ML18026A298

Motion to Reclassify Contentions 2,16 & 17 in Public Health & Safety Category.Responds to NRC Remaining Interrogatories Re Witnesses & Evidential Documents.Certificate of Svc & Supporting Documentation Encl

ML18026A298
Person / Time
Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	04/29/1980
From:	Halligan T CITIZENS AGAINST NUCLEAR DANGERS
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8006060487
Download: ML18026A298 (31)

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'SOCKETED USNRC MAY 5 1980 >

Office of ~se"Cgy

. Docketing 5 SCvtfc0 Ba L~iiIT~D ST4T S p HU L-A., P" -UL4TONv C()-..;,ISSIOy (Ber>>ick Atomic'Po>>er Pl t)

(Susquehanna Units 1 an 2

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AND LIGHT CO.

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CITIZENS AGAINST 'TUCL~AR DA'TG:"PS MOTIONS A:iD BZPLIZS TO XHT~~CCATPRIES CCEC~~XHG Cpi!THlTICNS HOS. 2, 16

&: 17 KRC General Interroratorv No.

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The Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers (Citizens) of Ber>>ick,Pa.

in end to present a fe>> scientific specialists as>>itnesses from.

. the Ãortheast reg" on of the state, >>ho>>ill have a direct

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mo>>ledge of the local environment,.to address'he environmental

. contentions" in direct testimony and/or cross-examination.

Once

~he public'hearing timetable is published, the Citizens>>ill'<

invite these hnos1edpesh1e in div id nsisio testify.

Their identity,.

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e cuali ications and.pummary: of.statementy,.-.etc., >>ill be forthcoming to all parties as':so'on es arrangements are made,'n a timely l

ma~er, as will be prescrioed by the Licensing Board.

The original plan to seek.out the professional services of yt prominent expert, >>itnesses from out of the area,

>>ho must have'r cise scientific data in their possession from the HRC and the el ctric companies (the Applicants) before they>>ould agree to testi7, is no>> out of the question because of the refusal on the par

o. the Applicants,

.he State, and. the FPC to release the r cuested relevant public docu ents in their possession required

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the interveners.

The denial of these documents may cause irreparable harm to-.the Citizens'ase.

The order s and memoranda that attempt to legitimatize these denials are certainly contestable in Federal Cour+.'

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At present,

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the Citizens will made a concerted effort to per'suade e

Accounting Office to

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.: 'e.urlaen al effects. these d.enlals, and other governmental 'irregularities, I,

k have bad. on'itizen participation in the Berwick licensing case.

NRC General Xnterro story No.

2 Tbe Citizens have not yet selected the exact documents to be o feted. in evidence at the public bearings.

However, the Citizens are now studying this matter and will refer to numerous papers in

-" researching relevant. issues.

These miscellaneous papers are not

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catalogued or organized in a 'manner whereby they Millbe utilized

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pr ecisely or exclusively for Contentj.ons Ho. 2, 36 and. 17.

Therefore, tbe Citizens will make available all of these

papers, re'ports,

charts, news releases, etc.

(numbering thousands of pages) relating to virtually all of the contentions, and more) to the NRC -for inspecMon and. photocopylng, as the NRC requested;:.at the Federal Building, corner of North Washington Avenue and. Linden Street,

Scranton, Pa.

18501, upon el itten reoue st, and at a mutually convenient time and. dat e.

Contention Ho.

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~'RC Speci lc lnterro stories S-2. 1)

Concerning cesulm-157:

Tbe Applicants have erred, in not estimating tbe long term environmental impacts of residual radiation occurring in the river'oed. sediments ion.

An example of which was

." vealed. in an extensive scientific government study conducted on this type o

radioactive waste found in the silt downstream from the outflow at the Savannah River nuclear cozplex.

Concerning cobalt-60, cesuim-134, iodine-131 and any other ra" lonuclides to be discharged.

froz the Berwlck ~it'uke:

Because the Applicants refuse to.furnish the Citizens with the necessary information

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'requested under discovery, dated May 22, 1979, namely items 10 and also discovery requests dat,ed July 25, 1979, page 2, 1<<m>>~

the Citizens must request an extention of time, pursuant to tbe Licensing Board Order, dated.April ll, 1980, to develop. some information from other sources to further answer the specific interrogatories of..

the HRC, Nos. S-2.1 thru S-2.5.

Precisely because the NRC refused to comply with the Citizens'iscovery.

requests dated July 25,

1979, namely items 1,2,3,and 4, tbe

.Citizens are unable to submit particular comparative figures as answers.

to these. same specific questions.

As a result, the Citizens'ase ma be irreparably ha imed.

Nevertheless, 's soon as comparative data from the HRC and tbe D=-R are forthcoming, tbe'rrors will be identified.

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As in the instances. cited. above, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a so-called.

interested party"'o the intervention, has not provided most of the public documents reoulred.

by. the Citizens to answer the specific interrogatories to Contentions 2, namely the Citizens discovery

.requests to the DW

.dated. >[ay 22,

1979, items'Nos.

19 and. 20.:"ost of the state' responsed were grossly incomplete and. virtually useless...

with one notable exception, concerning the drinking wat,er issue, mentioned. below.

. Xt ls apparent 'from the above citations'of stonewalling on the part of the government in denying public review of public records, that a very disturbing and questionable patt,em has developed designed to exclude meaningful public examination of the environmental and.

health and safety records of the:Berwick operating licens"ng case.

Therefore, the Citizens hereby petition the Honorable. Raphael:-'.usto of Pittston, Pa.,

the newly elected U.S. Representative for the.lith Congressional District of Pennsylvania to intercede in the public interest

and. promptly determine lf this apparent wrongdoing can be rectified.

The following facts should convince Congressman gusto of tbe urgency of this petition, which relates to a tragic situation that be is all too well acquainted. with.

Tbe NRC's specific ouestions concerning chlorine relesses oust t

be rephrased to take into consideration the ma~5.tude of tbe water problems on the river, because there exists a ma)or miscalculation due to unforeseen detrimental envlronzei~. circumstances that are beyond.

tbe control of the Applicants, out must be addressed.

nonetheless.

This matter, outlined below, ls in.response'to tbe specific questions

...'bout chlorine.

The':adverse b'eal@ effects from the discharge of chlorine froa the

Berwick plant into tbe Susquehanna River will,be substantially ~reater than'stimated by the Applicants, due to planned government endorsed.

~ large-.scale. mining of Anthracite coal commencln~ ln the meir fu ure.

'he necessity of.continual pumping of bllllons of gallons o> zine'cid

'drainage.into th'.Suscuebanna

%5.ver from numerous existing abandoned mine workings covering hundreds o

cuare miles, to make possible the.

ncw mlnln~ o'peratlons, will in turn necessitate massive lncrcascs ln e

the use.of chlorine at tbe Applicants atomic power plant.

Another ma )or source of serious pollution, located, about 20 mlles upstream. from the Berwlck plant, that will require the Applicants to further increase the use of chlorine., ls the Butler Kine Pater unnel s

Haste chemical spills into tbe Susquehanna Piver (see the attached partial list entitled "Chronology Of Events On Tbe Susquehanna").

Xt ls considered by many govern ent experts to be the worse sin-"le occuryance of chemical poilu io ln the Commonwealth'

history, and perhaps the nation.

