ML20151D923

Comment Opposing Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants Where State &/Or Local Govts Decline to Cooperate in Offsite Emergency Planning

ML20151D923
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	03/11/1987
From:	AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-00021, 52FR6980-21, NUDOCS 8807250292
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If adppted, the change would ease emer-gency planning requirements for nuclear plants, like Shoreham, when state and local governments refuse to approve or partici-pate in emergency planning. Such plants would no longer have to demonstrate that emergency plans showed a "reasonable as-surance" that the public health and safety could be protected. The safety standards for those plants would not be as tough as for g*

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