ML103360209
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| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 12/31/2010 |
| From: | Stuyvenberg A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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Appendix A 1 MR. DAVIS: Thank you for the opportunity to address 2 you this afternoon. My name is Darwin Davis. I'm proud to 3 represent the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and our 4 president Lloyd Williams. Weve been in operation for the last 5 110 years. While the Indian Point Energy Center and Entergy may 6 not directly be in my backyard, the effects of Indian Point have 42-a-EC/
7 a dramatic impact on it. For that and a host of other reasons, SR 8 I am here in support of Entergy's request an application for 9 Indian Points re-licensing. First you should know that Indian 10 Point provides up to 30% of the energy in New York City, where I 11 and 2000 of our Chamber members reside. This is electricity 12 that directly powers our subways, our schools, our hospitals, 13 our homes and our businesses. Secondly, while the business 14 climate in Harlem has certainly improved over the last decade, 15 the fact of matter is that businesses within our region and the 16 working families who operate them would be severely impacted by 42-b-EC/
SO 17 the loss of Indian Points reliable low-cost electricity.
18 Higher utility rates and interrupted service will only move my 19 community further into economic tsunami engulfing much of the 20 nation.
21 Thirdly, Indian Points environmental benefits are 42-c-HH 22 crucial to my communitys quality of life. The asthma point has 23 already been raised, I won't add it to the debate. Fourth, 42-d-SE/
SR 24 energy has proven itself to be a good corporate citizen. It December 2010 A-605 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
Appendix A 1 seeks collaboration with nonprofit organizations in the service 2 areas of its facilities and the relationship it has with the 3 Chamber and has had with the New York Urban League when I was 42-d-SE/
4 its CEO. Communities like Harlem need affordable, reliable and SR contd.
5 clean sources of energy, which enhance our quality of life.
6 Indian Point does just that. I urge you to support the 7 licensing renewal. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 REV. DEGRAFF: Good afternoon. My name is Rev. Jacques Degraff.
2 I'm second vice-president of the 100 Black Men. Were an 3 organization that was founded in 1963 to fight for issues of 4 justice on behalf of our community. The symbol on my pin 5 indicates an open door, open to opportunities for our community.
6 We operate under several principles, the principles of 7 education, economic opportunities and health-care. It is 8 because of these three pillars that our organization has been 9 driven here today, because the values are being threatened by 10 this discussion and it's implicit, leaving us out of to many of 11 these discussions.
12 The debate over the Indian Point Energy Center has 13 waged on without participation from New York's diverse 14 communities of color. For to long, our communities have been 15 relegated to the sidelines as energy policy was made in our 16 name, but without our input. A small vocal minority has 17 received the disproportionate level of attention, while the 45-a-AQ/
18 benefits to a larger yet silent majority have not been properly EJ 19 considered. Today, New York's communities of color, from Harlem 20 to Bushwick, from the Bronx to South Jamaica, are here to end 21 this disturbing trend and to say in one unified voice that no 22 decision on the continued operation of Indian Point can be made 23 without substantial contributions from all the communities the 24 power-plant serves. As an organization devoted to increasing December 2010 A-611 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
Appendix A 1 public awareness of health issues which affect our community, we 2 are all too familiar with the impact asthma has on our children.
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4 with one in four children suffering from serious life altering EJ contd.
5 disease. Nearly one third of New York City children with asthma 6 reside in the Bronx, with neighborhoods like Hunts Point and 7 Mount Haven having among the highest rates of asthma in the 8 country.
9 Asthma is now the leading cause of emergency room 10 visits for our children and missed school days with children in 11 New York City's poorest neighborhoods. The air quality of New 12 York City's poor neighborhoods already stands in violation of 13 federal law and to often it is in our communities that the 14 alternatives to nuclear power, dirty fossil fuel polluting power 15 plants are constructed. Some of these plants are constructed 16 without environmental impact statements and leave our 45-b-AL/
EC/EJ 17 neighborhoods literally suffocating while wealthier, more 18 affluent communities breathe freely. It's as if those who cried 19 not in my backyard when it comes to Indian Point, failed to 20 realize that there are nearby communities with no backyards 21 left. Our community recognizes that the Indian Point Energy 22 Center avoids millions of tons of pollution every year, while 23 providing us with over 2000 Mw of electricity for our schools, 24 mass transit, hospitals and government institutions. We NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-612 December 2010
Appendix A 1 recognize that without Indian Point, we can expect a drastic 2 spike in the cost of electricity. Coupling the increased 45-b-AL/
EC/EJ 3 electric bills with the diminished economic opportunity our contd.
4 community already faces is the real disaster waiting to happen.
5 We owe it to our children and to our grandchildren to 6 conduct this debate on Indian Point in a responsible manner. We 7 must move past the scare tactics and the old attacks of the past 8 and strive towards a debate that will set the proper course for 9 New York's clean energy future. We must travel this course 10 together as a single group of concerned and conscientious 45-c-LR 11 citizens for it is only together that we can strike the balance 12 necessary to ensure the health and safety of all Gods 13 creatures. I thank you for allowing me the time to add our 14 concerns to this community debate. We are hopeful that any 15 decision reached will ensure a continued supply of reliable, 16 clean and affordable electricity for all New Yorkers.
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Appendix A 1 MR. DIGBY: Good evening. My name is Derry Digby, vice 2 president of the African-American Environmental Association.
3 The African-American Environmental Association is a nonprofit 4 group. We are here today because we are very, very concerned 5 about the issues dealing with the environmental community as it 6 relates to environmental injustices. We are very pro-Indian 7 Point. We are pro-Indian Point because we are believers, we 8 were the first environmental organization in the United States 9 to support nuclear energy. We support Indian Point because we 10 believe that it deals with issues that we are all concerned 11 about. They're clean energy is not a black thing or a white 46-a-EC/
SR 12 thing. It's a health thing. This is why we support the 20-year 13 renewal of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. AAEA 14 specifically supports the Indian Point 2 and 3 nuclear power 15 facilities because these facilities provide significant 16 electrical capacity to the State of New York with minimal human, 17 animal, air, water and land impacts. I'm not here to demonize 18 fossil fuel power plants because they have made our country what 19 we are today for better or for worse. But I believe that the 20 future of our country is in good clean nuclear power. That's 21 why we're here today because we all believe in that. I hope we 22 believe in the future of our country. AAEA agrees with the 23 preliminary recommendation of the NRC staff. Environmental 46-b-AQ/
24 justice is defined by AAEA as the unfair treatment of all people EJ NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-614 December 2010
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4 based or that affects the health of its members.
5 We agree with the NRC conclusion in the GEIS on the 6 environmental justice impacts if IP-2 and IP-3 are re-licensed 7 for another 20 years, which states we totally disagree with the 8 environmental justice conclusion that the overall environmental 9 justice impact of construction and operating a closed-in cycle 46-c-AL/EJ/
10 cooling system at the IP-2 and IP-3 sites are likely to be SR 11 small. The environmental impacts would be devastating because 12 we believe that Entergy would shut down the plant rather than 13 build a cooling tower. That's why we believe that we need to 14 renew this license. I thank you for the opportunity to present 15 my views. Thank you very much.
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Appendix A 1 MAYOR DONAHUE: Okay, thank you. As Mayor of Buchanan, I have 2 had the distinct honor of representing the more than 2000 3 residents of the village of Buchanan before the Nuclear 4 Regulatory Commission. I take this role very seriously as 5 Buchanan is the home to the twin nuclear reactors now known as 6 Indian Point Energy Center under its current owner and operator 7 Entergy. Buchanan has thrived as a community in the shadow of 8 these plants, but never shirked away from its responsibility in 48-a-OP 9 ensuring the operator of Indian Point ran these plants in a 10 manner that preserved the health and welfare of area residents.
11 The Village of Buchanan grew side-by-side with the construction 12 of the site as has our appreciation for Entergy's dedication to 13 running these plants well and remaining an involved community 14 partner. Indian Point is responsible for providing 15 approximately 37% of Buchanan's total operating budget as well 16 as provide substantial financial support to the nearby Hendrick 17 Hudson High School District attended by many of Buchanans 48-b-EC/
SO 18 children. In addition, Entergy has invested in local 19 infrastructure, provided critical funding to the library system 20 and even paid for the lighting system at the high school so 21 residents could enjoy football games at night. Entergy has 22 been an outstanding corporate citizen at a time when other 23 corporations are either fleeing the region or significantly 24 cutting back on their corporate philanthropy.
