ML20031G944
| ML20031G944 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 10/19/1981 |
| From: | Eisenhut D, Novak T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Siffrinn F LOWER SWATARA TOWNSHIP, PA |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8110260252 | |
| Download: ML20031G944 (3) | |
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Dear Mr. Siffrinn:
This is in response to your l'etter of August 18, 1981 to President Reagan in which you present the views of the lower Swatara Township Board of Con-r..issieners on the restart of TNI-1.
As you undothtedly know, the Nuclear Regulatory Comission ordered that THI-l remair in a shutdown condition until further order of the Comission, and that a public hea:ing precede mstart. That hearing began on October 15, 1980 and the mcord was closed in June 1981. The record was subsequently reopened in Sept.eoter to take evidence on tha matter of cheating on licensing examinations by reactor operators. An initial decision on management issues by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board which conducted the hearing was issued in August 1981, and the initial decisit i is expected in the maainder of the issues in Noventer. The Comission is expected to act on restart after completion of the initial decision by the Board.
Parties to the hearing included several local, regional, and natioral organiza-tions, local individuals, a local political subdivision, and the Coanonwealth of Pennsylvania. During the hearing, issues appropriate to considerations of ptblic health and safety were addressed. Among these was whether TMI-l could safely operate during decontamination.ard/or mstoration operations at THI-2.
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releases from THI-2 decontamination operations have been tightly limited.
o The Board has not yet issued an initial decision on this matter.
gh With regard to psychological impacts of restarting TMI-1, the Comission care-o fully considered whether this should be an issue in the restart proceedings.
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Dear Mr. President:
The Lower Saatara Township board of Commissioners respectfully requests your attention and acknowledgment of the impending status of the Three Mile Island nuclear facility.
As you are aware Mr. President, General Public Utilit.Ts, prin-cipal owner and operator of the plant, is currently seeking a license from the Nuclear R3gulatory Commission to restart the Unit One reactor.
Unit One is the functionai and undamaged reactor which was taken off line shortly after the incident.
It is the opinion of the Board of Commissioners, duly elected representatives of the residents of Lower Swatara Township, that the Unit One reactor remain in an inactive statt until decontamination and cleanup operations are completed to the Unit Two reactor.
The physical
- and psychological impacts of the accident have yet to be determined.
Cleanup and deccatamination efforts are currently in process with pro-jections of three to five years cited for ultimate completion.
To date, one can only speculate on the environmental impacts that cleanup activities will have on the mid-state area.
Environmental safety and welfare of area residen.ts and posterity must be the foremost priority considered by government prior to the licensing and restart of Unit One.
To permit the restart of Unit One by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission represents a breach of faith and an acknowledgment by government that interests of the business community supersede those of the general pub-lic.
It is apparent the moral conscience of a societal majority has negligently been disregarded in order to advance the special interests of an esoteric few.
It is with profound respect of the democratic processes afforded us that the Township protests the proposed action presently contemplated by General Public Utilities and potentially sanctioned by the Nuclear "A First Elass Estunslip" "A Jirst Class Communitu" i
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As a matter of vital interest to the entire nation the Township appeals'for your support of an extremely sensitive and moralistic issue.
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