ML20211D747

Forwards Ltr Published in Newsday Re Hearing on Evacuation Plan for Facility Held in Riverhead,Ny.Evacuation Presents No Problems.Served on 861020

ML20211D747
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	10/09/1986
From:	Foley J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Margulies M Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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CON-#486-1181 OL-5, NUDOCS 8610220261
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( O .=9P ET NUMBER _g Octo 9, 1986 cm & UTIL FAC.7.,3.;,,'

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W OCT 17 P4:15 Hon. Martin B. Margulies CFFIC-' u Chairman, Atomic Licensing Board 00CHE L.% .., ; , , J['

U. S. Nuclear Comm. "C' Wash. D. C. 20555 SERVED OCT 201986

Dear Mr. Margulies,

I attended the Commission's hearing on the evacuation plan for the Shoreham plant, that were held in Riverhead, L I..

Although I arrived at the hearing before 8: 00 Am, there were already

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several pages of signatures of people intending to be heard.

I stayed at the hearing until noon time, but the anti-Shoreham people had the sp'e aking list stacked so I had no opportunity to address the Board.

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I'm enclosing a letter, pubiishd in Newsday, it expresses what I intended to say. [fope'on you will find time to read it before the Board makes a decision Shoreham and its evacuation plan.

ochn Foley Manorville (516) 878 2995 8610220261 861009 PDR ADOCK 05000322 G PDR 0303

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Hearings Missed the Point T The reeert Nuclet- Ecguistc.rv 6mmisson I hearinp in Mineola, Rivernead s'nd Hauppauro failed in their announced purpose, to discuss a 10-mile evacuation plan. Instead, they provided a

. forum for those opposed to licensing the Shore--

ham nuclear power plant. .3 These heanngs are required so that the resi-dents of the affected areas will have an oppo,rtu-

' nity to express their concerns about the ~~.

t evacuation plan, which is for a designa area 10 miles around the plant. However, this purpose f was not adhered to at any of the hearmas. Every - .

rere en- to evacuation im,hed asut wouid he.. . ~

i nece,ssary to evacuate alf ofIang Island. ,

A congested I4ng Island Expressway was re-j.ferred to over and over again as proof positive - ' -

that evacuation was impossible,'and that no 11

[ cense should be granted. 'However, the reality of the evacuation is that

' the required area is only 10 nules. This distance,

. in any direction fkom Shoreham, leads to rela-7 tively uncrowded communities or,ofcourse,Iang Island Sound. In addition, the largest part of the e area of the 10-mile circle would be along its outer .-

! perimeter, mabnf it possible for the majority of

the affected residents to literally walk out of the 10-mile sone. In short, the required evacuation . -

[ presenta no serious problem at all. .<

Doesn't it Locome obvious that the LIE has '

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to do with the reality of an evacuation? -  :

' Of courne. However, the concerna that were ex . ~~

pressed at the hearings had little to do with "

i that reality. The speakers were unwithng to ac. "

i cept Shoreham-and no evacuation plan .would '

please them. i5 The fear of a nuclear power plant has oeen well implanted, but the future ef Shoreham si.ould not be sacrificed to unfounded fear. This is exact! ,.

pthe question the heanngs should have occid .-

I Are there legitimate otnections that are based on - _

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,I. some, inability to evacuate a 10-mile area? - - -

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