Zt ls estimated that, over a period of

ime,

htmdreds of thousands of barrels of highly'oxic chemical wastes (possibly including radioactive wastes) were covertly dumped down boreholes into abandoned, coal mine voids near Plttston, Pa.,

alleged.ly'y'midnight baulers..".

After nearly one year of frantic and costly.

attempts to balt the intermittent flows of the.toxic chemical wastes

..'. in4o tbe Susquehanna.Mver from the Butler Tunnel outflow, tbe D=<<R and the.EPA are nowhere near stopping the pollution.

The solu4ion is years away at a cost of millions in taxpayer dollars.

Tbe PP8:L'wild. simply have.to cope with this pollution at the Berwick ln-take by revised design engineering 4o increase; even further, the use of chlorine to demineralize and. clarify tbe river water for

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.plant use. 't might take tons of chlorine each day to do tbe Job!

Because tbe people of Danvllle, Pa.,

about 20 miles downstream from Berwick, will, as a result, be d.rinklng this highly chlorinated.

river water mixed with'.harmful and unacceptable levels of chemical wastes from. the Butler Tunnel seepage and the increasing non-point

'. sources of mine acid drainage, co-mingling to form disease producing

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.,elements ln tbe drihking water, tbe following motion is hereby presented to the Licensing Board..

The C141zens Agalns4 Nuclear Dangers of Berwick, Pa.

move the Atomic Safety and Licensing'mzrd to remove

.Contention 2..from::;the environmental category because lt is.now definite'ly

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'L a public health issue that 'should be dealt with at tbe H-.<<.C public hearl g concerning public.c health and safety'.

Xt ls no longer merely'n.

"environmental" concern of people in tbe affected areas.

Incidentally, the Citizens are in pos ession of a photocopy of a DER document ln which the AM'shnt Att,orney'eneral for 4be D=-~ questions the advislbllity. of the state granting an industrial waste per 3..t to the PAL o discharge from the Berwick Nuke radionuclides into tbe

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Susquehanna River.

He indicated that PPM appeared to be in non-compliance with the Clean Streams Act because of unresolved problems concerning Danville's drinking watersupply. 'ongressman Musico

. should call 'for an investigation of this muaent violation of Federal law by'he State.

Furthermore, tbe Poison Control Center'at Geienger.Hospital, Danville, Pa.

should bc commissioned by tbe ERC to independently evaluate this potential danger to public health.

. To summarize, the Citizens have no additional information at this time to spec1fy with particularity answers. to HRC S-2.1 tbru S-2.5.

But, the. Citizens plan to acouire new information based primarily on tbe relevant data concerning tbe pollution of tbe Susquehanna River caused by'be above me'ntioned. criminal acts.

This information will be gleaned.

from the unsealed documents in tbe following on-going court proceedings.

The Citizens 'urge the Licens1ng Board.

and. all parties to obtain this official information that will.explain, to some degree, tbe extent of

'I tbi's-massive dumping of toxic chemicals, its relationship.to tbe

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'and the clear and.. certain danger this poses to public

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health and safety.

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Supreme. Court of.Pennsylvsn'a,'astern District.

Docket Ho. 91, 1979.. (Application of the Attorney. Ceneral.

of Pennsylvania. to impanel the Statewide Criminal. Crand Jury).

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This case originated at Court of Common Pleas, City of Philadelphia;

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Common Pleas Iiiscellaneous k-otion No. 799-15054.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,

=astern District; miscellaneous Docket Ho; 1/7, 1980.

(Grand Jury Presentment and indictments' Evidence and. testimony presented by t'e Pa.

Dept. of Environmental Resources expe'rts relevant to Contention No.

2 will be found in these court records.

Xnqui'res should, be sent to the Honorable hicbhacl J.:.agen, Chief Justice,'upreme Court of Pennsylvania, City Hall,Philadelphia, Pa.

The court papers should also be on ile at tbe Prothnotry Office, Room 456, in the Philadelphia City =.all.

Contention No. 16 NRC Specific Interro stories

S-16.1)

The source of informstton is'the Xmpect'Stetement for tbe g

Herwick Nuke.'pproximately 70 million. gallons of cooling water are calculated, a'ccord1ng. to plant specifications, Co be evaporated;Mto

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. steam and-vented into the surrounding atmosphere, if and when both reactors come on-line and both operate flawlessly at full rated capacitye The possibility of this ever occurring,

however, becomes

'more and more. improbable with each passing day.'

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. S-16.2).

The calculations and conclusions were 'to.be based on 0'

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government data 'to be compared. with the manufacturers specifications

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furnished under discovery from the NRC and the'pplicants...which the '

C Citizens never rece1ved, the same as indicated above on Contention Mo. 2.

.'.. Estimations from outside research would in all probability'e

unverifiable and. declared 'inadmissible evidence..

Public.c interest I

interverers, should not be sub)ected to any such possible ent'rapment.

Therefore,.the Citizens. Against Nuclear Dangers move the Licensing e

Hoard to issue a'. clari'fy'ing memorandum..that

states, unequivocally,'nd

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in considerable detail, how'the HRC re lations will be interpreted

'bv this Licensin Board concerning all types of evidence, testimony

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and discovery 'state'ments at the public hearings.

Example: Precisely e

what will be considered admissible and what will.be inadmissible

Otherwise, the -interveners could be (if they have not already been)

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l tricked into painting themselves into a corner, no matter how they try, in good faith, to comply with the current ultimatums to r'espond to "discovery questions.

Xn addition, the Licensing Hoard, needs to cast off the shadows and explain in ordinary English,. minus the legal mumbo

Jumbo, what are the

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obligations, restrictions and penalties to be applied to the HRC, and tbe Applicants:and the State for their withholding of'vidential

papers, which borders on obstruction of )ustice.

The Citizens plan to raise this question,.forthrightly, with the Justice Department if a I

satisfactory explanatory memorandum is not duly promugated.~S-16.3 Because this question is somewhat enigmatic, gcammatica11y

'-,faulty and illogically constructed, the Citizens are unable to under-

:=.stand, its ac ual meaning.

Xf the NRC staff wishes to restate S-16.$

in an understandable

syntax, tbe Citiz'ens will be glad to respond.to a

':.;.':-the best of their abilitye In the interim,'ake not'e of the Council 1Q a

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.'::"on "nvironmental Quality's recent directive calling for new evaluations

,:..:in reactor impact statements, dealing with the possibility'f 'all kinds C4

'".of ma)or accidents, such as accidents that'ight cause large amounts of radiation to be released.

(Tbe Citizens are submitting under separate'

..',cover a..motion,'oncerning many of the contentions, addressed to this

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. issue of potential serious accidents happening at the Berwick Nuke).

Tbe Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers hereby move tbe Licensing

'oard to place Contention Ho.

16 in the category of.puolic health and safety. lf the above mentioned separate motion is granted (or if tbe HHC Commissioners so order) the ER must then be revised immediately to include consideration of such a possibility as an uncontrolled massive release of radioactive steam from the Her~rick Nuke, which is what tbc Citizens inferred in Contention No.

16 from the outset.

The'Citizens would, conclude that the overall impact of evaporated

. ~rater containing large and urideterminable amounts of radiation escaping from the cooling towers, or any other.part of the plant, caused oy an accident at the plant, would be an eminent danger to human life, and should definitely be classi ied by the Licensing Board under the public health and safety category of contentions.

