ML20236W192
ML20236W192 | |
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Issue date: | 08/18/1987 |
From: | Malsch M NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC) |
To: | Chiles L SENATE |
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FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 NUDOCS 8712070323 | |
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3 : DOCKET NUMBER PR 50 f ongo UNITED STATES PROPOSED RULE (52 FR 698 O. / 8
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1 August. 18, 1987 S E QFFICE OF SECRETARY u0CKEilNG & SERVICf.
BRANCH The-Honorable Lawton Chiles Federal Building ;
Lakeland, Florida 33801-
Dear Senator Chiles:
Your constituent, Deborah'Schechner of Clearwater, has written to you with regard to a " plan to shrink, evacuation zone to.one mile-from ten," and you have asked the.NRC for its comments. a There-is no such NRC plan. The NRC in March proposed'a' change in its emergency planning rules to provide criteria for. evaluating
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a utility emergency plan in situations in'which states'and .
localities have declined to participate in' emergency planning.
That proposal did not involve the size of the emergency planning zone. At. roughly the same. time, an NRC Atomic Safety and '
Licensing Board was considering a request from aLutility to shrink its emergency planning zone-from ten miles to one. It rejected the proposal. l At least one nationally syndicated columnist apparently confused I the utility's proposal to shrink its emergency planning zone with the NRC's proposed emergency planning rules and. published a column which stated that the NRC was planning to change its rules to shrink emergency.planningLrules generically and-urged that readers write in opposition to.this purported. plan. -The result has been that many citizens have written'to the NRC, some of them attaching the column in question, to criticize'an NRC- .
proposal which does not exist and never did. l
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I trust that this is responsive to your constituent's concern. I Sincerely, 8712070323 870818 PDR PR 50 52FR6980 PDR Martin G. Malsch. ,
Deputy General Counsel-DS10: ;
add: p. Crane, H-1035 J. Lane, 266 puzt i
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