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jrh @ nrc.gov.Attention:
 
James R. Hall, Senior Project Manager, The Supplement to the NRC's Environmental Assessment (EA) provides no more assurance to the public who live in the shadow of Diablo Canyon -or any other nuclear reactor -than did the Commission's short-sighted and non-comprehensive EA of October 24, 2003. Furthermore, the reconstituted EA continues to ignore the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).The organizations listed below are in agreement with the assessment of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace that the recently reissued EA:* Misrepresents and underplays the environmental impacts of attacks on the facility by using baseless suppositions, resulting in an assessment that neglects credible attacks that could trigger significant damage to the human environment." Omits key documents on which the Commission's EA relies, thus making it impossible for any party or reviewing court to verify the appropriateness of its reliance on those documents.
COMMENTS REGARDING THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS DIVISION OF SPENT FUEL STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DRAFT FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT RELATED TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF THE DIABLO CANYON INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION DOCKET NO. 72-26 PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch, Mail Stop T6-D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001.
* Fails to address the U.S. government's major plan for protection of critical infrastructure and key resources, the National Infrastructure Protection Plan ("NIPP") (2006), and* Finally, the EA fails to comply with NEPA because it does not consider the significant cumulative impacts of the proposed ISFSI in relation to the impacts of the existing high-density pool storage system for spent fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.As a result of these profound deficiencies, the EA Supplement completely fails to demonstrate that the NRC made a "fully informed and well-considered" determination of no significant impacts. NEPA requires the NRC to go back to the drawing board and provide an analysis that is understandable and scientifically supported.
jrh @nrc.gov.
The signatories to these comments do not oppose hardened dry cask storage systems that will alleviate the dangerous overcrowding of spent fuel assemblies at Our nation's 104 reactors.
Attention: James R. Hall, Senior Project Manager, The Supplement to the NRC's Environmental Assessment (EA) provides no more assurance to the public who live in the shadow of Diablo Canyon - or any other nuclear reactor - than did the Commission's short-sighted and non-comprehensive EA of October 24, 2003. Furthermore, the reconstituted EA continues to ignore the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Yet the signatories to these comments believe that the dry cask storage sites will be not "temporary".
The organizations listed below are in agreement with the assessment of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace that the recently reissued EA:
In fact this belief is reinforced by the fact that the NRC appears to have no definition for "temporary" storage. Furthermore, at a recent workshop of the California Energy Commission, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Energy Institute and other nuclear proponents stated that there is no need to rush either the Yucca Mountain project or reprocessing projects as radioactive waste stored at reactor sites is perfectly safe for 100 or more years. There were even suggestions that radioactive waste casks from decommissioned sites could be transferred to operating reactor sites, increasing the risks that the NRC has chosen to ignore.The San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace Contentions are well reasoned and solely designed to protect the residents of the Central Coast as well as the citizens of the United States. The signatories to these Comments fully support all Contentions and request the NRC reconsider its Supplemental EA as the country deserves protection, and the full attention of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's oversight.
* Misrepresents and underplays the environmental impacts of attacks on the facility by using baseless suppositions, resulting in an assessment that neglects credible attacks that could trigger significant damage to the human environment.
To place the financial interests of nuclear utilities above the safety of the public is more than just a disservice to our country; it is exactly what the 911 Commission determined to be the cause of the worst tragedy on U.S. soil -"The failure to imagine the unimaginable".
          "   Omits key documents on which the Commission's EA relies, thus making it impossible for any party or reviewing court to verify the appropriateness of its reliance on those documents.
There is no single person who could better relate and legally argue for a true, transparent, and independent environmental impact statement-not just a cursory assessment-of foreseeable impacts of acts of terrorism, sabotage or acts of malice and insanity at nuclear targets than Diane Curran. Therefore, we ask that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission honor the request of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and admit all contentions and hold a formal adjudicatory hearing on the adequacy of the EA Supplement to consider the environmental impacts of intentional attacks on the proposed dry cask storage site for high-level radioactive waste produced at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.Sincerely, Rochelle Becker, Executive Director Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility PO 1328 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 Citizens Awareness Network deb katz box 83 shelburne falls, ma 01370 www.nukebusters.org Ken Bossong, Executive Director SUN DAY Campaign 1612 "K" Street, N.W.; #202 Washington, DC 20006 Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes P.O. Box 331 Monroe, MI 48161 Michael J. Keegan Don't Waste Michigan 6677 Summerview Holland, MI 49424 Alice Hirt Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two P.O. Box 463 Monroe, MI 48161 Keith Gunter Elaine Nichols NoNuke.org Tampa, FL elaine@ nonuke.orq Mary Lampert Pilgrim Watch 148 Washington Street Duxbury MA 02332 Environmental Priorities Network Lillian Light, President Environmental Priorities Network 310 -545 1384 Ecological Life Systems Institute, Inc Coalition for Sustainability Jim Bell, Director 4862 Voltaire ST San Diego, CA 92107- 2108 619 758 9020 jimbellelisi  
* Fails to address the U.S. government's major plan for protection of critical infrastructure and key resources, the National Infrastructure Protection Plan ("NIPP") (2006), and
@ cox. net Judy Treichel Executive Director Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force P. O. Box 26177 Las Vegas, NV 89126 Phone: 702-248-1127 Fax: 702-248-1128 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation David Krieger Santa Barbara, CA David A. Kraft, Director Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS)Mail & Street Address: 3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16 Chicago, IL 60647 USA (773)342-7650;
* Finally, the EA fails to comply with NEPA because it does not consider the significant cumulative impacts of the proposed ISFSI in relation to the impacts of the existing high-density pool storage system for spent fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.
-7655 fax neis@ neis.org www.neis.orgq SKYPE: davekhamburg North American Water Office PO Box 174 Lake Elmo, MN 55042 651-770-3861 George Crocker, Executive Director.qwillc@ comcast.net Prairie Island Coalition 4425 Abbott Avenue South Minneapolis Minnesota 55410 Bruce A Drew, Steering Committee 612-927-5087 bdrew@igc.org Peace Resource Center of San Diego Carol Jahnkow, Executive Director 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105 619-263-9301 Philip Klasky, co-director, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition 2760 Golden Gate Ave.San Francisco, CA 94118-4109 415/752-8678ph 415/531-6890 cell Sandra Gavutis, C-1 0 research and Education Foundation.
As a result of these profound deficiencies, the EA Supplement completely fails to demonstrate that the NRC made a "fully informed and well-considered" determination of
Peg Pinard Former Mayor, City of San Luis Obispo Former Chairperson, San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Stephen Brittle Don't Waste Arizona, Inc.6205 South 12th Street Phoenix, AZ 85042 602-268-6110 Center for Safe Energy Fran Macy, co-director 2828 Cherry Street, Berkeley, CA 94705 Phone 510-883-1177 Amy Goldsmith State Director, Peggi Sturmfels Program Organizer NJ Environmental Federation 1002 Ocean Avenue Betmar, NJ 07719 732-280-8988--voice 732-280-0371
 