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Appendix A 1 Most important, Entergy employees are involved in the 2 community, donating hundreds of hours in volunteering their 3 time. Everything from sitting on a local committee to 4 supporting our great St. Patrick's Day parade. They are here. 48-b-SE/
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6 Indian Point opened in the early 1970s, Buchanan residents have 7 seen Indian Point host its share of dignitaries and detractors, 8 politicians and pundits, friends and foes especially after 9/11.
9 The people in opposition to the Indian Point will always be in 10 opposition to nuclear power. I cannot change their opinion and 11 neither can you. These critics will never see what so many 12 others see, that Indian Point provides 2000 Mw of clean, 13 affordable and reliable electricity. These plants are 14 absolutely vital to regional community. Our local economy is 48-c-SE/
SO 15 struggling under the weight of the latest recession. Yet, 16 you're hearing from some individuals today, who, without thought 17 of even a short-term consequences of their actions want to shut 18 down this site plant. I have seen opponents take some 19 outrageous actions, yet your arguments are always the same. In 20 good economic times or bad, before 9/11 or after 9/11, certainly 21 the NRC knows them all by heart. They will say the plants are 22 unsafe. The plants are unsecured and would add easily replaced 48-d-AQ/
SO 23 nonsense. And other times study and study, the opposite has 24 been shown to be true and these opponents proven wrong.
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Appendix A 1 MR. RAKOVAN: Sir, if you could please finish.
2 MAYOR DONOVAN: Yeah, one more second. Entergy has 3 proven itself as reliable operator. They have invested hundreds 4 of millions of dollars in Indian Point. When problems have 5 arisen, they have responded appropriately. And when their 48-e-OP/
6 responsibility was insufficient like with the replacement of the SR 7 existing siren system, the company paid the appropriate price 8 and the NRC and FEMA acted accordingly. Their security force is 9 top notch. And as a former state police officer, I can say that 10 with great confidence and conviction. To the final piece, now 11 more then ever, the economy interests of the entire Hudson 12 Valley region are tied to the outcome of the regulatory process 13 to determine if Indian Point remains on the job for the next 20 14 years. The economic facts are clear. Indian Point provides 15 anywhere from 18 to 38% of our regional electricity and there's 16 currently no viable alternative for replacing its 2000 Mw of 48-f-SE 17 power. The environmental case is equally compelling. Replacing 18 Indian Point with fossil fuel plants would trigger a 20%
19 increase in carbon monoxide emission according to a recent study 20 by the National Academy of Sciences. The citizens of Buchanan 21 are already suffering from polluted Hudson Valley area air, 22 which is not caused by the nuclear plant, but will --
23 MR. RAKOVAN: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to 24 close. We've got to many speakers.
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Appendix A 1 MAYOR DONOVAN: I understand that, but it's in my 2 village and I timed people that talked for six or seven minutes.
3 I've only got one more page.
4 -- definitely get exponentially worse if these plants were 5 replaced by more coal or gas plants. Let me be critically clear 6 at this point, the many economics and environmental benefits of 7 Indian Point can never outweigh safety. Personally, I was 8 impressed with the thoroughness of the recent independent safety 9 evaluation conducted by a panel of distinguished experts who 10 announced it concluded that Indian Point is a safe plant of 48-g-AQ/
11 course. Many of the Indian Point critics here today dismiss SO 12 this report, even before it was released. That is why I take 13 comfort from the fact that the NRC and the local officials 14 working together will continue to judiciously review the ability 15 of India Points owners, Entergy, to continue to run these 16 plants as safely and efficiently as they have taken over the 17 operation. I strongly support the continual operation of the 18 Indian Point Energy plant for another 20 years and beyond its 19 current license and strongly recommend you listen to the voices 20 of recent and scientific fact, rather than those individuals who 21 use fear. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. DURETT: Good afternoon. I would first like to 2 thank the commission for holding this hearing, one on the birth 3 date of Abraham Lincoln and equally and more importantly, during 4 this month of Black history. For those who do not know the 5 significance of that, then please reach out to a person of color 6 and they will explain it. I only have three minutes. My name 7 is Dan Durett. I am the Director of the African American 8 Environmentalists Association, heading up the office in New 9 York.
10 We are an organization dedicated to protecting the 11 environment and enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies and 12 promoting the efficient use of natural resources. We include an 13 African American point of view in environmental policy decision-14 making, and in resolving environmental racism and injustice 15 issues through the application of practical environmental 16 solutions. So you see, this is not only a significant hearing, 17 but indeed, a continuation of the voicing of environmental 18 perspectives from people of color. We support, let it be known 19 clearly, that we support the 20-year license renewal for Indian 20 Point. We expressed public support for nuclear power for the 49-a-SR 21 first time in 2001 after a two-year internal process of studying 22 and debating the issue. AAEA was the first environmental 23 organization to support nuclear power.
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Appendix A 1 experience working on environmental and energy issues. My 2 comments today address this Draft Generic Impact Statement. But 3 again, we are here to look at the continued operation of Indian 4 Point. Our members in New York breathe the air in a clean-air 5 non-attainment area. Of particular import to our members is the 6 promotion of clean air in African-American communities. Because 49-b-AQ/
EJ 7 nuclear power is emission free and has a demonstrated safety 8 record, whereas fossil fuel power contributes to numerous health 9 issues, AAEA New York seeks to promote the safe use of nuclear 10 power and we support Indian Point 2 and 3 facilities. These 11 facilities provide significant electrical capacity to the State 12 of New York with minimal human and other impacts.
13 MR. RAKOVAN: If you could please close.
14 MR. DURETT: I'll close with this then. You have 15 copies of my statement. 40-years ago or during the `60s, 16 there was a particular phrase that rang across this country and 17 it started with a sign like this and it said power to the 18 people. As you think about Indian Point and the continued 19 operation, it is the power of that point, of Indian Point, that 20 gives power to the people. It is looking at the alternatives 21 and what would happen if the plant was closed and the adverse 49-c-LR/
SR 22 impact on communities of color. We support the license renewal 23 for Indian Point because this facility will continue to provide 24 alternative solutions and advance the participation of people of NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-622 December 2010
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Appendix A 1 MR. EDELSTEIN: Thank you very much. I'm Michael 2 Edelstein. I'm a professor at Ramapo College and I'm pleased to 3 be here with many of my students from my course on environmental 4 assessment. I'd like to thank the NRC for helping to increase 5 the educative value of this moment. But I'm speaking not as a 6 Ramapo College professor nor for Ramapo College. I'm a 7 president of Orange Environment Inc., which is a non-profit 8 organization in Orange County, New York and I did file extensive 9 scoping comments on behalf of Orange Environment and my comments 10 today should be taken in that context, please. Now, first of 11 all, I will resubmit many of my comments because I don't think 12 they were adequately addressed. But tonight I want to focus on 13 a number of issues and I want to put this in a context, which is 14 the purpose of environmental assessment, the exercise that is 15 being gone through here is to create evidence for decision-16 makers who will make the decision about whether to issue the 50-a-LR 17 license or not. The better that record is, the more complete it 18 is, the better they can do their job. It is with that intent 19 that I continue. Now, I generally favor the use of generic 20 environmental impact statements. But they do open up the 21 possibility that I think exists here, which is that issues can 22 be lost and in effect a shell game can be played where certain 23 issues get placed in one pile and therefore not looked at it 24 another.
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Appendix A 1 And as was already pointed out tonight, the generic 2 impact statement is old enough, enough new things have happened 3 that I would suggest that my first comment that there be a 4 review of that generic environmental impact statement to see 5 whether or not there are new issues that would be pertinent to 6 the Indian Point review that should be brought forward into 7 Supplement 38 and its further development is the final impact 8 statement. Now, the issues with the generic impact statement 9 can be understood in the number of context, let me give one.
