ML051330297

E-Mail from Nancy Burton Re Millstone Draft EIS

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Issue date:	02/10/2005
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Richard Emch - Millstone Draft EIS

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Dear Mr. Emch:

Please see attached.

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Richard Emch - MillstoneRLAEmchCCAM21005.doc Page 1 1 CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE www.rnothballmillstonc.org February 10, 2005 Richard L. Emch, Jr.

Senior Environmental Project Manager U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington DC20555-0001 Re: Millstone Nuclear Power Station Relicensing

Dear Mr. Emch:

Your and your staff have invited public comment on the draft Environmental Impact Statement. You have set a deadline of March 2, 2005 for written comments.

The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone is preparing its written comments and requests your further assistance in this regard.

Please identify the following:

(1) NRC documents, with titles, authors and dates, of all studies of health effects of exposure to radionuclides and chemicals present at Millstone upon persons who have worked at Millstone, either as employees or contractors or in any other capacity, since 1970.

(2) NRC documents, with titles, authors and dates of all studies of health effects observed, catalogued or studied in any way in the population of individuals identified in section (1) above after they have left service at Millstone and until their deaths.

(3) NRC documents, with titles, authors and dates of all studies of health effects of exposure to radionuclides and chemicals present at Millstone on persons who have worked at Millstone, either as employees or contractors or in any other capacity, since 1970, based on postmortem evaluation.

(4) NRC documents, with titles, authors and dates of all studies of

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i'Richard Emch - MillstoneRLAEmchCCAM21 005.doc Page 2 1 health effects of exposure to radionuclides and chemicals, present at Millstone as well as discharged from Millstone, upon members of the public.

(5) Please provide citations to the statutes, regulations and other legal requirements which identify what information a nuclear licensee such as the Millstone Nuclear Power Station is required to provide to the NRC with regard to the following:

(a) Reporting data of worker exposure to radiation; (b) Reporting data of health effects of worker exposure to radiation and chemicals during their terms of employment or assignment; (c) Reporting data of health effects of worker exposure to radiation and chemicals, both among employees and contract workers, following their departure from the licensee; (d) Reporting data of cancer incidences among present and former workers; (e) Reporting data of cause of death among former workers.

(6) Please identify by title and date all information provided to the NRC by the owners and operators of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station since 1970 responsive to item (5) above.

(7)Please provide the titles of all records reviewed by you and your staff with regard to the draft EIS of the phenomenon of the incidences of brain tumors among workers in the former "site maintenance" department at Millstone c. 1994 as well as the incidence of cancer and other diseases among contract workers fulfilling the job requirements of the former "site maintenance" department after the "site maintenance" department was eliminated

c. 1994 (8)Please provide the titles of all records reviewed by you and your staff with regard to the draft EIS of the phenomenon of the incidences of cancer and disease among persons who have worked as pipefitters at Millstone.

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(9) Please provide the titles and dates of all records reviewed by you and your staff with regard to the draft EIS of the phenomenon of the incidences of cancer and disease among non-workers within 5-mile, 1 0-mile and 50-mile radii of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station.

(10) Please provide the dates and titles of all documents reviewed by you and your staff regarding radiological and chemical effluents discharged by the Millstone Nuclear Power Station since 1970.

(11) Please provide a list of the chemicals used and discharged at Millstone since 1 970,as reviewed by yourself and your staff, and please provide the analysis applied in the draft EIS of how the environment would be affected if the Millstone Nuclear Power Station were to convert from an open to a closed cooling system, particularly as to how such conversion would reduce or eliminate the need for use and discharge of toxic chemicals to the environment.

(12)At pages 4 4-56 of the draft EIS, the following statements appear:

"CTDEP [Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection] conducts its own radiological environmental monitoring program around Millstone.... CTDEP concluded that Millstone's radiological effluent and environmental monitoring data were accurate."

With regard to such statements, please identify the names of all CTDEP individuals who provided such statements to you and your staff, the date(s) such statements were made, whether such statements were in writing or verbal (if in writing please provide a copy), and the dates, times, methods of analysis and monitoring referred to and the results of such monitoring as provided to you and your staff.

(13) Please identify and explain the methodology you and your staff applied in reconciling the CTDEP statements (see (12) above) with Northeast Nuclear Energy's Company's plea of guilty to committing environmental felonies during a period of time (c. 1990s)

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(14) At page 4-56 of the draft EIS, the following statement appears:

"CTDEP also concluded that the reports cited above by CTDPH, CASE and the National Cancer Institute reports showed no evidence of a causal link between public exposure to Millstone's radiological effluents and cancer in Connecticut towns."

With regard to such statements, please identify the names of all CTDEP individuals who provided such statements to you and your staff, the date(s) such statements were made, and whether such statements were in writing or verbal (if in writing please provide a copy).

Further with regard to such statements, please state whether you and your staff requested such CTDEP personnel to review other documents asserting such a causal link as submitted to the NRC by the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, including affidavits of Dr.

Ernest Sternglass, Joseph Mangano, Michael Steinberg and Cynthia Besade and, if not, please explain.

With regard to the above inquiries, when the term "staff" is employed, it is intended to encompass both NRC personnel and consultants engaged by the NRC with respect to the draft EIS.

Your prompt, complete and forthright response to this letter will help enable the Coalition to provide meaningful comments in this National Environmental Protection Act process.

Sincerely, Nancy Burton Please reply to:

Nancy Burton 147 Cross Highway Redding Ridge CT 06876 Tel. 203-938-3952

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