ML19330C006
| ML19330C006 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/22/1980 |
| From: | Wilson W AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 8008070412 | |
| Download: ML19330C006 (2) | |
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ll:rbert 11.?!ard,213 Oldfield Point Circle, Elkton, M:.ryland 21921, t:lephone 398-2141 jirst vice president a
William G. Wilson /$q%f'Riva Road,15 A Annapolis, Maryland 21401, telephone 2 second ricepresideni h?
' ** j Ajax Eastman,112 East Lake Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, telephone 323-2999
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torresponding secretary Mary Ridgely Lang,303 Kennard Avenue, Edgewood, Maryland 21040, telephone 679-9119 recording secretary
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treasurer Larry Dietrich,902 IIolgate Drive, Essex, Maryland 21221, telephone 391-5107 MARYLAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL July 22, 1980 Dr. Bernard J. Enyder Program Director Three Mile Island Program Office U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Dear Dr. Snyder:
I recently received a copy of the May 28, 1980, letter from Harold Denton to Herman Dieckamp, President of General Public Utilities, and Robert C. Arnold, Senior Vice President of Metropolitan Edison Company, in which he puts them on notice that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (URC) has not given approval to the Submerged Domineralizer System (SDS).
Since you are the Program Director responsible for the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements concerned with Three Mile Island decon-tamination efforts, I am sure that you had a hand in drafting Mr. Denton's letter.
As a conservation organization which adopted a resolution (copy enclosed) November 17, 1979, calling for an Environmental Impact Statement before radioactive discharges be allowed at Three Mile Island, we appreciate the insistence of NRC that the PEIS be completed and taken seriously before approval is given for an industry-proposed alternative.
Although the press has indicated that Metropolitan Edison has spent 38 million on its SDS, the Maryland Conservation Council thinks that all of the potential impacts on Maryland's environment and the health of its citizens should be assessed before the NRC commits itself to a cource of action.
In short, we salute NRC for the cauticn and judgenent that you and other NRC officials, as well as the Commissioners, are displaying in this difficult matter.
Also, thank you for keeping me on your distribution list for the Environemtal Assessments and other NRC Staff Reports emanating from your Office.
enc.: 1 Very truly yours, U M d4, [. [L.7 (4 d 1, n
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Herbert H. Ward,213 Oldfictd Point Circle Elkton, Maryland 21921, telephone 398-214I jfrst vice president William G. Wilson,2754 Riva Road,15 A, Annapolis, Maryland 21401, telephone 224 2397 second vice president
- j Ajax Eastrnan,112 East lake Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, telephone 323-2999 corresponding secretary Mary Ridgely lang,303 Kennard Avenue, Edgewood, Maryland 21040, telephone 679-9119 recording secretary
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aressurer Larry Dietrich,902 Holgate Drive, Essex, Maryland 21221, telephone 391-5107 MARYLAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON RADIOACTIVE DISCHARGES November 17, 1979 I
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. Whereas radioactive discharges from the damaged reactor at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant pose a potential hazard to persons and aquatic organisms downstream because they threaten drinking water sup-lies; food fisheries; and the integrity of the Bay ecosystem; Therefore be it Resolved that the Maryland Conservation Council request the Governor of the State of Maryland to obtain immediate writ-ten assurances from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that no contam-inated discharges will be permitted without prior preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement and full adjudicatory hearings in which the State of Maryland intervenes as an interested party, and that if such assurances are not immediately forthcoming or such discharges occur, that the Governor direct the Attorney General to seek an injunction to prohibit any such discharges.
Be it further Resolved that the Maryland Conservation Council re-quest that the Governor require that the said Environmental Impact State-ment address the effects of radioactive discharges on the acuatic environ-ment, alternate methods of waste water decontamination other than Epicor II, alternate methods of waste water disposal including but not limited to solidification in cement, and the possible cement shutdown of the dam-aged reactor.
Be it further Resolved that the Maryland Conservation Council ask the Governor to require that the existin? monitoring and sampling program at Three Mile Island be expanded to include independent scientific personnel.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of the Maryland Conservation Council, Inc., at its meeting at Oxford, Maryland, Saturday, November 17, 1979.
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