Contention 17 mC Sneclflc Xnterro atorles

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Tbe Citizens have no specific information, at this time, to

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I help ln determining the.so-called cost-benefit ratio of ultra-blgb-.

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.-.'-:=. voltage (UHV) transmission lines.

Ve regard UHV lines as inherently dangerous to all living creatures.

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The Citizens are not acquainted with the term "mini, cost-.benefit" e.'sed. in this question.

But, -0be Citizens do support the use of

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-~.:~."transmission lines of voltages do greater than '230 kv, as economically t

,~~.-,.-,-'easible and comparatively safe.

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) It is virtually inpoasible to answer this question 'because,

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Pennsylvania refuse; with the apparent concurrence of the Licensing Board, to furnish the. necessary basic data requested under di covery',

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""... -so this petltl'oner could make tbe calculations and then reach certain I'onclusions and give specific-answers. 'flthout the required source materials there can be.no-intelligent evaluations.

So what should be I

exoected from us7 The petitioners did not intervene to engage ln

. some sort of bureaucratic guessing game.', Because of this type of governmental shenanigans, tbe Citizens'ase may be irreparably'armed,

'I and the puolic interest certainly villnot be ser'ved by such trickery.

Rs ln the above motion, the Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers also

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'move the Licensing Board to remove Contention No.

17 from tbe environmental hearings and re-classify this contention on UHV lines's a puolic health and safety matter, for at least the followlrg rea ons:

On Friday night, April 11,

1980, the island commonwealth of Puerto Pico was thrown into total darkness by an explosion ln a San Juan power plant causing a massive outage.

The entire island was blacked out

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(geographically, about tbe size of pp8:L's service area) and millions of people were without electricity all night because of one ect of sabotage.

The national security forces weve placed.

on alert because vital services were endangered.

The group claiming credit for the explosion r eportedly did it to honor the memory of Saul Podriguez Fstrella wbo authovitics claim was accidentally killed while trying to sabotage a transmission tower {itfell on him) during a 1978 I

electrical workers st,rikc.. It might be said that Latin Ameri,cans are thc type who are excitable and would do a violent thing like that, but, that would not happen in Pennsylvania...right.

'frong!

A psychologist from Harrisburg recently told tbe h&C Commissioners that, in bis professional opinion, rioting ~<as possible. over the volatile issue of resterting THI.

An emotion packed confrontation took place at a meeting.

before the NRC Commission in 'rFasbington on Friday,.'.arch 21, 1960.

It was convened to discuss the social corrsequences of tbe proposed venting into.tbe atmosphere of radioactive'ases from the damaged TvI rc c or.

4 Quaker clergyman at tbe meeting warned:

"Hey, fri,end,

>>e've bad it.. If there's violence, if theve's an eruption of the populet,ion to do something untoward, then I say, friend, it' in your hands,"

These are the words of a.Pennsylvania pacifist!

The psychologist warned that "Unless people get a realistic feeling that they'e in control of their lives aga1n, their angev is going to be. incr easing,"

This type of strong rc a ction, coupled with re collection s of the opposition end resolve of thousands of Pennsylvanians in iiortheast and Central Pa.

against:"'.ed-Ed and PPchL's abortive plans to build atomic power parks in the recent past, with inter-connecting U::.V transmission

lines, should lead observers to contemplate the prospects

of U:-~I toilers toppling all ov r the Susquehanna Valley some ice in the future, if peo le perceive that they are oeing held hostage oy his ex ernal force.

There is de initely a m )or sa ety actor involved with UFJ'hat must be addressed by th Licensing Hoard, in the broadest t,erms.

Dated.: April 29, 1980 Corre spon6ent cc:

U.S.

Reps.

<<;ust o 8: cartel Lt. Gov.

Scr anton Chm. =nervy Council (Pa.)

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Re spon se s to Applicants 1nter rogato ries

~ill accompany the

'.-:otion pertaining to the Council on environmental Quality, under se arate cover.

Cc~Tl.'" SCAT" 0 SZRVZC" I

I hsrehy certif'y that conies of Citizens ay inst t'nclsar Dan~ers i'otions And. >eolies To lnterro~aroties Corcernin Contentions Nos.

o 8: 17 have been serve ors the fo lowing by eposit, in the Unite States mail, first cl ss, this 29th day of April, 1980.

S RViCK 'LEST Charles Hechhoefer, Esq.

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Br ight Dr. Oscar H. Paris

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Atomic Safety 8: Lic nsing Hoard

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Docketing 6: Service Sec.

Atomic Safety 8: licensing Apeal Hd.

Dr. Judi h H. Johns ud,

rs. Colleen "<sr ah Nr. Gerald Schultz,

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SpeL5'ER annouces filmydischarge Into Susquehanna River at Plttston ts "man.made."

State and federal environmentalists say pollution of Susquehanna linked to IUegal dumping into a borehole adjacent to Highway Auto Service, Pittston Twp.

DER estimates Oow.of oiland chemicab into river at a rate of 500 gallons per day.

DER says R willenter a mine shaft h.PIttston to locate the source ofthe pollution.

DER abandons. plans to enter mine shaft when '

crews find tlietunnel blocked.

Highway Auto Service Is entered by state officials

'with search warrants whBe the level of chemicals h the Susquehanna jump from 2,700 parts per

'billiontn 5,000 parts per bllUon.

h television camera lowered Into boreholes fails to show anything.

Environmental ProtecUon Agency (EPA) says 5usquehanna problem is "possible bIgger than the GulfofMexicooilspilL" DER reveals dye tests shows anything dumped into borehole at Highway Auto likely to come out Pittston Water Tunnel'and into the Susquehanna River.,

Federal and. state officials admit polluUon of Susquehanna Ued into wld~read and long-term pattern of illegal dumping Into boreholes all over NortheasternPennsylavania.

EPA admits five-of six chem!cals found so'far coming out of the Pittstpn'Water Tunnel cause cancer.

Highway Auto Service appeals DER's order closing them down while Oow of pollutants drops from 1,000 gallons @day to 200 gallons per day.

Federal and state environmentaII4ts Insist there is no "motherload" of deadly ch'emicals.

State says because of mines. under the area, Northeastern Pennsylvania has become the illegal

'umping capital ofNortheastern United States.

PolluUon of the Susquehanna River now as far south as Harrisburg.

Fish found near Plttston have traces of cancer ~

cauying chemicals.

DER announces anolher fish sample willbe taken next week.

Hundreds of residents line bank of Susequhanna to stage protest over pollution and to urge better clean.up.

State admits it was investigating illegal dumping Into boreholes before the pollution of the Susquehanna was observed.

State and federal environmentallsts file detailed legal action linking the pollution to:Hudson Oil RefiningCo.ofNew York.

The Tribune learns that Hudson Oil Refinery Co.

bas constantly been ln trouble with New York state

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DER reveals level of chemicals Inwater doubles.

DER orders back on tne]oo speicai vacuum sipnon to handle incrased pllution.

Federal officials say they are thinking about Installing a permanent processing plant in Pittston

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'laiming special grand jury has no authority to probe outside Pennsylvania.

