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Po Box 8477Harrisburg, Pa. 17105-8477

Dear Board Members,

This letter is a follow up to the Hearing at Washington & Jefferson College on 4/2912015.I disagree with the speakers that said the waters in Pa are pristine. I live alongside of theOhio River and my drinking water depends on a clean water source. Attached is a reportthat the EPA Reports Ohio River Mast Contaminated Body ofWater In The Country.Frack water flowback has been allowed to enterthe rivers and streams . In 2010 theClairton Coke Works filed a complaint with the EPA that the Mon. River was not fit forindustrial use. The people of Clairton used the municipal water to wash dishes. The dishwashers clogged with salt The Brine from the Marcellus wells were allowed to be ranthrough the Municipal sewerage systems into the river. Source , Fly FishermanMagazine, May 2010. The Allegheny River in Warren Pa has been polluted with theradio-active waste from the Marcellus drilling. Studies have been taken above and belowthe sewerage treatment plants. Nothing above & high radio-activity below. All readingsare above safe and federal limits. Rules against the discharge have to be enforced withJail time. Paying a fine is business as usual and passed on to the public. No changes willhappen without robust enforcement.I also disagree with the notion that the regulations harm the oil & gas industry. By overproducing , the industry has driven the price down, slowed investment, stopped drilling,and caused layoffs. Laws and Regulations need to constantly change to keep up withcurrent conditions. Just like a building or fire prevention code. This protects everyone.The PaDEP must live up to.its mission statement and enforce all state and federalenvironmental laws with fidelity. Both conventional (78) and unconventional (78a)laws have to catch up with current Supreme Court definitions of the Pa Constitution.Article #1 Sec. 27, as defined. Along with others.The environment in Pa. is under attack. Never in our history has there been so manychallenges. Lets start to connect the dots. In 1960 ,the U.S Dept. of the interior publisheda Geological Survey on Uranium in Carbonaceous rocks for the U.S. Atomic EnergyCommission. “Oil Yield and Uranium Content ofBlack Shales.” By Vernon B.Swanson. A Geological Survey Professional Paper 356-A. Please get a copy fordocumentation. U.S. Printing Office. The US after WW2 was looking for a source ofuranium for military and industrial uses. It was found in the Black shale’s. They are driedsea beds , full ofbrine . When it rots it gives offradon gas. It travels up to the earthssurface through staictures in the earth, It passes through aquifers and condenses in cellarsand caves. Radon is the second cause of lung cancer. Now comes the Hydraulicfracturing industry and drills miles of radio-active rock and brings tailings to the surfaceexposing the citizens and workers of Pa to extreme radiation. The R 226 & R 228 attachthemselves to the Brine making it also highly radioactive The Holding ponds exposeeveryone and everything to uncontrolled radioactivity. The New York Times ran a reporton the safe limits. 5 Po/L is the maximum allowed by law. They took readings fromhundreds of ponds full of flowback water and showed thousands of times over the legaland safe limits Beaver County times, (Fracking wastewater can be highly Radioactive)

1/30/2013. No Agency really regulates its ,handling transport, or disposal. Workersharmed by radio-active exposure. Copy enclosed. Now comes the secret exposure. ThePERF GUN. Halliburton has a patient on a explosive device that blows the hole in thepipe to get the sand to penetrate the fractured shale. It holds the pathway for gas to escapethe rock. The perf gun has DEPLETED Uranium disks that are also highly radioactive.This adds to the situation ofbirth defects. Cloogle , Depleted Uranium. Both Militaryinjuries and civilian. This exposes every Pennsylvanian to severe harm.Next is a report from E. Ivan White, Staff scientist for the National Council on RadiationProtection. Radiation should Never be released into the environment in an uncontrolledmanner because ofthe potential for exposure from many potential pathways that exist.Pa State DEP allows Radio-Active flowback water to be put on roads for dust control andsnow/ice melting. This has to stop! Also, PaDEP allows flowback radio-active wastewater to be discharged into drinking water sources by Municipal sewerage plants. ThisMUST stop ! See the Duke Universitystudy of the Josephine Brine treatment plant intoBlaekliek Creek. The streams in Washington and Green Counties have shown dangerouslevels of Radio-activity. The Pa Auditor Generals Audit of the PaDEP has to carryweight ifwe are to protect our living spaces. The Health, Safety, and Welfare of allPennsylvanians are at stake. Looking forward to your updates in the Law.

Sincerely Yours,Robert L. Schmetzer

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Consideration of Radiation InHazardous Waste Produced from

Horizontal Hydrofracking

Report ofE. Ivan WhiteStaffScientistfor the

National Council on Radiation Protection

Radioactivity in the environment, especially the presence of the knowncarcinogen radium, poses a potentially significant threat to human health.Therefore, any activity that has the potential to increase that exposure must becarefully analyzed prior to its commencement so that the risks can be fullyunderstood. Horizontal hydrofracking for natural gas in the Marcellus Shaleregion of New York State has the potential to result in the production of largeamounts ofwaste materials containing Radium-226 and Radium-228 in bothsolid and liquid mediums.

