ML20199E192

Requests Implementation of Encl Resolution 211-Requesting Immediate Shutdown of Nuclear Reactors at Indian Point, Buchanan,Ny Adopted at 860506 Meeting

ML20199E192
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	06/17/1986
From:	Berger F ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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6675B, NUDOCS 8606230220
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The Legislature of Rockland County

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'J New City, New York 10956 June 17, 1986 KENNETH R ZEBROWSKI (914) 638-5100 Chairman FRAN BERGER Clerk Howard Denton, Director Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. ,

Re: Res. NO. 211 - Requesting the Immediate Shutdown of the Nuclear Reactors at Indian Point, Buchanan, New York

Dear Sir:

The attached resolution was adopted by the Legislature of Rockland County at its May 6, 1986 meeting.

We would appreciate your using your good offices to implement the intent of this resolution.

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I, the undersigned, Clerk to the legislature of the County of Rockland, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above is i an original resolution of nut-h I.egislature, duly adopted on the 6th day of MaY 1986 ,

ley a inajority of the members elcotcil to the I.cgislature while much Legislature was in regular session with a duly constituted quorum of memlmrs present and voting.

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IN WITNI:SS Will:lti:(it', I have hereunto set my hand and nffixed the corporate seal of said Legislature this dny of May in86 ,

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s Introduced by Hon. Isaac Goodfriend l Hon. Stanley Dworkin Hon. Edward Clark i As Amended Referral No. 6675B May 6, 1986 l

RESOLUTION NO. 211 OF 1986 REQUESTING THE IMMEDIATE SHUTDOWN OF THE NUCLEAR REACTORS AT INDIAN POINT, BUCHANAN, NEW YORK Reisman / Clark WHEREAS, the Legislature of Rockland County, heretofore, by Resolution No. 302 of 1983, requested the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to immediately and independently shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, and WHEREAS, the Legislature of Rockland County, by Resolution No. 389 of 1983, reaffirmed its intent that the Indian Point Power Plant cease operation until such time as the Rockland County Legislature approved a Radiological Evacuation Plan, and WHEREAS, the Legislature of Rockland County, on numerous occasions, has questioned the wisdom of operating the Indian Point nuclear reactors in the New York Metropolitan Area and has further questioned the viability of any evacuation plan, and WHEREAS, the Soviet Union, at its Chernobyl nuclear plant, is now experiencing the world's worst nuclear disaster, and WHEREAS, any nuclear reactor, such as the Indian Point reactor and the Chernobyl reactor, poses an imminent danger to the general populous, and

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WHEREAS, it would be in the best interests of the citizens of Rockland County if the Indian Point nuclear reactors were shut down so that they would no longer pose a danger to the lives and safety of the inhabitants of the New York Metropolitan

area, and WHEREAS, the nuclear catastrophe in the Soviet Union underscores the tremendous health hazard posed by the nuclear industry, as well as the potential loss of human lives and possible annihilation of mankind, and

/ WHEREAS, the Multi-Services committee of this Legislature

< has met, considered and unanimously approved this resolution,

, now, therefore, be it (continued on reverse side)

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Referral No. 6675 May 6, 1986 RESOLVED, that the Legislature of Rockland County hereby requests the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission to immediately require the cessation of operation of the Indian Point nuclear reactors located at Buchanan, New York, and be it further RESOLVED, that the Clerk to the Legislature of Rockland County be and she hereby is directed to send a copy of this resolution to the Hon. Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; Senators Alfonse D'Amato and Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Congressman Benjamin Gilman; the Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate and Houser the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and to such other persons as the Clerk,

! in her discretion, may feel proper to effectuate the purpose of this resolution.

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VOTE: AYES: 17 NAYS: 1-Murphy -

TEWII/bcm Absent:

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