ML20147F555
| ML20147F555 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Shoreham, Barnwell File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/16/1987 |
| From: | Johnson O, Lack J, Lavalle K, Marino R, Trunzo C NEW YORK, STATE OF |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| CON-#188-4929 OL-3, NUDOCS 8801210356 | |
| Download: ML20147F555 (2) | |
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Dear Chairman Zech:
We are writing to express our collective disappointment with the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to adopt the rules change whereby the licensing of nuclear power plants will henceforth be permitted without the participation of state and local governments in emergency evacuation planning.
We further strenuously protest the ancillary decision by the NRC to presume that state and local governments will respond and lend their police powers in the event of an actual nuclear emergency in a manner prescribed in a utility-devised evacuation plan.
These decisions by the NRC represent a blatant bias by the Commission in favor of the nuclear power industry, and a blatant disregard for the lawful police function of state and local government and for the primary responsibility of those gevernmental jurisdictions closest to the people to protect the public health and safety.
In the case of the Shoreham nuclear power plant on Long Island, the NRC misses the point entirely in this regulatory slight-of-hand.
The state cad local governments have refused to participate in an emergency evacuation plan because a timely evacuation in the event of a serious nuclear accident is impossible!
No amount of hearings or redrawing of paper evacuation plans by LILCO or its consultants will change that unalterable fact.
State and local officials have acted honestly and honorably in refusing to lend credence to an unworkable plan.
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November 16, 1987 page 2 You have erred se'tiously in easing the rules to permit the licensure of nuclear power plants.
We urge you and your fellow Commissioners not to err again.
Do not license a plant that cannot be evacuated safely and quickly if a major nuclear accident were to occur.
We request that the NRC place the health and safety of the people who we represent, our neighbors, our families, the citizens of this County first and foremost.
We assure you that we and our colleagues at both the state and county levels of government remain adamant in our opposition to the licensure of the Shoreham plant and our commitment to see that it never opens.
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