ML19324B494

Requests Inspector General Investigation Rept When Published or If Not Published Author Will Request Copy Under FOIA

ML19324B494
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	09/19/1989
From:	Thompson A PLYMOUTH, MA
To:	Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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. TOWN OF PLYMOUTH '

OFFICE OF SELECTMEN o THE SELECTMEN = m ^" A Rs GEORGE W. CAMERON s, ' 11 Lincoln Street - )

, DAVID F. mal.AGUTI i i~ Wlu, LAM R. GidmN ,

mouth. Massachusetts 02360 Aum c. THOMPSON Chairman '

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? September 19, 1989 1

l Kenneth Carr, Chairman -

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

'l White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike ,

Rockville, MD 20852

Dear Chairman Carr:

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' On September'15, 1989, Plymouth Civil Defense. Director  ;

Douglas Hadfield and Chairman of the selectmen' Alba Thompson  !

met with' George Mulley of the Office of the Inspector General, Nuclear' Regulatory Commission. Mr. Al Slaney of the 1 Massachusetts Civil Defense Agency and Mr. Al Cavanaugh, .

representing Saguish -Gurnet Association, were also present. .

A full file of letters and documents was furnished.to the i

' Inspector General. ,

The session lasted from approximately 8:30' a.m. to 123.30 a.m. I and focused, in the main, on the testimony of.NRC emergency  :

? planning staff given at the NRC headquarters hearings on Y October 14, 1988, and December 9, 1988. You will' recall that .,

. the Plymouth Board of Selectmen questioned the truth, r accuracy, and completeness of the October 14, 1988, testimony of your staff. No Plymouth official was permitted to speak at that hearing.- Our vigorous reactions and refutations, line by line of pages 76 to 103 of the testimony transcript of the October 14 meeting were forwarded by us to you in a +

letter dated October 31, 1988. In that letter we said "We trust we have been able to convey to you the substantial doubts about testimony presented that we know to be inaccurate or incomplete as it relates to Plymouth.'

At the December 9, 1988, meeting held at your headquarters, all five emergency planning zone communities testified that their radiological response plans were incomplete and in no way tested. That testimony was followed by the statements of your emergency planning staff which in large measure denied the validity of testimony of our Civil Defense Director and Chairman Thom. con of the Board of Selectmen.

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The Board of Selectmen moved swiftly to notify you that aga

,1 "The innfstence of your staff that the Town of Plymouth is preparedOnly to deal 34 with of 92 sizable radiological implementing' emergency procedures had is l had local-untrue."

approval at that time and those of fire, ' police, dhospita thers ,

schools, tandicapped persons, and Saquish-Gurnet i among o ,

were in various preliminary stagesstaff's Your emergency (manytestimony since revwas se

. several illogicaltimes).

since not one of those emergency staffers9 had ever

consulted our plans in our emergency operations center.

Indeed no plans had ever left~ Plymouth until August 198 lans What then was the basis of your staff for knowing about p never consulted or reviewed at the only up-to-date and official source? ,

17, 1989, we took issue with That Again, in our letter ~of Januart'

! staff testimony given at the December 9, 1989, hearing. d to.

testimony said the Taunton Reception Center was rea yAs ilding a matter of ,

accept thousands of evacuees from Plymouth.

record, it, at the time of testimony, was an unused h buortal which once had housed insane patients and had neit Iterhad p radiation monitors or contamination units in place.It was still fincomplete not even had a thorough cleaning.

late January 1989 when two members of the Plymouth Board ility.

Selectmen and our Civil Defense Director toure As a matter of fact, new site.is under renovation. Indeed, site viable. en given Neither was the Bridgewater receptionthe Trustees ently of B permission for the use of the site.until mid 1989 and Bridg under modification. (September 1989) h This Board and the Civil Defense Director suppliedf some te Inspector General's representative with a full file oThey are fille of our communications to you.

protests and with facts and figures which gave h and you are the r staff about the status of emergency planning in Plymout pplied often at variance with the information supplied by l youBoston which obviously placed undue reliance on materia e su by the licensee of the Pilgrim Nuclear Powerof Station,A the Edison Company, objective source of information en the emergency plansN Town of Plymouth.You chose not to believe us, leaving the town to the truth.

work in a vacuum of mutual mistrust.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission September 19, 1989 Page 3 i This letter reiterates information we have long since-reported to you.. We honestly believe your decisions, particularly of October 1988 to February 1, 1989, were based on erroneous staff testimony and statements, lack of knowledge, and incomplete statistics as regards emergency planning. This is a serious matter since the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has been given repeated NRC approvc1 as it moved from restart to 100% power. As we said in our January 24, 1989, letter to the NRC, " Frankly, we sometimes despair

-that you receive the complete truth from your emergency planning staff."

We request a copy of the Inspector General's report when it is published. If you do not choose to publish it, we shall request a copy under the Freedom of Information Act. We hope, however, you choose to make the report public. It is time for the truth to be known.

Sincerely,

. BOARD OF SELECTMEN bX . \ ' s C*n' 0 c e ,v

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Alba C. Thompson Chairman ACT/1t cc Senator John Kerry  ?

l Senator Edward Kennedy Congressman Gerry Studds Senator John Glenn Representative Robert Kraus Representative Peter Forman l l Senator Edward Kirby l- EPZ Communities i

Charles Barry, Secretary Public Safety Al Slaney, MCDA l Doug Hadfield, Civil Defense l C Nuclear Matters Committee '

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