--fax psturmfets@cteanwater.org Border Power Plant Working Group Bill Powers, PE co-chair 4452 Park Blvd, Suite 209 San Diego, CA 92116 Tel: 619-295-2072 Nuclear Information and Resource Service Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist 6930 Carroll Ave, Suite 340 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301) 270- 6477 ext 14 Kevin @ nirs.orq www.nirs.orgq Grandmothers for Peace San Luis Obispo County Chapter Molly P Johnson, area coordinator San Miguel, CA Ph: 805/467-2431 John B. Ashbaugh, Ph D, Past President, San Luis Obispo Democratic Club Santa Lucia Chapter (name of organization included for identification purposes only)193 Los Cerros DR San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 ibashbaucqh
no significant impacts. NEPA requires the NRC to go back to the drawing board and provide an analysis that is understandable and scientifically supported.
@ charter.net (805) 550-7713 Ken Smokoska -Chair Energy/ Climate Change Committee Conservation Committee Sierra Club of California 7971 Price Street, # 142 Pismo Beach, CA 93449 805.541.1360 Foundation for Global Community/Atlanta Tom Ferguson tf@thinkspeak.net Food Not Bombs/Atlanta Bob Darby robertwdarby
The signatories to these comments do not oppose hardeneddry cask storage systems that will alleviate the dangerous overcrowding of spent fuel assemblies at Our nation's 104 reactors. Yet the signatories to these comments believe that the dry cask storage sites will be not "temporary". In fact this belief is reinforced by the fact that the NRC appears to have no definition for "temporary" storage. Furthermore, at a recent workshop of the California Energy Commission, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Energy Institute and other nuclear proponents stated that there is no need to rush either the Yucca Mountain project or reprocessing projects as radioactive waste stored at reactor sites is perfectly safe for 100 or more years. There were even suggestions that radioactive waste casks from decommissioned sites could be transferred to operating reactor sites, increasing the risks that the NRC has chosen to ignore.
@ bellsouth.net Sustainable Marin Ed Mainland (415) 902 6365 emainland
The San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace Contentions are well reasoned and solely designed to protect the residents of the Central Coast as well as the citizens of the United States. The signatories to these Comments fully support all Contentions and request the NRC reconsider its Supplemental EA as the country deserves protection, and the full attention of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's oversight. To place the financial interests of nuclear utilities above the safety of the public is more than just a disservice to our country; it is exactly what the 911 Commission determined to be the cause of the worst tragedy on U.S. soil - "The failure to imagine the unimaginable".
@comcast.net Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club P.O. Box 15755 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 (805) 543-8717 Laura Hunter, Campaign Director Environmental Health Coalition 401 Mile of Cars Way Suite 310 National City, CA 91950 New Phone: 619-474-0220 New Fax: 619-474-1210 ehc@environmentalhealth.ora Local Power contact: Robert Freehling, Research Director c/o PO Box 606 Fair Oaks, CA 95628 916.966.3410 rfreeh123
There is no single person who could better relate and legally argue for a true, transparent, and independent environmental impact statement-not just a cursory assessment-of foreseeable impacts of acts of terrorism, sabotage or acts of malice and insanity at nuclear targets than Diane Curran. Therefore, we ask that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission honor the request of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and admit all contentions and hold a formal adjudicatory hearing on the adequacy of the EA Supplement to consider the environmental impacts of intentional attacks on the proposed dry cask storage site for high-level radioactive waste produced at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.
@ sbccqlobal.net Tom Campbell The Guacamole Fund Post Office Box 699 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 email Guacfund@bicqplanet.com Beyond Nuclear/Nuclear Policy Research Institute Linda Gunter 302 Grant Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912 Tel. 301/455-5655 Email: Ipgunter@msn.com GE Stockholders Alliance contact: Pat Birnie 5349 W. Bar X Street, Tucson, AZ 85713 patbirnie@qreenbicycle.net 520 908 9269 Concern About Radiation In the Environment (C.A.R. I. E.)Karen Prather RD 1 Box 305 Corry. PA 16407}}
Sincerely, Rochelle Becker, Executive Director Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility PO 1328 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
 
