ML20267A175

Comment (105) from Lonnie Clark on Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project

ML20267A175
Person / Time
Site:	HI-STORE
Issue date:	09/23/2020
From:	Lisa Clark - No Known Affiliation
To:	Office of Administration
References
85FR16150 00105, NRC-2019-0052
Download: ML20267A175 (2)

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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 9/23/20 8:08 AM Received: September 22, 2020 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. kfe-i1wd-idbq 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-0413 Comment on FR Doc # 2020-17536 Submitter Information Name: Lonnie Clark Address:

Salem, OR, 97301 Email: nutzforart@gmail.com General Comment I OPPOSE this project because it violates the law, it violates the objective of keeping Americans safe and Holtec is 100% unqualified for this activity.

The proposed project violates the principle of consent-based siting, because New Mexico does not consent to it. It states: We join the All Pueblo Council of Governors, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, more than a dozen county and city governments, the Alliance for Environmental Strategies, the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, the Permian Basin Coalition of Land & Royalty Owners and Operators, the Nuclear Issues Study Group, and the more than 30,000 residents who commented during the NRC's 2018 environmental scoping period in vehemently opposing bringing the nations high level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants through our communities to New Mexico.

Further, Under current U.S. law, this project is illegal. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended, does not allow the federal government to take title to the high-level radioactive waste (commercial irradiated nuclear fuel) a permanent geologic repository has opened. So the federal government cannot pay for transportation and storage of the waste as Holtec wants. Legally, the license cannot be issued until a permanent repository is operating.

I object to the Holtec project because of its environmental racism, threats to water and wildlife, threats to significant Native American cultural sites, the dangers of transporting irradiated spent fuel, and the cumulative public health and safety impacts the nuclear industry has already inflicted on New Mexicans for the past 75 years.

This action cannot easily be "undone" when Holtec fails or covers up its inadequacies. I urge the NRC to Page 1 of 2 09/23/2020 https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=09000064848717cc&format=xml&showorig=false SUNSI Review Complete Template = ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Jill Caverly COMMENT (105)

PUBLICATION DATE:

3/20/2020 CITATION 85 FR 16150

REJECT any plans to allow Holtec to create an "interim" (in fact, permanent) sotrage facility project. The harm that will be spread by Holtec nationwhide makes this plan to gouge the taxpayers while poisoining them at the same time an unAmerican plan. We have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The failures of this project,or accidents that will inevitiably occur over the years, takes away my fundamental right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because when my environment is destroyed, when my drinking water is contaminated, this program takes away my basic civil liberties by putting me in a prison of ill health and an unsafe environment. NO to the Holtec International HI STORAGE Consolidated Interium Storage Facility Project. YES to saving the human race Page 2 of 2 09/23/2020 https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=09000064848717cc&format=xml&showorig=false