ML19050A320

Package from Stephen B. Comley, Sr. at February 13, 2019 Seabrook Station, Unit 1, Public Meeting

ML19050A320
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	02/13/2019
From:	Comley S We The People
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Poole J, NRR/DORL/LPLI, 415-2048
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Download: ML19050A320 (182)

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Joe Donoghue, Acting NRC Division Director, Eric Oesterie, Branch Chief, Angela Buford, Technical Reviewer and Justin Poole, Project Manager.

Presenters at Public Meeting of February 13, 2019, regarding possible extension of Seabrook Nuclear Plant's operating license from 2030 to 2050. Meeting held at Best Western Plus -The Inn at Hampton - 815 Lafayette Road, Hampton, NH Mr. Donoghue, Eric Oesterie, Angela Buford and Justin Poole, I am enclosing several packets of information having to do with the Seabrook Nuclear Plant's possible extension of their operating License from 2030 to 2050.

We The People have shared the information in Packets labeled A - F below with Emily Krause, Chief Counsel of the Atomic Safety Licensing Board Panel. Emily Krause offered and agreed to forward our information to the Technical Staff who as you know are overseen by the Executive Director for operations, Margaret Doane.

Packet A contains February 2, 2019, e-mail with attachments to Emily Krause and were also sent to various Federal and State Government Officials from MA, NH, Washington and NRC.

Packet B contains 7 MA and NH Cities/Town officials requests for the NRC/FEMA to fully investigate Mr.

Stephen B. Comley, who is Founder of We The People (WTP), a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization, who maintains the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ignored serious flaws in Seabrook Nuclear Plant's Emergency Response Plans. WTP knows the Commission has systematically disregarded evidence WTP has provided in support of their claims.

Packet C contains November 14, 2018, letter with enclosures to Fred Bower, Chief of Division of Reactor Projects, Branch 3, King of Prussia, PA 19406. All 20 attachments are included with packet C. Packet C was also sent to various Federal and State Government Officials from MA, NH and Washington. WTP has stated in these e-mails they have proof the NRC has also ignored serious charges of Cover-ups by high Agency officials of the Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts still present in most if not all U.S Nuclear Plants including Seabrook station. WTP has also provided, in these e-mails, with attachments, evidence both State and Federal Officials are impeding an investigation of the Present GAG ORDERS on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard who have attempted to silence first responders from testifying whether the Seabrook Nuclear Plant's Evacuation Plan can be effectively implemented in the event of a nuclear disaster.

D. WTP's video by a Licensed Drone owner. WTP hired this owner to fly his plane during July 4 of 2017 and 2018 over Hampton and Salisbury Beaches. WTP, and many others including State and Federal Officials, question, now, whether the Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan will be ineffective within the required 10-Mile radius, especially during the summer months. Therefore, WTP, and other Cites/Town and State Officials', are requesting the NRC, FEMA and MEMA hold a public hearing for first responders at a location within the 10-mile radius.

Packet D. Continued: Because ofthe importance of an effective evacuation plan, WTP believes a public hearing on the issues will provide the NRC, FEMA and MEMA the opportunity to not only address the issues WTP and others have raised, but also, to explain in more detail how the approved plan is designed to work, thus preventing any misinformation from creating concern or alarm with residents within or outside the 10-mile radius.

Packet E. WTP documents showing evidence impeding a full investigation of the GAG ORDERS presently on the MA State Police, and what occurred during September 2, 2016, at a meeting MA State Police Deputy Commander Francis Hughes called for at the Newbury State Police Barracks for Stephen B.

Comley Sr. to attend so he could present his concerns about the Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan.

Also present was John Giarrusso, Nuclear Section Chief of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).

WTP wants to point out after discussing with Richard Barkley of the NRC what WTP provided, and what Stephen Comley and others said, at this meeting 9-2-2016, Mr. Barkley stated to Comley Sr. this information should have been reported to FEMA.

WTP's evidence included, with their permission, identities of the informants' connection to the present gag orders. WTP requested the new Commander of the MA State Police, Kerry Gilpin, to provide WTP with a copy of the notes Comley Sr. knows were taken at this meeting. WTP has been informed these records are now missing. WTP has asked the NRC, MA AG Maura Healey, MA Governor Charlie Baker, Department of Public Safety Secretary Daniel Bennett, FEMA, MEMA and MA U.S. Attorney Andrew E.

Lelling to call for and conduct a full investigation of a cover-up of what Mr. Comley Sr. provided and what he said and others said during this meeting held 9-2-2016 at the Newbury Barracks.

Packet F. Stephen B. Comley Sr. is making public a copy of a transcript of a conversation he had with one of WTP's NRC informants who stated, in part, the following, "But you say your MA because they are a bunch of fence riders. So, you came to D. C. The next step is to try to get some D.C. politicians that are interested. Markey because he knows it is dirty, he believes it but he evidently, he is tired, bored or whatever. He is dilatant. I'll be candid with you. He is the kind of guy, he was playing Chernobyl for a while, so he is bored with other stuff. I hear he wants to get off that committee. You know, it is not sexy enough for him, he wants to try something else next year so he runs and gets reelected".

We the People are hoping everyone at the NRC, and anyone who is studying and investigating whether to approve or disapprove Seabrook Nuclear Plant's application to extend their operating license from 2030 to 2050, will take the necessary time to review thoroughly and completely all the information, including documentation WTP has provided, including WTP video of the traffic congestion around the Seabrook Station during the summer months and other holidays when residents and visitors come to

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MA and NH Beaches. I ask this letter and Packets be made available in NRC ADAMS document Room.

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Re: From our telephone conversation Stephen Comley Tue 2/12/2019 10:34 AM To: Poole, Justin <Justin.Poole@nrc.gov>

Justin C. Poole February 12, 2019 NRC Project Manager for Seabrook Nuclear Plant.

Mobile Tel# 301-415-2048 Mr. Poole, thank you for replying back to me regarding our telephone conversation of February 11, 2019. First I am very disappointed the NRC Panel who are proceeding over the Seabrook Hearing February 13, 2019, will not allow We The People's video to be shown at this meeting. This video is of the congested Traffic around the Seabrook Nuclear Plant taken by the owner of a licensed Drone Plane WTP hired to film over the Hampton and Salisbury beaches on July 4, of 2017 and 2018. This questions indeed whether the Seabrook Nuclear Plant's Evacuation Plan can be implemented in a safe and timely way. I will send you link to this video in the next e-mail which I would like confirmed by you will send on to ADAMS, Chairwoman, Kristin L. Svinicki and to NRC Office of Inspector General for their review.

The notes I took our from our conversation lasted from 1:24 - 2:24 PM or exactly 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br />.

After comparing my notes to yours listed in the e-mail to me below, I would like to add the following additional topics we discussed so they can be added to ADAMS and also sent to NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki and to NRC Office of Inspector General.

A. You and I discussed that I am willing to provide a copy of a Transcript of a conversation I had with one of We The People's NRC informants who states in part of this transcript about then U.S. Congressman Edward Markey, "So you came to D. C. The next step is to try to get some D.C. politicians that are interested. Markey because he knows it is dirty, he believes it but he evidently he is tired, bored or whatever. He is dilatant, I'll be candid with you. He is the kind of guy, he was playing Chernobyl for a while, so he is bored with other stuff. I hear he wants to get off that Committee. You know, it is not sexy enough for him, he wants to try something else next year so he runs and gets reelected."

B. We also discussed my knowledge of the Cover-up of the TMI accident which I provided with documents in my letter with enclosures I wrote July 4, 2014 to Mr. Bower's predecessor Glenn T. Dentel, Chief of the Division of Reactor Projects, Branch 3, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania ..

C. We also discussed former U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani's involvement in the cover-up of the Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts scandal. I admit now I have tape-recordings of conversations of meetings with Mr. Giuliani's Staff when I and others met with them in early 1988..

D. You and I also discussed after 60 minutes reporter, Marty Bergman met with U.S. Senator John Glenn and his Top Legal advisor, Stephen Ryan. I was told by Bergman Glenn refused to take on the Bogus Parts cover-up which at the time were present in 39 U.S Nuclear Plants. Bergman labeled Glenn as a "dish rag" after meeting with him because Glenn opted instead to take on the Leaks at Rocky Flats Weapons facility because Senator Glenn's

constituents were calling him to clean it up. I did inform you WTP also has tape-recordings of conversations I had with Stephen Ryan and Bergman.

E. I also informed you about why Victor Stello lost his and President Bush's wish for him to become Assistant Secretary of Energy under Admiral Watkins during the Senate Arms Committee hearings held in 12-19-1989 and co-chaired by Senators Warner and Senator Wirth. I wouldn't even admit to having any Tape-recordings at that time which DOJ were trying to seize during the 6 years I was in MA Federal Court. From the heres you sent me below it is documented I did report to former assistant to Mr. Bower, Richard Barkley (now retired) I admitted I having tape-recordings.

G. I also mentioned to you We The People won a summary judgement against the NRC in which Victor Stello, Lando Zech and NRC Law Judge was found guilty of violating my constitutional right to free speech and right of association.

H. You and I discussed how I first met Roger Fortuna when he was Deputy Director of the NRC Office of investigations which occurred on the phone to his office in 1986. This was during the petition drive in my home Town of Rowley MA when 80% of our residents signed petition to then President Ronald Reagan requesting a investigation of NRC polices including leaving special needs residents behind in the event of a nuclear disaster at Seabrook station.

I. Mr. Poole, I also brought to your attention the Secret document former Whitehouse Chief of Staff, John Sununu got from Watkins to use to intimate former NRC Chairman Ivan Selin into approving one Step Licensing which finally helped to get Seabrook Station license approved.

J. Also we discussed Roger Fortuna's investigation when he was a DOJ employee and was given permission to pick his own team of investigators to bring to light the cover-up of the TMI accident in 1979 which to this day has never be released.

If you need further clarification or comments from me regarding requests and these other nuclear safety matters added to yours listed below, please let me know.

Respectively submitted, Stephen B. Comley Sr.,

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organizaiton From Poole, Justin <Justin.Poole@nrc.gov>

Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 3:53 PM To: s.comley.sr@outlook.com Cc: Danna, James

Subject:

From our telephone conversation Mr. Comley, You made the following requests during our phone conversation today:

• List of who, and title, will be on the panel for the February 13, 2019, public meeting near Seabrook, NH

o While there will be other NRC staff in attendance, the following will be presenters at the public meeting:

• Joe Donoghue, Acting Division Director

• Eric Oesterle, Branch Chief

• Angela Buford, Technical Reviewer

• Justin Poole, Project Manager

• You acknowledged that the meeting on the 13th was going to be transcribed but requested that the meeting be recorded by video o By the NRC transcribing the meeting, it will ensure that a record of the meeting, and what is said at the meeting, will be recorded and preserved. This record will be added in ADAMS and referenced as part of the meeting summary that will be issued following the meeting. Having a video recording, in addition to transcription, doesn't provide any additional benefit beyond that of the transcription, and therefore will not be done at this meeting.

• You requested that the NRC staff allow the showing of your video related to your concern of evacuation procedures at Seabrook.

o Since the purpose of the meeting is focused on the NRC's plans related to the schedule for issuing the license amendment associated with alkali-silica reaction and Seabrook's license renewal (as it relates to alkali-silica reaction),

the NRC staff plans to focus all of its, and the public's time, on this topic. Any other topics brought up with handled outside of this public meeting. As such, playing your video related to evacuation concerns at Seabrook during this public meeting won't be allowed.

• You requested my notes from our phone call o In addition to the above you brought up the following topics that I took note of:

• Your belief of counterfeit parts used at Seabrook and, in general around the nuclear industry

• Your belief of weld issues at Seabrook from back during construction

• You brought up your recent communications with the ASLB and the sharing of your letters with them

• Your belief of silenced state troopers from testifying that the evacuation procedures at Seabrook are inadequate o To the best of my knowledge, none of these above topics/concerns are new to the agency and that you have brought these up before. The agency has responded to you in previous correspondence such as the one found here (with the incoming found here).

o As there were many items that you brought up, if I missed one, I apologize.

o Should you have any new information or a direct question, we ask that you please provide it in writing so that we can be sure that your concern is properly handled.

This email is being added as a public document in ADAMS.

Justin C. Poole Project Manager NRR/DORL/LPL I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (301)415-2048

Fw: Fw: updated video of Beach traffic Stephen Comley Wed 2/6/2019 7:39 AM To: Krause, Emily <Emily.Krause@nrc.gov>

Cc: Bruce E Tarr <Bruce.Tarr@MaSenate.gov>; Attilio J Paglia <attilio.paglia@masenate.gov>;

Bradford R. Hill <brad.hill@mahouse.gov>; Peter Schmidt <peterbarrettschmidt@gmail.com>;

Roberta Pevear <rcpevear@gmail.com>; Firestone, Mike (AGO) < Mike.Firestone@MassMail.State.MA.US>;

Rebello-Pradas, Alicia < alicia.rebello-pradas@state.ma.us >;

Schofield, Seth (AGO) <Seth.Schofield@MassMail.State.MA.US>;

Young, Jessica (AGO) <jessica.young@state.ma.us>; Bower, Fred <Fred.Bower@nrc.gov>;

Rojas, Nancy (USAMA) < Nancy.Rojas@usdoj.gov>; fema-r1-info@fema.dhs.gov <fema-r1-info@fema.dhs.gov>;

kathleen.Healey@MAhouse.gov <kathleen.Healey@MAhouse.gov>;

Dean.Serpa@State.ma.us < Dean.Serpa@State.ma.us>; Powell, Alex (GOV) <alex.powell@state.ma.us>;

ni kko _mendoza@warren.senate.gov < n ikko_mendoza@warren.senate.gov>;

DEBORAH_TOUHEY@MARKEY.SENATE.GOV

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Representative Seth Moulton < MA06SMIMA@mail.house.gov>

~ 10 attachments (3 MB)~ ~ ncicA.!ee. w:,ih it.~ (Jc'lc.~ e-t-Letter to Stephen Comley Sr.2019-02-05.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - GAG ORDER Statements from MA State Police & NH National Guard.docx; WTP - COMLEY - MA STATE POLICE P 1 of Trooper Lucin letter to C.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - MA ST ATE POLICE P 2 of letter ofTrooper Lucin t.pdf; WTP - COM LEY - Commander Kerry Gilpin 3-16-18.docx; WTP -

COMLEY - AJ - MEMO TO AG 1-18 PAGE 1.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - AJ MEMO TO AG PAGE 2 1-18.pdf; WTP -

COMLEY - NH Rep. Peter SchmidtTrafic letter 1-15-19 001.jpg; WTP - COMLEY - Joint letter Tarr & Hill 10-102018 001.jpg; WTP - COMLEY - Rep. Peter schmidt letter to MA AG 9-25-2018 001.jpg; PLEASE CONFIRM YOU WERE ABLE TO OPEN THE ATIACHMENTS ABOVE COMPLETELY Emily Krause Chief Counsel Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-7466

Dear Emily Krause,

thank you for sending the attached letter above which states you have forwarded yours and my our previous E-mails and attachments since, January 30, 2019, to the NRC Office ofthe Executive Director of Operations. Also mentioned in these e-mails I understood you also would send these several e-mails with the attachments including the video mentioned in this e-mail below, to the Technical Staff of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Were you able to open link to this video and send it also to the Staff?

Hopefully the NRC will honor the wishes of the 7 MA and NH Cities/Towns Officials who are requesting a hearing for First Responders whose want to testify about their knowledge about the present GAG Orders on the MA State Police and NH National Guard. Both MA Senator Tarr and MA AG General offices' have the names of these very brave individuals which We The People was given permission to release to them.

Please respond.

Stephen B. Comley Sr.,

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization From: Krause, Emily <Emily.Krause@nrc.gov>

Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 10:40 AM To: Stephen Comley

Subject:

RE: Fw: updated video of Beach traffic

Dear Mr. Comley,

As indicated in the attached letter, I have forwarded your emails to the mailroom for the Office of the Executive Director for Operations. Please direct any future communications to that office or to the Office of Public Affairs.

Thank you, Emily Krause From: Stephen Comley [1]

Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 9:18 AM To: Krause, Emily <Emily.Krause@nrc.gov>

Subject:

[External_Sender] Fw: updated video of Beach traffic Emily Krause, thank you for taking my call yesterday. As I requested below in the e-mail of February 3-2019, please let me know you were able to open the updated video of the congested traffic around the Seabrook Nuclear Plant during the summer months and holidays.

Thank you, Stephen B. Comley Sr.,

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization From: Stephen Comley <s.comley.sr@outlook.com>

Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 9:51 AM To: Krause, Emily Cc: Bruce E Tarr; Attilio J Paglia; Bradford R. Hill

Subject:

updated video of Beach traffic PLEASE CONFIRM YOU CAN OPEN THE VIDIO BELOW AND ATTACHMENTS ABOVE COMPLETELY Emily Krause Chief Counsel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-7466 Emily Krause, Please take time to review and click on link below of this video of the traffic congestion which was taken by a licensed drone operator's plane July 4 of 2017 and 2018. Please pass on to Technical Staff for their review also. I am also enclosing other attachments associated with the GAG orders presently on the MA State Police and NH National Guard. Mr. Richard Barkley, assistant to Mr. Bower and who retired from the NRC July 31, 2018, said to me what took place at the MA State Police Barracks September 2, 2016 should have been reported to FEMA by MEMA's Director of Nuclear Affairs, John Giarrusso, who attended this meeting.

Please send me the confirmation letter you are preparing of what you information you are passing onto the Technical Staff of these above attachments and others I have been sending you. This should include requesting a copy of the July 4, 2014 letter with attachments I sent to Mr. Bower's processor, Glenn T. Dentel, Chief of Division of Reactor Projects, Branch 3, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406-2713.

Thank you for you attention and understanding of my requests of this important safety information in connection of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant.

Stephen B. Comley Sr.,

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non Profit Organization From: Ethan Cohen <Ethan@uavlook.com>

Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2019 11:51 AM To: Stephen Comley

Subject:

Re: regarding my telephone messsage today.

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Dear Mr. Comley:

As I explained in my email and over the phone, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel conducts public adjudicatory hearings on contested issues that arise in the course of NRC licensing and enforcement proceedings. To ensure that its proceedings are conducted in a manner that is fair and open, the Panel is subject to and abides by strict rules governing its interactions with members of the public, especially when communications might touch on issues in an ongoing adjudication.

I have forwarded your emails to the mailroom for the Office of the Executive Director for Operations. Please direct future communications to that office or to the Office of Public Affairs.

Sincerely,

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Emily Krause, Chief Counsel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

PO Box 1468 Dover, NH 03821-1468 January 15, 2019 To whom it may concern:

This statement contains observations I made during the July 4th weekend of 2018. They describe a situation I encountered on a stretch of Interstate 95 one mile south of the high bridge over the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This is a section of road that I have a great cieal of familiarity with over the past 4 1/2 years, since I regularly travel it, multiple times a week, at various times of the day and night. Exc.ept at late night hours, this part of I-95 is routinely heavily traveled. In fact, the traffic never stops all night long. On the occasion this report describes, it was the middle of the day. I was leaving the Portsmouth traffic circle and entering onto I-95 using the northbound on-ramp, a maneuver I have carried out countless times. On this occasion, however, the traffic was the heaviest I have ever experienced there, with all three lanes bumper to bumper and barely moving. In the stop and go tl*affic, I was able to glance over at the southbound lanes and notice that they also appeared to be backed up, similar to what I was experiencing northbound.

Being a resident of seacoast New Hampshire since 1983, I am very familiar with 1-95 from Portsmouth, NH to Portland, ME. For a number of years, in fact, I made that trip on a weekly basis, so I have also experienced an occasional complete stoppage of traffic caused by an accident. This July 4th weekend situation I am describing, however, was almost certainly not the result of an accident stoppage, since the traffic was moving, albeit very slowly. I am quite ce1*tain this was simply a case of the highway having reached its maximum capacity. I recognize that this was mid.day on the July 4th weekend, a time at which northbound traffic on I-95 could absolutely be expected to be at maximum capacity. In fact, northbound traffic on any summer weekend could absolutely be expected to be very heavy at the stretch of road I am describing. Nevertheless, this particular day exemplified the greatest traffic density I have ever experienced in the past 4-5 years.

I raise these points because I can only wonder what would occur on I-95 if, on any given summer day, a nuclear emergency were to occur involving Seabrook Station. The day I have been describing was certainly one on which my fellow travelers were unhappy about crawling northward in stop and go traffic, stressed out to greater and lesser degrees by that situation, but unlikely to be experiencing anything like panic. What, on the other hand, would be the situation in the event of a nuclear emergency at Seabrook Station? Should we not be hearing from our seacoast New Hampshire and Massachusetts fust responders about their ability to safely and timely evacuate the area around Seabrook Station in the event of a nucleal' emergency?

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One Asbburton Place Boston, MA 02101 Dear Attorney General Healey.

It bas been bfouabt to our attention that your office bas been in contact with New Hampshire State Representative Peter Schmick in reprds to the Seabrook Nuclear Piant. With that, it's our understanding that you're in the process of organizing a meetinglfonnn to discuss certain public safety concerns he detailed in bis letter to you dated September 25, 2018.

Considering the close proximity of several communities in our district and their location within the established evacuation ~ these concerns have/continue to generate constituent inquiries (mainly in respoaae to recently published newspaper articles). When considering the relative allegations raised by Mr. Comley, topther with written conespoiidence :&om various public officials, includina but not limited to Representative Schmidt, the public has become increasingly concerned about effectively evacuating the area in the event for a nuclear emergency at tbe Seabrook Nuclear Plant Moreover, this issue has become of gffl8tel" concem since the recent release of a drone recorded video of the Hampton Beach dming the summer tourist season. This video shows the heavy traffic congestion. on the seacoast, consistent with the summer months. The more this videc is vieMd/circuiated, the more questions it continues to raise in regards to the effectiveness of the emergency evacuation of such a large mimber of people with a limited amount of egress from the area.

Therefore, when oonsiderin& all of these issues collectively, we respectfully request m opportunity to attend/participate in any meeting or forum you are in the process of coordinating.

Such participation will allow us to better serve our constituents. especially when acldressm& their ooncems l!elative to public safety.

Thank you for your consideration iim this matter. Should yolli have my questions. please feel he to contact us at your convenience.

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State ofNew Hampshire HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCORD PO Box 1468 Sent Certified. Return Receipt Requested Dover, NH 03821*1468 Sept.25,2018 The Honorable Maura Healey Attorney General of Massachusetts One Ashburton Place Boston, Massachusetta 02108

Dear General Healey,

I am writing t.o you again in re the subject of my previous letter, that is, to most earnestly request you t.o publicly support Stephen Comley, Sr., and We The People's call for an open public meeting in which the First Responders in the region eurrounding the Seabrook Station can testify as to the plans and possibilities for safely, effectively and expeditiously evacuating the Seacoast in the event of a nuclear emergency at the Station. I will not repeat the entire case l previously offered on behalf of this request, as that letter speaks for it.self; but I stand by my stated argument.

There are, however, several subsequent developments which need to be addressed, since I last wrote to you. I take them. in no particular order. First, We The People and Mr. Comley, Sr., have produced a very compelling video of the Hampton Beach area during tM summer high season, which shows the extreme traffic congeeti.on typical of that time; and I think a reaBOnable PfU'~on would really be hard-pressed to avoid the conclusion that any emergency evacuation under such circumstances would be effectively unworkable, certainly not timely, thus leading to potentially disastrous results.

Second, it has come to my attention that Mr. Comley, Sr., participated in some sort of presentation to the MA State Police where serious notes were taken, though it may not have been transcribed verbatim., and that this record has been lost. Since the content of this presentation was reportedly of a sensitive nature, the disappearance of the record is very troubling.

Third, it has been alleged that there is some sort of gag order involving MA officials, reportedly MA State Police o:ffi.cers and NH National Guard personnel. All of these things, while very different, are nevertheless very serious in terms of effective and legitimate government, and official oversight. The surrounding communities in NH and MA are growing more and more concerned about the safety and security of their citizens, especially their senior citizens.

l believe these matters all demand your attention, and appropriate action.

Let me close by again stressing the urgency of permitting the First Responders to inform the local and state governments of Massachusetts and New Hampshire of their present views on the realistic current possibility of protecting and evacuating the people of the Seabrook Station region in the event of a nuclear emeigency. As you know, the surrounding towns of NH and MA, through their governing bodies, have strongly endorsed Stephen Comley, Sr., and We The People's call for this First Responder hearing. May we respectfully, and forcefully, urge you to join them and us in this reasonable and common-sense undertaking.

Please contact me at your earliest opportunity in this regard.

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DATE: February 1, 20m R.E: Stephen. B. Comley Sr. / "We the People"* Seabrook Nuclear Plant ft is my understanding that your office has met with Stephen B. Comley Sr., a constituent from the Town of Rowley and founder of "We the People" (a national whistleblower/nonprofit organization). in regards to Ms coocems/a.lliegations related to the evacuation plans filed by the Seabrook Nuclear Plant.

In addition to his interaction with your office, l\1Ir. Comley continues to contact our office on a regular basis in regards to iliis issue. He insists that he's been provided information from several confidential pubiic safety sources (Massachusetts a.111d New Hampshire), aUegil'1g that the current/adopted evacueition pfan med by the Seabrook l'>!lllCJeM Pfa.111.t. is hleffective dwring the summer months.

Over tlte past t,_:/o years, Iv.1.r. Comley's concems/al!egatiom relative to this issue have been shared with local officials and constituents within the required 10 mile radius (extending inw Massachusetts). As a. resuDt, constituent inquiries regarding the vnabmey of the plan have significantly increased. In some cases, relative concerns have been documented in *writing. in response to Mr.

Comley briefmg a 1iuJLmber of Boards of Select.men {Within the 10 miJe radius) during open/televised meetings.

l fo.rther note, aside from the attention generated from the press and cable access television related to such, Mr. Comley has recently purchased prime commercial billboard space on Rt. l nn the Town of Salisbury. This biHboard is very large and dearly cans the validity of evacuation plan/zone into questiolli.. Simply put, over the past two years, an increased number of individuals/officials within tb.e IO mile radius continue to question viability cf the approved evacuation pla...rns.

GRven that our office tacks the aut.1-i.ority/abHity to investigate Mr. Comiey's alkgations, taking a position cm such (based on Mr. Comley's aHegations) wm.llid be unfair and irresponsible. However, despite my m.JLirnerous representations a,f such to Mx. Comk:y, he continue.s to provide our offDlX: 'with 1

voh.t.!!'Jiies of i.nformation in support of hns position. Altltiough he inc~ca.tes understanding our position, he contends that yov..u:- office asserts having l]O jUtisdict&on in these matters.

During my more recent conversatiom with Mr. Comley, I indicated that I've been in contact with your office and it was my understanding that his documents, concerns and allegations were being reviewed. However, Mr. Comley expressed extreme frustration with the process. He asserts the imonnation he provided to your office contams sufficient a.'1d applicable facts to support an investigation by your False Claims Divisioirn (under the authority of t.i-ie Massachusetts False Claims Act. MGL c. li.2, s. 5Aa50) 1 to investigate the Seabrook Nuclear Plant's evacuation plans. His assertion is based on his contention that the plant has and continues to misiead municipal entities through the use of false claims/statements.

In conclusion, when considering Mr. Comliey's allegations, [ understmd how this statute may apply till this case. However, based on my concerns relative to ilie cl&rity of comm.W1Jcatiom with your office. I believe information contained in thls memo may be hellpfut fo addition to providing your offici:; with a better understanding of his positionl and \ho,w/why it continues to evo]ve in this case, it reiterates and ci&"i.fies the 1.irriitations of otnr offic.-e relatlve to such.

Should you have my qu.estioims, o:r if our oft1ce can be of filljf assista.rice, please let me know.

1 Using the Massachuser-.s False Claims Act. M*.G.L. c. 12, §§ 5A-50, foe false Claims Division conducts c:ivi!

hvestigations aind prosecutions against com!Jar.ies ;md irniavidus!s who misBead or defral.lld state or municipal eatnties through the use of false or fubudu!ent claims, records or statemi:mts. The Massachusetts False Claims Act is a powerful law enforcement statute that authodz.es aripie daoages ami civil penalties of up to $1 i,OOG peir false claim, as weH as the AO's

Bttomeys' costs and fees. T,ie Act also a:llows private lndlviduais krw'1111Il as "relators" to me lawsuits under the r,1'i!assachm,etts Fdse C!2iims Act and to recover a p-o,"lion c:::.'ie prnceeds in successfo; actions, subject tc certain limirations.

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GAG ORDER STATEMENT FROM MA STATE POLICE TROOPER:

I spoke with ............. , at a MA State Police barracks during which .............. stated to me 7/11/14, "during the Dukakis administration, Ma State Troopers were not to comment or make any political statements of any kind whether the Seabrook Evacuation Plan could be implemented safely. .......... went on to state, "I still believe this proclamation is still in effect but the Governor has no authority over the opinions of town police."

This MA State Trooper, has given We The People permission to release this person's name.

Stephen B Comley Sr," I hope Senator Bruce Tarr, Rep. Bradford Hill and Essex County Sheriff, Frank Cousins can convince Governor Charlie Baker to support and protect ............ who also has a family to protect while being a MA State Trooper and first responder for over 30 years."

Comley, "Unfortunately neither Governor Charlie Baker, who I personally spoke with January 7, 2015, about this current GAG ORDER. I also had a lengthy meeting March 10, 2015, with Governor Baker's Director and Deputy Director of Constituent services but neither responded back to me about this GAG ORDER or other information and documents I left with them of WTP5's nuclear safety concerns.

