ML20203P923
| ML20203P923 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 11/28/1984 |
| From: | Claypool R OWEN J. ROBERTS SCHOOL DISTRICT, PA |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| OL-I-LEA-E-031, OL-I-LEA-E-31, NUDOCS 8605080349 | |
| Download: ML20203P923 (6) | |
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SERVED JUL 5198ti Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Pegulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555
Reference:
Incomplete Inadequate Nuclear Evacuation Plan For The Owen J. Roberts School District Within The Limerick Nuclear Planning Area
Dear Sir:
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Nineteen (19) months ago the Owen J. Roberts School District. established a Citizens' Task Force for the purpose of the development of school emergency planning guidelines involving p::entially hazardous conditions including a nuclear emergency at the Limerick nuclear tacility.
This Citizens' Task Force is comprisec of representatives from the seven (7) townships comprising the School District; township supervisors; NORCO Fire Company; Tecnnical School; employee union representatives from custodial, secretarial, teachers, and care:eria; parent representatives from all of our schools; and a number of concerned citizens.
All of the task force meetings have been advertised in tne local newspapers and open to the general public.
On June 6, 1984, the School Board held an open forum on the status of the nuclear evacuation plan.
This meetinc was widely advertised in tne local media.
The Citizens' Task Force presented its status report which, in summary, states they have identified the human and other resources needed for an evacuation; the actual available resources en hand; the unmet needs; and the alarming fact that the County Departmnt of Emergency Services has not been able to meet any of the identified unnet needs.
The Task Force made the following recommncation to the Board of School Directors.
"We cannot submit the current draft of the Owen J.
Roberts School District Radiological Emergency Resp;nse Plan for approval.
As it currently exists it is not adequate End will not be effective in the event of a developing radiological emergency."
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Page 2 June 27,1984 Citizens were then given an opportunity to comment on the status of the evacuation plan and to give additional input.
Between two and one-half (2 1/2) and three (3) hours of testimony w3s received. by the Board of School Directors.
A summaticn of the input revealed unanimous agreement by all present to the following:
the identifieo human and other resources needed for a nuclear evacuation as presented are real; the calculations and procedures identified by the task force over a nineteen (19) month period to identify unmet needs are valid; and, the School District must look beyond the county to both state and federal governments for immediate help in not only meeting our unmet needs, but to also demonstrate to those empowered with the authority to make change the serious deficiencies in the overall master plan for a general evacuation of this School District.
I am attaching a copy of the testimony presented by the Citizens' Task Force and also by my office, we solicit your aid in notifying all governmental agencies of our unmet needs and the serious deficiencies in the overall master plan for a general nuclear evacuation for the citizens and chilcren of this School District.
Both members of the Citizens' Task Force and I are prepared to give testimony on this most serious matter.
(O Your immediate attention and response will be appreciated.
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Respectfully, Roy C. Claypool, Ed.D.
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EXECUTIVE
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REPORT 8
RADIOLOGICAL EMERGEFCY RESPONSE PLAN
- Preparec and P' resented By Dr. Roy C. Claypool, District Superintencent June 6,1984 The statements contained within this Executive Summary Report have not been shared, in total, with anyone prior to their release tonignt. They are my statements, ano I stand accountable and reacy to cefend them as Superintendent of Schools.
In the Summer of 1982, the School District receiveo a directive from tne Department of Ecucation establishing a need for a Radiological Emergency Response Plan for the Owen J. Roberts School District.
Snortly thereafter, on August 31, 1982, the Chester County Department of Emergency Services sent a communication to the School District offering its services.
At the follcwing September 20, 1982, School Scarc Meeting an open discussion took place on the need for the School District to oevelop such a plan.
The Board sought input from citizens and at the next School Board Meeting October 18, 1982, the School Board established a Citizens' Task Force for the purpose of cevelopment of school emergency planning guidelines
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involving potentially hazardous conditions including a nuclear emergency.
O At the same meeting the School Board requested financial support from the Philacelphia Electric Company for the additional costs wnich woulo be incurred by tne School District in the development of such a plan.
The Board also insisted that the task force meetings be open to the public and therefore, by resolution passed a motion advertising in the newspapers the first meeting of the task force would take place on November 30, 1982.
Representatives from the following agencies met on November 30, 1982.
Department of Education, Harrisburg; PEMA; Chester County Department of Emergency Services; Emergency Coordinators from the seven (7) townships comprising the School District; NORCO Fire Company; Emergency Consultants, Inc.;
Northern Chester County Tech School; Friends of the Arts; PTA and PTO's from all schools; employee union representatives from custodial, secretarial, teacners, and cafeteria; township supervisors; parents; ano a number of concerned citizens.
