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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FOIA RESPONSE NUMBER (12-2015) .Ji!'"P:EO(I( ,,,,~.::.~ "';o~.... 2017-0097 I i'! n RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF I 11 • c I ~ : +Oi INFORMATION ACT {FOIA) REQUEST RESPONSE ........ INTERIM FINAL TYPE D 0 REQUESTER: DATE: !Julian Tarver I 0/31/2016 11 I DESCRIPTION OF REQUESTED RECORDS: internal and external communication that Region IV or other NRC offices dealing with law enforcement and intelligence have relating to Media Island International (MIT), located in Olympia, Washington. PART I. -- INFORMATION RELEASED Agency records subject to the request are already available in public ADAMS or on microfiche in the NRC Public Document [{] Room. [{] Agency records subject to the request are enclosed. Records subject to the request that contain information originated by or of interest to another Federal agency have been D referred to that agency (see. comments section) for a disclosure determination and direct response to you. D We are continuing to process your request. [{] See Comments. PART I.A -- FEES AMOUNT" D You will be billed by NRC for the amount listed. 0 None. Minimum fee threshold not met. $ II II You will receive a refund for the amount listed. Fees waived. *See Comments for details D D PART LB-INFORMATION NOT LOCATED OR WITHHELD FROM DISCLOSURE We did not locate any agency records 'responsive to your request. Note: Agencies may treat three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records as not subject to the FOIA ("exclusions"). 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This is a standard / D notification given to all requesters; it should not be taken to mean that any excluded records do, or do not, exist. D We have withheld certain information pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described, and for the reasons stated, in Part II. Because this is an interim response to your request, you may not appeal at this time. We will notify you of your right to D appeal any of the responses we have issued in response to your request when we issue our final determination. You may appeal this final determination within 30 calendar days of the date of this response by sending a letter or email to the FOIA Officer, at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, or [email protected]. D Please be sure to include on your letter or email that it is a "FOIA Appeal." PART l.C COMMENTS ( Use attached Comments continuation page if required) In conformance with the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, the NRC is informing you that you have the right to seek assistance from the NRC's FOIA Public Liaison. The NRC's search of Region IV, which covers the state of Washington, as well as program offices within NRC's HQ (including the Office oflnvestigations, Office of Enforcement, and Nuclear Security alid Incident Response, which deal with law enforcement and intelligence), did not locate any responsive records. Our search of ADAMS did locate two publicly available items of correspondence that respond to your request; they are enclosed. SIGNATURE- FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OFJ>H>ER - lsteylianie ..'A.. 'B{aney, ..'Acting~ hda,u__f ) A v NRC Form 464 Part I (12-2015) G ~i{ii~ti:~tiifriWi~'"~?~j~I Page 2 of 2 11;~c1,~'~.a~~,~\2~~i1.rifr,~~~il~I '\',;:';:,,;} \,v,.x ·:~i'.'\'f<~~'t\"f'' ,~)~, •.:: ',. ~<~ . - PR 51 I I , (73FR59547) I i 95 ::\ (73FR59551) I Rulemaking Comments -- --- -- ----· ---·- - I From: Rick Fellows [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:08 AM To: Rulemaking Comments Subject: Federal Register Notice: 73 FR 197-- 10/09/2008 Docket ID-2008-0482 and Docket ID-2008-0404 For the forty years I have followed radioactive waste issues I have become increasingly convinced that we are leaving ·our children a nightmare.. There is no geologic formation which does not connect with aquifers. As we lose water quality in multiple ways, radioactivity stands out as a serious concern. The idea that we will be saved by the diffusion of substances to lower concentrations is belied by the fact of the relatively low volume of the thin layer of the earth we call the biosphere. This is where almost all known life exists. Isotopes mimic the elements our bodies take into our bones and our sexual organs and cause leukemia, cancer and mutation-as they decay. These invisible and deniable phenomenon are known to send alpha particles and gamma rays ripping through t~e DNA of our cells. · If Gener.al Electric were denied such a large share of our media through control of NBC and if Westinghouse, the other end of a nuclear plant from GE, didn't own such a large media network, I feel that congress and the public would not consider anything short of phasing out nuclear fission. Thanks for your attention, -Richard M. Fellows Director, Media Island International '·,; Received: from mail2.nrc.gov (148.184.176.43) by TWMS01.nrc.gov · (148.184.200.145) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.291.1; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 . 