A complete and thorough analysis of the potential environmental pathways forexposure of people to these radioactive materials is a prerequisite to anyregulatory approval of activities involving their extraction, handling,transportation and storage.

The guiding principle for this work is that radioactivity should never bereleased into the environment in an uncontrolled manner because of thepotential for exposure from the many potential pathways that exist.

Over the past fifty years, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the NuclearRegulatory Commission (NRC) have spent millions of dollars on research thathas resulted in computer models of the transport of radioactivity through theenvironment to humans. These environmental transport and human uptakemodels, kuowr as “RESidual RADiation,” or “RESRAD,” are designed to beincorporated into governmental regulatory guidelines to ensure that people arenot exposed to levels of radiation and radioactivity that would result in negativehealth impacts.

In April of 1999, the New York State Department of EnvironmentalConservation’s Division of Solid and Hazardous Materials, assisted byrepresentatives from sixteen oil and gas companies, conducted an internalinvestigation entitled An investigation ofNaturally Occurring RadioactiveMaterials (NORM) in Oil and Gas Wells in New York State. The report concludedthat drill cuttings and wastewater from oil and gas drilling operations “do notconstitute a health risk for the State’s residents nor present a potentialdegradation of the State’s environment

A similarly cavalier attitude towards human exposure to radioactive materialpervades the NYS DEC’s 2011 Draft Revised Supplemental GenericEnvironmental Impact Statement (rSGEIS). The document’s superficialcharacterization of radiation risks has prompted warnings from radiationexperts, including those at the EPA whose public comments on the rSGEIS reflectdeep concerns about the DEC’s understanding and appreciation of the actualrisks posed by radiation.

The National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) is a Congressionally-chartered agency charged with the authority and responsibilty to coordinatepublic information on radiation protection and radiation measurements. In its2010 NCRP Report #169, Design ofEffective Radiological Effluent Monitoring andEnvironmental Surveillance Programs, we describe the required radiationdetection equipment and state-of-the-art modeling approaches for de’terminingradionuclide transport pathways in the atmosphere, surface water,groundwater, and soil. Methods are presented for estimating potential radiationdose to the public and natural ecosystems resulting from releases ofradionuclides into the environment.

Based on my experience in assessing potential transport pathways for radiationand a review of the DEC’s internal report, I find two serious flaws that must beaddressed and corrected prior to any final determination related tohydrofracking in New York State. The first is that the report examined a verydifferent type of drilling than that which is being proposed. The second is thatthe authors used RESRAD in a limited way, resulting in faulty conclusions.

The 1999 DEC report examines vertically-drilled oil and gas wells in New YorkState that have been hydrofracked. This is very different from the horizontalhydrofracking currently being proposed for New York State. Vertical wells of thetype measured by the NYSDEC are typically 1500-3000 feet deep with minimalpenetration into the Marcellus shale formation. Horizontal slickwaterbydrofracking wells, on the other hand, reach depths of 6,000 feet before turninghorizontally for an additional mile or so. These deeper, longer wells have amuch greater overall exposure to the Marcellus Shale formation and theradioactive materials contained within it, and thus an increased likelihood ofbringing that radioactivity to the surface. (See Figure 1)

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Figure 1: Comparison ofExposure to NORM in Marceflus Shale forVertical Wells and Horizontal Wells

The second flaw is that RESRAD was not properly used to determine ll of thepotential pathways of the radiation. The following diagrams illustrate thepotential pathways for radionuclides released into the environment in anuncontrolled manner, in air or in water.

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For example, if radioactive wastewater from hydrofracking is spread on aroad, there are two possible scenarios involving different pathways.

In one, the radioactive waste is spread on a paved road with a crown.Some of the waste will inevitably run off the road and find its way intoa waterway or onto grazing fields or crops with the resulting pathways.The radioactivity in the waste remaining on the road will beresuspended by the traffic into the air with the resulting directexposure to humans or biota.

In the second scenario, the waste spread on the dirt road is adsorbed bythe dirt. When the dirt road dries out, the radioactive waste isresuspended in the dust from the road. The dust particle size andconcentration is determined by the weight of a vehicle, the number oftires, and its speed. The dust is inhaled by humans and animals anddeposited on the local vegetation, with the resulting pathways asillustrated above.

In both cases the cumulative impact of the radioactive waste will bedetermined by the amount of radiation contained in the waste, thenumber of vehicles and humans travelling on the road over years,proximity to residential or commercial areas, the amount of radiationmigrating off road into streams or lakes or blowing onto agriculturalland, and finally, the total potential dose to affected humans over time.

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The radiation dose from a single truck travelling 40 miles per hour on a dirt roadin rural New York State may appear to be insignificant, but the cumulative dosefrom 30 to 40 years of trucks could very easily be significant and needs to berigorously calculated. Although there is considerable concern for the generalpopulation, exposed populations also include those most vulnerable; the old, theyoung and the ill.

Importantly, the type of radioactive material found in the Marcellus Shaleand brought to the surface by horizontal hydrofracking is the type that isparticularly long-lived, and could easily bio-accumulate over time anddeliver a dangerous radiation dose to potentially millions ofpeople longafter the drilling is over.