10 And that is the issue of accidents. The issue of accidents get 11 obscured when we talk about Indian Point and its review in the 12 impact statement for Indian Point, because there's a generic set 50-b-DE/
PA 13 of decisions that suggest that theres no risk that therefore 14 obviate the need to look further at Indian Point. That need to 15 look further, however, exists at Indian Point for a number of 16 reasons that don't apply to the generic pool. First of all, if 17 you take a look at the demographics and it goes all the way back 18 to the earliest studies on risk. Indian Point has a much larger 19 population that would be affected were an accident to occur.
20 That population has a different demographic set of 21 characteristics, much more involved in what we now call 22 environmental justice issues. So it's not really a comparable 23 situation. What's happened is that we don't really look at the 24 consequences of potential accidents because in fact were caught December 2010 A-635 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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4 examine and I think that examination needs to be there.
5 To go back to the earliest risk studies, CRAC-2 is one 6 of them, we begin to see that you go down a list of the impacts 7 of accidents at nuclear power plants, and when you come to got 8 Indian Point those impacts are dramatically larger than at any 50-c-PA 9 other facility that exists on the list. That's true of more 10 modern and current impact assessments, or risk assessments, as 11 well. There are a number of issues that have been raised today 12 that suggest significant new issues for reopening this 13 examination. Those include the discussion today, in the 14 afternoon, about reference doses. The fact that the risk 15 studies are based on a population of young males, which is not 16 indicative of the broad population. Second of all, some 17 evidence has been introduced about cancers. Also about 18 exposures that have been detected in milk, in women's milk.
50-d-EP/HH 19 There's also some new evidence of seismology or earthquake 20 activity that goes beyond what we knew in the past. So, there's 21 a whole set of issues here.
22 One last point, is that there's also an issue of 23 segmentation, which I think needs to be addressed with regard to 24 the issue of the evacuation. We have a very checkered record in NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-636 December 2010
Appendix A 1 terms of the compliance of this facility for requirements for 2 evacuation and the ability to sign-off on evacuation and safety 3 has been a real problem for county executives who are required 50-d-EP/HH contd.
4 to do so. Given that, I believe that that should be addressed, 5 but it's been segmented by the regulatory thinking that's 6 involved in the Agency. NEPA is inherently, the National 7 Environmental Policy Act, is inherently an integrative statute.
8 It has components like cumulative effects, secondary impacts, 9 long-term impacts that breakdown the barriers that are used to 50-e-NE 10 segment those issues. I don't think there's any justification 11 for that. So, in the revision for the final impact statement, I 12 believe those issues should also be addressed. Thank you very 13 much.
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Appendix A 1 MS. EVANS: Hello, my name is Laurie Evans. Im the 2 Director of Westchester SAFE. A mother. A local resident. I 51-a-HH/
PA/UF 3 want to go on record that Westchester SAFE opposes the re-4 licensing of Indian point. I want to say that one of my dear 5 friends, her son died of asthma. We lived in Brooklyn at the 6 time. I also know a young teenager right now who has been 7 operated on for thyroid cancer. So I see both sides of those 8 issues. One of the things they talk about is the clean energy 9 from Indian Point. They are not discussing the environmental 10 injustice of where the uranium is mined. The impact of the 51-b-AL 11 toxicity of the water in those regions and how the contamination 12 of that water is creating illness and death in those residents.
13 So just because we can't see or smell the Strontium-90 which is 14 leaking into the Hudson, doesn't make it clean or healthy. With 15 elevated thyroid cancers, with toxic Strontium-90 makes us 16 realize this aging plant should not continue. In addition, it's 17 siting on a fault puts local residents at further risk.
18 Tonight, I've heard speakers talk about the need for 19 local energy, but I've heard very little about conservation.
20 Employees could be trained to do environmental energy audits and 21 work on efficiency and health sustaining viable alternatives. I 51-c-AL 22 have relatives who live in Sweden and due to students 23 initiatives, they decided to have a night without electricity 24 and measure their savings. As well as discuss in school the December 2010 A-645 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
Appendix A 1 next day, what they did instead of using computers, TV's, 2 dishwashers and other electrical appliances. This is a time for 3 us to ask what each of us can do to create sustainable solutions 4 for our health is the most important for our children. What can 51-c-AL contd.
5 we do instead? What energy will ensure the health of our 6 children, our water, soil and air? And what jobs can we create 7 for the people currently employed by Indian Point so they can 8 maintain jobs? Let us all rise to the task. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. FALCIANO: Good evening. My name is Pat Falciano.
2 I am a retired employee of Indian Point and currently a 3 consultant to the nuclear power industry. Id like tonight to 4 give you my perspective concerning the safe, secure, vital 5 philosophy of Indian Point. I worked at Indian Point for more 6 than 38. During that time, first of all, I've got to tell you 7 that I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe that 8 Indian Points not safe. But probably a bigger testimony to 52-a-SA 9 that is the fact that a lot of us that have worked there for a 10 long time have their children working there now. You can say 11 all you want about motives and how some people would do just 12 about anything for money and I'd probably be the first to agree 13 with you. But I draw the line at my family. I can guarantee 14 you that if there was any inkling to me that Indian Point wasn't 15 safe, my son wouldn't be working there.
16 The other thing you have to understand, a few people 17 mentioned concern tonight about security of Indian Point. I 18 spent a little over 22 years as a senior training instructor at 19 Indian Point. Just about everybody that worked there was a 20 student of mine at one time or another, including the security 52-b-ST 21 officers. First off, I have to say that whenever I had any of 22 those officers in my classroom, they always exhibited nothing 23 but the highest level of integrity. Knowing these people as I 24 do, as previous co-workers and thinking about this stellar December 2010 A-647 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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3 successfully protect Indian Point in the event of some kind of 4 an incident.
5 If you want to talk about the importance of Indian 6 Point, about the fact that it's vital to the local area, this 7 was mentioned a couple of times already this evening, but where 8 would you get 2000 Mw of electricity if Indian Point was shut 9 down? People talk about green energy sources, renewable 10 sources, conservation, and we really do need to use as much of 52-c-AL/
AQ/EC 11 that as we can possibly get. But the problem is, after you put 12 all of that together, it will only give you a very tiny 13 percentage of the electricity that would be lost. The bulk of 14 that power would have to be made up by burning air polluting 15 fossil fuels. You can talk to the families of asthma victims 16 here in New York State to see how they feel about that.
17 Some of you might recognize the name James Lovelock.
18 But for those of you that don't, Dr. Lovelock is a British 19 scientists and a world-renowned environmentalist. He's written 20 many books on the environment. Not too long ago he gave a 52-d-AL 21 statement to a British newspaper and I'd like to just read to 22 you just a couple of lines from one of his statements. It says, 23 I quote, we have no time to experiment with visionary energy 24 sources. Civilization is in imminent danger and has to use NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-648 December 2010
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2 pain soon be inflicted by an outraged planet.
3 Some people here tonight try to express what they 4 believe is the opinion of the major population of the people 5 around Indian Point and they say that they shouldn't allow 6 Indian Point to continue to operate. My last six years at 7 Indian Point was spent as the outreach education coordinator.
8 During that time, we brought in thousands of people to visit 9 Indian Point to see the day-to-day operation. We've gone out 10 and spoke to high school students, college students, civic 11 organizations, places of business. I personally, in the last 12 six years, have spoken to more than 9000 people. None of those 13 people, with the exception of maybe three individuals that I can 52-e-SR 14 think of, none of those people ever expressed the opinion that 15 they wanted to see Indian Point shut down. In fact, quite the 16 contrary. There's an enormous interest right now for people to 17 want to see Indian Point and how it works. I've got an envelope 18 here full of letters that were written to me by people that came 19 to visit the plant, in appreciation and for their support of 20 Indian Point. This is just a sample. I would like to put this 21 into the record, give this to the NRC before we leave. But I 22 want to strongly urge tonight that the NRC considers this 23 information when they rule on the impact of license renewal for 24 Indian Point. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. FEDERSPIEL: Okay, thank you. My name is John 2 Federspiel and I am the president at the Hudson Valley Hospital 3 Center. Hudson Valley Hospital Center is a major health care 4 provider in the region, as well as an emergency planning partner 5 working closely with Entergy employees and many first responders 6 throughout the area as part of Indian Points emergency planning 7 program. Since Entergy purchased Indian Point, this partnership 8 between the hospital and the site has grown exponentially to the 9 benefit of the residents we both serve.
