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             UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                     WASHINGTON, D.C.  20548


                                         FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                         Expected at 9:45 a.m.
                                         Tuesday, August 2,.1983,


                          STATEMENT OF
                        RALPH V. CARLONE
                        DEPUTY  DIRECTOR
     RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
                           BEFORE THE
          SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT-AND INVESTIGATIONS
          HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
                               ON1
                  EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AROUND
                       NUCLEAR POWERPLANTS

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We welcome the opportunity to be here today to discuss

Federal, State, and local emergency planning and preparedness for

nuclear powerplant accidents.  We have recently completed field

work on a review of the activities of the Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA) which now has the lead Federal respon-

sibility for assuring the safety of individuals near nuclear

powerplants in the event of an accident at one of those plants.

Today I will discuss our tentative findings resulting from this

work.

     We believe that since the 1979 Three Mile Island acident, a

good deal of progress has been -made by Federal, State, and local

authorities as well as utility companies  in planning for. offsite

responses to powerplant emergencies.  However, much remains to be

done.  In short we found  that

     --while substantial progress has been made in developing

       offsite preparedness plans around operating sites, concern





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