ML19210D599
| ML19210D599 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 11/08/1979 |
| From: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Hart G SENATE, ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC WORKS |
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| NUDOCS 7911270368 | |
| Download: ML19210D599 (1) | |
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-h,0f) S NUCLE AR REGULATORY COMMISSION Q 'Qi}[ < 5 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20555 g '- r g-flovember 8, 1979 OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable Gary Hart, Chairman Subcommittee on fluclear Regulation Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate Washington, D.C.
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Dear fir. Chairman:
On flarch 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 flRC 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 /ituclear 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 fiRC/ 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 flotice 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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Enclosure:
As stated.
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