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ML20215K875
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Site: 05000000, Shoreham
Issue date: 12/04/1986
From: Kerr K
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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80Cr.Lp.5, via uFhht-MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Docketing and Services Branch ,

FROM: Kathaleen Kerr Secretary to Judge, Morton B. Margulies l

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LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY (Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1)

Docket No. 50-322-OL-3 l

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Please serve the attached letters to the parties in the l Shoreham/ Emergency Planning proceeding,- Docket No. 50-322-OL-3.

1. Ltr. dated November.24, 1986 to' William J. Catacosinos from James B. Boyd, Superintendent, Miller Place Union Free School District.
2. Ltr. dated December 3,1986 to Maurice Barbash from David L. l Prestemon together with Mr. Barbash's incoming ltr. dated November 26 -

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Mr. William J. Catacosinos and the Board of Directors

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Hicksville, New York 11801

Dear Mr. Catacosinos and Directors:

l The enclosed resolution v6s pubitshed in our District Newsletter. We want you to have a copy for your information. The 1983 resolution is also enclosed.

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  • MILLER PLACE Miller Place, UNION FREE New York SCHOOL' DISTRICT 11764

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10-mile planning zone of the Shoreham schools located within the t

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nuclear power plant, with approximately 2,590 children attending  !

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is also WHEREAS, the Miller Place School District -

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responsible for providing transportation to approximately-75 schools but who'Ifve-children who attend private and parochial b i

zone of the Shoreham nuclear' power inside the 10-mile planning '

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I WHEREAS, on September 1, 1983, the Board. adopted a i the impact of full' power resolution expressing its. concerns about upon the safety and-operation of the Shoreham nuclear power-plant l

health of the School District's students and employees; and i

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, WHEREAS, after careful study and analysis, the Boa rd ~ i from identified in its 1983 resolution ten specific weaknesses, in LILCO's proposed the point of view of the School District, emergency evacuation plan; and t

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l WHERTAS, due to factual developments subsequent to 1983, 1 j

and f urther due to LILCO's f ailure to address any of the Board's ten specific concerns, the Board now wishes to adopt a new, l l

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1 stronger resolution opposing full power oper& tion of the Shoreham l nuclear power plant and l

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 i radiological emergency at the Shoreham plant, and the Board l

believes that the Governments of Suffolk County and the State of l

' New York have acted ' responsibly and in furtherance of the

  • i and j interests of the citizens of Long Island in so determining; I

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WHEREAS, the mere acceptance and use of tone alert by the School District does not in any way indicate the School l

' District's acceptance of, or cooperation with, LILCo's propose:

emergency evacuation plan; and WHEREAS, the Miller Place School District.has not created, adopted, or agreed to implement any emergency plan fc:

cesponding to a radiological accident at the Shoreham plants a .- : i WHEREAS, the Board has not been presented with, not ca I

the Board conceive of, an emergency evacuation. plan which in the .-

addresses the Board's ten specific concerns identified resolution; and

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.' e LILCO has l WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that ,

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 l

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 which are purportedly intended to protect the school c

District childcen in t he Dist rict from the effects of a nuclear accident'at .

Shoreham; and

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i' the Board has been informed that,the LILCO p)an j WHEREAS, makes unwarranted and false assumptions and representations abou:

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' (a) the existence of plans in the Miller Place School District 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 :

the Miller Place School District to undertake'or perform (c) particulat duties and actions during a Shoreham accident;~and the purported effectiveness of such actions even if they were taken; and WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that based upon the Nuclear Regulatory LILCO's representations and_ assumptions, Commission's Licensing Board has asserted that preparedness.in ene  ;  :(

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a: J is adequate to protect school Miller Place school District in the event of a shoreham plant children in the District Agency, ]

the rederal Emergency Management emergency, and that ,

l without even' speaking with District personnel, has ignored the '

has adopted no plan to respond f fact that the Miller place District its officials and personnel have 1

to a Shoreham emergency and that d ,

received no training on how to respond to such an emergency; an many of lr WHEREAS, the Board of Education understands that l

relies for j the school bus drivers upon whom this District they are unable to l l

transportation of children have stated that l

agree to drive buses for purposes of an early dismissal or an -

l evacuation during a Shoreham emergency; and WHEREAS, the Board understands that according to representations made by LILCO to the Nuclear Regulatory i Commission, in the event of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham l l plant, teachers and other school personnel and officia s are to:

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(a) remain in school, inside the emergency planning :ene, hile they are to supervise children during an early dismissal or w attempting to / shelter from harmful radiation (b) accompany children on buses which would take them ters to be ,

through the emergency planning zone to evacuation cen j

located substantial distances away from schools

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(d) even drive schoo2 buses through the emergency i

