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V. Appointment of CFE liaison to Wastewater Treatment Monitoring Program Committee Stancil led a discussion noting that in a past meeting Ron Holdway and Rosie Summers presented their recommendations on this program . It is unknown exactly how and whether the Commissioners will propose funding for this , but it may be some interest in partially beginning this year. There is also interest in revising the program to take into account funding and the funding equity concerns that were raised here . Holdway indicated that there is going to be a committee of staff and Board of Health members and other citizens that will be meeting in another month, short term duration, to take a look at the program, and make some recommendations, before it comes back again . The CEF has been offered the opportunity to have a liaison in that effort. Fortmann asked when is it going to start? Stancil replied that it may be the end of April or early May . A question was raised about existing liaisons and Stancil noted that Richard Pratt is liaison to Water Resources Committee and Loraine Kohorn is liaison to Master Parks & Recreation Work Group . Lidh and Fortmann would be willing to coordinate on sharing duties . Staff will report on meeting schedule . VI. Update — Nuclear Waste Storage Pools at Shearon Harris Stancil started the following discussion by noting that he had limited new information, but would fill the CFE in on what information was known . A special meeting of the County Commissioners — called the Regional Forum was held last week at the Chapel Hill Town Council Chambers , with about 125 people attending . Attendees heard from both David Lochbaum with Union of Concerned Scientists and Consultant Dr . Gordon Thompson followed by a panel discussion including two CFE members that are here tonight, Richard Pratt and Dr . Earl Fowler. There was a good bit of discussion at the forum with questions from the audience and from the elected officials . A broad range of elected officials was present from Guilford, Durham, Chatham, Lee counties , and other regional governments had members present. Many concerns and questions were raised. CP&L ' s attorney was a member of the panel . Stancil added that there is at least a tentative agreement that the pre-hearing conference will be held here in North Carolina rather than in Maryland during the week of May 10th Wednesday, May 12' as a possible date for that. The location was unknown at this time . He added that this is not a public hearing, but an opportunity for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to consider the concerns that have been raised and make decisions about that and CP&L ' s response . Pratt noted that one of his questions had more to do with an impact statement/study of the site similar to PSFAR (Preliminary Safety Final Analysis Report) , and, stated that since the storage rods were not ever intended to be a full time storage facility, it was a temporary situation, that there ought to be some means by which a more thorough impact statement should be conducted. Pratt continued that, after the meeting he was approached by CP&L ' s regulatory engineer, John Caves who will send information of some reports they have . Pratt continued that they (CP&L) heard what the concerns were, and need to demonstrate that they ' ve looked at this and that it' s not just a little addition they ' re going to do, and include a full impact study . Price asked if people would be allowed to comment at the pre-hearing . Stancil replied that he didn ' t know if there ill be an open meeting and that basically it is a consideration of would be any comments taken, but suspect it w Orange County ' s contentions and CP&L ' s response . Pratt added he had researched through the NBC ' s web site to see if there ' s any type of documentation with regard to doing studies on using the storage pools for permanent or even temporary storage of the rods , and there isn ' t much at all . Fortmann asked why Wake County is not more interested? Pratt responded that he thought that most governmental agencies defer to the NRC . They look to the federal agency , to being the number one and, if they ' re not concerned, it ' s ok with them . Stancil noted that he would pass more information along as it ' s received. VI. Update — Master Recreation and Parks Stancil noted that the Joint Master Recreation & Parks Work Group have been meeting about a year now . It is a very broad and large group with representatives from all the local elected boards including Hillsborough, Duke Forest & UNC, OWASA, and the School Boards . Their charge is to update the Master Recreation & Parks Plans , but they also been asked to look into other areas , such as joint capital funding of new park facilities and acquisition of land . That is one of the reasons Kohorn thought it would be good to get more up to speed with this effort as it ties in the Resource Acquisition Program that the CFE will be developing . Stancil is now involved in this effort as well to ensure that what this group comes up with is folded into the RAP and that both are consistent. Pratt asked if Stancil had any contact with the Triangle Conservancy in its regard to the acquisition of the Johnston Tract? Stancil answered that there has been some discussion and described the property . G : \CAROL\CFEMIN\CFE442 . DOC 2