10 For example, when we were seeking a substantial 11 investment for upgrading the hospital's existing emergency room 12 into a full-service state-of-the-art 24-hour No Wait emergency 53-a-SE/
SR 13 department, Entergy was there for us. And today I'm proud to 14 say, we have one of the finest emergency rooms in the entire New 15 York metropolitan region.
16 Over the years, this partnership as grown beyond a 17 donor and charity relationship to Entergy providing insightful 18 training and true community leadership to our boards, 19 physicians, nurses and the entire staff of the Hudson Valley 20 Hospital Center. We are a stronger health-care provider because 21 of their presence in the community and would rather not think of 22 how we would survive without the low-cost power the site 23 provides, as well as the substantial investments Entergy makes 24 into the local health-care system. The short-term outlook for NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-650 December 2010
Appendix A 1 health-care in New York State is dire. And the long-term 2 prognosis is becoming even worse. We cannot afford to lose one 3 of the area's few remaining economic lifelines. That is why on 53-a-SE/
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5 Center family, I strongly recommend extending the license of 6 Indian Point for another 20 years. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. FOREHAND: Good evening. My name is Ron Forehand 2 and I am the president and CEO of Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber 3 of Commerce. Were are a regional Chamber of Commerce that's 4 located in the area. An area that encompasses were Indian Point 5 is located. We are Westchester, Northern Westchester and Putnam 6 Counties leading business Association and proud to be that.
7 Were about jobs. Were about safety. And because of that, our 8 proximity to Indian Point makes us acutely aware of how 9 important safety is and the running of those plants safely. The 57-a-SA 10 employees that run the plant and the people like Linda Puglisi 11 and our mayor in Peekskill that help with the overseeing, we 12 appreciate because we can see what a job theyve done in making 13 sure that these plants are safe for the residents. On the 14 economic side, which were obviously very concerned with, the 15 continued operation of Indian Point is vital to our region.
16 Westchester residents already pay more than twice the national 17 average per kilowatt hour for their electricity. Should Indian 18 Point be shut down, these prices would rise dramatically, as we 57-b-AQ/
19 all know. EC/SO 20 In the current economic climate, the lower Hudson 21 Valley cannot afford to do anything that would push away 22 residents or businesses. We're having enough trouble as it is 23 getting businesses to come in here to New York State. We have a 24 lot of regulations that are difficult. We don't need additional NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-658 December 2010
Appendix A 1 things to run our businesses off. The environmental impact of 2 losing Indian Point are equally compelling. Replacing Indian 3 Points power would require 4 to 5 fossil fuel burning plants 57-b-AQ/
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5 Sciences, cause a 20% increase in regional carbon dioxide 6 emissions. In this era of global warming and environmental 7 concerns, this is not even an option for our state. Entergy, 8 the owners and operators of Indian Point, have invested and have 9 continued to invest large sums of money in the operation of 10 these plants. They also do that investment in the community 11 that they serve. Not to buy off the community, not to buy their 12 good will, but because they think it's important to be a good 13 servant of that community. So when you look around at things 14 that we've all become accustomed to, our better schools, our 57-c-SA/
SE/SO 15 emergency response agencies, you can thank them partially for 16 those things because they contribute heavily to those things.
17 As the NRC reviews the environmental impact to the continued 18 operation of the plant, our Chamber would ask that you factor 19 some very important major benefits that Indian Point provides to 20 our region. Safe energy. Jobs. Very good jobs. High-paying 21 jobs when they are needed most right now in this economy. Thank 22 you.
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2 3 Mr. Andrew Stuyvenberg Environmental 4 Project Manager 5 Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear 6 Regulatory Commission 7 Mail Stop 0-l1Fl 8 Washington, DC 2055-0001 9 RE: February 12, 2009 Public Hearing on the Relicensing of the Indian Point Energy Center 58-a-SR 10 I write here in support of renewing the license for Indian Point Energy Center.
11 The debate over relicensing has taken place without input from communities of color which are under 12 siege by dirty air not to mention the health effects that come along with poor air quality. The debate over 13 relicensing has raged on without input from New York City working families who can ill-afford higher 58-b-AL/
14 electricity bills. The {debate over relicensing has taken place without reassurance that the dirty-air power AQ/EJ 15 plants, built to replace Indian Point, will not once again end up in low-income minority neighborhoods.
16 Indian Point is clean, emissions-free energy that will help improve air quality. In this age of global 17 warming, now is not the time to embrace dirty energy that is harmful to the public and planet's health.
18 Indian Point is affordable energy that helps keep electricity bills stable. In this age of economic 58-c-AQ/
19 uncertainty and rising unemployment, now is certainly not the time to increase electric bills. Indian Point EC/SO 20 is reliable energy that can keep pace with the ever-growing demands of our region. In this age of green 21 technology, we must continue making investments in renewable energy, however, now is not the time to 22 shutter Indian Point without having clean energy options already in place 23 Thank you for allowing me to add my concerns into this debate. We are hopeful that any decision 24 reached will be one that ensures a continued supply of reliable, clean and affordable electricity for all 58-d-SR 25 New Yorkers.
26 27 Sincerely, 28 29 30 Name 31 32 33 34 City, State & Zip Code 35 36 37 38 December 2010 A-661 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
Appendix A 1 MS. FOSTER: Hi, Im Mary Foster. I'm the Mayor in the 2 city of Peekskill. For those who of you who don't know, 3 Peekskill is a city. It is surrounded by the town of Cortlandt, 4 but it is about 2 1/2 miles from Indian Point. The city itself 5 is 4 1/2 square miles and so the Village of Buchanan in the city 6 of Peekskill are the two soul little municipalities closest to 7 Indian Point.
8 The reason I'm here is not to really talk about 9 whether or not we have a future in front of us that can generate 10 the energy needs our nation needs without nuclear power. I 11 think there are greater minds than mine who will ponder that 12 issue and come up with the solutions. A rather, what I want to 13 stress is a point that Supervisor Puglisi made. That is, its 14 important to acknowledge who needs to have a seat at the table 15 when Indian Point, Entergy and the NRC work through the issues 16 that are in the EIS. The city of Peekskill also hosts the waste 59-a-LR 17 to energy burn plant for Westchester County and having recently 18 gone through a renegotiation of that contract, it's really 19 important that local governments, who typically host these 20 facilities but are typically relegated to sitting on the 21 sidelines and worrying about the issues, it's more important 22 that those officials actually have a seat at the table so then 23 when the EIS issues are ironed out, we actually can weigh in on 24 the things that make the most importance to our local NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-662 December 2010
Appendix A 1 communities. So, when we are dealing with environmental issues 2 to air, water and species, it's important for us to understand 3 how those mitigations will happen and what the other impacts 4 will be to the surrounding communities that really host this 5 facility.
6 I've heard a lot about cooling towers. On the one 7 hand, I am horrified at the thought of some huge tower being 8 right on the waterfront, but I also can empathize with what we 9 need to do with the quality of the Hudson River and the decades 10 it has taken to clean up the Hudson River. Having the city and 11 the supervisor from Cortlandt at the table as those issues are 12 dealt with is important because were the ones that are 59-a-LR contd.
13 ultimately responsible for the total economic development of our 14 municipalities, the jobs that can get created in our 15 municipalities, the economic growth that we can enjoy it or the 16 economic devastation that can happen to us. Being relegated to 17 the sidelines is a very difficult place to sit because when we 18 are left with just writing letters to our county, federal and 19 state officials to ask for more security to be provided, as 20 opposed to being able to speak directly to the issue, have the 21 information directly and share it with our constituents who are 22 most impacted by this is important. So, my three points are 23 really about the importance of the local municipalities having a 24 seat at the table when the issues in the EIS are ironed out December 2010 A-663 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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6 well. So, I don't think there's any elected official in the 7 local communities that want Indian Point closed. What we do 8 want is to be able to have a role in how these ultimate issues 9 get resolved. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. FRAISER: Great, good afternoon everyone. My name 2 is Andrew Fraiser and I'm a member of the NextGen Network. I've 3 served in various leadership positions over the years. The 4 NextGen Network has partnered with Entergy for several years.
5 The Entergy Corporation has upheld a high standard of corporate 6 citizenship and has remained an influential supporter of the 7 communities it serves.
