ALBANY – State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a petition with the federal NRC urging it to take enforcement action against the Indian Point nuclear power plant for what he said was its failure to comply with fire safety regulations.

Schneiderman wrote that compliance with fire safety requirements was necessary to ensure that the facility would be able to safely shut down during and after an emergency.

Indian Point is in violation of safety regulations and is seeking more than 100 exemptions from those regulations, “undermining the efforts to secure the reactors,” he said Monday.

But, Jerry Nappi, Indian Point’s spokesman, said an exemption from one method of fire protection “means that a substitute is being employed; it does not imply a waiver or a pass.” He said operators are trained and drilled in the use of actions “to mitigate potential impact from a variety of postulated fires at the site.”