State officals admit they are doing virtvauy nothing now to catch pollution because it is "emulslOed" and impossible to separate from the mine ater. State. officials also admit EPA has J

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Sept.8:

DERdl~ plans toseal Ihe mouth of the water tunnel anM5Id a lagoon on the shoreline where the polluUonmay be processed.

SepL9:

DER admits lt cannot understand the fluctuations in'the flow of the pollutants or where't all I>>

coming from.

Sept.13:

DER begins a @00,000 project to seal the mouth of the Pittston'Water Tunnel and pump the water into '

lagoon forprocessing.

Sept.15:- Pollutants fiowing into the busquehanna reach a'ecord level of3,000 gallons a day.

Sept.16:

Pollutants flowing Into the Susquehanna i'each a record level of3;000 gallons a day.

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Pollutants flowing into the Susquehanna reach a new record level of 5,400 gallons per day and federal ofOclals now dpubt plan to skim oil and chemicals from the lagoon willwork.

Sept. 1V: Der feels lt ts getting 75 percent of the pollutants

'flowing out of the whater tunnel and ZPA estimates ithas spent $100,000 todate.

Sept.21:

The special lnvesUgative grand jury begins its work In Ph0adelpMa with the first of its deUberaUons.

Sept.23:

EPA, after vetoing the stale's plan to process the pollutants from a

lagoon, order an elaborate "mopping system" forpolluUon control.

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Pollution drops offto a trickle, frustrating officials abilityto'put "mopping system" Intoeffect.

Oct. 10:

EPA informs US. Senator John Heinz itcould cost

$5 millionto clean up the Susquehanna.

Oct.19:

DER Onally acknowledges Tribune's. Aug.

31 article that cyanide may have been trucked opto "the mines and warns residents not to drill a'y boreboles.

Oct.20:

Reacting to the news about the cyanide, Q.S.

Senator John Heini and Congressman James Florio of New Jersey arrive at PBtston with two dozen staff aides and representaUves from other legislators and committees for an oncite inspection. Heinz says the problem Is worse than Three MileIsland.

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The Scrantonian reveals that while the congressional team Inspected the site there was no control of pollutants flowinghto the river at a rate of 210 gallons per day because recon't high water

. had knocked out the collection system.

Oct.22:

Special federal envtronmentalist begin probing boreholes in Pittston and Pitlston Twp. for traces of deadly cyanide.

Oct.25:

Stillno gas discovered Inboreholes but trace found in water Oowinginto'river.

Oct,26:

The.Tribune exclusively reports that the cyanide originated at Pratt Ec Whitney Aircraft of Canada LTD.,hfontreaI, which admit tedbaveing contracts withHudson OilReOnery Co.

Oct.27:

Cyanide was discovered ln a borehole but state officials insist lt is a at a level so low it will not barm a normally healthy person.

Oct. 28:;Cyanide found in a second borehole.

Oct.31:

Envlronmentalists find four different locations were cyanide gas was trapped ln boreholes.

Nov.4:

The Scrantonian reports that there are two other

. outfalls Into the Susquehanna or Lackawanna

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'On in Dunmore which ls blocked and one ln Jessup which opens 20 feet under water.

Nov.26:'Hudson Oil filed acUon with Supreme Coui't

May 1, 1980 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD DOCKETED USNRC MAY 5 1980 w Office of the Secretly QodNnz'4 Smce Brach In the matter of PPGL E AEC, (SSES 1

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Docket Nos.:

50-387

(%588 SUSQUEHANNA ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES Supplemental Answers to Applicant PENNSYLVANIA POWER AND LIGHT'S First Round Interro atories As directed by the Board, SEA replies now and files supplemental responses to PPCL's first round interrogatories as follows:

CONTENTION Pl:

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The assessment is inadequate because there has been no assessment.

PP6L, in describing the effects of the fuel cycle, simply reprinted Table S-3 from the NRC regulations.

However, the effect of Radon-222 is now "presently under reconsideration by the.Commission."

Presumably, the Commission will determine that there will be a greater impact or effect than had previously been estimated.

Until the Commission publishes a new determination, PPCL s survey of the effects of the fuel cycle is incomplete and the interrogatory cannot be answered.

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SEA has no information at this time.

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SEA has no information at this time.

1-A-4.

An increase in the risk of contracting cancer and of genetic damage in the people and other living things.

continued

t SUSQUEHANNA ENVZRONMENTALWDVOCATES Sun lemental Answers to Ao licant Pae2 1-B-1.

a.b.

Rn-222 Ra-226 Th-230 Uranium Tritium C-14 Kr-85 Ru-106 I-129 I-131 Tc-99 Ra-226 Th-230 Th-234 Mining/Milling/Tailings

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From Uranium Hexafluoride production From fuel fabrication plants Krypton 83 m 85" m 85 87 88" 89 90 Xenon 131 m

133 m

133 135 m

Iodine 129-136 Reactor operation 135 Reactor operation 137 138 139 Reactor operation l-B-l.c.

No information available at this time.

1-B-2.

Radiological health effects of isotopes have been misrepresented and underestimated by PPCL in its ER, Section.5.2..2. "Radioactivity in Environment,"

in that PPGL chose the "site boundary in the southwest sector" as the location to measure atmospheric releases.

The prevailing winds are from the southwest to the northeast.

Thus, the northeast sector should have been selected.

SEA has no other information concerning other ways in which health effects of isotopes may have been misrepresented at this time.

1-B-3.

Please see answer to 1-A-4.

Xn addition, SEA states that:

1)

PPGL's estimates of effects of the fuel cycle are based, in many

cases, not on its own research, but on NRC research and figu es.

2)

The methodology and accuracy of NRC research has been called into question by the Heidelberg Report.

SEA respectfully requests; continued

SUSQUEHANNA ENVIRONthENT~ADVOCATES Su lemental Answers to A licant Page 3

1-B-3., continued:

A)

That the NRC re-do the research necessary to arrive at these figures in an unbiased manner or commission an unbiased third party to do the research.

B)

That the results be made public.

CONTENTION 82:

2-1.a.

Tritium Krypton 85 and others Strontium 90 and 89 Iodine 129 and others Xenon 131m 'and others Cesium 13%,

137 Uranium 237, 239 Plutonium 239 and others Americium Curium Activated Zircaloy Cladding b.

SEA has no information at this time.

c.

SEA has no information at this time.

2-2.

Increased, risk of cancer and genetic defects.

SEA has no information on specific types and magnitudes.

2-3.

No information available at this time.

2-4.

No information available at this time.

2-5.

No information available at this time.

2-6.

Danville, Pa.

2-7.

No information available at this time.

2-8.

No information available at this time.

With respect to Interrogatory 2-1, 2-.2, SEA states that, where PPCL's figures are based on NRC data, and not on independent

research, these figures should be discarded in light of the Heidelberg Report.

The NRC should conduct new, unbiased tests and mon'to 'ng.

continued

4 SUS UEHANNA ENVIRONMENTAL DVOCATES Su lemental Answers o A licant Pa e 4 CONTENTION $14:

14-1.

80'o 14-2.

The average capacity factor for all nuclear plants to date is about 60t.

The average CF for all nuclear plants the size of SSES is substantially less than 60't (around 55t, according to Charles Komanoff, for plants larger than 800Mw).

sharp drop in capacity factors for large plants was also found.by Saunders Miller, The Economics of Nuclear and Coal Power, NY;

Praeger, 1976.

