the proposal will allow for three times as much water released in 1 year as Pilgrim has ever released in the past.

Well, I thank the NRC for extending the comment period on the rule to August. We appreciate that.

the costs of decommissioning power plants significantly exceed the NRC's site specific cost estimate for these plants.

Does creating or authorizing emergency planning exemptions while nuclear waste is still cooling in the pool create an unfunded mandate for communities?

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.

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

I would contend that the dumping of 1 million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay may affect the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Pilgrim in Massachusetts is at the top of the list.

No one has ever done this before in congressional history.

Those suggestions were disregarded. And the frustration you hear from stakeholders and residents is the result of that disregard for the requests which had been made.

I am going to stop my questioning at this point in time and recognize Congressman Keating, who has been a real leader on this issue of the discharge of radioactive water into Plymouth Harbor.

I think that is going to be a big change that we can move forward with and say to the NRC, this is where we should be.

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

I am coming away from this hearing, Mr. Chairman, saying there will not be a million gallons of radioactive water dropped in Cape Cod.

And that is very important, because obviously, you have created multiple limited liability companies, subsidiaries that are each responsible for different plants.

Do license termination plans have the same information in detail as a shutdown report?

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…