ML19351F632

Requests Response by 810119 That Commissioners Will Insure Adequate Emergency Planning for Potential Accidents at Site Before Further Const Permitted

ML19351F632
Person / Time
Site:	Bailly
Issue date:	01/03/1981
From:	Moffett T HOUSE OF REP., GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
To:	Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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Dear Chairman Ahearne:

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I would like to commend you and the Nuclear Regulatory -

i Commission for the progress made in the past year in implement- 3 ing effective nuclear facilities. emergency planning , procedures around operati ng.

implemented a number of the recommendations embodied in '

Subcommittee's August 1979 report on emergency planning.  ;

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si still is not being taken as seriously as necessary by theI.

Commission and the industry.

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' tinuing plant, problem is the ongoin'g consideration of the Bailly nuclear Indiana.-now in the earliest stages of construction near Gary,

• been widely' discussed indicates that that site is parti problematic from an emergency planning standpoint. The site's proximity to a major steel factory and a national seashore pose extraordinarily difficult challenges for such M6hfatUemergency responses as evacuation of the site and nearby ar6akdikel c be. affected by an accident involving release of radi'ation.y to .? .

What concerns me at this juncture is that it is not yet clear that the' Commission is taking all the necessary steps to

, insure that ' adequate emergency plans are designed -- if possible "

! for the Bailly site -- before construction proceeds to.an advanced < s.

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on the plant As youhas know, been.com only some 1 percent of the. construction work m has occurred for months. pleted to.date, and little construction g that emergency planning considerations have been fullyTherefore not later. - addressad --

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