ML18011A626

Comment Opposing Proposed Amend to Plant Re Relaxation of Requirements to Annual Monitoring

ML18011A626
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	10/31/1994
From:	Rupert C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
References
FRN-59FR51618 59FR51618, NUDOCS 9411100016
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'gjipfgy Comment on Docket .55'0-400:

Pro'posed 'Amendment to the Shearon Harris Li'cence g

The Clean 'Water Fund of North. Carolina -is ..

concern'ed 'by aspects of an .amendment proposed 1.9 August 1994, and announced by th Commission on 12 October 1994 at 59 FR 51617.

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Carolina Power 6 Light. seeks to relocate details involving, radiological effluent controls and environmental'onitoring'rom the Technical Specifications to'the Offsite Dose Calculation Manual ahd,Pxocess Control Program;. As, described. in the Commission's Generic Letter 89-01, -the company may.

(subject to the requirements of 10 GFR .50) change %he ODCM; arrd PCP without the appro'val of the Commission.

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'I Car;olina Power and Light explains (at, page E1-5.

in their -enclosure to gerial HNP-94-025) that one reason for the propo'sed .amendment is the company's determination that impleme'ntihg Generic Letter 89-01 would have "reduced. the annual dose permitted for a

.membex of the public from .. 500 mrem/year to ...100, mrem/year," which the company regards as "an unnecessary forced reduction in effluent release. rates bya factor of 5."

I The Clean Wate'r Fund, of North Carols.na pxoposed amendment'or the -following reasons opposes'he

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CWFNC 2/3 Fix'st, the Fund. is concerned that. the Company

. seems to'. ask the Commission for exemption from. the requirements of 10 CFR 20. The Fund considers that the',

tradition of a rule of law'requires that the habit of grariting exemptions from established regulations should be exercised'as infrequently as. possible. ln addit:ion,,the 'then-applicable 10 CFR 50 standards appears si'gnificantly,weaker and less protective of public, health than the "10 'CFR 20 standards to whi'ch the applicant does not wish to submit.

Second, the Fund is concerned that the Company seems to ask the Commission to relingbish si:gnificant authority over t;he regulation o f the company '

e ffluent, by asking to trans fer e ff3.uent control and monitor'ing details from the Technical Specifications to the ODCN and PQP,, which. may be modified without the approval of the Commission. As a-result of the Federal pre'emption, the of'he'nclear-'oundaries create regulatory voids wh'enever it relinquishes Gommj.=ssion'ight

'cont:rol without explicitly authorizing other "

regulatory authority to act,.where the, Commission chooses .not to. 'In. addition, 'y relinquishing authcrity, the Comm'ission may appear to act to limit public..access to documention on plant effluent monitoring and control.-

Third,, the Shearon Harris 'nuclear plant is, adjacent to, and discharges radionuclides into, Ha'rris ake. The facility's located proximate to a site proposed for the radioactive -landfill fo~ the eight states of the Southeast Compact. Therefore," the, si;te

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of the proposed landf ill are. both .potential sources and the nuclear power pleat of 'radionuclide

,contamination of the same waters. As a result, there would bq-a potential for radioisotopes released from plant'o .mask pctivity released from, the proposed the landfill, in violation of the requirements in 10 CFR

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To meet.':.the protracted 'futur'e disputes about the 'ource's of. local ratdioactivity (which ctould f

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plant. should:b/e.'reduced to levels which .will noR

,".. result'- in levels of contamination 'which could'onfoun'd

'- activity measurements.dowrigradi'en'*.from the 'landfill" site.'ecause a- 500.mrem annual, dose exceeds 'the,lO, CFR 61:limits .for radioactive landfill.ls; t: he power plant.-appears to:, be allowed.routine emissions iri "

exceeds of 'the Pregulatory,limits .-for': release'r'om" landfil1.; -the Clean'ater. Fungd oX North 'roposed"

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Carolina is'h'erefore= concerned that, the =She'aron ..

--;-.':Harris'l'ant .xeleases-will mask relea'ses 'fxom the proposed,'radioactive landfill,.',-

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