ML19207B827
| ML19207B827 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/15/1979 |
| From: | Baldwin W FRIENDS OF THE EARTH |
| To: | Salomon S NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP) |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0553, RTR-NUREG-553 NUDOCS 7909050336 | |
| Download: ML19207B827 (1) | |
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FRIENDS OF THE EARTH 124 $PE AR S AN FR ANCliC0 C ALIFORNIA 94103 413 495-4770 May 15, 1979 Mr. Stephen N.
Salomon State Programs Officer U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 re: NUREG 0553, Funding of State and Local Government Radiological Emergency Response Plans
Dear Mr. Saloman:
I have reviewed your draft report referenced above.
It represents, in my view, a thorough examination of a problem presented to local governments by the construction of a nuclear pcwer plant nearby: they must fund a program of preparation for nuclear disaster.
As you are undoubtedly aware, all unrecovered costs paid by government funds (federal, state, or local) for regu-lation of nuclear power reactors are subsidies to the nuclear
- industry, i.e.,
taxpayers pay for controlling a public menace placed in their community b'1 power companies and reactor builders.
I would suggest, therefore, that a guiding principle behind the initiation of widespread emergency planning near nuclear power reactors (an immediate NRC priority) must be that all costs of the program, federal, state, or local, be paid, di'rectly or indirectly, by the reactor owners.
Please send me a final draft of your report.
Sincerely,
- i. l W. Andrew Baldwin Legal Director WA3:ah O t t m.- n v m. s ) <.. i5 i
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