ML20181A685
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| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 06/27/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
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From:
Kevin Kamps <kevin@beyondnuclear.org>
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Saturday, June 27, 2020 10:11 PM To:
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[External_Sender] Beyond Nuclear public comment #8, re: NRC's Holtec/ELEA CISF DEIS, Docket ID NRC-2018-0052
Dear NRC Staff,
A colleague has spotted a significant error in the Overview attached to both the Holtec and the ISP/WCS NRC DEIS documents (ISP/WCS is a second CISF, targeted at west Texas, just 39 miles from Holtec's CISF in NM, according to Holtec's CEO, Krishna Singh):
Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) in Albuquerque, NM has pointed out:
"The Overview (like the Holtec one) again repeats the factual error that PFS's [Private Fuel Storage, LLC] license is terminated (page 4)."
Here is the false statement, as printed in NRC's Overview:
"The NRC previously licensed one other away-from-reactor dry cask spent fuel storage facility, called Private Fuel Storage (NUREG-1714); however, that facility was never built and the license was subsequently terminated." (emphasis added)
This is not true. The license was not subsequently terminated.
Thus, NRC's CISF DEIS Overviews, re: both the Holtec/ELEA and the ISP/WCS CISFs, are inaccurate as to NRC's own licensing decisions.
NRC made the same mistake in its Holtec/ELEA NM CISF DEIS summary/overview, first published on March 10, 2020, as it also has done in its ISP/WCS TX CISF DEIS summary/overview.
And the DEIS documents themselves do not state that the PFS license is terminated. So in that sense, the summaries/overviews contradict the DEIS documents, as well.
Significantly, if Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists, and the nuclear power utilities, were serious about these CISFs being entirely private, then why not use the license already rubber-stamped by NRC at PFS more than a decade ago? Why seek news CISF licenses at Holtec/ELEA in NM, and at ISP/WCS in TX?
Because the actual goal is to transfer title/ownership, and liability, onto the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) -- that is, federal taxpayers. Which is illegal, a violation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended. This illegality is at the heart of Beyond Nuclear's lawsuit against both CISFs. Don't Waste MI et al. (a seven-group national grassroots environmental coalition), Sierra Club, and Fasken Oil and Ranch, have also challenged this violation of the
NWPA represented by these CISF schemes, and NRC's complicity in them, in violation of federal laws like the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended, and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Not that Beyond Nuclear and our environmental and environmental justice allies think the PFS CISF targeting the Skull Valley Goshutes was or is a good idea. Quite the opposite. It was and is a dangerously bad idea, and an outrageous violation of environmental justice. Learn more about the environmental movement's successful resistance to the PFS CISF, a victory won in close solidarity and collaboration with Native American partners, including Skull Valley Goshute dump opponents Margene Bullcreek and Sammy Blackbear, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, and others, posted online at this link:
<http://archives.nirs.us/radwaste/scullvalley/skullvalley.htm>.
The following documentation shows that the PFS license was never terminated, as NRC Staff have falsely stated in their CISF DEIS Overviews:
PFS / NRC - Withdrawal Of License Termination Request.
ML14255A395 https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML14255A395 Document
Title:
Withdrawal of Termination Request of NRC licence SNM-2513 for Private Fuel Storage, LLC.
Document Type:
Letter Document Date:
09/12/2014 ML14265A030 https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML14265A030 Document
Title:
Letter To R. M. Palmberg re: Withdrawal Of License Termination Request.
Document Type:
Letter Document Date:
09/18/2014
Such glaring NRC Staff errors must be corrected in the Holtec/ELEA, as well as the ISP/WCS, CISF DEIS documentation packages, including the erroneous Overviews.
These comments are submitted on behalf of Beyond Nuclear's members and supporters in NM, TX, and across the U.S. along impacted transport routes.
Please acknowledge receipt of these comments. Thank you.
Sincerely, Kevin Kamps Radioactive Waste Specialist Beyond Nuclear 7304 Carroll Avenue, #182 Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 Cell: (240) 462-3216 kevin@beyondnuclear.org www.beyondnuclear.org Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abolish both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.
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