ML20151B199

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

ML20151B199
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	02/24/1987
From:	Frank B AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-00094, 52FR6980-94, NUDOCS 8807200287
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' I appreciate the chance to submit this statment to the NRC. I: ~

understand the frustration felt by the builders of the Seabrook , 3 Nuclear Plant, and of other nuclear plants, who have encountered ~, a

-J governors who insist on carrying out the intent of the law and acccupanying regulations with regard to evacuation plans and other matters of safety. It sees to me unfair for those who disagree with the governors to blame them for taking seriously their

! responsibilities to protect the interest of their citizens.

Governors Dukakis and Cucao are not responsible for decisions made by others to put nuclear plants in places which make evacuation of the sort envisioned in the existing regulatory scheme virtually ,

impo ssibl e. And I do not tmderstand why they should be criticized for pointing out the difficulties that have resulted frca the siting decisions made by others. For the NRC to respond to the position of these and other governors by eliminating a state role in the preparation of adequate evacuation plans and other safety matters would be a very grave error. The NRC ought not to adopt a policy of punishing the messengers who bring the bad news that evacuation of the sort envisioned in the law when it was adopted are either impossible i

or extraordinarily difficult given the incorrect siting decisions of

' certain nuclear plants.

It would be particularly ironio if the national administration that has professed its concern with the rights of the states were to punish

• governors for their refusal to pretend that evacuation of large l

ntabers of people frca very congested areas was possible in sittistions when everyone knows it is not.

l I hope you will not prcaulgate a policy which would result in such an l irony.

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