8 Entergy Nuclears support of the NextGen Network is 9 one example of its commitment to communities of color. It's 10 partnership has enabled our organization to continue to provide 11 world-class career and professional development and community 12 service opportunities, while continuing to be a point of 60-a-SE 13 connectivity within the African-American community. Through 14 Entergy, the nuclear partnership with NextGen Network, we were 15 able to fill a much-needed void by providing mentoring and 16 scholarships to deserving individuals.
17 Entergy Nuclear has a role ensuring that African-18 American high school students can take full advantage of higher 19 education opportunities and receive coaching and mentoring in 20 doing so. This shows how much they care about the culture in 21 the diverse community and an inclusive global marketplace. With 22 the help of Entergy Nuclear, we have been able to offer 15 23 scholarships to individuals at nationally accredited 24 universities each year for the past five years.
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Appendix A 1 The NextGen Network has reach thousands of students as 2 well as over 700 students have submitted essays and participated 3 in our business case competitions. Both competitions encourage 4 seniors in high school around the country to think critically 5 and to address important issues regarding the environmental 6 justice, climate change and nuclear power and taking a look at 60-a-SE contd.
7 how that can impact and lessen the disparate impact on the 8 minority communities around the country. The NextGen Network 9 has also been able to attract highly respected senior business 10 leaders seeking our knowledge and expertise in developing 11 African-American professionals, who possess business acumen, as 12 well as community consciousness.
13 Our membership has been recognized in part because of 14 Entergy's continued support, which enables members to reach back 15 in service to generations of leaders who follow us. Because of 16 our mission to develop African-American leaders, the NextGen 17 Network believes our communities are best served by leaders who 18 are thoroughly knowledgeable about the gamut of zero emissions 60-b-AQ/
19 energy standards and sources. If we are to ensure the health of SE 20 our communities as an important part of this ongoing 21 conversation about strategies to improve air quality and the 22 health of our communities throughout New York, the Indian Point 23 facility is a critical source for the region. We appreciate the 24 opportunity to provide feedback about Entergy Nuclears record NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-666 December 2010
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Appendix A 1 MR. FRYE: Good evening. My name is Glen Frye and I'm a board 2 member of the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition. On behalf of 3 the grassroots and community organizations throughout Brooklyn, 4 I have come here this evening to give my support for the 62-a-EJ/
5 recertification of Indian Point Energy Center. Re-licensing SR 6 Indian Point is the right move for households in Brooklyn 7 because the alternative is unacceptable. Currently, of the 22 8 fossil fuel plants operating in New York City, over half our 9 located in the neighborhoods of low to moderate income 10 households.
11 Despite a lifetime of poor environmental decisions 12 made for us but not by us, the residents in Brooklyn had to 13 suffer through bad health and there's no reassurance that if 14 Indian Point is closed, that dirty power plants constructed to 15 replace Indian Point will not be located in our neighborhoods.
16 Our communities should not be forced to endure more dirty energy 17 and the health issues that arise as byproducts. So, after years 62-b-EJ/
SR 18 of neglect for our health, our communities should not be forced 19 to bear the burden of just the bad health that comes as a result 20 of having dirty power plants in our communities. Grassroots and 21 community organizations like the one I represent in Brooklyn 22 understand that Indian Point produces clean, safe and affordable 23 energy that powers New York City households, schools, hospitals, 24 mass transit and government operations. As this debate December 2010 A-669 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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3 ensure the health and safety of all. So I'd like to thank the SR contd 4 NRC for allowing me to comment and express my support for the 5 Indian Point. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. GARCIA: Good afternoon, my name is Frank Garcia. I am 2 chairman of the Bronx Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I'm also a 3 small Hispanic business. I'm the CEO of Millennium Recycle 4 Toner in the South Bronx. The reason I'm here today is to speak 5 on what's going on with the small businesses in the Bronx. If 65-a-SO/
6 this Indian Point energy plant closes down, this is going to SR 7 hurt a lot of our small businesses. Right now, the record of 8 small businesses in the Bronx is closing to 15 to 20 businesses 9 per week because of the climate. We strongly recommend that 10 this plant remain open to be able to help the small businesses 11 to continue being able to be open.
12 Everybody knows that New York pays almost the highest 13 electric bills than any other area. I myself as a small 14 business, this has hurt me very dramatically how the energy has 15 gone up. As a manufacture, it's very hard for me to be able to 65-b-EC/
16 continue manufacturing in New York, in the Bronx with the SR 17 increase of electricity. Without electricity, I can't 18 manufacture. I'm asking that the doors cannot shut down to 19 Indian Point. Why? Because shutting it down, you're shutting 20 businesses down. We are, in this moment, in a crisis in New 21 York City and New York State and were asking to keep this open 22 to be able to keep businesses still open in New York. A lot of 65-c-EC/
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3 my grandfather was the head of the Latin Grocery Association in 4 the 1960s and if he was a bodega owner right now, he would not 5 have been able to survive his business. Why? Because it 65-c-EC/
SO/SR 6 increased, not just in electricity, rent and everything else. I contd.
7 encourage today, as a small-business owner, to keep the energy 8 plant open, to keep businesses and small businesses open and to 9 continue with clean energy and to help the community continue 10 growing in the small-business community. Thank you.
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4 5 MS. CYPSER & MS. KARAMATY [singing]: Would you like a 6 world safe and clean, where the air is fresh good to breathe, 7 and the waters so sweet to drink or would you rather have a 8 nuke? A nuke is an industry that piles up its waste, which 9 leaks from containers to the ground. The terrorists know, where 10 it's to be found and blowing it up kills for miles around. Eons 11 pass before poison leaves the ground. There is no place to 12 store the waste. Would you like to have your home warm, with 13 your power from earth and sun, that costs almost nothing to run 14 compared to what you pay for nukes? A nuke is a monstrosity 15 that we all finance. It sucks all us taxpayers dry. It costs 16 less to build and more to fix, to keep it going takes a lot of 70-a-ON 17 tricks. And by the way if you count external costs, it's quite 18 a monetary loss. Would you like to breathe good fresh air, grow 19 your kids up Strontium free? Don't live in our neighborhood 20 then, or did you know we have a nuke? Our nukes have emissions 21 that have poisoned our air, we've more thyroid woes than our 22 fair share. Were told it's safe and we know it's not.
23 Evacuation plan don't work, its rot. And by the way, if the 24 sirens ever blow, there will be millions dead and gone. Would 25 you like your groundwater pure? Want to drink be healthy still 26 for sure? Eat fish without needing a cure or would you rather December 2010 A-683 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
Appendix A 1 have a nuke? Our nuke makes the riverwater too hot for fish, 2 endangered ones we are sure to miss. The cooling pipes leak.
3 You don't hear much about. Fish eggs and fish in, radiation 4 out. The antiquated coolers poison us and the fish. It's all 5 because we have a nuke. Do you want your world safe and sane. 70-a-ON contd.
6 Government for the people are game? By the will of the people 7 we are bound, people want that nuke shut down. Or don't you 8 wish we had no nuke?
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Appendix A 1 RAGING GRANNIES SPOKESPERSON: Good evening. We are the Raging 2 Grannies of Westchester. We have even an additional granny 3 from, came all the way from Brooklyn because she knows that 4 Manhattan and Brooklyn are within the kill-zone. Don't sink, 5 theyre not. I would like to congratulate Entergy, though, the 6 test, for the first time ever, all the sirens worked. Good work 7 Entergy. Good work Entergy. How do I know that? It made the 8 headlines that the sirens worked. At any rate, I have looked at 9 your report, such as it is, I congratulate the Ramapo student 70-b-UF 10 for pointing out just a handful of the many defects in this 11 report. I would like, if I had time, to talk about the nuclear 12 fuel cycle, which is ignored when they talk about greenhouse 13 gases. Things don't start and end with a flip of the switch at 14 Indian Point, there's uranium mining to think about. But, we 15 need to be brief, so we have our testimony in the form of a 16 couple of songs, in addition to the one that was done by two of 17 our grannies this afternoon. Take it.
18 RAGING GRANNIES [singing song #1]: Call us anti-nuke 19 environmentalists. We are anti-nuke environmentalists. We 20 protect our air and water. You can't lead us to the slaughter.
