No one has ever done this before in congressional history.

I think it is very important that Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute be a part of this process.

Has the NRC ever asked a plant to modify a submitted PSDAR?

You cannot, no one can point to a single environmental impact that this facility would have on the host community.

So the NRC and Holtec contend that the proposal to dump the 1 million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay is safe.

I don't think that is going to be acceptable to the people here in Plymouth.

We are in a period of great tension with the Russians right now.

I appreciate that. But at that stage, it is like having a mechanic that checks to make sure you have all four tires on a car, and tells you you are good to go without checking to make sure that those tires don't have a hole in them. It is…

the proposed rule is penny wise for nuclear plants and operators, but pound foolish for communities which have already been largely ignored.

We will be bringing that message back to Washington, DC.

I hope the NRC takes this opportunity to improve the rule.

Maintaining requirements for emergency response and preparedness at least until all fuel is out of the spent fuel pool and put into dry casks.

The decision was political, that they were going to stick the people in Nevada with the nuclear waste site.

These are the issues that they are concerned about, the impact on the community, on safety, on the water, on the economy, on the fishing industry.

So I think for everyone here today you have just said something very important to them, which is that you said, you will not discharge the water unless you have the consent of the stakeholders.

The State of New Mexico has not consented to receive a consolidated interim storage site in the Nation's nuclear waste.

OK. Good. You are depending on the monitoring that you are going to be doing.

We have to make sure that we put common sense into the regulatory framework in order to protect the ratepayers, but also the safety and well being of the citizens of Plymouth.