ML20236W725
| ML20236W725 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 11/15/1987 |
| From: | Jay Collins, Fox L, Yard L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | LAKE COUNTY, OH |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8712080193 | |
| Download: ML20236W725 (2) | |
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Madison, Ohio 44057 Nov. 15, 1987 Lake County Emergency Management Agency P.O. Box 480 Mentor, Ohio 44061
Dear Sirs:
We are school bus drivers in the Madison School District, Local 238 of OAPSE.
We have been asked to be a participant in an emergency response to a radiological accident at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.
We have received some training in preparation of such an event.
We are writing because we have a number of concerns about our participation in a response to e, radiological emergency.
We are primarily concerned about questions of liability, health coverage and the adequacy of the training.
We want it to be very clear that until our concerns have been-addressed by the proper authorities in a formal, legal and definitive manner, we will not participate.in an evacuation due to a radiological accident.
This decision should not be construed as a lack of concern for those members of our community who will need assistance if such an accident occurs.
We are committed to helping during a non-radiological emergency, (and have done so in the past).
However, our first duty is to protect our-l selves and our families.
That is why your agency should not include our names as a statistic or otherwise, on your list of participants in an evacuation plan, until we agree, in writing, to do so.
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t The general findings of the task force were that "the current emergerey OAPSE/AFSCME presented a set of actually becomes a Civil Defense Officer with rights to direct their ft5Ponse plan for Ohio's nuclear power i demands to the Governor's Task Force activities as a Civil Defense Volunteer.
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- Mandatory bus driver training pro-Ile and that_ the premisc for plauning the concerns we have enumerated grams required by the State Board of inay be based on unduly optimistic would result in this Union advising its Education shouM not be used as tra.a-assumptions about the likelihood and members that they shouM not volunteer consequences of nuclear accidents."-
to participate in the nuclear emergency ing grounds for nuclear emergency I
OAPSE/AFSCME Director of Member.
cvacuation plan due to the State of evacuation procedures.
ship Services, Lou Kitchen, says that Ohio's failure to adequately address the-
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dressed, details of the union's demands safety, and fin'ancial protection," stated program for evacuation volunteers.
have still not been included in the Lou Kitchen, Director of Membership
- All training should be conducted State's plan. "On the whole " stated Services in a letter to the Task Force, under the direction and auspices of 8 the State Disaster Service and not by Kitchen, "the bulk of our concerns The demands set forth in OAPSE/
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have been addressed."
AFSCME's lett:r are the following:
b* A certificate of completion should he In the findings section of the State
- Schools or other civil defense agencies awarded and the State should pay for report, OAPSE/AFSCME is mentlooed by should inform school employees that civil disaster training.
I their role is stiictly voluntary.
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should not use their employcel be provided special safety equipment employer relationship to coerce indi-snd clothing.
- 1. Th2 Willingness and Ability of viduals in their decision to participate
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hs Drivers to Perform Assigned and when they should receive such or not to participate, Furctions: Traired peop!c are
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- Volunteers should be properly regis-equipment.
through their union that they are un.
tered as civil defense workers in'ad-
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