01 :08:11 -0500 X-lronport-ID: mail2 X-SBRS: 5.2 X-MID:25339327 X-lronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: trne X-lro.nPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnODAJdthOnRVcb3mGdsb2JhbACCPjOKMwGGQT8BAQEBAQgJDAcRuEGEFAY X-lronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,370, 1231131600"; · d="scan'208";a="25339327" Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.247]) by mail2.nrc.gov with ESMTP; 03 Feb 2009 01 :08:11 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so1860536rvb.50 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:08:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.2.18 with SMTP id e18mr2740318rvi.142.1233641289332; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:08:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Mori, 2 Feb 2009 22:08:09 -0800 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Federal Register Notice: 73 FR 197-- 10/09/2008 Docket ID-2008-0482 and Docket ID-2008-0404 'From: Rick Fellows <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="OOOeOcd 1130ad4b67b0461 fd7 e82" Return-Path: [email protected] '- OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: May 19, 2009 12:.49 PAPER NUMBER: LTR-09-0217 LOGGING DATE: 05/19/2009 ACTION OFFICE: EDO To: Wtbu1~mss Diane D'Arrigo (Nuc. Info. & Resource Svc.) EDO . AUTHOR: 9~: DEDMRT AFFILIATION: DEDR DEDCM ADDRESSEE: Barack Obama AO SUBJECT: Yucca Mountain R1\f ACTION: Appropriate DISTRIBUTION: RF LETTER DATE: 05/04/2009 ACKNOWLEDGED No SPECIAL HANDLING: NOTES: FILE LO<;;ATION: ADAMS DATE DUE: DATE SIGNED: ·-n_JYI (J {etke ,' 5 l L'{' -0 J 7 £-£1.b s· .' St= C>-( -D \ May4, 2009 Hon. Barack Obama President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: We welcome your decision to curtail activity at the proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste site and endorse your plan to evaluate the nation's high-level radioactive waste and commercial irradiated fuel programs ~nd policies. We want to be involved in this proce:)s and we hope it will be earnest, open, and transparent. In that spirit, we urge you to ask all· levels of your Administration to embrace and honor this period of evaluation of nuclear waste policy and ensure that the voices of the public are heard in that evaluation. We represent groups rooted in communities impacted by radioactive waste :-- the .generation, storage, and potential transportation of this. dangerous material, as well as communities that have been targeted for, or currently "host" disposal sites. We are conc~rned for the health and sustainability of our communities. We are "stakeholders," in the original sense of the word, when it comes to radioactive waste policy. It is deeply disturbing to us that Secretary Chu suggested that the Yucca licensing process might continue - and also t~at acting DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental. Mariag-~ment Ines Triay recently traveled to a meeting in Georgia at which DOE contractors were urged by her office to pursue irradiated fuel storage and reprocessing - long before the radioactive waste evaluation has even begun. We ask you and your team to conduct a real evaluation - not prejudge the outcome. President Obama, we applaud your commitment to sound science as the basis for sound public policy. In our view, there are few decisions that our government will make which rank, in terms of long-term impact, with the plan for this waste. Irradiated fuel contains more than .95% of the radioactivity generated to date by industrial-scale nuclear enterprise. · We wish to offer you our perspective on Yucca, on nuclear reprocessing, centralizing· storage and on the current storage of irradiated fuel at commercial reactor sites. It is our unequivocal finding that sound science has not been the basis of, nor the .guide for implementation of the Yucca Mountain project; many of the organizations signing this letter have repeatedly called, and worked for the cancellation o(the Yucca dump. In 1987, when Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, abandoning the. deliberate repository site selection process of the Act and singling out the Yucca Mountain site as the only candidate repository site to be studied, it was understood that this was a purely political decision that the Nevada congressional delegation was I' ·... powerless to stop. In 1992, when it was evident that the Yucca Mountain site could not meet the EPA's general radiation protection standard for repositories, instead ·of rejecting Yucca, Congress rescued the site. It directed EPA to promulgate new, "reasonable" standards, specific to Yucca Mountain, consistent with recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences panel study to consider the technical bases for a site-specific.Yucca Mountain radiation protection standard.