ML19209B092
| ML19209B092 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 05000471 |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1979 |
| From: | Burt L MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF |
| To: | Beverly Smith NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7910090157 | |
| Download: ML19209B092 (2) | |
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Dear Barry:
The Commonwealth is in receipt of the staff's
" Response to Motion of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Defer the Forthcoming Evidentiary Hearings en Emergen,y Planning on Class 9 Accidents."
In this response, you state that there is no Class 9 Contention in the Pilgrim Licensing proceedings.
I am writing to clarify what appears to be a misunderstanding on this issue.
Our reference to a Class 9 accident analysis prescinds from the Commonwealth's Contenrion 12 which alleges:
Neither the Applicants nor the Staff have adequately considered the alternative of locating the proposed plant at a site more suitable from a population density and environmental standpoint.
As you are well aware, this alternative site contention has fairly raised questions of population densities, and the residual risks of a =ajor accident which the Staff's considerations of population and site characteristics purport to assess.
It was in this context relating tcour alternative sites contention that we referred generally to a " Class 9 accident analysis."
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If our use of this terminology was confusing, I
apologize and hope that the above explanation clarifies the direct relationship of accident risks to the Commonwealth's long-standing contention on alternative sites.
Very truly yours, bA LAURIE BURT Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division One Ashburton Place, 13th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 021008 (617) 727-2265 L3 :JK cc.
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