ML20127H491

Forwards Special Rept on Study of Radioactive Pollution Control in Mn, Prepared by EC Tsivoglou,Univ of Ga.W/O Rept

ML20127H491
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Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	02/17/1969
From:	Badalich J MINNESOTA, STATE OF
To:	Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dear Db. Seaborg:

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Enclosed, for your roview and comment, are two copios of the special report on a study of " Radioactive Pollutios Control .

I in Minnesota," prepared by Dr. Ernest C. Tsivoglou, Professor ,

i of Civil Engineering at the University of Georgia who was g retained by the Agency to' study the problem of radioactive

pollution in Minnesota and report his findings'and reco=mendations for minimizing the effects'thereof. -

Following review of this report, the Agoncy has directed me, .

with assistance from Dr. Tsivoglou, to prepare for their reviev

'and approval, a waste disposal permit for the Northern States power Co=pany's Monticello Nuclear Power Plant. As you may be auare of, it is required by Minnesota law that every person (municipality, industry or individual) discharging wastes into .

the state's surface or ground waters or into the atcosphere, g cust obtain a. discharge per=it from the Agency before sue,bi '..

• discharge is allowed. . . As you may also know, the NSP Monticells" vaste discharge permit was held up te=porarily following comple. tion of Dr. Tsivoglou's report which took about seven conths to

• complete. The permit to NSP will entail setting effluent and e omission icvels of radioactivity more stringent than those. levels..

of discharge allowed under the AEC standards.

• Secondly, the Agoney, in the very near future, will also be '

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preparing for public hearing, standards for radioactivity based .',

• on the recommendations formulated in the Tsivoglou report. . Theso

, . standards are based on a premise that radioactivity releases shall ,

be kept at th.e lowest possible level which will again'. indicate that . -

radio'activitpf '; .

A these stnMm ds will be more stringent# than thec f .[l standards pro =nigated by 'the AEC. .

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. . -4 I would very greatly approciate your staffs' comments and. views - 1.*

regarding tho'above, at your earliost convenience', and also ' .t .

sock your cooperation in formulating:these matters.* ,r n .

Rocently, and following our Aconoy's laat mooting on February 11,

,. 1969, at which time the Tsivoglou report was accepted by the-Agoney, a Pp. Howard Shaper of your staff was accorded to have

%' said that' states have no riCht to set radioactive disebrge controls t-core stringent than those presently adopted by the Federal

. Government. I have' enclosed a copy of this newspaper article"" .

for your review. If this is the case, I would appreciate any documentation you may have in support of this position and the *

-e Federal Government's preemption of.stotes rights to control this -

type of pollution of our environment.

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? May I hear from you at your earliest possible cc. tvenience regarding the matters outlined above and if you feel desirous that a meeting on this subject is necessary, we will' certainly concur. .

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, Mineapons Ts,it,une staff Wr, iter "very basic" to tho "old Tuosday.

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{ said Wednesday. agency should "provc the e, Tsivoglou, who will assist necd lor such restrictions."

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. sole jurisdiction in the mat. standards, called on 'the PCA not the proper or desirable t' L'

ter. lie added that the states to " pursue this case to a function of the PCA to de-

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fcnd its desire to protectt r.thclih Ifut he warned that the nu- pub!!c and the enviror.mentjm adopted by the federal com-

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