Citizens Awareness Network               Judy Treichel deb katz                                 Executive Director box 83 shelburne falls, ma 01370         Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force www.nukebusters.org                     P. O. Box 26177 Las Vegas, NV 89126 Ken Bossong, Executive Director         Phone: 702-248-1127 SUN DAY Campaign                         Fax: 702-248-1128 1612 "K" Street, N.W.; #202 Washington, DC 20006                     Nuclear Age Peace Foundation David Krieger Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes Santa Barbara, CA P.O. Box 331 Monroe, MI 48161                         David A. Kraft, Director Michael J. Keegan                       Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS)
Don't Waste Michigan                     Mail & Street Address:
6677 Summerview                         3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16 Holland, MI 49424                       Chicago, IL 60647 USA Alice Hirt                               (773)342-7650; -7655 fax neis@ neis.org Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two       www.neis.orgq P.O. Box 463                             SKYPE: davekhamburg Monroe, MI 48161 Keith Gunter                             North American Water Office PO Box 174 Elaine Nichols                          Lake Elmo, MN 55042 NoNuke.org                               651-770-3861 Tampa, FL                                 George Crocker, Executive Director elaine@ nonuke.orq                       .qwillc@comcast.net Mary Lampert                             Prairie Island Coalition Pilgrim Watch 148 Washington Street     4425 Abbott Avenue South Duxbury MA 02332                         Minneapolis Minnesota 55410 Bruce A Drew, Steering Committee Environmental Priorities Network         612-927-5087 Lillian Light, President                 bdrew@igc.org Environmental Priorities Network 310 - 545 1384                           Peace Resource Center of San Diego Carol Jahnkow, Executive Director Ecological Life Systems Institute, Inc   3850 Westgate Place, Coalition for Sustainability             San Diego, CA 92105 Jim Bell, Director                       619-263-9301 4862 Voltaire ST San Diego, CA 92107- 2108 619 758 9020 jimbellelisi @cox. net
 
