ML19210E822

Memorandum & Motion to Continue Evidentiary Hearings Until Congress Either Affirms Status of NRC or Creates New Regulatory Agency Charged W/Granting Ols.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19210E822
Person / Time
Site:	Zimmer, 05000558
Issue date:	11/10/1979
From:	Feldman J MIAMI VALLEY POWER PROJECT
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 7912130033
Download: ML19210E822 (3)

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UNITED STATES OF R! ERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY CDS!ISSION BEEDRE THE KIOh!IC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the L!atter of ) p a The Cincinnati Gas & Electric ) ,J

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!DTION TO COSTIhTE THE EVIDENTIARY HEARING hila:ni Valley Power Project (m'PP) hereby moves in the above captiotied matter to continue the evidentiary hearing until such time as Congress either affinns the status of the Nuclear Regulatory Ccmnission (NRC) or creates a new regulatory agency charged with the granting of operating licenses.

Respectfully sutmitted, W M f d )' M 1 a J H. Feldman, Jr.

Novenber 10, 1979 A rney for MVPP h!EMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF ~

IhTERVENOR liIAMI VALLEY POWER PROJECT'S hCTION TO C3hTINUE THE EVIDENTIARY HEARING On October 30, 1979, the Report of the President's Ccmrission on the Accident at Three lille Island was presented to President Carter. A major 1550 095

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reccnmendation of the report is that the Nuclear Regulator / Ccmnission (NRC) should be totally restructured. The report discussed the issues that led to that reccnmendation:

While sane ccc:pranises between the needs of sc.fety and the needs of industry are inevitable, the evidence suggests that the N.R.C. has sanetimes erred on the side of the industr/'s convenience rather than carrying out its mission of assuring safety.

Tuo of the most important activities of the N.R.C.

are its licensing function and its inspection and enforce-ment activities. We found serious inadequacies in both.

The existence of a vast body of regulations by N.R.C.

tends to focus industry attention narrowly on the meeting of regulations rather than on a systenatic concern for safety.

We found serious managerial problers within the organization. These problens start at the very top. -

We therefore conclude that there is no well-thought-out, integrated systen for the assurance on nuclear safety within the current N.R.C. l For all of these reasons we reccnmend a total re-structuring of the N.R.C.

E'pp therefore rreves that the evidentiary hearing be continued until such time as the Congress acts on the President's Cannission's reca:mendation that the NRC be restructured. It is only prudent not to e end further resources, both of manpower and finances, in the deliberation of this matter until the status of the NRC has been clarified. Otherwise, a massive duplication of effort might have to occur should a different regulatory agency receive the charge of reviewing applications for operating licenses.

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f CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the above motion and mmorandun have been sent to all parties on the service list by ordinary U.S. mail on the /o day of Noverber,1979.

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