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April 4, 2005
Re: Private Fuel Storage, LLC application for commercial irradiated nuclear fuel "interim" storage site at the Skull Valley Goshutes Indian Reservation in Utah
Dear Commissioners Diaz, Jaczko, Lyons, McGaffigan and Merrifield,
On behalf of the millions of members our 349 organizations represent (21 Native American, 25 national, 294 regional/state/local, and 9 international organizations), we urge you not to approve the license application by Private Fuel Storage, LLC (PFS) to open an "interim storage site" for commercial irradiated nuclear fuel at the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah.
The need for PFS is far from clear, given approvals for on-site dry cask storage at a growing number of reactors, and the fact that true consolidation of waste is not possible as long as nuclear utilities continue to produce it. The proposal is also plagued by many problems, and its location poses unacceptable risks. The facility has no contingency plan for faulty containers, the storage/transport containers are of questionable structural integrity, and there is an increasing risk that PFS could well become de facto permanent storage. The plan also raises serious transportation safety concerns, and is beset with environmental justice violations.
In short, the proposal is neither safe, sound, nor just.
Skull Valley is not an appropriate site for storing irradiated nuclear fuel. The adjacent complex of Hill Air Force Base and the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) represents one of the biggest and busiest bombing ranges in the country, with thousands of over-flights annually posing the risk of accidental crashes into PFS. The stray missile which struck the scientific research station on the reservation in the 1990's, and the Genesis satellite crash into the UTTR last September, for instance, show the potential dangers of storing 44,000 tons of highly radioactive waste next to such active military facilities.
PFS also plans no pool or hot cell on-site, and thus would lack any waste repacking capability in the event of an emergency. If storage casks fail for any reason - human error during shipping or handling, natural disaster, accident, act of sabotage, faulty casks, or gradual corrosion - it would be difficult to adequately address the problem and prevent radioactivity from leaking into the soil, water, and air.
Oscar Shirani, former Commonwealth Edison/Exelon lead quality assurance inspector and nuclear safety whistleblower, has questioned the structural integrity of the Holtec casks proposed for PFS. He cites numerous major quality assurance violations in the manufacture of the storage/transport containers. Cask defects would not only raise the risk of irradiated fuel degradation and increased container vulnerability during storage at
Skull Valley, but also of a potentially catastrophic radioactivity release during transport due to a severe accident or terrorist attack.
As it is, PFS's transportation plan, or lack thereof, is very disconcerting. PFS would dramatically increase unnecessary transportation and handling of high-level waste. Despite PFS's assurances that it is only "interim" storage, its lack of waste repackaging contingencies and DOE's reluctance to accept PFS wastes at Yucca Mountain, as discussed below, all combine to raise the specter of irradiated nuclear fuel eventually being sent back thousands of miles to the reactors from which it originated. This would multiply the distances high-level waste is shipped, and escalate the risks of public and worker exposure, severe accidents, and terrorist attacks. It would also increase further stress and damage to the irradiated nuclear fuel, making future handling, transport, and long term isolation from the environment much more troublesome.
It is ironic that NRC would consider granting PFS an operating license, and thus permission to begin shipments, even before its Package Performance Study (PPS) is completed, a point raised by a number of our organizations during the public comment period on the PPS. Rushing the process, and using casks with only minimal testing and planning, is of concern to many communities along the transportation routes.
John Parkyn, PFS chairman and CEO, has publicly stated that PFS would train emergency responders along the routes to Skull Valley, however, PFS has not yet demonstrated the financial or technical capability to deliver on that promise. On February 7, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2006 budget unveiling, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management director Margaret Chu stated that Nuclear Waste Policy Act section 180(c) funding to states for emergency response preparation would not even begin until five years before high-level radioactive waste shipments to Yucca Mountain. If the U.S. federal government requires such a long advance time, how could PFS privately provide such training before shipments would begin as early as 2007? Given the withdrawal from the PFS consortium by member companies such as American Electric Power/Indiana-Michigan Power, and the reduced investment by Southern California Edison, it is unlikely PFS could meet its basic commitments, let alone pay for emergency responder training and equipment all across the U.S.
The "interim" nature of the project is also questionable. Assurances have been given by PFS (and NRC staff in the proposal's Environmental Impact Statement) that irradiated fuel would remain at Skull Valley for no more than 40 years before transfer to Nevada for permanent burial. Last October, however, U.S. Energy Department Yucca Mountain Project transport director Gary Lanthrum told the Salt Lake Tribune that the Yucca Mountain Project would simply not accept irradiated nuclear fuel from PFS, as that would violate the terms of DOE's Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, which requires DOE to only accept uncanistered fuel directly from nuclear utilities at reactor sites. Since PFS would not meet these requirements, it could very well lead to de facto permanent "disposal" of 4,000 casks of high-level radioactive waste above ground in Skull Valley.
For NRC to approve PFS at this time by assuming that Yucca Mountain would take the wastes after 40 years contradicts Gary Lanthum's statement, and also suggests that NRC is predisposed to approve DOE's Yucca Mountain license application even before the proceedings have begun.
