ML20236E795
| ML20236E795 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 07/27/1987 |
| From: | Logrande M SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY |
| To: | Bernthal F, Roberts T, Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| CON-#387-4120 OL, NUDOCS 8708030092 | |
| Download: ML20236E795 (2) | |
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SUFFOLK COUNTY EXECUTIVE SERVED JUL 2 819 July 27, 1987 Lando W.
- Zech, Jr., Chairman Commissioner Frederick M.
Bernthal Commissioner Thomas M. Roberts Commissioner Kenneth M. Carr U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissior.
1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commission:
I am informed that today attorneys for Suffolk County <
are filing with the Commission 3 response in opposition to LILCO's most recent filing related to its 25% power motion.
And also on this date, many elected officials and citizens of Long Island are traveling to Washington D.C.,
to let the Federal Government know that.the proposed changes to the NRC's emergency planning rules are a bad idea. -- a step back f rom safety.
It is incredible to me that circumstances could have degenerated to this level.
The Long Island Lighting Company does not satisfy the NRC's regulations -- that is plain for everyone to see.
And the reason is also-plain; it is because a mistake was made in building Shoreham in the first place at a location where the population cannot be protected if there were a serious accident.
In these - circumstances, it is clear that I
adequate emergency preparedness is not possible on Long Island.
Since LILCO doesn't satisfy the regulations, its application ' for an operating
- license, in the normal course, should have been denied.
That is what the NRC's rules and the Atomic Energy Act contemplate,
- indeed, mandate.
But that l
hasn't occurred here.
Instead, we are now confronted with l
another LILCO request for a special unprecedented favor a
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in its rules in a thinly-disguised plan to try and get around tPc lawful exercise of police powers by State and local governments.
And the unnecessary costs associated with the j
improper prolongment of the Shoreham proceeding keep getting l
passed along to the ratepayers.
- Indeed, the Long Island l
resident is paying thes-costs twice; once as ratepayers defraying the ccsts associated with LILCO's application and once as taxpayers paying the costs associated with the need to defend against these repetitive applications.
The Commission has lost sight of its responsi-bil i'cies.
It is supposed to regulate nuclear
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promote the self-interest of a utility at the expense of State i
and local governments and their citizens.
It is time for the l
Commission simply to apply its existing rules:
forget the misguided rule changa; reject LILCO's latest request for a
favor; and, once and for all, deny LILCO's operating license application.
This would be an action in furtherance of safety and integrity.
We in New York State are prepared to deal with the economic issues resulting from Shoreham's abandonment.
We also are dealing with power supply issues.
These are matters in which the Commission has no expertise and which are properly left to the State and local govenrments.
The Commission's job is simply to apply faithfully its regulatory requirements.
This compels a final HQ on Shoreham, I
ery truly yours, t
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Michael A. L Grande Suffolk County Executive MAL:gaf cc:
Honorable Ronald Reagan, president of the United States Public Service Commission of the State of New York l
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