ML20138A545

Affidavit of Rl Bryant Supporting Applicant 860310 Motion for Summary Disposition of Joint Intervenors Contention EP-2/EP-2(h) Re Provision of Emergency Public Info for Transients

ML20138A545
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	03/10/1986
From:	Bryant R BURKE COUNTY, GA, GEORGIA POWER CO.
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, et al. Docket Nos. US24

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Units 1 and 2) ) l AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD L. BRYANT i ON CONTENTION EP-2/EP-2(h) l COUNTY OF BURKE )

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STATE OF GEORGIA )

I, Richard L. Bryant, beir.g duly sworn according to law, '

depose and say as follows:

1. My name is Richard L. Bryant. I am the Director of the Burke County Emergency Management Agency. My business address is Route 2, Box SIB, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830. A sum-mary of my professional qualifications is attached to this af-fidavit as Exhibit A.

2. The purpose of this affidavit is to support "Appli-cants' Motion For Summary Disposition of Joint Intervenors' Contention EP-2/EP-2(h)," which concerns the provision of emer-gency public information for transients within the Vogtle plume exposure pathway Emergency Planning Zone ("EPZ"). I have per-sonal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and believe I them to be true and correct. l 8603140310 B40310 PDR ADOCK 05000424 O PM

r I. Identification of Transients

3. The Burke County portion of the EPZ is rural and has only one large employer -- Plant Vogtle. The transient popula-tion of this portion of the EPZ is comprised of non-resident (1) hunters, fishermen, and other sportsmen; (2) motorists passing through th* area, (3) employees working in the area; and (4) individuals making occasional brief visits to attend church, the Plant Vogtle Visitors Center, commercial establish-ments, or for other such reasons. Each of these transient pop-ulations is discussed below. The staff and students of Girard Elementary School (the only school in the EPZ) are also dis-cussed below, although the school will be closed permanently no later than September 1987. Finally, individuals staying at the local. motel are also discussed, though this group is subsumed by other transient populations identified above.

4. The identification of these transient populations is the result of a thorough survey of the part of Burke County that is within the EPZ. Every roadway has been reconnoitered to identify land usage (for example, land posted for hunting),

boat landings, commercial establishments, lodgings, churches, etc. Follow-up information has been obtained from timber com-panies (which are major land-owners), from hunting clubs, from the Georgia Division of Natural Resources, from the Georgia De-partment of Transportation, from the Georgia Emergency

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Management Agency, from the Agricultural Conservation and Sta-bilization Service and the County Agent of the'U.S. Department of Agriculture, from the Corps of Engineers, from the Lockmaster in Augusta, fron Georgia Power Company, and from local officials.

A. Sportsmen

5. Nearly all hunting in Burke County is through orga-nized hunting clubs which have leases or other such arrange-ments for the use of specific property. Club members typically hunt in organized parties on these properties. Approximately twenty such clubs have been identified in the Burke County por-tion of the EPZ. There are also occasional individual hunters in the Burke County portion of the EPZ, but very few are '

non-residents, particularly in comparison to the number of people hunting through clubs.

6. Fishing and boating for the public in the Burke Coun-ty EPZ is limited to the Savannah River, Brier Creek and Mill-er's Pond. Access to the river is provided by public and pri-vate boat launch ramps within the EPZ, and also by river travel from up- or down-stream points beyond the EPZ. All boat launches in the Burke County portion of the EPZ have been iden-i tified. Two possible public access points to Brier Creek have also been identified. Because the Corps of Engineers no longer l

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r maintains the depth of the navigation channel in the Savannah River, the river is no longer used for commercial traffic.

B. Motorists Passing Through the EPZ

7. Each day, approximately 500 vehicles with origins and destinations outside the EPZ pass through the EPZ on Route 23.

C. Non-resident Employees

8. The single largest transient population that will exist in the Burke County portion of the EPZ after the licens-ing of Vogtle Unit 1 will be non-resident Vogtle employees, including non-resident construction workers completing Unit 2.

9. Other than Plant Vogtle, timber companies are the only employers likely to have more than one or two employees in the EPZ. There are six timber companies operating in the Burke ..