This is very troubling and ignores ongoing, serious uncertainties surrounding the Yucca Mountain Project's future. In addition, even if the Yucca Mountain repository does open, it is technically and legally limited to 63,000 metric tons of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel. DOE projects that the total amount of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel generated in the U.S. will double to over 105,000 metric tons in the decades to come. This means that even if Yucca Mountain opens, PFS could very well turn into the de facto permanent overflow zone for excess waste.
Finally, on its face, the storage or disposal of highly radioactive waste on a tiny, poverty-stricken Native American community that did not even benefit from the nuclear generated electricity also raises significant environmental justice concerns. The existing leadership crisis at Skull Valley only exacerbates such concerns. There is a long-running dispute over the legitimacy of the tribal leadership that supports PFS. The disputed Tribal Chairman, Leon Bear -- the primary proponent for PFS -- has been indicted on federal charges of embezzlement of tribal funds as well as tax evasion. Tribal members who oppose PFS claim they have been severely intimidated and harassed, and allege that irregularities such as bribery and extortion have been used to secure support for PFS within the tribe.
These are very shaky foundations upon which to build dry cask storage for 44,000 tons of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel, nearly 80% of what currently exists in the U.S. The Skull Valley Goshute Indian community seems to have suffered significantly from the PFS proposal long before the first shipment of irradiated nuclear fuel has even arrived.
We urge you to deny the PFS license request. Storing irradiated nuclear fuel at the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation is not a safe, sound, nor just solution to our country's high-level radioactive waste problem.
Sincerely,
NATIVE AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS:
Cynthia Naha
Black Mesa Water Coalition
Keams Canyon, AZ
California Indians for Cultural and Environmental Protection
Marina Ortega, Director
Santa Ysabel, CA
Al Gedicks, Director
Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy
La Crosse, WI
Carol Two Eagle
Church of the Helping Hand, Inc.
Mandan, ND
Chief Johnny Jackson
Columbia River Tribes
Underwood, WA
Chief Wilbur Slockish
Suzie Slockish
CREED Columbia River Tribes
Warm Springs, OR
Charmaine White Face, Coordinator
Defenders of the Black Hills
Rapid City, SD 57709
Anna M. Frazier
Dine' Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
Dilkon, Arizona
Milton Martinez
Eastern Navajo Uranium Workers
Haystack, New Mexico
Environmental Justice Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
Jodie White, Founder/Coordinator,
Environmental Awareness Committee of
Fort Berthold, Roseglen, North Dakota
Ali Elissa
Flying Eagle Woman Fund
New York, NY
Elizabeth Tornes
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
Lac du Flambeau, WI
Valerie Jensen
A Growing Concern Counseling Center, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
Winona LaDuke, Executive Director
Natalie Marker, Associate Director
Becky Bodonyi, Research & Operations Manager
Carolyn Fuqua, Program Assistant
Honor the Earth
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tom Goldtooth
Indigenous Environmental Network
Bemidji, Minnesota
Manuel Pino
Laguna Acoma Coalition For A Safe Environment
Laguna and Acoma, New Mexico
Eric Labacz
Lenape Nation, Inc.
Sellersville, PA
Teresa Jaurez
New Mexico Alliance
Chimayo, NM
Jacquelyn Ross
Pomo/Coast Miwok Nations
Davis, CA
Loretta Mendoza
Product of Aztlan/New Mexico Alliance
Chimayo, NM
Nathana Bird
Product of Aztlan Youth
Chimayo, New Mexico
Deb Abrahamson
Twa-le Abrahamson
S.H.A.W.L. Society (Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water, and Land)
Spokane Indian Reservation, Wellpinit, WA
Corbin Harney- Western Shoshone, Founder and Chairman of the Board
Pete Litster- Executive Director
Elizabeth Payne- Program Manager
Shundahai Network
Salt Lake City, Utah
Margene Bullcreek
Onhgo Guadedh Devia Awareness
Member of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute
Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation
Alberta Mason, Executive Director
Sammy Blackbear, Vice Chairman,
Skull Valley Band of Goshutes
J. Gilbert Sanchez,
Executive Director,
Tewa Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance,
Santa Fe, NM
Corrine Sanchez and Kathy M. Sanchez, Co-Director
Tewa Women United
Santa Fe, NM
Susan Balbas
Tierra Madre Fund for Indigenous Women
Seattle, Washington
Donald and Juanita Mendoza-Keesing
Voices Opposed To Environmental Racism (VOTER)
Washington, D.C.
Jay Winter Nightwolf,
Host, “The Nightwolf Show,”
WPFW-Pacifica Radio,
Washington, D.C.
Lee Dazey,
Western Shoshone Defense Project,
Reno NV
Ian Zabarte
Secretary of State
Western Shoshone National Council
Cactus , NV
NATIONAL U.S. ORGANIZATIONS:
Susan Gordon
Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Seattle, WA
Lois Gibbs,
Center for Health, Environment & Justice,
Falls Church, VA
Lynn Thorp,
Clean Water Action,
Washington, D.C.
Peter Montague, Ph.D.
Director
Environmental Research Foundation
New Brunswick, N.J.
Ken Cook,
Executive Director,
Environmental Working Group,
Washington, D.C.
Beth Kemler
Director
Free The Planet!
