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!S DIC 15 /M 0 M, Mr. John B. Martin EE.V..': / f y Regional Administrator United Stated Nuclear Regulatcry Commission, Region V 1450 Maria Lane, Suite 210 Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Dear Mr. Martin:
My thanks for your though'tful reply of December 2 (Attachment A) to the November 4 letter of the Concerned Cal Poly Faculty and Staff addressed to NRC Chairman Palladino regarding two specific reasons for. the lack of public confidence in the Emergency Response Plan for the Diablo Canyon
. Nuclear Power Plant. It is indeed heartening to receive such a personal and courteous letter; we are most appreciative.
In your last paragraph you kindly wrote: "Please feel free to contact us if you wish to provide further data reflecting on your concerns..." Without wishing to be a burden to your office, I'd like to update one of the concerns mentioned in our November 4 letter and bring a new chapter of another, older concern to your attention.
One of our concerns in our previous letter was with an often flooded area known as the " Twin Bridges" or " Twin Trestles". Money to replace the' y.,
bridges was said to be unavailable for at least three years. According g'
to the Telegram-Tribune story of November 15 (Attachment B), County officials apparently realize a problem exists on one of only two ways out
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of Los Osos/ Baywood' Park (the other route is a two lane road leading into the city of San Luis Obispo which is also subject to flooding) and they intend to. rebuild the Bridges. Unfortunately, tha article states that the effort could begin at the earliest in fiscal 1985-86, many, many months after full-power operations at Diablo Canyon are scheduled to begin.
m The other concern we-would like to bring to your attention is the continuing problem with sirens being used as the primary method of notifying the
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population within the Basic Emer*gency Planning Zone. Per the Telegram-g Tribune article of March 8 (Attachment C), power is interrupted several
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times each winter and when electricity is lost, the sirens which "do work j~
off regular power lines", are los t.
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r 9 December 1983 Mr. John B. Martin Page Two by the PG 8cfE spokeswoman in the article are adequate is something for the NRC, FEMA and the California State OES to decide. We certainly do l
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i not believe there is an adequate back-up system.
T are barely into our winter season and as Attachments D, E and F make e u, power has thrice been disrupted in the area. Undoubtedly, there wi.2 be additional partial or complete losses of power in our area this winter and each time some or virtually all of the sirens will be out of commission. Such back-up systems as expecting everyone to have a battery powered radio at the ready or counting on police cars with sirens to pick up the stack are pale imitations of a fully operating siren system.-
l Our thanks for your attention to the matters raised. We appreciate your understanding why our group has continuing grave doubts about the Emergency Response Plan and why public confidence in this Plan is so low.
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Dr. Richard Kranzdorf, Spokesperson Concerned Cal Poly Faculty and Staff 160 Graves Avenue San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Enclosures cc: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman and Commissioner =
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lj,1Q 1450 MARIA LANE. SUITE 210 WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA 94596 Decenber 2,1983 ATTACHMENT A Dr. Richard Kranzdorf, Spokesperson Concerned Cal Poly Faculty and Staff 160 Graves Avenue San Luis Obispo, California 93401
Dear Dr. Kranzdorf:
This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of Noventer 4,1983 to the Chairman of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and attachments thereto, expressing concerns regarding a lack of public confidence in emergency planning for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and inpediments to evacuation of elements of the public in the event of a nuclear emergency.
Thank you for the reasoned and docunented statement regarding your conceras.
They will serve as a basis for inquiry, hopefully leading to a sound evaluation and resolution of these concerns.
Please be advised that we have provided copies of your correspondence to the U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEl%), which has a specific assignment by Executive Order of the President to take the lead in offsite radiological emergency planning and response.
We will work closely with FEMA, the State of California Office of Emergency Services, and cognizant.
local emergency services elements in evaluating and resolving your expressed Concerns.
Please feel free to contact us if you wish to provide further data reflecting on your concerns or if we may answer any questions regarding our handling of the evaluation of your concerns.
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ATTACHMENT B Joint effort seen to repair Twin s
wih Morro money with the county to rebuild the Twin B es thatlead Ims Osos.
The es are within the city Ihnits of Morro Bay but odically flood, blocking one of y two ways into Los Ooos.
The Morro Bay City Council on Monday directed its staff to formal-ise an agreement with San Luis Ob County to share costs in the bridges on South Bay The joint effort, which could begin km fiscalyear100HS, will cost about
$1 milBon. Morro Bay and the coun-
. ty wSi each pay 19 percent, about
$1M,000, and Caltrans will pay about II percent, or about $800,000, most of that federal funds, said City Administrator PaulBaxter.
The county has been notified that Caltrans doesn't expect to have money avaDahle for the repairs for l
at least three years.
South Bay Boulevard is occasion-ally flooded at LN bridges when l
Chorro Creek is bocked up by high i
tides and winter rains.
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I 100 payment from the Ifarbor Com-mission that will be put into the city's general fund. The harbor fund had unanticipated revenues and lower-than-expected expenditures this year of about $100,000. The Harbor Fund still owes the city about $$50,000.
A past of the surplus will be used l
I by the Harbor Department to pur-chase two portable radios for $5,000.