County portion of the EPZ. None of these companies have of-fices in the EPZ but, from time to time, they use field crews to maintain or harvest their lands in the EPZ.

10. Some of the farms in the Burke County EPZ are oper-ated by non-resident farmers. It is typically necessary for a non-resident farmer to periodically visit the EPZ for a few days at a time during the season to plant, maintain, and har-vest his crop,

11. There are approximately 20 small commercial estab- i lishments (e.g., stores, gas stations, etc.) in the Burke l

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County portion.of the EPZ. Some of these establishments are likely to have employees who do not reside wit 1.in the EPZ.

D Occasional Visitors to the EPZ

12. There are twenty-two churches in the Burke County portion of the EPZ. The congregations of these churches in-clude both EPZ residents and non-residents.

13. Plant Vogtle will operate a Visitors Center, which will offer information and exhibits concerning the plant. The Center will draw both EPZ residents and non-residents. There are no other features, attractions, or activities within the Burke County portion of the EPZ that attract numbers of visi-tors. There are, however, non-residents who occasionally enter the EPZ to visit commercial establishments, etc.

E2 Girard Elementary School

14. The students and staff of Girard Elementary School include both EPZ residents and non-residents. This school --

the only school in the EPZ -- will close permanently no later than September 1987.

F. Individuals Staying at the Motel

15. There is only one motel in the Burke County portion of the EPZ. However, individuals staying at the motel cannot be regarded as a separate transient population; practically all

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(if not all) are non-resident employees (particularly Plant Vogtle employees), sportsmen, or motorists passing through.

II. Means of Disseminating Pre-Emergency Public Information to Transients

16. A comprehensive program has been designed to provide information to transients within the Burke County portion of the EPZ, and will be fully implemented prior to fuel load at Vogtle. The program includes the following means of disseminating the information. First, the Georgia edition of the Vogtle emergency public information brochure, " Safety In-formation -- Plans To Help You During Emergencies," will be made available to transients. Prior to fuel load at Vogtle, and annually thereafter, Georgia Power Company will provide all commercial establishments with a supply of the brochures, for distribution to non-resident employees. The motel will also be provided with a supply of the brochures for distribution to guests. In addition, as part of the initial and annual -

disseminations of the brochure, residents will be requested to provide copies of the brochure to any non-residents using their land (e.g.,

the occasional non-resident hunter). Second, an insert will be placed in the local telephone directory which serves the EPZ area within Burke County. Third, Georgia Power company will place stickers on or near all public telephones 1

within the Burke County portion of the EPZ. Finally, George  !

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Power Company will provide large warning signs (for outdoor use) and smaller warning signs '(for indoor use) for posting at strategic locations.in the EPZ, such as commercial establish-ments (including the motel), gas stations and areas used by sportsmen. *

17. Each of these means will provide the basic in-formation needed by a transient to respond effectively to a j

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warning of an emergency at Plant Vogtle. Each will inform th reader that he is near Plant Vogtle, indicate how notification -

of an emergency would be provided, explain what actions should be taken if a warning is received, and list appropriate EBS ,

stations for the area. The signs and stickers will also refer s

the reader to the telephone directory insert, which will in- g clude more detailed information. N ,3 ,

18. More specifically, with respect to each of the indi- q ,

' 4 vidual transient populations identified above, the following .

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means will be used to disseminate public information: >

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19. Prior to fuel load, and annually therhafter, Georgia Power Company will provide each hunting club in the EPZ with a supply of the brochures, for distribution to their membership.

Prior to fuel load, Georgia' Power Company will also provide outdoor warning signs to appropriate local officials and

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9-landowners, for posting at Miller's Pond and at the boat launches within the Burke County portion of the EPZ. At the up-river and down-river boundaries of the EPZ, warning signs will be posted on both banks of the Savannah River, to provide information to sportsmen. Sportsmen will also be informed by the warning notices posted in commercial establishments within the EPZ, where they stop for supplies, gasoline, food, or lodg-ing. Finally, the public telephone stickers and the telephone directory insert are additional means of informing sportsmen.