For more information about We The People's please call Cell# 904-206-3114 or e-mail us at scomleysr@yahoo.com GAG ORDER STATEMENT FROM PERSON AT NH NATIONAL GUARD:

"During my tenure at the NH National Guard, my Sergeant Major confided to me that in the 1980's he had been instructed to not discuss publicly that he did not feel the evacuation plans for Seabrook Station were adequate."

11 ln the 1990's, I informed my chain of command of my concerns that the current evacuation plan would require me to leave the EPZ and report to the Concord Military Reservation to pick up a bus and return to the EPZ to pick up citizens who needed assistance in the evacuation."

"I was given a verbal directive to never bring the matter up again."

This individual has given We The People permission to release this person's name.

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Detective Lieutenant Brian O' Riordan, Chief of Staff .,;:o From: Trooper Cristina J. Lucin #3634, Fraud Identification Unit

Subject:

Meeting with Stephen Comley (9/2/2016)

l. Qn, Wednesday, February 7, 2018, I was instructed to retrieve notes from a meeting which occurred on September 2nd, 2016. Mr. Steven Comley, who had requested this meeting, contacted DLT O' Riordan in order to obtain a copy of notes from this meeting. I attended this meeting as part of rny duties whiie assigned to the Office of the Superintendent, and are nmv currently assigned to the State Police Fraud Identification Unit. Despite my best efforts, I am unable to locate notes from this meeting. Therefore. the following report has been written from m.y hcst recollections and memory of that day.

2. On Friday, September 2rui, 2016, l attended a meeting al the State Police Newbury Barracks v,:ith an individual by the name of Stephen Comley. Mr: Comley is the founder of an organization called ..We the People, a non-profit organization he describes as a

\\'histleblowcr organization. Mr. Comley had come unannounced to the home of fonner Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes, in Newbury, to discuss his concerns with the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant (located in Seabrook. New Hampshire). Deputy Hughes (ret.) subsequently agreed to set up a meeting with Mr. Comley and our state emergency management agency (MEMA) to give Mr. Comley an opportunity to voice his concerns v,.:ith our state's emergency management personnel.

3. The meeting took place on Scptcmbcr 2n.i. 20 I hat the Newhury State Police Barracks and w..is atll:ndc<l by th<.' follnwinf mdi,*iduals.

a. Lieutenant Colon-:! Franci:-. ! lug.h...:s. fkputy Superintendent.

Massachusetts State Poli<.:c (retired)

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'\fassadll!sc!!s Emergcncy J',.fonag,.*mcfH Agcm:y ( ~1[]vtA) c:::. Trooper Cristina Lucrn. !\1assachuscl!s State Police

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Comley prn,*iding lc11t.:rs wnm.:n hy !\.lr. Comley to v.inous politicians. various reports about Scahmok I\uckar J>o\\'l'r plams. ,.md articles rdcrcncing Mr.

Comky's acuvitics.

5. Deputy Hughes (retired) n:-cnmmunil'~Hcd to !\tr. Crnnky that the Massachusetts State Police ha\'e prcpan:dncss plans in place for a Yarii:ty of facilities and disasters. which arc constantly hcing rc,*i1..*wcd t k also agn:c<l to review the documentation submitted by !\k Comky. \tr. Comley expressed some concern th.it memhcrs of the Massachusetts State P1..1licc were "being silenced" regarding:

their knowledge of 11aws in the Seabrook Powi:r Phmt. All parties involved assun:d t\lr. Comley that it was Jdinik!y mil the case. tlwt any concern regarding emergency managl'mcnt w;1s \vdcomc from hoth the puhlic and lkp;1rtmcm members.

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Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin March 16, 2018 Superintendent of the MA State Police Certified Return Receipt Requested 470 Worchester Road Framingham, MA 01702 Superintendent, Kerry A. Gilpin, My name is Stephen B. Comley Sr., founder of We The People {WTP) a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization. I am requesting to meet with you as soon as possible.

I want to thank you and your Chief of Staff, Detective Lieutenant Brian O' Riordan, after being contacted by Lisa Morales, Executive Assistant to MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett, in my behalf for instructing Trooper Cristina J. Lucin #3634, Fraud Identification Unit, to retrieve notes from a meeting I had September 2, 2016 with her and then Deputy Superintendent {now retired) Francis Hughes. This meeting took place at the Newbury MA State Police Barracks and was attended by other officials including John Giarrusso, Nuclear Section Chief of the MA Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).

After reading Trooper Cristina J. Lucin's letter of February 14, 2018, (enclosure A) containing her recollections and memory of the September 2, 2016, meeting, I was shocked. Not only was Trooper Luci n's memory of what others and I said and revealed at this meeting not complete or accurate, but Trooper Lucin states in her recollection, any documentation I provided at this meeting, which I have copies of, are now missing. This information included certified letters, important documents, DVDs, and WTP's letter of my July 4, 2014, to Glenn T. Dentel, then Nuclear Regulatory Commission's {NRC) Chief of Division of Reactor Projects, Branch 3, 2100 Renaissance Boulevard, Suite 100, King of Prussia, Penn.

19406-2713. WTP's letter to the NRC of 7-4-2014, included enclosures outlining Cover-Ups by the NRC of unsafe conditions at the Seabrook Nuclear Plant and current inadequacies of Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan. WTP also provided Deputy Hughes, with their permission, the names of WTP's brave informants connected to the present GAG ORDERS on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard.

It is irresponsible to me and many of your colleagues on the State Police, who I talk with routinely, why or how Trooper Lucin could have forgotten I revealed the identities of WTP's informants connected to the GAG ORDERS to Deputy Francis Hughes and others at this meeting including Mr. Giarrusso of MEMA.

My contacts at the NRC are also wondering why no one reported from MEMA's office to FEMA or the NRC what took place during the meeting of 9-2-16. In addition, why hasn't anyone from Maura Healey's Legal Team or from Governor Charlie Baker's office reported to FEMA and the NRC what they are aware of in connection with these GAG ORDERS on the MA State Police and NH National Guard?

WTP and others cannot understand why you haven't Superintendent Kerry A. Gilpin, Governor Charlie Baker or MA Attorney General, Maura Healey "who" WTP reported these GAG ORDERS on different occasions called for a complete investigation of what took place at this meeting of September 2, 2016.

It certainly appears I am the only person who can or is willing to reveal what was said and what copies of information and documents I provided at this meeting. I certainly will make myself available to you or anyone else as long we agree to the date, time, right circumstances, so I can give my recollections of what I knew took place at the this meeting September 2, 2016, at the Newbury MA State Police

Barracks.

Page 2 of We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 to Commander Kerry A. Gilpin of MA State Police.

Many of us have been reading about the ongoing investigation of "MA State Police Troopergate Scandal."

As you and Governor Baker know, this involved former MA State Police Colonel Richard McKean and his second in-command, Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes, who, by the way, I have respect for. They both retired apparently due to altered MA State Police reports involving a Judge's daughter who was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.

WTP's informants from the MA State Police inform me, "McKeon and Hughes fell on the sword to protect higher ups." I know for a fact Governor Baker ignored these GAG ORDERS on our MA State Police, who not only protect and serve us, but who protect Governor Baker when he is at the State House and at his home. I myself informed Mr. Baker twice these informants were told by their superiors not to question and/or discuss any concerns relative to the viability or effectiveness of the approved Seabrook Nuclear Plant's Evacuation Plan. The second time was more recently in 2017. During both of these conversations, I revealed to Mr. Baker that MA Senate Minority Leader, Bruce Tarr, Assistant MA House Minority Leader, Bradford Hill and then Essex County Sherriff, Frank Cousins Jr., had endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for First Responders. Both times Mr. Baker's response to me was, "Mr. Comley, I will meet with these officials about your safety concerns". WTP has recently been informed Governor Baker has never met with Sen. Tarr, Rep. Hill or with former Sherriff Cousins about these important safety issues. Given my years of protecting whistleblowers the longer these courageous informants connected to these GAG ORDERS are ignored by high officials the more danger they and their families could be in.

Since WTP brought this and other troubling information to light, over 200 other MA and NH State Police, together with other first responders from local Police and Fires Stations, have stated to me there is no way the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be evacuated safely and timely in the event of a nuclear disaster, especially during the summer months including July 4 and Labor Day. Even now during the winter months on weekends, traffic is mostly at a standstill because of the new Seabrook Shopping Center which lies along Routes 1 and 95 on land just in front of Seabrook Station. WTP has reported this activity several times to State Troopers stationed at the MA State Police Barracks in Newbury.

WTP wants to make you and your office aware since meeting with MA AG, Maura Healey, on two different occasions, Maura Healey elected to create a 4 member Legal Team, which includes her Chief of Staff, Mike Firestone. Maura Healey setup this Legal Team to supposedly investigate WTP's concerns of unsafe conditions at Seabrook Station and Cover-Ups by the NRC of Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts built into most, if not all, U.S. Plants, including Seabrook.

WTP's informants and I are still waiting, once again, to meet with the MA AG's Legal Team. The last time I met with them was October 18, 2017. When I arrived I was surprised to find out my request to be placed under oath was not granted. WTP's informants and I will agree to meet with MA AG Healey and her Legal Team only if we are placed under oath. so everything becomes a public record.

Please review MEMO (Enclosure B) from Senator Tarr's Chief of Staff, AJ Paglia, to Alicia Rebello-Pradas,

Deputy Chief, Policy and Government Division Office of Massachusetts Attorney General, and one of the 4 Member Legal Team. Mr. Paglia expressed in this MEMO WTP's extreme frustration with the process since providing the Legal Team sufficient and applicable facts to investigate Seabrook's Evacuation Plan.

Page 3 of We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 to Commander Kerry A. Gilpin of MA State Police.

During my meeting with the Legal Team 10-18-2017, I provided them with lots of WTP's documents, including a copy of a transcript of a Tape-Recording of one of WTP's NRC informants. This was just one of the many Tapes Former President George H. W. Bush hired the U. S Department of Justice (DOJ) to seize.

President Bush's pick at this time for his U.S. Attorney General was Richard Thornburg. Mr. Thornburg was the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Cover-Up of the Three Mile Accident (TMI) in 1979 and WTP has and can prove evidence of this scandal. Mr. Thornburg was given the assignment by the Reagan/Bush Administration in 1988 to conduct a witch hunt of WTP's NRC informants. Bush's DOJ, had me under 2 Federal Subpoenas in MA Federal Court for over 6 years with the charge of "Conspiring to Topple the NRC with Roger Fortuna, Deputy (former) Director of the NRC's Office of Investigations."

DOJ was never able to prove existence of any Tape-Recordings they said I might have until a year ago, when I decided to call Mr. Richard Barkley, who I know and respect and incidentally works for the NRC.

decided to admit to Mr. Barkley I did indeed have tapes but would not release any of them to the NRC, DOJ or the FBI. Unlike President Trump I can prove why I do not trust those agencies. Robert Mueller knows of me when he was a U.S. Attorney in MA while I was in Federal Court. Just maybe Special Council Mueller would be willing to work with WTP's informants and me in bringing the truth to the American People about cover-ups of safety by the NRC and the Nuclear Industries.

Commander Gilpin, I also want to make you and your office aware WTP has been successful in getting officials within and outside the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant to endorse WTP's call for the NRC to support a hearing on Seabrook's Evacuation Plan. This includes the Cities of Newburyport and Amesbury, The Towns of Newbury, Salisbury and Merrimac and the 2 Towns of Georgetown and Ipswich outside the radius. All 7 have written letters (Enclosure C) endorsing WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for first responders. The only MA Town of the 6 within the 10 mile Radius of Seabrook Station who has not written a letter to the NRC is the Town of West Newbury. It should be noted, West Newbury's Police Chief and members of the Fire Department do not object for NRC to hold this hearing.

Many first responders throughout the State of MA and beyond are asking why hasn't Commander of the MA State Police, Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Governor Charlie Baker, MA AG, Maura Healey, MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett, endorsed what 7 MA Cities/Towns have done in calling for a NRC Hearing?

This NRC Hearing will give past and former first responders, who also have families to protect, the opportunity to testify whether they believe the Seabrook Evacuation Plan can be implemented safely and timely in the event of Seabrook Nuclear Disaster especially during the summer months.

I want to point out the City of Newburyport and the Town of Salisbury have previously called for the shutdown of the Seabrook Plant. WTP is a Nuclear Safety Advocate and is not calling for the shutdown of Seabrook Station. WTP, instead, is calling for the NRC to hold this first responder's hearing so everyone who lives on the Seacoast is assured a safe evacuation is possible before a nuclear accident

occurs.

To date, I have not received a written or telephone response from Governor Charlie Baker or from any of his many staff members I have contacted concerning my request to meet with him directly about endorsing We The People's call for the NRC to hold a first responders hearing. But I am still hopeful I will hear from Governor Baker so I can meet with him soon.

Page 4 of We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 to Commander Kerry A. Gilpin of the MA State Police In addition to State representatives WTP have contacted elected officials in the Washington Establishment to endorse this NRC Hearing for First Responders. This has included President Trump's newly appointed NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki. Others in the Beltway includes U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Congressman Joseph Kennedy Ill and U.S.

Congressman Seth Moulton. WTP still has not received a reply from any of these U.S. Senators or Congressmen whether they will meet with me or endorse WTP's call for this NRC Hearing.

WTP has also contacted all of the NH Senators, most of the NH State Representatives, newly elected Governor Chris Sununu and NH Attorney General, Gordon J. MacDonald. As of this date, the only NH responsible elected leaders who have endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold this first responder's hearing are, Rep. Peter Schmidt of Dover and Former NH Rep. and Civil defense Director, Roberta Pevear

{Enclosure D) who both have written to the NRC and MA AG, Maura Healey to endorse WTP's call for a First Responders' Hearing. I am also providing you with various media articles, letters and a recent interview of me by Merrimac Cable (Enclosure E) having to do with Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan.

We The People is hopeful I will have the opportunity and honor to meet with you soon, Commander Kerry A. Gilpin. This meeting will give you the opportunity to discuss We The People's concerns about the unsafe conditions at the Seabrook Nuclear plant and the failure of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to protect the safety of the citizens of MA, NH and beyond. I know, Commander Gilpin, you would much rather help prevent a Nuclear Disaster from occurring at Seabrook Station than reacting to one.

Respectfully Submitted, Step 6

n B. Comley Sr.

Founder of We The People a National stleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization CC: MA Sen. Bruce Tarr, MA Rep. Bradford Hill, former Essex County Sherriff, Frank Cousins, Jr., MA AG.,

Maura Healey, Governor Charlie Baker, MA Secretary of Public Safety, Mr. Daniel Bennett, Nuclear Section Chief of MEMA, Mr. John Giarrusso, NRC Nuclear and Environmental Engineer, Mr. Richard Barkley, NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, U.S.

Congressman, Joseph Kennedy 111, U.S. Congressman, Seth Moulton, NH Rep. Peter Schmidt, Former NH Rep. Roberta Pevear, NH Governor Sununu and NH AG, Gordon MacDonald.

Enclosures:

A. Letter of February 14, 2018 to Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Superintendent from: Trooper Cristina J. Lucin

1. 3634, Fraud Identification Unit.

B. MEMO to Alicia Rebello-Pradas, Deputy Chief, Policy & Government Division Office of MA AG from A.

J. Paglia, Chief of Staff for Senator Bruce Tarr.

C. Letters from 7 MA Cities/Towns endorsing WTP's Call for the NRC to hold a first responders hearing.

D. Letters written by NH Reps to the NRC endorsing WTP's call for First Responders Hearing, E. Various media articles, quotes from NRC, letters & a DVD interview about Seabrook's Evacuation Plan.

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Re: FEMA report, Nell, Peter suggested I send you my comments regarding FEMA report which Daily News ran an article on today. I expect ~o get something from Senator Warren's office soon. Will let you know. Hope Gatehouse will consider running my guest column {attached) in their publications. This column seems to have got NRC & FEMA a little upset. Steve Sr.

Stephen B. Comley Sr. comments to FEMA report:

With this FEMA report: Seabrook nuclear plant's evacuation plans OK, just proves once again, the NRC, FEMA, MEMA, many in the National & NH media, and those in the Washington Beltway are lying and rubber stamping the wishes of the Nuclear Industries instead of protection the American people' safety. How can the families who live on the Seacoast trust these government agencies who are willing to leave special needs citizens behind in the event of a nuclear disaster at Seabrook Station which is licensed in the middle of Hampton & Salisbury Beaches? These irresponsible authorities not only are willing to make this segment of our population expendable but our first responders who have families also to protect, are also expendable in the eyes of these agencies because there are GAG ORDERS presently on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard who cannot have an opinion whether the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be effectively implemented safety and timely, Not only are first responders also expendable but right now students in the High schools within the 10 mile radius of Seabrook Station have not had legitimate Nuclear Drills, but just paper ones, like which FEMA &

MEMA are once again saying are OK!!! Not only are these Safety matters being cover-up by NRC, FEMA, MEMA but also the highest officials in MA still will not call for the full investigation of what I &

others said and provided which is now missing at the meeting 9-2-16, former Deputy Commander of the MA State Police, Frank Hughes held and asked me to attend at the MA State Police Barracks in 1

Newbury MA, concerning the effectiveness of Seabrook Station s Evacuation Plan. President calls Washington a swanp, No tweet's wrong again, it a sewer and the high ups at the NRC, FEMA, MEMA, a lot of politicans and members of the press have been swimming in this sewer for years. When I am President I will drain it.

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tect the public." plans were significantly procedures and adequately Staff writer Jack Shea The NRC is responsible lacking, FEMA would notify implemented them." can be reached via email at for oversight of on-site the NRC, at which time the The report states that jshea@newburyportnews.

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Wicked Local Posted Jul 9, 2018 at 9:36 AM A growing number of Massachusetts and New Hampshire communities are raising concerns about the evacµation plan for Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, especially during summer months when roadways are clogged by visitors.

Residents living near nuclear power plants typically receive an important -- albeit ominous --

notice each year explaining what should be done in the event of an emergency.

"Sirens will sound in your community/' according to the._2orn __Emergency_Public_Information_

Calendar, distributed to neighbors of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. "If you hear the siren, go inside your home or a nearby building. Tune to the Emergency Alert System station WOKQ 97.5 FM."

The radio station tells listeners of the emergency, which can range from minor security threats to full-blown nuclear meltdowns. The latter, for readers of a certain age, evokes memories of the Three Mile Island partial meltdown in Pennsylvania and the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine during the 1970s and 1980s.

More recently, in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in Japan reminded the world how unexpected events can quickly transform a clean, highly efficient energy resource into a health, environmental and logistical nightmare.

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But the commission also says a nuclear emergency could _ affect_food _ and_water_within_a_SO-mile radius, which -- between Pilgrim and Seabrook -- would incorporate a large part of Eastern Massachusetts. During the Fukushima disaster, the United States embassy told Americans living within 50 miles of nuclear power plant to evacuate.

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Recently, Seabrook's evacuation plan has become the subject of increased scrutiny, as a growing number of Massachusetts and New Hampshire communities are calling on officials to to review it.

The movement stems from uncertainty about whether the plan would actually work in the event of an emergency, especially during summer months when tourists flock to the beaches and traffic ensnares roadways as travelers go to and from northern New England. Beyond the northeastern part of the state, Connell said it's difficult to imagine what impact tens of thousands of people fleeing south would have on the communities and roadways surrounding Boston and Metro West.

"Quite frankly, I don't think it's a workable plan or even possible in this area with a serious influx of people and a restricted road network," Connell said.

Newburyport, which falls within a 10-mile Emergency Planning _ Zone, for years has raised concerns about the evacuation plan to the NRC.

But in recent months, the city has been joined by neighboring communities in calling for a public, regional meeting with federal officials, along with current and former public safety officials, to talk about the effectiveness of the plan.

At the center of the effort is Stephen B. Comley, a well-known and eccentric Seabrook opponent, who has battled with the NRC for decades.

'Finding a better answer' Comley is the founder of We The People, a self-described national whistleblower nonprofit.

Formerly the owner of a nursing home, the 74-year-old Rowley resident says his advocacy efforts started after the Chernobyl disaster.

l At the time, he said, a paralyzed client asked what she should do in the event of a nuclear meltdown. Comley says federal officials told him the woman should be left behind with a bottle of potassium iodide, a chemical compound used during nuclear emergencies to protect against radiation-related illnesses, along with a nurse to administer it.

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Fast forward three decades and Comley is still trying to find a better answer. Local, state and federal officials know him well. He attends public meetings and political events, handing out packets of documents with transcripts, correspondents and newspaper clippings dating back to the 1980s.

Many of the same documents are attached to the barrage of emails he sends regularly to regulators, elected official and news outlets. Seabrook accuses him of unnecessarily scaring the public, and waging a campaign of misinformation.

"Stephen Comley has waged a campaign of misinformation against Seabrook for nearly 30 years, and his claims have always been found to be without merit," said Peter Robbins, a Seabrook spokesman. "His allegations about Seabrook are intended to gain publicity and scare the public and are simply false."

Comley for years has sent emails, letters and made phone calls to various new organizations, and he accuses outlets and journalists of suppressing information if they deny him coverage.

"Do you know the journalist's creed?" Comley asked recently, referring to a.set. of.ethics created by Walter Williams, the first dean of the Missouri School ofJournalism.

"It says the suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible," he said.

The insistent behavior has landed him in some legal trouble in the past. In 2016, Manchester Police charged Comley with trespassing after employees ofWGIR-AM 610, an iHeartRadio station in Manchester, New Hampshire, complained about his overt attempts to get on the air.

According to police reports, an employee said he heard Comley say, 'Tm going to make sure I get on the radio." The alleged statement was made about eight months after Comley had showed up to the station, also trying to get on air. When he was asked to leave, an employee said he saw Comley lift up his coat to show a gun on his hip, according to police reports.

The incident, however, wasn't immediately reported to police and Comley denies the accusations. Earlier this year he filed a defamation lawsuit against WGIR and its employees.

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It's not the first time he has run for the country's top political office, but he feels like Trump's failure to "drain the swamp" in Washington D.C. has opened the door for him -- "a true outsider," as he describes himself -- to win the next election. Jesus Christ is his campaign manager, he said.

"If Jesus Christ wants me to become the next president of the United States, who can stop it?"

he wrote in a recent op-ed.

Beyond his political aspirations, Comley's well-established local activism related to the Seabrook evacuation plan has yielded some renewed success in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

"We are taking Mr. Comley's concerns seriously and have asked the NRC to provide follow up nformation and (for) a public meeting to be held," said Anthony Marino, Ipswich town

'Caution President Trump' Seven Massachusetts cities and towns over the last year have sent letters to the NRC calling for a meeting.

The municipalities are Amesbury, Georgetown, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport and Salisbury. A handful of New Hampshire towns have also joined the call, including most recently Hampton Falls in June. In the letters, most communities cite either We The People, or Comley himself, as precipitating the request.

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In Massachusetts, Comley's efforts have caught the attention oflawmakers and other statewide

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In an effort to spur more attention, Comley has rented out commercial billboard space alongside Route 1 in Salisbury, addressing Trump directly, and asking him to investigate the NRC.

, "Caution President Trump; Seabrook nuclear zone no evacuation possible; investigate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," according to the billboard.

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"This billboard is very large and clearly calls the validity of evacuation plan/ zone into question.

Simply put, over the past two years, an increased number of individuals/ officials within the 10 mile radius continue to question viability of the approved evacuation plan," according to the memo.

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The NRC, for its part, has responded similarly to most of the letters sent by Massachusetts communities. In the event of an emergency, the federal agency says it's responsible only for the on-site response, whereas the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency -- with approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency-- oversees the off-site response.

To that end, there hasn't been an issue, according to the NRC.

"To date, the NRC has not received any concerns from FEMA regarding the state's capability for implementing their plan, including their capability for evacuating the general public in a timely and safe manner," wrote David C. Lew, acting regional administrator for the NRC, in a Februaryresp()nse to Merrimac selectmen.

Additionally, the federal agency holds annual meetings within the Emergency Planning Zone to discuss Seabrook's overall performance. During the meetings, regulators field questions on various topics, including emergency preparedness.

Connell calls the meeting a" dog and pony show."

"They make happy talk and then they go away and do nothing," Connell said. "It's all for show, from my perspective. We've been asking them to do their job, and not just push the food around the plate, but I don't think they're seriously attempting to provide a plan that's workable."

'Not an immediate pressing concern' Not all communities, however, are terribly concerned about the evacuation plan.

Salisbury selectmen, for instance, sent a letter to the NRC in November, saying they were "very concerned about Seabrook Station and its evacuation plan." But when Wicked Local contacted the town about it on July 3, Town Manager Neil Harrington responded, "The Salisbury Selectmen are not pressing this issue.

"The evacuation plan has been in place for years and I have not heard a single person in Salisbury complain about it, so I guess you could say it is not an immediate pressing concern for the community," he wrote in an email.

Seabrook, to its credit, has never had to turn on its emergency sirens, except during tests. The nuclear station, which generates relatively cheap electricity for thousands of homes and businesses throughout the region, has never had an emergency anywhere near a meltdown.

And with the exception of C.!~C.~5. f?~.1.1:1.i..1.1.S.)1.1. ~~~ ~?!1..~!:~!~f?.~1:1A~!i.?.?.:, first cited about eight years ago, the nuclear power plant has repeatedly passed NRC inspections without violation.

There are many, especially people within the town of Seabrook, who want to see the utility continue to operate, as it generates more than $500 million in economic activity each year, according to the town.

"Seabrook Station has become, quite simply, an irreplaceable regional asset," Seabrook selectmen wrote in a letter of support to the NRC. "It's almost unimaginable to think of where we would be today without the plant."

Seabrook is confident about the effectiveness of the evacuation plan, telling Wicked Local it regularly tests its preparedness through drills with local, state and federal officials.

"Our plans are continually updated and refined to account for changing conditions. Our emergency preparedness plans meet -- and in many cases exceed -- the strict requirements of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Our readiness is also regularly evaluated by the NRC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency," Robbins said.

The near flawless track record for the power station, however, provides little solace to opponents. Comley, in addition to calling for the meeting, has also asked the NRC to deny Seabrook's license extension request. He's also called for NRC Chairwoman Kristine L.

Svinicki to step down for "jeopardizing the safety of citizens and their families who live in

~assachusetts, New Hampshire and beyond," according to a June 25 email to the NRC.

For Connell, a review of the evacuation plan would be a good first step, but he'd ultimately like to see regulators deny Seabrook's license extension.

"Nuclear power plants are robust and overbuilt, but they're not infallible," Connell said.

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TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS TOWN OFFICES, 1 DRINKWATER ROAD 603-926-4618 NEW HAMPSHIRE 03844 June 1, 2018 Kristine L. Svinicki, Chairwoman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

Dear Ms. Svinicki,

The Town of Hampton Falls lies within the ten mile radius of the nuclear reactor located in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Hampton Falls thus is subject to the provisions of an Emergency Response Plan which may or may not be fully understood by the residents who now live here.

A concerned local group lmown as "We The People" has suggested that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been aware of serious weaknesses in the evacuation of residents in the Seacoast, including the Town of Hampton Falls, and has not addressed these concerns pµblically. The Selectmen of Hampton Falls believe in educating the public with regards to safety and evacuation.

The Selectmen of Hampton Falls have not accepted or rejected the allegations of any group but do request the Nuclear Regulatory Commission convene a public hearing with the intent of educating and clarifying any issues surrounding the Plan now in effect.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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CITY OF NEWBURYPORT CrTY CouNCIL NEWBURYPORT CITY HALL April 17, 2018 60 PLEASANT STREET Kristine L. Svinicki, Chairwoman P.O. Box 550 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission N E\'v8URYPORT, MA 01950 Washington, DC 20555-0001

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Dear Ms. Svinicki,

The City of.Newburyport lies within the ten mile radius of the commercial nuclear reactor in Seabrook. New Hampshire. Because of our location we are subject to the provisions of an Emergency Response Plan designed to reduce exposure to radionuclides that may be released in the event of an accident at Seabrook Station.

Mr. Stephen B. Comley, founder of a whistleblower organization called "We The People", alleges that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ignored serious flaws in the Emergency Response Plans. He alleges that the Commission has systematically ignored evidence he provided in support of his claims.

The Newburyport City Council respectfully requests that the Commission fully investigate Mr. Coinley's claims, and convene a local public hearing to assess the effectiveness of Seabrook's Emergency Response Plans.

The Newburyport City Council is unable to judge the veracity of Mr.

Comley's claims because we have not seen his evidence. We believe, however, that he is sincere and that the Commission has an obligation to respond in a timely manner.

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TOWN OF MERRIMAC OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN 2-8 School Street, Merrimac, MA O1860 TEL (978) 346-8862 E-MAIL ~~Jectmen@townofmerrimac.com January 11, 20 I 8 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attn: NRC Chairwoman Kristine L Svincki

Dear Ms. Svincki,

As you know, Merrimac is one of six Massachusetts coastal communities that are within the ten-mile radius of the nuclear power plant. We are writing to express the board's support of the request by Stephen Comley Sr. of We The People to schedule a hearing to prove an opportunity for past and present first responders to testify whether they believe Seabrook Station's evacuation plan can be effectively implemented safely and timely.

Thank you for your consideration.

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• Kristine Svinicki 1 Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulat:Qry Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001

Dear Krist.inc Svinicki,

In the interest of public safety, we -are respectfully requesting that you call a public hearii1g to present, discuss and solicit feedback on. the public safety and ev~cuatio11 plan of the NcxtEr.a Power

Plant located in Seabrook, New I-farnpshitc known as 11 Scab1:ook Staci.on".

