ML20132B940
| ML20132B940 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 09/10/1985 |
| From: | Lyons D EMDMDLWS |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| OL, NUDOCS 8509260353 | |
| Download: ML20132B940 (1) | |
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301-229-0602 Landon Zech to September 1985 Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D. C.
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Dear Commissioner Zech,
Please do something to relieve the deadlock that has develeped around the licensing of LILCC's Shoreham plant.
This situation is creating a very damaging precedent for the regulation of nuclear energy in our country.
The Nuclear hegule. tory Cermission, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, and the Federal Emergency Management.
Administration are staffed by highly trained technicinns, enginse-rm, nr.d physicists.
These cottissions are ordained b? 'h: Ccngress of the United States to regulate and supervise the develop =ent of nuclear energy in this_ country.
But what has happened in Suffolk County, New York, is the turning topsy turvy of the authority structure.
Now local untrained politicians are taking the decisions they are not equiped to make.
By requiring an actual evacuation drill the lowest level of government has the greatest and final power with it's potential veto.
Great sums of money, tan power, time, and e=otional energy can not be spent on these vast projects, which then will be used or thrown away on the whim of some unoualified local people.
Our country can not progress into the 21st century with this type of decision making process.
Please do not permit decisions to be based on irrational fears and superstition.
~_ocal ooliticians can not succort a nuclear plant because they =ight lose some votes, and elections are usually won by narrow percentage cargins.
They need to be rescued from their dilemma.
The Federal Government needs to change the rules it set up.
If an actual evacuation drill is too difficult or too politically threatening to run, then experts at FEMA should deter =ine if the evacuation plan is feasible.
This determination could then be used to break the gridlock for everyone envolved.
FEMA has plans for areas of the country damaged by nuclear warfare and there are plans for the evacuation of Long Island in case of a hurricane, but none of these has had to go through public drills.
Please do not '.et the local politicians of Suffolk County turn the power structure of our country upside down.
Please do not let the Shoreham plant become a precedent that caused the ruination of an orderly development of electrical energy supply for our country.
[6 Sincerely, Pp 8509260353 850923,2
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