ML023290283
| ML023290283 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 11/19/2002 |
| From: | Saporito T National Environmental Protection Ctr |
| To: | Travers W NRC/EDO |
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| Download: ML023290283 (2) | |
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EDO DEDURS DEDR DEDM AO FACSIMILE COVER SHEET Date: November 19th. 2002 To: William Traver,, Executive Director for Operations Company: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission FAX #: 301-415-2701)
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From: Thomas Saporto Number of Pages Including Cover Sheet:
Message: If you fail to receive the entire FAX, please contact Thomas Saporito at 623-386 6863 or send an email message to NEPC@THEPOSTMASTER.NET NOTE:
The information contained in this FAX document in intended for those individuals named above and is to be considered confidential in use of the receiver(s) identified above. If the individual receiving this FAX document is not the intended receiver or an agent of the intended receiver responsible for delivering it to the intended receiver(s), you are hereby notified that you have received this FAX document in error and any use of this document is strictly prohibited and you should notify the sender immediately. Thank you for your cooperation.
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National Environmental Protection Center [NEPC@THEPOSTMASTER.NET]
Sent:
Tuesday. Novenber 19, 2002 6:59 AM To:
Gary Sanborn
Subject:
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION Importance: High Hello Gary This serves to acknowledge receipt of your email letter this date regarding the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
("PVNGS"). Your letter appears to be responsive to NEPCs earlier request that the NRC arrange for 'escorted" access for NEPC to meet with the NRC senior resident inspector and with the NRC "onsite" at the PVNGS facility In your November 191h, email letter tIe NRC again requests that NEPC meet with the NRC at a location in the Phoenix, Anzona area, and that "... it is not the NRC's practice - nor its responsibility - to provide escorted access to members of the public onto nuclear facilities.. "
The position of NEPC is unchanged and NEPC again requests that the NRC act to intervene with the NRC licensee, Arizona Public Service Cormpany ("APS") to secure "escorted" access to the PVNGS facility in order that NEPC canl meet with the NRC resident inspector and with the NRC to discuss its concerns related to the NRC licensee' nuclear facility NEPC notes he.re that in the current heightened state of security. at all nuclear power facilities, it is inpe'ative that the NRC cooperate in as!;isting public organizations like NEPC in gaining "escorted* access to nuclear facilities in order that the NRC can be made aware of information which could possibly assist the agency in protecting public safety and health and In furtherance of the protection of the overall environment as a whole.
In addition, NEPC strongly believes that it has a ri.ght to meet with the NRC at the PVNGS facility insofar as the area utilized by the NRC at the PVNGS facility is sovereign government property and therefore 'outside" the control of the NRC licensee Although the NRC licensee is required to authorize all *escorted and unescorted" access to the PVNGS facility, it is incumbent upon the NRC, a, sovereign government agency" to act on behalf of the public in assisting the public in gaining escorted access to ths PVNGS facility in order that the NRC might carry out its congressional mandate to ensure public safety and health.
Therefore. NEPC declines the NRC's offer to meet at a location in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area and again seeks the NRC's assistance on behalf of the public and the environment in intervening with the NRC's licensee to provide NEPC escorted access to the PVNGS facility to meet with the NRC. Through this reference, NEPC maintains all supportive points and arguments rais-ed in it previous correspondence with the NRC in this matter.
Tom Cc: William Travers, Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory :ommission Washington, D.C 20500 11/19/2002 Thomas Saporito, Executive DiJrector NA1IONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CENTER POST OFFICE BOX 1022, TONOPAH, ARIZONA 85354 PHONE: 623-365-6863 FAX. 309-294-1305 EMAIL: NEPC#THEPOS-rMA$TER.NE1