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Responds to to Chairman Hendrie Expressing Concern About Release of Water from TMI Nuclear Power Plant to Susquehanna River.Assures of Thorough Safety Review, Environ Assessment & Consideration of Public Health
ML20136B167
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Issue date: 06/15/1979
From: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Wohlsen A
PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONWEALTH OF
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