ML19210D594

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Informs That NRC Endorses Nrc/Epa Task Force Recommendation of Establishment of 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone Around Nuclear Power Plants
ML19210D594
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Issue date: 11/08/1979
From: Hendrie J
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To: Mcintyre J
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
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w AsHiN oroa, o.c. 20m November 8,1979 OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN T'.e Honorable James T. McIntyre, Director Office of Management and Budget Washington, D.C.

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Dear Mr. f!cIntyrc:

On March 30, 1979, the Comptroller General of the United States submitted a report entitled " Areas Around fluclear Facilities Should Be Better Prepared for Radiological Emergencies". One of the recommendations for the NRC in that report was:

"The Chairman, fluclear Regulatory Commission, should establish an emergency planning zone of about 10 miles around all nuclear power plants as recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency /fluclear Regulatory Commission Task Force, and require licensees to modify their emergency plans accordingly."

In my response to you on June 26, 1979, I stated that the Commission would give careful consideration to the recommendations of the flRC/ EPA Task Force Report.

I now wish to inform you that the Commission has accepted and endorses the guidance contained in the task force report and we have published a Federal Register ilotice announcing this endorsement (enclosure 1). We have directed the staff to begin to incorporate the guidance into existing documents and to incorporate it into a proposed new rule on emergency planning.

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/JosephM.Hendrie C Chairman

Enclosure:

As stated.

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