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Thames : On May 10 , 1999 there will be a prehearmg conference in Rockville , Md. to determine if Orange County has established standing . CP&L does not feel that Orange has in fact established standing , since the 50 mile radius applies to reactor accidents and not waste storage pools . Pratt: Why aren ' t Wake and other counties concerned? Gordon : There are counties , other than Orange , which have expressed concern, but they haven ' t given money for the effort to get a hearing . Pratt: Wouldn ' t it be helpful to form a coalition? Gordon : Yes, but it is costly . Thames : We have asked every jurisdiction within 50 miles to call for a hearing . Gordon : The county does not have enough staff to organize a multi jurisdictional effort . Pratt: What if you sent Dr. Thompson ' s report? Gordon : If we are to send anything, I prefer the News & Observer summary of the Shearon Harris expansion . We have a tremendous amount of information, we could even set up a strategy session with Dr. Thompson . What we lack is the staff to lead an organizing effort. Price: Would a campaign change NRC ' s decision on standing? Gordon : I do not know . Rafalow: Can Representative Price and/or Senators Edwards and Helms help ? Gordon : If they hold the purse strings . Okun : We need to work with Wake and Raleigh officials to establish standing . Possibly we could get the nuclear engineering department at NC State to assist. MacRae : How possible is it that the Shearon Harris plant could be a terrorist target? Gordon : I do not know . The question is what can we do ? Jurgelski: We could ask environmental organizations , such as the Sierra Club to help . Gordon : We could contact the Raleigh chapter of the Sierra Club , send a mailing to jurisdictions, hold a meeting, but these endeavors take time . Rafalow: I like the idea of the Sierra Club holding a forum or public hearing . Jurgelski: I was thinking about the idea of contacting them via email . Pratt: Shouldn ' t the state level catalyze local responses , we need to find someone with authority at the state . Gordon : Does the CFE have any ideas about what to do? Kohorn : We need to find out some way to seize the interests of people . Thames: There is a late intervention process where other jurisdictions can enter . Kohorn : What is the possibility of other interests intervening? Gordon: People are not intervening because they do not have time or feel that this issue is over their heads . MacRae : We need the Sierra Club to get involved. McDowell: The Sierra Club is a good group . I think that it is worth having persons with scientific expertise to intervene and evaluate the Shearon Harris proposal . Gordon: I suggest that if the CFE wants to work on this issues then they should decide what they want to do . Okun : What could be the role of the Environmental Management Commission? I could speak with David Moreau, EMC head . Gordon : Could Lee and Annette could contact the various Sierra chapters in Wake ? Pratt.• What is it that you want persons in the Sierra Club to follow up on? Gordon : Members could contact their jurisdictions and ask them to intervene , ask their political representatives to send letters to the NRC . VII. Further Discussion of 199 Goals/Tasks This item was tabled by the CFE due to lack of time . Chair Kohorn asked individual members to look over the 1999 Goals/Tasks , VIII. Committee Meetings All three committees met at 9 : 15 PM. The Air Quality Committee was staffed by Slade McCalip and the Environmental Education Committee was staffed by Adhir Kackar, both of the Orange County Planning Department . David Stancil, ERCD director, staffed the Biological Resources Committee . Sessions lasted for 30 minutes at which time reports were given . 4