Philip Klasky, co-director, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition 2760 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118-4109 415/752-8678ph                          Nuclear Information and Resource 415/531-6890 cell                      Service Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist Sandra Gavutis,                       6930 Carroll Ave, Suite 340 C-1 0 research and Education          Takoma Park, MD 20912 Foundation.                            (301) 270- 6477 ext 14 Kevin @nirs.orq Peg Pinard                            www.nirs.orgq Former Mayor, City of San Luis Obispo Former Chairperson, San Luis Obispo    Grandmothers for Peace County Board of Supervisors            San Luis Obispo County Chapter Molly P Johnson, area coordinator Stephen Brittle                        San Miguel, CA Don't Waste Arizona, Inc.               Ph: 805/467-2431 6205 South 12th Street Phoenix, AZ 85042                      John B. Ashbaugh, Ph D, Past            President, San Luis Obispo Democratic Club Santa Lucia 602-268-6110                          Chapter (name of organization included for identification purposes only)
Center for Safe Energy                  193 Los Cerros DR Fran Macy, co-director                San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 2828 Cherry Street, Berkeley, CA 94705 ibashbaucqh @charter.net Phone 510-883-1177                    (805) 550-7713 Amy Goldsmith                          Ken Smokoska - Chair State Director,                       Energy/ Climate Change Committee Peggi Sturmfels                        Conservation Committee Program Organizer                      Sierra Club of California NJ Environmental Federation            7971 Price Street, # 142 1002 Ocean Avenue                      Pismo Beach, CA 93449 Betmar, NJ 07719                      805.541.1360 732-280-8988--voice Foundation for Global 732-280-0371 --fax Community/Atlanta psturmfets@cteanwater.org Tom Ferguson tf@thinkspeak.net Border Power Plant Working Group Bill Powers, PE co-chair              Food Not Bombs/Atlanta 4452 Park Blvd, Suite 209              Bob Darby San Diego, CA 92116                    robertwdarby @bellsouth.net Tel: 619-295-2072
 
Sustainable Marin Ed Mainland                                  Local Power (415) 902 6365                                contact: Robert Freehling, Research emainland @comcast.net                        Director c/o PO Box 606 Fair Oaks, CA 95628 Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club        916.966.3410 P.O. Box 15755                                rfreeh123 @sbccqlobal.net San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 (805) 543-8717                                Tom Campbell The Guacamole Fund Laura Hunter, Campaign Director              Post Office Box 699 Environmental Health Coalition                Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 401 Mile of Cars Way Suite 310                email Guacfund@bicqplanet.com National City, CA 91950 New Phone: 619-474-0220                      Beyond Nuclear/Nuclear Policy New Fax: 619-474-1210                        Research Institute ehc@environmentalhealth.ora                  Linda Gunter 302 Grant Avenue GE Stockholders Alliance                      Takoma Park, MD 20912 contact: Pat Birnie                          Tel. 301/455-5655 5349 W. Bar X Street,                        Email: Ipgunter@msn.com Tucson, AZ 85713 patbirnie@qreenbicycle.net 520 908 9269 Concern About Radiation In the Environment (C.A.R. I. E.)
Karen Prather RD 1 Box 305 Corry. PA 16407}}

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Comment (31) of Rochelle Becker on Supplement to the Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
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Issue date: 07/02/2007
From: Becker R
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Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch
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COMMENTS REGARDING THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS DIVISION OF SPENT FUEL STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DRAFT FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT RELATED TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF THE DIABLO CANYON INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION DOCKET NO. 72-26 PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch, Mail Stop T6-D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001.

jrh @nrc.gov.