Based on this past performance, SEA contends that an 80%

CF is far too opt3Jllist3.c ~

14-3.

60t, for the reasons stated above.

14-4.

No information available at this time.

Based on the submission of these

answers, SEA intends to participate fully in the litigation of contentions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 14.

SEA will furnish information when it is available.

SEA commends the NRC for arranging to have a'et of ASLB reports loaned to the local public document library, and for organizing the documents on file there; and for placing a complete set of the applicable regulations there.

SEA objects to the Board's characterization of SEA's most recent Motion for a Protective Order as being identical to previous motions.

This is factually incorrect.

Even on its face, the motion was more specific.

Furthermore, SEA objects to the denial of the motion, especially since no reason for the denial was cited by the Board.

Dated:

April 30; 1980 Respectfully submitted, I hereby certify that copies of this document were served on all parties to this proceeding.

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Gerald R. Schultz 174 Machell Avenue

Dallas, PA 18612

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Office of~

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.'0 Ui)ITED STATES O."

AK"-HUACA HUCLEAR >- -UL.-'.TOPAZ CO'-".ISSION

~ter of 0

ANlA PO~

AHD LI hT CO..

(Berwick At.omi,c Power Plant) and..

{Susquehanna Units 1 and. 2 )

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ma~er, as will'be prescribed by the Licensing Board.

The original plan to seek.out the professi'onal services of yt prominent expert witnesses from out of the area, who must have pr cise scient1fic da a in their possess" on from the HRC and, the el ctxic companies

(

he applicants) before they would agree t,o testi 7, is now out of the question because of the refusal on the part o

the applicants,

+he State, and the H~C to release the xecuested relevant public documents in, their possession required.

'.3 by'he interveners.

The denial of these documents may cause eaarable harm to-.the Citizens'ase.

The orders and memoranda HRC Genera1 Xntexro~atorv Ho.

The Citizens Against Huclear Dangers (Citizens) of Ber~~ick,Pa.

in end. to present a few scientific= specialists as witnesses from.

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. the Hortheast region of the state, who will have a direct knowledge of the local environment,.io addressthe environmental

. contentions" in d.irect. testimony and/or cross-examination.

Once ihe'puol1c'hearing timetable is publi,shed.,

the Citizens will'+

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invite these knowledgeabl e ind.ividuals $o testify.

Their. identity,.

1 cuali. ications and,.summa~ of.statementy,-..etc.,

will be forthcoming to all part1es as:so'on as arrangements are made,n a timely that attempt to legitimatize these denials are cet tainly con te stable in F edc x a 1 C ou rt'.

At present, the General he C1tizens w111 made a concerted effort to persuade Accounting Office to furth r audit and, monitor the

• .:.,detrimental effects these denials, and other governmental'irregularities, h

have had. on citizen participation in the perwick licensing case.

HRC Ceneral Interro atorv Po.

2 Tbe Citizens have not yet selected the exact documents to be o fered in evidence at the public hearings.

However, the Citizens are

.now studying this matter and, will refer to numerous papers in

" researching relevant issues.

These miscellaneous papers are not

...'atalogued or organized in a manner whereby they will be utilized

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Therefore, the Ci izens vill, make available al'1 of these

papers, reports,

charts, news releases, etc.

(numbering thousands of pages) relating to virtually all of the contentions, snd more) to the HRC -for inspection P

and. pbotocopying, as the H>C requested;,at the Federal Building, corner o

North Washington Avenue and Linden Street,

Scranton, Pa.

18501, upon r1ritten reoue st, and at a mutually convenient time and dat e.

Contention No.

2 "

BC Speci f1c ln ter ro a to r 1e s S-2.1)

Concerning cesuim-1'57:

The Applicants have erred 1n not estimating the long term environmental impacts of residual radiation occurring in the riveroed sedimentation.

An example of which was

." vealed in an extensive scienti ic government study conducted on th1s type of radioactive waste found in the silt, downstream from the outflow at the Savannah Piver nuclear complex.

Concerning cobalt-60, cesuim-134, iod1ne-151 end any other radionuclides to be discharged.

from the Berwick Nuke:

Because the Applicants refuse to furnish the Citizens with the necessary infomat1on

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'requested under discovery, dated May 22, 1979, namely, lte s 10 and

~ also discovery requests dated July 25

1979, page 2, items 1, 2, and 3, the Citizens must request an extentlon of time, pursuant to the Licensing Board. Order, dated.April ll, 1980, to develop.some information

'I from other sources to further answer the specific interrogatories

~ of tbe HRC, Nos. S-2.1 thru S-2.5.

Precisely because the

>tRC refused to comply with the Citizens'iscovery requests dated July 25,

1979, namely items 1,2,3,and 4, tbe

.Citizens are unable to submit particular comparative figures as answers.

to these. same spec1fic questions.

As a result, the Citizens'ase r

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'a be irreparably harmed.

Nevertheless,'s soon as comparative-data from the NRC and the D=-R are forthcoming, tbe errors will be identified.

As ln the instances cited above, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a so-called "interested. party"'o the intervention, has not provided most of the public documents required by. tbe Citizens to answer the specific interrogatories'o Contentions 2," namely the Citlz ns discovery

~ requests to tbe D~

.dated Day 22,

1979, items'Nos.

19 and 20.:"ost of the state' responsed were grossly incomplete and virtually useless...

with one notable 'exception, concerning the drinking water issue, mentioned below.

. Zt is apparent.'from the above citations'of stonewalling on tbe part of the government ln denying public'eview of public records, that a very disturbing and questionable pattern has developed designed to exclude meaningful public examination of the environmental and health and safety records of the:Berwick operating licens" ng case.

Therefore, the Citizens hereby petition the Honorable. Raphael:-'.usto of Plttston, Pa.,

the newly elected U.S. Representative for the,lith Congressional District of Pennsylvania to intercede in the public 1nterest

and.'promptly determine if this apparent wrongdoing can be rectified.

The following facts should convince Congressman Kusto of the urgency of this petition, which. relates to a tragic sltuatlon that be is all too well acquainted. with.

Tbe NRC' specific cuestions concerning chlorine relesses nust be rephrased to take into consideration the magnitude of the water problems on the river, because there exists a maJor miscalculation'due to unforeseen detrimental envlronzaihZ. circumstances that are beyond the control of the Applicants, out must be addressed nonetheless.

This matter, outlined below, is in response'to tbe specific ques4lons

..'bout chlorine..

Tbe'-.adverse b'eall effects from the discharge of chlorine from the

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Berwlck plant into tbe Susquehanna River will be substantially greater

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than'stimated by tbe Applicants, due to planned government endorsed.

~ large-scale.mining of Anthracite coal commencing ln the near future.

'he necessity'f.continual pumping of billions of gallons of mine acid

.drainage.into th'.Susquehanna Elver from numerous existing abandoned I

mine workings covering hundreds o

souare miles, to make poss'able thc.

neW mining OperatiOnS, Well 1n tuM neoeSS14e4e maSS1Ve lnCreaaeS ln

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J the use.of chlorine at the Applicants atomic power plant.