Washington, DC
Erich Pica
Director, Domestic Campaigns
Friends of the Earth
Washington, D.C.
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
New York, NY
Jim Riccio,
Greenpeace,
Washington, D.C.
Keli Lovejoy,
Executive Director,
Indigenous Rights Watch,
Washington, D.C.
Tara Thornton
Executive Director
Military Toxics Project
Lewiston, ME
Kevin S. Curtis,
Vice President,
National Environmental Trust (NET),
Washington, D.C.
Carah Ong, Advocacy and Research Director
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Santa Barbara, California
Michael Mariotte,
Executive Director,
Nuclear Information and Resource Service,
Washington, D.C.
Helen Caldicott, M.D.,
President,
Nuclear Policy Research Institute,
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA
Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, Maryland
Robert K. Musil, Ph.D, M.P.H.
Executive Director and CEO
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Wenonah Hauter,
Director, Energy Program,
Public Citizen,
Washington, D.C.
Dave Hamilton
Director
Global Warming and Energy Program
Sierra Club
Washington, D.C.
Alfred L. Marder
President
US Peace Council
New Haven, Connecticut
Navin Nayak,
Environmental Advocate,
U.S. PIRG,
Washington, DC
Susan Shaer,
Executive Director,
Women’s Action for New Directions,
Arlington, MA
REGIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL U.S. ORGANIZATIONS:
Alaska
Alaska/Arctic Environmental Defense Fund,
Coordinator, Andrew Hund,
Anchorage, AK
Arizona
Frank C. Subjeck
Air Water Earth
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Stephen M. Brittle
President
Don't Waste Arizona, Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona
Storm Waters
Earth First!
Tucson, AZ
Flagstaff Activist Network
Flagstaff, AZ
Donna Cassano - Co-Founder
Flagstaff Nuclear Awareness Project
Flagstaff, AZ
Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa
The Nuclear Resister
Tucson, AZ
Br. David Buer, ofm
St. Francis Mission
Whiteriver, AZ
Steve Dix, Executive Director
Veterans For Peace
Bud Day Chapter, #108
Flagstaff AZ.
Arkansas
Dennis Larson
Peoples Action for Safe Energy (PASE)
Parthenon, AR
Jean Gordon,
Program Chair,
Arkansas WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions),
Little Rock, AR
California
David Faubion,
Act Now to End War and Stop Racism of Ventura County, CA:
ANSWER VC and Peace Education Books
Rochelle Becker,
Executive Director,
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility,
San Luis Obispo, CA
Mari Rose Taruc
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Oakland, California
Pamela Meidell
Director
The Atomic Mirror
Port Hueneme, California
Philip M. Klasky
Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition
San Francisco, California
Jane Welford
Berkeley Women in Black
Berkeley, California
Jane Williams
California Communities Against Toxics
Rosamond, CA
Ernest Goitein and Claire Feder
Coordinators for
"Californians for Radioactive Safeguards"
Atherton, California
Diana Fox
The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Riverside, CA
Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
Mountain View, CA
Aaron G. Lehmer,
Program Director,
Circle of Life,
Oakland, CA
Mha Atma S Khalsa, director
Earth Action Network
Los Angeles, CA
Joseph Mirabile, Director
EcoBridge
San Francisco, CA
Diana Stauffer
El Dorado Peace and Justice Community
Diamond Springs, CA
John De Herrera,
Director,
The CC2 Group,
California
Bernadette Del Chiaro
Clean Energy Advocate
Environment California
Sacramento, CA
Torraine Weaver
The FEDUPP Coalition
(Fighting to End Discrimination Using People Power)
Victorville, Apple Valley and Hesperia, California
LeVonne Stone
Fort Ord Environmental Justice Network
Marina, CA
Bradley Angel,
Executive Director,
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice,
San Francisco, CA
Molly Johnson
Grandmother for Peace - San Luis Obispo County Chapter
San Miguel, CA
Mary Bull, Co-driector
Greenwood Earth Alliance
San Francisco, CA
Jennifer O. Viereck, Director
HOME: Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth
Tecopa CA
Sherlina Nageer, MPH
Environmental Health and Justice Program Manager
Literacy for Environmental Justice,
San Francisco, CA
Lynnette Eldredge
Peace Center of Nevada County
Nevada City, CA
Julie Stevens Manson, Co-Chair
PeaceNovato
Novato, CA
Robert M. Gould, MD
President
SF-Bay Area Chapter
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Michael Welch, volunteer
Redwood Alliance
Arcata, CA
Eva Brunner and Lynda Marin
Santa Cruz Weapons Inspection Team
Santa Cruz, California
Mary Jane Adams and Klaus Schumann, Chair
SLO GREEN Party Committee on HLRW at Diablo,
SLO County Nuclear Waste Management Committee,
and San Luis Obispo, CA, Green Party
Paso Robles, CA
Morgan Rafferty
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Pismo Beach, CA
