ML18116A377

Requests That NRC Lift 3-month Moratorium on Issuance of Permits & Allow VEPCO Plants to Be Licensed.Otherwise State of VA Will Suffer from Blackouts & Excessive Rate Increases. North Anna Unit 2 Design Entirely Different than TMI

ML18116A377
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Site:	Surry, North Anna
Issue date:	06/13/1979
From:	Edmunds J VIRGINIA, COMMONWEALTH OF
To:	Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA JAMES T. EDMUNDS COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:

17TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND AMELIA, BRUNSWICK, CUMBERLAND, NATURAL RESOURCES LUNENBURG, MECKLENBURG, NOTTOWAY, EDUCATION AND HEALTH POWHATAN ANO THE WESTERN PART OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SENATE GENERAL LAWS REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES P.O. BOX 387 RULES KENBRIDGE, VIRGINIA 23944 June 13,.1979 Mr. Joseph M. Hendrie Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Hendrie:

The NRC's action in imposing a three-month moratorium on the issuance of permits to nuclear facilities will cause Virginia to face a series of brown-outs and black~outs for the summer of 1979.

Vepco has publicly estimated that without Surry 1 and North Anna 2 nuclear stations that their public energy supply will range from 1.9% to -7.3% this summer. At the lower end of that range Virgin~

ians will experience brown-outs and black-outs if Vepco cannot buy adequate power from other power suppliers on the East Coast grid, Vepco has just filed for a $62 million rate increase in Vir~

ginia. This huge financial burden will have to be borne by the rate payers across the State. If the NRC would reconsider its decision and allow these plants to be licensed, the Virginia rate payers would be relieved of an unnecessary burden.

This burden is unnecessary because the design of North Anna 2 is entirely different from the design of the Three Mile Island reactor that caused the three-month moratorium to begin with. Your action is equivalent to the grounding of ~ll airplines as a result of the DC-10 1 s design and/or maintenance failures.

Sincerely, Cfd~J_}:_~

James T. Edmunds ~

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CC: The Right Honorable James Earl Carter, President The Honorable Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

The Honorable John Warner The Honorable w. C, "Dan" Daniel The Honorable John N. Dalton Members of the State Corporation Commission