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Comment Opposing Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans
ML20212G237
Person / Time
Site: Millstone  Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 09/12/1999
From:
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-64FR31737, RULE-PR-50 64FR31737-00069, NUDOCS 9909290170
Download: ML20212G237 (1)


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Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Comment PRM 50 63A Coa;ideJatsoa of Potassium lodide 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 exten'J the 10 mile emergency zone to include long Idand emergercy planning is of atreme interest to te residents of the East End.

I want to urge that the emergency planning regulation be amended to REQUIRE the availability of potassium iodide (K!) for the public in the event of nuclear accidents. The regulation as it is new 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 soould base the responsibility of seeing that potentially effected communities have loral stockp'les of potassium iodide. NRC's announced plan for regional stockpiling shou!d be arnended; 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 schocls,hospitats, fire, police and other municipal cer.ters.

There is no reason why the NRC shctld not make these changes. Yo c missien is to

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protect the public's heahh and safety. Please consider the people of Long Island who are not protected and wno canr.ot, given our topography cr.d highway system, evacuate in the case of if ,

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