• Established an Emergency Operation Center located in Town Hall with fire, police, ambulance and police "hot line" transmitters as well as radio equipment to operate on assigned civil preparedness frequencies;

• The fire station is equipped with a 50 kw generator and 5 additional electric generators, some of which are mounted on fire apparatus. The Fire Department is manned on a twenty-four hour basis. All of the active members have tone actuated monitor receivers. Members of the department are emergency medical technicians;

• All Police Department patrol vehicles are equipped with 2-way radios that are capable of communication with local fire and EMS services. The radios are also programmed to utilize a criminal justice band that allows communications with other police departments in Fairfield County. Additionally, our base station can patch information from the Sate "Hotline" frequency to all patrol units. The Hotline is a multi-jurisdictional frequency used by the by the Connecticut State Police and all police departments in the Fairfield County area.

• The 55 member New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps, of which

50 members are emergency medical technicians, is equipped with two

(2) two-way radio equipped ambulances and a paramedics response vehicle. Ambulances also have C-Med and Hear radios for direct communications with area hospitals. The ambulance service also has 30 walkie-talkies and a cell phone in each vehicle.

In addition to the above, the following services are available to the Town of New Canaan on a need and/or availability basis.

• There are no general hospitals in the community, however, there are three general hospitals located within 10 miles with a combined bed capacity of 1,000.

• The National Guard facility on the Town line has a transport battalion with radio, radar and communication equipment, trucks, water trucks, and recovery vehicles that can be used for disaster relief

• There are numerous shelter areas throughout town that are acceptable for natural disaster and other types of manmade emergencies that do not require shielding from nuclear radiation.

Cell phone service is provided and is being expanded to cover the dead spots within the
Town.

In the event of a natural, biological/chemical or nuclear disaster, the Town of New
Canaan Emergency Preparedness Plan will be executed as outlined below:

COORDINATION OF THE NEW CANAAN

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN

• The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will call together such Town department heads and

nature of the emergency and will brief them on the situation. The CEO will activate the Emergency Management Structure (see Attachment A)

• Following the briefing, all department heads and other persons involved will review their responsibilities outlined in the Emergency Operations Plan. They will then make preparations for the mobilization of their personnel as appropriate and necessary

• The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be activated and maintained on a standby basis pending further orders. Department heads will designate their representatives to the EOC.

• All emergency equipment, supplies and resources will be inventoried, checked and readied for emergency operations (response vehicles will be filled with gas and oil, emergency generators will be started and tested; radiological monitoring and hazardous material equipment, radios, flashlights, batteries, regulatory and safety signs, record forms, etcetera will be inventoried and checked for operational readiness).

• Personnel, equipment, and resources will be readied for dispersal and where necessary, moved to appropriate locations on a stand-by basis according to the particular type of emergency.

• The Emergency Management Director, in conjunction with the other Town security services, will coordinate the inspection of all communications and auxiliary generating equipment to ensure its operating capability.

• News releases will be prepared for newspapers, radio, local and town- specific television channels, and the Town Wed site to be used only when directed by the Chief Executive Officer.

• Preparations will be made to alert, if necessary, the entire population of the Town, including organizations, agencies and/or groups serving the handicapped, elderly and non-English speaking residents.

• School officials, public and private, present at the briefing by the Chief Executive Officer will take all necessary steps to safeguard the school population at any time that school is in session. Institution and agencies not represented at the briefing will be alerted by the Emergency Management Director, if deemed necessary by the Chief Executive Officer.

• In an emergency of a local nature, the State Office of Emergency Management and communities with which mutual aid agreements exist will be alerted.

• During this phase, the overall readiness of the Emergency Operations Center for operation on a 24 basis will be initiated.

Once the immediate danger to Town residents has stabilized a recovery operation will begin:

• Continue rescue operations. If a radioactive environment exists, ensure monitoring and decontamination when possible. Monitoring and decontamination should precede all other recovery operations.

• Arrange for temporary shelter, housing, flood and clothing where necessary.

• Make complete evaluation of the situation, including damage assessment and plan for

restoration. Determine restoration priorities.

