ML070660634
| ML070660634 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Harris  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/2007 |
| From: | Klein D NRC/Chairman |
| To: | Carey M Orange County, NC, Board of Commissioners |
| Patel C, NRR/DORL/LPL2-2, 415-3025 | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML070660648 | List: |
| References | |
| CORR-07-0045, G20070153, LTR-07-0161, TAC MD4684 | |
| Download: ML070660634 (2) | |
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March 19, 2007 The Honorable Moses Carey, Jr.
Chair, Orange County Board of County Commissioners Post Office Box 8181 200 South Cameron Street Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278
Dear Mr. Carey:
On behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), I am responding to your March 2, 2007, request for NRC participation in a public meeting to be held on March 22, 2007, regarding a petition on Shearon Harris nuclear power plant and fire safety compliance.
Specifically, you requested NRCs participation so that the public and elected officials can hear NRCs position regarding certain issues raised in the petition.
The petition on Shearon Harris fire safety compliance was filed on September 20, 2006, by Mr. John D. Runkle (attorney for the petitioners) on behalf of the North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, the Nuclear Information and Resource Services, the Union of Concerned Scientists, NC Fair Share, and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment (the Petitioners).
NRC is reviewing the issues raised by the Petitioners pursuant to 10 CFR Section 2.206 and in accordance with established NRC guidelines. See Management Directive 8.11, Review of Section 2.206 Petitions at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/petitions-2-206/md 08-011.pdf. As part of the Section 2.206 process, the NRC staff conducted a public meeting on November 13, 2006, to give an opportunity to the Petitioners to further explain the petition and provide additional information to the NRCs Petition Review Board. Although NRC has no plans for further meetings with Petitioners, NRC will accept any additional information that the Petitioners or other members of the public may have pertaining to the issues raised by the Petitioners. If that information is provided on or before March 22, it will be included in the proposed directors decision. In accordance with the Section 2.206 process, the staff will provide an opportunity to the Petitioners and other members of the public to comment on NRC's proposed director's decision. The proposed director's decision will be made public through NRC's document management system, ADAMS. The NRC staff will consider all comments received including those received after March 22, before making its final decision and issuing a final director's decision.
In our November 27, 2006, letter to Ms. Donna S. Baker of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, we described the regulations governing the emergency planning zone. If you have additional concerns not addressed in that letter about the emergency planning zone, please contact us.
I hope this response has been helpful. If you have any further questions, please contact Mr. Jim Dyer, the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Dale E. Klein