B. Motorists

20. Motorists traveling through the area will be informed by the warning notices posted in commercial establishments (when they stop for gasoline, food, lodging, etc.), and by the '

information on the public telephone stickers and in the tele-phone directory. Those who do not stop will spend less than 25 minutes in the EPZ.

C. Non-resident Employees

21. As noted above, the greatest number of non-resident employees is the Plant Vogtle work force. All Vogtle construc-tion workers, plant personnel and contractor personnel receive instruction on the methods of personnel notification and re-

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, V individuals who are on-sit'e for a brief period are required to be escorted by a trained individual.)

22. Prior to fuel load,,and,.! annual,1y thereafter, Georgia Power Company will provide all commercial establishments within the EPZ -- as well as all timber companies operating in the EPZ

-- with a supply of the b'rochures, for distribution to non-resident employees. Further, all area farmers are required to register annually with the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service ("ASCS") of the U.S. Department of Agri-culture in Augusta. The ASCS office has agreed to post a warn-ing sign to provide information to area farmers, and to dis-tribute copies of the brochure to farmers using land in the EPZ. Finally, non-resident employees will be informed by the warning notices posted in commercial establishments within the EPZ, the public telephone stickers, and the telephone directory 3

insert.

D. Occasional Visitors

23. Prior to fuel load, and annually thereafter, Georgia Power Company will provide the pastors of all churches in the Burke County portion of the EPZ with supplies of the brochures, for distribution to the church congregations. The churches will also be provided with indoor warning notices, for posting on church premises.

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24. At the Vogtle Visitors Center, warning signs will be posted and brochures made available to all visitors. In addi-tion, visitors to the Center will be under the supervision of the Center's staff who will have received the General Employee Training described above.

25. Both church-goers and Vogtle-visitors, as well as any other occasional visitors in the area such as those patronizing commercial establishments, will also be informed by means of the warning information posted in commercial establishments and at public telephones, and the information in the local tele-phone directory.

L Girard Elementary School

26. Prior to fuel load, and annually thereafter (until the school closes), Georgia Power Company will provide Girard Elementary School with a supply of brochures, for distribution to school staff and parents of students attending the school.

III. Conclusion

27. Thus, adequate measures are being taken to provide emergency public information for transients.

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/ \ Richard L.' Bryariit' Sworn to and subscribed before me this day o eb ry, 1986.

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January, 1986 Exhibit A RICHARD L. BRYANT DIRECTOR, Burke County Emergency Management Agency Since 1934, Mr. Bryant has served as the Director of the Burke County Emergency Management Agency (EMA), with headquarters lo-cated in Waynesboro, Georgia. Mr. Bryant is the first full-time director of the agency which, under his leadership, l has experienced significant growth and expansion of its re-sources and capabilities.

As Director, Mr. Bryant has responsibility for fire, rescue, and ambulance services on a county-wide basis, as well as re-sponsibility for planning and implementing the response to the full range of natural and technological disasters potentially

, affecting Burke County. He superviseJ a paid staff of approxi-mately 30 people, as well as more than 50 volunteers.

He assumed the lead in obtaining funding for Burke County's re

cently constructed Emergency operations Center (EOC), and --

with the cooperation of the local agencies involved in Eoc de-velopment -- he managed the planning efforts involved in its design. These efforts included the development of the overall layout of the facility and its equipment.

Mr. Bryant has completed numerous professional development courses offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

These have included courses in emergency management planning and decision-making, personnel management, finance and bud-geting, shelter management, and radiological procedures and methodologies. Mr. Bryant has also completed several cources with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, including such topics as rescue, hazardous materials transportation accidents, and arson investigation.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE For twenty-three years prior to assuming the Directorship of 1

the Burke County Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Bryant was a Flight Engineer with the operations branch of the United States Air Force, specializing in planning and scheduling. He had responsibilities in emergency planning areas, including emer-gency response to conventional and nuclear warfare, and hazard-ous materials issues and problems. These responsibilities in-cluded leading emergency response teams for hazardous materials emergencies, as well as supervising programs for routine and emergency handling and disposal of radioactive materials. Mr.

Bryant's duties also included tactical operations and contin-gency planning.

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