ML20236V003

Responds to Urging Commission to Defer Granting Low Power License for Plant Until FEMA Determines That Adequate & Workable Evacuation Plans in Place

ML20236V003
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	12/01/1987
From:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Rudman W SENATE
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OL, NUDOCS 8712040032
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%....) December 1, 1987 CHAIRMAN l

l The Honorable Warren B. Rudman United States Senate Washington, D. C. 20510

Dear Senator Rudman:

I am responding to your November 3, 1987 letter in which you urge the Commission to defer granting a license for low-power testing at the Seabrook Station in New Hampshire until FEMA has determined that adequate and workable evacuation plans are in place.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act and the Commission's own rules, the Commission's decisions in a contested licensing proceeding are made on the basis of the formal adjudicatory record. Because the subject you raise is at issue in a Commission adjudicatory proceeding, a copy of your letter has been served on all parties to that proceeding. A copy of your letter has also been placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

I am sure you will understand that the Commission cannot respor.d more fully at this time to the substance of veur concerns. The Commission's decision in this matter will be ce>dered on the formal record of the Seabrook proceeding. I c ? .i assure you, however, that in reaching this decision, the Commission's primary consideration will be protecting public health and safety.

Sincerely, b r f%4UV$4VJ. ,

Lando W. Ze/ , Jr.

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