P.E.P. TALK 15 of 16

Grab your Community Emergency Planning for Indian Point Guide and let’s take it from the top this week. Actions to take in the event of an emergency at Indian Power nuclear power facility were produced by County Planners, New York State, and Entergy Nuclear Northeast who own Indian Point. Part of the emergency plan includes communicating with the public. Information contained in the guide is for you and the community to help you prepare for the unlikely event of an emergency at Indian Point. As part of our campaign to become personally prepared for disaster, reading this guide in advance means you are becoming proactive about your personal planning.

To begin with, flip through the pages of the guide. Notice the guide is broken down into six steps. At the beginning of each step, you will see a blue box with the step number on it. Each blue box gives a brief instruction on information to fill in where you see blanks.

Once you have read through each step, fill in the information that is appropriate to your situation. For example, step one, on page 1, lists many radio stations and television channels where emergency alert messages will be available. In the first blue box, you are given space for one AM and one FM radio station, plus one television station.

Take time to channel surf before you write down your choices.

Now go through and read sections 1 through 6. After you finish reading a section, write down the information requested in each blue box.

On page 16 of the guide, there is an Emergency Plan Summary. Each section on page16 is numbered to correspond with the blue boxes you completed earlier.

Finally, on the inside-back cover there is a column titled Emergency Plan Card.

Transfer all the information from page 16 on to this section. Once completed, this card can be detached and duplicated for you and your family to carry in a wallet. Consider making copies for safe keeping at the office, in the car, in your disaster supply kit, and consider sending a copy to your designated out of town "check in" family member or friend.

Think 72 !