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Comments for IRC BOCC: As you know, St. Lucie Village in the northern portion of St. Lucie County, has sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, FEMA, the US DOT and to the related state agencies — F DOT and the Florida Division of Emergency Management asking if they are aware that a nuclear power plant is less than two miles away from the Florida East Coast rail corridor where very volatile hazardous materials are present every day. Specifically, the Village asked a number of questions including: Has the FP&L plant designed, documented and simulated an emergency and evacuation plan that predicts freight or passenger trains blocking intersections at the time of a nuclear accident? Has the plant planned for and simulated the evacuation of passengers on a stopped AAF train? Has the plant planned for and simulated a HazMat breach within 2 miles of the plant operations center — with the possibility of Chlorine Gas or LNG clouds carrying over the plant? Has the plant planned for the HazMat breach on the tracks directly below the power lines that cross the tracks and carry the electricity to the mainland? Most important for Indian River County is the fact that the NRC regulations require the power plant to plan for emergency measures being implemented for 5, 10 and 50 mile distances from the plant. One of the maps I've given you today shows a large portion of our county within that 50 mile radius. Our organization, The No Trains Coalition, has joined St. Lucie Village in their request that necessary and CRITICAL due diligence be done by these federal agencies. We ask, why hasn't AAF done a Hazard Analysis of the route where it plans to put thousands of people each day? The rail corridor may have been here for 100 years but the power plant hasn't AND the nuclear plant has been in St. Lucie County on South Hutchinson Island since 1976 — BUT ethanol, Chlorine Gas and liquid Propane have NOT! With the addition of LNG to the corridor, if