ML20195F093

Questions How There Can Be Enough Intervenors for Public Hearing Re Burial of Low Level Radioactive Sludge When Util Atty Petitions ASLBP to Reject Each Petitioner

ML20195F093
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	05/28/1986
From:	Angel J CITIZENS FOR LAND & WATER USE
To:	Hoyt H Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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CON-#286-417 ML, TAC-60875, NUDOCS 8606090349
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May 28, 1986 Helen.F. Hoyt, Escuire SERVED JUN $ jg"t Administrative Jucge Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission i

Washington, D.C. 20036 You have stated that a public hearing would be held concerning the burial of low level radioactive sludge at the Davis-Besse site in Port Clinton, Ohio if there were enough people requesting to intervene.

How can there be enough intervenors when the Toledo Edison Company attorneys in Washington, D.C. petition to you to reject, one by one, each petitioner?

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May 28, 1986 A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO THINK THEY RUN THE UNITED STATES:

The Russian newspaper Pravda, which means TRUTH, is printed by the State which feeds the people only what the Kremlin wants their people to believe.

In the United States, public brainwashing is more convoluted.

The United States has the Executive Branch, elected by the people; Congress, elected by the people and the Judiciary.

Secrecy, subterfuge and downright lying to the people concerning the dangers of nuclear radiation is usually accomplished in the United States'through Federally created Administrative Agencies, such as the Defense Department, the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, not to mention the special interests that control the created Federal Agencies.

Any of these agencies can hold public hearings to give the appearance of Democracy in action.

In the case of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Electric Power Plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave Davis-Besse permission to bury low level radioactive wastee in Navarre Marsh, the Davis-Besse site, without a public nearing, without any studies by the NRC.

We assume from the correspondence between Toledo Edison and the NRC that this on site disposal was arranged through this correspondence NRC accepted and by telephone alone, without any NRC on site studies.

Toledo Edison environmental reports on face value.

But someone read the Federal Register that documented this permission without a public hearing.

When learning of this on site buC.ial permission, a host of Ohio citizens objected to the on site disposal of low level radioactive wastes and demanded a hearing.

They wrote to Governor Celeste, asking him to request a public hearing.

As a registered voting citizen, if you have pertinent and valid comments to make at any one of these public hearings, you must meet all kinds of nit-picking qualifications before the unelected Government Agency will allow you freedom of speech to participate at the public hearing.

This procedure makes it hard to believe the United States is a Democracy.

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Mrs. James 81. Aagel. President 2084 Elber Ave. Cleveland. 0his 44107 216/221 1859 ESTABLISHED 1965 peces. Pseosrar

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A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO THINK THEY RUN THE UNITED STAitiS:

The Judiciary will be silent on these matters until citizens spend money to hire an attorney to fight for their Constitutional right of free speech.

For a citizen to have to resort to a court and have to pay a lawyer for what is a Constitutional right is a hypocrisy far worse than that in Russia.

The writer has been a full time volunteer environmentalist for twenty years.

The Toledo Edison Company, through its Washington,D.C.

attorneys, has just petitioned to have the NRC deny Citizens for Land and Water Use, Inc. permission to intervene on behalf of Lake Erie clean water and uncontaminated Lake Erie Walleye and Perch.

A job we have been doing for two decades.

Many other individuals and groups along Lake Erie, including the State of Ohio, are waiting for permission to intervene on behalf of the general welfare of the people and the State.

Can you imagine United States citizens waiting for one of the Federally appointed agencies to give us permission to speak at a public hearing, on behalf of our own welfare?

This threat to a United States Constitution guarantee to be heard is disgraceful and cannot be condoned.

I am sure that the special interests that pull the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's strings will go down in history as having such contempt for United States people and the United States Constitution that they knowingly denied the existence and dangers of nuclear radiation until the radiation problem was widespread.

The epitaph for the United States will read that the special interests also died from the effects of the unnatural nuclear radiation that they so cleverly persisted in proliferating.

copies to:

Governor Richard Celeste Congressman Mary Rose Oakar Congressman Edward Feighan Congressman Louis Stokes Congressman Dennis Eckart Congressman John Seiberling

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Suggested reading:

CLEVELAND, OHIO TELEPHONE 44107 221 1859 KILLING OUR OWN by Harvey Wasserman &

Norman Solomon URGENT