Public comments opposing Holtec's high-level rad. waste dump targeting New Mexico urgently needed by Sept. 22nd!

As announced by the NRC:

The public may submit written comments on the draft EIS before September 22, 2020. [The deadline had been July 22nd, but has been extended by two months.]  A notice published in the Federal Register (FR) on April 27, 2020 (85 FR 23382; https://www.federalregister.gov/), announced the availability of the NRC’s draft EIS and provided instructions for submitting written comments.

The draft EIS can be found on the NRC public webpage for the Holtec CISF license application at https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/cis/holtec-international.html.  If you do not have internet access, contact the NRC Public Document Room at 800-397-4209 for assistance.

[Please see the links below for sample comments you can use to write your own, instructions on how to submit them to NRC by the Sept. 22nd deadline, and additional action you can take to stop the environmental racist, highly dangerous, and even unnecessary Holtec International/Eddy Lea Energy Alliance irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) dead in its tracks!]

Update on July 9, 2020 by admin

Holtec DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC

Update on July 10, 2020 by admin

Speak out against Mobile Chernobyls in your community! Sample script for contacting your Members of Congress to urge they demand public comment meetings in your state/district re: NRC Draft EIS on Holtec's nuke waste Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

Update on July 15, 2020 by admin

U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (TX-35th) wrote NRC, urging public comment meetings across the Lone Star State be delayed until after the pandemic emergency -- currently raging in Texas -- ends, and the public comment period be held open until after the in-person meetings are completed, including in his congressional district.

Similarly, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8th) has written NRC, urging the comment period be extended "throughout the duration of the pandemic," and to end it "no sooner than six months after this FEMA-declared emergency has passed."

Since March 20th, the united New Mexico U.S. congressional delegation has stood strong in its demand that NRC hold five in-person public comment meetings across the Land of Enchantment -- which inevitably will mean an extension to the current Sept. 22nd deadline in the Holtec CISF proceeding, in order to accommodate them.

Such calls are also being backed up by 24 Democratic U.S. Senators (including five who were recently campaigning for the presidency); see their April 8th letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), here.

And we are also being backed up by 14 Democratic U.S. House of Representatives committee chairpersons; see their April 1st letter to OMB, here.

Both congressional letters in early April demanded that the White House Office of Management and Budget suspend public comment and participation periods, in light of the pandemic emergency.

Instead, thus far, NRC has attempted to ram through the CISF public comment periods, exploiting or taking advantage of the pandemic emergency in order to do so.