~nesbury is one of several coastal communities including Salisbury and Ncwbutyport that arc i"'ithi11 the ten-mile raditis of the nuclear power plan. According.to the 2010 U.S. Census the

~opularion within this ten-mile radius is at least 118,000 year-round residents. Out city of Amesbury is cunen~y estimated at a population of at least 17,000.

Pui-in.g peak summer months, this population swells as vacatio.ners and tourists flock to the region to enjoy the shore communities of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and southern Maine.

WJille there is an evacuation plan .in place for the plant and Amesbury Emergency Management

.(\gency has its own hazard mitigation plan, we al:e co11ccrncd about whether and how the evacuation plan has kept pace *with population growth and inctcascd traffic congestion. We arc particularly I

c;:once1ned with the c-..racuation plans of vulnerable populations i11 area schools, nursing homes, and hospit~ls.

fie are als.o calling for this public heru.-ing to include fust responders who rnn comment on the plan based on their perspecri.ve and profession.al training.

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Town o.f Salisbttry 5 Beach Road Salisbu,y, Massachusetts O1952 Board of Select111e11 (978) 462-8232 ext 100 Chuck Takesian, Chairman Henry Richenburg Freeman J, Condon Ronalee Ray-Parrott Wilma M. McDonald November 8, 2017 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

Dear Ms. Svinicki:

I am writing in response to pu_blic safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B. Comley, Sr., a resident of Rowley, MA, and founder of "We the People," a non-profit national whistleblower organization, regarding the inadequacy of evacuation plan for the Seabrook, NH nuclear power station (Seabrook Station).

According to Mr. Comley, he has been provided information from several confidential public safety sources alleging that the evacuation plan in question is ineffective within the required 10-mile radius (which includes the Town of Salisbury) during the summer months. He also claims that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ignored his public safety concerns. Although the Salisbury Board of Selectme.n does not have substantive infom1ation to support Mr.

Comley's allegations, we nonetheless remain very concerned about Seabrook Station and its evacuation plan.

Therefore, in the interest of public safety, the Board respectfully requests that you hold a public hearing. at a location within the 10-mile radius of Seabrook Station, in order to elicit comments from those public safety and emergency medical response personnel who may have concerns about the evacuation plan. At the very least, such a hearing will give the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission the opportunity to explain to the public how the plan is designed to work, preventing any misinformation and greatly reducing the concern that many residents of our town have as a result of the allegations Mr. Comley has made.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

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Dear Chairman Hawkens:

Tu. 9i8-465*H~i FA).: \J7S-46l- 7916 In the interest of public safety. we are writing you to respectfully request that yol hold a public hearing on your evacuation plan. Newburyport is within the t O-mil1 radius of the nuclear power phmt known as *Seabrook Station' and according to

-the 2010 U.S. Census the populntion within IO miles was no less than 118.000.

Actunlly the population with 50 miles of the plant was 4,315.000 as of 20 Io.

Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr. (founder of "We the People". a non-profit whistleplower protection organization) allc:ges that the evacuation plan is ineffective and that his public safety concems have ~--en ignored. Although we d, not have substantive informatil1n to support Mr. Comley*s allegations we remain very concerned about the plant and s.ifety.

In 2012 th\! l':e\\o"buryport City Council un.inimously passed a resolution which contained. in pertinent part. the folll,wing rcquc..-sted remedial steps:

lmmediutclY. halt all relicensing activiti'--s . related to Seabrook Station:

• Conduct pccr-rc\'iewc.-d studies of the rc.."'actor*s ability to withstand seismi acti\'ity with compromised structural concrete!. and publicly report the results of these studies:

• Fully investigate the cnus..:s of the unabated groundwater infiltration and resulting concrete de~TTud:.ni,:in. and ruhlkly rep<.)r1 the results of such investigati1.m:

• Dc\'ise a corrective action program to address both groundwater infiltration and concrete degradation throughout the facility:

• Require the owner and operator l,f Seabrook Station to take corrective measures to stop b'l'nundwatt!r intiltr:ition and related concrete degradation:

• Inspect and monitor the results of those correctivc;..ri'leastlfd:'<>tet D*'

sustained (multi year} period of time tl'I ensure thQ.t. COrTecti~e'ff\~res arc effective; * *

• lf. following corrective measures and sustained monltotin& the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determines that degradation of-safety structures has not abated, that it suspend the license to operate Seabrook Station until snfe operation of this reactor con be assur<.'Ci.

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We did not hear back from the Nuclear: Regulatory Commission on this request.

We believe that a public hearing on the issue: of the effectiveness of the evacuation plan will. at the very least. explain to the public how the plan is designed to work anJ hopefully this explanati<m will reduce the concern that persists among our residents.

On behalf of the Newburyport City Council .

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Town of Newbury Board of Selectmen 12 Kent Way, Suite 101 Byfield, MA 01922 Phone: 978-465-0862 X301 Fax:978-572-1228 September 25, 2017 Kristine L. Svinicki Chairwoman U.S. Nuctear Regulatory Commission Washington, oc* 20555-0001

Dear Chairwoman Svinicki,

We are writing in response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B.

Comley, Sr., a residentfrom Rowley, MA, and founder of 'We the People", a national whistleblower/nonproflt organization. Among other concerns, Mr. Comley alleges that the evacuation plan in question is Ineffective within the required , o-mile radius during the summer months.

In thejnterest of public safety, we respectfully request that you hold a public hearing at a location within the 10-mile radius. Given the importance of an effective evacuation plan, we believe a public hearing on the issue wm provide your commission the opportunity to not only address the issues* Mr. Comley has raised, but also to explain in more detail how the approved plan is designed to work, thus preventing any mis.information from creating concem or alarm with residents within the 1Ogmile radius.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions.

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Dear Ms. Chairwomen,

We are writing in concurrence to a letter sent to the NRC by our State Senator, Bruce Tarr, dated April 13, 2015. In that letter Senator Tarr requested that you hold a public hearing at a location within the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook, NH power plant, to explain in detail.how the evacuation plan is des;gned to work, particularly during the usually heavfly crowded summer months.

We believe a hearing on the issue will help prevent any misinformation from creating concern or alarm within the 10 mlle radius and directly outside the radius, where Georgetown is located.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Ple,'lse feel free to contact us directly, should you have any questions.

Sincerely, Georgetown Board of Selectmen

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State ofNew Hampshire HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCORD PO Box 1468 Dover, NH 03821-1468 August 11, 2017 CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED The Honorable Maura Healey Attorney General of Massachusetts One Ashburton Place Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Dear General Healey,

By way of introduction, I am State Representative Peter B. Schmidt, a fifteen year member of the NH House, with eight of those years as Chairman -0f the Strafford County delegation, and having previously served three years on the Dover City Council. I have lived on the NH Seacoast since 1983. I write to you today on a matter of great urgency. My views are my own.

During my time in public office, and having grown up in the nuclear age, I have kept an eye on developments at Seabrook Station, with a general concern for the nuclear industry, both nationally and world.wide. Public safety has been a significant consideration for me at all times. Having attended Atomic, Biological and Chemical (warfare)

School in the U.S. Marine Corps many years ago, I have had a decades-long keen interest in nuclear issues; and I have followed the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters quite closely. The question of a rapid evacuation of the populace in the event of an impending or actual emergency has occupied my thoughts during this entire period.

The unworkability* of present evacuation plans is ever more pressing to those tasked with carrying out these plans; and in the recent past my chance encounter with Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr now motivates me to urge you and your office to meet with him at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Comley is Founder of We The People; a National Whistle blower Protection Non-Profit. The wealth of evidence he has shown me establishes unequivocally the high priority of addressing the needs of our and your first responders. This Fourth of July produced the absolute worst traffic jam I have experienced here in thirty-four years, just for people trying to go north for a long weekend.

What would the entire area around Seabrook look like in a nuclear emergency? What would it mean for our states to face the dead zone, the "ghost coast" that a serious failure at Seabrook Station would entail? Look at Fukushima.

Your office has a responsibility to do everything in its power to prevent such a catastrophe here. Mr. Comley's documentation is very persuasive as to the danger we face. Please meet with him and endorse We*The People's call f~r the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold a first responders hearing so they can testify whether they believe the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be evacuated safely and timely during the summer months, including July 4 and Labor day.

Please act. The first responders need and deserve it; our citizens, no less.

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Dear Attorney General Healey:

As a former 10-year member of the New Hampshire House of Representative; serving Hampton Falls/Hampton, and the form-er 10-year Hampton Falls Civil Defense Director, I support the request of "We The People" for a first responder hear-ing for the Seabrook nuclear plant evacuation plan.

I was the prime sponsor of the bill that gave us an evac-uation plan; however, even though we got it up to ten miles, instead of two, as it came out of the Legislature, it obviously could not work, and, as I understand it, it doesn't get tested.

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Dear Chaim1an Hawkens:

We are writing in response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr., a resident from Rowley, MA., and founder of "We the People", a national whistleblower/nonprofit organization. According to Mr. Comley, he has been provided infonnation from several confidential public safety sources alleging that the evacuation plan in question is ineffective within the required l 0-mile radius during the summer months.

Furthennore, aside from alleged ineffectiveness of the evacuation plan, Mr. Comley aJleges that the public safety concerns brought to his attention were systematically suppressed. According to Mr. Comley, many of the same public safety sources allege being ordered by superiors not to question and/or discuss any concerns relative to the viability or effectiveness of the approved evacuation plan.

.Although we have not been provided any further substantiating infonnation to support Mr. Comley's allegations and concenrs, they have been recently published. Thus, they have been generating public safety concerns, mainly from residents within the I 0-mile radius.

Therefore, in the interest of public safety, we respectfu1ly request that you hold a public hearing at a location within the 10-mi]e radius. Given the importance of an effective evacuation plan. we believe a public hearing on the issue will provide your commission the opportunity to not only address the issues Mr. Comley has raise, but also to explain in more detail how the approved plan is designed to work, thus preventing any misinfonnation from creating concern or alam1 with residents within the l 0-mile radius.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions.

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I am the Sheriff of E.orwex: CoW1ly, MA. A resldenl of Essex County Massachusetts, Stephen Comley Sr.. SO Mansion Drive. Rowley, MA presenting himself a, a whi)11eblower, has taised cuncerns about several regulatory i~ucs than tall within the purview of the Federal Nuclear Power Regulatory Commission.

l um aware that Mr. Comley has been nn netive erilic of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant ,ince the initial licensing of the facility. In fact. Mr. CCirnlcy founded a non*prof'il.

or&arli7..ation, *'We the People:* in un effort to bring his c<.>nccms forwan;i. Mr. Comley appetus to nu~ serious a.Ucgntions relative to die :mitnliili1y of the evacuation plan for the Seabrook facility and the surrounding.communities a., well a.~ allegations penaining to the use and utilization oflhc 5Ubstandard parts and equipmcnl nt lhc Seahmnk Nuclear Power Plant..

J onderstand that Mr. Comley has brought these concern~ to a Ion~ li:;t of wile :md feJcrnl officials. lie asser1s thnl the concerns he miscd have not hccn addressed. J am writing to your oflicc since you are the npproflriatc liccn~ing and regulatory agency lhnt has lhc oversighl for the ~ubjc-ct msttero.fth~ concern~ rai~~d hy Mr. Comlc:y. Uivcn the nature of the safety conccms that arc hcing miseu, I simply would like written confirmation from the- NRC th:it pmper attention ha~ heen given rn the issues raised before considemlion is given tn rene\V the license to 01'1\:ralc.

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Dear Chairman Hawkens,

We are writing ln response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr., a constituent from the Rowley, MA-, and founder of "We tt,e People," a national whistleblower/nonprofit organization.

According to Mr. Comley, he has been provided information from several confidential public safety sources alleging that the evacuation plan in question is ineffective withtn the required 10 mile radius during the summer months.

Furthermore, aside from the alleged ineffectiveness of the evacuation plan, Mr. Carnley alleges that the public safety concerns brought to his attention were systematically suppressed. According to Mr. Comley,

. many of the same public safety sources allege being ordered by superiors not to question and/or discuss any concerns relative to the viability or effectiveness of the approved evacuation plan.

AtthouJh we have not been provided any further substantiating information to support Mr. ComJeys allegations *and concerns, they have been recently published. Thus, they have been generating public safety concerns, mainly from residents within the 10 miJe radius.

Therefore, in the interest of public safety, we respectfully request that you hold a public hearing at a location within the 10 mile radius. Given the importance of an ~ffective* evacuation plan, we believe a pubnc

• hearing on the issue will provide your commission the opportunity to not only address the issues Mr. Comley has raised, but also to explain in more detail how the approved plan ts designed to work, thus preventing any misinformation from creating concern or alarm with residents within the 10 mile radius.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Please feel free to contact us directly, should you have any questions.

Sincerely, 8~1).*'714 Bruce E. Tarr State Representative State Senator second Assistant Minority Leader Minority Leader

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Schmidt to MA AG, Maura Healey & New WTP AD). Please, also, state you will make sure my letter to you of 10-26-2018, with attachments, will be made a public record in ADAMS of

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) public document room.

Thank yoy for sending your letter to me of October 26, 2018 (attached) which_ 1. did not receive until November 2, 2018. In the future, as Mr. Barkley did previously, please scan, and send in an e-mail, any new letters and documentation you intend to mail me, so I receive them as soon as possible.

In addition, concerning your letter to me, with attachments, of October 26, 2018, which states, in part, the following, "Because we have previously addressed these issues, we plan to take no further action regarding the information you provided as referenced in the enclosure to this letter ..... Regarding your voicemail, we have carefully reviewed it and determined!!

raises no new issues within our purview ..... Finally. as requested, I am sharing your concerns and this reply with the Office of the NRC Chairman for whatever action deemed appropriate. I am also sharing this reply with the NRC Office of Inspector General". in all due respect, Mr. Bower, you did not address any of the comments or direct questions that are new which I specifically asked of you, in e-mail messages below, of September 9-6, 12, 13, 24 and 26 of 2018.

The following are just some of my questions and comments which I am highlighting. and would like to request, again, that you address. I believe, indeed, these are part of your and NRC's IG, Mr. Bell's perview:

AA. In reference to my 9-26-2018 e-mail: "Mr. Bower, would you please add the following inquiries to my other questions, and comments to your replies to We The People (WTP),

which you stated would be addressed within the time frame of 30 to 60 days?

We The People (WTP), and some in the National Media, are wondering if the NRC or anyone else in an official compacity, is still interested in obtaining WTP's tape-recordings, which you know I now admit to possessing? The Department of Justice (DOJ), in representing the interests of the NRC, were extremely vigorous, and used countless ~mounts of hard-earned taxpayers' money, during the DOJ's over 6 years of attempting to seize WTP's tapes, while they had me in MA Federal Court.

Why is no one at FEMA or at the NRC, including Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki, and especially NRC's IG, Hubert Bell, who is supposed to be the NRC Watchdog, interested in these tapes? Given these circumstances, WTP will continue to stay in contact with Special Council Robert Mueller, who I believe, will especially be interested in WTP's tapes of Rudolph Giuliani and his Staff's involvement while he was New York's U.S. Attorney concerning the Cover-ups of Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Part's Scandal by then former NRC Executive Director, Victor Stello."

BB. In reference to 9-24-2018 e-mail: "Mr. Bower, please take note of the following corrections to We The People's e-mail to you of September 13, 2018. The 62 minute conversation I had with one of your assistants, August 31, 2018, should have been and read, 8:01 - 9:03 AM instead of 8:56 - 9:03. Please confirm you are making this correction to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Adams Public document Room and your office will notify

NRC Chairwoman, Kristine Svinicki of the same".

CC In reference to 9-12-2018 e-mail of my letter with attachments of 9-11-2018 to you:

"Thank you for responding to niy voicemail to you on September 6, 2018. Frankly, I was shocked to learn and see part of your response (below) to me which read, "Please be informed that I did not take ; therefore, do not have any notes from this deleted voicemail".

Part of my questions and comments to you contained in this Voicemail, September 6, 2018, were the following:

"We The People (WTP) believes Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairwoman, Kristine I. SVINICKI, as well as those who are in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), have a responsibility to call for a full investigation of the September 2, 2016, meeting with deputy Massachusetts (MA) State Police Commander, Francis Hughes, between WTP, the Commander and others, including, Mr. John Giarrusso, Director of Nuclear Affairs of the MA Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)".

"WTP also believes if Chair Svinicki continues to ignore our request she will be impeding this probe like other government entities in MA, which includes Governor Charlie Baker, MA Attorney General Maura Healey's 4 Member Legal Team, MA Officials of MEMA, MA State Police Commander, Col. Kerry Gilpin and MA Department Public Safety Secretary, Daniel Bennett. WTP has brought our emergency planning concerns to each of them and at this meeting, 9-2-16, pertaining to Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan. Part of this information WTP provided was the names of WTP's brave whistleblowers, with their permission, connected to GAG ORDERS presently on the MA State Police and NH National Guard. WTP wants NRC Chair Svinicki, also, to be made aware, WTP gave Deputy Commander Francis Hughes a copy of WTP's letter with enclosures, of July 4, 2014, written to your predecessor, Glenn T. Dentel. As you know from past voice messages and letters WTP has sent, and you have acknowledged in letters to WTP, the notes taken and information WTP provided at this meeting have been documented (attached) as now missing or have been destroyed"'.

Continuing on in reference to my questions and comments in 9-12-2018 e-mail about my letter with attachments of 9-11-2018 to you:

"Mr. Bower, due to your admission you have destroyed comments I made on the voice mail I sent you , 9-6-2018, please respond to these following questions:

A. Did NRC Regional General Counsel, Brett Klukan, advise you to erase and eradicate this e-mail of 9-6-2018?".

!, Are you aware, Mr. Bower, of a conversation I had yesterday with your Assistant, Jerry Powell?

C. If you are, what is your understanding of the content of this conversation I had with Ms.

Powell?

D. Is there a current record of the notes Ms. Powell took of my requests? One of my requests was that I wanted to be made aware of the correct spelling of an additional assistant of yours and the notes this person took from and during our conversation of August 31, 2018. This conversation lasted 62 minutes from 8:56 - 9:03 Am (should be 8:01 - 9:03.) I was assured by this Assistant the notes she had taken would reflect what this person and I said during this time we were on the phone.

~. Mr. Bower, have you been able to review these notes?

F. If so, "Yill the NRC and you provide me with a copy of them?.

Part of these notes contained my reading from a Transcript of one of the Tape-Recordings at the time when former President George H. W. Bush assigned his Attorney General, Richard Thornburg, to seize, and which the NRC said I made, during the time I was in MA Federal Court for over 6 years. The Federal Subpoena said: "Stephen B. Comley (SR) is conspiring to "Topple the NRC" with Roger Fortuna, Former Deputy Director of the NRC Office of nvestigation, and if Comley does not give up these tape-recordings he has made of onversations of high officials in Washington, he could be jeopardizing the safety of the merican People and the security of U.S. Nuclear Plants across the country".

As you know, Mr. Bower, you and many others at the NRC are aware, WTP's informants and I found we could trust and work with the first NRC IG, David Williams, during his watch over wrongdoings by Victor Stello and others, who were covering up safety concerns. Your office/\

through correspondence to Mr. Bell, has confirmed I have admitted to having these tape-recordings. I am wondering why Mr. Bell hasn't yet contacted WTP? You and others at th NRC know MA AG's Legal Team has a copy of a transcript of one of WTP's NRC informants.

This also is stated in one of my published guest columns (attached}. MA AG's 4 Member Legal Team which Maura Healey, herself, assembled, was to investigate WTP's concerns of Seabrook Station and cover-ups of other safety concerns by the NRC. This Legal Team included her former Campaign Director and now Chief of Staff,_Mike Firestone, who asked me to attend a meeting he held in the MA AG's Office on October 18, 2017. During this meeting, we discussed many topics. This was also about some, unrelated to Nuclear, issues including MA State Medicaid and lnsuance Fraud which, to this day, were not acted on by the MA AG'a Legal Team. WTP also provided lots of documentation, including the July 4, 2014, letter with enclosures, to Mr. Dentel. Also at this meeting, I elected to give the Legal team the names of WTP's brave individuals, with their permission, connected to the GAG ORDERS. As of this date, neither Governor Baker, MA AG, Maura Healey, nor any of her 4 Member legal Team has taken the time to contact or have shown support to WTP's GAG ORDER * ~

informants. No wonder Whisleblowers say to me, "We feel like ROAD KILL when no one pays attention to our nuclear safety issues". Without a doubt, Maura Healey's 4 Member Legal Team's investigations of WTP concerns at Seabrook Station and Cover-ups by the NRC of Nuclear Safety conditions is at a standstill.

Hopefully, MA AG Healey, Governor Baker, U.S. Senators Warren, Edward Markey, and ~

Congressmen Kennedy and Moulton will have time now that the Mid-Term re-elections are ~

completed will endorse what 7 MA Cities/Towns Officials and some in NH have done in

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calling for the NRC/FEMA to hold a hearing for First reaponsers.

Placing political asperations ahead of constituents' safety can be very costly to both fronts.

In addition, because of past threats on my family, ancf a recent one on me, I wanted everything to be on the record if something should happen to me. I requested, before I met with Maura's Legal Team, October 18, 2017, that I be placed under oath. When I arrived at the MA AG Office, my request to have my testimony to be recorded was denied. During this meeting, I gave Maura Healey's Chief of Staff, Mike Firestone, a copy of a transcript of a ,,

conversation I had with an NRC informant, but with the understanding this transcript would not be released unless WTP gives the MA AG Office Permission. This transcript expresses this NRC informant's disappointment that Edward Markey chose not to pursue some nuclear safety matters given to him. Part of this conversation states: "Markey knows it is dirty, he believes it but evidently he is tired, bored or whatever and he is dilettante. I'll be candid K

with you. He is kind of guy, he was playing Chernobyl for a while, so he is bored with other stuff. I hear he wants to get off that committee. You know, it is not sexy enough for him, he wants to try something else next year so he runs and gets re-elected".

Other comments I made to your Assistant during our conversation, August 31, 2018, included, "Rudolph Giuliani's involvement in the cover-up by Victor Stello and others at the NRC of the counterfeit substandard Nuclear Parts still built and present in most if not all U.S, Nuclear plants including Seabrook Station. Mr. Giuliani's participation (See NYT"s article attached) took place in early 1988. Sixty Minutes reporter, Marty Bergman, who after contacting WTP, convinced Mr. Giuliani to meet with WTP and our informants connected to the Bogus Nuclear Parts National Scandal. As WTP was told, Giuliani was tired of being the U.S. Attorney in New York, and wanted to make a big splash just before leaving the U.S.

Attorney's Office so he could then get a leg up on his wish to become Mayor of NY. I mentioned to your Assistant, also, WTP has tape-recordings of Mr. Giuliani's involvement during the time when he was NY's U.S. Attorney and had jurisdiction over the Indian Point Nuclear Plant, who at that time, had and presently has substandard Nuclear Components built in the plant".

I also, during my conversation with your Assistant on 8-31-2018, provided information about the Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts Cover-up to then Presidential Candidates Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson. These videos can be viewed on 4- 1 minutes DVDs, by clicking on my Web site: www.stephencomleysr.net (Or go on You Tube).

All three candidates said on video they would get back to WTP regarding this information I mentioned to them about WTP's nuclear safety matters. To date, none of these Presidential Candidates or, now President Trump has chosen to contact WTP or me.

Mr. Bower, are you starting to believe, as I do, because of the information and documentation you and others within the Agency are now aware of from WTP, there is a very good chance you, myself, as well as other past and present employees of the NRC and Nuclear Industries, will at some poi~fr be subpoenaed soo~r or later by an investigative task force who has the authority to lnves 1gate the NRt:?°""

I feel it is only right for WTP and I to inform you, we have not only been in touch with Special

Counsel, Robert Mueller, but WTP and I have also been in contact with Michigan's U.S.

Representative, Debbie Dingell. Rep. Debbie Dingell, as you know, is a member of the United tates House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. In case you are not aware already, Rep. Debbie Dingell's fathtr, John Din~ell is the responsible official that WTP worked with, and gave the information to, which lead to the Government Accounting Office (GAO} Investigative Report entitled," NUCLEAR SAFETY AND HEALTH: Counterfeit and Substandard Products Are a Governmentwide Concern".

I am looking forward to working with Rep. Debbie Dingell and Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. During my observations of Mr. Mueller's legal proceedings and investigations, I have developed a lot of respect for him, due to the fact he does not allow powerful individuals or corporations to influence him in any way to keep him from his goals of exposing those involved in cover-ups of corruption.

I In closing, We The People's Associates, and I, hope you and I can continue to keep an open dialogue so truths will become known of the past and present Cover-ups of Nuclear Safety Concerns by the NRC and Nuclear Industries. By You, WTP's associates and I working together about nuclear safety concerns, the American People can begin to be assured ~hat protection and safety of their families are the number one priority of the NRC, and not the Profits of the Nuclear Industries.

If you need further clarification, or comment from me, do not hesitate to contact me.

Step en B. Comley Sr.,

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization and Officially a 2020 Republican Candidate for President of the United States From: Stephen Comley <s.comley.sr@outlook.com>

Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:15 PM To: Bower, Fred

Subject:

Fw: Re: RECEIPT OF S. COM LEV'S SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICEMAIL PLEASE CONFIRM YOU WERE ABLE TO OPEN ALL 15 ATTACHMENTS Fred Bower, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 3 Division of Reactor Projects 2100 Renaissance Boulevard, Suite 100 King of Prussia, PA 19406

Mr. Bower, would you please add the following inquires to my other questions and comments to your replies to We The People (WTP) you stated would be addressed within the time frame of 30 to 60 days? WTP and a lot of others are wondering if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission {NRC), or*anyone else in an official compacity, is stir! interested in obtaining WTP's tape-recordings which you know I now admit to processing? The Department of Justice {DOJ), in representing the interests of the NRC, were extremely vigorous and used countless amount of hard earned taxpayers' money during the DOJ's over 6 years of attempting to seize WTP's tapes while they had me in MA Federal Court.

It certainly appears, to WTP and many others including the media, no one at FEMA or at the NRC including Chairwoman, Kristine I. Svinicki, are interested in these tapes? So, WTP will continue to stay in contact with Special Council Robert Mueller, who I believe, will espe.cially be interested in WTP's Tapes of Rudolph Giuliani and his Staff's involvement while he was New York's U.S Attorney concerning Cover-ups of Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Part's Scandal by then former NRC Executive Director, Victor Stello.

Please reply,

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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 7:37 AM To: Bower, Fred

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Fw: Re: RECEIPT OF S. COMLEY'S SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICEMAIL Mr. Bower, please take note ofthe following corrections to We The People's e-mail to you of September 13, 2018. Tlie 62 minute conversation I had with one of your assistants, August 31, 2018, should have been and read, 8:01 - 9:03 AM instead of 8:56 - 9:03. Please confirm you are making this correction to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Adams Public Document Room and your office will notify NRC Chairwoman, Kristine Svinicki of the same.

If you need further clarification or comment from me please contact me.

From: Stephen Comley <s.comley.sr@outlook.com>

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:07 PM To: Bower, Fred Cc: Klukan, Brett; Bruce E Tarr; Bradford R. Hill; Attilio J Paglia; Merrick, Brian (EPS); fema-r1-info@fema.dhs.gov; Rojas, Nancy (USAMA); Firestone, Mike (AGO); Rebello-Pradas, Alicia; Schofield, Seth (AGO); Young, Jessica (AGO); Dean.Serpa@State.ma.us

Subject:

Re: Re: RECEIPT OF S. COMLEY'S SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICEMAIL Mr. Bower, thank you for getting back to me. I also sent you a earlier voice message today at 3:01 PM, with more comments from me. I suggest you keep a copy of those comments also.

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Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization From: Bower, Fred <Fred.Bower@nrc.gov>

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:53 PM To: Stephen Comley Cc: Klukan, Brett; Bower, Fred

Subject:

RE: Re: RECEIPT OF S. COMLEY'S SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICE MAIL Mr. Comley, I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your below (September 11/12, 2018) email. This document will be entere~ into ADAMS and any of the attachments not previously submitted and already in ADAMS will be also be added to ADAMS, as appropriate. My initial review of your email did not identify any immediate safety or security concerns; therefore, we will respond to your email as soon as we are able to do so, likely within 30 - 60 days.

Sincerely, Fred Bower USNRC Region I Branch Chief with Oversight Responsibility for Salem, Hope Creek and Seabrook I 2100 Renaissance Boulevard, STE 100, King of Prussia, PA 19406 I lif: (610) 337-5200 I From: Stephen Comley [2]

Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 3:13 PM

To: Bower, Fred <Fred.Bower@nrc.gov>

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[External_Sender] Re: RECEIPT OF S. COMLEY'S SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICEMAIL PLEASE CONFIRM YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OPEN THE 11 ATTACHMENTS COMPLETELY Fred Bower, Chief September 11, 2018 Reactor Projects Branch 3 Division of Reactor Projects 2100 Renaissance Boulevard, STE 100 King of Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. Bower:

Thank you for responding to my voicemail to you on September 6, 2018. Frankly, I was shocked to learn and see part of your response (below) to me which read, "Please be informed that I did not take; therefore, do not have any notes from this deleted voicemail".

Part of my message and comments to you contained in this Voicemail, September 6, 2018, were the following:

We The People (WTP) believes Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Ch~airwoman, Kristine L.

