ML19206A863
| ML19206A863 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/11/1972 |
| From: | Morris P US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Bauser E CONGRESS (JOINT & ROTATING COMMITTEES, ETC.) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7904210552 | |
| Download: ML19206A863 (2) | |
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t Mr. Edward J. aauser l
Executive Director Joint Cet=ittee en Atocic Znergy
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Ocn Mr. Lauser:
On Novenber 29, 1971, the Director of 2egulation of the Aconic Encr y Cc=nission issued an Order to Shcw Cause which was directW to the
.%tropolitan Odison Cc::pany and Jersey Central Fever anc -d t Cocpany I
to show cause ichy the construction activitics involving t.ie cf f-Fite
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portien of the transnission lines for Three D.le Island ';ucicar
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Generating Statica Unit 2 should not be suspended pending cor.:pletion i
of a review of the environmental i= pact of such activities under the i
Cecr.ission's regulations impim anting the National Eavirencental Policy l
Act of 1969 C;rPA),10 m Part 30, Appendix D.
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A deterMnzition that such construction activities should be susycaded pending completion of the EZPA envircunental review had been nnde by the
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Director of Eegulation upon consideration of the licensecs' uritten state nest of reasons (with suppcrting factual subcission) day.3 Octc.scr If,
i 1971, why the construction pernits should not be suspended, in uhola cr in part, pending co=pletion of the NEPA environ wntal reviev, and 'spea consideration and balancing of the criteria set out in sest1<n 1.2 os s
l Appendix D of 10 C7'. Part 50. The reasons for the deternizatica vera set out in a docu=ent entitled " Discussion cnd Findings by the Division of Ecactor Licensing, U. S. Atccic Energy Coenission, Relating to i
Ccnsideration of Suspension Pending :; EPA Envirerzental Review of the i
Provisional Construction Persits f or the Three ::11e Island Nuclear l
Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Metropolitan Edison Company, and Jersey Central Power and Light Conpany, AEC Oceket Mcs. 50-229 and l
50-320, ;overher 22, 1971," which was appended to and made a part of the Order to Show Cause. Copies of the Order to Shew Cause, the
- etermination and the Discussion and Findings were sent to the Cc.ittee on December 1, 1971.
The Order to Show Cause provided that en answer cight be filed and a hearing desanded within thirty (30) days of the date of the Crder to Shcv Cause. On recerber 23, 1971, the licensees filed an answer s
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Mr.,Edvard J. himer requesting that the Order to Show Cause be reconsidered and also filed a Supplemettary Statec:ent of Facts Kelating to the Transmission Lines for hree liiie Island Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2.
Upon consideration of the licensees' answer, it has been determined that the Director of Regulation's deter:tination should be modified so as to provide for the suspension of construction activities involvini; the Three off-site yrtion of enly the Jrmiata transnission line for the
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' file Island Nuclear Cenarating Station, Unit 2, pending concletion of The Director the NEPA envirrn, ental review relating to these =sttero.
of Regulation has cruered suspension of the construction activities stated above.
In view of the above. and pursuant to the Coe'nission's regulations in 10 CM Parts 2 and 50, Apperdi r D, the Coraission hns fcrvarded the
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Pending Completion of ITF3A Invironmntal Peviev, to the f edemi Register ne ame Msed Order by the Co==ichics directs thn for publication, construction activities involving the off-site portion of the Ju. iata i
- Station, aia=4an line for the Taree Mile Island '6nclear.Ccaerat n,
'> nit 2, ahall be susp,anded until farther order of the cosaissica.
e-Sincerely, Peter A. Morris, Director Division of Peneter Licensing DISTRIBUTION:
Docket File (2)
Erwlosures :
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Amended Determination DRL PdF Sagrpleasent to Discussion and Findings WR-2 R/F 2.
Order Suspending Certain Construction A4tivities LMMuntzing 3.
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