During these nineteen (19) months this task force has been extremely active in attempting to accomplish their task.
This task force has made a supreme effort to honestly appraise both human and other needs.
On July 20, 1983, seven (7) months into the planning process, this committee informeo the Chester County Department of Emergency Services of the number of human resources and vehicles required for an evacuation plan.
From that point until March 13, 1984, sixteen (16) months into the plan, this committee attempted to realistically identify the' number of employees who woulo participate and the actual number of vehicles which would te available during an emergency.
This information was then sent to the Chester County Department of Emergency Services indicating unmet neecs.
Executive Summary Report June 6,1984 Page 2 On May 1, 1984, I, as Superintencent of Schools, sent a communication to the Chester County Department of Emergency Services identifying additional unmet neeos, and requested a detaileo respcase by June 1st on how tnese needs would be met.
On May 25, 1984, the Chester Ccunty Department of Emergency Services informed the District that the identified neeos have not been met at this point in time.
On Monday, June 4th, I met with the Citizens' Task Force for a period of approximately two (2) hours for the purpose of reexamining the additional unmet needs as identifieo by my office on May 1, 1984.
At the conclusion of that meeting all previously identified unmet needs were classified as real and valid.
As we have heard this evening, the task force is recommencing that they continue their efforts.
The nuclear plant is tenta*.ively schecules to go on-line within the next ten (10) mcnths.
The agency respcnsible for meeting our unmet needs [the Chester County Department of Emergency Services] has been unable over the past four (4) months to meet any of our unmet needs.
Can a limited operation such as the Chester County Department of Emergency Services [given even the most dedicated and competent staf f] meet our unmet needs within the g
next ten (10) months??
Can they deliver the additional buses? Can they provice the additional human resources?
Will they train these people for the specific functions needed such as cus crivers, traffic coordinators, ano acult volunteers 7 Do they have sufficient funds to meet these unmet needs?
Both my analytical mind and my intuition say no to all of the above.
These unmet needs have been pt.blic knowledge for at leaSt five (5) weeks.
To cate not one governmental booy, regulatory agency or individual has contacted my office to challenge the validity of these needs.
I can only assume that there is either corcurrence on these needs or a deliberate decision has been made to ignore these documented unmet needs.
I will not recommend any plan that first, does not meet these documented unnet needs; second, does not guarantee parents access to their chiloren; third, oces not address the resolution of the added expense to this School District; and fourth, does not answer the following additional questions.
Why are school age children not incluced in a selective evacuation along with preschool age children?
When an orcer to prepare for an evacuaticn cccurs, our switchboard will be rendered useless in the first five minutes. We rely solely on telephones for both internal and external comnunications.
Can the switchboara handle this overload and can the general telephone utility cover the overload?
Executive Summary Report June 6,1964 Pace 3 8~ Sericus enallenges to sheltering as a safety cption have ceen raised with no satisfactory answers.
If PEMA,orcers sheltering, now safe, how long before contamination and/or rays penetrate? Parents will surely converge on our schools to gain access to their chiloren.
Is Twin Valley, our allegeo host school, far enougn away?
Is it not in the ingestion exposure pathway?
What provisions are being planned by municipalities for alternative routing in the event of inclement weather such as ice, snow, etc.
Routes 23 and 100 usually provides us with one or two accidents celaying our bus runs, whose time frames are we going to use to determine the absolute minimum time neeced to properly evacuate students and employees?
Where in this country has a greater effort been mace over a nineteen (19) month period to develop an adequate evacuation plan?
As the time draws nearer for the opening of the plant, parents are feeling and. exhibiting increased stress over the healtn anc safety of their children.
We will not compromise either the health or safety of our chilcren or employees in order to have an evacuation plan that is not adequate and implementable.
(g hhat are the_ legal liability exposures of the Sencol District, the School Boara, inoivioual School Scard members, District Superintendent, employees, and volunteers?
If auditional liability insurance is neeoed, who will pay for the insurance?
State and federal planners have been quick to identify, in detail, local responsibilities both financial and legal, but no visible effort to meet any of our unmet needs.
It is my opinion that we must look beyond Chester County to both the state and federal governments for immediate help in not only meeting our unmet needs, but to also cemonstrate to those empowered with the authority to make change the serious ceficiencies in the overall master plan for a general evacuation of this School District.
Let us not spend these next few months debating how to rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
Instead, join forces with the task force in seeking a resolution to our unmet needs, as well as educating those in a decision making role the sericus deficiencies in the existing planning structure, and the attitude that given an emergercy of this magnitude citizens will rise up and solve the problem.
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