ML19253A891
| ML19253A891 | |
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| Issue date: | 07/17/1979 |
| From: | Ryan R NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP) |
| To: | Riley R SOUTH CAROLINA, STATE OF |
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%% y July 17, 1979 The Honorable Richard Riley Governor of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29211
Dear Governor Riley:
The Nuclear Regulatory Cornission (NRC) has been engaged in the develop-ment of a more er.plicit policy for nuclear facility decommissioning.
In September 1978 w.
held a set of regdenal workshops to review with State officials the sp cifics of the NRC plan.
In response to the comments, the plan was modified.
h"JREC-0436, Revision #1 was issued in December 1978 and sent to all the States for comment.
A followup set of wcrkshops to discuss technical studies completed since last year, a preliminary draft of a generic enviremental impact statement, and draft proposed rule chanc.cs, will be held on September 12-14, C.clumbia, South Carolina and September 25-27, Seattle, Washington.
An agenda'is enclosed.
I invite you to designate representatives from ycur staff and from appropriate State agencies to participate in these workshops.
We hope that knowledgeable participation would come from the areas of radiation control, environmental protection, power plant siting authorities, land use policy, and if possible, the attorney general's cffice.
I ask that you designate three individuals to represent your State. You may, of course, send others as observers.
In the event that there are budgetary difficulties, some funds may be available for travel.
I am also sending letters of invitation to the leadership of the State legislature and the public utility regulatory group.
A list of the State's attendees at the September 1978 workshop is enclosed.
We have had suggestions at the previous workshops that it would be useful for the participants to tour a nuclear facility prior to discussing any new NRC proposed regulations or guidelines.
The attendees generally agreed that such a tour would give the participants a better perspective of what would be entailed in deconcissicning these facilities.
Over the past few months we have polled the participants of the September 1978 workshops to see if there was still interest in taking a tour prior to this workshop.
But the response was geographically divided.
There was a continued interest from those partic-
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ipants who would go to the workshep in Columbia, South Carolina.
Hence, we haec arranged for a formal tour on September 11 of Su rer I, a nuclear power plant under censtruction, and the low-level burial ground in Barnwell, South, Carolina.
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. Surprisingly, there was little interest in a tour of ihnford from those States that would participate in the Se:ttic worksheps.
'nie r e f o re, we are not conducting a fernal tour.
t'e have, however, made arrangements with the Richland Operations Office of the Department of Energy to provide a tour if some of the participants went to travel to Hanford on September 23 for a tour on September 24 They would have to return to Scattle on tfie evening of the 24th in order to be available for the start of the workshop, on the following morning.
Another suggestion that came out of our Septe ber 1978 vor'< shops was that each State's representatives to the next workshop have the opportunity to caucus hofore coming to the workchop.
The purpose of the caucue unuld he to develop the State's position on the issues that will be discussed.
I suppcrt this idea an3 will provide you or your designated representative with the appropriate information in advance of the meeting.
I would appreciate it if you would designate your State's representatives, their positions, addresses and telephone numbers and notify the contracter who is providing support for the workshop: Ms. Sharon Tnompson-Cohen, PEER Consultants, Inc., 1160 Rockville Pike, Suite 202, Rockville, Maryland 20852, (301) 340-7990.
So that we can make the neccesary travel and tour arrangements, we need to know who your representatives are by July 27.
I am enclosing background material on the issues to be discusseu.
Sincerely,
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Ryan, Di re t't o r Office of State Programs
Enclosures:
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Agenda 2.
Background Statement 3.
State Attendee List cc: Dr. Lamar Priester, Jr.
Office.cf Energy Resources P00R ORIEL s u s2