ML20150F357
| ML20150F357 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/19/1987 |
| From: | Prodell A SHOREHAM-WADING RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-00020, 52FR6980-20, OL-3, NUDOCS 8807180252 | |
| Download: ML20150F357 (4) | |
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February 19, 1987 Lendo W. Zech, Jr., Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Zech:
On February 23, 1987, the N.R.C.
is scheduled to hear testimony from Governor Mario Cuomo of New York on proposed rule changes by the N.R.C. affecting the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station (S.N.P.S.).
While the Governor officially speaks for the state of New York, he does not speak for all residents or all governmental bodies.
Our Board of Education, which represents the Shoreham-Wading River School District, in which the SNPS is located, has adopted the following resolution:
"If the Federal government through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decides to license the (Shoreham) power station to operate, the school board will support the decision...."
We suggest the position of the Board be viewed in the context of a statement from a position paper by Governor Cuomo on the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station made in 1983.
Governor Cuomo's statement is: "The Federal Government has exclusive jurisdiction over the question whether the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station is safe and can therefore be licensed to operats."
The Governor's statement was not inconsistent with other statements he made during 1983 and 1984 when he asked the President to make available federal marshalls for possible evacuation and when the Governor stated that, "of cource the state would intervene to protect the public if a nuclear accident were to occur."
More recently, the Governor has called the SNPS, "unsafe" and has indicated that Long Island cannot be evacuated.
Whether or not the SNPS is safe or not is a matter fcr N.R.C. determination but our experience indicates that the area around the plant can certainly be 8807180252 870219 PDR PR l0 50 52FRb9BO PDR J
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One of our local papers, which strongly opposes the opening of the plant, recently criticized Mr. Cuomo, "The Governor is not from Suffolk County.
He doesn't know what is going on here."
There is on file in the office of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board a letter dated December 6, 1983, submitted by us, the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District, and addressed to Lawrence Brenner, then Administrative Judge which states that our district had participated in preliminary planning for an emergency plan and was prepared to go ahead and continue such planning when the opportunity presented itself.
The preliminary planning was at first done in close communication with consultants to Suffolk County but when Suffolk County withdrew from the task of emergancy planning the opportunity to coordinate our efforts in an overall plan for the power station did not arise again until the decision was reached to conduct a drill of the plan proposed by Lilco.
The Shoreham-Wading River School District did participa*e in the drill conducted on February 13, 1986 after a series of meetings with representatives from Lilco during which coordination between our plan and the Lilco plan was successfully achieved.
The Lilco representatives were attentive to our concerns and cooperative in addressing them.
Since the school district's participation in the drill involved sending buses over some of the routes that would be used in the event of an emergency, the district had prepared maps of each bus route, carefully indicating streets and directions which were distributed to the bus company and the drivers.
The communication during the drill was excellent and the buses were summoned and followed the appropriate routes without difficulty. From the school district's point-of-view our part in the drill was successful and went off without a hitch. At this time we wish to state that we believe we can safely evacuate the pupils in our care and that an evacuation presents no logistical problems that cannot be overcome with rational planning.
Our belief is reinforced by the knowledge that we have enough vehicles and, according to in-district surveys, enough bus drivers and staff members willing to be trained as bus drivers to trenoport all our pupils simultaneously should an emergency occur.
Our Superintendent of Schools, Richard R.
- Doremus, has testified before the Federal Emergency Management Agency that we are abla to evacuate and are ready to continue to participate in emergency planning.
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. The objections to an emergency plan are simply being used by those who oppose nuclear power as a means to blocking the opening of the power station, and, unfortunately, by those who have seized on the issue of an emergency plan in seeking 2
public office.
Those who refuse to participate in emergency planning and oppose the licensing of the Shoreham Nuclear; Pcwer Station have rallied around the slogan "It is impossible to evacuate Long Island."
Much of Long Island,
. of course, both east and west of Shoreham is more distant from that power station than New York City and a substantial part of the Greater New York metropolitan area are from two nuclear power stations at Indian Point.
One wonders, then, if the slogan is taken literally why a similar slogan has not been raised about New York City unless, perhaps, state officials have developed an emergency plan which they believe can efficiently evacuate the millions of people in the city.
officials have also prophesized the dire consequences to the farmlands of eastern Long Island should an accident happen at Shoreham and yet much of the farmland of eastern Long Island lies closer to three nuclear power stations at Millstone, Connecticut than it does to Shoreham.
The peguliar geography of Long Island is cited by opponents of emergency planning as an argument that evacuation is impossible.
This peculiar geography includes a northern half of the ten mile circle around the power station that is all water and, therefore, only the southern half need be evacuated if evacuation were ever to be necessary.
The eastern two-thirds of that southern half are very sparsely settled.
It is only the western third of that half circle 4
that has any population density.
In addition, there is a four-lane divided highway, the William Floyd Parkway, and also two-lane roads such as Randall Road and Wading River-Manorville Road that run directly south from the power station.
Approximately eight miles from the power station the William Floyd Parkway crosses the Long Island Expressway, a six lane divided highway which also runs east and west.
Two miles south of the Long Island Expressway is the Sunrise Highway (Route 27), a four lane divided highway which also runs east and west.
An evacuation could be carried out along these roads, parkway and highways, particularly if all lanes are designated as one-way away from the power station.
In any case, it is our opinion that the Shoreham-Wading River School District could evacuate in 3
the event of an emergency which required such action to be taken.
Should the power station be licensed to operate, the school district is ready to cooperate and coordinate with any governmental body or other organization which is assigned 3
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We wonder what becomes of our nation's energy policy if each state or locality will decide whether or not it will permit a nuclear facility to open?
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Albert G. Prodell, President Board of Education Shorehem-Wading River Central School District 4
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