ML20137S292

Submits Comments Re 851009 Environ Assessment & Finding of No Significant Impact Re Util Request to Dispose of Low Level Radwaste Onsite.Approval of Request Should Be Rescinded Due to Impact on Drinking Water Pathway

ML20137S292
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	11/27/1985
From:	Hiatt S OHIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
CON-#186-385 NUDOCS 8602140387
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N November 27,.1985' ,,

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v'5had Orrice or the;5ecretary U.S. Nuclear Regulotory Commissson

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'3 A10:17 Comments of Ohio Csti ens for Responsible Energy (*0CRE*) on

' Toledo Edison ~Co. and Cleveland Eleceric.Illuminottng Cetit: >:

Envsconmental Assessment and Finding of No significant ImhEEt 9.n i s.

50 red. Peg. 41065 (October o. 1095) ORANCE' Sy the obove-referenced notice, the NRC it.dicates that it has approved the requese by Toledo Edison and CEI, the Davis-Eesse licensees, to dispose of low-level radioactive wastes on the Dovis-Besse plant site. Their request was submitted pursuon to 10 CFR 20.302. This sees on unfortunate precedent.

as no =oubt licensees will now seek opproval to establish low-level waste dumps at reactor sites rather than incurring the cost.of shipping the wastes off-site to o properly Itcensed discosol Fadility.

The NRC-has essentiolly opproved o icw-level waste disposal site which would never meet the requirements of 10 CFR 61. 10 CFR si.50(oi(5) requires that t n'e disposal site be well drained and free of creas of ricoding or frequent ponding, and that waste' disposal shall not take ploce in a 100-year floodplain or wetland. A photogropn of the Davis-Besse f oc 11 t> in the August 1995 quelear Mews showed large creos or stands,g water on the site!

The NRC Ehould not %Cke it so easy FCr reactor licensees to eVode.the 5tondords whicn have been promulgated to protect the Outlic.

The NRC'5 environmental ossessment foiled to Cor5icer the

'drinkin9 Water-ocuotte Food 5 pathway. The OcVis-Besse site 13 odjacent to Lake Eries undoubtedly some of the roticoctivity

ill be -cI*ed Out into Lake Erte.

- Bicoccumulaticn of tne nignly dangerous cesium, cobalt, and songonese isotopes in F.5h or'woterfowl has been toto 11y neglected.

OCRE urges the NRC to rescznd opproval of the request and require TE and CEI to ship their radioactsve wosee5 to o croperly licensed focility meeting the s t o r.d o r d s OF 10 CFC 61.

ssneerely, /

- Ch '3G,W f J Suson L. Hiatt OCRE cepresencoezve 8275 Munson pd.

Mentor, OH 4+060 (016) 253-3159 ,

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