ML12145A692

LTR-12-0187 - Incoming from Rep Markey and Rep Keating to Chairman Jaczko Urging the Commission Not to Move Forward with Its Decision on Whether to Issue the twenty-year License Extension for Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

ML12145A692
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	05/04/2012
From:	Keating W, Markey E US Congress, US HR (House of Representatives)
To:	Jaczko G NRC/OCM, NRC/Chairman
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LTR-12-0187, CORR-12-0049
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: May 17, 2() 12 IO:fJ5 PAPER NUM BER: L TR-12-0187 LOGGING DATE: 05/04/2012 ACTION OFFICE: OGC AUTHOR: REP Edward Markey AFFILIATION: CONG ADDRESSEE: Gregory Jaczko

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Urges the Commission not to move forward with its decision on whether to issue the twent) -year license extension for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station until there is a final resolution on all related administrative proceedings and judicial appeals ACTION: Signature of Chainnan I>ISTRIBUTlON: RF, OCA to Ack LETTER DATE: 05/0412012 ACKNOWLEDGED No SPECiAL HANDLING:

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(!!Ol1gress of t4£ Nniteil ~tat£5 Elianlltllgtrm, 19<< 20515 May 4, 2012 The Honorable Greg Jaczko Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852

Dear Chairman Jaczko:

We write to urge the Commission not to move forward with its decision on whether to issue the twenty-year license extension for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station until there is a final resolution on all related administrative proceedings and judicial appeals. To do otherwise would send an alarming message to all residents living near America's 104 nuclear power plants who are attempting to have an impact on a critical decision that will affect their lives for decades.

We are additionally concerned that the NRC staff, in an April 20 filing to the Commission, requested that it vote to authorize extension of the operating license for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station even though a range of administrative proceedings and judicial appeals related to nuclear reactor and environmental safety are still ongoing.

According to the NRC webpage, "the NRC has a long history of, and commitment to, transparency, participation, and collaboration in our regulatory activities." If the Commission takes the unprecedented step of granting the staffs request to short-circuit these proceedings and appeals, it will be undermining the very spirit of transparency, participation and collaboration to which it claims to be committed. We urge you to deny the staffs current request while issues are still outstanding.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. If you have any questions or concerns, please have your staff contact Michal Freedhoff in Rep. Markey's office at 202-225-2836 or Kerry O'Brien in Rep. Keating's office at 202-225-3111.

Sincerely,