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<br />WHEREAS, Progress Energy/CP&L has indicated that it will apply to the NRG far permission <br />to take up to nine more years to bring the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant into <br />compliance with fire safety standards and regulations; and <br />WHEREAS, Progress EnergylCP&L has indicated that it will apply to the NRC for atwenty- <br />yearextension of its operating license far the Shearon Harris plant while the plant <br />is not in compliance with existing fire safety standards and regulations; and <br />WHEREAS, Progress EnergylCP&L has indicated that it is in the process of evaluation of <br />permitting, designing and constructing two nuclear power reactors at the Shearon <br />Harris nuclear power plant while the existing plant is not in compliance with <br />existing fire safety standards and regulations; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, hereby resolve to <br />support the petition of the NC Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, the Union of <br />Concerned Scientists, the Nuclear Information and Research Service, NC Fair Share and <br />Students United for a Responsible Global Environment to the US Nuclear Regulatory <br />Commission asking that the NRC compel Progress Energy/CP&L to immediately bring the <br />Shearon Harris nuclear power plant into compliance with existing federal fire safety standards <br />and regulations applicable to nuclear power plants. <br />This, the 3rd day of October, 2006 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />A Resolution <br />Calling for Coordinated Emergency Management and Evacuation Planning Within the 50- <br />Mile Radius Ingestion Pathway for Potential Discharge of Airborne Nuclear Waste <br />Material from the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has a long and well-established <br />practice of advocating for any and all activities that would promote the public <br />health, safety and welfare, particularly in regard to feasible threats to that health, <br />safety and welfare; and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has a long and well-established <br />record of concern and activism related to the potential magnitude and catastrophic <br />consequences of an airborne release of nuclear waste materials from the Shearon <br />Harris nuclear power plant; and <br />WHEREAS, information developed within the least eight years has demonstrated the <br />vulnerability of spent nuclear fuel to combustion with ensuing airborne release and <br />dispersion of extremely harmful and dangerous nuclear waste material as a <br />consequence of accident or sabotage/ terrorism; and <br />WHEREAS, there exists an area of a ten-mile radius around the Shearon Harris nuclear power <br />plant for which there are in place emergency management and evacuation plans <br />