70-c-OR 21 `Cause were anti-nuke environmentalists.
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2 If you get yourself re-licensed and still run, 3 there'll be lots more dead fish lying in the sun. More 4 Strontium in our babies teeth. More leaks that millions hate 5 to breathe. With no evacuation they can't run.
6 There are twenty tons of new waste every year. All 7 created by the Indian Point plant here. You can swear on our 8 own Bibles, that it's safe, secure and vital, but were sure not 70-c-OR 9 gonna swallow what we hear. contd.
10 When we think about Chernobyl, we have qualms. You're 11 a target for those terrorists with bombs. There's no anti-nuke 12 insurance. Which means theres no assurance. That we will not 13 all be blown to kingdom come.
14 Bring us solar, bring us hydro, bring us wind. Bring 15 us energy from sources that won't end. Before we could trust 16 uranium, we'd need holes in our cranium, call us anti-nuke 17 environmentalists.
18 RAGING GRANNIES SPOKESPERSON: I thought that booing 19 and holding up the signs was not permitted. Apparently the 20 rules have changed. Thank you NRC and Entergy. The second song 21 is a little bit more somber. Then we will be off the stage.
22 Take up a collection to save the river? OK, we will. If anyone 23 wants copies of the lyrics so they can sing along next time, we 24 brought copies. The lyrics are also entered as testimony.
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2 RAGING GRANNIES [singing song #2]: We ask for a clean 3 world. A world that is kind. We look for a good world but what 4 do we find? Too many people who don't seem to care. Who dies 5 from so much tainted air?
6 So much nuclear waste is piled up, up, up, up.
7 Underground in containers that leak. Those leaky containers 8 were built by no-brainers. And what else becomes of that waste?
9 We send it in weapons to an impoverished place. To 10 help in destroying a powerless race. Palestinians in Gaza, 11 Iraqis in Iraq. Let's stop making nuclear waste! 70-d-OR 12 Oh, isn't it awful, oh, isn't it funny. Political 13 power still follows the money. We hope those who don't care 14 will learn to share. The goods of the earth with the world.
15 From the seats of great power many tumble. For the 16 whole world belongs to the humble. Although critics mutter and 17 grumble. We must have a clean source of power!
18 We ask for a kind world where everyone cares. About 19 clean, clear water and pure, sweet fresh air. And wind, sun, 20 and water create energy. And nuclear powers history.
21 Make nuclear power history.
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Appendix A 1 MS. GREENE: My name is Manna Greene and I am the 2 environmental director for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. We 3 are very concerned about the potential health effects. The 4 Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement issued by the 5 Nuclear Regulatory staff on the relicensing of Indian Point 6 Units 2 and 3 concludes that Indian Point poses no significant 7 public health risk. But data, and this was in Joe's report, Joe 8 Mangano's report, data just released by the New York State 73-a-HH 9 Department of Health shows that thyroid cancer rates in the four 10 counties closest to Indian Point are nearly double the U.S.
11 average and that childhood cancer is also above the national 12 rate. Rockland, Orange, Putnam and Westchester Counties in 13 particular. Rockland, Orange and Putnam, are all surrounding 14 Indian Point, have the first, second and third highest thyroid 15 cancer rates from 2001 to 2004. That is higher than all of the 16 62 counties in New York State. Westchester was eighth.
17 In addition, a recent study by the Mother's Milk 18 Project shows that 30 milk samples from breast-feeding mothers 19 and goats that happened to be within 50 miles of Indian Point 20 all reveal levels of Strontium-90 and the closer you are to the 73-b-EJ/
LE 21 plant the higher the levels. Together these suggest that the 22 emissions from Indian Point may be compromising the health of 23 local residents. We also think that there are environmental 24 justice impacts that the SDEIS dismisses. Specifically, NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-694 December 2010
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2 including impacts on families of subsistence fishermen who catch LE contd.
3 fish and crabs that contain traces of Strontium-90 and other 4 isotopes. They call this insignificant.
5 In the GEIS, the generic, done in 1996 for all nuclear 6 power plants, these impacts were considered to be small. The 7 SDEIS focuses on the additional impacts from the planned 8 releases in discharges at Indian Point under normal operations 9 and also from the leaks of radioactive isotopes that were 10 discovered and are specific to Indian Point. While NRC sees 73-c-EJ/
HH/LE 11 these as small and of no significance, we are not convinced. We 12 believe that this additional burden of radioactivity places at 13 risk the people who are eating and catching fish. Impacts on 14 the proposed Rockland County desalination plant. It is only 15 proposed, but it will take seven and a half million gallons of 16 water out of the Hudson River for drinking water for Rockland 17 County.
18 Also, we think that it underestimates the sustainable 19 energy alternatives that are coming on board very quickly. Are 20 much cleaner and do not require replacement by fossil fuel. We 21 agree with Riverkeeper about the impact on fish and we are very, 73-d-EP 22 very concerned about the narrowing of the relicensing process in 23 which things like whether or not the plant could actually be 24 evacuated in the event of an accident or an incident at Indian December 2010 A-695 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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3 grave concerns about that. We will submit full comments by 4 March 15th. Thank you.
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2 MR. HOHLFELD: Thank you for this opportunity to 3 address you this afternoon. My name is Bill Hohlfeld and I'm 78-a-SR 4 from the Local-46 Labor-Management Cooperative Trust. On behalf 5 of the working men and women of Local-46, I rise today to speak 6 in support of the Indian Point re-licensing.
7 There's no question that these are tough times for New 8 York's working families. However, New York cannot meet its 9 current and future energy needs without the continued operation 10 of the Indian Point Energy Center. Indian Point produces 2000 11 Mw of clean emission free electricity and is a critical economic 12 engine for the lower Hudson Valley, responsible for more than 78-b-EC/
GI/ST 13 $700 million in annual regional economic activity. The New York 14 Independent system operator noted that the closure of Indian 15 Points reactors would result in, and I quote, an immediate 16 violation of reliability standards. Given that on a typical 17 day, Indian Point provides up to 30% of the power used in New 18 York City and the surrounding region is even more critical to 19 keep Indian Point online.
20 Additionally, Indian Point is also a friend of working 21 families throughout the Hudson Valley. Not only does Indian 22 Point provide reliable low-cost electricity, but organized labor 78-c-SO/
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2 Indian Points 2000 Mw of clean, reliable, low-cost electricity 3 are completely crucial to this effort. As I speak to you today 78-c-SO/
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5 the Hudson Valley and a member of the area and I ask you, please 6 keep Indian Point open. Thank you very much.
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Appendix A 1 MS. INDUSI: Good evening. I missed the introductions, so can I, 2 I don't know where the NRC is sitting. Gentlemen, and youre on 3 the commission? Your commissioners?
4 MR. WRONA: Were staff.
5 MS. INDUSI: Your staff members. So you'll be taking 6 these back to the commissioners? These remarks.
7 MR. WRONA: Your remarks will be [unintelligible]
8 MS. INDUSI: Okay. I'm calling for four things 9 tonight. All of which involve honesty. I'm calling for first 10 of all for honesty about the greenhouse gases that are produced 11 by Indian Point. Out there, there's a booth called, Right for 12 New York Indian Point Energy Center. They claim that operating 81-a-UF 13 Indian Point produces practically no greenhouse gases. This is 14 fraudulent and misleading. In fact, the mining, the refining, 15 the transporting of uranium produces tons of greenhouse gases.
16 It is a dirty industry. End the lie that its clean.
17 Secondly, nuclear power is not cheap. Much of its 18 cost is paid for in federal tax dollars in the form of 81-b-EC 19 subsidies, research, regulations and more. State the true cost 20 of a kilowatt hour including all the costs of this energy.
21 Thirdly, the members of the NRC come from the nuclear industry.
22 They have a vested interest in keeping this industry alive. It 81-c-AL 23 is important to them. Their tunnel vision sees only nuclear 24 power. Alternative energy sources can produce energy that is December 2010 A-737 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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3 only two options. Nuclear and fossil fuel. And forth, end the 4 lie that this hearing and keeping Indian Point here, has any 5 concern for the well-being of the people here. Keeping Indian 81-d-OR 6 Point running past its scheduled life is the NRC's attempt keep 7 a dying, dirty, expensive and unsafe industry alive.
