wounded Ambulance
A Shallotte Volunteer Rescue ambulance sits outside the squad building Monday morning after being
involved in a wreck that injured five people, one seriously, Sunday afternoon. Witnesses told police a
car made an unexpected left turn in front of the ambulance as it attempted to pass three vehicles on
N.C. 179 with its siren and emergency lights operating. Shallotte Rescue Chief Mark Gore said. Squad
members sustained minor bruises in the collision, but were able to treat the injured and prepare them
for transport to local hospitals.
U.S. To Absorb Extra Security
Costs For Spent Fuel Shipments
North Carolina won't have to pay for the extra secu
rity it plans to provide as spent nuclear fuel rods from
foreign research reactors arc shipped across the south
eastern comer of the state this month.
The U S Department of Energy (DOE) announced
Sept 1 that it would fund requests from both North
Carolina and South Carolina for additional security and
safeguard and monitoring as the rods are moved by rail
from Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal at Southport
to DOE's Savannah River Site near Aiken, S C. There
the rods will be stored under water.
While federal standards call for two armed guards
on the train itself, the N.C. Highway Patrol and the N.C.
Division of Emergency Management asked for higher
security, citing publicity about the route, timing, security
plans and other details of the shipment, and past experi
ence with protesters.
The state was also concerned that emergency re
sponded in Brunswick. Columbus, Bladen and Robeson
counties, through which the train will travel, might not
have the proper radiological equipment and training.
Gov. Jim Hunt asked that DOE reverse its earlier de
cision that any measures beyond those required by fed
eral standards would have to provided by the states
themselves.
The DOE will pay North Carolina more than
S45.000 for extra security by the N.C. Highway Patrol
along the train route, including a helicopter ind a 12
person security and emergency response team patrolling
the route, and for radiological emergency equipment.
South Carolina will receive from the DOE either the
funding or $500,000 in emergency response equipment.
"North Carolina did not ask to have this material
shipped through our state, and our citizens should not
have to pay for ensuring that the shipment is done as
safely as possible," said Hunt in a prepared statement.
At a public meeting in March with Brunswick
County Commissioners, DOE representatives stressed
that whatever security needs were considered necessary
would be taken if a local port were chosen to receive the
fuel rods. However, they also cautioned that if the cost
were too high, the foreign governments involved might
choosc to withdraw from the program, defeating its pur
pose of taking nuclear weapons material out of circula
tion.
The company hired by the shippers to arrange the
transport refused to pay the cost of additional security
measures sought by the states, saying they were unnec
essary and too costly. Instead the DOE will pay.
DOE has provided training for state and local per
sonnel. Also, on Sept. 1 it participated in a tabletop "dry
run" exercise hosted by the Southern States Energy
Board in Augusta, Ga. The daylong event allowed 50
representatives from all involved agencies to review
their roles and responsibilities in transport of the spent
fuel and in response to any accident or incident such as a
derailment or a public demonstration
TWo commercial ships scheduled to arrive the same
day from Europe will deliver the rods to Sunny Point.
They will be shipped by rail by CSX Transportation Inc.
to Aiken.
Authority Sets Sewer System Loan
Application Hearing For Sept. 22
A public hearing will be held
Sept. 22 by the South Brunswick
Wairr and Scwcr Authority on its
application to the state for a SS mil
lion loan from the Clean Water
Bond fund.
The hearing will be held at 7 p.m.
in an upstairs meeting room at
Maples Clubhouse, Sea Trail Plan
tation.
The loan, administered by the
N.C. Dept. of Environmental,
Health and Natural Resources,
would be just one part of the financ
ing package for construction of a
S30 million sewer system to serve
the general Sunset Beach -Calabash
area. The authority also proposes to
obtain a second low-interest loan
from a state revolving loan fund and
to issue revenue bonds, with all fi
nancing to be repaid by user fees.
The authority cannot proceed
with the project, including applying
for permits or obtaining interim
funding, until questions about the
project's anticipated irpact on the
environmentaresettled. The authori
ty hired a legal consultant to critique
a revised and expanded study and
usher it through review, with the
goal of precluding the need for the
more in-depth environmental impact
statement pressed for by the Sunset
Beach Taxpayers Association.
Joe Tombro, project engineer for
Piedmont Olsen-Hensley and acting
manager for the authority, said
Tuesday that the firm anticipates is
suance within the next several
weeks of a FONSI ? a finding that
the project has "no significant im
pact" and that further environmental
study is not needed.
The first phase of the regional
sewer project will include installa
tion of sewer collection lines in the
Calabash downtown business dis
trict, with a proposal that the waste
water be treated initially by Little
River Water & Sewer Authority in
South Carolina.
Written comments will be accept
ed postmarked no later than 11:59
p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. They should be
mailed to the South Brunswick
wdici Aiiu Sewer Authority, P.O.
Box 6628, South Brunswick, N.C.
28470.
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