ML20214P440

Forwards Miller Place Union Free School District 860701 & 830901 Resolutions Denying Existence of Effective Emergency Plan & Opposing Licensing of Plant

ML20214P440
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	11/24/1986
From:	Boyd J MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, MILLER PLACE
To:	Catacosinos W LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO.
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CON-#486-1721 OL-5, NUDOCS 8612040206
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MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT 00CKETED 191 NORTH COUNTRY ROAD vMC MILLER PLACE. NEW YORK 11764 (S M) 473@ 23 M , gT BOARD OF EDUCATION TigN RAYMOND E. EVANS. President DR. JAMEST. BOT 1 enht[nM

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JOHN F. M,ARINO Ass' Supenntendent SUSAN A. SOKEL JANIS M. WALSH f~ (" . .

November 24, 1986 Mr. William J. Catacosinos -

and the Board of Directors Long Island Lighting Company Executive Offices 175 East Old Country Road Hicksville, New York 11801

Dear Mr. Catacosinos and Directors:

The enclosed resolution was published in our District Newsletter. We want you to have a copy for your information. The 1983 resolution is also enclosed.

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J mes B. Boyd Su erintendent jbb/ps Enclosures cc: Governor Msrio Cuomo Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Comissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 8612040206 86112' PDR ADOCK 0500G322

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'_d Miller Place, New York 11764 School Board Resolution Adopted July 1, 1986 WHEREAS, the Miller Place School District has four schools. located within the_10-mile planning zone of the Shoreham nuclear power plant, with approximately 2,590 children attending those schools; and WHEREAS, the Miller Place School District is also responsible for providing .t ransportation to _approximately 75 -

children who attend private and parochial schools but who live

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inside the 10-mile planning zone of the Shoreham nuclear power plant; and WHEREAS, on September 1, 1983, the Board adopted a resolution expressing its concerns about the impact of full power operation of the Shoreham nuclear power plant upon the safety and health of the School District's students and employees; and WHEREAS, after careful study and analysis, the Board identified in its 1983 resolution ten specific weaknesses, from the point of view of the School District, in LILCO's proposed emergency evacuation plan; and a

e u^ d WHEREAS, due to factual developments subsequent to 1983, and further oue to LILCO's failure to address any of the Board's ten specific concerns, the Board now wishes to adopt a new, stronger resolution opposing full power operation of the Shoreham nuclear-power plant and WHEREAS, the Governments of Suffolk County and the State of New York, after extensive analysis, have determined not to adopt or implement any emergency plan for response to a radiological emergency at the Shoreham plant, and the Board believes that the Governments of Suffolk County and the State of New York have acted responsibly and in furtherance of the interests of the citizens of Long Island in so determining and

, WHEREAS, the mere acceptance and use of tone alert radios by the School District does not in any way indicate the School District's acceptance of, or cooperation with, LILCo's proposed emergency evacuation plan; and WHEREAS, the Miller Place School District has not created, adopted, or agreed to implement any emergency plan for responding to a radiological accident at the Shoreham plants and WHEREAS, the Board has not been presented with, nor can the Board conceive of, an emergency evacuation plan which addresses the Board's ten specific concerns identified in the 1983 resolution and 2-

s WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that LILCO has prepared an emergency plan for Shoreham according to which LILCO employees would perform functions normally performed by duly authorized governmental officials, and the proposed LILCO plan has been ruled to be illegal and beyond LILCO's authority to implement; and WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that the LILCO emergency plan includes provisions supposedly to be implemented by school officials and school personnel in the Miller Place School Dist rict which are purportedly intended to protect the school -

children in the District from the effects of a nuclear accident at Shoreham; and WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that the LILCO plan makes unwarranted and false assumptions and representations about (a) the existence of plans in the Miller Place School District for the early dismissal, sheltering, or evacuation of children from schools during a nuclear accident at the Shoreham plant: (b) the ability and/or willingness of officials and personnel employed by the Miller Place School Dist rict to undertake or perform particular duties and actions during a Shoreham accident; and (c) the purported effectiveness of such actions even if they were taken; and WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that based upon LILCO's representations and assumptions, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Licensing Board has asserted that preparedness in the 3-

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Miller Place School District is adequate to protect school children in the District in the event of a Shoreham plant emergency, and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, without even speaking with District personnel, has ignored the fact that the Miller Place District has adopted no plan to. respond to a Shoreham emergency and that its officials and personnel have received no training on how to respond to such an emergency; and WHEREAS, the Board of Education understands that many of the school bus drivers upon whom this District relics for transportation of children have stated that they are unable to -

agree to drive buses for purposes of an early dismissal or an evacuation during a Shoreham emergency; and WHEREAS, the Board understands that according to representations made by LILCO to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in the event of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham plant, teachers and other school personnel and officials are expected, during such an accident, to:

(a) remain in school, inside the emergency planning zone, to supervise children during an early dismissal or while they are

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attempting to shelter from harmful radiation:

(b) accompany children on buses which would take them through the emergency planning zone to evacuation centers to be located substantial distances away from schools:

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• ~(c) remain with children to supervise them in evacuation centers

  and (d) even drive school buses through the emergency planning zone as part of an early dismissal or an evacuation of schools: and WHEREAS, the Board beleives that in the ever.t of a shoreham accident, substantial numbers of the teachers and other school personnel in the Miller Place School' District would have personal and family obligations and responelbilities which would -

make them unable or unwilling to remain in school, or accompany, supervise or transfer school children during an early dismissal, sheltering, or evacuation from a shoreham accident; and WHEREAS, based upon discussions and $.eetings among personnel and officials of.the Miller Place Scho/ol District,.due consideration of the logistical and practical realities involved in implementing early dismissal, shelterfag, evacudtion, or other protective actions for school children in the School Dist rict during a Shoreham emergency, and past experiences with Lhe

