ML20207H913

Comment on Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Eps.Urges That EP Regulation Be Amended to Require Availability of Potassium Iodide for Public in Event of Nuclear Accident

ML20207H913
Person / Time
Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	09/12/1999
From:	Scott A AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-34FR31737, FRN-64FR31737, RULE-PR-50 64FR31737-00043, NUDOCS 9909160096
Download: ML20207H913 (1)

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DOCKETED US?RC 99 SEP 15 P3 :28 September 12,1999 OU rh 1:

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Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission DOCKET NUMBER Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Washington, D.C. 20555 PROPOSED RULEIS 60

((A!FR5/737)

Re: Comment PRM-50-63A Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans, Proposed Rule

Dear Madame Secretary,

Since Sag Harbor is less than 20 miles from the Millstone Nuclear Plant in Waterford, Conn., and since the NRC has refused to extend the 10 mile emergency zone to include Long Island emergency planning is of extreme interest to the residents of the East End.

I want to urge that the emergency planning regulation be amende . REQUIRE the availability of potassium iodide (KI) for the public in the event of r 2r accidents. The regulation as it is now worded... " the proposed rule would require CONSIDERATION shall be given to include potassium iodide.." has no teeth and must be enanged.

The nuclea'r industry should bear the cost; government agencies should have the responsibility of seeing that potentially effected communities have local stockpiles of potassium iodide. NRC's announced plan for regional stockpiling should be amended; local stockpiling is necessary to make the distribution of KI possible in an emergency; KI is not effective after six hours- it must be stockpiled in schools, hospitals, fire, police and other municipal centers.

There is no reason why the NRC should not make these changes. Your mission is to protect the public's health and safety. Please consider the people of Long Island who are not protected and who cannot, given our topography and highway system, evacuate in the case of an accident at Millstone.

Sincerel yours,

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