ML20207C634

Requests Open Hearing Re Util Plans to Use Small Facility 40 Miles from Plant as Decontamination Ctr in Event of Nuclear Accident

ML20207C634
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	12/09/1986
From:	Putsis R ROSLYN HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION, ROSLYN HEIGHTS
To:	Kline J, Margulies M, Shone F Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ML20207C533	List: ML20207C529 ML20207C634 ML20207C660 ML20207C670 ML20207C703
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Download: ML20207C634 (2)

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Roslyn Heights Civic Association 147 POWERHOUSE ROAD, ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y.11577 December 9,1986 5 "E c"*' ' ^"

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Mr. Morton B. Margulies, Chairman a" .". i ' " Dr. Jerry R. Kline erreao cote *4vos Mr. Frederick J. Shone Administrative Judges U."*j/ cau4a ' Atomic Safety and Licensing Board uc co<oni U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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a^a'" coo'ss' The Roslyn Heights Civic Association is comorised of

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, a densely oooulated community of 1200 families. Our southern tueea boundary is the westbound Service Road of the Long Island Ex-sow ~ a usamos uasv tN oressway (L.I.E. ) which runs beside and oarallel to the L.I.E.

[,'),'[,'t and will be used to evacuate oeoole and vehicles around the su a *== Long Island Lighting Comoany's (LILCO) Shoreham nuclear olant, sovce waaac"

" should a nuclear accident occur. This also outs a number of

,",[^, ~,7* our homes near the eastbound Service Road on the other side cc4 a.e o f the L. I . E. , along which is LILCO's Roslyn Heights facility at Willis Avenue. We are also bisected by Willis-Mineola Avenue along the five most heavily trafficked blocks in Nassau County. At almost any time of day, traffic on the I .I.E. can be heavy. The LILCO facility on Willis Avenue has been se-1ected by LILCO to be one of three decontamination centers in the event of a nuclear accident at Shoreham, 40 miles away.

LILCO's first olan was to evacuate 100,000-150,000 corsonc and 15,000 contaminated vehicles to the Nassau Coliseum for d econtaminat ion. A drill was cerformed there in February of this year and in February, 1987, the Nuclear Regulatory Com-missicn (NRC) olans to comolete its evaluation of that drill, and on the basis of its findings may issue a license for LILCC 's Shoreham nuclear olant. Since February, 1986, however, the use of the Nassau Coliseum as a decontamination site has been barred. The result of this action led to LILCO's new olan, LERO, which crocoses to use its facilities in Roslyn Height s, Hicksville and Bellmore for decontamination. The NRC, which has accroved the olan, does not, aooarently, think it nt/cessary to hold another drill at these three sites. We b find this incomorehensibic. Comoarison cannot be made between nno a drill at the large Nassau Coliseum and these three small No' sites. Wo request, therefore, that a drill be oorformed at 1

do the sites in Roslyn Heights, Hicksville and Bellmore.

In the event of a disaster, the traf fic congestion will be u horrendous. It is not as though LILCO will have a clear route Q f rom its Shoreham nuclear olant to Roslyn Heights and the two gg other sites. In addition to evacuees, one million residents n of Suffolk County and 60% of Nassau County residents clan to

%oo leave if there is a nuclear accident at Shoreham. There is little doubt that these citizens will take every vestbound

• • route on Long Island.

We would like to invite you to exoerience our tra f fic and to envision the exodus of evacuees and refugees along our ma jor westbound highways. It is imoossible to credict that

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a nuclear accident will occur conveniently at 2 :00 A. P. and -

the highways should be viewed during rush hours as well as normal daily hours. Nor can the weather be credicted, ' and in the event of rain, the trail of contamination will be a long "

one. The thought of such an evacuation of Shoreham seenu'un ' '

realistic.

It is our understanding that only municioalities and towns. "

i can make olans for evacuation of nuclear olant accidents bud select sitec for decontaminat ion and relocation.- The wiscom of Executive Law 24 is obvious : towns are cognizaat of their zoning laws, land use, water systems,7 traffic oroblems, environy mental considerations, oooulation densities, etc. Therefore, LILCO's plan, approved by the NRC, would seem to be , illegal.

Additionally, such a olan must include a relocation ' site for evacuees to Roslyn Heights. The Roslyn High School has not accented use of its facilities for this ourcose, 'and, in fact s the Administration was not consulted by LILCO for foermission 1 to list the school in LERO. e ,

Towns are resoonsible for the welfare, safety and healch of '.

their citizens, but it is our understanding that the NPC is a3 so' '

resoonsible for the welfare of the ocoole, and not simuly an organ for assisting utilities to obtain a license for a nuclear '

plant. For us to consider all environmental issues would bo '

an enormous task, but we question the ability of L1LC0 to contain contaminated water and, in the event of rain, there seems litt1'e likelihood that our ground water and wells will not become un- '

d rinkable.

4 We have learned only very recently and through the cross of LILCO's clans to use its small facility in our community for '

d econt amination. He do not consider the olan to be realistic, '

feasible or safe. For this reason and others mentioned in this j letter, and because we have had no say in LIICO's clans, we request an open oublic hearing as orovided by Federal law 95- ,

641 of 1972, as amended 1979, which guarantees the ocoole's right to know.

Sincerely,

& &/ $ 4 2r c Ronald A. "utsin President  ;

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