Assist public utilities with the restoration of service where necessary and when requested.

Provide emergency mortuary service.

• Maintain the Emergency Operations Center in operation until such time as the

emergency and recovery operations no longer requires it.

• Establish and maintain a disaster inquiry center.

• Maintain facilities for the dissemination of information to the public.

• Arrange for financial assistance where necessary to help residents and Town government to recover from the disaster. This will be done in cooperation with State and Federal agencies.

• Destroy contaminated food, drugs and other material.

Of particular concern to the residents and officials of New Canaan is the subject of evacuation. We continue to view as the most critical challenge to our emergency plan and planner, a scenario involving an incident which prompts large numbers of evacuees into and out of the New Canaan area. We are aware that this concern is shared with both our neighboring communities and with Connecticut's Emergency Management Office. As a result of the complexities of this issue, combined with inadequate direction from the State and Federal authorities, we have not been able to develop a practical and viable plan of evacuation.

The issues which inhibit a plan's development are many. Location in the most densely populated corridor o the country, proportionate lack of limited roadways, rail and waterway infrastructure, situated in the path of major urban escape routes and egress direction limited by the physical obstacles of Long Island Sound and New York City are a few of the most obvious.

Further, we need to factor into our planning those assets which will be committed from state and federal government sources. As of yet, we have not been made aware of the level of guidance and support we may expect to receive.

We are perfectly capable of evacuation execution within the borders of New Canaan or larger scale movements of town residents to nearby areas in response to local incidents. However, evacuation in response to regional or even broader emergencies must be

Mr. SHAYS. I'll start out the questions and just ask, just preface my comments by saying that Ms. Kelly's-her constituents are directly impacted. They're in the 10-mile radius, and she's already begun this process and had a hearing in the Department of Transportation and so on.

We felt that the value of this hearing was to then look at what happens to those folks who are just kind of outside that boundary of 10 miles, but within the 50-mile radius, and also to look at what impact one State has over another.

For instance, this was the-the Witt report was requested by the Governor of New York logically. It's overseen by the Governor of New York. We have Millstone 1, 2 and 3, big concerns there as well, so this report, this hearing is not just about Indian Point. It's to appreciate, help this committee appreciate how a community looks at the issue in general.

For instance, Mr. Bond, I'm curious-but happy to have others respond. I'm curious as to when a plan is devised, let's just say there's been a plan for Indian Point for years. Were you made aware of the plan? Were you told how New Canaan fit into this plan?

Mr. BOND. No.

Mr. SHAYS. OK. That's it?

Mr. BOND. That's it.

Mr. SHAYS. So we have a plan-we're going to get through this panel real quick with answers like that, but

Mr. BLUMENTHAL. He's a lawyer's dream.

Mr. SHAYS. You think he's a lawyer's dream, Dick. You wait until you get him on the stand; you'll regret it.

But the bottom line to it is, you're not aware of that plan?

Mr. BOND. No, I'm not.

Mr. SHAYS. And so we have a plan.

Maybe, Mr. Wiltse, you could answer me, are you aware of that plan? I mean, you're in charge of emergency preparedness and so on. Would you be made aware of a plan? Not the last plan, but you know, in general?

Mr. WILTSE. We, of course, are aware of New York State's plan and the county's plan, and in the event of an incident at Indian Point, we would be working with them.

Our responsibility, of course, is to do the planning in accordance with the Federal requirements and guidance for those communities in Connecticut that are within the 50-mile zone. So that is where our planning, if you will, begins and our responsibilities begin.

Mr. SHAYS. So is it your responsibility to make sure that the first selectman of New Canaan has an awareness of the plan? Is that your responsibility?

Mr. WILTSE. That would be our responsibility to ensure that he knows the standards that are currently set for the 50-mile-what's known as the 50-mile ingestion pathway procedures and plan.

Mr. SHAYS. OK. And we are not just talking about a superficial presentation to the first selectman saying, you know, they have a plan and they will be coming over to your territory. Are you required to develop a plan that exceeds the 10-mile radius and are you supposed to help design an evacuation for residents of the New Canaan? Who does that?