Public Hearing To Be Held On State's Nuclear Emergency Response Plan

The Department of Environmental Protection and the State Police will be holding the final of three information sessions and public hearings on the New Jersey Radiological Emergency Response Plan at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The meeting will provide information on the county's Emergency Response Plan as it relates to Oyster Creek Generating Station based in Forked River.

Public hearings are required annually under the State’s Radiation Accident Response Act to determine the adequacy and effectiveness of the state’s emergency plan.

Representatives from the DEP’s Bureau of Nuclear Engineering, Department of Health and Senior Services, and the Office of Emergency Management, Division of State Police will be available to discuss the plan, which includes all towns within a 10-mile radius of Oyster Creek.

Copies of the New Jersey Radiological Emergency Response Plan will be available at the information session and can also be found at the Ocean County Office of Emergency Management at the Robert J. Miller Air Park on Route 530 in Berkeley Township.

The information session will begin at the Ocean County Administration Building at 101 Hooper Ave. in Toms River at 6 p.m. The public hearing will follow at 7 p.m.