Leuren Moret
Independent Scientist and Radiation Specialist,
City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner President,
Scientists for Indigenous People
Berkeley, CA
Sara Hayes,
Director,
SENAA West,
Long Beach, CA
Marylia Kelley
Executive Director
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
Livermore, CA
Barbara George
Women's Energy Matters
San Francisco, CA
Colorado
Dolores Tippett,
Farmers Union,
Byers, CO
Leo and Carolyn Prinster
Pax Christi
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Paula Palmer, Executive Director
Global Response
Boulder CO
Erin Hamby
Coordinator Rocky Flats/Disarmament Action Collective
The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
Boulder, CO
Connecticut
Andrea Wells
Bethlehem Bytes
Bethlehem CT
Lynn Johnson,
President,
Center for Serenity, Inc.,
West Hartford, CT
Sal Mangiagli,
board member with the
Citizens Awareness Network,
CT Chapter,
Haddam CT
Roger Smith
Campaign Director
Clean Water Action
Hartford, CT
Nancy Burton
The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone
Redding Ridge CT
Peg Ryglisyn,
Connecticut Opposed to Waste,
Broad Brook, CT
Mitzi Bowman, Coordinator
Don't Waste Connecticut
New Haven , CT
Robert Auer
President
Energy Solutions, LLC
Fairfield, CT
Judi Friedman, Chair
Joan Benham, Vice President
PACE (PEOPLE'S ACTION FOR CLEAN ENERGY)
Canton, CT
Yael Petretti
Executive Director
Promoting Enduring Peace
West Haven, CT
Stephen Vincent Kobasa, facilitator
Trident Resistance Network
New Haven, CT
Fred Louis
Veterans for Peace, Inc
New Britain, CT
Delaware
Alan Muller, Executive Director
Green Delaware
Port Penn, DE
J. Roy Cannon, Chair
Coordinating Council
Green Party of Delaware
Newark, DE
Florida
Jesse E. Kern, Secretary
Central Florida Jobs Committee
Saint Petersburg, FL
Phyllis Stanley, President
Environmental Peace & Education Center
Fort Myers, FL
Nancy Feraldi
Funding Outreach
Interconnections (SWFL Progressive TV)
Fort Myers, FL
Frank Gubasta
Moderator
Fort Myers
Social Action Committee
Pahayokee, FL
Bill Warrick
Veterans for Peace
Chapter #78
Gainesville, Fl
Jean S. Prokopow
WAND FL
Bonita Springs, FL
Georgia
Adele Kushner, Executive Director
Action for a Clean Environment
Alto GA
Amy Ray, Carla Scheri, Stacey Singer, and Andrea White of
Daemon Records Decatur,
GA
Carol Williams, Exec. Director
ECO-Action
Atlanta, GA
Bob Darby, Coordinator
Food Not Bombs/Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga
Tom Ferguson
Foundation for Global Community/Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga
Glenn Carroll
Coordinator
GANE - Georgians Against Nuclear Energy
Atlanta, GA
Kay Citron
Georgians Against Nuclear Energy
Lilburn, Georgia
Steve Leeper
Executive Director
Global Peacemakers Association
Atlanta, GA
Charles Utley
Hyde Park/Aragon Park Improvement Committee
Augusta, GA
Jeffrey A. McKenzie, co-founder
MFSO (Military Families Speak Out)
Pooler, GA
Sara Barczak, Safe Energy Director
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
3025 Bull Street, Suite 101
Savannah, GA 31405
Atlanta WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions)
Bobbie Paul,
Executive Director
Idaho
Chuck Broscious, Ex. Director
Environmental Defense Institute,
Troy, Idaho
Jeremy Maxand
Executive Director
Snake River Alliance
Boise, Idaho
Illinois
Megan O'Sullivan,
Montessori Directress,
Alcuin Montessori School,
Oak Park, Illinois
Bridget Flynn
Bloomington-Normal Citizens for Peace and Justice
Normal, IL
Liane Casten,
Chicago Media Watch,
Chicago, IL
Alicia Wesolowski
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance
Normal, Illinois
Dr. John P McHale,
ISU Innocence Project,
Normal IL
Susan Boquist,
Live Ops,
Carbon Cliff, IL
Phil Huckelberry
Chair, McLean County (IL) Green Party
Normal IL
Sandra Lindberg
Samuel Galewsky
No New Nukes
Clinton, IL
Dave Kraft
Director
Nuclear Energy Information Service
Evanston, IL
Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH,
Treasurer & Board Member
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Chicago
Amy Butterworth,
Student Environmental Action Coalition,
ISU Normal, IL
Lucky Marlovitz,
St. Francis Catholic Worker,
Chicago, IL
Indiana
Grant Smith, Executive Director
Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN
Patricia C. Coleman
President
Green Dove Network
Bloomington, Indiana
Peter Smith
Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition
South Bend, IN
Iowa
Jane Magers
Earth Care, Inc.
Des Moines, IA
Leslie Perrigo,
Executive Director,
IECAN (Independent Environmental Conservation & Activism Network),
Davenport, IA
Merle P. Prater, Ph.D.
Integrative Educational Systems
Ames, IA
John Root
President
Rootcellar (alternative energy consulting firm)
Muscatine, IA
Kansas
Phillip Allen, M.D., Ph.D. and June Allen, M.Ed.