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1 WHEREAS, the Board beleives that in the event of a .}

j Shoreham accident, substantial numbers of the' teachers and other school personnel in the Miller Place School District would have personal and family obligations and responsibilities which would ji

make them unable or unwilling to remain in school, or accompany, a supervise or transfer school children during an early dismissal,, ,

' sheltering, or evacuation from a Shoreham accident; and '

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t WHEREAS, based upon' discussions and meetings.among i

pecsonnel and officials of the Miller Place School District, due

' consideration of the logistical and practical realities involved evacuation, or other in implementing early dismissal, sheltering, protective actions for school children in the School District i during a Shoreham emergency, and past experiences with the i difficulties involved in attempting to take actions in weather ,

f related emergencies, the Board has determined that i t would not be ( '

of.a Shoreham possible to implement any.such actions.in the event ,

emecgency in a way that reasonably might be expected to provide '

s for the safety of the children f:om the M: 11er Place School.

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1 j RESOLVED, that the representations and assumptions made by LILCO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the (a) f i

existence of plans for the early dismissal, sheltering, i i

evacuation, or other protective actions for school.chf1dren in the

" iller Place School District in the event of a Shoreham emergency:  !

(b) the ability and willingness of personnel and officials in the a i

Miller Place School District to par'ticipate-in implementing  !

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LTLCO's emergency plan for Shoreham or an early dismissal, , J

.. l sheltering or evacuation of Miller Place School Dist rict. schools-during a Shoreham emergency; and (c) the ability of the Miller Place School District to implement actions that would , adequately 9

protect the school children in their charge in the event of a Shoreham emergency, are unwarranted, without basis, and false and  ;

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s~ i RECOLVED, that based upon the Board's determinat' ion that adequate protective actions, including early dismissal, shel t e ri ng and evacuation, could not be implemented so.as to assure the safety of the school children in the Miller Place School-District in the event of a shoreham emergency, the Miller Place Sebcol 3

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District shall not adopt or implement any plan for, or perform any and be it l training related to, a response to a Shoreham emergency 0

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RESOLVED, that the Board recognizes that the LILCO plan  !

i includes no provision for dealing with the potential liability of )

the Miller Place School District or employees thereof which could or from arise out of lawsuits resulting from a Shoreham accident

, l protective actions attempted to be'taken during such an accident:

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' RESOLVED,' that the. Miller Place Union Free School i District finds that LILCO's emergency plans for schools do not adequate offer children or school personnel of this district I protection in the event of an accident at the Shoreham Nuclear Plant: and , be it further

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' RESOLVED, that this school board believes that i I

of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant should not be permitted unless or I until complete and reasonable resolution of these e outstanding, l l l critical emergency plan'ning problems can be achieved. '  ;

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The'above resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote c'  !

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Education of the Miller Place Union. Free School District i I

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MILLER PLACE Miller UNION Place, Now York TREE SCHOOL DISTRICT 11764-SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION J Adopted Septernber 1, 1983 WHEREAS, federal regulations for fu11' power coeration of the Shore-ham Nuclear Plant require an emergency plan for communities -

adequate protection in event of a nuclear emergel l

WHEREAS, the Long Island Lighting Company, in an ef.? ort to meet federal regulations, has prepared an LILCO, N emergency plan w j wi11' attempt to implements and i j

WHEREAS, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Shoreham licensing i board is now conducting hearings to review .the adequacy of the LILCO emergency plan; and j WHEREAS, the LILCO emergency. plan includes protective actions to be j taken by schools; and WHEREAS, ' this board has identified the following weaknesses in the l l

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1. Early Dismissal Our emergency early ' dismissal procedure, which LILCO's /

i plan incorporates, wouldn' t bring school children to *

health and safety. ~
2. Transportation i The requ.toite number of buses and drivers required for j i

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early dismissal are not available to theThis

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3. Needs We cannotof School Personnel guarantee that teaching and non-teaching i

personnel will stay in schools to supervise earlyThese t dismissal.

to the safety of their own families and, therefore,~may not be available to perform emergency-related tasks. l

4. Lack of Parental Supervision The success of an early dismissai plan depends not only on prompt dismissal from schools, but-In onthose prompt evacua-cases in tion of children from their homes.

which parents will not be at home during the day, children will be sent to unsuperv'ised homes from which they will not be able to evacuate promptly.

5. . Parental Intercession that parents will wait at home We cannot be confident -

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- to base decisica# for' protective acticns will come f C.: utility.

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