ML19208D029
| ML19208D029 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/05/1979 |
| From: | Bradtmiller P MIDDLETOWN, PA |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 7909270765 | |
| Download: ML19208D029 (3) | |
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BOROUGH OF MIDDLETOWN ~
COMMUNITY BUILDING. MIDDLETOWN. PENNSYLVANI A 1705 July 5,1979 5
a Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C.
20555 Sir:
On behalf of the citizens of Middletown, Boro Council appre es your interest in the well-beir.g of the residents of the area a
.ons,.tra.ted tby your sending Comissioner Gilinski to jointly hold a Town J4eeting wiith Congressman Allen E. Ertel on June 29, 1979.
Enclosed is a Resolution adopted by Borough Council in the interests of the physical, psychological, and economic safety and well-being of the community after careful consiieration regarding the future of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility.
The Resolution is in the form of a petition to nurr,erous officials, including yourself, for action on resolving a number of serious concerns.
In addition to the technical and administrative safeguards which it is believed that the Nuclear Regulatory Comission must impose on nuglear generating facilities, the elimination of nuclear hazard exclusions from all homeowner and comercial property insurance policies is imperative.
Bcrough Council is seeking the active support of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the legislative action that is needed to invalidate these exclusions. Once owners of nuclear generating facilities are no longer under the hold-harmless umbrella which nuclear exclusion clauses provide, it is believed that the financial incentives will be strong encugh to evoke the safe management and operations necessary to minimize the risk of loss from nuclear reaction, radiation, or contamination. The Nuclear Regulatory Comission is in a key position to assure legislators and the insurance lobby that the risk from nuclear generating plants is de minimus.
Prior to the reactivation of either of the nuclear generating units at Three Mile Island, Borough Council is counting upon the Nuclear Regulatory Comission to hold a Public Hearing in the Middletown area to review all corrective actions taken in the aftermath of the accident on March 28, 1979.
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Borough Manager PHB/ss cc: The Honorable Allen E. Ertel Enclosure 7909270 765' 1042 085
RESOI.UTION NO. 11 RESOLUTION ON THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR FACILITY CON-CERNING MONITORING AND REPORTS FOR MIDDLETOWN, 3ENNSYL-VANIA.
WHEREAS, this nation's worst commercial nuclear accident, posing pos-sible disaster to the health, safety, and general welfare of Middle-town, Pennsylvania and citizens of this Borough mushroomed from an incident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility that began March 28, 1979 in nearby Londonderry Township and engulfed Middletown in the maelstrom of a disaster emergency duly and officially declared by Borough Mayor Reid with concurrence of Borough Council, AND WHEREAS Borough Council, charged with the duty of protecting the health, safety and general welfare of each citizen residing within the' corporate boundaries of the Borough of Middletown, shares citizen concern that every possible and feasible precaution and step be taken by the complex of federal and state agencies with jurisdiction and expertise in the premises to protect and promote the welfare of Middletown, and its neighbors, AND WHEREAS the National Policy of the United States appears to be irrevokably committed to nuclear power as part of this nation's energy mix within the lifetimes of most adults in Middletown today, AND WHEREAS standard forms of homeowners and commercial property in-surance currently in effect in this state contain Nuclear Hazard Clauses which exempt all loss resulting either directly or indirectly from nuclear reaction, or radiation, or contaminati6n, whether controlled or uncon-
- trolled, AND WHEREAS from the status briefing given to local government offi-cials on, June 18, 1979, by General Public Utilities Company and Metro-politan Edison Company officials it clearly appears that stronger fi-nancial incentives are needed to evoke the type of management and operation of both TMI-l and TMI-2 that will insure the safety and well-being of the surrounding area, AND WHEREAS by formal Resolution adopted June 18, 1979, Borough Council called for continuous monitoring of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Facility, and for every possible and feasible nrannutinn 1042 ON,s
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we oppose any reactivation of either TMI-I or TMI-2 until Nuclear Hazard Exclusions in all homeowner and commercial property insurance policies are rendered invalid by law in the Commonwealth of' Pennsylvania, BE IT FURTilER RESOLVED that the present air sampling and ground level surveillance being conducted in the area by he t icopt er under indepen-dent contract by the Department of Energy be continued by the Depa rt-ment of Energy uptil the potentially hazardous conditions at Three Mile Island as a result of the March 28, 1979 accident are abated, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in order to remove political and budgetary constraints from public safety decisions during times of emergency, that emergency' preparedness authority, separate and equal to that held by the Governor, within the Commonwealth be vested in an independent commission with long-term appointments and the power to declare States of Emergency and to direct all forms of assistance to local govern-ments necessary in carrying out emergency operations, AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the need for action along the foregoing lines, and to the fullest extent that can be accomplished by those in authority, in the interest of the citizens of Middletown and their duly elected Borough representatives be communicated by forwarding a duly executed counterpart of this Resolution as a petition to the following officials for the cooperation and affirmative response of the federal and state agencies and persons with the requisite regulatory, administra-tive, and legislative jurisdiction and expertise to meet the grave needs of the people of Middletown, PA living within a crucial five-mile radius of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Facility-The President of the United States The Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman of the President 's Commission on t he Accident at Three Mile Island Secretary of the United States Department of Energy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission United States Senators - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1042 069
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