ML050600082
| ML050600082 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 02/28/2005 |
| From: | Kugler A NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLEP |
| To: | Burton N Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone |
| Emch R, NRR/DRIP/RLEP, 415-1590 | |
| References | |
| GT20050156 | |
| Download: ML050600082 (8) | |
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February 28, 2005 Ms. Nancy Burton Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone 147 Cross Highway Redding Ridge, CT 06876
SUBJECT:
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR COMMENT PERIOD EXTENSION REGARDING MILLSTONE POWER STATION, UNITS 2 AND 3 LICENSE RENEWAL REVIEW
Dear Ms. Burton:
This letter responds to your emails of February 21 and 24, 2005, in which you requested a 30-day extension to the comment period on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (DSEIS) for license renewal for Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3 (Millstone).
We are aware that you also sent an extension request dated February 28, 2005, to the Commission. The current end date for the comment period is March 2, 2005. For the reasons discussed below, we are denying your request for an extension. However, as we stated at the public meetings on January 11, 2005, we will include and consider any comments received after March 2, 2005, to the extent that it is practicable to do so. In the past we have found it practicable to accept comments that were a few pages long up to a week or so after the due date. However, we want to encourage you to provide as many of your comments as possible by March 2nd.
Your request for an extension did not provide a sufficient basis for the extension. NRC regulations require a 45-day comment period for this type of action. However, in the interest of improving opportunities for public involvement the staff has chosen to use a 75-day comment period. In addition, the staff holds public meetings, which are not required, to give members of the public an opportunity to provide comments in person and to interact with the NRC staff and other interested members of the public. The staff believes these meetings benefit both the public and the NRC by providing a chance to discuss questions and issues in person.
However, the staff does not believe that the lack of a published transcript impedes the development of public comments on the DSEIS. The DSEIS, the document that we are asking people to comment on, has been available on the NRCs public website since December 2, 2004, and a copy of the DSEIS was mailed to you and all of the other people on our mailing list on December 2, 2004. Therefore, the staff denies your request to extend the comment period.
Your emails also stated that the staff has impeded your attempts to participate in the process of developing the final SEIS. We have forwarded a copy of your email to the NRCs Inspector General because it accuses the NRC staff of wrongdoing. By email dated January 24, 2005, you submitted a request for certain documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Your email dated February 21, 2005, stated that ?the Coalition understands that the NRC itself is withholding the documents responsive to the request. This statement is not accurate. The response to the FOIA is being processed by the NRCs Office of the Chief Information Officer
N. Burton as quickly as practicable based on the availability of staff resources. Almost all of the information in the response is already available in the DSEIS or in the NRCs electronic Public Document Room.
Regarding your email request for additional information dated February 10, 2005, Mr. Emch responded by email on February 23, 2005. Again, almost all of the information in the response is already available in the DSEIS or in the NRCs electronic Public Document Room.
Regarding the transcripts of the public meetings conducted on January 11, 2005, the staff was not ?withholding them from the public. Our standard practice is to develop a meeting summary that includes the transcripts. We have more than one person review the transcripts to make sure that errors by the court reporter in transcribing the tapes are corrected. We only make corrections in those instances where all the reviewers agree that the transcriber just made a mistake. As Mr. Emch previously indicated, an example is the entry by the court reporter of the term ?affluence when in fact the staff said ?effluents. In response to your request, the staff emailed the transcripts to you as soon as they were ready. We also sent the attachments to the transcripts to you by overnight delivery services. It is our practice not to provide un-corrected transcripts to the public to avoid the possible confusion that could be caused by having multiple versions of the transcripts available publicly.
