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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.;. r proposed change in emergency planning regulations, starting the clock on the 60-day period set for public comment.

If adppted, the change would ease emer-gency planning requirements for nuclear plants, like Shoreham, when state and local 1 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- ,

l surance" that the public health and safety could be protected. The safety standards for those plants would not be as tough as for plants with local- and state-supported g* .

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• move a possible veto power by state and lo-(cal governments over plant licensing.

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of New York and Suffolk County to partici-N pate in emergency planning for Shoreham. [

The proposal has already proved contro- N r(*5 versial. Three governors and a group of con-gressmen spoke against the change at a Qgig meeting last month. N f uMJ Those wishing to~c5mment-should virite' to<the Secretary of the Commission, Nucle- )

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