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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93008_1138 (2)691 that our legislators do understand by our verbalizing to them that which they may not be able to read and interpret on their own. And vote against them if they don't do it like you want it. H. C. NICHOLSON: I'm a concerned citizen. This lady right here brought up an issue about the decommission on these power plants. I'm not sure that everyone knows (not clear). North Carolina is going to accept this waste fur the next twenty years, it appears that we alone will absorb most of the waste ------ The other states are going to bring it in here and they're more likely to get out of it by ----. (Not clear). I would like for the commissioners to bear in mind that the next twenty years to accept waste when these other states might not be having to accept that much. CHAIRMAN: That concludes the comments by the audience. I thank you very much for inviting me, Mr. Chairman, and I certainly thank the citizens for giving me the input that I can take back to the Governor and the radiation protection staff and others and invite you to come to Raleigh at any time, to come to my office, you have my address, to come to meetings. How to get the newspapers to put bold headlines on any meeting unless it is going to be a controversy is very difficult. CHAIRMAN: We'll be glad to send a copy of our minutes to the Doctor's office. DWIGHT BURKS: Inquired about the $10 million license fee, is this to scare people off? If we are going to scare them off, throw something at them. CHAIRMAN: If you will read this volume (ordinance), that is one of many, many things that are in there. It is the feeling of the board, as I have interpreted, that We do not want, under any condition, a low-level waste site in Iredell County; however, if powers beyond our control deem it necessary to put it here against our will or against the next board's will, then if it must be and if any ordinance will prevail, then we want to have an ordi- nance in place that will be absolutely the toughest thing to comply you ever saw. But bear in mind at the same time that the ordinance that we might adopt, if we adopt this or any modified version of it, is absolutely up to the Courts as to whether its value has any weight or not. It is some people's contention that the State has preemptive rights and the power of eminent domain. It is other people's opinion that it does not. So it may be in place and have to be argued in some Court of Law for some period of time, which only buys us more time if that is case. I think that a legal concern that is, not in this ordinance that we are going to address ourselves, but if we were to be spared the honor of having a waste facility site, low-level or high-level, in our community, and if a pick-up truck comes down the road carrying some very radioac- tive waste going to Barnwell or any other site, and it were to have an accident, then it's going to be of little concession to me that I die of radioactivity from an illegally transported vehicle going to a legally licensed low-level or high-level waste dump. My point is this that we probably have as much concern about the transportation within our state and county of high-level and low- level waste as we do the actual disposition of it. So we're going to look at the possibility of trying to monitor in some way the movement of radioactive waste within our county. So that is where we are. We are trying to keep it out of the county one way or another. CROSSWHITE: Mr. Chairman, you might point that this $10 million that they are referring to is the non-refundable application fee. In addition to that there are other fees, quite a few other fees. DR. KOGUT: Perhaps Dr. Mac Cormac can take back to our Governor that the Iredell County Medical Society voted unanimously to oppose the low-level nuclear waste facility in Iredell County, and that they will do their best to prevent it from coming here and hope Dr. Mac Cormac will take that back to the Governor, realizing that none of the physicians want this in this county. DR. MARKS: In addition to that, the Statesville City Council last night voted to oppose the location of a nuclear waste facility in Iredell County. DR. SHOLAR: Mooresville voted the same. CHAIRMAN: We appreciate those comments by the people here this evening. Any questions or comments by the commissioners? STEWART: I have one. I have been told that there is some written regulations that a nuclear waste dump cannot be located with 30 miles of a water shed, is this correct? MAC CORMAC: As far as I know, that is not correct. There are extra regulations written regarding hydrogeology, but ----I don't think that's correct. I am not sure. I would have to go read it. It is very complex. J. RILEY: It's not part of the NRC regulations. MAC CORMAC: I don't think it's part of the Radiation -----Board, either, but I would have to go check and see, so I can't answer your question. I don't think so. ------It's technically written; I can't cite it for you. MURDOCK: I cannot see the wisdom of placing a landfill of this type in Iredell County. We are a farm county, and the only open spaces that we have are farmland, timberland. I certainly want our board to go on record, as the City Council has voted, as opposing.