ML20267A532

Comment (4312) E-mail Regarding Holtec-CISF Draft EIS

ML20267A532
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Issue date:	09/21/2020
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From: Glenn Griffin <gilatreethinners@gmail.com>

Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 11:36 PM To: Holtec-CISFEIS Resource

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[External_Sender] EIS Statements on Holtec's Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Attachments: Comments on Holtec Hi.docx

Dear NRC regulatory folks,

Please open and add the attached comments on the Holtec Interim Storage Facility into the public record on the Environmental Impact Statement. Thank you for including my comments into the public record.

Sincerely, Glenn Griffin 3701 Tracy Circle Silver City, NM 88061 575-388-4130

Federal Register Notice: 85FR16150 Comment Number: 4312 Mail Envelope Properties (CAKpDtpYoCcP5bokj9KnniNpV-+fm=skg9phdb9Qbm6dQXL_d8g)

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Environmental Impact Statement Comments on Holtecs Consolidated Interim Storage Facility proposal in Lea County, NM. 9-21-2020.

Holtec-CISFEIS@nrc.gov 75 years since the worlds first dirty atomic bomb spread its deadly radioactivity from the Trinity site over large sections of New Mexico comes the upcoming nuclear waste proposal of Holtec. The proposed site, Lea County, in southeast New Mexico has the highest rate of cancer in New Mexico, and Holtecs proposal will add radioactivity and cause more cancer. Or is the site location chosen to hide an upcoming further increase in cancer rates? All this for 55 permanent jobs, while the imported radioactivity will be hanging around for a million years, long after the few created jobs are gone.

I have always thought that those who make or prosper from waste should also deal with the resulting waste left behind. Other states and other countries cleaning up their nuclear waste does not give these states and countries the right to force their waste on the poor. Holtecs proposal bringing the countrys and the worlds nuclear waste to Lea County is nothing more than dumping environmental and economic racism on a poor New Mexico county.

When a nuclear generation plant such as Indian Point 2 is shut-down, the beneficiaries of the plants power must deal with the radioactive concrete and waste of their former nuclear plant right there where the population benefited from that nuclear plant. Dont bother sending that waste by barge, truck or railroad- bury it on site. Bury the high-level waste where it was generated.

There is also very low waste from nuclear plants, VLLW, that too is dangerous to human health and our New Mexico environment. If Holtecs proposal is serious then concurrently Senate Bill S.947, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, RECA, Amendments of 2019 must be passed in the US Senate and fully funded first before Holtec accepts nuclear power plant waste from around the United State and from other countries.

With no federal law definition of time or quantity limit for Interim Storage, the proposed Holtec site could become de-facto permanent site for 100,000 to one million years. And with no known technology or container to hold the high-level waste, who will be responsible? Holtec, when they are long gone, leaving behind 10,000 canisters of nuclear waste? Then there must be a substantial Financial Assurance, (FA), requirement by law. Several hundred million dollars of FA, with no third party guarantees. Store the waste from the 100 operating and closed national reactors at their current location as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission currently allows. From our Governor, Michele Lujan Grisham, to a majority of New Mexicans, we reject Holtecs proposal. Not just for New Mexicans, but also for all the innocent folks across the country and

over the oceans when the wastes are transported by barge, trucks or rail. Accidents do happen with radioactivity.

Glenn Griffin 3701 Tracy Circle Silver City, NM 88061 gilatreethinners@gmail.com 575-388-4130 home