DEP RTK Requests: Re: Conflict of Interests & Exelon Nuclear

June 3, 2015

Mr. Eric Epstein
Rock the Capital
4100 Hillsdale Road
Harrisburg, PA 17112

Re:     Right-to-Know Request Number 1400-15-150

Dear Mr. Epstein:

On May 27, 2015, the open-records officer of the Department of Environmental Protection (Department) received your written request for records. The Department is responding to your request under the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law, 65 P.S. **67.101 - 67.3104 (RTKL)

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TMIA's Testimony: Re: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses for Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant

Three Mile Island Alert Inc.'s Testimony Re: Federal Register Volume 80, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 21, 2015) [Notices] [Pages 22231-22232] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printin Office [FR Document No: 2015-09274]
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission

June 4, 2015

Bloomsburg, Pa.

NUREG - 2179, "Draft Evironmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Combined Licenses for Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant." The draft EIS will be available on Regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2008-0603

[Docket No. 52-039; NRC-2008-0603]

Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant

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Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 & 2 - Notice of Annual Assessment Meeting on June 11, 2015

Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 & 2 - Notice of Annual Assessment Meeting on June 11, 2015

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Three Mile Island Siren Test News Release

Contact:    Ralph DeSantis
                  Three Mile Island Generation Station

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TMI EMERGENCY SIREN TEST SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 4

Sirens to sound for three minutes at 12:15 p.m.
LONDONDERRY TWP, PA (June 1, 2015) — Exelon Generation will conduct its semi-annual, full volume test of the emergency warning sirens surrounding Three Mile Island Generating Station on Thursday, June 4 at approximately 12:15 p.m. This is one of two semi-annual tests scheduled for June and December each year.

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PA DEP News Release : 27 Pennsylvania Counties Remain in Drought Watch

27 Pennsylvania Counties Remain in Drought Watch
Lack of precipitation major factor

HARRISBURG, PA -- Despite the recent precipitation events, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is maintaining a drought watch for 27 counties across Pennsylvania because parts of the state have below-average groundwater and in some areas surface water levels.

“We are still recovering from a very dry fall and below-normal precipitation this winter,” Acting DEP Secretary John Quigley said. “These factors have contributed to low groundwater and surface water levels mostly in the northeast and central portions of the state.”

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Help stop new rules on PA solar. Please sign MAREA petition.

Please  sign MAREA petition urging the PUC to stop new rules on PA solar.

Right now, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is reconsidering new rules affecting those who have or want solar. The public has until Wednesday, May 27 to provide input. Read more about PA PUC's proposed rules.

In July of last year, the PA PUC proposed new rules affecting those who have or want solar. Joining the efforts of clean energy advocates across the state, MAREA submitted signatures and comments from more than 650 individuals and small business owners. Thank you! The PA PUC heard us and responded with revisions to the proposed rules. Even with revisions, however, the proposed rules present areas of real concern. Please help continue to urge the PA PUC to support clean energy development in PA with rules that are fair, simple and environmentally responsible.

Please sign MAREA petition urging the PA PUC to stop new rules on PA solar.

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Redacted DOE Plutonium Disposition Report Obtained, Gives Details of $47.5 Billion to $110.4 Billion Yet to be Spent on Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Boondoggle, Finished in 2059 to 2115

Savannah River Site Watch
www.srswatch.org
For Immediate Release
May 9, 2015

Redacted DOE Plutonium Disposition Report Obtained, Gives Details of $47.5 Billion to $110.4 Billion Yet to be Spent on Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Boondoggle, Finished in 2059 to 2115

Aerospace Report Affirms that MOX Project at SRS Not Sustainable at Current Funding Level

“Plutonium Disposition Study Options Independent Assessment” linked here:
http://www.srswatch.org/uploads/2/7/5/8/27584045/aerospace_final_redacted_plutonium_disposit
ion_tor_april13_f
inal_release_050815.pdf

Columbia, SC-- A long-awaited report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on costs for two methods of plutonium disposition was released to some members of the public by Congress late on Friday afternoon, May 8. The redacted report provides details on the skyrocketing cost estimate for the problem-plagued plutonium fuel (MOX) project now under construction at DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, one of the costliest U.S. Government construction projects ever undertaken.

The report confirms what Savannah River Watch has been saying -that the current funding level of $345 million per year has placed the project on a shut-down track. The report, using the term “real year” (RY) for equivalent cost in future years, states that the MOX plant “construction cannot be completed at current (FY14) funding level (350M RY$/year cost cap on construction/capital) and the assumed escalation rates (4% construction and capital, 2% labor).”

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