Your email dated February 21, 2005, also expressed concerns related to proper representation of the people of Connecticut in this review. The NRC staff has had extensive communications with elected officials for the State of Connecticut and officials of the State and local governments; all of these officials represent the people of the State of Connecticut. Our Office of Congressional Affairs has kept Senators Lieberman and Dodd and Congressman Simmons informed of the process. Mr. Emch personally met with the staff of Congressman Simmons in Norwich and with then State Senator Melody Peters and then State Representative Andrea Stillman. A member of Senator Dodds staff attended the public meeting on January 11, 2005. State Senator Andrea Stillman and newly-elected State Representative Elizabeth Ritter spoke at the public meeting. The public meeting was also attended by officials from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (CTDEP) including Dr. Edward Wilds and Mr. Denny Galloway of the Division of Radiation and Mr. David Simpson of the Marine Fisheries Division. Several officials from the Town of Waterford including First Selectman Eccard also participated in the public meeting. Throughout the review process, members of the NRC staff and the NRCs contractors have conducted extensive discussions with a large number of officials of the State of Connecticut government (see Appendix D of the Millstone DSEIS, NUREG-1437, Supplement 22). We also conducted extensive discussions with First Selectman Eccard and several other officials of the Town of Waterford - the host community for Millstone. These organizations have been actively reviewing the DSEIS, and some have already provided comments to us.
In addition to the representation of the people of the State of Connecticut by those government officials, we have been inviting and continue to invite comments from public citizens who live or work near Millstone. Since some of those citizens are members of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone (CCAM), we invite comments from CCAM, and we have endeavored to answer requests for information from CCAM in as timely a manner as practicable. However,
almost all of the information that you requested is already available in the Millstone DSEIS or in the NRCs electronic Public Document Room.
N. Burton I want to thank you for participation in this environmental review process. If you have any questions about the basis for our decision, please contact Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., of my staff at (301) 415-1590 or RLE@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Andrew J. Kugler, Section Chief Environmental Section License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-336 and 50-423 cc: See next page
N. Burton I want to thank you for participation in this environmental review process. If you have any questions about the basis for our decision, please contact Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., of my staff at (301) 415-1590 or RLE@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Andrew J. Kugler, Section Chief Environmental Section License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-336 and 50-423 DISTRIBUTION: See next page D. Matthews/F. Gillespie M. Schneider, RI D. Screnci, OPA RI P.T. Kuo S. Kennedy, RI N. Sheehan, OPA RI R. Emch V. Nerses A. Kugler J. Trapp, R I F. Cameron T. Doerr (LANL)
J. Davis L. Fields S. Hernandez RLEP R/F J. Eads K. Mangan, R I B. Poole, OGC T. Madden, OCA Adams Accession nos.: ML050600082 Document name: E:\\Filenet\\ML050600082.wpd OFFICE RLEP:DRIP:LA RLEP:DRIP:PM RLEP:DRIP:SC RLEP:DRIP:PD NAME Y. Edmonds R. Emch A. Kugler P.T. Kuo DATE 2/ 28 /05 2/ 28 /05 2/ 28 /05 2/ 28 /05 OFFICIAL OFFICE COPY
Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3 cc Ms. Lillian M. Cuoco, Esquire Senior Counsel Dominion Resources Services, Inc.
Building 475, 5th Floor Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Edward L. Wilds, Jr., Ph.D.
Director, Division of Radiation Department of Environmental Protection 79 Elm Street Hartford, CT 06106-5127 Regional Administrator, Region I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. Paul Eccard First Selectman Town of Waterford 15 Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. John Markowicz Co-Chair Nuclear Energy Advisory Council 9 Susan Terrace Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Evan W. Woollacott Co-Chair Nuclear Energy Advisory Council 128 Terry's Plain Road Simsbury, CT 06070 Senior Resident Inspector Millstone Power Station c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 513 Niantic, CT 06357 Mr. William D. Corbin Director - Nuclear Projects Department Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711 Mr. William D. Meinert Nuclear Engineer Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company Moody Street P.O. Box 426 Ludlow, MA 01056 Mr. David A. Christian Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711 Mr. J. Alan Price Site Vice President Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.
Building 475, 5th Floor Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Chris L. Funderburk Director, Nuclear Licensing and Operations Support Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711 Mr. David W. Dodson Licensing Supervisor Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.
Building 475, 5th Floor Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. William R. Watson. Jr.
