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IEV- 2 - AS PROPOSED BY C.A.S.H. (Coatliton for Alternatives to Shearon Harris) • RESOLUTION REQUESTING INCLUSION OF ORANGE COUNTY IN SHEARON HARRIS EVACUATION PLAN Whereas regulations of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) require official evacuation plans only for communities within a ten-mile radius of nuclear power plants in the event of an accident, and yet recent accidents at the nuclear power plants at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, USSR, have demonstrated that the risks to human, animal, and plant life exposed to harmful levels of radiation extend far beyond a ten-mile radius, and Whereas Orange County and its citizens are mainly located within twenty- to-forty miles of the proposed Shearon Harris nuclear power plant and are there- for at risk, with prevailing winds in our direction one day out of five, of exposure to harmful levels of radiation in the event of a major accident at Shearon Harris, and Whereas the Nuclear. Regulatory Commission` has announced that, in the coming years, there is a fifty-fifty chance of an accident similar to the one at Chernobyl occuring at a reactor in the ;,United States, and Whereas NRC records show that Carolina Power and Light, the utility that would operate the Shearon Harris plant, has one of the worst safety records of any utility company in the United States, thereby increasing the likelihood of an accident at its Wake County nuclear power plant, and Whereas the Wake County Sheriff's Department has concluded that problems of drug abuse during construction of Shearon Harris were widespread among both workers and supervisors, the consequences of which are still under investigation, Now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Commissioners of Orange County request inclusion of Orange County in the official evacuation plan for the proposed Shearon Harris nuclear power plant in the event of an accident. Be it further resolved that the Board of Commissioers of Orange County reserves the right to evaluate the evacuation plan for brange County and its citiznes and to approve and recommend improvements to this plan. Be it further resolved that the Board of Commissioners of Orange County requests that final approval of the license for Carolina Power and Light to operate the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant be subject : to prior approval of the official evacuation plan by all affected communities and the complete resolution of all safety issues currently under NRC investigation.