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Appendix A 1 MR. JACOBS: Thank you. My name is Mark Jacobs. Most 2 of you know me. I live within 5 miles of Indian Point. I work 3 within 5 miles of Indian Point. There is no financial interest 4 that I receive from trying to close down the Indian Point 5 Nuclear Power Plant, which should indeed be closed down. Now, I 82-a-OR 6 listened to a lot of speakers here today. I was late because I 7 had to work. I listened to others to hear what had been spoken 8 about today. You know, the most amazing thing is very little of 9 what this meeting is supposed to be about was spoken about here 10 today. Now, there are two points about that.
11 One point is that Entergy did a really good job of 12 bringing all of the groups that they have paid off to come, 13 without any research, without any knowledge, particularly about 14 the dangers or threats of Indian Point, without any knowledge 15 about the potential environmental hazards of Indian Point.
16 They've gotten the these groups to come here and say, Entergy's 17 Indian Point is a good neighbor. And why are they good? 82-b-GI/
LR 18 They're good because they have given us money and helped our 19 programs. Well, it's great that Entergy is giving back the 20 tiniest fraction of the million dollars per day per reactor 21 profit that they are receiving from these plants. But I hope 22 that nobody lets themselves be deluded that this has any 23 significance whatsoever on whether Indian Point is safe or not 24 safe.
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Appendix A 1 Now the second reason that nobody's talking about, 2 what this meeting is supposed to be about, is because the 3 Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the guidance of the nuclear 4 industry has done a very good job of limiting what is to be 5 discussed at this meeting, so that almost nothing of 82-c-LR 6 significance can be discussed here. In the broader sense, were 7 here to talk about the environment, but when you look at the 8 specific environmental impacts we can talk about, we can only 9 talk about a very small fraction of the ones that are going to 10 cause the grave impact on my community and many of your 11 community who live here. And to me, that is awful.
12 To me that is a the large number of people working for 13 our government and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who are 14 taking their paycheck in the same way that the organizations are 15 taking the contributions from Entergy and theyre not standing 16 up and saying, what I'm seeing is not acceptable and it is not 17 worth the money they pay me to work for an agency that is not 18 going to do its job to regulate. And that's what the NRC 19 doesn't do. It doesn't regulate. So I urge any of you who are 20 left sitting here to stand up and walk away from your agency and 21 find a way to help the environment, to help your society in a 22 way that is not with a captured agency and that's what the 23 Nuclear Regulatory Commission is. Thank you.
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Appendix A 1 MR. JOHNSON: Thank you. Thank you for giving me this 2 opportunity to come up here and share a story with you. A good 3 friend of mine named Paul couldn't be with me here tonight but 4 he wanted me to share this story. I'm a volunteer firefighter 5 and Paul is a volunteer firefighter in Buchanan, I'm sorry in 6 the Verplanck fire department, where he's actually Chief for the 7 second time around. After a structure fire, several years ago, 8 he shared with me a story about his first real job he had, right 9 out of high school. Paul's a real outdoorsy kind of guy. Loves 10 the outside. Loves to fish. Ate out of the Hudson his entire 11 life. He's in his late 50s now. He's raised kids. He's fed 12 them out of the Hudson his entire life. His first job was a job 83-a-OS 13 under a grant through the State of New York studying the fish 14 and the fish life around the area known as Indian Point and the 15 power plant and the impacts that it would have on the wildlife.
16 He loved this job. He was the only non-scientist there. They 17 were all from Texas Instruments and a lot of them not even from 18 the area. His job was to bring the fish in. Put them in the 19 tanks. They have hundreds of tanks to gauge the health and the 20 quality of the schools of fish.
21 In addition to doing that, he's actually a pretty 22 down-to-earth guy, he actually gave a good tip to some of the 23 scientists because one of his jobs was to pull the one-month 24 fish and put them in the two-month tank and the two-month fish December 2010 A-741 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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2 One day he went to them and he said, hey guys instead of pulling 3 these fish out and changing tanks, why don't we just change the 4 signs. Wouldn't that be easier? They said, you know, you're a 5 smart man Paul. We're going to give your raise and that's 6 exactly what were going to do. Well one day he showed up to 7 work five years into his job and he was all done. They said, 8 Paul, sorry, were not going to need you anymore. He said, well 9 what did I do wrong? Why don't I have my job anymore? He said, 10 well, it's not just you, none of us have our job. You see, the 11 grant is up and we handed in our findings and they said they 12 won't be needing us anymore. And he was perplexed. He had no 83-a-OS contd.
13 idea this was happening. He said I can't believe this. He 14 said, you said the fish were doing great. They were thriving.
15 That the power plant or nothing in the Hudson was hurting them.
16 The schools were up. The health of the fish were up. It was no 17 radiological impact. He says, I don't understand it. Why would 18 they just cancel that? He goes, well you're right. You can eat 19 out of the Hudson River all you want. There's nothing wrong 20 with the fish. They're doing fine. Then why didn't they 21 continue the grant? Why are we all fired?
22 Well the people who hired us to do this grant, they 23 didn't like the findings that the fish were doing as well as 24 they were, so now were all done. Well, I'm not going to name NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-742 December 2010
Appendix A 1 any names on who through the State of New York got that grant 2 but what I want to do now is I really want to thank very much 3 and take my hat off to the good people of the NRC and just 4 having this ability to come forward and tell our stories because 5 as you see what goes on with politicians in high places and 6 people with money and power and buying and selling Senate seats 7 and doing whatever they want, some of us little people kind of 8 get left in the dark. Now, more than ever, maybe in our 9 history, after what we've been through, we need safe, 83-a-OS contd.
10 affordable, reliable domestic energy more than ever. For us to 11 be pawns on someone's political chess board and moved around 12 when the facts don't jive with the fiction, they just get 13 disguarded. We want to take our hats off and were very 14 fortunate to have this forum to come up and tell our stories. I 15 want to thank the people from the NRC. I know it's their job to 16 be here, but if we didn't have them to talk to we might be stuck 17 in front of some Senate panel trying to convince somebody who 18 really didn't care what we thought anyways. Thank you very much 19 for this opportunity.
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Appendix A 1 MS. KARAMATY: I am against nuclear toxicity. My 2 complaint is about the destructive power of nuclear waste.
3 First, there is no guarantee of its safety when nuclear waste is 4 in transit. There are no realistic plans for cleanup of a spill 84-a-RW 5 or accident of a truckload or trainload of nuclear waste.
6 Secondly, there is no place to store the waste. The 7 Native Americans don't want it on their lands. No place on 8 earth wants it. And we cannot send it to outer space as it 9 might return. What goes up, must come down.
10 Thirdly, what I find to be the worst thing about 11 nuclear waste is that it has been used for hardening the tips of 12 bunker bombs and reliable replacement warheads. These weapons 13 have been used against the civilians in Iraq because they 14 penetrate deeper and kill and maim with more intensity. Can the 84-b-OS 15 Iraqi people ever forgive us? Do people who make or use 16 electricity from a nuclear power plant ever think about where 17 the waste product goes and about the people who have been 18 destroyed or may be destroyed in the future? Seeing were Raging 19 Grannies, we have a song that were going to sing.
20 MS. CYPSER: Try.
21 MS. KARAMATY: That were going to try and sing and we 22 have one mic, and we don't sing that well. So --
23 MS. CYPSER & MS. KARAMATY [singing]: Would you like a 84-c-ON 24 world safe and clean, where the air is fresh good to breathe, NUREG-1437, Supplement 38 A-744 December 2010
Appendix A 1 and the waters so sweet to drink or would you rather have a 2 nuke? A nuke is an industry that piles up its waste, which 3 leaks from containers to the ground. The terrorists know, where 4 it's to be found and blowing it up kills for miles around. Eons 5 pass before poison leaves the ground. There is no place to 6 store the waste. Would you like to have your home warm, with 7 your power from earth and sun, that costs almost nothing to run 8 compared to what you pay for nukes? A nuke is a monstrosity 9 that we all finance. It sucks all us taxpayers dry. It costs 10 less to build and more to fix, to keep it going takes a lot of 11 tricks. And by the way if you count external costs, it's quite 12 a monetary loss. Would you like to breathe good fresh air, grow 84-c-ON contd.
