Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Site Specific Advisory Board

Consensus Recommendation

DATE: Sept. 30, 1997

NUMBER: 97-3

RESPONSE REQUESTED BY (date):

REGARDING: Community Relations Plan

TO: Jimmie Hodges, DOE

CC: Carl Froede, Jr., EPA

Tuss Taylor, KDEP

Dr. John Volpe, Radiation Control Branch

Wayne Davis, Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources

Regular members — Nola Courtney, Tommy Fletcher, David Fuller, Rev. W.G. Harvey, William Kressenberg, Ronald Lamb, Linda Long, Ray McClennan, Connie Sykes, Bill Tanner, Rev. Gregory Waldrop

 

 

At a regular meeting of the Site Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) held Sept. 18, 1997, the board identified comments on the PGDP’s "Community Relation Plan for the Environmental Management and Enrichment Facilities Program."

COMMENTS:

  1. If DOE proposes an action that affects a particular group of citizens, then that group of citizens should be notified specifically.
  2. The SSAB questions the plan’s date given for the discovery of groundwater contamination.

 

 

 

CO-CHAIRS

Mark Donham Vicki Jones

Route 1 1131 Hamburg Road

Brookport, Illinois 62910 Kevil, Kentucky 42053

mandk@midwest.net jonesvw@ornl.gov
  2. DOE should place ads or articles in media around the region giving an address and phone number where citizens can get on the mailing list to receive notices about the cleanup of the plant.
  3. DOE should appoint a full-time public affairs officer at Paducah.
  4. The CRP should indicate the methodology used to do the community interviews and to make them statistically accurate in representing the community point of view. Also, when the CRP is updated next year, the community interviews should be done in a scientifically accepted methodology to accurately reflect the community’s attitude toward the cleanup.