The r=aalaiag surplus will be put in a special account for maintenance and improvement projects.
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\\lo Diablo[ sirens if power outi !.g SAN 1Ils OREPO (VillNTY # CALIF.) TELEGRAM TRIBUNE TUESDAY, MARC}i 8.1983 A3 If an emergency at the Diablo because, though emergency broad-
' Electric system erected to warn of County Emergency Coordinator!
h Canyon nuclear power plant were cast station KVEC has an emergen-emergencies at Diablo Canyon do flnda West agreed that "in any
- O accompanied by.a power fa'ilure, cy power supply, plug-in radios work off regular power lines, PG&E kind of emergency, peop,le should:
'2l most of San Luis Obispo County's wouldn't work, Kranzdorf said.
representative Suzanne G. Brown have battery operated radios. It -
H warning sirens wouldn't work, a group of anti-nuclear Cal Poly facul-If these problems were accompan, emceded.
conid be totally unrelated to Diablo
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ty members said today.
led by the kind of fierce storms the She said only those in remote Canyon.
, Had Diablo Canyon been operat-county suffered this winter, KVEC areas such as See Canyon have "There's no way that the county
- ing this winter and a general emer-could be knocked off the air, and independent, solar power systems.
een either provide those (radios) or wind and flood damage could block Brown said, however, that people require that people have them, but l evacuation routes.
don't need to hear sirens for infor-it just makes good common sense." :
c bi ty t ould have ena major disaster with considerable
" Virtually every road mentioned mation in an emergency, such as a Asked about storm-caused travel
- loss of life," Richard Kranzdorf, a as a major artery (in the county's Prolonged blackout.
problems. West said that if evacua. :
merhber of the Concerned Cal Poly emergency plan) has been clogged "In an emergency situation, peo. tion routes were impassable or if l ie tend to be pretty level headed,"
Faculty and Staff, said during a or blocked or out of commission at p
- there was too little time to evacu-news conference at Mission Plaza.
least once this winter," Kranzdorf she said. " People want to know, ate, county emergency officials,
i it could prove fruitless to turn on said.
land if they want to know badly would ask people to remain Indoors.
j radios for emergency information. l Most sirens in the Pacific Gas and /enou,gh, they'll find a way."
instead of evacuating.
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1 ATTACHMENT D Damp h)ofiday weather; Ala[skan siorm on tap h 1)
The blastery Alaskan storm that total to 3.34 inches. The normal brought chiDy rains and 8 to 13 foot Jainfall forthis time of year is 1.84 mrt to the Central Coast this wwk. incher, he said. The total last year and wSI leave clear skies behind at this time was 3.37 inches today, but residents should brace Ibere were some inconveniences for a repeat performance for the from the storm.
P ^ =: ' weekend.
A Susanne G. Brown of Pacific Gas Nattendleather Service special-and Electric Co. said Templeton ist Mike Campbell in Santa Maria and north Atascadero lost electrici-predicted mostly fair skies today ty off and on for an hour from 1:30
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and with ' ' ~p tem-p.m. Jaturday. It affected 4,000 l
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peratures to me apper Es to mid 30s.
wiD be northwest A tres en a power line knocked frian 18 to M mph today.
out power for 130 Cambria custom-Temperatures dipped to 29 de.
ers on Pine Iraalla from 12:30 to grees in Mana= Leo tids morning f 3:18
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. Brown said there were short scat-and Bin Santa Margarita.
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0n toda w will be weekend storm dumped 41 M to 5 % with seas 3 inches of rain, bringing the Al fut and northwest sweUs 8 to 12 Winter storm watches were in effect throughout the West today as now contmoed to fall in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado.
One to 2 feet of snow fell in the Sierra Nevada and around Lake Tahoe, the National Weather Serv-les reported.
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Staff Writer W/g Count sheriff's deputy Wilbur Mills his department received High winds and heavy rains a few telephone calls Thursday ATTACHMINT E wned in Alaska roared into the night, mostl about burglar alarms Coast on Thursday, ca that went accidentally.
power failures in some areas At Morro Bay' Harbor,6-to 8-f'oot heavy surf along the coast.
swells hampered boats from getting -
Big surf is blamed for the dnHng through the 404 foot entrance this of a manhaat off the Big Sur coast-morning, the Coast Guard reported.
line Thursday afternoon. Its two The waves were running close passengers are still missing. (See together and-at least one.fishlag separate story on Page A-2.)
boat had to wait more than two While Thursday s downpour hours outside the entrance before it should dissipate by this evening, could enter safely, according to the another storm is expected to slam CoastGuard.
Into the area early Saturday, Renovation work on the city's i,.
to J Smith of the Na-north bnakirater was halted again tionaN"- eather Service in Santa because et '.he high waves and poor Maria.
weather ce#tions.