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difficulties involved in attempting to take actions in weather related emergencies, the Board has determined that it would not be possible to implement any such actions in the event of a shorehar emergency in a way that reasonably might be expected to provide for the safety of the children f rom the Miller Place School Dist rict : and G

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.WHEREAS, the. Board has no confidence in any plan of'LILCO and could not responsibly rely upon LILCO during an emergency:

NOW, THEREFORE,' BE'IT ,

~ RESOLVED, that the representations and assumptions made by LILCO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the (a) existence of plans for the early dismissal, sheltering, evacuation, or other protective actions for school children in the Miller Place School District in the event of a Shoreham emergency:

(b) the ability and willingness of personnel and offic'fals in the- '

Miller Place School District to participate in implementing LILCO's emergency plan for Shoreham or an early dismissal, sheltering or evacuation of Miller Place School District schools during a shoreham emergency and (c) the ability of the Miller Place School District to implement actions that would adequately-protect the school children in their-charge in the event of a Shoreham emergency, are unwarranted, without basis, and false and be it further 9

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RESOLVED, that based upon the Board's determination that adequate protective actions, including early dismissal, sheltering and evacuation, could not be implemented so as to assure the safety of the school chikdren in the Miller Place School District in the event of a Shoreham emergency, the Miller Place School 6

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9 District shall not adopt or implement any plan for, or perform any training related to, a response to a Shoreham emergency and be it further RESOLVED, that the Board recognizes that the LILCO plan includes no provision for. dealing with the potential liability of the Miller Place School District or employees thereof which could arise out of lawsuits resulting from a Shoreham accident or from protective actions attempted to be taken during such an accident; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Miller Place Union Free School District finds that LILCO's emergency plans for schools do not offer children or school personnel of this district adequate protection in the event of an accident at the Shoreham Nuclear Plant and , be it further RESOLVED, that this school board believes that licensing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant should not be permitted unless or until complete and reasonable resolution of ghese outstanding, critica] emergency planning problems can be achieved.

The above reso'lution was adopted ~by a unanimous vote of the board members in attendance at the meeting of the Board of Education of the Miller Place Union Free School District held on July 1, 1986.

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SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION Adopted September 1, 1983 WHEREAS, federal regulations for full power operation of the Shore-ham Nuclear Plant require an 9rgency plan for communities surrounding the plant which w _4 assure those communities adequate protection in event of a nuclear emergency; and WHEREAS, the Long Island Lighting Company, in an effort to meet federal regulations, has prepared an emergency plan which LILCO, lacking coordination with local or state governments, will attempt to implement; and WHEREAS, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Shoreham licensing board is now conducting hearings to review the adequacy of the LILCO emergency plan; and WHEREAS, the LILCO emergency plan includes protective actions to be taken by schools; and ,

WHE REAS , this board has identified the following weaknesses in the LILCO emergency plan:

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1. Early Dismissal

• Our emergency early dismissal procedure, which LILCO's plan incorporates, wouldn't bring school children to an uncontaminated area quickly enough to protect their

• health and safety.

2. Transportation The requisite number of buses and drivers required for successful early dismissal are not available to the schools. This will prolong childrens' stay at schools in contaminated areas.

3. Needs of School Personnel We cannot guarantee that teaching and non-teaching personnel will stay in schools to supervise early dismissal. These teachers and staff may need to attend to the safety 6f their own families and, therefore, may '

. not be available to perform emergency-related tasks.

4. Lack of Parental Supervision The success of an early dismissal plan depends not only on prompt dismissal from schools, but on prompt evacua-tion of children from their homes. In those cases in which parents will not be at home during the day, children will be sent to unsupervised homes from which they will not be able to evacuate promptly.

5. Parental Intercession We cannot be confident that parents will wait at home for their children to arrive. Many parents may attempt

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6. - Relocation .

If a Shoreham emergency develops-quickly and requires an evacuation of children from schools directly to relocation 1

centers, this district does not have sufficient buses or

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7. Supervision at Relocation Centers We cannot_ guarantee that teaching and/or non-teaching school personnel will. travel to and remain at relocation centers to supervise school children'until parents arrive to retrieve them.

8. Sheltering The LILCO plan suggests that sheltering (remaining indoors) '

may be the preferred protective. action:in specific Shoreham emergencies . However, none of this district's schools have basements or other structures necessary to provide

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9.- Trust in Public Information In the LILCO plan, the only public information upon which to base decisions for protective actions will come from the utility. LILCO, through its Public Schools Coordinah tor and WALK-AM Radio, will both describe the extent of the emergency.and recommend actions. Because LILCO would be both operator of the plant and initiator of emergency actions,. potential for conflict of interest exists. School administrators, receiving information only from LILCO and not from any governmental agency, will be forced to decide upon. actions with potentially serious consequences without the benefit of a directive from a responsible governmental source.

! 10. Indemnification .-

LILCO does not provide indemnification for school districts should damages, injuries, or deaths result from school j

administrators' decisions during an emergency, decisions which can be made based only upon information and recom-mendations offered by LILCO.

Now, be it therefore RESOLVED, that the Miller Place Union Free School District finds that LILCO's emergency plans for schools do not offer children or

- school personnel of this district adequate protection in event of an accident at the Shoreham Nuclear Plant; and, be it further i

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RESOLVED, that this school board believes that licensing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant should not be permitted unless or until complete and reasonable resolution of these outstanding, critical l emergency planning problems can be achieved.

The above Resolution was passed by the Miller Place Union Free School District Board of Education at the Board Meeting on September 1, 1983.

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