ML19274A676
| ML19274A676 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/28/1980 |
| From: | Kline M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8005060204 | |
| Download: ML19274A676 (2) | |
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121 Conway Street Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013 April 28, 1980 Dr. Harold Denton Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
Dear Dr. Denton,
On April 9, 1980, you attended a meeting at the Cumberland County courthouse at which you spoke to a group of municipal officials from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. This meeting was arranged by Jake Myers, Chairman of the Commissioners of Cumberland County.
At this meeting, a petition was signed by twenty-three members of the group, calling for government action in the clean-up of unit 2 at Three Mile Island, and endorsing the venting of krypton-85 into the atmosphere.
What has troubled many members of the community here is that the officials who signed the pet.ition that was given to you at the conclusion of the meeting used their official titles. Commissioners Myers has been informed that we are concerned about the misrepresentation of the views of these people, and we have agreed that I should now write to you so as to inform you that those municipal officials were signing as individuals and not as represente.tives of their constituencies.
They in no way polled their constituencies, nor did they attempt to ascertain feeling about venting. Naturally, I am writing to inform you that there is great feeling in the community tMt other forms of g
disposing of the krypton other than venting should be tried.
I am also enclosing two editorials from local newspapers on the effect that your visit had. A closed meeting with officials at which opinions that are less than enlightened are voiced is not the kind of press that will be genera 7ed favorable to the NRC.
I am a member of Three Mile Island Alert, and I represent the opinion of that group as well as the feelings of many other persons in this area.
Sincerely yours, EChrQ0h.
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