ML20236F135

Press Release 87-136 Re Chairman Lw Zech Announcement of 871022 Public Meeting on Proposed Final Rule Changes Re Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power Plants

ML20236F135
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Issue date:	10/09/1987
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FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 PR-87-136, NUDOCS 8711020004
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[ l NRC SCHEDULES MEETING TO HEAR FROM ITS STAFF ON PROPOSED FINAL CHANGES IN EMERGENCY PLANNING RULE Chairman Lando W. Zech, Jr., of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced today that the Commission has scheduled a meeting on October 22 to be l briefed by its staff on proposed final rule changes involving offsite l emergency planning for nuclear power plants. The meeting, open to the public, will be held at 10 a.m. in the Commission's conference room at 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

Chairman Zech said the Commission will not vote at the October 22 meeting.

A voting session, which also will be public, will be scheduled later.

The NRC General Counsel's office, with the assistance of other NRC staff, is preparing an options paper for the Commission. That paper will be made 3 public before the October 22 meeting. The paper will include an analysis j i

of the public comments which have been received on the proposed rule.

About 11,500 comments were received on the proposal (about 5,400 in favor, about 5,600 opposed and 540 neutral coc .c.'s). In addition, petitions containing about 16,300 names have been received against the proposed rule change and about 27,000 form letters in opposition have been received.

In announcing plans for considec tion of the rule change, Chairman Zech  !

i said:

"On February 26 I announced that the Commission had decided to seek public

" coment on a proposed. rule change to deal with situations where a state or i l

local government chooses not to participate in the emergency planning process. The rule change, if approved, would add specific criteria applicable only in the circumstances where a state or local government will not participate in offsite emergency planning.

"The issue raised is one of national importance on which there are strongly

. held vieys. I would again emphasize that if the Commission were to approve the rule change, it should be recognized that if a state or local government elects not to participate in emergency planning, the Commission must still find with reasonable assurance that the public health and safety can be protected before issuing a full power license for a nuclear power plant r The preferred course of action most certainly is to have state and l 16 cal participation in emer.gency planning."

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