Enviro-Health Concerns (pro bono publico)
Wichita, KS
Robert Haughawout
President
Kansas Natural Resource Council
Wichita, Kansas
James M Nordlund, Communications Director
Kansas Chapter of National Action Network
Stockton, KS
Kentucky
Barbara Warner,
Marion Co. Water Watch,
Lebanon, KY 40033
Mary Davis,
Yggdrasil Institute,
Lexington, KY
Maine
Bruce K. Gagnon,
Coordinator,
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space,
Brunswick, ME
Susan Lauchlan,
Peace & Justice Group of Waldo County,
Belfast, Maine
Maryland
Gabriela Bulisova,
Artists Against Nukes,
Mount Rainier, MD
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Baltimore, Maryland
Lawrence D. Egbert, MD, MPH
Siyuri Miyazaki,
Neighbors United for Peace and Justice,
Mount Rainier, MD
Ellen Barfield
Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter of Veterans for Peace
Baltimore, MD
Susan DeFrancesco, Treasurer
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Baltimore Branch
Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts
Eve Lyman
Executive Director
Boston Mobilization
Boston, MA
Judy King
Cambridge WAND
Cambridge, MA
ReBekka Tippens
The Center for Cultural Evolution (a.k.a. The Roundhouse)
Colrain, MA Deb Katz
Citizens Awareness Network (CAN)
Shelburne Falls, MA
Kate Parker Adams
Citizens Awareness Network
Boston, MA
Kathryn Moyes
Lawrence Environmental Action Group, Inc.,
Lawrence, MA
Merrimack Valley Environmental Coalition,
North Andover, MA
Mary Lampert
Pilgrim Watch
Duxbury, MA
Sacred Earth Network
Petersham MA
Bill Pfeiffer, Executive Director
Steven and Marilyn Strong
Solar Design Associates, Inc.
Harvard, MA
Sandra Gavutis, Executive Director
C-10 Research and Education Foundation, Inc.
Newburyport, MA
Michigan
Kary Love
Attorney at Law
Holland, MI
Kay Cumbow,
Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination,
Lake Station, MI
Keith Gunter,
Citizens Resistance at Fermi Two,
Livonia, MI
Michael Keegan,
Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes,
Monroe, MI
Corinne Carey and Kathryn Barnes
Don’t Waste MI
Grand Rapids, MI
Kathryn Barnes
Don’t Waste MI
Sherwood, MI
Keith Michael Varady, Founder
Fighting for Animals Rights and the Environment/
The Earth Force United Organization
Perry, MI
Alice Hirt
U.S. Co-Chair
Nuclear-Free/Green Energy Task Force
Great Lakes United
Holland, MI
Pamela Nordhof
Holland Peacemakers
PO Box 3272
Holland MI 49422-3272
Wes Rehberg PhD
Nonviolent Ways Project
Holland, MI
Patricia Gillis,
Executive Director,
Voices for Earth Justice,
Roseville, MI
Clare Mead Rosen
President, for
WAND Michigan (Women’s Action for New Directions)
Southfield, MI
Thomas Leonard,
Executive Director
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Grand Rapids, MI
Minnesota
Dawn Mikkelson,
Aquaries Media,
St. Paul, MN
Daniel Royer, Co-president
CSB/SJU Campus Greens,
Collegeville, MN
Lydia Howell
"Catalyst" host KFAI Radio
Minneapolis, MN
Kathryn Gilje
Centro Campesino
Owatonna, Minnesota
Bernie Molitor, Co-Founder
Citizens for Corporate Responsibility
St. Paul, MN
Richard Schiller
Brainerd Area
Coalition for Peace
Brainerd, MN
Susu Jeffrey, founder
Friends of Coldwater
Minneapolis, MN
John Bailey
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Minneapolis, MN
Carol Bellin, Director
Jeannette Rankin Peace Center
Missoula, MT
Darwin Dyce, community organizer,
Marshall Area Peace Seekers,
Ghent, MN
Anne Benson, Founder and President
Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace
St. Paul, MN
George Crocker, Executive Director
North American Water Office
Lake Elmo MN
Red Wing Alliance for Peace
David Harris, Sherry Leveille
Red Wing, MN
Carol Masters,
Phillip Berrigan Depleted Uranium Coalition,
Minneapolis, MN
Theresa Flinck
co-adviser for People Uniting for Peace (student organization)
Brainerd MN
Bruce A Drew, Steering Committee
Prairie Island Coalition
Minneapolis MN
Gladys Schmitz,
SSND for Mankato Area Environmentalists
Mankato, MN
Strategeries.com
Peg Thomas and Steven Lassiter
Partners
Minneapolis, MN
Paul Jacobs
Unity Circle
St. Paul, MN
Deborah Rainwater, Student
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Mary Beaudoin, Director
Women Against Military Madness
Minneapolis, MN
Missouri
Edward J. Heisel
Executive Director
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
St. Louis, Missouri
Rebecca Sanders,
ShowMeEquality,
St. Louis, MO
Nebraska
Tim Rinne
Nebraskans for Peace
Lincoln, NE
Cary Vigneri
Caitlin Harwood
SpeakOut at StratCom Planning Committee
c/o Spirit of Peace Community
Omaha NE
Senator Don Preister
State Senator
State Capitol
Lincoln, NE
Nevada
Sandi Rizzo,
Chrysalis Visions Video,
Reno, NV
Peggy Maze Johnson,
Executive Director,
Citizen Alert,
Las Vegas, Nevada
Nevada Conservation League/ Ed Fund
Grace Potorti
Executive Director
Reno, NV
Judy Treichel
Executive Director
Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force
Las Vegas, NV
Bob Fulkerson, State Director
Paul Brown, Southern Nevada Director
The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)
Las Vegas, NV
New Hampshire
Nancy Cayford, President