Supervisor - License Renewal Project Building 475, 5th Floor Millstone Power Station Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Fred Emerson Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708
Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3 cc Ms. Nancy Burton 147 Cross Highway Redding Ridge, CT 06876 Mr. Charles Brinkman, Director Washington Operations Nuclear Services Westinghouse Electric Company 12300 Twinbrook Pkwy, Suite 330 Rockville, MD 20852 Ms. Roslyn Rubenstein, Director Waterford Public Library 49 Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Ms. Mildred Hodge, Director Three Rivers Community College Thames River Campus Library 574 New London Turnpike Norwich, CT 06360 Mr. Ralph Bunge NRC Proceedings Representative for Waterford, CT 510 Carr Ave Rockville, MD 20850 Mr. Thomas V. Wagner, AICP Planning Director Town of Waterford 15 Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Robert A. Avena Town Attorney for Waterford, CT Kepple, Morgan & Avena, P.C.
Box 3A Anguilla Park 20 South Anguilla Road Pawcatuck, CT 06379 Ms. Geralyn Winslow 30 Mullen Hill Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Douglas Schwartz P.O. Box 7 New London, CT 06320 Mr. Michael Steinberg P.O. Box 155 Niantic, CT 06357 Ms. Janet Dinkel Pearce President United Way of Southeastern CT 1868 Route 12 P.O. Box 375 Gales Ferry, CT 06335-0375 Mr. Marvin Berger 133 Parkway S.
New London, CT 06320 Mr. James S. Butler SCCOG 5 Connecticut Avenue Norwich, CT 06360 Mr. Bruce W. Shewbrooks 4 Longview Avenue Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. George Kee 39 Beacon Hill Drive Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Tim Haire 13 Center Road Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Rik Wells 13 Quarry Road Waterford, CT 06385 Ms. Catherine L. Bill 8 Albacore Drive Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Michael A. Bekech Assessor Town of Waterford 15 Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385-2886
Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3 cc Mr. Jonathan P. Bill 28 Ferri Drive Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. David R. Lewis Shaw Pittman, LLC 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Ms. Melodie Peters 25 Osceola Trail Old Lyme, CT 06371 Mr. Gerard J. Gaynor, Jr Mayor, City of New London 181 State Street New London, CT 06320 Ms. Karen Patterson 900 Trail Ridge Road Aiken, SC 29803 Mr. Bill Maher 203 Hazelton Court Mullica Hill, NJ 08062 Mr. Kent Stoffle P.O. Box 63 Lycoming, NY 13093 Ms. Jean Peabody 4 Bayside Avenue Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Mark Powers 4 Round Rock Road Niantic, CT 06357 Mr. Gary Johnson 2 Melanie Drive Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Ward Linsley 68 Twin Lakes Drive Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Jeff Nelson 2 Courthouse Square Norwich, CT 06360-5763 Mr. J.W. Sheehan 19 Laurel Crest Drive Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. Charles Nezianya Bureau of Water Management Department of Environmental Protection 79 Elm Street Hartford, CT 06106-5127 Mr. Jack Nasca Division of Environmental Permits New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-1750 Mr. William Little, Esq.
Division of Legal Affairs New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-1500 Ms. Christina Dowd Division of Fish, Wildlife & Marine Resources New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-4756 Honorable Michael J. Thomas, Chairman Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation P.O. Box 268, Indian Town Road Mashantucket, CT 06339-3060 Honorable Matthew Thomas, Chief Sachem Narragansett Indian Tribe P.O. Box 268 Charlestown, RI 02813
Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3 cc Mr. Joshua Y. Horton, Supervisor Southold Town Main Road, Southold, NY 11971 Mr. Walter N Parahus 48 Roxbury Ct.
Niantic, CT 06357-1327 Mr. Michael J. Domino Mattituck, NY 11952 Ms. Jean Thorsen 4 Bay View Ave Old Saybrook, CT 06475 Ms. Marie Domenici 330 Oldfield Court Mattituck, NY 11952 Ms. Cynthia Besade 270 Gay Hill Rd Uncasville, CT 06382 Ms. Mitzi Bowman 97 Longhill Terrace New Haven, CT 06515 Mr. Peter Bowman 97 Longhill Terrace New Haven, CT 06515 Mr. Rich Gallagher Millstone Power Station Rope Ferry Rd Waterford, CT 06385 Mr. G Brian Vachris Board of Finance Town of Waterford 15 Rope Ferry Road Waterford, CT 06385