ML20151A674

Comment Opposing Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants Where State &/Or Local Govts Decline to Cooperate in Offsite Emergency Planning

ML20151A674
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	02/25/1987
From:	Boody P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, SOUTHAMPTON PRESS PUBLISHING CO., INC.
To:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-00063, 52FR6980-63, OL-3, NUDOCS 8807200084
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February 25, 1987 Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street Northwest Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Zech:

I am enclosing a copy of the Southampton Press editorial about the NRC's proposed rule cnange for your information. My hope is that it's good enough to help change some minds.

Sincerely, A b. M Peter B. Boody h ldp/ enc.

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d their reasons for voting as (ney oio. iney aeretreo m quemum m un schoot administrator, who'is supposed to be the 3hool Board's BE 1 employce.

The public has a real problem on its hands when its elected officials cannot or will not defend or even discuss important policy decisions in Suffox C'o '

" ** By Karl Grossmari ca*lm

• aa7l,==;g Public Be Damned y*Y't,s to1k t9 e Coptnt(suH

, he ,has fal The Shoreham crisis has gotten the Nuclear Regulatory Commission so balled up trying both to play by the rules and shepherd Shoreham other forms of discrimination have ed Just two days after the recent Kir.d into operation at the same time that it has finally thrown in the towel. memorauon, two black men were at'l To hell with the rules, to hell with all Shoreham's opponents, to hell in Deer Park by f a group of whites shi with the lessons of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, to hell with state ' Howard Beacht" and local government and t,he people of Suffolk County, We've got a j[waQ national. nuclear energy pobey to protect here. Get that damned plant The two black men, brothers, were d

• 'several times'before.they were bared on Iine.

Ever since the Three Mile Island near meltdown, the NRC lias played tllfyjh%e rdo '

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by the rule that a locally approved evacuation plan must be in place, before it will license a plant. The rule,seemed like a good idea because white m.en.1, :

ne two; blacks had tried to assist a no one. knew what they were'doing in the first hourt and even days of the Thtee Mile Istr. rid accident in 1979. After c!!, no one really had ever womart@

aw hsmworking in a cashier's two of the whites ha( boo believed there might be an accident at Three Mile Island or at any "

American nuclear plant ... why bother with a locally approved

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Charles eto e 3andall stun of g tsla Riverhead Thank Providence that the Three Mile Island accident wasn't any [rsn , , , ,n worse ... say, as bad as the Chernobyl mess. .

Colored Peopli,"describes the racial here as showggWyery Utue improv; New York State and Suffolk County have ruled after careful research People .s'aM there's not as that evacuation of the population near the Shoreham plant would be f utterly impossible in case of an accident. There are too many p'eople, jps%ayd n Ea ! nd r n too few roads (all heading tol ward a bottleneck) and water all around.' County for th*at matter. We're still fi the same ba'tues - no representa:

They will not itpprove an evacuation plan and say Shoreham should g overnment;3 housing an d emply never be allo,wed to open. r '

What happens? The.NRC announces it's had enough of this l*[*$ s,bght er o d ridiculous "locally approved evacuation plan" rule .. local and state county Migrant Health Program anl taking that tries to service the wrt governments are holding national nuclear energy policy hostage. So - Looo migrant farm laborers who y forget the rule; no locally approved evacuation plan is needed anymore. Suffolk - largely black and still et Government is supposed to be for the"people, not against them. The what has repeatedly and accurateh cahed "Twenueth century slavery.;

NRC, in trampling on its own reasonable rules, would argue that it's become locked trtto the nystem. tryir(

trying to serve all of the American people because they need a national m si never. succeeding) with their

' nucl:ar energy policy to keep their c,ountry strong. But the NRC is'not '* 8 supposed to be an administrative arm of the White House, Congress or c ["cMlg[Y/ hat p sNs 'r $

I any department of government with the pohey goal of promotmg shelter.

There are no blacks elected to j nuclear power. It's supposed to be an independent commission that ment officle in'Suffolk on the federal t' reviews nuclear projects on a case by case basis with an cyc to levels. No black is In a position eled providing for and protecting the public welfare. The country' needs a he o commission with that responsibility because nuclear power is so [s dg o E ( Cou t covers western suffolk. Despue t.i potentially dangerous, and distinguished record of Judge But something has gone very wrong. The NRC is a strident promoter t g of national nuclear policy and it is willing to sacrifice the safety of [l[ii[, gly %jrs Itj l d millions of people to see that pohey executed. . bench 1HE SOUTHAMPTON PRESS / FEBRUARY 12,1987 O

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Perp}exing Policy B f'.!

It may have been legal, but it was a move of questionable propriety k;h.),d[i.2..

k-k" when the Bri<'.gehampton School Board voted last fall to raise 1205.000 y!. 1 i

more througl taxation than voters had approved in June ... or 3292,000 mote than the amount they had rejected in May, when the a School Board's original 1986-8Tschool budget was turned down.

' News of the step, which failed because the Board of Cooperative i Educational Services didn't do.Bridgehampton's revised tax paperwork I  ;

in time, surfaced only last week. The vote went unreported when it >

a took. place in September, missed by the public and by reporters - -

perhaps because it was isolated from the rest of the board's resolutions on the evening's agenda, and put off until the end of the board's N4

. meeting. . 7

• When taxpayers vote on a school district budget, they are approving 60 or. disapproving the ' amount to be spent on running the system - not g how much will be raised through taxation to support the budget. All that is in Dux when budgets are drafted bcause tax assessments for the year aren't complete. So' technically speaking, the School Board did not "thwart the will of the voters" when it took news of an unexpr:tedly l

hialt final assessment figure as an opportunity to boost income without

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