Friends of the Oglala Lakota
Dublin, NH
Herb Moyer, President
Seacoast Anti-Pollution League
Exeter, New Hampshire
New Jersey
Laura Cayford,
Democracy for America,
Asbury Park, NJ
Robert Spiegel,
Executive Director,
Edison Wetlands Association,
Edison, NJ
Laura Cayford,
Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch,
Asbury Park, NJ
Susan Berkowitz
Morristown Peace Vigil
Morristown, NJ
New Mexico
Janet Greenwald,
Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice and Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lee Cheney
CNIC (Citizens Nuclear Information Center)
Hobbs, NM
Joni Arends, Executive Director
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
Santa Fe, NM
Mark Landau
Council Coordinator
The Council of Peace
Santa Fe, NM
Coila Ash, Director
Creative Commotion: Voices for Social Change
Santa Fe , New Mexico
Barbara Wold
Democracy for New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Greg Mello
Los Alamos Study Group
Albuquerque, NM
Douglas Meiklejohn
Executive Director
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Santa Fe, NM
Jay Coghlan
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
Don Hancock
Southwest Research and Information Center,
Albuquerque, NM
New York
Sylvia Zisman
Abolition Now Campaign
Bklyn,NY
Staci-lee Sherwood
Executive Director
The American Working Group for National Policy
Bloomington, NY
Thomas Baldino,
Beacon Sloop Club,
Beacon, New York
Anne Rabe,
BE SAFE Campaign
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
Castleton, New York
Mark Dunlea
Capital District Greens and
Green Education and Legal Fund Inc
Poestenkill NY
Kathleen Curtis, Executive Director
Citizens' Environmental Coalition
Albany, NY
Elaine Donovan
Concerned Citizens for Peace
Honeoye, NY
Connie Hogarth,
Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action,
Manhattanville College,
Purchase, NY
Arnold Gore
Consumers Health Freedom Coalition
New York, NY
Michel Lee,
Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy (CIECIP),
Scarsdale, NY
Bob Kloster
Coordinator, HealthFriends
Utica, NY
Mark Jacobs,
Spokesperson,
Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition,
Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Kathleen Deignan, CND, PhDDirector
Iona Spirituality Institute
Iona College
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Louis Ricciuti, communications chair
Citizens Advisory Committee
Lake Ontario Ordnance Works
Niagara Falls-Lewiston, New York
Mary Q. Chapin, Co-Chair
Mohawk Valley
Women's History Project
New York
William McDonnell and Joseph Mangano
Directors
The Radiation and Public Health Project
New York, New York
Lisa Rainwater VanSuntum,
Riverkeeper,
Garrison, NY
Susan Shapiro,
Rockland CAN,
Rockland County, NY
Maureen Ritter,
Rockland CIP,
Rockland County, NY
Elinor Weiss
Social Action Committee of Temple Sinai
East Amherst, New York
Zachary Roberts,
treasurer,
Social Justice Club,
Oswego, NY
Alex Merchant
Students for Nader
Southampton NY
Ursulines of Tildonk for Justice and Peace
Valerie Heinonen, o.s.u.
Consultant, Corporate Social Responsibility
NY NY
Margo Schepart,
WesCAN,
Westchester County, NY
North Carolina
David Dixon, Coordinator
Action Center For Justice
Charlotte, NC
Gary R. Grant, President
Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association (BFAA)
Tillery, NC
Louis Zeller
Anti-Nuclear Campaign Coordinator
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Glendale Springs, NC
Wells Eddleman, Staff Scientist,
NC Citizens Research Group,
Durham, NC
Gary R. Grant, Executive Director
Concerned Citizens of Tillery
Tillery, NC
Gary R. Grant
Co-Chair
NCEJN
Tillery, NC
Jim Warren,
Executive Director,
NC WARN, North Carolina Waste Awareness & Reduction Network,
Durham, NC
Lynice R. Williams, Executive Director
Fair Share
Raleigh, NC
E.M.T. O'Nan
Director
Protect All Children's Environment
Marion, North Carolina
Ohio
Richard J. Middendorf
Alliance for Democracy
Greater Cincinnati Chapter
Cincinnati, Ohio
Francis Chiappa, President
Cleveland Peace Action
Peace House
Cleveland, OH
Mark Stansbery
Community Organizing Center
1101 Bryden Road
Columbus, Ohio
Chris Trepal
Earth Day Coalition
Cleveland, OH
Cecilia von Holck, BA, LSW
Earthtouch
Board Vice-President
Columbus, OH
Joyce Asfour, Worker
Grace Place Catholic Worker Community
Cincinnati, OH
Naythan Senn
Ohio Northern Environmentalists
Ada, Ohio
Vina Colley, spokeswoman/president,
PRESS (Portsmouth/Piketon Resident for Environmental Safety and Health),
Portsmouth, Ohio
Alethea L. Kimmel-Guy
Chair, Ohio University Sierra Student Coalition
SSC National Trainings Committee
Athens, OH
Elisa Young
Stop USEC
Racine, Ohio
Terry Lodge, Chair
Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy
Toledo, OH
Oklahoma
Murv Jacob and Debbie Duvall
Citizen's Action for Safe Energy, Inc.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
B.J. MEDLEY
Earth Concerns of OKlahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Kathy Tibbits
EcoLaw Institute, Inc.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Earl L. Hatley, Grand Riverkeeper
LEAD Agency, Inc.