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Another ma Jor source of serious pollution, located. about 20 miles E

upstream. from the Berwick plant, that will require the Appllcan s to further increase the usc of chlorine., ls the Butler Mine '>tater Tunnel

. Haste chemical spills into the Suscuebanna Piver (see the at4acbed

.partial list entitled "Chronology Of Events On The Susquehanna" ).

't is considered by many'overn ent experts to be the worse single occuryance of chemical. pollution ln 4be Commonwealth '

his tory, and perhaps the nation. It ls estimated that, over a period of

ime,

bcwdreds of thousands of barrels of highly toxic chemical wastes I

(possibly including radioactive wastes) were covertly dumped down boreboles into abandoned coal mine voids near Pittston, Pa., allegedly by'midnight haulers.."..

After nearly one year of frantic and costly.

I attempts to halt the intermittent flows of the. toxic chemical wastes A

'. in4o tbe Susquehanna.Aver from the Butler Tunnel outflow, tbe DRA and tbe,EE'A are nowhere near stopping the pollution.

The= solu4ion is years I

away at a cost of millions 'in taxpayer dollars.

The PPE:L w111 simply bave.to cope with this pollution at. tbe Berwick in-take by revised design engineering to increase, even further, the use of chlorine to demineralize and. clarify tbe river water for I

.plant use-lt m1gbt'take tons of chlorine,each day to do tbe gob!

Because tbe people of Danville, Pa.,

about 20 miles aownstreem from Berwick, will, as a result, be drinking this highly chlorinated river water mixed with '.harmful and, unacceptable levels of chemical wastes from the Sutler Tunnel seepage and the increasing non-point

'. sources of mine acid drainage, co-mingling to form disease producing

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.,elements in tbe drinking water, tbe following mo4ion is hereby presented to the Licensing Board.

The Ci izens Against nuclear Dangers of Berwick, Pa.

move the Atomic Safety and Licensing'mard to remove Contention 2..fx'om::;the environmental category because it is.now definite'ly 1

a public health issue that 'should oe dealt with at tbe HHC public

'earing concerning public health and safety.

Zt is no longer merely an. "environmental" concern'f people in the af ected areas.

Incidentally, the C1t1zens are in pos ession o>>

a photocopy of a Di.R document in which the A~'stant Attorney General for the D=-< questions I'dvisibility.of tbe state granting an inaustrial waste per it to tbe

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PAL o d1scbsrge from the Berwick liuke radionuclides into tbe

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Susquehanna R1ver.

He ind1cated that PP&L appeared to be 1n non-comp11ance with the Clean Streams Act because of unresolved problems concerning Danville' drinking wat ersupply.

Congressman

?'.usto

- should. call for an investigation of this mrna.ent violation of Pederal law by the State.

Furthermore, tbe Poison Control Center at Geienger.Hospita3.,

Danville, Pa.

should be commissioned by tbe hRC to independently evaluate this potential danger to public health.

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. To summarize, tbe Cit1zens have no additional information at this P

time to specify with particularity answers. to HRC S-2.1 thru S-2.5.

But, the. Citizens plan to acouire new information based primarily on tbe relevant data concerning the pollution of tbe Susl;uehanna River caused by'be above me'ntioned, criminal acts.

This information will be gleaned from the unsealed documents in the following on-going court proceedings.

The Citizens 'urge tbe Licensing Board. and all parties to obtain this official'nformation that will.explain, to some degree, the extent of

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Supreme Court of Pennsy'lvania,

.astern District; I~3..scellaneouh Docket No; 137, 1980.

(Grand Jury Presentment and indictments' Evidence and.testimony presented by the Pa.

Dept. of Environmental Resources expe'rts relevant to Contention N'o.

2 will be found, in these court records.

I'nquires should be sent to tbe Honorable hicb el J.

=.agen, Chief Justice,'upreme Court of Pennsylvan1a, City Hall,Philadelphia, Pa.

Tbe court papers should also bc on ile at the Prothnotry Office Room 456, in the Philadelphia City =.all.

tbi's-massive dumping of toxic chemicals, its relationship.to tbe chlorine issue,

'and the clear and. certain danger this poses to public

. t health and

'sa fety.

1. )

.Supreme. Court of.;Pennsylvan'a, 7astern District.

Docket Mo.

91',

1979.. (Application of the Attorney. General.

of Pennsylvania. to impanel the Statewide Criminal-Grand Jury).

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This case originated at Court of Common Pleas, City'f Philadelphia

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Contention No. 16

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S-16.1)

The source of 1nformetion 1s the ympsct'Stetement for the E

Berwlck Nuke; Approximately 70 million gallons of cooling water are r

calculated, a'ccordlng. to plant specifications, Co be evaporated;-&to

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. steam and-vented into the'urrounding atmosphere, lf and. when both reactors come on-line and both operate flawlessly at full rated.

I capacity.

The possibility of this ever occurrln'g,

however, becomes

'more and. more, improbabla with each passing day.'

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The calculations arid. conclusions were to be based.

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government data 'to be compared. with the manufacturers specifications 1

furnished under discovery from the HRC and tbe Applicants...which. the '

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Citizens never xecelved, the same as indicated above on Contention Mo. 2.

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. Estimations from outside research would in all. probability be

-'unverifiable and declared. inadmissible evidence.

Public interest I

interverers. should not be subJected.

to any such possible ent'rapment.

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Therefore,.the Citizens. Against Nuclear Dangers move the Licensing

~, 1 Board to issue

a. clarifying memorandum..that

states, unequivocally,'nd

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1 in considerable detail, how'the HRC re lations will be'nterpreted

'bv this Licensln Board concerning all types of evidence, testimony I

and discovery 'statements at the public hearings.

Example: Precisely

'J what will be considered admissible

.and what will.be inadmissible?'therwise, the "lnterveners could be (if they have not already been)

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tricked into painting themselves into a corner, no matter how they try, ln good faith, to comply with the current ultimatums to respond. to discovery questions.

In addition, the Licensing Board needs to cast off the shadows and explain in ordinary English,. minus the legal mumbo Jumbo, what are the

.." -S obligations, restrictions and penalties to be applied, to the NRC, and tbe Applicants:and the Stat,e 'fox their witbholcLing of evidential

papers, which borders on obstruction of )ustice.

The Citizens plan to raise this question, forthrightly, with the t'ustice Department if a

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satisfactory exp1anatory.

memorandum 1s not cLuly promugated.'

~S-16.3 Because this question is aomeebat eniSmatic, Srammatica11y

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...":= stand. its actual meaning. If tbe NRC staff wishes to restate S-16e3 1

-n an understandable

syntax, the Citiz'ens will be glad to respond. to 1--'the best of.'.their abilitye 'In tbe interim,'ake note of tbe Council

.;:. on "nvironmental Quality's recent cLirective calling for new evaluations

.:.:.1n reactor impact statements, dealing with the possibility of 'all kinds

"":of maJor accidents, such as accidents that'ight cause large amounts of radiation to be releasecL.

(Tbe Citizens are submitting under separate I.;.cover a.motion,'oncerning many of the contentions, adcLressed to tb1s issue of potential serious accidents happening at the Berwick Nuke).

The C1tizens Against. Nuclear Dangers hereby move tbe Licensing BoarcL to place Contention No.

16 in the category of.public health

and, P

safety. lf the above mentioned separate motion 1s granted. (or if tbe NHC Commissioners so order) the ER must then be revised. immediately.

to include consideration of such a possioility as an uncontrolled massive release of radioactive steam from the Berwick Nuke, which is what the Citizens inferred in Contention No.

