The future of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County grew cloudier last night after the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported it could not give "reasonable assurance" that emergency plans for the area around the plant would work.
The complaint filed by the Shins in 2002 had stated that the officers had "acted in a wilful, wanton, reckless, or grossly negligent manner," causing Shin's death, and had failed to provide reasonable security and emergency services to Shin.
Abernathy concluded that club officials, among other oversights, failed to manage the race as the crisis unfolded, did not have a reasonable or effective emergency plan in place, and could not comprehend the weather information provided to them by the country's Bureau of Meteorology.
If there truly are so many emergencies, then maybe the airport needs to direct some efforts into putting some reasonable restrictions on emergencies too.
This was all a marked contrast with the old days, when utilities sold power to one another at reasonable prices during emergencies, and it provides a vivid glimpse of the challenges facing this industry.
But it is justified as a wake-up call to the administration on an obvious point: What is reasonable -- legally speaking -- in emergency conditions is not necessarily reasonable on an enduring or permanent basis.
FEMA had set the end of business on Friday as the deadline for crucial information from the counties that would allow the agency to declare that it had "reasonable assurance" of the emergency plan's viability.
The maneuvering before the drill involves a plant for which, alone among the sites where nuclear power is generated, the federal government has ruled that there is "reasonable assurance" of adequate emergency preparedness without the concurrence of local government.
If you find that you are unable to complete your work for a course because of illness, emergency, or reasonable cause, you should discuss this with your instructor and your academic dean.
