ML15224A368

Letter from Susan H. Shapiro on Behalf of the Indian Point Reactor Community Request for Public Hearing on Indian Point 2 License Amendments

ML15224A368
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	07/29/2015
From:	Shapiro S Code Pink NYC, Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action, Eco-Logic, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, National Lawyers Guild Environmental Justice Committee, New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS), NYC Safe Energy Campaign, Occupy Bergen County, Riverkeeper, Shut Down Indian Point Now, Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group, Sierra Club, Rockland, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE), WBAI-FM, Westchester SAFE
To:	Sue Abreu, Gary Arnold, Cindy Bladey, Hawkens E Division of Administrative Services, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC/OCAA, NRC/SECY
References
ASLBP 15-942-06-LA-BD01, NRC -2015-0038, TAC MF3752, TAC MF3753
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MILTON B. SHAPIRO ATTORNEYS AT LAW SUSAN H. SHAPIRO 75 N. MIDDLETOWN ROAD

• NANUET, NEW YORK 10954 (4)3120 (845) 371-3721 - FAX mbs@ourrocklandoffice.com 7/29/15 Chief Administrative Judge E. Roy Hawkens Administrative Judge Dr. Gary S. Arnold Administrative Judge Dr. Sue. H. Abreu Nucl ear Regulatory Commi ssi on f-l::**

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Mail Stop O-7H4M Washington, DC 20555-000 1 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Secretary of the Commission Mail Stop O-16C1 Washington, DC 20555-000 1 Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration Mail Stop OWEN-12-H08 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Carol.Gallagher~nrc.gov

,.RE: On Behalf of THE INDIAN POINT REACTOR COMMUNITY REQUEST FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON INDIAN POINT 2 LICENSE AMENDMENTS Docket No. 509-247-LA, ASLBP No. 15-942-06-LA-BD01 Docket ID NRC-2015-0038 TAC NOS. M1F3752 and MR3753 Amendments No. 281 to DPR-26 and No. 257 to DPR-64 Aoo/

Dear ASLB:

Entergy has requested various license amendments for Indian Point 2's license, which expired in September 2013 and Indian Point 3 license which expires on December 31, 2015.

We, the undersigned Stakeholders, residents of the Indian Point Reactor Community reSiding within 50 miles of Indian Point, are exercising our fights to intervene and request a change of venue for all hearings on any proposed license amendments to the expired Indian Point 2 license, to be held in White Plains, New York, not Washington, DC.

Currently three proposed license amendments are .already being considered by the ASLB, to:

• Defer inspections of the reactor vessel head for 10 years due to lack of necessary "coupons" to test embrittlement;

• Ignore problems with control rods, known to be misaligned, until March 2016;

• Defer frequency of inspections of steam generator tubes.

These amendments of an expired license are procedurally defective and violate the Administrative Procedures Act. These amendments, and any other proposed amendments, significantly change the already expired operating license, reduce safety margins, endanger public health and safety. These amendments appear to be unreasonable and irrational, and are without procedural standing.

Therefore, we the undersigned community Stakeholders are intervening and requesting public hearings in White Plains, NY, where Entergy maintains its corporate offices. This venue change should extend to any and all other proposed license amendments of the expired Indian Point 2 operating license, and the Indian Point 3 operating license, which will expire in six months, on December 31, 2015. For the NRC to provide a phone line for the public to listen in, falls to satisfy the requirement for public participation, therefore public hearings in White Plains, NY must be provided.

• Sineerely/

(~Susan IH.,Sb'apii o, \s~C

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Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition ("IPSEC")

Riverkeeper Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group Rockland Sierra Club Nuclear Information and Resource Service ("NIRS")

NYC Safe Energy Campaign Eco-Logic, WBAI-FM

New York Environmental Law and Justice Project National Lawyers Guild Environmental Justice Committee Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE)

Shut Down Indian Point Now Code Pink NYC.

Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action Occupy Bergen County Westchester SAFE Ellen Jaffee, New York State Assem~blywoman 97*"AD Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic Sister Antoinette Gutzler, MMv Dorice Madronero Suffern, NY 10901 Gary Shaw Croton on Hudson, NY 10520 Jeanne D Shaw Croton on Hudson, NY 10520 Catherine Skopic New York, N.Y 10013 Barbara Kidney Pine Bush NY 12566 Andrew Dalton Pine Bush, NY 12566 Michele McCarthy Upper Nyack, NY 10960 Gerald McCarthy Upper Nyack, NY 10960 cc: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Charles Schumer Senator Congresswoman Nita Lowey Congressman Eliot Engel Governor Andrew Cuomo John Sipos, NYS Assistant Attorney General Jeanne Cho, Assistant General Counsel Entergy Operations, Inc.

440 Hamilton Ave.

White Plains, NY 10601 NRC Commissioners:

Chairman Stephen G. Burns Chairman~nrc.gov Kristine K. Svinicki CMRSVINICKJ@nrc.gov William C. Ostendorff CMROSTENDORFF@nrc.gov Jeff Baran CMRBARAN~nrc.gov Douglas V. Pickett, Senior Project Management Plant Licensing Branch I-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation