ML20126L642
| ML20126L642 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/21/1981 |
| From: | Drazen P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Alicia Dixon SENATE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8106050067 | |
| Download: ML20126L642 (1) | |
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/i 504 S. Wall, Apt. 228 Carbondale, IL 62901 March 21, 1931 Senator Alan Dixon Room 456 Rucsell Senate Office 31dg.
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Washington, DC 20510 Sonator'Dixon:
This is to express.my dissatisfaction with some rule changes proposed for the Nuclear Regulatory Cocmission.
Both these rules seem designed to bypass public hearings on whether certain nuclear plants can be built.
In the first case, the NRC is proposing a removal of the public's right of discovery.
By this measure, any public interest group opposed to the licensing & construction of a nuclear power plant has access to informa-tion about the plant, and can use this information to argue a case against the plant.
The elimination of right of discovery in effect would bypass the public will by denying the public information on which to prepare a cace.
While that proposal disenfranchises the public in effect, we would be disenfranchised in reality by the second proposal: a rule that would permit nuclear power plants to begin operating before a license has been granted.
This in itself is be* enough--if this rule is adop ted, we might as well no t arrest anyone who drives or hunts without a license--and it is a slap in the face of the rule of law.
Taken with the other proposal, it speaks of a willingness on the part of the current administration to govern by fiat,
. rather than by consultation with the governed.
Mr. Reagan's advocacy of nuclear power is well-known; what is not well-known, especially in light of the Three Mile Island incident and other les-cer accidents, is whether nuclear power is as safe as its proponents claim.
The proposed rule change would seem to want to settle the issue without examining the evidence.
It would be an unconscionable nove, and I ask you and your colleagues to speak out and vote against this proposal.
It's an insidious trend, short-circuiting government via the consent of the governed.
This is a principle wnich no administration should turn its back on, however big its "candate".
- Yours, l
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Patrick Drazen O
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