ML20247M003
| ML20247M003 | |
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| Site: | 07000025 |
| Issue date: | 09/15/1989 |
| From: | Hirsch D COMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP |
| To: | Bloch P Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| CON-#389-9190 2.206, ML, NUDOCS 8909250106 | |
| Download: ML20247M003 (2) | |
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COMMITTEE TO BRIDGETHE GAP i
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15 Septemhjr Ig8919 A9 :44 Administrative Judge Peter Bloch Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
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Washington, DC 20555 SERVED SEP 1 9 1989 Rockwell's Atomics International Facility Contested License Renewal Application J
DearJudge Bloch:
We have heard informally that you are to hold a hearing in Southem Califomia later this month regarding the application of Rockwell International for renewal ofits license to possess nuclear material at its Atomics International facility. We don't fully understand the purpose of the hearing, nor how it affects the rights of parties who wish there to be full evidentiary hearings regarding the Rockwell petition and wish to participate in such license renewal proceedings.
Our calls to NRC had indicated that petitions for such hearings and participation therein would not be appropriate until NRC had published an Environmental Assessment of the proposed action and published notice of the proposed action in the Federal Register.
We therefore have submitted a 10 CFR 2.206 petition, copy enclosed, and were awaiting notification that the EA was ready and petitions by groups such as ours would be j
appropriate.
We hereby request, therefore, that we be permitted to participate in the hearings you are to hold at the end of the month, whatever be there purpose in the larger context of the license renewal request. The Committee to Bridge the Gap is a non-profit organization, based for twenty years in Southern California, representing over 1000 people, many who live near the Atomics Intemational facility. CBG is the group which first brought to light the partial core meltdown which had occurred at the Atomics Intemational Santa Susana site in the 1950s and had been covered up, as well as numerous other accidents and spills which occurred since then. CBG was also the successful intervenor in the UCLA reactor license renewal proceeding, a reactor which was in the end not relicensed and is this month to have completed Phase I of dismantlement and decommissioning.
We are concerned about a number of issues about the proposed action. The licensee, Rockwell Intentional, has been accused by the Federal Department of Justice of numerous violations of criminal law, including illegal dumping and alteration or destruction of records. The State Department of Health has accused Rockwell of substantial contamination ofits Santa Susana site. There is an extraordinary history of leaks, spills, contamination episodes, and serious nuclear accidents by this licensee at this particular site already. The past practices of personnel traming and enticality control are extremely lax.
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We believe a full EIS is required by law for an activity with such obvious potential i
for impacting the envimnment. Full disclosure of all relevant documents via a complete and open public document room in the local area must also be arranged prior to commencement of the proceedings--the public has no way to meaningfully participate in such proceedings, put forward the appropriate contentions, and so on, until it has been provided full opportunity to examine the documentary evidence about the facility.
l We cannot at this stage, without review of that documentary basis, identify all of the concerns we have--criticality accidents, accidental releases, poor waste disposal practices, inadequate training, insufficient safeguards, etc. It is clear, however, that full evidentiary hearings, with the right to present and cross-examine witnesses,is necessary in a case such as this, where there is a clear record of regulatory and statutory violations, environmental contamination, accidents, and less than full disclosure of past problems.
We therefore respectfully request that we be permitted to participate fully in whatever proceeding you contemplate for the end of the month, and any subsequent hearings.
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Daniel Hirsch President cc: ecretary of Commission Docketing & Service Branch ASLAB R.T. Lancet, Rockwell Int'l, Canoga Park