16 from the outset.

The Citizens would conclucLe that the overall impact of evaporated,

~rater containing large and undeterminable amounts of radiation escaping from the cooling towers, or any other. part of the plant, caused oy an accident at the plant, would be an eminent danger to human life, and should definitely be classified by the Licensing Board under the public health and sa fety category'f contentions.

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.HRC S eciflc Xnterro atories

".. 8-17-1)

The Citizens have no specific information, at this time, 'to

,,help in determining the.so-called.

cost-benefit ratio of ultra-higb-.

':~:=.'voltage (UHV) transmission Lines.

Ve regard UHV lines as inherently

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I'be Citizens are not acquainted witb tbe term "mini cost-benefit

'-'..':: used in this question.

-But, -She Citizens do support the use of h

-':~,.:transmi'ssion lines of voltages no greater than 230 kv, as economica11y V 'k k

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} It is virtual'mpoasib1e'o answer tbis question because,.

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. once again, the'ITRC,and.'. the'pplicants, and tbe Commonwealth o

Pennsylvania refuse; with the apparent concurrence of the Licensing k

Board, to furnish the necessary basic data requested under discovery,

~ "".". -so this petitioner could make tbe calculations and then reach certain conclusions and give specific-answers. 'VB.thout the required source k

materials there can be.no.intelligent evaluations.

So what should be expected from us?

The petitioners 'did. not intervene to engage in some sort of bureaucratic guessing game.'

Because of this type of governmental shenanigans, tbe Citizens'ase may be irreparably'armed, and.. the puollc interest certainly willnot be see'ved by such trickerye A's in tbe above motion, the Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers also

move the Licensing Board to remove Contention No.

17 from tbe k

environmental bearings. and re-classify this contention on UHV lines as a punllc health and safety matter, for at least the following r easons:

On Friday night, April 11,

1980, the island commonwealth of'uerto Pico was thrown into total darkness by an explosion in a San Juan power plant causing a massive outage.

The entire island was blacked out

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(geographically, about tbe size of PAL's service area) and millions of people were without electricity all night because of one act of sabotage-The national security forces were placed, on alert because vital sc'rviccs were cndangcred..

The group claiming credit, for the explosion reportedly did it, to honor the memory of Saul Podriguez

="strella, who authori ics claim was accidentally killed while trying to sabotage a transmission t,ower {itfell on him) during a 1978 elect,rical workers st,rike.

Xt might be said. that Latin Americans are thc type who are excitable and. would do a violent, thing like that, but, that would "not happen in Pennsylvania...

r ight.

from Harrisburg recently told the ~iC Commissioners A

professional op1nion, rioting ~<as possible. over the

'i'irong!

A psychologist that, in his volatile issue of resterting TNX.

An emotion packed, confrontation took place at a meeting.

before the NRC Commission in 'Iiashington on Friday, liarcb 21, 19SO.

Xt was convened to discuss the social conscauences of the'roposed venting 1nto.tbe. atmosphere of radioactive gases from the damaged.

T~'.X r cac or.uaker clergyma.

at tbe meeting warned:

"Eey, friend, we'e had it.. Xf there' violence, 1f thcrc' an eruption of tbe populat.ion to do something untoward, then X say, friend, it's in your hands,"

These are the words of a.Pennsylvania pacifist!

The psychologist warned. that "Unless people get a realistic feeling that they'e in control of their lives again, their anger is going to be increasing,"

This type of strong reaction, coupled with recollections of the I

opposition and resolve of thousands of Pennsylvaniens in For beast and Central Pa.

against

.ed-Ed and. PP8:L's abortive plans to build atomic power parks in thc recent past, with inter-connecting U!=.V transmission

lines, would lead observers to contemplate thc prospects

of U:-~1'o.~era topplinG all ov r the Sus.".uehanna Valley some ice in the future, if peo le perceive hat they are oeing held hostage oy his external force.

There is involved ~iith UPf that must be 1.. the broadest terms.

d.e initely a ma]or sa ety actor addressed by ih Licensin~ Board Dated.: April 29, 1980 Correspondent cc: U.S.

Reps.

<.usto 8: cartel Lt. Gov. Scranton Chm. =nervy Council (Pa.)

P;S.

3e ponsea to Applicants Znterro.".atories

>111 accompany the l'.otion pertaining to the Council on nvironmental Quality, und,er se arate covers Cr~ "l."2'CAT'OF SZ?.VXC I

teeryheart tfy ttat cootes of Oktizens 4tatnat Xi ncl'sar Dancers

> otions And. ~eolies To Znterrocaroties Concernin Contentions Nos.

lo o: l have been serve o.. the ollowing by eposit in the United States mail, first class, this 29th day of April, 1980.

S-"RViCK 'LTST Zr. Charles 3echhoefer, Esa.

<<r. GlennO. Bripht Dr. Oscar E. Paris James

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Atomic Safety

.". Lic nsing Board HPQ Sec.

Bocketin~

8: Service Sec.

Atomic Safe y

8: licensing Apeal Bd.

'Dr. Judi h H. Johns ud

!:".rs. Coll en !larsh 7lr. Gerald. Schultz,

=so.

homes::.

Cerusky kr. Jay Gilbert, 7se.

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hng. 15:

Aug.14:

DER annouces filmydischarge Into Susquehanna River atPlttston fs "man-made."

State and federal env]ronmentatlsts say polluUon of Susquehanna Ihked to IUegal dumping Into a borehole adjacent tn Highway Auto Service, Piltston Twp.

DER esUmates Oow ofoil and chemicals into river at a rate of500 gallons per day.

DER says it willenter a mine shaft Ia Pittston to locate the source ofthe pollution.

DER abandons. plans to enter mIM shaft when

'rews find the tunnel blocked.

Highway Auto Service is entered by state oHIclals with search warrants while the level of chemicals h the Susquehanna jump from 2,700 parts per

'bllllonto 5,000 parts per billion.

g television camera lowered Into boreholes fails to show anything.

Environmental ProtecUon Agency (EPA) says Susquehanna problem Is "possible bigger than the Gulfof Mexicooilspill."

DER reveals dye tests shows anything dumped into borehole at Highway Auto likely to come out Pittston Vlater Tunnel "and into the Susquehanna River.,

Federal and, state officials admit pollution of Susquehanna tied Into wld~read and long-term pattern of illegal dumping Into boreholes all over Northeastern Pennsylavanla.

EPA admits five-of six chemfcals found so far coming out of tb'e Plttston'%ater Tunnel cause cancer.

Highway Auto Service appeals DER's order closing them down while Oow of pollutants drops from1,000 gallons away to200 gall'onsperday.

Federal and state envlronmentaII$ ts Insist there Is no "motherload" ofdeadly chemicals.

State'says because of mines under the area, Northeastern Pennsylvania has become the illegal

'umping capital ofNortheastern United States.

Pollution of the Susquehanna River now as far Ang. 16:

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hug.20i hug.23i south as Harrisburg.

Fish found near Pittston have traces of cancer.

cau$ ing chemicals.

DER announces another Osh sample willbe taken

. next week.

Hundreds of residents line bank of Susequhanna to stage protest over pollution and to urge better clean up.