Vinita, OK
Laura L. Culbertson
United Ministry Center
Norman, OK
Oregon
Peter Bergel
Center for Energy Research and Oregon PeaceWork
Salem, OR
Lloyd K. Marbet and Hope Harris,
Don't Waste Oregon,
Boring, OR
Chuck Johnson, Director,
Center for Energy Research,
Portland, OR
Paige Knight, President
Hanford Watch
Portland, OR
Betsy Toll
Director,
Living Earth
Portland, Oregon
Nina Bell, J.D., Executive Director
Northwest Environmental Advocates
Portland, OR
Angela Crowley-Koch
Executive Director
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Portland, OR
Monica Schreiber, Secretary
Pacific Green Party of Coos County
North Bend , Oregon
Pennsylvania
Mike Ewall
ActionPA and Energy Justice Network
Philadelphia, PA
Donna Cuthbert
Alliance For A Clean Enviornment
Pottstown , PA
Citizens Against Hazardous and Nuclear Waste
Coordinator - Phil Kaufman
Secretary - Sue Fracke
Greater Hazleton Area
Sugarloaf, PA
Karen Prather
Concern About Radiation In the Environment (CARIE)
Corry, PA
Ernest Fuller, Vice-Chairman
Concerned Citizens For SNEC Safety (CCSS)
Saxton, PA
Judith H. Johnsrud
Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power
State College, PA
Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Retired Director, International Inst. of Concern for Public Health
Current Member of the National Assoc. of Public Health Policy
Yardley PA
Hart Feuer,
Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP),
Easton, Pennsylvania
Lafayette Environmental Awareness & Protection
Sarah Smith: Earth Week coordinator
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
George F. Hoguet
Director, Mid-Atlantic Operations
NativeEnergy LLC
Media, PA
Virginia Kennedy
Northeast PA Coalition for Sustainable Energy
Milford, PA
Geoff Ower
Nuclear Reality Campaign (NRC)
Philadelphia, PA
Sandy C. Smith, President
PEN-- Pennsylvania Environmental Network
Clarion,PA
Patricia F. Harner
Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Philadelphia, PA
Paul Simpson
Board member
State College Peace Center
State College, PA
Amie Montemurro
Sustainability Task Force
Scranton, PA
Jillian Sommerville
University of Scranton JUSTICE Club
Scranton, PA
South Carolina
Colyn Dixon
Alliance for Planet Earth
Charleston, SC
Michael Berg
Director
Carolina Peace Resource Center,
Columbia, SC
Brendolyn Jenkins
Rozlyn Murphy
The Imani Group
Aiken, SC
Gregg Jocoy
Chair
York County (SC) Greens
Fort Mill, SC
South Dakota
Jeanne Koster, Director
SD Peace & Justice Center
Watertown, SD
Tennessee
Doris Bradshaw
Defence Depot Memphis Tennesee Concerned Citizens Committee
Memphis, TN
Stephen Smith, DVM
Executive Director
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
Knoxville, TN
Texas
Eleanor Culberson
Committee for Consumer Rate Relief,
Houston, Texas
Karen Hadden
Executive Director
Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition
Austin, Texas
Lisa Doggett, MD, MPH, Director
Austin Physicians for Social Responsibility
Austin, Texas
Phyllis Glazer,
President and founder
Mothers Organized to Stop Environmental Sins (M. O. S. E. S.)
