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1 SAN ONOFRE DECOMMISSIONING 2 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PANEL MEETING 3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF ORANGE 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEOTAPED PROCEEDINGS 13 LAGUNA HILLS, CALIFORNIA 14 THURSDAY, MARCH 22ND, 2018 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Reported by: Katherine Magner 23 CSR No. 14083 Job No. 2846039 24 25 Page 1 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 SAN ONOFRE DECOMMISSIONING 2 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PANEL MEETING 3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF ORANGE 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Transcript of videotaped proceedings, taken at 12 25555 Alicia Parkway, Heritage Room, Laguna Hills, 13 California 92653, commencing at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, 14 March 22, 2018. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 2 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PANEL MEMBERS: 2 DR. DAVID G. VICTOR CEP CHAIRMAN 3 JERRY KERN 4 CEP SECRETARY 5 DAN STETSON VICE CHAIRMAN 6 BILL HORN 7 SAN DIEGO COUNTY SUPERVISOR (Not Present) 8 9 TOM CAUGHLAN CAMP PENDLETON 10 MARNI MAGDA 11 SIERRA CLUB, ANGELES CHAPTER 12 TED QUINN AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY 13 STEVE SWARTZ 14 CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE 15 GARRY BROWN ORANGE COUNTY COASTKEEPER 16 MARTHA MCNICHOLAS 17 CAPISTRANO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 18 CAPTAIN MEL VERNON SAN LUIS REY BAND OF MISSION INDIANS 19 SERGIO FARIAS 20 MAYOR, SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO 21 DONNA BOSTON ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT 22 TOM PALMISANO 23 VICE PRESIDENT, DECOMMISSION CHIEF NUCLEAR OFFICER AT SONGS 24 RICH HAYDEN 25 CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS Page 3 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PANEL MEMBERS: 2 PAUL WYATT DANA POINT 3 VAL MACEDO 4 LUINA, LOCAL 89 5 6 PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD 7 PAGE LINE 8 97 12 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 4 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 LAGUNA HILLS, CALIFORNIA; THURSDAY, MARCH 22ND, 2018 2 5:30 p.m. 3 *** 4 CHAIRMAN DR. VICTOR: Let's -- we're going to 5 get started. 17:34:43 6 Okay. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for 7 joining us tonight. Thank you, again, to the community 8 of Laguna Hills for letting us use this terrific 9 facility. It's great to be back here. 10 My name is David Victor. I'm Chairman of the 17:35:15 11 Community Engagement Panel. I just want to remind you, 12 as we get started, two points of safety. First, should 13 you need to evacuate this room for any reason, you can go 14 back out the door you came in, or out any of the side 15 doors, or these three marked exit doors over here. 17:35:32 16 And we have two officers with us in attendance 17 today from the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Thank 18 them for their service, and they're here for our safety 19 and for your safety. 20 The Community Engagement Panel was set up 17:35:45 21 shortly after Edison and the other co-owners made the 22 decision to shut the plant and decommission the plant as 23 a two-way conduit to help Edison, in particular, as 24 operator of the facility, understand the interests and 25 concerns of the community, and also help the communities 17:36:04 Page 5 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 that are affected in various ways by the closure of the 2 plant to understand what's going on in the 3 decommissioning process, and where possible, to -- to 4 shape that process. 5 It's not a decision-making body. So we have 17:36:15 6 discussions and conversations, and then those help 7 catalyze interest in various topics and help focus Edison 8 and others on important actions. But this body itself is 9 not a decision-making body. It's a group of volunteers 10 who spend four Thursdays -- Thursday evenings a year 17:36:31 11 working on these issues. 12 And thanks to all of you for joining us tonight. 13 www.SONGScommunity.com, which is our electrifying 14 website. You can find meeting reminders, and sign up to 15 get meeting reminders by e-mail. You just need to go 17:36:51 16 there and opt in to the list. 17 You will also find all materials that are shared 18 inside this panel. So you'll find the draft slide deck 19 for tonight that was shared with the CEP, Community 20 Engagement Panel, late last week. You'll find meeting 17:37:04 21 materials, including materials -- thank you to members of 22 the community that pointed out that we did not have 23 enough information about public transportation. We now 24 do. And you'll find that information there about public 25 transportation resources to get to the various meetings. 17:37:16 Page 6 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 And you can also find these meetings 2 livestreamed and archival copies of full video from these 3 meetings -- from these meetings. There are hard copies 4 of the agendas on everyone's chair, so you'll know where 5 we are in the agenda. 17:37:31 6 As you came in, many of you spent some time at 7 the various information booths back there. A bunch that 8 are organized in various ways by Edison. And also, I'm 9 really delighted to see -- I see Department of Public 10 Watchdogs has one. Citizens Oversight has one. ROSE has 17:37:46 11 one, Gene Stone. And if others want to have a booth in 12 the future, let us know, and we'll get you a booth. 13 If you would like to make a comment in the 14 public comment period, which will be after the break, 15 please sign up at the table in the back of the room. If 17:38:03 16 you want to give us your questions ahead of time -- we 17 always make this offer, and no one ever does it, but 18 we'll make the offer again -- if you want to give us the 19 questions ahead of time, you can write it on a comment 20 card. 17:38:15 21 And if for some reason you don't want to stand 22 up and offer your question or comment, but you wanted to 23 be part of the official record and raise questions that 24 get answered in the way that all questions -- major 25 questions get answered each -- each night, just send them 17:38:25 Page 7 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 to that (indicating) within five days of the end of the 2 meeting to that e-mail address [email protected], and 3 they'll be part of the official -- the official record. 4 As is our practice, Dan Stetson and Jerry 5 Kern -- I'll introduce Jerry in his new role in just a 17:38:43 6 moment -- we'll help organize the comments, as they're 7 made, during the public comment period, and help 8 facilitate answers to those comments and a structured 9 dialogue around those -- those comments. 10 Panel members, as you make comments tonight, 17:38:56 11 please state your name for the -- for the livestream 12 people watching at home. And if you want to get my 13 attention, you can do this (indicating), and I'll get you 14 on the list. And if you have a comment directly on the 15 comment, you can do two fingers. And then if you think 17:39:09 16 I'm not seeing you, I guess you can wave the flag. If 17 that doesn't work, you can throw something at me, I 18 suppose. But please just put your tent up, so that I can 19 keep track of who would like the floor. 20 The topic tonight is the SONGS decommissioning 17:39:22 21 plant update, and in particular, we're focusing on the 22 transport of used fuel out of the pools and into dry cask 23 storage. And so we'll get to that topic in just a 24 moment. 25 I want to acknowledge, first of all, the new 17:39:39 Page 8 Veritext Legal Solutions 866 299-5127 1 officers of the Community Engagement Panel. Dan Stetson 2 is now Vice Chairman, and Jerry Kern is now Secretary. 3 And both Dan and Jerry were on the Panel before, so 4 they're familiar faces to this group. But thank you -- 5 thank you both for working with me and with Edison to 17:39:55 6 help organize these meetings and get our agendas and 7 materials under control. 8 I want to welcome three new members to the CEP. 9 Sergio Farias -- Sergio, where -- excellent. Sergio, 10 thank you very much and the City of San Juan Capistrano. 17:40:10 11 Steve Swartz, Councilmember Steve Swartz, from the City 12 of San Clemente. Steve, welcome. And Captain Mel Vernon 13 from the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians. Captain 14 Vernon, thank you very much for joining -- joining us. 15 And Merri Lopez-Keifer who, as you know, was on 17:40:25 16 the CEP going back to the second quarter last year, 17 unfortunately, is home sick with the flu. And we wish 18 her a speedy recovery.