ML20212G099
| ML20212G099 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/22/1986 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| References | |
| FRN-51FR47025, RULE-PRM-50-46 PR-861222, NUDOCS 8701120271 | |
| Download: ML20212G099 (3) | |
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State of Maine; Filing of Petition for Rulemaking 'N AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Comission.
ACTION: Notice of Receipt of Petition for Rulemaking.
SUMMARY
- The Comission is publishing for public coment this notice of receipt of a petition for rulemaking dated October 14, 1986, which was filed with the Comission by the State of Maine. The petition was docketed by the Comission on October 17, 1986, and has been assigned Docket No. PRM-50-46.
The petitioner requests that the Comission amend its regulations in three areas pertaining to emergency planning.
DATE: Submit coments by March 2, 1987 . Coments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given except as to coments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Submit coments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Decketing and Service Branch.
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For a copy of the petition write: Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, 4000 MNBB, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, DC 20555.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael T. Lesar, Acting Chief, Rules and Procedures Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Telephone: (301) 492-7086 or Toll Free (800) 368-5642.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Grounds for the petition In support of the three areas that the petitioner requested be amended, the petitioner offers that under $50.47(c)(2), the plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone is generally about 10 miles in radius and the emergency planning zone for the ingestion pathway is an area about 50 miles in radius. The petitioner states that as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Russia evacuated roughly 135,000 people within a 19-mile radius around Chernobyl, and that the fallout from the accident reached all over Europe, contaminating crops, milk, and animals.
The petitioner further states that, notwithstanding Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the nuclear industry has argued, in recent discussions in the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, that a 2-mile emergency planning zone is sufficient for evacuation purposes.
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II. Proposed Amendments to 10 CFR Part 50 The petitioner proposes that 650.47 be amended to--
- 1. Expand both the emergency planning zone for the plume exposure pathway and for the ingestion pathway;
- 2. Require that emergency planning be done before any construction of a nuclear facility is permitted and that the governor or governors of any affected State approve the emergency plans as a precondition to construction; and
- 3. Require that offsite emergency preparedness findings be made before any fuel loading and/or Inw power operations are permitted.
Dated at Washington, DC this ~2Ad day of b M 1986.
Fo the Nucle Regulatory Commission.
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Samuel J. Chi Secretary of the Commission.
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