State admits it was investigating Illegal dumping Into boreholes before the pollution of the Susquehanna was observed.

State and federal envlronmentallsts file detailed legal action linking the pollution to:Hudson Oil RefiningCo. ofNew York.

The Tribune learns that Hudson Oil Refinery Co.

has constantly been in trouble with New York state officials and lost Its license to haul. hazardous wastes. Including deadly cyanide believed trucked here. hleanwhlle, pollution into the river climbs dramatically from 30 gallons per day to 250 gallons per day.

DER reveals level of chemicals in water doubles.

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Federal officials say they are'thinking about Installing a permanent processing plant in Pittston hug.25:

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Sept. 1:

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'ttl'OIIOIO Ot f481llS Sept. 5:

DER dl plans to seal the mouth of the watcr tunnel and build a lagoon on the shoreline wherr the polluUonmay be processed.

Sept.9:

DER admits It cannot understand the Ouctuations In'the flow of the pollutants or where'l all ii coming from.

Sept 13: DER begins a $300,0N project to seal the mouth of the PIttstoiiVlaterTunnel and pump the water into '

lagoon forprocessing.

Sept.15:- Pollutants flowing Into the Susquehanna reach a'ecord level of3,000 gallons a day.

~ - Sept.15:

Pollutants Oowing Into the Susquehanna reach a record level of3;000 gallons a day.

Sept.15:

Pollutants flowing into the Susquehanna reach ~

new record level of. 5,400 gallons per day and,.

federal ofOclais now dpubt plan to skim oil and chemicals from the lagoon willwork.

Sept.17:

Der feels It is getting 75 percent of the pollutants

'flowing out of the whater tunneI and SPA estimates Ithasspent$ IN,000 todate.

Sept.21:

The special invesUgative grand jury begins Its work In Phi]adelphta with the first of its deliberations.

Sept.23:

EPA, alter vetoing the state's plan to process the pollutants from a

lagoon, order an elaborate "mopping systan" forpolluUon control.

Oct.3:

PolluUon drops offto a trickle, frustraUng officials abllltyto'put "mopping system" Intoeffect.

Oct. 10:

EPA Informs US. Senator John Heinxitcould cost

$5 millionto cleanup the Susquehanna.

Oct.19:

DER finally acknowledges Tribune's. Aug. 3l article that cyanide may have been truckedPto "the mines and warns residents not to drill a'y boreholes.

Oct.20t Reacting to the news about tbe cyanide, Q.S.

Senator John Hetni and Congressman James Florio of New Jersey arrive'at Piltston with two dozen staff aides and representatives from other legislators and commi/tees for an on-site inspection. Heinz says the problem Is worse than Three MileIsland.

. I Oct.21:

The Scrantonian reveals

that, while the congressional team inspected the site there was no control of pollutants flowingInto theriver at a rate of 210 gallons per day because recent high water

. had knocked out the collection system.

Oct22:

Special federal environmentalist begin probing boreholes in Pittston and Pitlslon Twp. for traces of deadly cyanide.

Oct.25:

Stillno gas discovered inboreholes but trace found inwater Oowing into'river.

Oct.26:

The.Tribune exclusively reports that the cyanide originated at Pratt &. Whitney Aircraft of Canada LTD.,]fontreal, which admit ted haveing contracts withHudson OilRefinery Co.

Oct,27:

Cyanide was discovered in a borehole but state officials insist it Is a a't a level so low lt will not harm a normally healthy person.

Oct. 25:

'Cyanide found in a second borehole.

Oct,51:

Environmentalists find-four dUierent locations were cyanide gas was trapped in boreholes.

Nov.4:

The Scrantoniaa reports that there are two other

. outfalls Into the Susquehanna or Lackawanna

~ Rivers much like the one at Pittston:

On in Dunmore which Is blocked and one in Jessup which opens 20 feet under water.

Nov.26:'Hudson Oil filed action with Supreme Court

'laiming special grand jury has no authority Co probe outside Pennsylvania.

Dec.9:

state officais admit they are doing virtually

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nothing now to catch pollution because it is

emulsified" and impossible to separate from the mine ater. State. officials also admit EPA has lAslsall)I II@

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18101 PHONE: (215) 821.51S1 LEGAL DEPARTMENT EDWARD M. NAGEL vce Ptesone.

Oenorsl Counsel sno Seorelsy 821 5225 G. D. CALIENDO Cnel Cans>> Regulslory Asses 821 5581 Asselsnl Counsel MURRAYMILKMAN 821 5225 S. JAN HUDDLE 821 5645 Aluxneys ROBERT K.FULTON 821 5225 STEWART J. BERGER 821 5521 BRYANA SNAPP 821 4287 AllefneVS HARRIS M. ROSEN 821 5644 DAVIDJ. DULICK 8?1 4102 JOHN E. ANTONUKJR.

821 4452 ARTHUR PERRY BRUDER 821 42S4 ofay 1, 1980 Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud Co-Director Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power 433 Orlando Avenue State

College, PA 16801 ROCKETEER MN'

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Dear Dr..Johnsrud:

In supplement to Applicants'nswers to Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power First Round Discovery Requests, enclosed are the documents listed below in response to the following discovery requests:

Discover Re uest 2

Pennsylvania Power 5 Light Company Sales and Peak Load Forecast dated March 3, 1980 Discover Re uest 3

Study Report for the Susquehanna Steam EZectric Station Mass lmtotification and Evacuation Parts I and II dated December 1979 Also responsive to this request is Revision 1 to the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station Emergency Plan which was mailed to you on February 29, 1980.

Discover Re uest 6

PPgL is considering the following EPA-approved herbicides for use in 1980 for transmission right of way maintenance:

PENNSYLVANIA POWER 6

LIGHT COMPANY

Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud hlay 1, 1980 l.

A mixture of equal parts of Garlon 3A and either Amdon 101 or Tordon 101 2.

Krenite 3.

A mixture of equal parts of Needon 2,

4-D P and either Amdon 101 or'Tordon 101 Enclosures cc:

Service List Sincerely,

.ryan X..SKapp.~~

UNITED STATES OF AMEP.ICA NUCLEAR REGllLATORY COMHI SS I Ofl BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AtlD LICElfSIflG BOAPD In the Hatter of PENNSYLVANIA POWER far LIGHT COthPAt<Y and ALLEGHENY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.

(Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units '1 and 2)

Docket flos. 50-387 50-388 SERVICE LIST Secretary of the Commission U. S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, 0.

C.

20555 Charles Bechhoefer, Esquire Chairman Atomic Safety. and Licensing Board Panel U.

S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Susquehanna Environmental Advocates c/o Gerald Schultz, Esquire 174 Machell Avenue

Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612 Mr. Glenn 0. Bright Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.

S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.'.

20555 The Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers Mrs.

Mary K. Creasy 925 East 2nd Street

Berwick, PA 18603 Dr.

Oscar H. Paris Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.

S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Atomic. Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.

S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Ms. Colleen Marsh

'558 A, R.

D.

84 t1t. Top, Pennsylvania 18707 Mr. Thomas M. Gerusky, Director Bureau of Radiation Protection Department of Environmental Resources Commonwealth of Pennsylvania P.

0.

Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. f'luclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 James M. Cutchin, IV, Esquire Office of the Executi ve Legal Director U.

S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

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