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G20060064/LTR-06-0041 - Sen T. Murray, Rep V. Demacedo, and Rep T. Obrien Ltr Relicensing of Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee
ML060230046
Person / Time
Site: Pilgrim, Vermont Yankee  File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date: 01/12/2006
From: Demacedo V, Murray T, O'Brien T
State of MA, Senate
To: Diaz N
NRC/Chairman
References
G20060064, LTR-06-0041
Download: ML060230046 (4)


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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM:

DUE: 02/01/06 EDO CONTROL: G20060064 DOC DT: 01/12/06 FINAL REPLY:

State Senator Therese Murray State Representative Vinny deMacedo State Representative Thomas O'Brien Commonwealth of Massachusetts TO:

Chairman 'Diaz FOR SIGNATURE OF :

PRI CRC NO: 06-0041 Chairman 'Diaz DESC:

ROUTING:

Relicensing of Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee DATE: 01/20/015 Reyes Virgilio Kane Silber Dean Burns Cyr, OGC Collins, RI ASSIGNED TO:

NRR CONTACT:

Dyer SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMARKS:

Ref. G20060054 and G20060065.

Coordinate ::esponse with OGC.

Note:

Immediate release of incoming to public/processed in ADAMS per SECY thru EDO/DPC.

OFFICE OF TIHE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: Jan 20, 2006 14:05 PAPER NUMBER:

ACTION OFFICE:

LTR-06-0041 EDO LOGGING DATE: 01/20/2006 AUTHOR:

AFFILIATION:

ADDRESSEE:

Therese Murray (State Senator)

MA CHRM Nils Diaz

SUBJECT:

Concerns relicensing of Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee ACTION:

DISTRIBUTION:

LETTER DATE:

ACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL HANDLING:

Signature of Chairman RF, SECY to Ack 01/12/2006 No Immediate release to public via SECY/EDO/DPC NOTES:

Coordinate response with LTR-06-0037 & LTR-06-0042 ADAMS FILE LOCATION:

DATE DUE:

02/03/2006 DATE SIGNED:

EDO -- G20060064

SENATOR THERESE MURRAY CHAIR. SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS PLYMOUTH AND BARNSTABLE DISTRICT ROOM 212 TEL. (617) 722-1481 FAX. (617) 722-1022 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS SENATE STATE HOUSE. BOSTON 02133-1053 DISTRICT OFFICE:

10 CORDAGE PARK CIRCLE ROOM 229 PLYMOUTH. MA 02360 TEL (508) 746-9332 FAX. (508) 746&4910 January 12, 2006 Nils Diaz, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Mail Stop 0-1 lF1 Washington, DC 20555-0001

Dear Chairman Diaz:

We write to you today to regarding Entergy Corp.'s request for ajoint application for re-licensure of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant of Brattleboro, Vermont.

We ask that you deny Entergy Corp.'s request for joint re-licensure and move forward with separate re-licensure processes given the significant differences of the two plants.

While vwe understand that there are significant costs associated with this separation, both for the applicant and the federal agencies involved in this matter, we feel strongly that Pilgrim and Yankee are too dissimilar to be combined under one regulatory review process. Separate applications for re-licensure would provide the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission with an opportunity to focus more accurately on the specific characteristics of each plant as they pertain and relate to the host community.

Pilgrim and Yankee deserve to be evaluated separately as they seek to be re-licensed by the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission. These matters are far too important to the conumnunities we represent to be lumped into one review process.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely yours, VIN d

A EDO State Representative First Plymouth District HOMAS

'BRIEN State Representative Twelfth Plymouth District THERE SE MURRAY State Senator Plymouth & Barnstable District

CC:

John Eads, NRC Kathy Weaver, NRC Robert Schaaf, NRC U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy U.S. Senator John Kerry U.S. Congressman William D. Delahunt Governor Mitt Romney Attorney General Thomas Reilly Board of Selectmen, Town of Plymouth Nuclear Matters Committee, Town of Plymouth Board of Selectmen, Town of Bourne Board of Selectmen, Town of Falmouth Board of Selectmen, Town of Sandwich Board of Selectmen, Town of Barnstable Board of Selectmen, Town of Kingston Board of Selectmen, Town of Pembroke Board of Selectmen, Town of Plympton