ML20127J632
| ML20127J632 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 05/12/1969 |
| From: | Levander H MINNESOTA, STATE OF |
| To: | Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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'c Mr. Glenn T. Scabor0, Chairman
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20545 Decr Mr. Scabor;;t Thio is to infor you that tho Minnecota Pollution Control Accacy today iccued a par =it cctting the c=iccion etendards with which Northorn States Pouer Co=-
peny vould hava to comply to operato a nuclear poucr plant ct Monticello, Minnesota.
Tho:c reculation: arc considerably more rcotrictivo than standards cet by the Atomic Encrcy Co:::iccion. Our Agency is entrcnoly ocnaitivo to unintainin Minnesota's reputation for clear cir and purc unter, which con tituto our most valuchle natural recource. The position of the Stato of Minnesota with respect to the Monticello Ocncreting plant, in effect, limits radioactiva dischar0c to cbout 1/50th the level alloucd by cho Atc. This decision uns = ado only after
=cny coaths of study, revicu by profeccional con uitanto, and in-dopth discussion.
Ec.:: ace the AEC una cuaro before Iuy 12 that regulations atrictor than your can ucre likely to be impoced, and if, as you c1 cia, the AEC has prec=pted the nuc1 car field, I uould have enticipated that J.EC uculd h:vo acted affir=stively to acecrt ycur enclusiva juri= diction beforc our Acency actod. Not having dono so, I hopa that you vill now cupport our Aconey's cetion.
The AEC rcpresentatives stated at the Iby 12 hearing that only a construction per=1t had boon iccued US? by the Aao=ic Enorgy Co==iccion and that en operating por=it will still need icsuanco..
I nou cincorcly urco that the AEC not iccuo any operating permit for nuclear poner concration in the Stato of Minnesota uhich docs not rcepect the stringent regulations the Stato Pollution Control Agoney requirca.
Uc cro =cet hopeful that tha*ACO vill concede that reculstion: moro stringent than thoco dc=anded by tho Federal agency cca only result in greater cafety to tha health and volfaro of tho peoplo of Minnacots and to the continued escollcat condition of our natural resourecs.
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6 Enrold LoVcador uL:rh coynnuoa Rec'd Off. D'r. of Red cc: Hon. Chet Holifield, Chair = n Date J /N@
Joint Cc==. on Atomic Encray sd. Harold Prica, Director of Time N 'Mo
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