ML20215K387

Submits Testimony Supporting Evacuation Plan,Per Recent Public Hearings.School Participation in 860213 Drill Successful.No Logistical Problems Re Safe Evacuation of Pupils in Event of Emergency Anticipated.Served on 861027

ML20215K387
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	10/17/1986
From:	Prodell A SHOREHAM-WADING RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY
To:	Frye J Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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CON-#486-1258 OL-5, NUDOCS 8610280151
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October 17, 1986 SERiEC D 1. 7 B@9 Mr. John H. Frye i Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Nuclear Regulatory Commission l Washington, D. C. 20555

Dear Mr. Frye:

As we were unable to attend the recent public hearings held by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Long Island concerning the evacuation plan for the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, we are submitting this written testimony.

There is on file in the office of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board a letter dated December 6, 1983, submitted I by us, the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District, l and addressed to Lawrence Brenner, then Administrative Judge l which states that our district had participated in preliminary planning for an evacuation 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 emergency 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 participate 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 86102801S1 861017 PDR ADOCK 05000322 T PDR

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 i 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 1 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 transport 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 able to evacuate and are ready to continue to participate in emergency planning. -

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 (

public office. Those who refuse to participate in emergency planning and oppose the licensing of the Shoreham Nuclear Power 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 peculiar geography of Long Island is cited by opponents of emergency planning as an argument that evacuation is impossible. This pecular 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 k

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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

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the event of an emergency which required such action to be taken.

Sincerely yours, -

/ GI $ hieM Albert G. Prodell President, Shoreham-Wading River Board of Education l

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