ML20136A995
ML20136A995 | |
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Site: | 02700039 |
Issue date: | 06/07/1979 |
From: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
To: | Railsback T HOUSE OF REP. |
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FOIA-92-71 NUDOCS 7908070457 | |
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The Honorable Tom Railsback
- United States House of Representatives Wshington, D.C.
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Dear Congressman Railsback:
I am pleased to respond to your note of May 8,1979 enclosina a letter from your constituent Ms. Betty Ellis. Ms. Ellis expressed concern about the chealcal and nuclear waste disposal sites located near Sheffield, Illinois and operated by the Nuclear Engineering Company, Inc. (NECO).
(IEPA) regulates the Chemical site and questions about it should be addressed to that agency.
Your constituent should contact Mr. Joseph F.
Petrilli, Manager, Land Technical OHrations Section, Division of Land /
Noise Pollution Control Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, 2200 Churchill Road, Soringfield, Illinois 62706. We can address the low-level radioactive disposal site which we regulate.
Two points should help you respond to your constituent's concerns.
no radioactive wastes have been buried at the site since April 1978,First, Seednd, considerable ef forts are underway to evaluate and p the long-tern safety of the site.
in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Public Health, whichThe N owns the land containing the buried nuclear wastes, intend to assure that the site has been properly stabilized before the operator is allowed to leave.
for logng term monitoring and care at the site.Once the operator leaves, the The U.S. Geological Survey and the State are conducting Sn active field investigation program.
The NRC is supporting the work.
The NRC is also assessing the. site and intends to publish an environmental assessment covering wastes already buried.
The health and safety, social, and economic issues raised by Ms. Langford have already been identified by intervenors in an ongoing NRC licensing proceeding for the site.
are participating-in the proceeding which was initiated because ofA c planned continued operation and expansion of the nuclear site.
The operator has now withdrawn the application for license renewal and site expansion and request'ed that the licensing proceeding be terminated.
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e 2-The hearing board for the case has denied the applicant's mo, tion for termination of the proceeding but did grant the motions to withdraw and dismiss the portion of the application pertaining to exp'a'nsion of the site.
In the ceantir.e. all licensed capacity at the site has been filled and no burial of radioactiv6 wastes has taken place since April 1978.
For your inforration, although the operator had attempted to unilaterally terminate its license and abandon the site, on April 23, 1979, the operator signed an agreement with NRC. This agreement provides that the operator will carry out all site security, r.aintenance, and surveillance required by the license while the legal issues are settled administrative 1y.
We appreciate this opportunity to provide inforration on the Sheffield nuclear site.
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