ML20259A240

Comment (85) of Anonymous Individual on Behalf of Green Party of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area to Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project

ML20259A240
Person / Time
Site:	HI-STORE
Issue date:	09/10/2020
From:	Green Party of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area
To:	Caverly J Office of Administration, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
References
85FR16150 00085, NRC-2018-0052
Download: ML20259A240 (3)

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Page 1 of 2 SUNSI Review Complete Template = ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Jill Caverly As of: 9/15/20 10:07 AM COMMENT (85) Received: September 11, 2020 PUBLICATION DATE:

Status: Pending_Post PUBLIC SUBMISSION 3/20/2020 CITATION 85 FR 16150 Tracking No. 1k4-9iwm-pv4w Comments Due: September 22, 2020 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2018-0052 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Comment On: NRC-2018-0052-0376 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Document: NRC-2018-0052-DRAFT-0394 Comment on FR Doc # 2020-17536 Submitter Information Name: Anonymous Anonymous Organization: Green Party of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area General Comment See attached file(s)

The Green Party of the Albuquerque Metro Area (GPAMA) has serious reservations about the draft environmental impact statement issued for the proposed facility in Lea County. Lea County officials are on record as supporting the proposed facility and claim that it is a local issue. However, given the transportation across 129 routes, including many states as well as New Mexico counties, and a history of dubious cask safety, it is definitely a larger safety issue, and not restricted to New Mexico.

The contracting company, Holtec, wants the taxpayers to assume the responsibility for safety risk and wants the federal government to take on transportation to their proposed site. The location of the proposed waste storage plant is in the Permian Basin where much recent drilling for oil and gas has occurred. The drilling

("boreholes" )and its new technologies produce fundamentally unstable conditions which result in future increased accident risks for the new facility. Unanticipated events such as this lead not only to environmental degradation but also to a greater chance of harm to humans. The unproved beneficial economic claims can not counterbalance the negative effects to public health and environmental well-being.

GPAMA recommends that future decisions about the plant take place at the state rather than the county level and that the public have ample chance to offer their comments.

Attachments https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=0900006484854e23&format=xml&showorig=false 09/15/2020

Page 2 of 2 EIS statement from GPAMA https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=0900006484854e23&format=xml&showorig=false 09/15/2020

Green Party of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (GPAMA)

P. O. Box 40033 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196 10 September 2020 Jill Caverly Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington DC 20555-0001 Re: NRC-2018-0052-0001, draft EIS for proposed Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel The Green Party of the Albuquerque Metro Area (GPAMA) has serious reservations about the draft environmental impact statement issued for the proposed facility in Lea County.

Lea County officials are on record as supporting the proposed facility and claim that it is a local issue. However, given the transportation across 129 routes, including many states as well as New Mexico counties, and a history of dubious cask safety, it is definitely a larger safety issue, and not restricted to New Mexico.

The contracting company, Holtec, wants the taxpayers to assume the responsibility for safety risk and wants the federal government to take on transportation to their proposed site.

The location of the proposed waste storage plant is in the Permian Basin where much recent drilling for oil and gas has occurred. The drilling (boreholes )and its new technologies produce fundamentally unstable conditions which result in future increased accident risks for the new facility. Unanticipated events such as this lead not only to environmental degradation but also to a greater chance of harm to humans. The unproved beneficial economic claims can not counterbalance the negative effects to public health and environmental well-being.

GPAMA recommends that future decisions about the plant take place at the state rather than the county level and that the public have ample chance to offer their comments.

greenparty.abqmetro@gmail.com 505.750.2708 gpabqmetro.org