ML20059F186
| ML20059F186 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 01/03/1994 |
| From: | Tolk P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9401130187 | |
| Download: ML20059F186 (2) | |
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k January 3, 1994 Chief, Enrichment Branch Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Mail Stop 4-E-4 U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555
Dear sir or madam:
I am writing concerning the proposed Louisiana Energy Services (LES) uranium enrichment plant to be built near the communities of Forest Grove and Center Springs in rural Louisiana.
According to a recent Global Response report, the Draft Environ-mental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the project, which you released j
for public review on December 19, 1993, does not even-indicate j
the two communities of Forest Grove and Center Springs in any of its 38 maps and diagrams.
Only one reference to the two j
communities which stand to be most affected by LES is included j
in the DEIS's text.
Thus, I am concerned with the fact that 1
the DEIS fails to consider LES's plant's social and economic impact on the two communities.
One certainty is that this plan is quite ecologically destruc-tive.
Polluting water from the plant will be discharged into the Lake Claiborne watershed.
Also, when uranium hexafluoride (UF6) mixes with air, it creates toxic hydrogen fluoride.
40 homes within 5 miles of the facility depend on wells for their drinking water, and they are now threatened to acquire danger-ously contaminated water.
Moreover, a retirement community surrounds the shores of Lake Claiborne, and since many of these senior citizens are without transportation, there is concern j
about how quickly they can flee the area in the event of an accidental UF6 discharge.
I believe that this project also represents racism, because Forest Grove and Center Springs are both low-income, predom-g inantly African-American communities, and the safety and well-
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being of the citizens of these two communities has clearly been disregarded.
The LES plant will simply add to the over-
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'i All in all, I believe that the DEIS is incomplete; the final Environmental Impact Statement on LES must consider all the social and economic impacts of the two communities.
Meanwhile, I request that tha plans for the construction of the LES ura-nium enrichment p int be cancelled.
Thank you in advai.ce for considering the contents of this letter.
Sincerely, Peter Tolk 145 West 86th Street Apt. #2B New York, NY 10024 i
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