Svinicki, as well as those who are in charge of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), have a responsibility to call for a full investigation of the September 2, 2016, meeting with Deputy Massachusetts (MA) State Police Commander Francis Hughes between WTP, the Commander and others, including, Mr. John Giarrusso Director of Nuclear Affairs of the MA Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).

WTP also believes if Chair Svinicki continues to ignore our request she will be impeding this probe like other government entities in MA, which includes Governor Charlie Baker, MA Attorney General Maura Healey's 4 member Legal Team, MA Officials of MEMA and Public Safety Departments. WTP has brought our emergency planning concerns to each of them and at this this meeting, 9-2-16, pertaining to Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan. Part of this information WTP provided was the names of the brave whistleblowers with their permission, connected to GAG ORDERS presently on the MA State Police and NH National Guard. WTP wants NRCChair Svinicki, also, to be made aware WTP gave Deputy Commander Francis Hughes a copy of WTP's letter with enclosures, of July 4, 2014, written

f to your predecessor, Glenn T. Dentel. As you know from past voice messages and letters WTP has sent, and you have acknowledged in letters to WTP, the notes taken and information WJP provided at this meeting have been documented as now missing or have been destroyed.

I also want to make you aware, I took your advice and recommendation and have been in touch with Mr. Douglas F. Wolcott, Jr., Acting Deputy Regional Administrator FEMA, Region I.

(see Attached Letter). In addition, I have contacted District of MA, U. S. Attorney, Andrew E. Lelling. As you and the NRC may or may not know, Mr. Lelling has taken over, from the MA AG's Office, the MA State Police ongoing and widely publicized "Trooper Gate Scandal".

Unfortunately, WTP has not been contacted since being in touch with Mr. Lelling's office if his office has any intention, from the documentation WTP has provided, whether Mr. Lelling's office intends to make this a part his ongoing investigation of MA State Police Scandals. WTP believes this should include what I know and others said, together with what documentation WTP provided, at this meeting held at the MA State Police Barracks in Newbury MA 9 2016. As the NRC and many others know, I was asked to attend this meeting by Former Deputy Commander of MA State Police, Francis Hughes, who by the way WTP and I have a lot of respect for.

WTP wants you and Chairwoman Svinicki to know on September 6, 2018, I had a another conversation with Mr. Brian 0. Merrick, MA Legislative Liaison, Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Mr. Merrick informed me of the following: "Mr. Comley, you have provided substantial information to confirm your charges to us concerning the September 2, 2016, meeting at the MA State Police Barracks in Newbury MA". I replied: "Why hasn't MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett, required a full investigation of what occurred at the meeting of September 2, 2016?" I also mentioned to Mr. Merrick: "The longer Mr.

Bennett and Governor Baker waits, the worse it looks". Mr. Merrick replied: " I understand Mr. Comley". I then stated: "As you know, Mr. Merrick, the Boston Herald's article (attached) of February 2, 2018, entitled, "Just How Low Have The Staties Fallen?" It included this Statement: "How High? The Lawyer for the Troopers suing over orders tq falsify arrest records says the just-retired ranking officer told them orders to change the records came form Public Safety and Security Secretary Daniel Bennett". Mr. Merrick's reply to this statement was:" Mr. Comley, that is not true". I replied:" I am glad to hear Mr. Bennett did not order the Police reports to be altered. Then why hasn't Mr. Bennett, to date, asked for a full investigation of the meeting 9-2-16?". Mr. Merrick then stated: "I will pass on your comments to Mr. Bennett".

Mr. Bower, due to your admission you have destroyed comments I made on the voice mail I sent you 9-6-2018, please respond to these following questions:

C A. Did NRC Regional General Counsel, Brett Klukan, advise you to erase and eradicate this e-mail of 9-6-2018?

B. Are you aware, Mr. Bower, of a conversation I had yesterday with your Assistant, Jerry Powell?

~- If you are, what is your understanding of the content of this conversation I had with Ms.

Powell?

D. Is there a current record of the notes Ms. Powell took of my requests? One of my requests was that I wanted to be made aware of the correct spelling of an additional Assistant of yours and the notes this person took from .and during our conversation of August 31, 2018. This conversation lasted 62 minutes from 8:56 - 9:03 AM (should be 8:01- 9:03.) I was assured by this Assistant the notes she had taken would reflect what this person and I said during this time we were on the phone.

E. Mr. Bower, have you been able to review these notes?

F. If so, will the NRC and you provide me with a copy of them?

Part of these notes contained my reading from a Transcript of one of the Tape-Recordings where former President George H. W. Bush assigned his Attorney General, Richard Thornburg, to seize, and which the NRC said I made during the time I was in MA Federal Court for over 6 years. The Federal Subpoena said: " Stephen B. Comley (SR) is Conspiring to

'Topple the NRC' with Roger Fortuna, former Deputy Director ofthe NRC Office of Investigations, and if Comley does not give up these Tape-recordings he has made of conversations of high officials in Washington, he could be jeopardizing the safety of the American People and the Security of U.S Nuclear Plants across the country".

As you know, Mr. Bower, you and many others at the NRC are aware, WTP's informants and I found we could trust and work with the first NRC IG, David Williams during his watch over wrongdoings by Victor Stello and others who were covering up safety concerns. Your office, through correspondence to Mr. Bell, has confirmed I have admitted to having these tape-recordings. I am wondering why Mr. Bell hasn't contacted WTP yet? You and many others at the NRC know MA AG's Legal Team has a copy of a Transcript of one of WTP's NRC informants. This also is stated in one of my published guest columns (attached) . MA AG's 4 member Legal Team which Maura Healey, herself, assembled was to investigate WTP's concerns of Seabrook Station and Cover-ups of other safety concerns by the NRC. This 4 member Legal Team included her Chief of Staff, Mike Firestone, who asked me to attend a meeting which was held in the MA AG's Office on October 18, 2017. During this meeting, we discussed many topics. WTP also provided lots of documentation, including the July 4, 2014, letter with enclosures, to Mr. Dentel. Also at this meeting, I elected to give the Legal Team the names of WTP's brave individuals, with their permission, connected to the GAG ORDERS.

In addition, because of past threats on my family and a recent one on me, I gave Maura Healey's Chief of Staff, Mike Firestone, a copy of a Transcript of a conversation I had with an NRC informant, but with the understanding this transcript would not be released unless WTP gives the MA AG Office permission. This Transcript expresses this NRC informant's disappointment that Edward Markey chose not to pursue some nuclear safety matters given to him. Part of this conversation states: "Markey knows it is dirty, he believes it but evidently he is tired, bored or whatever and he is dilettante. I'll be candid with you. He is kind of guy, he was playing Chernobyl for a while, so he is bored with other stuff. I hear he wants to get off that committee. You know, it is not sexy enough for him, he wants to try something else next year so he runs and gets re-elected".

Other comments I made to your Assistant during our conversation, August 31, 2018, included Rudolph Giuliani's involvement in the Cover-up by Victor Stello and others at the NRC of the

Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts still built and present in most is not all U.S. Nuclear Plants including Seabrook Station. Mr. Giuliani's participation (See NVT's article attached) took place in early 1988. Sixty Minutes reporter Marty Bergman who, after contacting WTP, convinced Mr. Giuliani to meet with WTP and our informants connected to the Bogus Nuclear Parts National Scandal. As WTP was told, Giuliani was tired of being the U.S. Attorney in New York, and wanted to make a big splash just before leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office so he could then get a leg up on his wish to become Mayor of NY. I mentioned to your Assistant, also, WTP has tape-recordings of Mr. Giulian i's involvement during the time when he was NY's U.S. Attorney and had jurisdiction over the Indian Point Nuclear Plant, who at that time, had .and presently has Substandard Nuclear Components built in the plant.

I also, during my conversation with your Assistant on 8-31-2018, provided information about the Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts Cover-up to then-Presidential Candidates Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson which can be viewed on 4 - 1 minute videos clicking the Icon down on the first page to VIEW WORK of my Web site: www.stephencomleysr.com.

All three said on video they would get back to WTP regarding this information I mentioned to them about nuclear safety matters. To date none of the three contacted WTP or me again.

Just for the record, it was Trump's former Washington Campaign Manage~rey,.

l L~'O!gndowsk1 after talking with me on the phone, who set up an appointment with the Trump's Manager in Manchester, NH, Mathew Ciepiowski, to look into WTP's information of Bogus Parts involving Seabrook Station. Obviously Mr. Lewandowsky recognized that the Seabrook Nuclear Plant was located in the First Primary State of NH. Mr. Ciepiowski went through WTP's documentation that included my letter of July 4, 2014, with enclosures to then-NRC Chief of Reactor Projects, Glenn Dentel. Two of these enclosures were two letters.

One was from then-NRC IG David Williams's Office to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (attached) to investigate whether President Reagan ignored evidence I provided about the use of Counterfeit Substandard Parts throughout the Nuclear industry. Second letter (attached) was written by former Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, to the Department of Justice (DOJ): " I am sorry to hear that you have not yet received a letter from the DOJ regarding your concerns with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Once again, I have forwarded your fax to the DOJ". As a result of these letters and other information which were never investigated, Mr. Ciepiowski stated: "Trump must meet with you so he can address these issues". Mr. Ciepiowski then offered to give me tickets to any upcoming fundraisers. The first one was at the Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, NH, where I had one of two opportunities to speak with Trump. The second time was at Rochester, NH, High School.

Both of my opportunities to talk with Mr. Trump were captured on video but neither the local or National Media elected to print or give TV coverage, as a result of my confrontations with Trump. Being an investigative reporter now for over 33 years, I try to read our creed routinely, Part of the Journalist's Creed states: " I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true. I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of lesser service than the public service is a betrayal of this trust. I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is

indefensible".

Mr. Bower, We T_he People continues to talk with responsi!;>le past and present informants within the NRC and Nuclear Industries. Because ofthe way your letter of May 10, 2018, (attached) was written with enclosures (attached) by you and former NRC Nuclear and Environmental Engineer, Richard Barkley, I believe you too, are a person who also wants to provide the American People the truth about Cover-ups by the NRC of unsafe conditions at U.S. Nuclear Plants. WTP's Whistleblowers and I certainly are in hopes this information in this message with these attachments will prevent any misunderstanding in communications you or anyone else may have, including President Trump's appointee, Chairwoman Kristine L.

Svinicki. WTP requests and wants to be assured you have received WTP's letter of September 11, 2018, with enclosures in order for the NRC to make this information a public record which reflects WTP's issues exactly as they are communicated to you and anyone within the NRC, or elsewhere. Never can tell, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who does know of me, just maybe might be interested in investigating more issues of obstruction of justice involving Mr. Trump, the FBI, DOJ and the NRC.

If you need further clarification or comm*ents from me, do not hesitate to contact We The People.

Respectfully submitted, e

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Founder of We The People and a 2020 Republican Candidate for President of the United States.

From: B_ower, Fred <Fred.Bower@nrc.gov>

Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:08 PM To: Stephen Comley (s.comley.sr@outlook.com)

Cc: Klukan, Brett

Subject:

RECEIPT OF S. COM LEV'S SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICEMAIL

SUBJECT:

RECEIPT OF S. COMLEY'$ SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOICEMAIL

Dear Mr. Comley:

I writing to acknowledge receipt of your voicemail on September 6, 2018. Please be informed that I did not take; therefore, do not have any notes from this deleted voicemail. That said, I did not hear or identify any new safety and security issue(s) within the NRC's regulatory purview in this voicemail.

If you have new issues that you have not previously communicated to the NRC, I request that you submit the issues in writing via electronic mail. Please reference my April 12, 2017, letter to you with the original request and its basis (Ml17104A068). Written communications help us ensure that the public record reflects your issues exactly as you communicate them to us and helps prevent misunderstandings. If your written correspondence provides new information regarding Seabrook Station, or other NRC licensees' activity, we will review the information and take appropriate action as it pertains to safety and security.

Sincerely, Fred Bower, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 3 Division of Reactor Projects Fred Bower Chief I Projects Branch 3 I Division of Reactor Projects I Region I I U.S. NRC I I 2100 Renaissance Boulevard, STE 100, King of Prussia, PA 19406 I 1il: (610) 337-5200 I i;;i: (610) 731-1920 I 181: Fred.Bower@nrc.gov I Stephen B. Comley Sr.

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Re: FEMA report, Nell, Peter suggested I send you my comments regarding FEMA report which Daily News ran an article on today. I expect ~o get something from Senator Warren's office soon. Will let you know. Hope Gatehouse will consider running my guest column (attached) in their publications. This column seems to have got NRC & FEMA a little upset. Steve Sr.

Stephen B. Comley Sr. comments to FEMA report:

With this FEMA report: Seabrook nuclear plant's evacuation plans OK, just proves once again, the NRC, FEMA, MEMA, many in the National & NH media, and those in the Washington Beltway are lying and rubber stamping the wishes of the Nuclear Industries instead of protection the American people' safety. How can the families who live on the Seacoast trust these government agencies who are willing to leave special needs citizens behind in the event of a nuclear disaster at Seabrook Station which is licensed in the middle of Hampton & Salisbury Beaches? These irresponsible authorities not only are willing to make this segment of our population expendable but our first responders who have families also to protect, are also expendable in the eyes ofthese agencies because there are GAG ORDERS presently on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard who cannot have an opinion whether the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be effectively implemented safety and timely. Not only are first responders also expendable but right now students in the High schools within the 10 mile radius of Seabrook Station have not had legitimate Nuclear Drills, but just paper ones, like which FEMA &

MEMA are once again saying are OK! J ! Not only are these Safety matters being cover-up by NRC, FEMA, MEMA but also the highest officials in MA still will not call for the full investigation of what I &

others said and provided which is now missing at the meeting 9-2-16, former Deputy Commander of the MA State Police, Frank Hughes held and asked me to attend at the MA State Police Barracks in Newbury MA, concerning the effectiveness of Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan. President calls Washington a swanp, No tweet's wrong again, it a sewer and the high ups at the NRC, FEMA, MEMA, a lot of politicans and members of the press have been swimming in this sewer for years. When I am President I will drain it.

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Wicked Local Posted Jul 9, 2018 at 9:36 AM A growing number of Massachusetts and New Hampshire communities are raising concerns about the evacµation plan for Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, especially during summer months when roadways are clogged by visitors.

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notice each year explaining what should be done in the event of an emergency.

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Calendar, distributed to neighbors of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. "If you hear the siren, go inside your home or a nearby building. Tune to the Emergency Alert System station WOKQ 97.5 FM."

The radio station tells listeners of the emergency, 'Yhich can range from minor security threats to full-blown nuclear meltdowns. The latter, for readers of a certain age, evokes memories of the Three Mile Island partial meltdown in Pennsylvania and the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine during the 1970s and 1 980s.

More recently, in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in Japan reminded the world how unexpected events can quickly transform a clean, highly efficient energy resource into a health, environmental and logistical nightmare.

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Recently, Seabrook's evacuation plan has become the subject of increased scrutiny, as a growing number of Massachusetts and New Hampshire communities are calling on officials to to review it.

The movement stems from uncertainty about whether the plan would actually work in the event of an emergency, especially during summer months when tourists flock to the beaches and traffic ensnares roadways as travelers go to and from northern New England. Beyond the northeastern part of the state, Connell said it's difficult to imagine what impact tens of thousands of people fleeing south would have on the communities and roadways surrounding Boston and Metro West.

"Quite frankly, I don't think it's a workable plan or even possible in this area with a serious influx of people and a restricted road network," Connell said.

Newburyport, which falls within a 10-mile Emergency_Planning__ Zone, for years has raised concerns about the evacuation plan to the NRC.

But in recent months, the city has been joined by neighboring communities in calling for a public, regional meeting with federal officials, along with current and former public safety officials, to talk about the effectiveness of the plan.

At the center of the effort is Stephen B. Comley, a well-known and eccentric Seabrook opponent, who has battled with the NRC for decades.

'Finding a better answer' Comley is the founder of We The People, a self-described national whistleblower nonprofit.

Formerly the owner of a nursing home, the 7 4-year-old Rowley resident says his advocacy efforts started after the Chernobyl disaster.

At the time, he said, a paralyzed client asked what she should do in the event of a nuclear meltdown. Comley says federal officials told him the woman should be left behind with a bottle of potassium iodide, a chemical compound used during nuclear emergencies to protect against radiation-related illnesses, along with a nurse to administer it.

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Fast forward three decades and Comley-is still trying to find a better answer. Local, state and federal officials know him well. He attends public meetings and political events, handing out packets of documents with transcripts, correspondents and newspaper clippings dating back to the 1980s.

Many of the same documents are attached to the barrage of emails he sends regularly to regulators, elected official and news outlets. Seabrook accuses him of unnecessarily scaring the public, and waging a campaign of misinformation.

"Stephen Comley has waged a campaign of misinformation against Seabrook for nearly 30 years, and his claims have always been found to be without merit," said Peter Robbins, a Seabrook spokesman. "His allegations about Seabrook are intended to gain publicity and scare the public and are simply fal~e."

Comley for years has sent emails, letters and made phone calls to various new organizations, and he accuses outlets and journalists of suppressing information if they deny him coverage.

"Do you know the journalist's creed?" Comley asked recently, referring to a_set. of_ethics created by Walter Williams, the first dean of the Missouri School ofJournalism.

"It says the suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible," he said.

The insistent behavior has landed him in some legal trouble in the past. In 2016, Manchester Police charged Comley with trespassing after employees ofWGIR-AM 610, an iHeartRadio station in Manchester, New Hampshire, complained about his overt attempts to get on the air.

According to police reports, an employee said he heard Comley say, 'Tm going to make sure I get on the radio." The alleged statement was made about eight months after Comley had showed up to the station, also trying to get on air. When he was asked to leave, an employee said he saw Comley lift up his coat to show a gun on his hip, according to police reports.

The incident, however, wasn't immediately reported to police and Comley denies the accusations. Earlier this year he filed a defamation lawsuit against WGIR and its employees.

"This description of events was clearly defamatory in that it attempted to portray Mr. Comley as a dangerous person to the eyes oflaw enforcement and therefore ultimately, to the public,"

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COMLEY "I do not own a gun A New Hampshire judge has since dismissed the defamation case. CASE UNDER APPEAL" Comley also dabbles in politics. On Jan. 17, 2017, two days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Comley announced_ his _ 2020 candidacy for United States president.

It's not the first time he has run for the country's top political office, but he feels like Trump's failure to "drain the swamp" in Washington D.C. has opened the door for him -- "a true outsider," as he describes himself -- to win the next election. Jesus Christ is his campaign manager, he said.

"IfJesus Christ wants me to become the next president of the United S_tates, who can stop it?"

he wrote in a recent op-ed.

Beyond his political aspirations, Comley's well-established local activism related to the Seabrook evacuation plan has yielded some renewed success in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

"We are taking Mr. Comley's concerns seriously and have asked the NRC to provide follow up nformation and (for) a public meeting to be held," said Anthony Marino, Ipswich town

'Caution President Trump' Seven Massachusetts cities and towns over the last year have sent letters to the NRC calling for a meeting.

The municipalities are Amesbury, Georgetown, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport and Salisbury. A handful of New Hampshire towns have also joined the call, including most recently Hampton Falls in June. In the letters, most communities cite either We The People, or Comley himself, as precipitating the request.

In Massachusetts, Comley's efforts have caught the attention oflawmakers and other statewide officials, according to a Feb. 1 memo from the office of the Mass. Senate Minority Leader Bruce E. Tarr, a Republican.

"Constituent inquiries regarding the viability of the plan have significantly increased,"

according to the memo, addressed to the Massachusetts Attorney General Office.

In an effort to spur more attention, Comley has rented.out. commercial.billboard.space alongside Route 1 in Salisbury, addressing Trump directly, and asking him to investigate the NRC.

"Caution President Trump; Seabrook nuclear zone no evacuation possible; investigate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," according to the billboard.

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"This billboard is very large and clearly calls the validity of evacuation plan/ zone into question.

Simply put, over the past two years, an increased number of individuals/ officials within the 10 mile radius continue to question viability of the approved evacuation plan," according to the memo.

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COMLEY "MASS AG Office is being irresponsible."

The NRC, for its part, has responded similarly to most of the letters sent by Massachusetts communities. In the event of an emergency, the federal agency says it's responsible only for the on-site response, whereas the Massachusetts Emergency Management.Agency -- with approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency-- oversees the off-site response.

To that end, there hasn't been an issue, according to the NRC.

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Additionally, the federal agency holds annual meetings within the Emergency Planning Zone to discuss Seabrook's overall performance. During the meetings, regulators field questions on various topics, including emergency preparedness.

Connell calls the meeting a "dog and pony show."

"They make happy talk and then they go away and do nothing," Connell said. "It's all for show, from my perspective. We've been asking them to do their job, and not just push the food around the plate, but I don't think they're seriously attempting to provide a plan that's workable."

'Not an immediate pressing concern' Not all communities, however, are terribly concerned about the evacuation plan.

Salisbury selectmen, for instance, sent a letter to the NRC in November, saying they were "very concerned about Seabrook Station and its evacuation plan." But when Wicked Local contacted the town about it on July 3, Town Manager Neil Harrington responded, "The Salisbury Selectmen are not pressing this issue.

"The evacuation plan has been in place for years and I have not heard a single person in Salisbury complain about it, so I guess you could say it is not an immediate pressing concern for the community," he wrote in an email.

Seabrook, to its credit, has never had to turn on its emergency sirens, except during tests. The nuclear station, which generates relatively cheap electricity for thousands of homes and businesses throughout the region, has never had an emergency anywhere near a meltdown.

And with the exception of cracks__forming_ in__ the __ concretefoundation, first cited about eight years ago, the nuclear power plant has repeatedly passed NRC inspections without violation.

There are many, especially people within the town of Seabrook, who want to see the utility continue to operate, as it generates more than $500 million in economic activity each year, according to the tow.n.

"Seabrook Station has become, quite simply, an irreplaceable regional asset," Seabrook selectmen wrote in a letter of support to the NRC. "It's almost unimaginable*to think of where we would be today without the plant."

Seabrook is confident about the effectiveness of the evacuation plan, telling Wicked Local it regularly tests its preparedness through drills with local, state and federal officials.

"Our plans are continually updated and refined to account for changing conditions. Our emergency preparedness plans meet -- and in many cases exceed -- the strict requirements of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Our readiness is also regularly evaluated by the NRC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency," Robbins said.

The near flawless track record for the power station, however, provides little solace to opponents. Comley, in addition to calling for the meeting, has also askt;g__the NRC to deny-Seabrook's license extension request. He's also called for NRC Chairwoman Kristine L.

Svinicki to step down for "jeopardizing the safety of citizens and their families who live in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and beyond," according to a June 25 email to the NRC.

For Connell, a review of the evacuation plan would be a good first step, but he'd ultimately like to see regulators deny Seabrook'~ license extension.

"Nuclear power plants are robust and overbuilt, but they're not infallible," Connell said.

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Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin March 16, 2018 Superintendent of the MA State Police Certified Return Receipt Requested 470 Worchester Road Framingham, MA 01702 Superintendent, Kerry A. Gilpin, My name is Stephen B. Comley Sr., founder of We The People (WTP) a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization. I am requesting to meet with you as soon as possible.

I want to thank you and your Chief of Staff, Detective ~ieutenant Brian O' Riordan, after being contacted by Lisa Morales, Executive Assistant to MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett, in my behalf for instructing Trooper Cristina J. Lucin #3634, Fraud Identification Unit, to retrieve notes from a meeting I had September 2, 2016 with her and then Deputy Superintendent (now retired) Francis Hughes. This meeting took place at the Newbury MA State Police Barracks and was attended by other officials including John Giarrusso, Nuclear Section Chief of the MA Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).

After reading Trooper Cristina J. Lucin's letter of February 14, 2018, (enclosure Al containing her recollections and memory of the September 2, 2016, meeting, I was shocked. Not only was Trooper Luci n's memory of what others and I said and revealed at this meeting not complete or accurate, but Trooper Lucin states in her recollection, any documentation I provided at this meeting, which I have copies of, are now missing. This information included certified letters, important documents, DVDs, and WTP's letter of my July 4, 2014, to Glenn T. Dentel, then Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Chief of Division of Reactor Projects,_Branch 3, 2100 Renaissance Boulevard, Suite 100, King of Prussia, Penn.

19406-2713. WTP's letter to the NRC of 7-4-2014, included enclosures outlining Cover-Ups by the NRC of unsafe conditions at the Seabrook Nuclear Plant and current inadequacies of Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan. WTP also provided Deputy Hughes, with their permission, the names of WTP's brave informants connected to the present GAG ORDERS on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard.

It is irresponsible to me and many of your colleagues on the State Police, who I talk with routinely, why or how Trooper Lucin could have forgotten I revealed the identities of WTP's informants connected to the GAG ORDERS to Deputy Francis Hughes and others at this meeting including Mr. Giarrusso of MEMA.

My contacts at the NRC are also wondering why no one reported from MEMA's office to FEMA or the NRC what took place during the meeting of 9-2-16. In addition, why hasn't anyone from Maura Healey's Legal Team or from Governor Charlie Baker's office reported to FEMA and the NRC what they are aware of in connection with these GAG ORDERS on the MA State Police and NH National Guard?

WTP and others cannot understand why you haven't Superintendent Kerry A. Gilpin, Governor Charlie Baker or MA Attorney General, Maura Healey "who" WTP reported these GAG ORDERS on different occasions called for a complete investigation of what took place at this meeting of September 2, 2016. It certainly appears I am the only person who can or is willing to reveal what was said and what copies of information and documents I provided at this meeting. I certainly will make myself available to you or anyone else as long we agree to the date, time, right circumstances, so I can give my recollections of what I knew took place at the this meeting September 2, 2016, at the Newbury MA State Police Barracks.

Page 2 of We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 to Commander Kerry A. Gilpin of MA State Police.

Many of us have been reading about the ongoing investigation of "MA State Police Troopergate Scandal."

As you and Governor Baker know, this involved former MA State Police Colonel Richard McKean and his second in-command, Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes, who, by the way, I have respect for. They both retired apparently due to altered MA State Police reports involving a Judge's d*aughter who was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.

WTP's informants from the MA State Police inform me, "McKeon and Hughes fell on the sword to protect higher ups." I know for a fact Governor Baker ignored these GAG ORDERS on our MA State Police, who not only protect and serve us, but who protect Governor Baker when he is at the State House and at his home. I myself informed Mr. Baker twice these inform~nts were told by their superiors not to questi'on and/or discuss any concerns relative to the viability or effectiveness of the approved Seabrook Nuclear Plant's Evacuation Plan. The second time was more recently in 2017. During both of these conversations, I revealed to Mr. Baker that MA Senate Minority Leader, Bruce Tarr, Assistant MA House Minority Leader, Bradford Hill and then Essex County Sherriff, Frank Cousins Jr., had endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for First Responders. Both times Mr. Baker's response to me was, "Mr. Comley, I will meet with these officials about your safety concerns". WTP has recently been informed Governor Baker has never met with Sen. Tarr, Rep. Hill or with former Sherriff Cousins about these important safety issues.

Given my years of protecting whistleblowers the longer these courageous informants connected to these GAG ORDERS are ignored by high officials the more danger they and their families could be in.

Since WTP brought this and other troubling information to light, over 200 other MA and NH State Police, together with other first responders from local Police and Fires Stations, have stated to me there is no way the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be evacuated safely and timely in the event of a nuclear disaster, especially during the summer months including July 4 and Labor Day. Even now during the winter months on weekends, traffic is mostly at a standstill because of the new Seabrook Shopping Center which lies along Routes 1 and 95 on land just in front of Seabrook Station. WTP has reported this activity several times to State Troopers stationed at the MA State Police Barracks in Newbury.

WTP wants to make you and your office aware since meeting with MA AG, Maura Healey, on two different occasions, Maura Healey elected to create a 4 member Legal Team, which includes her Chief of Staff, Mike Firestone. Maura Healey setup this Legal Team to supposedly investigate WTP's concerns of unsafe conditions at Seabrook Station and Cover-Ups by the NRC of Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts built into most, if not all, U.S. Plants, including Seabrook.

WTP's informants and I are still waiting, once again, to meet with the MA AG's Legal Team. The last time I met with them was October 18, 2017. When I arrived I was surprised to find out my request to be placed under oath was not granted. WTP's informants and I will agree to meet with MA AG Healey and her Legal Team only if we are placed under oath, so everything becomes a public record.

Please review MEMO (Enclosure B) from Senator Tarr's Chief of Staff, AJ Paglia, to Alicia Rebello-Pradas, Deputy Chief, Policy and Government Division Office of Massachusetts Attorney General, and one of the 4 Member Legal Team. Mr. Paglia expressed in this MEMO WTP's extreme frustration with the process since providing the Legal Team sufficient and applicable facts to investigate Seabrook's Evacuation Plan.

Page 3 of We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 to Commander Kerry A. Gilpin of MA State Police.

During my meeting with the Legal Team 10-18-2017, I provided them with lots of WTP's documents, including a copy of a transcript of a Tape-Recording of one of WTP's NRC informants. This was just one of the many Tapes Former President George H. W. Bush hired the U. S Department of Justice (DOJ) to seize.

President Bush's pick at this time for his U. S. Attorney General was Richard Thornburg. Mr. Thornburg was the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Cover-Up of the Three Mile Accident {TMI) in 1979 and WTP has and can prove evidence of this scandal. Mr. Thornburg was given the assignment by the Reagan/Bush Administration in 1988 to conduct a witch hunt of WTP's NRC informants. Bush's DOJ, had me under 2 Federal Subpoenas in MA Federal Court for over 6 years with the charge of "Conspiring to Topple the NRC with Roger Fortuna, Deputy (former) Director of the NRC's Office of Investigations."