Dallas, Texas
Renee Morris Larson
Peace Action Texas
Austin, TX
Mavis Belisle, director
The Peace Farm
Panhandle TX
Tom "Smitty" Smith
Public Citizen
Austin, Texas
Cyrus Reed, Director
Texas Center for Policy Studies
Austin, Texas
Utah
Richard Lance Christie
President, Board of Trustees
Association for the Tree of Life
Moab, Utah
Marcia C. Dibble, Assistant Editor
Continuum - The Magazine of the University of Utah / University of Utah Alumni Association
Salt Lake City, UT
Mary Dickson
Downwinders Opposed to Nuclear Testing
Salt Lake City, UT
Bob Brister
Convener
Ecology Working Group
Green Party of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Karen Brinkerhoff
Envisioning Nations Through
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Coordinating Council
Green Party of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Co-Coordinators on behalf of the GPUT
N.Shane Cutler
Deanna L. Taylor
Diana Hirschi
Roots Local,
Green Party of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Jason Groenewold
Director,
HEAL Utah Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Members of the
Industrial Workers of the World
Salt Lake City General Membership Branch
Salt Lake City, Utah
John Weisheit
Living Rivers/Colorado Riverkeeper
Moab, UT
Zina Lewis
ManyOne Networks
Park City, Utah
Tom King,
People for Peace and Justice of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Scott Groene
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Salt Lake City, Utah
Jacob Richens,
Students 4 Peace,
Taylorsville, Utah
Gokcer Ozge, Chairperson
Campus Committee for Peace and Justice,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Brandon Lee- Director
Terra Firma
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Alex Musto, Coordinator
University Not In Our Name (UNION),
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Laura Bonham
Co-Chair,
Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus
Park City, UT
Michael Angelastro,
Wasatch Front Cohousing,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dayne Goodwin, Secretary
Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice,
Salt Lake City, UT
Vermont
Jonathan M. Block
Attorney at Law
Putney, Vermont
Chris Wiliams,
Citizens Awareness Network,
Hancock, Vermont
John Berkowitz
Southern Vermonters for a Fair Economy and Environmental Protection
VT
Natalia Fajardo,
Students for Peace and Global Justice,
Burlington, VT
Nacis Turner
11:59 Cultural ResponseTeam
Winooski, VT
Virginia
Scott Denman
Collaborations
Berryville , VA 22611
Heather W. Peck
Heather Peck Associates
Charlottesville, VA
Elena Day,
People's Alliance for Clean Energy,
Charlottesville, VA
Paxus Calta, Seamus Allman, Jim Adams
People Alliance for Clean Energy
Louisa VA
Washington, D.C.
Vanessa Edwards Foster, Chair,
National Transgender Advocacy Coalition,
Washington DC
Ellen Thomas
Proposition One Committee
Washington, DC
Washington State
The ACTION Northwest Team
ACTION Northwest
Seattle, WA
Kathleen Allen
CompostKeeper
Compost Pile America
Seattle, WA
Susan Janelle
Exhibitor Chair
Northwest Renewable Energy Festival
Walla Walla, WA
Greg Wingard,
Executive Director
Waste Action Project
Seattle, WA
Swaneagle Harijan
Women In Black Steven County
Kettle Falls, WA
Wisconsin
Mike Walkerbr
Candlelight Coalition
Wauwatosa, WI
Al Gedicks,
Director, Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy
Exec. Secretary, Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
La Crosse, WI
Laura Olah, Executive Director
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
Merrimac, WI
Charlie Higley
Executive Director
Citizens Utility Board
Madison, WI
COLLAB Architecture
Monika Herrmann, NCARB
Matthew Skjonsberg, USGBC
Menomonie, WI
Marliss Rogers
Community Awareness Forum Core Group
Port Washington, WI
Grandmothers for Peace
Northland Chapter
Jan Provost(Contact)
Superior, WI
Marcia Halligan
Kickapoo Peace Circle
Viroqua, WI
Guy Wolf
La Crosse Peace and Justice Coalition and the DownRiver Alliance
LaCrosse, WI
Lea Zeldin
Co-chair, Madison Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Editor, Health Writers, Inc.
Madison, WI
Cassandra Dixon,
MaryHouse Catholic Worker,
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Gail Vaughn
no-nukes.org
LaCrosse, WI
Tom Wilson
Northern Thunder
Viroqua, WI
Roberta Thurstin and Don Timmerman
Northwoods Christian Mission
Park Falls, WI
John LaForge
Co-Director
Nukewatch
Luck, WI
Matt Scholtes, Office Manager
Peace Action Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Katherine Fuchs
Membership and Outreach coordinator
Peace Action Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Steven Adams
Viroqua Biodynamic Group
Viroqua, WI
Allen Stasiewski, vice president
Waukesha County Environmental Action League (WEAL)
Brookfield, WI
Bob Poeschl, Organizer
Winnebago Peace and Justice Center
Oshkosh, WI
Jill Bussiere, Co-Chair,
Wisconsin Green Party
Judy Miner, Office Coordinator
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
Madison, WI
Betty Wolcott,
OSF, Director,
The Woodlands Lan Preserve,
Osseo, WI
Andrew Werthmann
President of
UWEC Progressive Students Association
Eau Claire, WI
International Organizations:
Ziggy Kleinau
Citizens for Renewable Energy Lion’s Head,
Ontario, Canada
John Morand
Founder
FARE (Families Against Radiation Exposure)
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
Pol D`Huyvetter
For Mother Earth;
Friends of the Earth Flanders Belgium
Steve Leeper
Executive Director
Global Peacemakers Association
US Representative
World Conference of Mayors for Peace
New York and Hiroshima
Lorraine Krofchok, Director
Grandmothers for Peace International
Elk Grove, CA
Faye More
Canadian Co-Chair
Nuclear-Free/Green Energy Task Force
Great Lakes United
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
Bill Adamson,
InterChurch Uranium Committee Educational Co-Operative (IICUCEC),
Saskatoon, SK., Canada
Martina Roels
KWIA, support group for indigenous peoples
St.Niklaas
Belgium
Willem Van den Panhuysen
Belgian Coalition: Stop Uranium Weapons
Belgium
John Massey Stewart
London Initiative on the Russian Environment
London
United Kingdom
Craig Reishus,
Executive Director,
Nuclear-Free Future Award,
Munich, Germany
Susi Snyder, Secretary General
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Geneva, Switzerland
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