Appendix K, Comment Period

Review of Emergency Preparedness of Areas Adjacent to Indian Point and Millstone Appendix K: Results of the Comment Period Executive Summary On January 10, 2003 James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA) completed a draft comprehensive and independent review of emergency preparedness for the area around the Indian Point Energy Center (Indian Point) and for that portion of New York in proximity to the Millstone plant in Connecticut. Because of the importance of the subject to the citizens and stakeholders in the area, and because we thought consideration of comments would improve the report, JLWA thought it appropriate that the public have an opportunity to provide comments on any aspect of it. The State concurred in this assessment and approach. Although JLWA received 72 submissions that contained hundreds of individual comments, few changes in the draft were required due to factual errors. The comments that addressed major, substantive issues were not sufficiently compelling that the draft’s major findings, conclusions and recommendations needed to be changed in the final report. Changes to the final report are explained in this appendix. Based on the submissions and comments received, as well as the public debate that followed the release of the draft report, JLWA finds it both necessary and appropriate to emphasize or clarify some issues we may not have accentuated in the draft: • Closing the plants would not remove the need for improvements ...