DOJ was never able to prove existence of any Tape-Recordings they said I might have until a year ago, when I decided to call Mr. Richard Barkley, who I know and respect and incidentally works for the NRC.

decided to admit to Mr. Barkley I did indeed have tap,es but would not release any of them to the NRC, DOJ or the FBI. Unlike President Trump I can prove why I do not trust those agencies. Robert Mueller knows of me when he was a U.S. Attorney in MA while I was in Federal Court. Just maybe Special Council Mueller would be willing to work with WTP's informants and me in bringing the truth to the American People about cover-ups of safety by the NRC and the Nuclear Industries.

Commander Gilpin, I also want to make you and your office aware WTP has been successful in getting officials within and outside the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant to endorse WTP's call for the NRC to support a hearing on Seabrook's Evacuation Plan. This includes the Cities of Newburyport and Amesbury, The Towns of Newbury, Salisbury and Merrimac and the 2 Towns of Georgetown and Ipswich outside the radius. All 7 have written letters (Enclosure C} endorsing WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for first responders. The only MA Town of the 6 within the 10 mile Radius of Seabrook Station who has not written a letter to the NRC is the Town of West Newbury. It should be noted, West Newbury's Police Chief and members of the Fire Department do not object for NRC to hold this hearing.

Many first responders throughout the State of MA and beyond are asking why hasn't Commander of the MA State Police, Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Governor Charlie Baker, MA AG, Maura Healey, MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett, endorsed what 7 MA Cities/Towns have done in calling for a NRC Hearing?

This NRC Hearing will give past and former first responders, who also have families to protect, the opportunity to testify whether they believe the Seabrook Evacuation Plan can be implemented safely and timely in the event of Seabrook Nuclear Disaster especially during the summer months.

I want to point out the City of Newburyport and the Town of Salisbury have previously called for the shutdown of the Seabrook Plant. WTP is a Nuclear Safety Advocate and is not calling for the shutdown of Seabrook Station. WTP, instead, is calling for the NRC to hold this first responder's hearing so everyone who lives on the Seacoast is assured a safe evacuation is possible before a nuclear accident occurs.

To date, I have not received a written or telephone response from Governor Charlie Baker or from any of his many staff members I have contacted concerning my request to meet with him directly about endorsing We The People's call for the NRC to hold a first responders hearing. But I am still hopeful I will hear from Governor Baker so I can meet with him soon.

Page 4 of We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 to Commander Kerry A. Gilpin of the MA State Police In addition to State representatives WTP have contacted elected officials in the Wash.ington Establishment to endorse this NRC Hearing for First Responders. This has included President Trump's newly appointed NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki. Others in the Beltway includes U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Congressman Joseph Kennedy Ill and U.S.

Congressman Seth Moulton. WTP still has not received a reply from any of these U. S. Senators or Congressmen whether they will meet with me or endorse WTP's call for this NRC Hearing.

WTP has also contacted all of the NH Senators, most of the NH State Representatives, newly elected Governor Chris Sununu and NH Attorney General, Gordon J. MacDonald. As of this date, the only NH responsible elected leaders who have endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold this first responder's hearing are, Rep. Peter Schmidt of Dover and Former NH Rep. and Civil defense Director, Roberta Pevear (Enclosure D} who both have written to the NRC and MA AG, Maura Healey to endorse WiP's call for a First Responders' Hearing. I am also providing you with various media articles, letters and a recent interview of me by Merrimac Cable (Enclosure E) having to do with Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan.

We The People is hopeful I will have the opportunity and honor to meet with you soon, Commander Kerry A. Gilpin. This meeting will give you the opportunity to discuss We The People's concerns about the unsafe conditions at the Seabrook Nuclear plant and the failure of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to protect the safety of the citizens of MA, NH and beyond. I know, Commander Gilpin, you would much rather help prevent a Nuclear Disaster from occurring at Seabrook Station than reacting to one.

Ste en B. Comley Sr.

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization CC: MA Sen. Bruce Tarr, MA Rep. Bradford Hill, former Essex County Sherriff, Frank Cousins, Jr., MA AG.,

Maura Healey, Governor Charlie Baker, MA Secretary of Public Safety, Mr. Daniel Bennett, Nuclear Section Chief of MEMA, Mr. John Giarrusso, NRC Nuclear and Environmental Engineer, Mr. Richard Barkley, NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, U.S.

Congressman, Joseph Kennedy 111, U.S. Congressman, Seth.Moulton, NH Rep. Peter Schmidt, Former NH-Rep. Roberta Pevear, NH Governor Sununu and NH AG, Gordon MacDonald.

Enclosures:

A. Letter of February 14, 2018 to Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Superintendent from: Trooper Cristina J. Lucin

1. 3634, Fraud Identification Unit.

B. MEMO to Alicia Rebello-Pradas, Deputy Chief, Policy & Government Division Office of MA AG from A. J.

Paglia, Chief of Staff for Senator Bruce Tarr.

C. Letters from 7 MA Cities/Towns endorsing WTP's Call for the NRC to hold a first responders hearing.

D. Letters written by NH Reps to the NRC endorsing WTP's call for First Responders Hearing, E. Various media articles, quotes from NRC, letters & a DVD interview about Seabrook's Evacuation Plan.

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Mr. Barkley, once a letter has been prepared and sent to NRC Chairwoman Kristine L. Svinicki, regarding my requests of A-E and other issues outlined in my letter to Commander, Kerry Gilpin, will you please send a copy in an attachment to me?

Please reply, Stephen B. Comley Sr.

From: Barkley, Richard <Richard.Barkley@nrc.gov>

Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:14 PM To: Stephen Comley

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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:43 AM To: Barkley, Richard <Richard.Barkley@nrc.gov>

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PLEASE CONFIRM YOU HAVE RECIEVED THIS MESSAGE AND REQUESTS.

Richard S. Barkley PE March 28, 2018 Nuclear and Environmental Engineer USNRC Region 1 -- Branch 3 Work (610) 337-5328 Cell (610)-608-1517 Mr. Barkley, Thank you for taking my call yesterday. Glad you received We The People's letter of March 16, 2018 with enclosures to Commander of the MA State Police, Kerry Gilpin. As you and I discussed yesterday March 27, 2018 about this 4 page letter, it is my belief there has been a deliberate attempt by MA Governor Baker and other high officials connected to MA Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), MA State Police and MA Department of https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path-/mail/sentitems/rp (~:: ~

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Not only was MA State Police Deputy Superintendent {now retired) Francis Hughes's Chief of Staff, Cristina J.

Lucin 1s letter of February 14, 2018, (Enclosure Al containing her recollections and memory of the September 2, 2016, not complete or accurate, but Trooper Lucin states in her recollection, any documentation I provided at this meeting, which I have copies of, are now missing.

It is not only unbelievable but irresponsible to me and many of the MA State Police, who I talk with routinely, why or how Trooper Lucin could have forgotten I revealed, with their permission, the identities of WTP's informants connected to the GAG ORDERS. As I stated in my letter to Commander Gilpin, in my years of protecting whistleblowers the longer these courageous informants connected to these GAG ORDEERS are ignored by these high officials the more danger they and their families could be in.

It is obvious to me and others, I am the only person who can or is willing to reveal what was I and others said and what copies of information and documents l provided at this meeting. As I stated in my letter to Colonel Gilpin, under the right circumstances, l am willing to give my specific recollection what l know took place at this meeting of 9-2-2016 at the State Police Barracks in Newbury MA.

WTP and others cannot understand why Superintendent Kerry a. Gilpin, Governor Charlie Baker, MA Attorney General, Maura Healey, Officials at MEMA and MOPS, has not reported any of this information as it pertains to the current inadequacies of Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan to the FEMA or the NRC.

Given the above circumstances together what I have outlined in my letter of March 16, 2018 with enclosures, to MA State Police Superintendent, Kerry A. Gilpin, I am calling on President Trump's newly appointed Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki, to follow up on and address We The People's following requests:

A. Request a complet'c investigation of what took place at this meeting of September 2, 2016.

B. Why hasn't anyone from Maura Healey's Legal Team, who previous been in touch with the NRC about WTP, reported to FEMA or NRC, what I revealed to her 4 Member Legal Team during our meeting of October 18, 2017?

C. Ask why hasn't Governor Charlie Baker reported-to FEMA and the NRC "who" WTP reported these GAG ORDERS and other information to him on 2 different occasions?

o. Request why didn't Mr. John Giarrusso, Nuclear Section Chief of MEMA report to the NRC and FEMA what was revealed to him and others at the meeting of 9-2-2016?

E. Why hasn't Secretary of MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett reported to FEMA and the NRC what he and his office is aware since meeting with me regarding inadequacies of Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan?

F. Why hasn't NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki endorsed (see Enclosure C) what We The People has been successful in getting Officials of 7 MA Cities/Towns Officials within and outside the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant who have endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing on Seabrook's Evacuation Plan?

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In closing, I want to thank you once again, Mr. Barkley, for your attention and understanding in getting We The People's nuclear safety concerns to be addressed and replied to by NRC Chairwoman Kristine L. Svinicki.

If you need further clarification or comment from me, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please kept me informed of any copies of correspondence which is generated as a result of WTP's requests.

Sincerely and respectively submitted, Stephen B. Comley Sr.

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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:09 PM To: Stephen Comley

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Tuesday afternoon at 3pm ok with you? If you have time please review package before we speak.

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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 7:55 AM To: Stephen Comley

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Your package is on my desk. I was in only 2 ~ days last week due to weather and a business trip to Phoenix.

When do you want to speak? Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday?

How did he surgery go?

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Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:10 PM To: Barkley, Richard <Richard.Barkley@nrc.gov>

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1. Qn Wednesday, February 7, 2018, I was instructed to retrieve notes from a meeting which occurred on September 2nc1, 2016. Mr. Steven Comley, who had requested this meeting, contacted DLT O'Riordan in order to obtain a copy of notes from this meeting. I attended this meeting as part of my duties while assigned to the Office or the Superintendent, and are now currently assigned to the State Police Fraud Identification Unit. Despite my best efforts, I am unable to locate notes from this meeting. Therefore, the following report has been written from my best recollections and memory of that day.

2. On Friday, September 2nd, 2016, I attended a meeting at the State Police Newbury Barracks with an individual by the name of Stephen Comley. Mr: Comley is the founder of an organization called **we the People**, a non-profit organization he describes as a whistleblower organization. Mr. Comley had come unannounced to the home of fonner Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes. in Newhury. to discuss his concerns with the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant (located in Seabrook, New Hampshire). Deputy Hughes (rel.) subsequently agreed to set up a meeting with Mr. Comley and our state emergency management agency (MEMA) to give Mr. Comley an opportunity to voice his concerns with our state *s emergency management personnel.

3. The meeting took place on September 211d. 2016 at the Newbury State Police Barracks and was attended by the following individuals:

a. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hughes, Deputy Superintendent, Massachusetts State Police (retired)

b. Major Arthur Sugnie, Commanding Officer Troop "A", Massachusetts State Police (retired)

c. Lieutenant James Devlin, Massachusetts State Police

d. John Giamisso, Planning/Preparedncss*Nuclear Section Chief, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)

e. Trooper Cristina Lucin, Massachusetts State Police

4. To my best recollection, the meeting was relatively short and consisted of Mr.

Comley providing letters written by Mr. Comley to various politicians, various reports about Seabrook Nuclear Power plants. and articles referencing Mr.

Comley' s activities.

5. Deputy Hughes (retired) re-communicated to Mr. Comley that the Massachusetts State Police have preparedness plans in place for a variety of facilities and disasters, which are constantly being reviewed. He also agreed to review the documentation submitted by Mr. Comley. Mr. Comley expressed some concern that members of the Massachusetts State Police were .. being silenced" regarding their knowledge of flaws in the Seabrook Power Plant. All parties involved assured Mr. Comley that it was definitely not the case, that any concern regarding emergency management was welcome from both the public and department me111:l?crs.

6. Mr. Giarrusso provided Mr. Comley his contact information after the meeting was concluded.

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DATE: February I, 2018 RE: Stephen B. Comley Sr. / "We the People" - Seabrook Nuclear Plant It is my understanding that your office has met with Stephen B. Comley Sr., a constituent from the Town of Rowley and founder of "We the People" (a national whistleblower/nonprofit organization), in regards to his concerns/allegations related to the evacuation plans filed by the Seabrook Nuclear Plant.

In addition to his interaction with your office, Mr. Comley continues to contact our office on a regular basis in regards to this issue. He insists that he's been provided infonnation from several confidential public safety sources (Massachusetts and New Hampshire}, alleging that the current/adopted evacuation plan filed by the Seabrook Nuclear Plant is ineffective during the summer months.

Over the past two years, Mr. Comley's concerns/allegations relative to this issue have been shared with local officials and constituents within the required 10 mile radius (extending into Massachusetts). As a result, constituent inquiries regarding the viability of the plan have significantly increased. In some cases, relative concerns have been documented in writing, in response to Mr.

Comley briefing a nwnber of Boards of Selectmen (Within the 10 mile radius) during open/televised meetings.

I further note, aside from the attention generated from the press and. cable access television related to such, Mr. Comley has recently purchased prime commercial billboard space on Rt. 1 in the Town of Salisbury. This billboard is very large and clearly calls the validity of evacuation plan/zone into question. Simply put, over the past two years, an increased number of individuals/officials within the IO mile radius continue to question viability of the approved evacuation plans.

Given that our office lacks the authority/ability to investigate Mr. Comley's allegations, taking a position on such (based on Mr. Comley's allegations) would be unfair and irresponsible. However, despite my numerous representations of such to Mr. Comley, he continues to provide our office with 1

volwnes of infonnation in support of his position. Although he indicates understanding our position, he contends that your office asserts having no jurisdiction in these matters.

During my more recent conversations with Mr. Comley, I indicated that I've been in contact with your office and it was my understanding that his documents, concerns and allegations were being reviewed. However, Mr.. Comley expressed extreme frustration with the process. He asserts the infonnation he provided to your office contains sufficient and applicable facts to support an investigation by your False Claims Division (under the authority of the Massachusetts False Claims Act, MOL c. 12, s. SA-50)1 to investigate the Seabrook Nuclear Plant's evacuation plans. His assertion is based on his contention that the plant has and continu~ to mislead municipal entities through the use of false claims/statements.

In conclusion, when considering Mr. Comley's allegations, I understand how this statute may apply in this case. However, based on my concerns relative to the clarity of communications with your office, I believe infonnation contained in this memo may be helpful. In addition to providing your office with a better understanding of his position and how/why it continues to evolve in this case, it reiterates and clarifies the limitations of our office relative to such.

Should you have any questions, or if our office can be of any assistance, please let me know.

Thank you.

1 Using the Massachusetts False Claims Act, M.G.L. c. 12, §§ SA-SO, the false Claims Division conducts civil investigations and prosecutions against companies and individuals who mislead or defraud state or municipal entities through the use of false or traudulent claims, records or statements. The Massachusetts False Claims Act is a powerful law enforcement statute that authorizes triple damages and civil penalties ofup to SI 1,000 per false claim, as well u the AO's auomeys' costs and fees. The Act also allows private individuals known as "relators" to file lawsuits under the Massachusetts False Claims Act and to recover a portion of the proceeds in successful actions, subject to certain limitations.

The AO has recovered hundreds of millions of dollan in government funds, mainly arising from MassHcalth-related false claims enforcement, including relator actions. The AG's False Claims Division will be working with partners in government and whlstleblowers to expand upon those successes outside the MassHeahh context, recover funds for the Commonwealth and its citizens, and deter misconduct.

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TOWN OF MERRIMAC OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN 2-8 School Street, Merrimac, MA 01860 TEL (978) 346-8862 E-MAIL Selectmen@townofmerrimac.com January JI, 20 J 8 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attn: NRC Chairwoman Kristine L Svincki

Dear Ms. Svincki,

As you know, Merrimac is one of six Massachusetts coastal communities that are within the ten-mile radius of the nuclear power planL We are writing to express the board's support of the request by Stephen Comley Sr. of We The People to schedule a hearing to prove an opportunity for past and present first responders to testify whether they believe Seabrook Station's evacua~ion plan can be effectively implemented safely and timely.

Thank you for your consideration.

Merrimac Board of Selectmen

~.q-- Joel D. Breen Carol A. Traynor Cc E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman Mr. Hubert Bell Administrative Judge Inspector General . .

Atomic safety & Licensing Board Nuclear Regulatory Com1111ss1on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 MSC: T-3F23 Washington, D.C. 201472 Honorable Elaine C. Duke Acting Secretary .

Jeffrey Baran U.S. Department of Homeland Security Commissioner Washinbrton, D.C. 20528 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, O.C. 20555-000 I lfonornhlc Maurn llcalcy

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Dear Ms. Svinicki:

lam writing in response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B. Comley, Sr., a resident of Rowley, MA, and founder of ;;We the People," a non-profit national whistlcblowcr organization, regarding the inadequacy of evacuation plun for the Seabrook, NH nuclear power station (Seabrook Station).

According to Mr. Comley, he has been provided information from several. confidential public safety sources alleging that the evacuation plan in question is ineffective within the required JO.

mile rad!us{which includes the Town of Salisbury) during the summer months. He also claims that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ignored his public safety conccms. Although the Salisbury Board of Selectmen docs nol have substantive infommtion to support Mr.

Comleis allegations, we nonetheless remain very concerned about Seabrook Station and its evacuation plan.

Therefore, in the interest of public safety, the Board respectfully requests that you hold a public hearing, at a location within the I0-milc radius of Seabrook Station, in order to elicit comments from those public safety and emergency medical. response personnel who may huvc concerns about the evacuation plan. At the very least, such a hearing will give the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission the opportunity to explain to the public how the plan is designed to work, preventfog any misinfonnation and greatly reducing the concern tlull many residents of our town have as a result of the allcualions i\ lr. Comlcv. has made.

1 Thank you for your consideration of this request.

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Dear K.nsr.i.tw S\'IJ1icki,

In the interest of publjc safety, WL' arc rcspcctfullr rcym*s1.i11g that you ctll a public hearing to present, d1scw,s an<l solicit fcL*Llb:irk on thL* public safC"i-y and C\':tnram,n pl:tn of UH* Next Em Power Plant lO<.'.atcd in Sc:1brook, New l*lmnpshirc known as Sl*,rhmok Star1on" .

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\vitlun the l.l'.11 mile radius o( the n11ck*ar power pl:111. ,\n*ordmg 10 !lit* 2fl Ill t *.s. Ccn:rns the population ~*ithin t.h1s lCJH.nilc rndtus is :ti Jcaq 11 ~.fJO(J rcar-rr,um! rTstdcnts. ( )ur cny of ,\nwshury ts currently ci.um:ra*d at a populaunn of :11 least 17,000.

Dunng peak summer 111ontbs, this populat1011 SWl*lls :ts Y:trnllorwr~ :ind !Ot1rb1, !lock to tlw n*,L~ton to en Joy the shore communitil*s of.\ l:issal*li us<:t h, '.\ l'\\. l farnj,.;lmc and .;, H11 !icm \J:i111l*.

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,\gc11cy bas it~ own hazard mirig:tlJCHI plan, wc arc n,1wcrned about wlH*tl1n :11,d hi1,,* thl* c\':teuation plan has kept pace with pupuhiwm growth and 11Kn:ased 1r;1ffa t.:onge::11011. \'(r :in: par11cularly concl'flH"d wllli the evacuation plans of nilner:1bll* pnp11iat1ons 1n :1re:1 ~cl11iols, 11ursmg honH*s. :111d hosp11als.

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\Y/c look forwur<l to your response. Kristine Svinicki Chairman On behalf of Amesbury City Council, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, O.C. 20555-0001 E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman Administrative Judge Christian Scor.lonj Atomic Safety & Licensing Board President. Councilor-at -1.argc U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission MSC:T*3F23

Jonnthan Sherwood Washington. O.C. 20555-0001 Vice President~ Councilor, Distrjct 6 Brock Long Administrator

Donnn McClure CC: Federal Emergency Management Agency Councilor -at-1--irgc Washington. O.C. 20472 Jeffrey Baran

, Steven Stanganelli Commissioner, Councilor -n t-1 ~a rgl~ U. S Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington. D.C. 20555-0001 Pam Gilday Stephen Burns

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• R u R Y r () RT September 28, 2017 E. Roy Hawkens. Chairman Administrative Judge Atomic Safety & Licensing Buard U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. MSC: T-3F23 Washington. DC 20555-00 l r.o. Box SS0

Dear Chairman Hawk~ns:

TEL: 9i8*-t65-HC7 FAX: 9iS-46Z-7936 In the interest of public saft:ty. we are writing you to respectfully request that you hold o public hearing on your evacuation plan. Newburyport is within the 10-milt:

radius of the nuclear power plant known as *Seabrook Station' and according to the 2010 U.S. Census the population within 10 miles was no less than 118,000.

Actually the population with 50 miles of the plant was 4,3 t 5,000 as of 20 t O.

Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr. (founder of "We the People", a non-profit whistlet,lower protection organization) alleges that the evacuation plan is ineffective and that his public safety concerns have been ignored. Although we d(

not have substantive information to support Mr. Comley*s allcgntions we remain very concerned ahout the plant and safety.

In 2012 the Newburyport City Council unanimously passed a resolution which contained, in pertinent part. the following requested remedial steps:

Jmmediutelv" halt all relicensing activities related to Seabrook Station:

• Conduct peer-reviewed studies of the reactor's ability to withstand seismi, activity with compromised structural concrete. and publicly report the results of these studies;

• Fully investigate the causes of the unabated groundwater infiltration and resulting concrete debrradatil\O. and puhlicly report the results of such investigation:

• Devise a corrective action program to address both groundwater infiltration and concrete degradatit)n throughout the facility;

• Require the owner and opcratLlr of Seabrook Station to take corrective measures to stop grnundw:llt!r infiltration and related concrete degradation:

• Inspect and monitor the results of those corrective measures over a sustained (multiyeur) period of time to ensure that corrective measures ore effective;

• If, following corrective meusures und sustained monitoring, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determines that degradation of safety structures has not abated, that it suspend the license to operate Seabrook Station until safe operation of this reactor can be assured.

We did not hear back from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on this request.

We beli<.-ve that a public hearing on the issue of the effectiveness of the evacuation plan will. at the very least, exph1in to the public how the plan is designed to work and hopcfu11y this explan::iti(m will reduce the concern that persists among our residents.

On behalf of the Newburyport City Council.

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Town of Newbury Board of Selectmen 12 Kent Way, Suite IOI Byfield, MA 01922 Phone: 978-465-0862 X301 Fax:978-572-1228 September 25, 2017 Kristine L. Svinlckl Chairwoman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

Dear Chairwoman Svlnicki,

We are writing In response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B.

Comley, Sr., a resident from Rowley, MA, and founder of 'We the Peopre*, a national whistleblower/nonproflt organization. Among other concerns, Mr. Comley aJfeges that the evacuation plan in question is Ineffective within the required 10-mile radius during the summer months.

In the Jnterest of public safety, we respectfully request that you hold a public heating at a location within the 10-mile radius. Given the Importance of an effective evacuation plan, we believe a public hearing on the issue will provide your commission the opportunity to not only address the Issues Mr. Comley has raised. but also to explain in more detail how the approved plan Is designed to work, thus preventing any misinformation from creating concern or alann with residents within the 10-mile radius.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions.

On behalf of the Board of Selectmen,

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Kristine Svinlckl, Chairwomen U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Md. 20852

Dear Ms. Chairwomen,

We are writing in concurrence to a letter sent to the NRC by our State Senator, Bruce Tarr, dated April 13, 2015. In that letter Senator Tarr requested that you hold a public hearing at a location within the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook, NH power plant, to explain in detail how the evacuation plan is designed to work, particularly during the usually heavlly crowded summer months.

We believe a hearing on the Issue will help prevent any misinformation from creating concern or alarm within the 10 mile radius and ~lrectly outside the radius, where Georgetown is located.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Ple;ise feel free to contact us directly, should you have any questions.

Sincerely, Georgetown Board of Selectmen

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Dear Chainnan Hawkens:

We are writing in response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr., a resident from Rowley, MA., and founder of "We the People", a national whistleblower/nonprofit organization. According to Mr. Comley. he has been provided infonnation from several confidential public safety sources alleging that the evacuation plan in question is ineftective within the required 10-mile radius during the summer months.

Furthennore, aside from aHeged ineffectiveness of the evacuation plan, Mr. Comley a11eges that the public safety concerns brought to his attention were systematically suppressed. According to Mr. Comley, many of the same public safety sources allege being ordered by superiors not to question and/or discuss any concerns relative to the viabilit)' or effectiveness of the approved evacuation plan.

Although we have not been provided any further substantiating infonnation to support Mr. Comley's allegations and concenrs, they have been recently published. Thus, they have been generating public safety concerns, mainly from residents within the IO-mile radius.

Therefore, in the interest of public safety, we respectfully request that you hold a public hearing at a location wi.thin the l 0-mile radius. Given the importance of an effective evacuation plan, we believe a public hearing on the issue will provide your commission the opportunity to not only address the issues Mr. Comley has raise, but also to explain in more detail how the approved plan is designed to work, thus preventing any misinfonnation from creating concern or alarm with residents within the 10-miJe radius.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions.

Bruce E. Tarr, Senate Minority Leader Massachusetts State House Room 308 Boston, MA 02133 Representative Bradford R. Hill, Assistant Minority Leader Massachusetts State House Room 124 Boston, MA 02133

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Dear General Healey,

By way of introduction, I am State Representative Peter B. Schmidt, a fifteen year member of the NH House, with eight of those years as Chairman of the Strafford County delegation, and having previously served three years on the Dover City Council. I have lived on the NH Seacoast since 1983. I write to you today on a matter of great urgency. My views are my own.

During my time in public office, and having grown up in the nuclear age, I have kept an eye on developments at Seabrook Station, with a general concern for the nuclear industry, both nationally and world-wide. Public safety has been a significant consideration for me at all times. Having attended Atomic, Biological and Chemical (warfare)

School in the U.S. Marine Corps many years ago, I have had a decades-long keen interest in nuclear issues; and I have followed the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters quite closely. The question of a rapid evacuation of the populace in the event of an impending or actual emergency has occupied my thoughts during this entire period.

The unworkability* of present evacuation plans is ever more pressing to those tasked with carrying out these plans; and in the recent past my chance encounter with Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr now motivates me to urge you and your office to meet with him at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Comley is Founder of We The People, a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit. The wealth of evidence he has shown me establishes unequivocally the high priority of addressing the needs of our and your first responders. This Fourth of July produced the absolute worst traffic jam I have experienced here in thirty-four years, just for people trying to go north for a long weekend.

What would the entire area around Seabrook look like in a nuclear emergency? ,vhat would it mean for our states to face the dead zone, the "ghost coast" that a serious failure at Seabrook Station would entail? Look at Fukushima.

Your office has a responsibility to do everything in its power to prevent such a catastrophe here. Mr. Comley's documentation is very persuasive as to the danger we face. Please meet with him and endorse We The People's call for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold a first responders hearing so they can testify whether they be]jeve the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be evacuated safely and timely during the summer months. including July 4 and Labor day.

Please act. The first responders need and deserve it; our citizern,, no less.

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As a former 10-year member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives serving Hampton Falls/Hampton, and the form-er 10-year Hampton Falls Civil Defense Director, I support the request of "We The People" for a first responder hear-ing for the Seabrook nuclear plant evacuation plan.

I was the prime sponsor of the bill that gave us an evac-uation plan; however, even though we got it up to ten miles, instead of two, as it came out of the Legislature, it obviously could not work, and, as I understand it, it doesn't get tested.

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Dear Chairman Hawkens,

We are writing In response to public safety concerns raised by Mr. Stephen B. Comley Sr., a constituent from the Rowley, MA., and founder of "We the People," a national whistleblower/nonprofit organization.

According to Mr. Comley, he has been provided information from several confidential public safety sources alleging that the evacuation plan in question Is Ineffective within the required 10 mile radius during the summer months.

Furthermore, aside from the alleged ineffectiveness of the evacuation plan, Mr. Comley alleges that the public safety concerns brought t~ his attention were systematically suppressed. According to Mr. Comley, many of the same public safety sources allege being ordered by superiors not to question and/or discuss any concerns rel;ttive to the viability or effectiveness of the approved evacuation plan.

AlthouJh we have not been provided any further substantiating information to support Mr. Comley's allegations and concerns, they have been recently published. Thus, they have been generating public safety concerns, mainly from residents within the 10 mile radius.

Therefore, in the interest of public safety, we respectfully request that you hold a public hearing at a location within the 10 mile radius. Given the importance of an effective evacuation plan, we believe a public hearing on the issue will provide your commission the opportunity to not only address the issues Mr. Comley has raised, but also to explain in more detail how the approved plan is designed to work, thus preventing any misinformation from creating concern or alarm with residents within the 10 mile radius.

Thank you for your consideration of our request. Please feel free to contact us directly, should you have any questions.

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Stephen Comley Sr.. 50 Mnn~ion Drive, Rowley, MA presenling himself Rl' a whi~11cblower. has raised concems ubout several re1ulntory issues that fall within the purview of the FcJcral Nudeur Power Regulatory Commission.

l wn aware tlmt Mr. Comley hns been on active critic nf the s~abrook Nuclear Power Plant since the initinJ licensin~ of the facility. In fol't. Mr. Comley lt-.undcd a non-profit urgunizalion, .. We the People.- in un clTort 11.., bring his cuncc:rns forward. Mr. Comley upJ)CltrS tu ruisc serious allegutions relative to the suitatiility uf lhe evacuation plan for the Seabrook fncility and the surrounding communi1ic.-. a.'i well m, allegations penaining to the use wul utilization of the ~;ubstundard parts und cquipmcnl at lhc Seabrook Nuclc-c1r Power PIWlL I Ondcrstnml lhal Mr. Comlc..1* has brought these concerns 10 n long list of slate and tc:Jernl ullicials. He= ttSSerts thnt lhc cunccms he niis<.'ll han: nut hc:cn :1ddn:~sed. l am writing to your utlicc since you are the npprop,iatc licensing and regulatory agency than has the o\'cr:;ight for the subjcct m:Htc:r of tht: conc.;c-rns n,i~~<l hy Mr. ( :om Icy. Givc:n the nature" of the s:ifot)' concerns thut urc hcing rni~d. I simply would like written confirmution from th~ NRC th:u proper uttention hn~ llC'cn l!ivc-n to the issues raised hcfore considcnilion is given to rc:ncw the license to tip\.:rnlc.

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WTP - COMLEY - MA STATE POLICE P 1 of Trooper Lucin letter to C.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - MA STATE POLICE P 2 of letter of Trooper Lucin t.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - AJ - MEMO TO AG 1-18 PAGE 1.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - AJ MEMO TO AG PAGE 2 1-18.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - MERRIMAC 1-11-18 SIGNED LETTER TO NRC WITH CCs.pdf; WTP -COMLEY - SALISBURY LETTER TO NRC 11-08-17.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - NextEra - company uncompromising with safety 1-2.pdf; Richard S. Barkley PE March 1, 2018 Nuclear and environmental engineer USNRC Region 1--Branch 3

\Nork(610)337-5328 Cell (610) 608-1517 Mr. Barkley, I would like you to confirm you have received this e-mail and these 7 attachments We The People sent to MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett. I ask this information be included for the public record in ADAMS.

\NTP also requests this information be included to President Trump's appointment of NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki to review and comment on. In addition, please include the Video I sent you recently of the interview the Merrimac Cable did of me also to be placed for the public record in ADAMS and for NRC Chairwoman, Kristine Svinicki to observe and comment on.

Best regards, https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/mail/sentitems/rp 3/1/2018

Stephen B. Comley Sr.

Founder of we The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization From: Stephen Comley <s.comley.sr@outlook.com>

Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 8:18 PM To: Morales, Lisa (EPS)

Cc: Bruce E Tarr; Attilio J Paglia

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Re: Request for Mr. Daniel Bennett, MA Secretary of Public Safety to endorse in a letter, WTP's call for the NRC to hold a Hearing for First Responders.tuclear Regulatory Commission.

Lisa Morales, I forgot to send you the letter from (Attached) MA Senator Tarr's Chief of Staff, A. J. Paglia to the MA AG office concerning these issues. Please confirm you now are able to open all 7 attachments. Thank you.

From: Stephen Comley <s.comley.sr@outlook.com>

Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:00 PM To: Morales, Lisa (EPS)

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Request for Mr. Daniel Bennett, MA Secretary of Public Safety to endorse in a letter, WTP's call for the NRC to hold a Hearing for First Responders.tuclear Regulatory Commission.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOU WERE ABLE TO OPEN ALL 5 ATIACHMENTS Lisa Morales February 28, 2018 Executive Assistant to Daniel Bennett And Chief of Staff Matthew Moran Executive Office of Public Safety & Security One Ashburton Place, Room 2133 Boston, MA 02108 Office: (617)-274-5504 Cell: (617) 275-6057

Dear Lisa Morales,

As requested today, In behalf of We The People (WTP} and the residents who live in 7 MA Cities/Towns within and outside the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook Nuclear, I request Daniel Bennett, Secretary of MA Public Safety, to write a letter endorsing WTP's call for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to hold a hearing for Past and Present First Responders.

As you know, Lisa Morales, from meetings and e-mail messages you and I have discussed, WTP is requesting Mr.

Bennett to endorse WTP's call for the this NRC hearing. WTP has been successful in getting officials within and outside the 10 mile radius of Seabrook Station to support this hearing. This includes the MA Cities of Newburyport and Amesbury, MA Towns of Newbury, Salisbury and Merrimac and 2 MA Towns of Georgetown and Ipswich outside the radius. All 7 have written letters (some attached & latest article) endorsing WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for First Responders. This public hearing will give past and present first responders in https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/mail/sentitems/rp 3/1/2018

, Mail - s.comley.sr@outlook.com Page 3 of 4 Massachusetts and New Hampshire the opportunity to testify whether they believe Seabrook Station's Evacuation Plan can be effectively implemented safely and timely 365 days a year, especially during the summer months whch includes July 4 and Labor day during high-traffic days on coastal roads in the region.

I am sure you also recall during one of our meetings, I notified Mr. Bennett's office and the NRC recently again, concerning the GAG ORDERS presently on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard.

I gave the names, with their permission, of the individuals connected to these GAG ORDERS during a meeting I was asked to attend 9-2-2016 at the MA State Police Barracks in Newbury MA, by Former Deputy Commander of MA State Police, Francis Hughes. Other officials were also in attendance at this meeting, including John Giarrusso, Nuclear Section Chief and MA Sate Liaison Officer for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). I understand from WTP's contacts within the NRC, this information should have been reported to FEMA and to the NRC and was not.

I personally have reported the presence of these GAG ORDERS to MA Governor Baker and to MA AG, Maura Healey and to a 4 member Legal Team which includes, Mike Firestone, Maura Healey's Chief of Staff. For your and Mr. Bennett's knowledge, Maura Healey set up this Legal Team to investigate WTP's concerns of unsafe conditions at Seabrook Station and cover-ups by the NRC of Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts in most if not all U.S. Nuclear Plants including Seabrook.

I want to thank you again, Lisa Morales, for recognizing the seriousness of these safety matters and acting not only in WTP's and in my behalf, but also in your office's, in agreeing to contact the MA State Police Headquarters in Framingham concerning my request for Commander Colonel Kerry A Gilpin, to provide any minutes/or notes that were taken at the meeting of September 2, 2016.

Has Mr. Bennett or anyone in his office, as of this date, received copies of the information I provided together with any minutest/notes which I know were taken of the Meeting of September 2, 2018?

Please reply.

For your information, February 23, 2018, I received Trooper Cristina J. Lucin's #3634, (now with the MA State Police Department of Fraud Identification Unit) her letter of February 14, 2018 (attached) regarding her recollections and memory of the Meeting of September 2, 2016.

After reviewing Trooper Cristina J. Lucin letter of February 14, 2018 to Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Superintendent of the MA State Police, I know many important details of what I recall was said by myself and other officials who attended spoke was not recalled or written in Trooper Luci n's letter.  !

believe a full investigation of this meeting should be conducted as soon as possible.

We The People will continue to inform you and Mr. Bennett of what the NRC reveals to WTP concerning this troubling information outlined above.

• Lastly, please send We The People a copy of MA Secretary of Public Safety, Daniel Bennett's letter of endorsement of WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for First Responders. If Mr. Bennett decides not endorse this NRC hearing, please have him explain why.

Sincerely and Submitted with respect, httns://outlook.live.com/owa/?oath=/mail/sentitems/rp 3/1/2018

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From: Trooper Cristina J. Lucin #3634, Fraud Identification Unit

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I. Qn Wednesday, February 7, 2018, I was instructed to retrieve notes from a meeting which

- *occurred on September 2°d, 2016. Mr. Steven Comley, who had requested this meeting, contacted DLT O'Riordan in order to obtain a copy of notes from this meeting. I attended this meeting as part ofmy duties while assigned to the Office of the Superintendent, and are now curreqtly assigned to the State Police Fraud Identification Unit. Despite my best efforts, I am unable to locate notes from this meeting. Tberefore, the following report has been written from my best recollections and memory of that day.

2. On Friday, September 2°d, 2016, I attended a meeting at the State Police Newbury Barracks with an individual by the name of Stephen Comley. Mr: Comley is-the founder of an organization called "We the People", a non-profit organization he describes as a whistleblower organization. Mr. Comley had come unannounced to the home offonner Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes, in Newbury, to discuss his concerns with the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant (located in Seabrook, New Hampshire). Deputy Hughes (ret.) subsequently agreed to set up a meeting with Mr. Comley and our state emergency management agency (MEMA) to give Mr. Comley an opportunity to voice his concerns with our state's emergency management personnel.

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.. 3. The meeting took place on September 2 1ld, 2016 at the Newbury State Police Barracks and was attended by the following individuals:

a. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hughes. Deputy Superintendent, Massachusetts State Police (retired)

b. Major Arthur Sugrue, Commanding Officer Troop ..A**. Massachusetts State Police {retired)

c. Lieutenant James Devlin, Massachusetts State Police

d. John Giarrusso, Planning/Preparedness/Nuclear Section Chief, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)

e. Trooper Cristina Lucin, Massachusetts State Police

4. To my best recollection, the meeting was relatively short and consisted of Mr.

Comley providing letters written by Mr. Comley to various politicians, various reports about Seabrook Nuclear Power plants. and articles referencing Mr.

Comley's activities.

5. Deputy Hughes (retired) re-communicated to Mr. Comley that the Massachusetts State Police have preparedness plans in place for a Yariety of facilities and disasters. which are constantly being reviewed. He also agreed to review the

. documentation submitted by Mr. Comley. Mr. Comley expressed some concern that members of the Massachusetts State Police were ..being silenced" regarding their knowledge of flaws in the Seabrook Power Plant. All parties involved assured Mr. Comley that it was definitely not the case, that any concern regarding emergency management was welcome from both the public and department members.

6. Mr. Giarrusso provided Mr. Comley his contact information after the meeting was concluded.

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RE: Stephen B. Comley Sr. / "We the Peoplei, - Seabrook Nuclear Plant It 1s my understanding that your office has met with Stephen R Comley Sr.* a (X)n~tituent &oni the TQWJ:J Qf Rowley: and f"oun4er. of "We the People" (a national whistleblower/nonprofit orgAAi~tioii). in teg~ to his concems/allegations related to the evacuation plans filed* by the SeabtookNucl

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I1;t ~ditjon :to his* interaction with your office;, Mr. Comley continues to conta~ our otlice on a regul~ ~is'in: t~gards to this issue. He insists that he*s been provided information from several contid~ial ' piwlic safety sow-ces (Massacb.nsetrs and New Hampshire},. alleging that the cmrent/a(ioptect'evacuation plan filed by the Seabrook Nuclear Plant is ineffective during the summer months,

• Over the past two years, Mr. Comley1 s eoncems/aHega.tions relative to this 1ssue have been shared With local officials and constituents within the required 10 mile radius (extending into M!!Ssacliusetts}: As a result nstitueot inquiries regarding the viability of the plan have significantly increased. In some cases, relative concerns have been documented in writing, in response to Mt.

Comley*brief.itig a number of Boards of Selectmen (Within the 10 mile radius) during open/televised meetings.

I further note,. ~de frqm the attention generated *from the press and cable* ~cess television related lo* ~ch,..N.ft. 0:>>:nley has recently purch~ prime commerdalbillboard ~c~ on Rt lhtthe Towtt ~f S~sf?uty. This btllboard is very large and dearly calls the validity of e'Vacuation plan/zone into question. §imply put, over the past two y~* an.increased number, of 'individuafs/offidals within the 10 mile radius continue to question viability of the approved evacuation plans, Given that our office lacks the authority/ability to investigate Mr~ Comley1 s allegatio~ taking a po~itiono:n such (based on Mr. Comley's allegations} would be W1fair and irresponsible~ However, despite my numerous representations of such to Mr. Comley> he continues to provide our office ,vith 1

volumes ofinfonnation in suppott of his position. Although. he indicates understanding o:ur position; he contends that your office asserts having no jurisdiction in these matters.

During my more recent conversations with Mr. Comley, l indicated that I've been in contact with your office and it was my understanding that his documents. concerns and allegations were being reviewed. However, Mr. Comley expressed ex1reme frustration with the process. He asserts the information he provided to your office contains sufficient and applicable fncts to support .an investigation by your False Claims Division (under the authority of the Massachusetts False Claims Act. MOL c. 12, s. SA-50)1 to investigate the Seabrook Nuclear Plant's evacuation plans. His assertion is based on his contention that the plant has and continues to mislead municipal entities through the use of false claims/statements.

In conclusion, when considering Mr. Com1ey's allegations, I understand how this statute may apply in this case. However, based on my concerns relative to the clarity of communications with your

~ I believe information contained in this memo may be helpful. In addition to providing your office with a bettec understanding of his position and how/why it continues to evolve in this case. it reiterates and clarifies the limitations of our office relative to such.

Should you have any questions. or if our office can be of any assistance, please let me know.

Thank you.

1 Using the Massachusetts False Claims Act. M.G.L. c. 12, §§ SA-SO, the False Claims Oivition conducts civil mvestigauons 9lld prosecutions against companies and individuals who mislead or defraud state, or municipal entities tllrc)Qgh the use of' falst er fraudulent claims. records or ~ t s . The Massachusetts False Claims Act is a powerful Jaw enforcement statute that authorw:s triple damages end civil penalties of up to $11,000 per false claim. as wcU as the A G's

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Stephen B. Co,:nley Sr's letter for Consideration to be published as a guest column.

My name is Stephen B. Comley Sr., Founder of We The People (WTP) a National Whist1eblower Protection Non-Profit Organization. Many, as I, have been reading about Governor Baker's "sky-high popularity." I personally believe Mr. Baker is going to have a very bumpy ride during his re-election bid when more of WTP's State and National Scandals continues to be given coverage by community newspaper reporters.

Unlike Mr. Henry's "Boston Globe", some community newspaper's owners do not require their reporters to look sideways before they give any coverage to WTP's National Scandals, especially, our nuclear ones, which could affect their pro-nuclear readers to cancel subscriptions.

One example is WTP's ongoing investigation into the, "MA State Police Troopergate Scandal."

This involves former MA State Police Colonel Richard McKean and his second in-command, Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes. They both retired apparently due to altered MA State Police reports involving a Judge's Daughter who was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a mptor vehicle. When WTP completes our investigation, the Troopergate part will look pale to WTP's probe of the GAG ORDERS SCANDAL on the MA State Police and the NH National Guard regarding Seabrook Station ..

WTP's informants from the MA State Police inform me, "McKeon and Hughes fell on the sword to protect higher ups.n I know for a fact Governor Charlie Baker ignored these GAG ORDERS on our MA Troopers, who not only protect and serve us, but who protect Governor Baker when at State House and at home. I mysel,f informed Mr. Baker twice these informants were told by their Superiors not to question and/or discuss any concerns relative to the viability or effectiveness of the approved Seabrook Nuclear Plant's Evacuation Plan.

Since WTP's brought this troubling information to light, over 200 other MA and NH State Police, together with other first responders from local Police and Fire Stations, have stated to me there is no way the Seabrook Nuclear Plant can be evacuated safely and timely in the event of a nuclear disaster, especially during the summer months. Even now during the winter months on weekends, traffic is mostly at a standstill because of the new Seabrook Shopping Center which lies along Routes 1 and 95 and on land just in-front of Seabrook Station ..

September 2, 2016, I was invited by then Deputy In-Command, Francis Hughes who WTP has a lot of respect for, to participate in a meeting at the MA Newbury State Police Barracks. Others were present, including John Giarrusso, Nuclear Section Chief of the MA Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). Part of the information I included, with their permission, were the identities of the informants connected to the present GAG ORDERS.

WTP has requested the new Commander of the MA State Police, Kerry Gilpin to provide WTP with a copy of the Minutes/Notes I know were taken at this meeting 9/2/16. In addition, I also have asked President Trump's newly appointed NRC Chairwoman, Kristine Svinicki, MA Attorney General Maura Healey and Department of Safety Secretary, Daniel Bennett to request a copy of the notes of 9/2/16 meeting. Just Recently I was informed these notes are now missing.

Page 2 Stephen b. Comley Sr's letter for consideration to be published as a guest column.

Since meeting with MA Attorney General about these safety issues, Maura Healey elected to set up a 4 member Legal Team which includes, her Chief of Staff, Mike Firestone. Maura Healey created this Legal Team to supposedly investigate WTP's concerns of unsafe conditions at Seabrook Station and Cover-ups by the NRC of Counterfeit Substandard Nuclear Parts built into most, if not all U.S. Plants, including Seabrook. These Bogus Parts are also in Nuclear Weapons we sell to Europe which President Trump keeps bragging about how he is creating jobs. Surely President Trump can find a much safer way to produce Jobs. How about starting to disarm nuclear weapons?

WTP's informants and l are still waiting, once again, to meet with The Legal Team. The last time I met with them was October 18, 2017. When I arrived I was surprised to find out my request to be placed under oath was not granted. WTP's informants and J will agree to meet with Maura and her Legal team only if we are placed under oath, so everything becomes a public record.

During my meeting with the Legal Team, I provided them with lots of WTP's documents, including a copy of a transcript of a Tape-Recording of one of WTP's NRC informants. This is just one of the many Tapes Former President George H.W. Bush hired the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to seize. President Bush's pick for his Attorney General, at this time, was Richard Thornburg, who was the Governor of Pennsylvania during the cover-up of TMI accident, which WTP has and prove evidence of. Mr. Thornburg was given the assignment by the Reagan/Bush Administration to conduct a witch hunt of WTP's NRC informants. Bush's DOJ, had me under 2 Federal Subpoenas in MA Federal Court for over 6 years with the charge of "Conspiracy to Topple the NRC with Roger Fortuna, the former Deputy Director of the NRC's Office of Investigations." DOJ was never able to prove existence of any Tape-recordings, they said I might have, until a year ago, when I decided to call, Mr. Richard Barkley, who I know and respect and incidentally works for the NRC. I decided to admit to Mr. Barkley I did indeed have tapes but would not release any of them to the NRC, OOJ or the FBI. Unlike President Trump I can prove why I do not trust those agencies.

WTP was successful in getting officials within and outside the 10 mile radius of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant to endorse WTP's call for the NRC to support a hearing on Seabrook's Evacuation Plan. This includes the City of Newburyport and Amesbury, the towns of Newbury, Salisbury and Merrimac and the 2 Towns of Georgetown and Ipswich outside the radius. All 7 have written letters endorsing WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for first responders. The only MA Town of the 6 within the 10 mile radius of Seabrook Station who has not written a letter to the NRC is, the Town of West Newbury. i Why hasn't Maura Healey, as of this date, er1dorsed what 7 MA Towns have done by endorsing WTP's call for a NRC hearing? Why haven't the Selectmen written their letter to the NRC which was unanimously voted on at a Rowley Annual Town Meeting?

This NRC hearing will give past and former first responders who also have families to protect, the opportunity to testify whether they believe the Seabrook Evacuation Plan can be implemented safely and timely in the event of a nuclear disaster especially during the .summer months.

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Page 3 of Stephen B. Comley Sr's letter to be published as a guest column.

I have spoken with Governor Baker on two different occasions regarding WTP's concerns about unsafe conditions at the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. The first time occurred the day before Mr.

Baker was sworn in governor. The second time was more recently in 2017.

During both of these conversations, I informed Mr. Baker, MA Senate Minority Leader, Bruce Tarr, MA Assistant House Minority Leader, Bradford Hill and then Essex County Sheriff, Frank Cousins Jr., (who Baker passed over to become MA Public Secretary of safety) had endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold a hearing for First Responders. Both times Baker's response was, "Mr. Comley, I want to assure you, I will meet with these officials about these important safety matters." I have recently been informed Governor Baker has never met with Sen. Tarr, Rep. Hilt or with former Sherriff Cousins about these important safety issues concerning Seabrook Station.

In addition to State representatives WTP have contacted some in the Washington Establishment to endorse a NRC hearing for first Responders. This has included President Trump who, as yet, has not taken the time to tweet me. Others in Beltway includes U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey, U.S.Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Congressman Joseph Kennedy Ill, and U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton. WTP still have not received a reply from any of these US Senators or Congressmen, whether they will endorse WTP's call for this NRC hearing.

WTP has also contacted all of the NH Senators, most of the NH State Representatives, newly elected Governor Chris Sununu and NH Attorney General, Gordon J. MacDonald. To date, the only NH responsible elected leaders who have endorsed WTP's call for the NRC to hold this first responder's hearing are, Rep. Peter Schmidt of Dover and Former NH Rep and Civil Defense Director, Roberta Pevear who both of whom have written to the NRC and MA AG, Maura Healey to endorse WTP's call for a First Responders' Hearing.

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Albert Einstein said, "To the Village Square We Must Take the Facts of Atomic Energy, From There Must Come America's Voice". Democracy will work only if and when people decide to get involved and take action.

Please contact WTP if anyone wants to post a WTP's sign with the message we have on RT One in Salisbury, "Caution President Trump: Seabrook Nuclear Zone No Evacuation Possible, Investigate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."

I hear lots of people complaining about how President Trump is running the White house. Over my 32 years of investigating the media, politicians and corruption within Washington, I found out the only way for me to bring about real change was to instead of just complaining, I had to get involved and take action. ~

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• Comley Sr.'s letter. to of six coastal Massachu- : E~se:x County Sheriff Frank *1/2-page let~~r' to Sel~ctman** National Guard ~embers. * .'Richard JC Lodge ts editor Merrimac Selectman setts coml'rimlities:\witbin Cousin$, who is now director Carol Trar~~r. thanlcmg h~r "These same.public safety of The Datly News.and can be

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TOWN OF MERRIMAC OFFICE ()F THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN 2-8 School Street, Merrimac, MA 01860 TEL (978) 346-8862 E*MAlL ~electmen@townofn1errLmac.com J~nuary II, 20 18 U.S. NucJear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 205SS-OOOJ Attn: NRC Cbajrwoman Kristine L Svincki

Dear Ms. Svincki,

As you know, Merrimac is one of six Massach,usetts coastal communities that are within the tea-mile radius of the nuclear power plant We are writing to express the board's support of the request by Stephen Comley Sr. of We The People to schedule a hearing to prove an opportunity for past and *present first responders to testify whether they believe Seabrook Station's evacuaiion plan can be effectively implemented safely and timely.

Thank you for your consideration.

Merrimac Board of Selectmen

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Carol A. Traynor Cc B. Roy Hawkens, Chairman Mr. Hubert Bell Administrative Judge Inspector Ge~ral . .

Atomic safety & Licensing Board Nuclear Regulatory Comm1ss1on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory commission Washington, D.C. 20555-000 I MSC:T-3F23 Washington, D.C. 201472 Honorable Blaine C. Duke Acting Secretary .

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Amesbury, Salisbury seek nuclear plant hearing BY JIM SULLIVAN .

Staff Writer See PLANT, Page 5 (J)

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5BeaehRoad Salisbury, Massachusetts 01952 Board ofSelectmen (978) 462-8232 ext. 100 Chuck Takesian, Chairman Henry Rieben burg Freeman J. Condon Ronalee Ray-Parrott Wilma M. McDonald November 8, 2017 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Dear Ms. Svinicki:

I am -writing in response to public safety concerns ~eel by ~- Steph~. B. Comley, Sr., a resident of Rowley, MA, ana founder of "We the People," a non-profit .national whistleblower organization, regarding the inadegua_cy- of evacuation plan for the Seabrook, NH nuclear power station (Seabrook Station).

Acco~ding to Mri-Comley, he has-been provided information :from several confidential public safety sources alleging that the-e_vacuation plan* in question- is ineffective within the required 10-mile radius (which includes the Town 9f Salisbury) during the summer months*. He also claims that the U.S. Nuclear Regula~ry Commission has ignored his public safety concerns. Although the Salisbury Board of Selectmen does not have substantive i¢'onnation to support Mr.

Comley's allegations, we nonetheless remain very concerned about Seabrook Station md its evacuation plan.

Therefore., in the interest of public safety, the Board respectfully requests that you hold a public hearing, at a location within the 10-mile radius of Seabrook Station, in order to elicit comments from those public safety and emergenqr medical response personnel who may have concems about the evacuation plan. At the very le~ such a hearing will give the U.S. Nucleu Regulatory Cornrnission the opportunity to explain to the public how the plan is desigried to work, preventing any misinformation and* greatly reducing the concern that many residents of-our town have as a result of the allegations Mr. Comley has made.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

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ot,. are regional authorities pre- his efforts. Comley hopes his effort believe a public hearing on the I ed to evacuate residents? will, have a "rumbling effect" for issue will provide your commission

'hat's what longtime activist, nuclear plants nationwide. the opportunity to not only address sidential candidate and Rowley "I want a hearing called [by the the issues Mr. Comley has raised,

.dent Stephen Comley Sr. wants NRCJ for first responders to have but also to explain in more detail

now. an opportunity to testify whether how the approved plan is designed

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visiting several Massachu- including July 4 and Labor Day," 10-mile radius," the letter reads.

s com..munities near the plant Comley said. Earlier this month, former New 1cluding Newburyport, .Ames- ..A.nd he's been making progress. Hampshire state Rep. Roberta

y, Salisburj, Newbury, West After speaking with Comley, Pevear wrote a. letter to Healey wbury, Merrimac, Georgetown the Board of Selectmen in Ips- endorsing Comley's effort.

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• You .know how manl up. staffI have? Two. Me ano "We aren;t against Jesus Christ," Comley said uclear power, as long as noting he can always coun1 ur plant is safe: Comley on.Jesus~

Trooper Cristina tucin Jvly 4, 2017 Chief b.r"Staff Lieutenant Co1oriel Fr?ncis Hughes ~fled Return Reeeipt -Requested Deputy. Superintende*nt Mass.a*chus-ei:ts: State Police Office of the SVperinterident Trooper Cr~stina Lucin, This is my offici.af request to meet wlth Commander Colonel Richard 0. McKeon, Su:per:intendent of the Massachu:s~tts Stat.e Police as soo11*as possible. I have h_ad*another recent threat{Endosute:A) onmy life

.whi!=h the Rowley Po-I.ice are*16okihf into. I am disappointed I have not hearo back from-the many e-maifs

{~d~sitte- B'inost f;e~~l;-Jt-t!zmfil,t~f~lf.~9/1n*and certified letters I have*sent your offke. As Dep~ty Superintendent, ~oJo:nel"francis'fitighes and-you know this information doctime-nted cover-ups by the Nudear Regulatory Cornm'ission (NRC) of.unsafe* conditions at the Seabrook Nuclear Pla,nt and*t-he past anci" curre.nt tiia'clequacies *of Seabrook Statfon)s* Evatuc1tloh Plan.

I co:ntinu_e to-J:i"ear from man-y 6f theMA-State**Police and other first.responders who cont~d tne and-believe ther:e* is**no way to effectiv.e,fy evacuate citizens safety and Ume1y in the event of a. riudea-r disaster at the Seab::r<fcik Nuctear Pfai.nt.:-Jushhis. past weekend traffic again around the plant at tne* new shopping center ,fr1:d a-l61ig.:R6utes 1, 1A a,nd 95 was at a* standstilrsevera-1 times. I took the time to report this-informatlo.n to Ti'ooper Sullivan at the Newbury State Police Barracks.

As you know September 2, 2016 I was invited to -participate in a meeting at the MA Newbury State Police Satr.a:c:rlefs letted:O Trooper. Cristina .Lucirr; Chief of Sta.ff for lie.utenant"cotorii!l:HUgff~sv~-:~::~-::--.". _.

1want to point o.ot the City' of N~~b~ryport and the i-~w~--0~ S~fi:sbuiy have. previou;'iv c~tted. to"r.'th*~:, ** :**.* >.

shutdo~rt of the Seabrook N-uclear Plant. *we The People; a Nuclear Safety Advocate is not calilh_g:f9*r-**1:t,e shutdown of-Seabrook Station. WTP instead is calling for the NRC to hold this first responders hea"fing.

• I have had: the opportunity to. speak b.riefly with Governor Char.tie Baker on two differe:nt.occasiQtis at r~g~rding We The People's unsafe conditions the Sea-brook Nu.dear Plant. the first time* o¢~rred *the day before Mi. Char.lie* Baker was sworn In* as Governor of Massachusetts. The second time was mot~

recel)tly on February i.7, 2017. During both of these COTI\[.er.s~tions, t informe<:f-Mr...*Baker thaf.senate Minority leader, Bruce Tarr, Assistat'lt MA House Minority leader, Bradford HUI and then now former Essex Count, Sher.riff, Frank Cot(sins Jr.; had.-endorsed We*The People's call for the Nuclear Regulatory Commissio.n to ho1d a hearin~Jpr.fi~st Responders. Both times Charlie* Baker's respons-e to m:e*-was; ;;Mr.

Comiey, I witl meet Wlth thi~f~.tlals:-about th~se important safety:matters." I have rec-ently b~en informed Governor Saker has n~~- di~( W..ith Senator Tarr, Representative Sra*dford Hill or witfHortner Slietriff Cousins abtiut these im~~~t'.s-~&ty_'issties. .

tn a*dditi6n to contacting Governor Ch:arlie Baf<ei rnyself, We The People has been in to-uch:with m~ny of the Governo.r B~ke($ staff memb~~- T.his*-ind1..r(Je-s the fofldwhig: Brendan Moss., Deputy communicatrons C>jrectot 6/i:8/17;-Aii~ Pere4 *Bepu_ty Ptrector of Administration* 2/27/17, Dean Serpa, Oif"ector of Operations 1/9/17; Scott F. eon'w"ay; Deputy *Oi~ector of Operations 1/09/17~ Anisha Cha\rabarti, *Program Co&di(iatorfor A~cess & Opp6rtu~fty 1/9/17, 10/21/16 & 7/11/16, John R.Tap1ey, Director of Constituent Servic~ 10/2U1G/ &. 7/12/16, Mindy D'Arbeloff., Deputy chief of Staff 7ii2/16, RicardQ Guit1aume, Deputy D.irector of Constituent Services 6/16/16 & 1/11/16; EUzabeth Guyton, Press S~*eretaty S/5/1'6 & t<atie Cunningham, Director bf Constituent Service's 1/11/15 as wen as seveta:J other times.

T-o date; lnav.e not receiVed a written or tel*ephone response from Governor Charlie Baker or ftc;ir.t{~ny of his*staff *bers cOf'icerning my request to meet with him directly about endorsing We The_ .Peept,is call for the NRC to hold _a first responders hearing. But I am still hopeful I wifl hear from Governor-Charlie Baker so I can met with him soon .

.In addition to.State repiesentatives WTP have contacted U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey and his-staff including Tristan Ta.kos, Constituent Services Director 6/28/17, David Brade; Region~! OitectorS/31/17, Mark C. Galiaghi!r, State O.irector 10-21-16 and Michal Hana Freedhoft: Oir-ector of Oversight a"~d Investigations (£ndosure D}-2-18-2014. Still have not received a response when WTP. i:an meet Wtth u. s.

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WTP has a1so contacted U.S. Co"ngressman Joseph Kennedy 111 and members of his. stai'.f iiidtia.1f1g "!\Ar.

• Nicklaus Clemons, MA District Director 6-13-2016 by letter.fEnelosure E) and on severa1:oth~~¢.~i-on.s in hopes of meeting with U.S. Congre*ssman Kennedy 111. As of this date have not received a f.~ponse.-..

U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton was contacted by the Rowley Board of Selectmen 6-15-15 by l~tter*

(endosure fl "a.sking you to m~et with Mr. Comley to discuss his concerns. ov-erthe safety Of the .

Seabr-ook."Plant.,, Since Rowley's "letter I have* met with Mr. Moulton's MA District Repre$.*e~tadv~

Morgan s*eu several times but stm have not received a date when the Congressman will m~*erwtth me.

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We The People is very .hopeful r w!fl'have the opportunity and honor to tneet soon with,-.Cortrri'.fa_t:19er'

• Rftha'rd D. McKeon, Superiritehdent of the Massachusetts State Police. Thts m~etir1g_wnl ghi(! fu~-tn~*:.:

• opportunitY to discuss We The Peeple's new and past concerns ~ndosute-G\;a-dous'*m~dii:jfti6ll!$~j11a*

lettets* abolit' the,NRC .and unsafe conditfons at U.-S. Nuclear Plan~) a:b'~ut the. u~safe tondition~* ~'. th~.- .*.

Seabrook Nuclear plant and the fai:lure ofthe N*uclear Regulatory Commission to protect the safety of the cititens of _MA~ NH and* _beyond *. l know Commander M.¢.K~n would much rather hefp*.ptevent a NDcle:ar Disaster from occurring at Seabrook Station than reacting to* one.

Respectfufty Submitted, Founder of W~ The PEfopte. ~ *Nationa*i':Wnist1ebio~er Protection* Non-Profit Organliatib.h ... _.*

CCt Senator Bruce* Tarr, Rej)r$sehtative Bfadford Hifl, formet Essex County Sherriff, frahlt:$)¢~ti~.lh$j H~> ...

• Massachusetts AttorneyJ3ene.rat, *Maura Healey, Governor' Charlie Barker, U.S. senator*tdvJaiiM~.t)sey,..*

U.S. _Congressman, Joseph Kennedy 111 and U.S. Congress'rnan~ Seth Mou-lton ...

A. Recent threat on rnv life which the Rowley Police are looking into.

8; Most recent e-ma*il to Massachusetts State Trooper Cristina Lucin, Chief of Staff for lieutenant toi6nel Francis Hughes*.

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Thank you for voicing your concern regarding the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. In response to our conversation, I want to assure you that the Massachusetts State Police take all matters of emergency response and preparedness seriously. Evacuation plans and contingency response measures are periodically reviewed* and changes are implemented when better solutions are discovered. The Massachusetts State Police is dedicated to serving and protecting the citizens of Massachusetts.

Agai~ thank you for providing your concerns to us. All the be.st in your future endeavors.

Respectfully, Lieutenant Colone ran is Hughes Deputy Superintendent Mas~achusetts State Police Office of the Superintendent

• D I n1s space on Koute 11n Salisbury, MA is secured and under contract for the rest of 2018, 2019, and 2020 during my run for president of the United States.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SEABROOK NUCLEAR ZONE NO EVACUATION POSSIBL INVESTIGATE THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIO PROTECT U.S. DEMOCRACY "To T-he Village Square We Must Take The Facts Of Atomic Energy, From There Must Come .America's Voice':

• -Albert Bnstei.n ROWLEY, MA

• Stephencomley&r.co_m Paid for by the Committee to Elect Stephen B. Comley Sr. for President of the U~ited States of AmericE

PROFILE OF STEPHEN B. COMLEY SR. Web site www.stephencomJeysr.com I Stephen B. Comley, Sr., is a business-owner, farmer & founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization residing in Rowley, Massachusetts-just 12 miles away from the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. For over 80 years, his family has owned & operated now by his Son for 26 years the Sea View, Rehabilitation & extended Care Community. Steve Sr. is one of the leading nuclear safety advocates in the country. Since the mid-1980's he has brought whistle blowers forward concerning the reckless disregard for the public's safety and first brought to light the presence of Counterfeit Substandard Parts present in most US reactors including Seabrook Station with much attention in the news ... always with an eye towards protecting those who chose to help eradicate fraud & abuse in the energy conglomerates & the federal government. It all began when Comley requested further information about an evacuation plan should Seabrook Nuclear Plant fail. In its current status, the plan does not & still does not extend beyond a 10-mile radius. This meant Senior Citizens residing at the Sea View & his family was left at risk. A former Nuclear Regulatory (NRC) Commission Executive Director (Victor Stello Reagan appointee) informed in a letter to Comley to leave his special needs residents behind & administer potassium iodid~ by caregivers who would be willing to stay behind in the event of a nuclear disaster at the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. This inhumane treatment still is in place now at all the nuclear plants in the U.S. & beyond making a certain segment of our population expendable. Mr. Comley vowed to make it his duty to speak out about this violation of human rights---not only as a business & family-man, but as a Christian soldier. Most notably, CNN, TIME & 60 Minutes have all covered or followed him &

his efforts.

As you may surmise, whistle blowers rarely get rewarded for their honesty & integrity.

Some have been fired from their jobs, & others, like Steve, have lost even more. His reward fo( exposing the severe deficiencies in Nuclear Industries & the cover-ups within the NRC-the federal regulatory arm of the U.S. goverrunent charged with overseeing the industry & protecting the public is well-documented including the TIME Magazine Cover Story, "Nuclear Warriors" & the CNN special, "Inside the NRC": Regulation or Intimidation?" The NRC served Comley with a Federal Subpoena which stated: "Mr.

Stephen Comley & Roger Fortuna, deputy (former) director of the NRC Office of Investigations are Conspiring to Topple the NRC & if Stephen Comley does not turn over the tape-r.ecordings he has made of high officials in Washington he could be jeopardizing the safety of the American people & the security of U.S. Nuclear Plants from around the country." This turned into a 6 year court battle in MA US Federal court with the US NRC Inspector General finally dropping the subpoena in favor of working with Comley.

Despite the 32 years of efforts, sadly, the importance of Mr. Comley's message has fallen on deaf ears by several administrations beginning from Presidents Reagan to now Trump.

Mr. Comley has also contacted all of the presidential candidates who like the national liberal media have turned a blind eye to these unsafe conditions at US nuclear plants.

Even though former Obama staff member Leon Panetta & David Williams, (Now Inspector General of the Postal O(fice) former NRC Inspector General, requested investigations by the Department of Justice & the FBI their requests were never acted on.

Page 2 Profile of Stephen B. Comley Sr., Founder of We The People Over the years, Comley & his National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization (501© 3), "We the People" he founded in 1987, also requested investigations by the FBI & the Department of Justice but these appeals were not honored. Yet, in Mr. Comley's eyes & others who blew the whistle, there is unfinished business. His story is one of incredible fortitude, persistence and faith.

Steve still is very active in his pursuit for making sure democracy works. His passion &

concern for the safety of the American people is rare these days. He is doggedly diligent about making sure students across the country remember their rights as citizens. During his lectures to college students he stresses the importance of having a voice & a say in democracy. He wrote to the President & Mrs. Obama regarding unfinished business concerning the protection of United States citizens should a nuclear fallout take place.

The White House signed for the letters, which to date have remained unanswered.

In a recent petition to President Trump, Vice President Pence, Speaker Ryan & Members of Congress, Comley calls for intense reform in the regulations which dictate the safety &

efficacy of nuclear plants across the country. Among the action he seeks for President Trump's administration & Congress to enact & include:

Congress to create an independent commission to investigate the U.S. Nuclear Commission (NRC);

Hold the industry accountable to higher standards of Quality Assurance & Safety Inspections including but not limited to the use of Substandard & Counterfeit Parts; Create evacuation plans & public responses that include all Americans with respect to short-term & long-term effects of nuclear accidents.

Comley has been a registered Independent voter all his voting life but now a republican while running for President. Steve is also a Lifetime Member of the Republican Inner Circle. He is a Graduate of Atlantic Union College. He is a national speaker on the issues of Nuclear Safety & recently was invited & spoke in Japan & South Korea.

Stephen B. Comley Sr's Web Site is Vvww.stephencomlevsr.com and s.com1ey.sr@out1ook.com where he is able to be contacted .

VOTE COMLEY FOR PRESIDENT stephen B. *Comley Sr.

"Together we can bring about real Founwof:

change that will repair America" We The People a National Whlstleblowers Protection Democracy only works when people are involved Non-Profit Organlzatlon 8ox #646 ~ , MA 01969 Stephen Comley Sr.

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OemocracY Is Strong Rowley, MA 01969 Moblle: 904-206-3114 s.comley.sr@oudook.com 904* 206-3'1 l 4 J'or More Background on WTJ>

Google: SteY4I COmley Nud*r bgulatory Commlslon www.StephenComleySr.com "To The VIiiage Squm We Must Take The Facts Of Atomic Energy, From Paid for by 1he CnmmiHee 1o Elect Comley for President There Must c.ome America's Voice" Albert Bnsteln

More evidence to substantiate We The People's work with First Inspector General, David Williams. 1 P~,P Stephen Comley fllt Thu 3/1/2018 9:44 AM To:richard.barkley@nrc.gov < richard.barkley@nrc.gov >;

8 attachments (5 MB)

WTP - COMLEy - Millstone violation brings NRC review 1-12-96.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - Comley group slams NRC for issuing waivers 11-12.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - BOSTON Herald public safety said to be at rish .pdf; WTP - COMLEY - Whistle-blowers on Safety risks Betrayed by NRC.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - Whistle-Blowers on safety Risks Betrayed by Nucl.pdf; WTP - COMLEY -

Boston Globe - US removes a GAG from Seabrook Cr.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - Federal office finds plant parts faulty - Ports.pdf; WTP - COMLEY - NYT STELLO - Panel sees animostiy behing lnquiry.pdf; PLEASE CONFIRM YOU WERE ABLE TO OPEN THE 8 ATTACHMENTS ABOVE.

Richard S. Barkley PE Nuclear and Environmental Engineer USNRC Region 1--Branch 3 Work (610) 337-5328 Cell (610) 608-1517 Mr. Barkley, Attached is more proof stated in articles from We The People's work with David Williams's Office of NRC IG. These articles were written from a number of NRC IG investigative reports We The People was given credit for being to light. I believe these articles and what I have previously given you, substantiates any remarks I have stated in the past or recently, as true. This information I believe proves what NextEra Energy Spokesman, Peter Robbins publicly stated said is a lie. These is not question in my mind, this was an attempt by NextEra Energy to discredit me and WTP as a National Whistleblower Protection Group. Just for you review, the following is the recent false statements made by Peter Robbins, "Mr.

Comley has a long history of making false allegations and baseless claims against Seabrook." Robins wrote, Independent agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, have reviewed his claims and allegations and have found them to be without substance."

If it is found anyone in the NRC provided NextEra Energy with what Peter Robbins said or wrote in his statements above please provide the name of that individual who said, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, have reviewed his claims and allegations and have found them to be without substance."

If there is no such evidence, please have the appropriate NRC office so state that in writing to WTP.

I would like these attachments and E-mail placed in NRC ADAMS for Public review. WTP also https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/mail/sentitems/rp 3/1/2018

requests these attachments and message be sent and included with the previous documentation your office has been sending to NRC Chairwoman, Kristine L. Svinicki for her review.

Thank you once again, Mr. Barkley, for your continued co-operation in these important matters.

Sincerely, Steph -8. ComleJ. e~ b/.l.,.

Founder of We The People a National Whistleblower Protection Non-Profit Organization https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/mail/sentitems/rp 3/1/2018

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In an effort to preserve hil, p By John Milne t.ions had been covered up. Antinu-ldlear activist.s have contended U1at Reoords deemed faulty we lmow they can cy until the hearing. Warnpler oLoo£ srAFF 'uolear plan~ withheld infonnation In 1991 the NRC found th.al sev-.

eral welds did not have the proper be protected.' lerday declined to identify the western city where he now livei;

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• salely concerns a e about nuclear safety issues. tor, New Hampshire Yankee, safety activist, Wampler and his brook nudear power plant. the

• Pullman-Higgins Co., the Sea- $100,000 for failing to keep properly I yer,, filed a motion with the. L Labor De~~eut has ruled brook subcontractor that was -documented X-rays. 1 Backus, a longtime opponent of the Department, seetling to reopen

he_ cau tell lus side of U1e *$1.ory Wampler's employer, filed a Feb. 2.8 Seabrook spokesman Rob Wil- plant. settlement. Reich consideJ*ed liams said th11.t ~forth Atlantic Ener- But Wampler could not opency case early this year and co1lch

,ubhc. . motion asking Reich t.o reconsider, The Feb. 14 decision by_ Secre- .: saying iL .never intended to prevent gy Corp., the plant's CUITent opera- provide information to opp(ment.s. that the setUement violated the tor, "wants to emphasize U;iat there On March 20, 1984, shortly after his ergy Reorganization Act of 1974

, of Labor lli)bert B. R~cli, ob- Wampler, a licensed quality control was never an issue of plant Safety, firing-. Wampler and Pullman~Hig- signed t.o protect whisUeblowen ed by U1e Globe y~terday, as- inspector from raising safety con-and the quality of the welds them- gips .reached a. ~nent 'in which "To the extent that this prov.

1ed Adnntiistrative Law Judge cerns. 'J:he company's 'lawyer., Mark could be consu11ed as* restri, selves has been con.finned."..Dw:ing the fompa.ny pai~ his lawy.ers' fOOli id W. Di Nardi in Bost.on to ho!d T, Broth, wouldn'tret.urn phone calls the plant's. 1991 refueling, the* ques- comphunant from voluntarily ~

lie hearings, *expected to be m :seeking'furthP' comment. and agreed not. tc? blackball him tioned welds were reexamined and within the industcy. One paragi;aph munica.ting and providing infoi tsmout.h this sumrner. * "It:s been a long Ume," Wap1ple1* new X-rays made, William& said. ti9n lo any. federal or :.tate gov Reic_h_, in bis qecision1 revealed , said in a teleph~ne interview. I ~l 'Ilqe hwestigation led to an in-said, "neitha* party will discl~e the ment agencies, it is void .a..c; cont

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• like the weight of a 40-foot tniler speotroftt the Watts Bar nuclear fact.s:o( thfa,case-except if ol'de.red to to public polic.y and unenforcea 1ent. b~J:J Wampler from* dis-* fia.s. been lifted .from my shoulders." i,ower plartt in SJ>ring City, Tenn., do.so by court, .tr.ibunal or agenc1 .*of Reich WJ'Ote.

Jing his CIUle pubJ!e.ly, or even vol- , W~plers 5rfug touche~ o!f one where substapdard w~lds we.r.e cumpetent jtlrisdict.i~n." C6n;t~y hailed the decision, of irily ~es~tui~ety concerns *1 tl)e most cont.entious te~atozy found, and the Tennessee Val}ey Auf Wampler said after.ward he had il)g: 'fWf! fulve other p~ople wbo edernl reggla,l;Qrs. 'Reich labeled ruspu~ during th\? const.r,ui:Uon o( thority spent $50 million on re~. been, coer.qed into .a..CCt)l>t.ing the* set,; come forw.a~d w1U1 safoty conce

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exemplary care established-by h~fundy. ltt~notb,~cause there are concerns over the quality of care; in fact, state determine w:D:ich nl,ll"sµig .h~~cs 1lfC cxc~pt fr~it) {lie use~ '(c~. *. D.~,frc Sea View is caught in~~ .n~w.in dilemma: If it pays the fcesftti.W6ill&

regulators routinely cite Sea View for its ~tcptional the court ruling,_ the State cna~an be forced into bankruptcy( if, it care, and U.S. News & World Report, a leading expert emergency regulation that made Sea refuses to pay the fees, it risks>the loss in the evaluation and rating ofhealth care providers View responsible for die fees going o;its license. In eit~er case,'$f'(iew across the country, also regularly:idcntilies it as*one of forward. Tue change of crit~ria and i Mui~ end up dosing. Insrea~; it is the country's "Best Nursing Homes.~ its* sllSpicious -timing would* appear , choosmg to fight what it views~ an The fa<::ility may be forced to close because the to .be a re move by die state i unfair, imbalanced, and unsustai~Je Massachusetts Department of. Public Hfalth, ~e policy.

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< i*,;t., ,,,,, ,: I,' homes face. The problem is especially license to operate. It is a move tliat Comley contends is 1

~use~::itlbcucvcs acutefor small, independent, family-grossly unfair and that he is c~n~g. . . * " ,,,,, ';tii~(~~; o~ed facilities. The user fees, low "I want to do the right thmg, Comley says. We

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' staff, and to rpe community. But the state JS making It ~~:' impo$sil,Je,Jor'* h:qmes 'suclr as Sea impossible fur us." ... ' ' . Tha.t Js. wfui't>;; View. t9 ,remain in,;~usin~s. Tue state The action is tied tP a larg~r issue that has. e~P;toiled Sea View for years. The state claims that the .6!.oill.U'.)as unpaid "user fees." It is Sea View's positioµ, ~¢,'YAVe,:,

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The dysfunctjonal system that that it is exempt from paying the fees. Mpre~v~, could agree td pay* the ~.'tBufrhat overs~ .the indll§tiy is having a Comley points out that the state owes th~. facility would be fuiancially ca~phlc: fave impact on all:' -ll~sing *h6tnes millions of dollars for the years it falsdy charged Sea Nursing homes have* two primary in. the state. The µ'ser fee's thit the View the fees.

• sources of income; the private pay of DPH impose arc taxing the qualiiy The federal government granted states the authority residents who use their own funds and of care right out of Massachusetts.

to charge a user fee, an assessment for each of the non- thegovernmenr-funded Medicaid and Nursing homes have been closing at Medicare residents in nursing homes. Also known as Medicare programs that pay homes a precipitous rate. The facilities that a <<Robin Hood" fee, the money is supposed to come for the long- and short-term care of from better-performing homes to help prop up ones residents. The government's programs that need financial assistance. In reality, the fees are really a rax that the srate imposes and that aren't always are chronically underfunded, and their reimbursement rates do not co11r' used for their intended purpose. cover the actual cost of care. Nursing ~N -r, /' ~ i-: , 'S-According to the DPH's own criteria, Sea View homes such as Sea View lose a was exempt from paying the fees when the state first substantial amount of money for each introduced them. Nevertheless, rhe state charged Sea resident they accept that is covered by View for the fees, and the facility paid a total of around Medicaid. In Sea View's case, it is $65

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':11te statt.would~sc~*io hav~ an uiteriorm~tiv~ to slifu*.down nursing homes..If Wg~~~~CY; ~oi.n.cs *such as

{ou r1 c,~1101-1 Sea VJcw*'clbsecif Wes would not h~ve)h~ opnrin of scckif)g. carc for Ap:(t&lt thc:irlqyc:d ones at pla~. ~t. they t~i:. F,~W~JXC?W~ iJm.:~dJµ:µggle to.~/6.tJ:\1~ loved ones at home.

'Ihc:state; .thtreforei would nor have to,pay fur nursing home care and save money. Despite the Commonwealth's robust ecoQomy, tf1erejs no poHtical will to, address pr~ing' health care issues in~gcnerah-or to adequately fund iuusb1g home care in particuJar.

There js, -a looming, huge* wave of baby, hodiners ..that will inevitably require. nursing* home services. Will there be any high:-quality*homcs left to care for them?

• Comley feelsthar he owes it to the residents recciving care at Sea View to remain open; "They have paid, their taxes into ~ system their entire life, and now that system is fuiling them,"

he says. "Their families have entrusted the care of their loved ones to us, and we intend to honor their trust by treating the residents with.the dignity and respect that they deserfe;"

Sea, Vi~s owner also has an obligation to* the facility's . 108 dedicated, hard-working employees.

They have chosen a career that requires much of them1 .but that offers many as rewards. It is mu~ a calling;a.s ids a job. *Butit!fa;job'n6~tlieless; and if the .* ... ,;\~d~; :were .to* Jose their

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Letters Closing Seaview would be a tr~vesty To the editor: among the elderly and infirm setting atop a hill overlook-My brother, for whom I residents. To some, "license ing Plum Island Sound, am legal surrogate, was one revocation" may have also makes it a jewel among nurs-of the 10 Seaview residents implied health code viola* ing homes and a wonderful handed the notice threat- tions: this could not possibly asset and employer not only ening Seaview's *pending be further from the truth. for Rowley, but for the entire license revocation. Seaview is an exceptional northern Essex County com-This occurred suddenly on and truly excellent nursing munity which it serves.

Feb. 15, just before the 4:30 home, which has consistently To see Seaview sacrificed dinnertime. earned five stars out of five on the altar of a political Leaving aside that T, as his ratings from the national agenda which has nothing legal surrogate, should have HHS, year after year. Among to do with patient care, and been contacted directly about other things, this is due to everything to do with a mon-this matter, it is hard not to the wonderful staff, every etary dispute, would. be a see this as a form of elder one of them, who have con- travesty of good government abuse on the part of the state sistently gone well above the We, the taxpayers and vot-HHS, using the residents as call of duty to make the resi- ers, will be watching closely pawns in political battle. dents' lives as good as they to see what our elected offi-Since this document could can be, regardless of their cials do.

be viewed as a possible evic- infirmities or financial status. LARRY NILE tion notice, it may cause All this, coupled with Middle Street great anxiety and confusion Seaview's magnificent Newburyport

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THURSDAY February 22, 2018

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Br JACK SHEA In the letter sent by state the Department of Public this process, the depart-Jshen@newhuryportnews.com Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Glouces- Health and with Sea View ment will work closely ter, and also signed by state Retreat in order to facili- with the Executive Office ROWLEY - A letter Sen. Kathleen O'Connor tate a workable solution of Elder Affairs Long Term signed by four local law - Ives, D-Newburyport; state to ensure [itJ.c'an continue Care ombudsman to ensure

• .. makers urges Department Rep. Bradford Hill, R Ips-0 to keep its doorsiopen, and that residents' needs are of Public Health Com.mis- wich; and state Rep. James provide essentild. and high met."

sioner Monica Bharel to Kelcourse, R-Amesbury; quality care for-elders." Sea View has had the ensure that the Sea View Tarr says the nursing home In an -email, to'Thl? Daily opportunity to work with Convalescent and Nursing has been "an integral part" News, a spokesperson for MassHealth over the last Home remains operational. of the community for more DPH said that on Feb. 14, several months to comply Sea View, with about 60 than 60 years. Sea View was notified the with the user fee require-beds, has been open at 50 "Sea View has provided, state is obligated to begin rnents but has refused Mansion Drive in Rowley and continues to provide, action to revoke its license repeated attempts to com-since 1954. The business a safe and high-quality to operate a long-term care municate with MassHealth is facing possible clo- retirement home for many facility. staff, according to DPH.

sure because the state residents of our area who "We regret that this step DPH said the nursing says Sea View has not paid depend on the care that it has occurred and we will home still has the oppor-a nursing facility user fee consistently makes avail- continue to try to work tunity to resolve the issue for more than a year. able on a daily basis," Tarr with officials from Sea and keep its doors open.

-1 said in the letter. View to ensure they com- Representatives for Sea "Toward that end, we ply with the law," read the View could not be reached request that every possible DPH statement. "Our pri- by press time Wednesday.

option be fully explored to mary concern remains that Jack Shea can be reached 1 allow this facility to remain residents who live in this via email at jshea@new-operatioqal in a safe and facility continue to receive buryportnews.com or by cost-effective manner. We safe,high-qualitycarewith phone at 978-961-3154.

would welcome an oppor- minimal disruption to their Follow him on Twitter @

tunity to meet both with daily lives. Throughout iamjackshea.

WEDNESDAY March 21, 2018

$1.50 Selectmen need to stand up for Se(\f.i View residents To the editor: Vi~w received a favorable clean, cozy, well managed, Petitioning citizens detlisipll,.P!,~11~z;igr Court personal, close, nearby to reviewed the town's reaction* ilt'-2016 *conterntng their loved ones, saf~f with 'beauti-to the closing of Sea View pij_gJ)t of the::~~ doµp.w. ful panoramic views.

nursing home by the Mas- ~~cilffl~s/It:'Show.cr BoththeRowleyselectmen sachusetts Division of Public nave ertdedtberel The state and the DPH shou),_~Jollow Heath (DPH) services recently appealed it and overturned suit with Sen. B\'l;lQe' Tarr.

which prompted trus letter. ~t decjsion. Rep. Brad Hill, ~~een This group of concerned -These are the questions O'Connor Ives,}lep; James citizens sought to investi- th;;rt thost} people about to Kelcourse as well as the doz-gate the lack of concern by enter thetelderly class of ens of residents ofSeirView.

our selectmen and petition c l ~ shpuld ask: The community demands them for governmental sup- Why, pray:tell, didn't it end that negotiations fa'vora solu-port. The particular class there? tion to. promote ~heir pro-discriminated against is Why didn't the Rowley tection. Are the selectmen senior citizens. selectmen get off their duffs planning on buying "com-In particular, the 62 citi- to promote <ltn' elders' de$1re muterpasses"foitbeirfamlly zens dear to all of us at Sea to keep this Jacility open? or themselves to visit ,conva-View nursing home. Rowley Joseph Perry, chairman of lescent home binding spots?

citizens think the injustice the Rowl~rBoard of Select- This should be init;iated by served by a st_ate depart- men, sru,4\Monday, the board. Rowley politi~ represen-ment upon tbentlrsinghome memt>ersw:ere aware of the tatives first t9 benefit this is a tragic misapplication of nursing-home's situation class of our most precious govel'111'1entalniuscleflexlng with the state, but added, citizens being adversely with no compassipn for tije "This has nothing to do with discriminated against fool-area elders served over the the town at all." ishly by those governmental last six decades. Why is the Sea View resi- bureaucratic powers.

From the news account dents threatened in their Why, pray tell, are our March 1, 2018, in The Daily living situation over an Rowley selectmen not Iead-News, the lack of compas* Essex County fee dispute? ing the pack for elder pro-sion and disregard of public Why didn't the selectmen tection? Do the elders and opinion by a state agency stand up at the Monday, Feb. senior citizens of Rowley feel has been demonstrated by 19, selectmen's meeting to represented? No!

a lack of Medicaid funding defend our elders? Is there "hardening of the and on placing fees on Essex Why do area senior citizens arteries" at the Rowley Town County nursing homes. have to worry about a future Hall? Yes!

This excludes other (non-Essex County) facilities. Sea potential landing spot close to family and friends? A TIM TOOMEY Rftwltlv ..

Rowley nursing home ,

faces possible closure 1 her representative.

BY JACK SHY.A J~h,*c11@newtiurn10r1m*ws ..-om Sea View has had the opportunity to work with I

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'l than 60 years in tbe com- several months lo come into munity, Sea Vlc-w Retreat compliance with the user may be forced to close it~ fl~t' requirements, accord-doors. ing to DPH. However, the In a statement provided by facility has refused repeated email to The Daily News, a attempts to commu11!cate spokesperson for the state with MassHealth staff, the Department of Public Health state said.

said that on Wednesday, "Sea View continues to Sea View Convalescent and have an opportunity to NursingJiome was notified resolve these matters and

\the state Is obligated to begin remain open," the DPH state-action to revoke its license ment said.

to operate a long-te11n care MassHealth notified facility. Sea View on Jan. 12 that DPH said Sea View has not MassHealtb would offset paid a nursing faeUity user payments to the facility by fee for more than a year. 15 percent beginning with "We :regret that this step the March payment cycle.

has occurred and we will Joseph Pet'!')', chairman of continue to try to work with the Rowley Board of Select-officials from Sea View 10 men, said Monday the hoard ensure they comply wjth lhe member~ were aware of the law," read the DPH state- nursing home's situation ment. **our primary conC"ern with the shlll'. but added.

.,. remains that residents who "This has nothing to do with Uve in this facility continue the town at all.

to receive safe, high-quality In the statement, DPH said

-~ care with minimal disruption the department and ombuds-

& ,. lo their daily lives. Through- man for the Executive Office Zl out this process, the depart- of Elder Affairs "will work 7 ment will work closely with witb residents and their the Executive Office of Elder representatives to ensur<:'

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Affairs Long Term Care ombudsman to ensure that residents' needs are met."

Massachusetts has required skilled nursing facilities to pay a user fee for more than a decade. The that their needs are met throughout the process and that they continue to receive safe, effective, high quality care at the facility where they live."

Thel'e are about 700 empty revenue is used to support beds in nursing facilities in Medicaid rates for nursing Essex County, according to facilities and provide rate DPH.

relief, especially for nursing Representatives for Sen facilities with a high number View Retreat could not of Medicaid patients. be reached for commL"nt The legal process to revoke Monday.

a facility's license is lengthy ,Jack Shea covers Newbury-and consists of many steps. port City Hall. He can be The Department of Publk reached via email at jshea(f!'

Health has taken the first 11ewburyport11ews.com or step by notifying the fatil* by phone at 978-961-3154.

itv und each resident who Follow him on TU'ilter li~*es at Sea View or his or (1i1iamjackshca.

CONVERSATION WITH 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.

A 7 Hello.

COMLEY: I woke you up.

You sure did. I have a case of sinus.

COMLEY: Well, I wanted to talk to you. When can I call back?

COMLEY:

Don't worry about it, do it now.

Are you sure?

COMLEY: you are saying I shouldn't speak to him.

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...... : ~"--.!,"= No, because he is working through the office of special counsel. He is fighting to get his jbb back and all that stuff. And that is his play and I have talked to him alot about it.

He feels that is the way he has his best shot, so, he goes back ...

COMLEY: Well, what is he doing, going through a lawyer?

No, he is a lawyer. So he is doing like I am .

. !e is doing it himself but in thi~ administrati_on. that is an uphil 1 battle. It really is and it is funny that a guy like that*should take him because he kept his mouth shut. He is the kind of guy that believes that if there is a problem you just shut up and try to get out. He went and he talked to her before Connolly was released from duty for a while. Well, just before she was away from duty, she took him out of his job and put him "on a special project". He went and he said look, if I've messed something up, t my punishment, I can take it like a man. Tell me how to get better ..

If it is just not working, even though, you know, the chemistry is-.

-iust wrong, I'll find another job because I don't want to be ...

He is that kind of guy

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She said, 6h no, you*~ I ~eally want you to do this special proj~~

it arts ~hat, she gets

. relieved of duty for a while, right, pending all these charges *

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So the new guy, the ack in and puts him back in to his job.

Puts him back in?

Yeah, and the temporary guy leaves about three months later and congratulates him for doing* a decent job.

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law judge. So Connolly comes back and He is COMLEY: Let me ask you this, was he, allllallllP, he accused Connolly o~ at least the office of not investigating other things, right? What were some of the things, can you tell me?

~ That I don't know because she never told me.

COMLEY: But it had to do with the plants?

'COMLEY:

f No, cause they do internal stuff.

I see. Okay. So you don't know of anything that involves Seabrook at all. I know you cut me short the other day, but ...

That is because I had to get the hell out of there to get to my bo~s. See, we only had one thing up at Seabrook which wound up being indicted *

.... What was that?

Some Italian guy was falsifying records, I can-*-t- -

remember his name now, put when I get back to work I can check it out

• And he got hammered bad.

COMLEY:

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What kind pf records? What were they?

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Welding records, yeah, right, okay.

7 9 See, from OI's perspective, it is a quiet plant.

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, we have a million things going. _.§_ometimes plants are quiet because every--

body is getting screwed down there. But usually if that happens then

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we have, instead of record falsification at the plant and stuff like that, we have, what the hell do you call it, harrassment cases. We haven't had any of those out of the f--------- plant.

COMLEY: Well, I've got a friend of mine, well, I shouldn't say that, I am looking into something myself.

- Okay. Well, you told me a while back that you had someone that was going to pop for you.

-...-~}-.J COMLEY: What?

You might have someone who was going to you know, pop for you, complain about something. You said that a couple of weeks ago, whatever.

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send him any information about what I have done.

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COMLEY: Okay, I won't.

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~ He is trying to fly solo and_do his thing, right or wrong. Because he is afraid that if he makes too many noises and he goes public now, she will fire him because he goes back to her at the end of the fiscal year which is September 30th.

COMLEY: How long has she been ther,e?

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ears.

Okay, so Zack wants here there, doesn't he?

Oh, she is perfect.

COMLEY: Yeah, I know it. So she checks with him every time something comes investigated, right?

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know she does. And.look at it this way, she is damaged goods, he rescued her, she owes him.

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She owes him alot, yeah.

She ewes him a job.

How about Paladino?

He was alright. Put it this way, Paladino was smart enough so that if he saw the handwriting on the wall .*. I don't know that Zack is that smart to be honest about it. He was not smart, he was cunning. You know, think of a guinea off the street// .

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hard-nosed broad.

No, she would tell you to go f I give nllLIJ!IJ:dit.

off. She is a

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How old is she?

Probably forty-five. Forty-four.

So you don't think this would be a good question,

(~t~-*f~. 1 5!0 you have reason to believe~r would you know of any wrongdoing as it relates to any investigative material that was brought to your

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Do that again.

Do you have reason to believe or would you know of. any wrongdoing as it relates to investigative material that was g;.e~t to your attention that was later discouraged to be looked at further because it ma ose a threat to the nuclear industry.

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Oh, that is an outstanding question but she is going to hell you "hell, no." Or throw you out of the office.

COMLEY: But how about, well fine, do you see any problem W_\.tl}.,1 ~ asking her?

~ Oh, no, if you get to her.

CQ~~.._; I'll get to her, don't you worry.

77 7 I know but you are not going to get anywhere with her.

COMLEY: That's fine but she has got *.. I want her to answer it. Let her answer it no, that is fine. Because I told you about Zact. Did you read that? About the discrimination thing there, sexual harrassment or whatever .

What about it. Tell me again.

COMLEY: Well, I told yEtt:~rt was in the report, Inside the NRC, September 1st.

Oh, I never got back to my damn desk yesterday.

Remember I told you that.

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• Well, it is in there. So that is an out right there. I could fish for her ther~.

4lllllllllllt What did it say?

COMLEY: Hold on, I will read it tQ you. Hold on.

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He is worse than Paladino. Let me tell -you, I 1*11 go over it again. Paladino tried as hard as he could for the industry because he believed in it and he was part of it for years.

Paladino was cunning enough when he saw a loser coming down the

• !-'o~, he just, he had to be pretty bad, but ... . ~

COMLEY: You mean the industry is a loser?

....., If he saw an issue that was going to hurt the industry. But the industry stepped on their own crank.

COMLEY: Well, they are overreacting now. I mean they have no brains. This Campbell, that Campbell buddy of yours ***

You're right .

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COMLEY: He sent me another package yesterdayfA/11', Q He did. ( S"ow tOP'J)

COMLEY: After I called you. They are panicking. They

..are

• Paladino is smart enough to know that sometimes

ou couldn't fix it even for his pal. If the evidence was strong enough, he would back away graceful!y. Zack isn't that way, he is

-~a-r.l~headed. There is nothing you can tell him *..

COMLEY: Well, that is good.

that is bad enough that he would do something about it.

Yeah.

COMLEY:

Okay. That is the difference between him and ***

Let me ask you this as it per~ins to, now, you

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7 told me that if you were subpeoned, right, that you would tell all.

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will trust?

Yes.

Okay, now who has got to subpeona you that you

~_,,, Ct c,,t'trt u4~* -t Markey or Git tens on. :ft* Ill' COMLEY: How do you want me to tell them that?

Well, they know that. I have already told them tl;l.~~*J\~~'.

COMLEY: Okay.

I have talked with* those guys first hand, they know that.

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You have.

Oh, yeah. To get them interested in doing some-t*m~that is a pain in the ass.

COMLEY: Yeah.

a 7 Do you know what I am saying?

Well, they are playing the politics. I don't have to play the politics, you know.

Well, they have to *count noses first, you know.

COMLEY: Let me ask you this. John S. Harrington, is he good or bad?

>.i<~**4" I I don't know who he is.

COMLEY: Secretary of Energy.

Oh no, he is an industry guy.

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COMLEY: He is no good then.

No.

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packed in at NRC That is what I felt.

You've got to understand, everybody has been

8 How about Laxalt?

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Senator Paul Laxalt? I don't know.

COMLEY: You don't.

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I honest to God don't know.

COMLEY: Well, I have been told to see him.

Well try it. What have you got to lose.

Only two guys that I know that you can *.*

COMiiill: Have you heard anything about Reagan?

That he is going to retire and let Bush come in?

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t . :.1 No, I haven't heard anything like that.

And I hear about Dole, you know, Dole's wife.

It may be right, it may be wrong, but I hear it is going to happen the first of the year .

No kidding.*

COMLEY: Yeah.

No I didn't know that.

COMLEY: So I want to get to Reagan before that. I will.

I am going to get to Reagan. I put some pressure on Ryan yesterday

• Did you?

COMLEY: Yup. I have given him all these releases and everything else and I have given him hell. And now I am telling him that if you don't see me I will go to the Democrats and they will eat this stuff 4-,;'41.,~. .... ,f:,

up. ~

Oh, okay.

COMLEY: So I am going to play ball wi t~tl?:e!R~ let's see.

- Lt ****<t!ia F Yes, that's cool, just to go in and maybe you will get stroked, if nothing else.

CbM~*!': That's right. Okay. Let's see, who is, what is

your understanding about Petrone. Why did he quit?

Oh, Petrone, yes, he quit because he was up, that's the Tebano people, talk to them about it, they know more

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COML~}*: What is their name?

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Senator D'Amato from New York state.

He is working for Cuomo now.

Yeah, but he was one of the D'Amato *. D'Amato got him his job.

,4 p~-r COMLEY:. Yeah, but he quit because of Sch~a!l;, right?

Oh absolutely.

COMLEY: Why did he quit?

=He said that you can't have an emergency drill, you can't ~ave a license. And E: i,,A4J\. . 1 Headquarters, Wash -

Jt,I~~' he was the big shit locally, right. E. ,.M.A. ?

Headquarters said bullshit, you will change that. And he said

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, you and they said goodbye and that got D'Amato absolutely L,:N ....J;.f"

• tear assed.

COMLEY: Who is D'Amato?

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The senator from New York state.

COMLEY: Oh, okay.

You know what I see in this thing. Who is the guy from Maine that used to be a Commissioner?

Peter a#;ffll:f.

l You are talking about Peter.

to work with the Commissioner in Maine. Then he was the Commissioner here and he is a good guy. He is a Commissioner at NRC.

C,.OMLEY:

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You know how I see this **.

He went back to Maine and now they are proposing him to be the head of the Public Service Commission in New York state.

10 You know what I see in this thing.

He is a good guy.

COMLEY: Democrats, Republicans. I see Cuomo maybe

_running for President.

Oh, sure.

COMLEY: Okay. Now he is holding back Petrone and maybe i;j.O~ the others for good jobs for them if he gets elected. And C

then he is going to tear Reagan He is going too en this That would be nice.

COMLEY: Yeah, but I think that is what is going to

.);laf>f;?~ But I can't wait for that.

~ .It is funny because the reason I say that is I got a call from a guy that works for the Public Service Commission in New York state yesterday asking me a bunch of shit. I've heard about you, I 've heard you are a nice guy, And he works for well, he is three down from the number one guy in the Public Service Commission who and he is telling me I hear you know Bradford, Bradford

,;~*6~, Bradford that, you might be right.

COMLEY: Who is Bradford?

Petez: Bradford.

COMLEY: Well, who is he?

- COMLEY: Oh, I see. ~

The guy ~rom Maine.

The one that may be coming over to

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New York state.

COMLEY: Do you see the picture though?

Do I see. it. I am just telling you __ I saw a piece

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of it yesterday and you put it in context for me.

11 COMLEY: Yeah. You see what is happening?

yes.

COMLEY: I want to get to them before they start getting I want

• ts to Reagan.

cfoibg to the pie because, ~hat done, alright.

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And I think he will open this up because I am going to make him do it.

Alright. Just a thought. So you are saying that Connolly,. if some

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Huh?

Absolutely.

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COMLEY: Alright, where do you ***

She realizes this nickel. and dime shit she doesn't need to clear. Important stuff, you know, is.

COMLEY: But you don't know -- how can I find anything out about Seabrook that is really concrete other than the welding.

What do you think is the best angle yourself if you were me?

'llllllt Oh, get some peopll!!, work in there.

9 The way it used to be worked by the interveners.

Oh, I've got some .*. well, okay.

COMLEY:

They set up out in the field and they get people that were working on it to talk to them and tell them it is messed up.

Theli:hey bring that to me or the technical people.

Now how about if I get .somebody from the White get you subpeoned or to talk to them, would you do it?

Of course.

.. COMLEY:

Who do you, do you know anybody?

No, I don't Okay. How do you feel about, are these, would

-these be key people.

Jim, Petrone, This is what I am looking at.subpeoned.

Connolly, Paladino. Atld 1a :

yeah. 1(1 tAI S lttA COMLEY: All of them? ~,,, 5,if llJ (,->)

- COMLEY:

yes.

Anyone else? You know, don't wlsh you had

'£3~Ir-"me more now because I know I have- too many shot~~,at***tnis":" . . .

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tliat were involved in that harrassment thing over in Connelly's shop.

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fOML'Ir,Y:

Which is a few more than that. One is Liza Shea. She was the gal that was had.

COMLEY: Yeah. J/tessenger?

11111111111 yeah.

c::'btffly: But - opened up on some other things, not just that, .:.to Paladino.

See I don't know anything about that. I believe

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you, I don't know where you are getting your stuff from and I am not doubting any of it, but ifl'1hecEdid, he never ~old..:..me because he plays

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• ft real close to the ( in.~udible) -and he is trying* **io take}:iiis

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• on his own. Now I know if *someone* gets *interested

• in* the *hearing he will spill his guts but ...he*ain't going to spill* them to me, he

.* ai:ntllll, going to spill them to you. Be' 11 wait to tell it to the - .. :

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right guy.

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COMLEY: reah, but who ~ e think is the right guy?

I've been t h r o ~ a t with him four or five different times. Before it ever happens (inaudible) Conn,olly is

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go_ing to get~.g~~~~~eTef~um'T~~h~*i'rinau°dfl>Ter I guess you were right. But he is always a da~!f?-:?e~~ou know.

~OM;fJEY: Let me ask you this. Could you drop kind of a hint to him that hey, this guy, all he needs to do is read-the fil.~c~eronics Week or Inside NRC.

COMLEY:

t"dl'&'--io~ me.

That's alright but if he thinks that I know ...

But you know what he will think?

He will never get into it.

What can this COMLEY: Well, let him read the papers. And_: i£,_~he*.:reads Time Magazine next week maybe that will open his e.yes a little bit.

Oh, that is going in there now?

COMLEY: I am pretty sure Time is going to do:'._it.

Yeah, that will be great.

COMLEY: Al~ight, I am going back Friday and I will be back again next week forrac:twhileJ.anyway. Let's see, I just want to see if. * *

• Now, how about Hayes? You saw the questions _:t asked whosits right?

14 Yeah, a l w i l l never tal'k to you

• Fine, I don't give a damn whether he does or OMLEY: Okay.

COMLEY:

Because (inaudible) you have been on thephone with us, but in your office three times.

When did he ask you this?

Now this is the ***

is sending questions for the Golden Fleece. What do I have to tell him. to go f himself.

I talk nice to the guy. What have I got to lose?

Oh, okay, okay.

COMLEY: How about, you don't want me to touch him at all?

cdMLEf1' Well, I know he would give you a bunch of shit.

Good, I am going to pin him.

Did you ever talk to Henry Myers?

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COMLEY: Are they? II I mean they are a little left but they are g o o d ~

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on the subject. .;:-*!:-.__.

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Anybody special up there?

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Who?

Tom Devine.

He is a good one.

yeah, he is a brilliant guy. He was a George-town debater.

COMLEY: You don't want me to mention you though?

He knows me.

COMLEY: You don't mind me mentioning you?

No, no, no.

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COMLEY: Well, I want to cover. I don't want to ...

No,. I understand.

COMLEY: Well, I think you trust me. If you didn't you wouldn't be going this far with me and I am not going to burn you *

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I told you that before. I am not stupid

• I know. He is fine.

c~tet~ Alright, so brinf COMLEY:

No.

To drain your brain?

No.

.COMLEY: Let me ask you this. How can I get the -- are l '_..,.

the hearings coming up on Seabrook?

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COMLEY:

Yes.

The 29th. How can I speak at those?

1111111111f Usually you have to have status as an intervener.

And then you have to ..*

COMLEY: Well, don't you think I would have that?

Yeah, but I don't know how you go ~bout doing that.

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COMLEY: Who would I speak to?

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• COMLEY: Christian Berry, alright.

See if he will put you down or one of his

~~~~,iE'eys to explain to you the procedure. No hard nose in the beginning. For you becoming an intervener.

..COMLEY: I see.

They may say it is too late to intervene because there are certain times you are supposed to have ***

COMLEY: Well how I am going to.intervene is go by the questions that Asseltine answered saying that *..

Well, I understand, but you have several things to first qualify yourself as an intervener. Number one, did you do it in a timely fashion or is it too late? Number three, is the data trW}'...... ..

that you have relevant to a contested issue?

Okay. How can I find out -- you know, this Markey office, they are making me, they are ticking me.off. I am kind of burned out. They really are. And she is still telling me you,.. et anywhere and all that crap, you know, and she hasn't even mentioned my name. to Markey yet.

How about

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COMLEY: Who?

Gambransonr 4e.j dltnSbt1 Who is he?

Democrat from Connecticut, I told you about him a while ago. He is beginning to get a this.

COMLEY: Is he?

18 Yeah, I spoke to him maybe,a month or .month

.COMLEY:

and a half ago.

- Where is he from?

Connecticut.

COMLEY: I mean is he in Washington.

COMLEY:

He is a Congressman.

A Congressman, alright.

Yeah. Gejedesson.

Is he a Democrat?

Jedson is what it sounds like but he pronounces it Gejedesson.

COMLEY: Okay. So our best angle with Seabrook is to get somebody in there.

Oh, yeah.

COMLEY:

COMLEY:

And what would they have to do?

Just make a complaint.

And that would what, come to you?

- Yeah, if it is strong enough to look like it could be possible wrongdoing, willful violations of the regulations, it comes to my office.

COMLEY: Okay.

,If it is just something that was put in back-

~~ids: negligently or stupidly, which in and of itself is significant, that goes to the inspectors. But if it sounds like, smells like

~gdoing, you know, intent, we gob.:it*;; We have no way to turn*

with that.** *,I mean, we can play games, but we don't '!'hat is*.--o~s.

Would that postpone the hearings? * ** * +fAA,;t COMLEY:

No.

It wouldn:t.

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what you told me in the beg,i.nning,. that. is the hardest way to get to it.

It just wouldn't. I don't know what would

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stop it. I think your, I'll tell you what I think is the most e way because everything else has been tried at different

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,elants, different techniques, different times and I have seen them all applied, is the one, the outraged citizenry, the zone expanded.

You need to ignite COMLEY: Would that put them under?

wagon.

rou need politicians to jump on your band-That catches our agency's attention.

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COMLEY: Would that put them under? =-

._... What do you mean by that. Under, I don't know.

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Slow them down, yes. But you have to get a politician interested.

COMLEY: trouble,

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there is no Well, the more you slow it up, the more the interest runs, the more chance you've got to break them down.

COMLEY: Yeah, how about the rest of the Commissioners,

-~1~;*bow about Carr? /VtlAJ OMIM.&45(1..U--

- I don't know him, too new.

been the right hand boy to Zac~ for years so ZacM brought him in so he would have a guaranteed vote and a guy that would just nod I understand he has yes. That. is probably too strong a word because we haven't seen it happen yet.

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COMLEY: How about ***

Someone he can count on.

20 COMLEY: So Assel tine is a lone boy*.

"§tire, You've got it.;, They packed the Commission, I am not angry, I am just telling you the facts of life, the way it is.

How can I get the file information o n ~

File?

COMLEY:

COMLEY:

Can Jim get it for me?

I don't understand, file?

Well, you know, when they took the vote at

-~be Commission hearing on Connolly.

Yeah.

COMLEY: Yeah, I know, the press has asked for it.

- other day COMLEY:

Right. all the stuff I was talking about the Okay, couldn't Jim get that for me?

- No. *He wouldn't do that.

He wouldn't

• c~~Y:

I don't know whether you have to ask for it like anybody in the public_does. You file a freedom of information act request and the girl who was shafted, Lisa Shea, has already

• ~~fsk'iiti. for it. It is a major lawsuit with the agency because the agency is denying giving it.

COMLEY: And they are denying giving it, do you think until they get the other plants licensed?

Not only that, everything is a delay -tac.tic** at our agency.

. COMLEY: No, but I mean, don't you think tha~_might be an angle?

want to kee uiet until' the get it loaded *.

Sure. Well not only your plant, but everything.

It is not just you, it is the whole ***

COMLEY: Because they don't care what happens to them

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COM'!l'eY:

No.

They are just in the industry then.

........ They don't want trouble now.

COMLEY: Yeah.

....... They don't want anything to look bad or out of the ordinary. It is peaceful, calm

• COMLEY:

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Who does Zack pal around with in the industry?

A guy by the name of Wilkinson.

COMLEY: Wilkinson, who is he?

He is the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations.

He comes out of Duke Power out of North Carolina and he hand-picked

.zltctd+for this job.

COMLEY: He did.

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._ Yes. And then Zack told him he wanted

• 1I m, the newest guy, just a couple of weeks ago, and they g o t ~ & on the commission for him. He is a very powerful man.

COMLEY: So Wilkinson is the boy, huh

~ Actually he is controlled by even bigger boys but they are back in the shadows. He is the highest, most visible guy.

COMLEY: Who* is the shadow guys?

The Chief Executive Officers of the plants under construction that they need to get delivered in.

well there are three or four different -- there is the Edison

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Electric Institute COMLEY: Let me ask you this. Let's say you are sub-peened, what are you going to tell them?c>> ,,.

COMLEY:

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That kind of shit, you can't prove that stuff

• I know that but what would you tell them that ~

would allow them * *

• 1Mf' 't 1Jlu( '(o&t W'(rw ff ~f *' '4"'4k 1 Let me explain how the hearings would work. ' t ~** k..

~H~:~~.:s are put together, first you have to have, I have been ::[,;  !/4 through this before, okay, I am going to tell you something. I _,Ot,(,,,t think you are wasting your time being in the area we are talking l{t:JIA.

'abo~~ now. Because I have been through this with all of these ~~

guys on the Hill before. "I\

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.. COMLEY: You mean Connolly and what oat, And all that different shit and they know what is happening and they know why they got picked but that is the power of politics. ~ou gotta catch somebody doing something wrong.*

But when you've got Connolly owned by the Chairman, he's got a

.. -:;z-;*le on the internal ift.V',~-ncrt """ s COMLEY: The thing of it is, what you are telling me is this, that ZacH is in the wrong becau~e he didn't oust Connolly and 3

if she was suspect on the discrimination she should be suspect under

• everything that comes to her office.

q/ . ~

-- COMLEY:

Of course.

Of course.

~ And not only that, but once suspect there is

~-p~~ding in the Justice Department,criminal charges against her.

23 COMLEY: So she should be out .of there now.

She should at least be suspended permanently until the Justice Department says she is going to be prosecuted or forget it. tell you what the Justice De artment did and I know this because I have seen all of this. Let me explain something to you. All you are doing now is getting secondhand shit that I know a lot better than you do. But I can't prove.

4

r. .Or people aren't willing to come forth.

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Now all you are doing is going back over my trail and a couple of other people's trail that worked with me. The Justice Department wrote a letter and the Justice Department said this woman ought to be removed from office. Let me tell you what Justice wanted to do. Justice hoped she would be fired and that way they wouldn't have to prosecute her because prosecuting is pretty heavy. She deserves to be fired.

Do you understand what I am trying to say?

COMLEY: And ZacW wants her in there just long enough.

Whatever it takes.

COMLEY: Yeah.

I was to a farewell luncheon and talked to a Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States and I said

. boy, that was a great letter .i:on wrote. trying to get rid of Sharoz1 .

She says yeah, I know, but it didn't work. I said the rumor factory says she comes back next week. This is one week after the letter hit the agency. One week, two weeks total after that, he:,is.

reinstated. I called her on the phone later and said I told you so. She said I can't believe it.

COMLEY: Who is this guy?

24 I can't tell you. Just a *contact at DOJ. You don't burn them. This is yesterday's news. This is not.where you Where do I belong, You are Joe Citizen. I told you something a long time ago that you didn't pay attention to.

COMLEY: what do you mean, I didn't ***

You've got to go back to the beginning. You are supposed to light a fire under your Congressional delegation.

You are supposed to light a fire under your local politicians, get

.....them behind you to start aggitating. But you say you wrote off Massachusetts because they are a bunch of fence riders. So you came to D. C. The next step is to try to get some D. C. politicians that are interested. (inaudible) Markey because he knows it is dirty, he believes it but evidently he is tired, bored or whatever And he is dilitant, I'll be candid with you. He is the kind of guy, he was playing Chernobyl for a while, so he is bored with other stuff. I hear he wants to get off that Committee. You know, it is

• n~t s~xy enough for him, he wants to try something else next year and gets reelected.

OMLEY: I get you.

So Gittenson was going to take it over. I talked with him for about an hour one day. He sounds pretty encouraging. Gittenson tells me when you something solid give it to me and we will run a hearing for you.

COMLEY: Okay.

That's Gittenson, so I have already agreed to all that shit.

25 COMLEY: Now Gejdenson is who? Connecticut?

'*1-_- Democrat from Connecticut. But what I never brought to him was again, it is a game~~ould you like a guy from Massachusetts that has got a whole town behind him, a town which sits right in the bomb zone, when they send their children off to school and they will get evacuated and be separated, he hasn't heard that story. (41~ 1/s-/g, 10:ct,"M.

COMtff: Okay, he'll hear it.

He may say, you know, that guy sure turns me on. I think I would like to play with that a little bit. You (inaudible) evidently Markey doesn't COMLEY: Well there has to be something in it for him.

ff I mean, if he can make a spla!!1* t Oh it is always that way. No matter how nice they are, they say what is in it for me. And that is the way it goes. I'd go down and sell. You've got to understand some-thing, I didn't ever start out wanting to do stuff like this because you know, is kind of like a whore's way of doing things, you trade me something and give me something. But over the years I have looked at how rotten our agency is in my view, I could be wrong, I don't think so. How pro-industry it is. Hey look, if they play it straight and you get stuck with your f~~~~~- plant, so be it.

Does that make sense? You may not like it but that is the American way, the majority rules. But when I see a system that is designed to thwart themajority or keep the majority ignorant and then one day it happens and you wonder how the f it happened, and you say, hey f __ you.

26 X

'l'.hat is not the American way. That is not fair. That is step turned me off.

number one. That is what 4ou think you are getting voice.

It is a sham to make It is a little bit -

like Russia in that way.

COMLEY: You don't mind me telling the Connecticut guy all this.

He knows this stuff, I talked to him.

COMLEY: Okay.

He knows who I am. I mean, yeah, it is no surprise.

COMLEY: So he is the best shot as you see it.

Today, he is shot.

COMLEY:

lately.

What?

He is what I have been pinning my hopes on I had kind of given up on Markey.

COMLEY: Yeah, I have too.

I figured you were a new story. I figured that Markey would go for you.

COMLEY: She wouldn't even tell them. She hasn't told them but I will make her tell them one way or another.

Well try the other guy first.

COMLEY: Alright I will.

Tell them you want to give it to him rather than Markey or something.

COMLEY: Who else?

They are the only people I know.

COMLEY: Okay, fine.

27 COMLEY: Again, the timing is great. Chernobyl is here again, right? And Reagan is on his way out.

~* Well, two years from now for sure.

COMLEY: Well, maybe sooner. And when you start thinking about, it makes sense, don't it? Because Bush is very weak.

He ain't going to make it.

COMLEY: No, but if he is in, you know, and who knows.

You know a lot of the cancer stuff is going on.

• • 7 Who is going to say?

COMLEY*:

time that he . . .

He may be full of it.

You know, I thought that the second or third So January may be the time that he is going to give it over.

COMLEY:

They may be just keeping the guy alive.

Yeah, and that is what I hear though.

he is all done in January and Bush is going to nominate Dole as I hear Vice President.

87 Where are you picking this up? Just scuttlebutt.

COMLEY: Scuttlebutt.

accurate.

COMLEY:

You'd be surprised sometimes it is amazingly Well that is what I am hearing and again, you know, if I can get to Ryan. I am just going to push Ryan for the wall. He is going to be mad by the time I get done with him. I won't make him mad but I will do it in a nice way. I'll make him maa ~tt~ do it in a nice way where he has got to move.

Ryan?

28 COMLEY: Yeah.

Which one is he?

COMLEY: He is the Presidential appointment guy. Alright I -will call you at eight o'clock at home. I won't call you at the

.office anymore .

COMLEY:

I do appreciate it.

And you don't mind me sending that letter to Sharor:i?

COMLEY:

No.

Alright, I am going to.

COMLEY: -

Okay.

And Zack and the rest of them haven't answered my questions yet.

I don't think they ever will. I'd be surprised.

COMLEY: I think they will. If it is in Time Magazine I think they will.

. . ~

(inaudible)

Tat h 1s a pressure point.

I think they might answer them and they are going to make Jim mad at them. So we will see how it goes.

Oh, you'd be smart to see if you can light a

.., fire under somebody else. Okay .

COMLEY: I'll see you, thanks a lot.

Oh, sure. Bye.