ML19305D355

Forwards NRC 800328 Response to Congressman Yates Re Status of NRC Decision on Need for EIS Prior to Plant Decontamination.Nrc Treatment of Il Energy Alliance Concerns Is Inadequate.List of Concerns Encl

ML19305D355
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Site:	Dresden
Issue date:	04/07/1980
From:	Shineflug M ILLINOIS SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ILLINOIS SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE P.O. Box 469 Antioch, I!!inois 60002 Meetings:

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Room 370 Chicago, Illinois 60605 April 7, 1980 Dr. Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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Dear Dr. Denton,

Enclosed is a resconse to U.S. Representative Sidney Yates from Mr. William J.

Dircks, Acting Executive Director for Operations, regarding the status of the NRC decision on whether an Environmental Inpact Statement is needed prior to the decontanination of the Dresden I reactor near Morris, Illinois. Attached to this response, you will find an enclosure, " Discussion of the Concerns Expressed by the Illinois Safa Energy Alliance Related to the Dresden Unit I Decontanination."

While the NRC decision to consider the need for an EIS is laudable, this discussion of the ISEA's concerns is extremely inadequate. Only three concerns, apparently taken from our January 23,19S0 letter to members of the Illinois Con 6ressional delega-ion, are mentioned. The complete list of concerns, forwarded to Mr. Dennis Zieman on January 3,1980, includes twelve concrehensive Doints--see " Serious Unknowns

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Are Involved in Decentanination."3 A shorter version of these points was submitted as a " Petition for Hearings on Decontanination of Dresden I, Morris, Ill." on September 20, 1970 Your helt in assuring consideration of the more accurate enclosed list--

and therefore the more widespread implications of decontanination--is urgently needed.

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of reactor pipses. The esact coa-c ee*1d **e*tv* whde carrytes emal

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soliddaed into a vtoyi ester plastic Dresdee if the oss. of. state eifeo "specialinspections** seeme Lande. - tem and that the posenbtitty for sert..

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maaou samdar to th ts e f it wiu be difficult to establish the Commeewealth Edisse is plasaing carried ey even scaos amounte of what will be done with the.

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