Attention: James R. Hall, Senior Project Manager, The Supplement to the NRC's Environmental Assessment (EA) provides no more assurance to the public who live in the shadow of Diablo Canyon - or any other nuclear reactor - than did the Commission's short-sighted and non-comprehensive EA of October 24, 2003. Furthermore, the reconstituted EA continues to ignore the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The organizations listed below are in agreement with the assessment of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace that the recently reissued EA:

  • Misrepresents and underplays the environmental impacts of attacks on the facility by using baseless suppositions, resulting in an assessment that neglects credible attacks that could trigger significant damage to the human environment.

" Omits key documents on which the Commission's EA relies, thus making it impossible for any party or reviewing court to verify the appropriateness of its reliance on those documents.

  • Fails to address the U.S. government's major plan for protection of critical infrastructure and key resources, the National Infrastructure Protection Plan ("NIPP") (2006), and
  • Finally, the EA fails to comply with NEPA because it does not consider the significant cumulative impacts of the proposed ISFSI in relation to the impacts of the existing high-density pool storage system for spent fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.

As a result of these profound deficiencies, the EA Supplement completely fails to demonstrate that the NRC made a "fully informed and well-considered" determination of

no significant impacts. NEPA requires the NRC to go back to the drawing board and provide an analysis that is understandable and scientifically supported.

The signatories to these comments do not oppose hardeneddry cask storage systems that will alleviate the dangerous overcrowding of spent fuel assemblies at Our nation's 104 reactors. Yet the signatories to these comments believe that the dry cask storage sites will be not "temporary". In fact this belief is reinforced by the fact that the NRC appears to have no definition for "temporary" storage. Furthermore, at a recent workshop of the California Energy Commission, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Energy Institute and other nuclear proponents stated that there is no need to rush either the Yucca Mountain project or reprocessing projects as radioactive waste stored at reactor sites is perfectly safe for 100 or more years. There were even suggestions that radioactive waste casks from decommissioned sites could be transferred to operating reactor sites, increasing the risks that the NRC has chosen to ignore.

The San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace Contentions are well reasoned and solely designed to protect the residents of the Central Coast as well as the citizens of the United States. The signatories to these Comments fully support all Contentions and request the NRC reconsider its Supplemental EA as the country deserves protection, and the full attention of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's oversight. To place the financial interests of nuclear utilities above the safety of the public is more than just a disservice to our country; it is exactly what the 911 Commission determined to be the cause of the worst tragedy on U.S. soil - "The failure to imagine the unimaginable".

There is no single person who could better relate and legally argue for a true, transparent, and independent environmental impact statement-not just a cursory assessment-of foreseeable impacts of acts of terrorism, sabotage or acts of malice and insanity at nuclear targets than Diane Curran. Therefore, we ask that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission honor the request of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and admit all contentions and hold a formal adjudicatory hearing on the adequacy of the EA Supplement to consider the environmental impacts of intentional attacks on the proposed dry cask storage site for high-level radioactive waste produced at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.

Sincerely, Rochelle Becker, Executive Director Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility PO 1328 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Citizens Awareness Network Judy Treichel deb katz Executive Director box 83 shelburne falls, ma 01370 Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force www.nukebusters.org P. O. Box 26177 Las Vegas, NV 89126 Ken Bossong, Executive Director Phone: 702-248-1127 SUN DAY Campaign Fax: 702-248-1128 1612 "K" Street, N.W.; #202 Washington, DC 20006 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation David Krieger Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes Santa Barbara, CA P.O. Box 331 Monroe, MI 48161 David A. Kraft, Director Michael J. Keegan Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS)

Don't Waste Michigan Mail & Street Address:

