State of New Hampshire, when, as you are well aware, they are not acceptable to the town, do not have town approval, and could not have town approval without a vote of the town meeting.

Your office will be aware that I, as well as others, had for some time been attempting to get a copy of the New Hampshire town plans for

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were "at the printers" and were held up due to a back log in printing legislative bills.

I note that these problems did not prevent you forwarding there plans to federal of ficials for their review, although it is the citizens of the affected communities that these plans are supposed to protect.

I am sure the Hampton Falls selectmen are looking forward to some explanation of why the wishes and interests of the town and its citizens have been ignored in this process to date, and would expect some assurance that this will not be the case in the future.

We would request that you immediately notify FEMA and any other recipients of your letter of the true state of affairs.

Very truly yours,

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Mr. Henry Vickers, Regional Director, Region 1 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Rye Selectman Maynard Young

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