13 your kids up Strontium free? Don't live in our neighborhood 14 then, or did you know we have a nuke? Our nukes have emissions 15 that have poisoned our air, we've more thyroid woes than our 16 fair share. Were told it's safe and we know it's not.
17 Evacuation plan don't work, its rot. And by the way, if the 18 sirens ever blow, there will be millions dead and gone. Would 19 you like your groundwater pure? Want to drink be healthy still 20 for sure? Eat fish without needing a cure or would you rather 21 have a nuke? Our nuke makes the riverwater too hot for fish, 22 endangered ones we are sure to miss. The cooling pipes leak.
23 You don't hear much about. Fish eggs and fish in, radiation 24 out. The antiquated coolers poison us and the fish. It's all December 2010 A-745 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
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2 Government for the people are game? By the will of the people 3 we are bound, people want that nuke shut down. Or don't you 4 wish we had no nuke? 84-c-ON contd.
5 MS. KARAMATY: In case you didn't see our sign, it 6 says, Nuclear Waste Is Unhealthy for Human Beings As Well As for 7 Fish. But down at the bottom in small print it says, Save Jobs:
8 Transform Nuclear Plants To Solar and Wind.
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Appendix A 1 MR. KARAS: Good evening. My name is Joseph Karas. I 2 am a representative of Carpenters Union Local-11 of the Empire 3 State Regional Council Carpenters. I'm also a 17-year resident 4 in the village of Buchanan, where I live with my wife and three 5 children. I have come here today to urge you to support the re-6 licensing of Indian Point. These are tough economic times right 7 now and working families are particularly feeling the pinch.
8 High costs of home heating oil and natural gas are damaging our 9 economy and hitting the middle-class right in the pockets where 10 it hurts. Our state's energy transmission infrastructure is 85-a-EC/
SO/SR 11 outdated and in need of serious repair. The lack of a 12 comprehensive power plant siting law has also impacted energy 13 investment here in New York and curtailed efforts to grow our 14 energy capacities. This is why Indian Point is so critical now.
15 The facility produces 2000 Mw of affordable reliable base-load 16 power and is directly responsible for millions of dollars in 17 direct economic impact for our region. It is also responsible 18 for hundreds of well-paid union jobs with benefits. This is a 19 matter which is very close my heart. Especially to the members 20 I represent. From an environmental impact standpoint, Indian 21 Point produces its electricity in an emission-free manner. This 85-b-AQ/
HH 22 is good for our air and water and lowers the rates of child 23 asthma and their ailments and other impacts in our community.
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Appendix A 1 MS. KARDOS: Good afternoon my name is Terry Kardos.
2 Im a 20-year resident of Cortlandt Manor. For the past 15 3 years, I have worked as an environmental and outdoor educator, 4 mainly teaching about nature to children at Teatown Lake 86-a-OR 5 Reservation for the town of Cortlandt recreation department and 6 in other capacities, but I'd like to emphasize I'm here speaking 7 on my own behalf. I am here to oppose the re-licensing of 8 Indian Point. I agree with the comments of the New York State 9 representative, Riverkeeper, Clearwater, the Sierra Club and the 10 Grannies. I'm sort of sorry that it looks like our visitors, or 11 most of the visitors, for New York City have left because I 12 would like to say, I share their concerns about air quality. I 86-b-AQ 13 would not like to see any kind of fossil fuel power plant in 14 replacement, but I just hope that these people are as pro-active 15 in their opposition to increased vehicle traffic in the City and 16 increased development in the City as they are supportive of 17 Nuclear Plant re-licensing.
18 I'd also like to say that these concerns about air 19 quality and keeping the price of electricity low are going to be 20 completely irrelevant if there is a major accident with 86-c-AL 21 radioactive release as the area will become uninhabitable. I am 22 puzzled that in considering alternative energy sources, tidal 23 power was not considered, since the Hudson River is tidal all 24 the way up to the Troy dam. It seems to me that this avenue December 2010 A-749 NUREG-1437, Supplement 38
Appendix A 86-c-1 should be explored. While I do question the data analysis of contd.
2 the NRC as to the impacts on aquatic life, even they admit that 3 there are some impacts that range to large, especially on 4 endangered species. However, in light of the fact that we are 5 already starting to experience the negative effects of climate 6 change, it is quite likely that what are estimated to be small 86-d-AE/
7 effects today, will become large ones with the increased AL/GL 8 stresses of climate change on ecosystems. Estimated large 9 effects could become catastrophic. I think we also have to pay 10 a lot more attention to conservation, perhaps in the short term, 11 there shouldn't be a limit on how late into the night Christmas 12 lights should go. Maybe even the lights in Times Square, but I 13 think there are viable alternatives besides relicensing Indian 86-e-OR 14 Point. Thank you.
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2 MS. KEARNEY: Of the many problems facing the Brooklyn 3 community today, one of our top concerns is the health of our 4 children and the quality of the air we breathe. New York's air 5 quality is so low that it fails federal standards and presents a 6 daily danger to our children. Today, Brooklyn's youth suffer 88-a-AQ 7 from asthma at four times the national average. The high a rate 8 of disease is caused in great part by the dirty power plants 9 that spew toxic fumes into the air. Indian Point is one of the 10 only plants in the New York City area that does not harm the 11 air. Yet some would replace the facility with even more of the 12 dirty power plants that threaten the health of our children.
13 Re-licensing Indian Point is important to the community of 14 Brooklyn because we know that without it, our children would be 15 in even more danger. In addition to the fact that Indian Point 16 is a cleaner and healthier alternative to dirty power plants, it 88-b-EC/
SR 17 is also a more stable source of energy. Unpredictable energy 18 costs have continually threatened by community, making it 19 difficult for low-income families to predict how much more money 20 they will have to spend on energy every month.
21 The nuclear energy of Indian Point has a much more 22 stable price than oil or coal plants and will give Brooklyn 23 families a chance to stay in their homes. In addition, 88-c-EC/
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5 community. Please consider Brooklyn families as you evaluate 6 re-licensing the facility. Thank you.
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2 MR. KELLY: Good afternoon, my name is John Kelly. I 3 am the retired director of licensing for Entergy's Northeast 4 operations and had directly worked with the Indian Point plants 90-a-SA 5 during my career starting in 1970. I moved to this region, 6 living less than 4 miles from the plant in 1971. I have raised 7 my children there. I still live there. I know the plants are 8 safe. I'm addressing a few points in the EIS however. The 9 deterioration of air quality in the lower Hudson Valley, which 10 has been by others, that would be caused by the shutdown of the 11 Indian Point plants is not adequately addressed by the EIS. I'm 12 page 2-29 of the EIS, you note that 22 counties with a total 13 population of more than 16 million people within 50 miles of 90-b-AQ 14 IPEC are in the non-attainment status for compliance with Clean 15 Air Act requirements for ozone. 19 of those counties are also 16 in non-compliance with PM-2.5 particulates and one of those 17 counties, New York County or Manhattan Island, is also in non-18 compliance with the PM-10 particulates. On page 8-40 of the 19 EIS, you conclude that the impact on air quality of IPEC 20 shutdown and replacement with a state-of-the-art fossil plant 21 would be moderate.
22 On page 8-42, you conclude that the impact on human 23 health would be moderate from this additional air pollution. 90-c-AL/
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6 would result in substantially more air pollution than you AQ/HH contd.
7 analyzed in you or EIS. This is much more likely to happen in 8 construction of new plants in this area. How much more of a 9 human health impact would this have? It's not addressed at this 10 point in time in the EIS. Your EIS does not adequately address 11 the air quality deterioration and negative human health effects 12 of shutdown of IPEC.
13 On page 8-42 of the EIS, you conclude that the long-14 term socioeconomic impact of shutdown of IPEC would be small to 15 moderate. NEI published a report titled "Economic Benefits of 16 IPEC" using information from 2002. A copy is provided with this 17 statement for your information. This report noted that IPEC 18 employed more than 1500 people and was directly responsible for 19 1200 more additional jobs in the region, resulting in more than 90-d-AL/
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6 does not adequately address the enormous economic benefits of 7 IPEC, which would be lost upon plant shutdown. Thank you.
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