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

                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                          EXPECTED AT 10:00 a.m.
                          Monday, May 7, 1979


109285                  STATEMENT OF
                  J. DEXTER PEACH, DIRECTOR
                ENERGY AND MINERALS DIVISION
                         BEFORE THE
  SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES -s
          HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
                             ON             PWRLNS
     LjEMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AROUND NUCLEARPOWERPLANTS

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We welcome the opportunity to be here today to discuss

emergency preparedness around nuclear powerplants. On

March 30, 1979, we issued a report 1/ to the Congress in which

we concluded that areas around nuclear facilities should be

better prepared for emergencies. The recent accident at the

Three Mile Island nuclear powerplant near Harrisburg, Penn-

sylvania, underscores the need for sound nuclear emergency

preparedness at all governmental levels.

     Forty-three States have sizable fixed nuclear facilities

within their boundaries. These facilities include 70 commer-

cial nuclear powerplants, and a number of Federal military

and nuclear materials production and research reservations.

Another 165 nuclear powerplants are being built or planned.

The greatest danger from a nuclear accident at one of these




l/Areas Around Nuclear Facilities Should Be Better Prepared
  for Radiological Emergencies, EMD-78-110, March 30, 1979.

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