ML20151Q011
| ML20151Q011 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Yankee Rowe |
| Issue date: | 07/07/1988 |
| From: | Conte S HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 8808100268 | |
| Download: ML20151Q011 (2) | |
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MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION COMMISSION BOARD OF REGENTS SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Mr. Lando Zech, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
I wrote to ycu in February to request that you respond to several questions brought to my attention by my constituent, Ms. Joy MacNulty.
In her letter, Ms. MacNulty expressed her concern regarding the availability of information pertaining to the Yankee Nuclear Power facility in Rowe, Massachusetts.
You provided me with a copy of your letter to Ms. MacNulty, and I appreciate the effort you made to address her concerns.
I have enclosed a letter sent to me by an associate of Ms.
MacNulty's, Mr. Larry Bogart.
As he states in his letter, Mr. Logart is concerned about the lack of records available at the repository library in Greenfield.
He is particularly concerned about the lack of information on file pertaini :g to the emergency evacuation exercises conducted in April of this year.
I would greatly appreciate your looking into all of Mr. Bogart's concerns, and your efforts to provide me with a thorough response to the questions Mr. Bogart poses in his letter.
Please forward your response to my Washington, D.C. office.
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Dear Congressman:
You may recall, we wrote you about the condition of the Greenfield Public
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Document Room of the NRC at the Community College, on YANKEE R0WE nuclear pl ant.
I believe you turned over our letter of complaint to Chairman Lando W. Zech, Commissioner, NRC.
We stated the Document Room was incomple ' and there was nobody to assist the public; his office responded that it was up to snuff, there was an 800 number, and personnel standing ready...
In developing complete official information, more than six months later, on the state of nuclear power plants in New England, we visited the document room yestercay and found there has been no information about the operation of the Rowe nuclear plant filed so far in this calendar year.
Two librarians were unable to find either current microfiche information or regular mimeo-graphed information sheets in the standard letter files, even thounh we consulted by 800 phone number with the main document room in Washington.
We are particularly interested in finding what there was on file about the recent Energency Evacuation Exercise April 26th.
Even though Ro.ve is a small nuclear reactor, by FEMA's regulations the 50-mile "ingestion pathway" area embraces portions of 4 states, large agri-cultural and diary milk sheds, and 700,000 people (1980 figures.)
There is no indication that any of these populations were aware of the emer-gency exercise.
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