ML19256B670
| ML19256B670 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 07/30/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Quigg C POLLUTION & ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, INC. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908210022 | |
| Download: ML19256B670 (3) | |
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JIJL 3 01979 Ms. Catherine Quigg, Research Director Pollution and Environmental Problems, Inc.
Box 309 Palatine, Illinois 60067
Dear Ms. Quigg:
This is in response to your letter dated June 22, 1979 to Dr. Hendrie which requested that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be prepared prior to the chemical decontamination of Dresden Nuclear Power Station Unit No. 1.
We are currently reviewing the need for such an impact statement for the decontamination as a result of a petition by Mrs. Kay Drey dated March 10, 1979.
A copy of our response to Mrs. Drey and the related Federal Register notice are enclosed for your information. Please be assured that the Dresden decontamination will not be started until the need for an Environmental Impact Statement is resolved.
We will provide you with copies of our decision on this matter when we have completed our review.
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h Harold R. Denten, Director Office, " Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Ms. Kay Drey 515 Pest Point Avenue t!niversity City, Missouri 6?l30 Decr fis. Drey:
This letter is sent to acknowledge r'eceipt of your petition dited -~ ~
,!'. arch 19.1979. askin': that cn Environmental Inpact Statenent be prepared on the pror,esed decor,tanination experinents at Dresden Muclear Power Station. Unit 1, designed to flush radioactive corrosion products from portions..f the facility's piping.
Your request is being treateri under the procedures specified in 10 CFP.
2.206 of the Cornission's regulations and accordingly, we will infor ynu of our decision on your reouest within a reasonable tine.
Enclosed for your information is a copy of the notice recarding your request that will be filed for publication with the Offico. of the rederal Register.
Si ncerely.
Original Signed By Roger S. Boyd llarold R. Denton Di tor Office of Nuclear Pet Regulation
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Hotice is hereby given that by petition of March 19, 1979, addressed to the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, among I
l-others, Kay Drey of University City, Missouri, requested that an Environ-mental Impact Statement be prepared on the proposed decontaaination
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experin:nts at the Dresden Nuclear Power Station, located in Gruridy County, Illinois, which are designed to flush radioactive corrosion products from portions of the facility's piping.
The petition is being treated as a request for action under 10 CFR.2.206 of the Commission's regulations, and accordingly, action will be taken on the petition within a reasonable time, p
A copy of the request is availrale for inspection in the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Stree., N. W., Washington, D. C.
20555cand at the local public document room for the Dresden Nuclear Power Station, located at Morris Public Library, 604 Liberty Street, Morris, Illinois 60451.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION i
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D:', Joseph Hendrie, Chairman JROBLEMS U.S. Nuclear Regula tory Commission Wa shing ton, D.C. 20555 Box 309
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Dear Dr. Hendrie:
IL 60067 The country 's first full-scale decontamination of a nuclear rea c tor will t ake place in Nor thern Illinois without benefit of an Environmental Impact Sta tement, u
unless the Nuclear Regula tory Commission quickly ac ts
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Dresden I rea c tor near Morris will presen ynew waste
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disposal problems, "the main one being the possible migration of radionuclides which could affect the groundwa ter. "
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are concerned that the solvent used to flush the crud out of Dresden may be chemically similar to, or even
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burial trenches and possibly into %e human food chain.
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flushing chemical, I appeal to you as Chairman of the
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission to assure the public t.% t this projec t will not endanger humans or their environ-ment.
A complete Environmental Impac t Sta tement in accordance wi th the National Environmental Pro tee tion Ac t (NEPA) is urgently needed.
For the safety and pro tection of the citizens of this country, I respectfully request your consideration of this profoundly serious sitdation with far-reaching ramific a tions.
Sincerely yours,
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