ML11213A029
| ML11213A029 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Calvert Cliffs  |
| Issue date: | 07/22/2011 |
| From: | Cook B US Congress |
| To: | Jenny Weil Office of Congressional Affairs |
| Shared Package | |
| ML11229A764 | List: |
| References | |
| G20110566, LTR-11-0440, SECY-2011-0433 | |
| Download: ML11213A029 (6) | |
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM:
DUE: 08/24/11 Benjamin Cook Representative Chris Van Hollen's Office EDO CONTROL: G20110566 DOC DT: 07/22/11 FINAL REPLY:
TO:
- Weils, OCA FOR SIGNATURE OF :
Borchardt, EDO GRN CRC NO: 11-0440 DESC:
ROUTING:
Calvert Cliffs (EDATS: SECY-2011-0433)
Borchardt Weber Virgilio Ash Mamish
- Leeds, NRR Dean, RI
- Burns, OGC
- Schmidt, OCA DATE: 07/29/11 ASSIGNED TO:
EDO CONTACT:
Rihm SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMARKS:
Please prepare response to Representative Chris Van Hollen for the signature of the EDO.
Prepare response in accordance with OEDO Notice 2009-0441-02 (ML093290179).
NRR and Region I to provide input to Roger Rihm,
- OEDO, if required.
Roger Rihm will coordinate rseponse with OGC and OCA.
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EDATS Number: SECY-2011-0433 Source: SECY General Inomtn Assigned To: OEDO Other Assignees:
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Calvert Cliffs
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OEDO Due Date: 8/24/2011 11:00 PM SECY Due Date: 8/26/2011 11:00 PM CC Routing: NRR; Regionl; OGC; OCA ADAMS Accession Numbers -
Incoming: NONE Response/Package: NONE Other Information Cross Reference Number: G20110566, LTR-l 1-0440 Related Task:
File Routing: EDATS Staff Initiated: NO Recurring Item: NO Agency Lesson Learned: NO OEDO Monthly Report Item: NO Prcs Infr aio Action Type: Letter Priority: MediUln Sensitivity: None Signature Level: EDO Urgency: NO Approval Level: No Approval Required OEDO Concurrence: NO OCM Concurrence: NO OCA Concurrence: NO Special Instructions: Please prepare response to Representative Chris Van Hollen for the signature of the EDO. Prepare response in accordance with OEDO Notice 2009-0441-02 (ML093290179). NRR and Region I to provide input to Roger Rihm, OEDO, if required. Roger Rihrn will coordinate response with OGC and OCA.
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umen Inomtn Originator Name: Benjamin Cook Originating Organization: Congress Addressee: Jenny Weil, OCA Incoming Task Received: E-mail Date of Incoming: 7/22/201 1 Document Received by SECY Date: 7/29/2011 Date Response Requested by Originator: NONE Page 1 of I
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: Jul 29, 20)1 09:28 PAPER NUMBER:
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-1I-0440 EDO0 LOGGING DATE: 07/29/2011 AUTHOR:
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ACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL HANDLING:
REP Benjamin Cook CONG Jenny Weil Constituent Correspondence - concerns the proximity of Calvert Cliffs to the Cove Point LNG facility Signature of EDO OCA to Ack.
07/22/2011 No NOTES:
FILE LOCATION:
ADAMS 08/26/2011 DATE DUE:
DATE SIGNED:
EDO -- G2011056 6
Mike, Linda From:
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Weil, Jenny Friday, July 22, 2011 1:08 PM Mike, Linda; Champ, Billie; Lewis, Antoinette Schmidt, Rebecca; Dacus, Eugene; Quesenberry, Jeannette FW: Constituent letter regarding Calvert Cliffs Constituent letter re Calvert Cliffs.doc Hi everyone, Please see the incoming request from Rep. Chris Van Hollen's office to respond to a constituent concern about the proximity of Calvert Cliffs to the Cove Point LNG facility.
Jenny From: Cook, Benjamin [mailto: Benjamin.Cookmail.house.govl Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:57 AM To: Weil, Jenny
Subject:
RE: Constituent letter regarding Calvert Cliffs Yes sorry. It came on 5/2/2011. I am actually new this week, one of our previous LC's fell behind on some letters and I am trying to go through the backlog. I was not sure which re-licensing he was talking about, because his letter did come before the recent hearings on the 3 d reactor which he did not mention. Hope that helps.
Thanks again, Ben From: Weil, Jenny rmailto:Jenny.Weil0nrc.aov1 Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:55 AM To: Cook, Benjamin
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RE: Constituent letter regarding Calvert Cliffs Hi Ben, Do you know when the letter came to your office?
- Thanks, Jenny From: Cook, Benjamin rmailto:Beniamin.Cookcmail.house.gov]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:38 AM To: Well, Jenny Cc: Dacus, Eugene
Subject:
Constituent letter regarding Calvert Cliffs Jenny-Thanks for helping us out. Attached is the constituent letter regarding Calvert Cliffs. If someone from your office could please review the constituents' questions/concerns, that would be greatly appreciated. I will send him a note today 1
letting him know we are passing it along, but if you could please CC me on any action/response your office takes so we could track it, that would be great as well.
Below is his contact information from IQ:
Mr. Eric Russell Goodall 15012 Butterchurn Lane Silver Spring, MD 20905-5739 eric.goodall@gmail.com Thanks again, Ben Cook Legislative Correspondent Office of Congressman Chris Van Hollen 202-225-5341 2
Dear Representative Van Hollen,
Recently I have read news reports of the nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs receiving approval for continued operations/relicensing. While I am a supporter of nuclear energy, I feel the continued operation of reactors without any process for disposing of the nuclear fuel is a disaster waiting to happen.
The ongoing crisis in Japan surrounding the 4 damaged nuclear reactors is a prime example of how terribly wrong things can go when more than one unexpected failure occurs. The Japanese planned for power losses to their reactors; and they planned for a tsunami, in retrospect woefully inadequate planning, but planning none the less. However, they didn't plan for simultaneous power loss and tsunami damage to their backup generation capability. In retrospect, experts have concluded Fukishama was a disaster waiting to happen.
I feel the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant is similarly a disaster waiting to happen. In the case of Calvert Cliffs, two nuclear reactors and their accumulating spent fuel are sitting right next to a liquid natural gas offloading terminal, one of only 4 such facilities in the United States. Should an accident occur at this plant, it will explode with the force of a large nuclear weapon. The public has been assured there are numerous mechanisms in place to prevent an accident or sabotage from occurring. However, the residents of Fukishama were given similar assurances over the reactors built nearby.
Think of impact to Maryland, to the Chesapeake Bay, to the Capital of the US if an accident or a terrorist incident at the LNG plant were to also damage the Calvert Cliffs reactors comparable to the Fukishama reactor damage. Although there have been news reports indicating the US and other countries are reviewing nuclear safety after the Japanese nuclear accident, one generally sees decisions which have already been made are "a done deal".
I suggest the consequences of an accident at the LNG terminal, no matter how improbable, are so profound, these two facilities should never have been allowed to be built so close to each other.
The relicensing of the Calvert Cliffs reactor is a chance to right a decision which was clearly wrong when the LNG terminal was allowed to be built. As Maryland's most influential representive, can you look into how the Calvert Cliffs plant have addressed the issue of a catastrophic explosion at the LNG terminal in their contingency planning? Do they truely have an adequate design and plan to ensure an LNG disaster would not also be a nuclear disaster for the Washington area?