ML20212B976

Comment Supporting Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans.Urges That Emergency Planning Regulation Be Amended to Require Availability of Potassium Iodide for Public in Event of Nuclear Accidents

ML20212B976
Person / Time
Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	09/12/1999
From:	Booth S AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-64FR31737, RULE-PR-50, RULE-PRM-50-63A 64FR31737-00056, NUDOCS 9909210078
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September 12, 1999 i Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Comment PRM-50-63A Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans, Proposed Rule l

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 amended to REQUIRE the availability 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 include potassium iodide.." 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 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. '

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