6677 Summerview 3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16 Holland, MI 49424 Chicago, IL 60647 USA Alice Hirt (773)342-7650; -7655 fax neis@ neis.org Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two www.neis.orgq P.O. Box 463 SKYPE: davekhamburg Monroe, MI 48161 Keith Gunter North American Water Office PO Box 174 Elaine Nichols Lake Elmo, MN 55042 NoNuke.org 651-770-3861 Tampa, FL George Crocker, Executive Director elaine@ nonuke.orq .qwillc@comcast.net Mary Lampert Prairie Island Coalition Pilgrim Watch 148 Washington Street 4425 Abbott Avenue South Duxbury MA 02332 Minneapolis Minnesota 55410 Bruce A Drew, Steering Committee Environmental Priorities Network 612-927-5087 Lillian Light, President bdrew@igc.org Environmental Priorities Network 310 - 545 1384 Peace Resource Center of San Diego Carol Jahnkow, Executive Director Ecological Life Systems Institute, Inc 3850 Westgate Place, Coalition for Sustainability San Diego, CA 92105 Jim Bell, Director 619-263-9301 4862 Voltaire ST San Diego, CA 92107- 2108 619 758 9020 jimbellelisi @cox. net

Philip Klasky, co-director, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition 2760 Golden Gate Ave.

San Francisco, CA 94118-4109 415/752-8678ph Nuclear Information and Resource 415/531-6890 cell Service Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist Sandra Gavutis, 6930 Carroll Ave, Suite 340 C-1 0 research and Education Takoma Park, MD 20912 Foundation. (301) 270- 6477 ext 14 Kevin @nirs.orq Peg Pinard www.nirs.orgq Former Mayor, City of San Luis Obispo Former Chairperson, San Luis Obispo Grandmothers for Peace County Board of Supervisors San Luis Obispo County Chapter Molly P Johnson, area coordinator Stephen Brittle San Miguel, CA Don't Waste Arizona, Inc. Ph: 805/467-2431 6205 South 12th Street Phoenix, AZ 85042 John B. Ashbaugh, Ph D, Past President, San Luis Obispo Democratic Club Santa Lucia 602-268-6110 Chapter (name of organization included for identification purposes only)

Center for Safe Energy 193 Los Cerros DR Fran Macy, co-director San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 2828 Cherry Street, Berkeley, CA 94705 ibashbaucqh @charter.net Phone 510-883-1177 (805) 550-7713 Amy Goldsmith Ken Smokoska - Chair State Director, Energy/ Climate Change Committee Peggi Sturmfels Conservation Committee Program Organizer Sierra Club of California NJ Environmental Federation 7971 Price Street, # 142 1002 Ocean Avenue Pismo Beach, CA 93449 Betmar, NJ 07719 805.541.1360 732-280-8988--voice Foundation for Global 732-280-0371 --fax Community/Atlanta psturmfets@cteanwater.org Tom Ferguson tf@thinkspeak.net Border Power Plant Working Group Bill Powers, PE co-chair Food Not Bombs/Atlanta 4452 Park Blvd, Suite 209 Bob Darby San Diego, CA 92116 robertwdarby @bellsouth.net Tel: 619-295-2072

Sustainable Marin Ed Mainland Local Power (415) 902 6365 contact: Robert Freehling, Research emainland @comcast.net Director c/o PO Box 606 Fair Oaks, CA 95628 Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club 916.966.3410 P.O. Box 15755 rfreeh123 @sbccqlobal.net San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 (805) 543-8717 Tom Campbell The Guacamole Fund Laura Hunter, Campaign Director Post Office Box 699 Environmental Health Coalition Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 401 Mile of Cars Way Suite 310 email Guacfund@bicqplanet.com National City, CA 91950 New Phone: 619-474-0220 Beyond Nuclear/Nuclear Policy New Fax: 619-474-1210 Research Institute ehc@environmentalhealth.ora Linda Gunter 302 Grant Avenue GE Stockholders Alliance Takoma Park, MD 20912 contact: Pat Birnie Tel. 301/455-5655 5349 W. Bar X Street, Email: Ipgunter@msn.com Tucson, AZ 85713 patbirnie@qreenbicycle.net 520 908 9269 Concern About Radiation In the Environment (C.A.R. I. E.)

Karen Prather RD 1 Box 305 Corry. PA 16407

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