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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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80Cr.Lp.5, via uFhht-MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Docketing and Services Branch FROM:

Kathaleen Kerr Secretary to Judge, Morton B. Margulies

SUBJECT:

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

Docket No. 50-322-OL-3

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

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Ltr. dated November.24, 1986 to' William J. Catacosinos from James B. Boyd, Superintendent, Miller Place Union Free School District.

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Ltr. dated December 3,1986 to Maurice Barbash from David L.

Prestemon together with Mr. Barbash's incoming ltr. dated November 26 1986 to Judge Morton B. Margulies.

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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:

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

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Miller Place, New York 11764 J-3 School Board Resolution-l Adopted July 1, 1986 has four the Miller Place School District

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

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

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inside the 10-mile planning plant and t

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

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and f urther due to LILCO's f ailure to address any of the Board's j

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stronger resolution opposing full power oper& tion of the Shoreham l

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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

the Governments of Suffolk County and the State of l

believes that New York have acted ' responsibly and in furtherance of the i

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interests of the citizens of Long Island in so determining; I

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the mere acceptance and use of tone alert

WHEREAS, 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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WHEREAS, 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

illegal and beyond.LILCO's authority to implement:

been ruled to be and WHEREAS, the Board has been informed that the LILCO emergency plan includes provisions supposedly to be implemented by in the Miller Place School school officials and school personnel the school which are purportedly intended to protect District c

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

for the existence of plans in the Miller Place School District (a) or evacuation'of children from the early dismissal, sheltering, at the Shoreham plant: (b) the schools during a nuclear accident ability and/or willingness of officials and personnel employed :

the Miller Place School District to undertake'or perform (c) duties and actions during a Shoreham accident;~and particulat 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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Agency, the rederal Emergency Management emergency, and that even' speaking with District personnel, has ignored the l

f without has adopted no plan to respond the Miller place District fact that its officials and personnel have to a Shoreham emergency and that 1

d received no training on how to respond to such an emergency; an many of the Board of Education understands that

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relies for the school bus drivers upon whom this District j

they are unable to 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 the Board understands that according to

WHEREAS, representations made by LILCO to the Nuclear Regulatory of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham i

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attempting to shelter from harmful radiation accompany children on buses which would take them (b) ters to be through the emergency planning zone to evacuation cen j

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WHEREAS, the Board beleives that in the event of a

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substantial numbers of the' teachers and other j

Shoreham accident, school personnel in the Miller Place School District would have personal and family obligations and responsibilities which would j

make them unable or unwilling to remain in school, or accompany, a

supervise or transfer school children during an early dismissal,,

and sheltering, or evacuation from a Shoreham accident; i

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t WHEREAS, based upon' discussions and meetings.among pecsonnel and officials of the Miller Place School District, due i

consideration of the logistical and practical realities involved evacuation, or other in implementing early dismissal, sheltering, in the School District protective actions for school children 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

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the (a) by LILCO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about 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 h

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LTLCO's emergency plan for Shoreham or an early dismissal, 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 be it further i

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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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further RESOLVED, that the Board recognizes that the LILCO plan j

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

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

5 and be it further the. Miller Place Union Free School RESOLVED,' that i

finds that LILCO's emergency plans for schools do not District adequate offer children or school personnel of this district of an accident at the Shoreham Nuclear I

protection in the event Plant: and, be it further

,1 this school board believes that licens.-

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I of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant should not be permitted unless or until complete and reasonable resolution of these outstanding, I

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MILLER PLACE UNION TREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Miller Place, Now York 11764-SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION J

Adopted Septernber 1, 1983 federal regulations for fu11' power coeration of the Shore-ham Nuclear Plant require an emergency plan for communities

WHEREAS, adequate protection in event of a nuclear emerge WHEREAS, the Long Island Lighting Company, in an ef.? ort to meet federal regulations, has prepared an emergency plan w N

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LILCO, wi11' attempt to implements and i

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Shoreham licensing j

board is now conducting hearings to review.the adequacy

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of the LILCO emergency plan; and j

the LILCO emergency. plan includes protective actions to be j

WHEREAS, taken by schools; and WHEREAS, ' this board has identified the following weaknesses in the l

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

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plan incorporates, wouldn' t bring school children to i

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i successful early dismissal are not available to theThis i

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in contaminated areas.

'i Needs of School Personnel We cannot guarantee that teaching and non-teaching 3.

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

l Lack of Parental Supervision The success of an early dismissai plan depends not only 4.

on prompt dismissal from schools, but on prompt evacua-

-In those 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 for their children to arrive.

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to base decisica# for' protective acticns will come f s

tor and WALK-AM Radio, vill, b9th describe the utent ofBscausti C.: utility.

the emergency and recommend acid.dn6.

be both operator of the planc 'adCinitiator of emergency actions,. potential for conflict of interest, exists.' / School l

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LILCO's emergency plans for schools do not of fer children or

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