ML15061A472

LTR-15-0107 - Dawn Magi, Selectboard Chair, Town of Warwick, Ltr Continued Funding for Emergency Planning Zone at Entergy Vermont Yankee

ML15061A472
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Site:	Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date:	02/10/2015
From:	Magi D Town of Warwick, MA, Selectboard
To:	Stephen Burns, Macfarlane A NRC/Chairman
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Town ofWa"Mck Phone: 978-544-0315 Selectt>oard:

Town Of Warwick 12 Athol Road Warwick , MA FAX: 978-544-0499 coordi'lator@t>wn.warMck.ma us Dawn Magi, chair Patricia lemon 01378 www.town.wawick .ma.us Nicholas Arguimbau February 10, 2015 The Honorable Allison M. Macfarlane Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 -0001 Re: Continued Funding for EPZ at Entergy Vermont Yankee

Dear Chairman Macfarlane:

Warwick is one of 18 towns in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire to have some or all of the town within a I 0 mile radius of the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, Vermont. This. means that we are within the plant's Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) - an area that has in-place, maintained, and predetermined protective action plans designed to avoid or reduce potential exposure of radioactive materials. These action plans include sheltering, evacuation, and the use of potassium iodide where appropriate.

Entergy Nuclear, the parent company of Entergy Vermont Yankee, has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for an exemption that will allow it to end funding for the EPZ.

Additionally, Entergy Nuclear has asked the NRC for an exemption that will allow the plant a four-fold increase in the amount of time it has to notify surrounding towns of an emergency.

Currently the plant must notify towns within 15 minutes. Entergy Nuclear seeks an exemption to increase this to 60 minutes!

The Warwick Select board opposes both exemption requests. We ask you, our elected representatives and public officials, to assure that EPZ funding is continued until the spent fuel pool is emptied and all the highly radioactive spent fuel is moved to dry cask storage, and to assure that towns continue to receive the earliest possible notice of emergency situations at the plant. '

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Dawn Magi Selectboard chair CC: US Senator Edward Markey US Senator Elizabeth Warren US Representative James McGovern State Senator Stanley Rosenberg Town of Warwick is an equal opportunity provider and employer

State Representative Susannah Whipps Lee Commissioner Christopher Recchia, Vermont Department of Public Service Kurt Schwartz, Director, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency

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