Under the linear-no threshold hypothesis used in radiation protection, the goalis to limit the total radiation dose to large populations because of the increasedprobability ofhealth effects. In the current case, the uncontrolled release ofhazardous waste could result in the exposure of millions of people over decades.

Moreover, this scenario does not include any analysis of exposures to otherhazardous chemicals used in the fracking process, which could have an unknownsynergistic effect on the population.

SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS

1. Radioactive materials and chemical wastes do not just go away whenthey are released into the environment. They remain active and potentiallylethal, and can show up years later in unexpected places. They bio-accumulate inthe food chain, eventually reaching humans. Under the proposal for horizontalhydrofracking in New York State, there are insufficient precautions formonitoring potential pathways or to even know what is being released into theenvironment.

2. The NYS DEC has not proposed sufficient regulations for trackingradioactive waste from horizontal hydrofracking. By way of comparison, thenuclear.industry has to rigorously account for all releases of radioactivity. Noradioactive material leaves a nuclear fcility without being carefully tracked toits safe final destination. Neither New York State nor the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission would permit a nuclear power plant to handle radioactive materialin this manner. (It is important to note that tracking of radioactive materialscannot be accomplished retrospectively; accurate accounting must beincorporated from the very beginning to ensure public safety.J

3 RESRAD was made precisely for situations like this, but it must be usedproperly to produce valid conclusions. Picking and choosing isolatedscenarios and ignoring downstream exposures, as was done in the Report, is nota proper use of RESRAD and renders the conclusions invalid. All of the potentialpathways over a span of decades as the hazardous material accumulates and thepub1ics body burden build up must be considered to produce a valid RESRADconclusion. This applies to both radioactive and chemical waste.

4. While this statement deals only with the radioactivity ofwaste producedby horizontal hydrofracking, the same principles of exposure pathwaysmust be taken into account for all of the toxic chemicals used in theprocess. The EPA Pavilion Report demonstrates that there are hazardouschemicals in fracking fluid, and a recent review of the EPA report confirmed thatit was valid.

E. Ivan WhiteOctober, 2012

This report was editedforpublic release by Grassroots Environmental Education, anon-profit or9anization.

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(54) PERFORATING GUN ASSEMBLY ANDMETHOD FOR CONTROLLING WELLBOREPRESSURE REGIMES DURINGPERFORATING

(75) Inventors: Darren Ross Barlow, Houston, TX(US); Cam Van Is, Missouri City,TX (US); James Marshall Barker,Mansfield, TX (US)

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A perforating gun assembly for use in a weilbore. The perforating gun assembly includes a carriergun body and a chargeholder disposed within the carrier gun body. A plurality ofshaped charges are supported within the carrier gun body. Asecondary pressure generator is operably associated with atleast one ofthe shaped charges. The secondary pressure generator optimizes the weilbore pressure regime immediatelyafter detonation of the shaped charges by controlling thedynamic underbalancecreatedby the empty gim chambers toprevent excessive dynamic underbalance which may detrimentally effect the perforating operation.

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contaminants before the water is discharged into rivers and streams that provide drinking water. The Times was able to map 149 of the wells.

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REMARKS ON TIlE DAMAGE RELEASE AGREEMENT.SUBMITTED TO ME ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

1. This type of Agreement could permit a large fraud orchestrated by shadowcharacters

(a) RANGE RESOURCES APPALACHIA, LLC

Is a kind of partnerships where the releasors signing this

release agreement could be the innocent victims of a large

fraud.

(b) RANGE RESOURCES APPALACHIAN LLC does not have

an address . . .only a P.O. Box...

(c) The Releasor do not know the President, the Vice President,

the Treasurer, the Chief Executor Officer of this LLC

(d) The Releasor have not seen the Articles of Organization of the

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(e) The Board of Directors and officers are unknown.

(f) Initial Capital Contributions are unknown and we do not know

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(g) Compliance with Insurance obligation is unknown.

(h) What is going to happen in case of death of member interest,

dissolution, Bankruptcy or incompetency of the management

driving the operation of the company to a disaster?

(i) Behind this LLC with a P0 Box as only address, it could exist

a scheme run entirely by shadow characters committing felony

of grand larceny in connection with an alleged improvements

of the surface of the land, drilling activity, dust, noise, increase

traffic, imposed by the LLC RANGE RESOURCES on the

innocent victims, land owners and home owners in the areas.

(I) This DAMAGE RELEASE AGREEMENT does not provide

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Fracking Linked to Birth Defects in Landmark StudyA recent, peer-reviewed study has linked birth defects to the presence of fracking within a 1 fl-mile radius of the mother’shome. -

This important study, conducted by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health and Brown liniversily, found ‘ranassociation between the density and proximity of natural gas wells within a 10 mile radius of maternal residence andorevalence of congenital heart defects” as well as possible links to defects of the brain and spinal cord.

With the explosive growth of tracking and the drilling of new oil and gas wells across the United States, including in largepopulation areas, we are placing our infants and children at risk of devastating birth defects and other harms.

Read the enclosed letter and take action by joining Food & Water Watch’s national campaign to ban tracking. Thank you.

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