Comment (8) of Mark Sokolow on FR Doc # 2012-28436

COMMENTS ON PROPOSED RULES, REGULATIONS OR AGENCY ACTIONS: Your notice indicates that “The NRC's draft Plan describes the NRC's processes and activities relating to retrospective review of existing regulations, including discussions of the: (1) Efforts to incorporate risk assessments into regulatory decisionmaking; (2) efforts to address the cumulative effects of regulation; (3) the NRC's methodology for prioritizing its rulemaking activities; (4) rulemaking initiatives arising out of the NRC's ongoing review of its regulations related to the recent events at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan; and (5) the NRC's previous and ongoing efforts to update its regulations in a systematic, ongoing basis.” This country is quite large. We have to have a diverse energy portfolio and nuclear energy can provide cheap and reliable electricity. I would suggest locating the new plants in areas that are not near major earthquake zones and that are in sparsely populated zones. MARK SOKOLOW ATTORNEY AT LAW 338 Wedgerock Webster, Texas 77598 http://mtsokolow-attorney.com mark@mtsokolow-attorney.com