ML20056F042
| ML20056F042 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/09/1993 |
| From: | Gary R PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE FOR CLEAN AIR |
| To: | Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| ML20056F039 | List: |
| References | |
| 2.206, NUDOCS 9308250462 | |
| Download: ML20056F042 (2) | |
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221l Washington Avenue (#301), Silver Spring, MD 20910 Telephone: (301) 587-7147 1
Dr. Ivan Selin Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 4
Washington, DC 20555
Dear Dr. Selin,
PICA is very disappointed with the NRC.bgcause we filed an emergency 2.206 Request on July 10, 1992, NRC' promised to respond shortly after June 30, 1993, and now on July 6, 1993 I find out from talking to one of NRC's senior attorneys that no FEMA hasn't actually done a report and no one knows when and if they will actually get around to it.
Dr. Murley's letter to PICA of March 10, 1993 said, " FEMA expects to report the results of it assessment to the NRC by June 30, 1993. My decision in response to your request will be made as soon as practicable following receipt of FEMA's report."
PICA feels that it would be appropriate to shift the burden of the time delay, now that a year has gone by, and NRC doesn't know when they are going to be ready to respond. It would be fair and just to grant PICA's request in part by ordering TMI to power down it5 reactor pending the completion of the NRC's report. Time would now be on PICA's side instead of the licensee's. If FEMA wanted to take another year, or another ten years to do its investigation, PICA wouldn't complain. The time burden should, in all equity, be shifted when the lives of a third of Pennsylvania's people are on the line because the NRC, for any reason, hasn't been able to respond, in a year's time, to an d
emergency 2.206 Request.
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At a minimum' if it's just politically unfeasible to close that plant no matter what is fair, then the NRC should relieve FEMA of further responsibilities in this matter. First of all FEMA is responsible in part for the deplorable conditions it is being asked to investigate. No wonder the fox can't figure out what to say about where the missing chickens went. FEMA could take decades to come up with answers to unanswerable charges of neglect, incompetence, and poor judgment.
Second, it is clear that FEMA is NRC's agent in this matter.
I But a principle can't divest themselves of responsibility by pawning a matter off on an inactive agent. The NRC has unitary, absolute and undelegable responsibility to ensure that all l
nuclear power plants that are licensed to produce power are operated in a safe manner. A viable and reasonable and sane emergency evacuation plan is part of that responsibility -- which is undelegable. An emergency evacuation plan for a power plant 10.2 miles from a major city which fails to include. provisions to evacuate the people in that city, and which relies entirely on buses, and outdated plans with faulty contact numbers is not a viable, reasonable, and sane plan. The mayor of Harrisburg will i
support me on this -- as will the people.
Accordingly we hereby supplement our 10 CFR Section 2.206 Request with the following two points and request that they be dealt with on an emergency basis:
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(1) PICA would like the NRC to take this matter un at the Commissioners level forthwith. and to_ decide immediately if they will crant in oart PICA's Recuest by shiftina the time burden by powering down that plant on an interin basis.
- 12) At a minimum. PICA would like the NRC to take oygr the investigation and complete it with dispatch.
There are lives a stake here. If that plant site has another accident tomorrow and the people from the five surrounding counties have to be told to stay where they are, like last time, because there is no feasible evacuation plan, and an evacuation order would get people killed, then it won't matter who didn't write a report or what the report might have revealed, or what fixes in the preparedness might have been made. The day of reports will be over and the day of the atom will be upon us.
Sincerel Robert ary (
Senior Researcher for PICA, The Pennsylvania Institute for Clean Air 1
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