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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 17, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # ~~ <br />SUBJECT: Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _x_ No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />OC Commission for the Environment <br />resolution <br />Rosemary Waldorf letter <br />Margaret Pollard letter <br />Mary MacDowell material <br />Dr. Vanderhook fax <br />County Engineer's report <br />Draft BOCC resolution <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes x No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />County Engineer Extension 2303 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br />Durham - 688-7331 <br />Mebane - 227-2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To present for the BOCC's review, discussion, revision and adoption aresolution - <br />and related background material -requesting the appropriate state agencies and the <br />Nuclear Regulatory Commission hold public hearings, receive public input and <br />undertake rigorous environmental and risk projection analysis of the CP&L <br />proposal to continue storing local and imported high level radioactive waste and to <br />expand storage capacity for that high level radioactive waste at the Shearon Harris <br />nuclear power facilities. <br />BACKGROUND: As a direct result of the federal government's failure to provide permanent <br />storage facilities for the high level radioactive waste generated by this <br />county's nuclear power generating plants, CP&L's Shearon Harris plant <br />has been storing its waste on site for a number of years. This material has <br />been stored in facilities intended for temporary storage of high level <br />radioactive waste. Furthermore, the temporary storage facilities at Shearon <br />Harris have also been used to store high level radioactive wastes imported <br />into this area from CP&L's nuclear plants at Brunswick, NC, and Robinson, <br />SC. As the capacity of the existing storage facilities at Shearon Harris has <br />been nearly exhausted, CP&L has proposed to ~;xpand the capacity of <br />Shearon Harris facilities to accommodate additional waste storage. <br />