ML20267A650
| ML20267A650 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 09/22/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 85FR16150 | |
| Download: ML20267A650 (2) | |
Text
From:
Barbara Antonoplos <gabred44@gmail.com>
Sent:
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:11 PM To:
Holtec-CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] DENY Holtec's illegal nuclear dump in New Mexico!
To Whom It May Concern:
I am asking you to REJECT Holtecs Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Docket ID NRC-2018-0052) and deny licensing for their ill-advised proposal for a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Waste in New Mexico.
The proposed project violates the principle of consent-based siting, because New Mexico does not consent to it! It would be an outrage for you to approve this with so much opposition, includingin New Mexico-- 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.
Furthermore, the proposal violates federal law, as 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) until a permanent geologic repository has opened, which means that 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 in operation.
Finally, this project represents gross environmental racism, threats to water and wildlife, threats to Native American cultural sites, massive, uncontrollable dangers of transporting irradiated spent fuel throughout communities across the United States (including my own community) and it will add to the already egregious public health and safety problems the nuclear industry has inflicted on New Mexicans for the past 75 years.
Most sincerely, Barbara Antonoplos
Federal Register Notice:
85FR16150 Comment Number:
4385 Mail Envelope Properties (0B75DCA6-DDA8-4073-8BD2-84AE3A242759)
Subject:
[External_Sender] DENY Holtec's illegal nuclear dump in New Mexico!
Sent Date:
9/22/2020 1:10:35 PM Received Date:
9/22/2020 1:10:42 PM From:
Barbara Antonoplos Created By:
gabred44@gmail.com Recipients:
Post Office:
gmail.com Files Size Date & Time MESSAGE 1935 9/22/2020 1:10:42 PM Options Priority:
Standard Return Notification:
No Reply Requested:
No Sensitivity:
Normal Expiration Date:
Recipients Received: