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    SUNSI Review Complete


    Template = ADM-013
    E-RIDS=ADM-03
    ADD: Marlayna Doell As of: 12/17/20 10:48 AM
    Received: September 08, 2020
    COMMENT (1427) Status: Pending_Post
    PUBLIC SUBMISSION PUBLICATION DATE:
    3/6/2020 Tracking No. 1k4-9iun-d9v6
    CITATION 85 FR 13076 Comments Due: October 21, 2020
    Submission Type: Web

    Docket: NRC-2020-0065
    Transfer of Very Low-Level Waste to Exempt Persons for Disposal

    Comment On: NRC-2020-0065-0001


    Transfer of Very Low-Level Waste to Exempt Persons for Disposal

    Document: NRC-2020-0065-DRAFT-1431
    Comment on FR Doc # 2020-04506

    Submitter Information
    Name: Abigail Gindele

    General Comment
    I oppose the VLLW plan to reinterpret the rules to let nuclear waste go to places without a nuclear license.
    Entire nuclear power reactors become waste and could get dumped as regular trash or even recycled into
    things I come into contact with every day.

    The proposed "reinterpretation" of NRC regulations is a clear effort to let nuclear power owners to shift legal
    and financial responsibility to the public.

    I oppose this pseudo-rule change that would let nuclear waste in my or other communities' local landfill or
    other properties.

    Sending it to hazardous or industrial waste sites is even worse because the radioactivity can react with other
    chemicals, making leaks to air and water exponentially more harmful than they are already. I oppose the
    exemption from nuclear regulatory control that could lead to the nuclear waste getting burned or recycled into
    everyday items and building supplies.

    This VLLW proposal could permit, by exemption, entire massive nuclear reactors being dumped or left as if
    not radioactive.

    NRC is claiming this reinterpretation is "voluntary." How will we ever know which landfills and which states
    are doing it? The whole proposal is a secretive deregulation without public notice or opportunity for
    individuals or communities to intervene when their landfill or other facility is applying or approved as
    "specific exempt." Once approved, it would be forever allowed to take that kind of nuclear waste with no
    enforcement of the very vague assumptions.

    https://fdms4.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=090000648484bd8b&format=xml&showorig=false 12/17/2020
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    The proposed "dose limit"--really ANY dose limit--is a calculation done by applicant using unverified
    assumptions to claim the site will be acceptable. It is nothing but a blank check to allow unlimited amounts of
    nuclear waste out of regulatory control with no need to check or enforce radioactive leakage.

    This proposal is even more bold and expansive than the many past efforts by the nuclear industry and its
    "regulators" which Congress revoked in the 1992 and the public has repeatedly rejected over the decades of
    the nuclear age.

    Scrap this "interpretive" rule change. Keep nuclear waste under nuclear regulatory control and make the
    polluters pay to try to isolate it--not release it!

    Thank you,

    https://fdms4.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=090000648484bd8b&format=xml&showorig=false 12/17/2020

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