ML20211P554

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Comment Supporting Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Planning
ML20211P554
Person / Time
Site: Millstone  Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 09/13/1999
From: Justin V
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-64FR31737, RULE-PR-50 64FR31737-00029, NUDOCS 9909140034
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l Sep-13-99 09:55A Volerio Justin 516-725-5263 P.01 SEP 1 All :02 COALITION OF NElGHBORHOODS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SAG HARBOR CmZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE To THE TOWNS OF SOuTHAMPTON AND (AST HAMPToN

. PO Box 2143 . Sag Harbor . New Yorit 11963

  • Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 00CKET NUMBERnn Att: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff PROPOSED RULE rn $ Washington,D.C. 20555 (WfR3/73 7) Re: Comment PRM-50-63A. Considerationof Potassium lodide in Emergency Plans, Proposed Rule

Dear Madame Secretary,

Our organization is a Coalition of more than 20 neighborhoods working together on mutual issues. Our Newsletter goes out 10 times a year to 500 homes and organiz-ations. 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 male emergency zone to include Long Island emergency planning is of extreme interest to our memembers.

We want to urge that the emergency planning regulation be amended to REQUIRE the avilability of potassium iodide (KI) for the public in the event of nuclear accidents. The regulation as it is now worded ..."the proposed rule would require that CONSIDERATION shall be given to including potassium lodide..." has no teeth and must be changed.

The nuclear 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 K! 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 f 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 l~

at Millstone. Fj n v Sincerely Valerie Justin, Issue anager for Millstone 9909140034 990913 PDR PR 50 64FR31737 PDR