ML080390402
| ML080390402 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Prairie Island  |
| Issue date: | 01/29/2008 |
| From: | Buck-Yeager S, Jerrica Johnson, Rachel Johnson, Taylor L, Winfrey V Prairie Island Indian Community |
| To: | Reyes L NRC/EDO |
| Shared Package | |
| ML080460144 | List: |
| References | |
| G20080088, OEDO-2008-0086 | |
| Download: ML080390402 (5) | |
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM:
DUE: 02/26/08 EDO CONTROL: G20080088 DOC DT: 01/29/08 FINAL REPLY:
Ronald Johnson Johnny Johnson Lucy Taylor Victoria Winfrey Shelley Buck-Yeager
.Prairie Island Indian Community TO:
- GRN CRC NO:
DESC:
ROUTING:
License Renewal for Prairie Island (EDATS: OEDO-2008-0086)
DATE: 02/08/08 Reyes Virgilio Mallett Ash Ordaz Cyr/Burns, Caldwell, RIlI ASSIGNED TO:
NRR CONTACT:
Dyer SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMARKS:
Note:
Request for meeting week of February 24, 2008.
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EDATS Number: OEDO-2008-0086 Source: OEDO IGeeralInfomaio Assigned To: NRR Other Assignees:
Subject:
License Renewal for Prairie Island
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Description:==
CC Routing: Region ll, ADAMS Accession Numbers -
Incoming: NONE OEDO Due Date: 2/26/2008 5:00 PM SECY Due Date: NONE Response/Package: NONE Ote Ifraion Cross Reference Number: G20080088 Related Task:
File Routing: EDATS Staff Initiated: NO Recurring Item: NO Agency Lesson Learned: NO Roadmap Item: NO Procesg Informa Action Type: Letter Priority: Medium Sensitivity: None Signature Level: NRR Urgency: NO OEDO Concurrence: NO OCM Concurrence: NO OCA Concurrence: NO Special Instructions: Note: Request for meeting week of February 24, 2008.
Originator Name: Ronald Johnson, et al.,
Date of Incoming: 1/29/2008 Originating Organization: Prairie Island Indian Document Received by OEDO Date: 2/7/2008 Community Addressee: L. Reyes, EDO Date Response Requested by Originator: NONE Incoming Task Received: Letter Page 1 of I
Ronald Johnson Johnny Johnson President Vice President Lucy Taylor Victoria Winfrey Secretary Treasurer Shelley Buck-Yeager Assistant Secretary/Treasurer January 29, 2008 Mr. Luis Reyes Executive Director for Operations United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D.C. 20555
Dear Mr. Reyes:
As a follow-up to our October 24, 2007, meetings with Chairman Klein and other representatives of the NRC, the Prairie Island Indian Community respectfully requests several further actions from the NRC that will enable the Community to adequately prepare for a potential application by Xcel to renew the license for the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant.
We are appreciative of the long history of cooperative relations between the NRC and the Community. We believe that this cooperation is a continuing affirmation of the December 2, 1996, Commission letter to the Community stating that it would direct the NRC staff to. continue to implement the spirit and letter of the presidential executive memorandum of April 29, 1994 to ensure that the rights of sovereign Tribal governments are fully respected and to operate within a government-to-government relationship with Federally-recognized Native American Tribes.
Accordingly, the Community would request the following:
- 1. Members of the Tribal Council and staff will be in the Washington area during the week of February 24, 2008. We would like to meet with the license renewal staff in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation to discuss the details of the safety and environmental issues that the NRC will evaluate when reviewing any license renewal application from Xcel for the Prairie Island Plant. The NRC staff has already given us an overview of the license renewal evaluation process and we would now like to learn more in order to properly prepare for our role in the NRC process. We could make ourselves available any time on February 27 and 28, 2009, for this purpose.
- 2. We would request that the NRC consider designating the Community as a "cooperating agency" in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the license renewal application in accordance with 10 CFR 51.4 and 51.29(a)(7) of the Commission's regulations. We believe that this is not only consistent with the Commission's policy of cooperation -and consultation with Native American Tribes, but also will be of assistance to the NRC in its evaluation of the environmental impacts from the facility.
5636 Sturgeon Lake Road
- Welch, MN 55089 (651) 385-2554
- 800-554-5473
- Fax (651) 385-4180
- TTY 800-627-3529 Deaf of Hearing Impaired (EDO
-- G20080088
Mr. Luis Reyes January 29, 2008 Page 2
- 3. Finally, we would request that our environmental specialist be able to accompany the NRC staff team when it conducts its initial environmental audit of the Prairie Island Plant in preparation for the evaluation of environmental impacts from a proposed renewal of the Plant license.
This will not only be helpful to the Community to enable us to adequately comment on the scope and substance of the environmental review, but also, we believe, helpful to the NRC, particularly in regard to the historic and religious cultural impacts of the review.
Thank you for your consideration of these requests. I will look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely, Ronald Johnson Tribal Council President Lu Taylor Tribal Council Secretary Johnny O s
Tribal Council Vice President ictoria Winfreasurer Tribal Council Treasurer Shelle uc-kYae Tribal Council Assistant Secretary/Treasurer cc:
Bruce Mallett Martin Virgilio James Dyer P.T. Kuo Dennis Rathbun
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