Thursday's stormis the tall end of The Atascadero' Police Depart-Typhoon Marge that originated in ment's communication center had.
the Pacific off Japan and moved off to resort to emergency power for the Pactfle Northwest, Smith said.
about an hour durm' g the night after The ster:n dumped 2.86 inches of. PG&E lines serving It went dead'.
rain or'. San Luis A power pole caught fire east of the dty's season to Paso Robles at about 8 p.m. Thurs-8.12 laches, ahnost double for the day as electrical equipment shorted ~
rest d the county, according to the out. California Department of For-Weather Service.
estry Brefighters quickly had the Santa Margarita collected 1.74 Bre under control and then stood by inches of rain, while Arroyo Grande undl after midnight as PG&E crews recorded.36, Morro Bay.H and repaired damage.
Rhanden.51 inches.
Jhn Bown d Picine Teleph ne De foncast caHs for partl clou-Co. said his company received-dy skies wie decrewing was "about double" the normal amount toda wth highs in the 80s and of service calls with scattered fail-variable at 20 mph, Smith ares throughout the county, but e
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Tbe Telegram Tribune is A 94 minute er failure struck being delivend late today bm a large part San Luis Obispo at it is not your paper carrier's 10:06 a.m. toda, forcing Fmach fault. A 94 minute electrical and San Luis General hospi*
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.........B-7 "In Cambria, there were scat-tered but pretty thorough outages,"
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.......... A-6 In Cambria and Atascadero CROSSWORD............. 8-12 blackouts occurred when trees and EDITORIAL...................A-10 branches fell on power lines, Brown ENTERTAINMENT....... 8-6 said.
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beat (a maan leflatabh skuf)," asid lacy Kelleway, vice principal at the The students stranded on the achaal
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"All but 3 et ear m'adants had i
A weekend storm that struck The storm alas forced Grover ty's Dana HiHs High schad wetsults and many of them
[ Northern California with hurricane Oty, Morre Bay and Pase Robles to Morro Bay Harbor Patrolmes y
force winds brought only scattered postpone their Christmas parades Larry Linder and Dick Rodgers swam back acrees the harbor. e quickly warmed the rest with fresh cloudbersts to the Central Coast.
and San Luis Obispo to delay its reported ferrying M of the 57 sta-clam chowder and hot chocolate No serious desange was reported Oristmas la the Plaza.
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dets and two teachers bad across made over our campfires."
in San Luis County as a The Pass Robles and Grover City
.the harbor to near their Morre Bay The county's heaviest relafan was result of Saturday storm, though parades were r=yhadalad next Sat.
State Park campelte in the evenlag.
la Santa Mar arita, where 1.33 gs wtads were blamed fe. electrical ardsy - the Pass Robles parade at "At least two d the kids wwe se loches feB San Luis Obispo, blackouts af foicoiin~ty r==keting.about coe<aara --11 a.ma. and the Grover City parade cold they comidn't held este any-which recorded f.33 laches.
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thing and had trouble daading "
In Northern Gliifornia, the storm j
g g,,g g g g,, w g Oristanas in the Plasa wlB aise IJader said. None of the d= dane = overturned ve61cles and planes, dadants from Sm.wn Calfwala take next weekend, said Saa ulted hospital treatment, but shut down remadf and felled r
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1 mis Events Coordi-sure made a hanHan to their trees, sank betis, homes Ba Hubw Pdadman asterJean Pensa.
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,,,, the same (as planned)," she spit after a day of clamdigging and he storm was blamed for atleast
, carnd SaMy mwning, as M, thing.""the entertainment and every.
studying tidepool Efe, three deaths. :'
"'Ibe rop la San LeaMire, a m:d;,*q,irg w;;;
N. id.maose was ava.aMe IMs si-ter b, e en our boat's outboard e ww we,re, ed io - w. hu,m,.96-year-old i
e winds into themselves so hard that they m#aing en paans for whadaHag e
Brown of ific as and E id wMds She said a slagle 1,lackout la
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- , northern Atascadere and andhern Templeton affected 3,018 c==tarners for 1% bours while 3,588 homes and
' haala*=nes in Arroyo Grande and a eteel fence and kuled. Near Wu.
In the the Sierra Nevada, the Oceano were without power for lows, a mather and son were kuled storm closed Interstate as, the main whom their car h tr==aamatain freeway, with blis-l thout an hourSaturday morning-and ran into ano.it a naadad section i
A series of faGures hit San Luis or, car.
sard snows and stranded many me-Obispo's Faaehm Boulevard ares, The Weather Service reported tarists.
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leavlag 1,984 customers without wind gusts up to as mph on San Natiemal Weather Service fore-power for 45 minutes, and 193 far an Francisco Bay, clocking peak gusts caster BiH Grebe blamed the masty l
bour or more. Another 3,113 were of 93 mph en San Bruno Mountals a. conditions on a fremt "sochored to l
cffected by momentary outages.
few maSes south of San Francisco.
an latense surface low in Northern Brown asid.
The Golden Gate Bridge was California."
1 She said that 350,000 of PG&E's 3 closed because of the high winds he Weather Service said another million endarners in Northern and and all stdpplag in the Golden Gate storm may threates rain on the
< Central California suffered power chamael west of the brid;a was, Central Coast by Tuesday whde a losses during the storm and 8,000 -
halted for a time because of moun-third storm is espected in California i
mostly on the San Francisco Penin-talaous waves.
before the weekend.
'sula - were still without power this j
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