ML19225A392

Approves 790507 Request to Establish Second Lpdr at Austin Public Library.Reproduction of Records to Be Forwarded Is in Progress

ML19225A392
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	06/13/1979
From:	Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
To:	Mcclellan C AUSTIN, TX
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The Honorable Carole Keeton McClellan Mayor of Austin Austin, TX 78767

Dear Mayor McClellan:

Thank you for your letter of May 7,1979, in which you request that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) establish a second Local Public Document Room (LPDR) for the South Texas Project at the Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas. The proposed LPDR would be in addition to the one presently maintained at the Matagorda County Courthouse, Bay City, Texas, which would remain in effect.

In your letter you mention the "need to be open and communicative with the public with respect to the construction and operation of a nuclear facility."

The NRC recognizes this need also, and since 1971 has establisheo LPDRs to assist in this effort.

Because of our commitment to keep the publ N informed, and the interest expressed by the citizens of Austin, we will be pleased to establish a Local Public Document Room in the City of Austin.

As you suggested, Mrs. Jona Souder, Chief of the NRC's Local Public Document Room Branch, has been in contact with Mr. Hancock, and arrangements are being made to have the Austin Public Library serve as an Uditional LPDR for the South Texas Project. We are now in the process of reproducing copies of the records for this plant, and we will forward the records to the library within the next few weeks.

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I understand that Mr. Hancock, the Director of the E-Electric Utility for the City of Austin, has been in contact he

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of a nuclear facility.

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University of Texas and its 40,000 students, as well as being h-V. r =-

che Capital of the State of Texas.

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electric utility system, the City of Austin experiences an unusual public involvement in utility =atters.

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Scuth Texas Project, currently under construe:acn in Matagorda

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160 miles from Austin to the Public Document Room located in E-Bay City, Texas and, as a result, a local Public Document Rcon E--

in Austin would be very beneficial.

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The City of Austin has ::ade available publicly copies of the Environmental Report, the Application, -he P elinina y E

Safety Analysis, r.he Final Safety Analysis and the cc pa-icn documents associated with the Applica:icn for the Cperating License.

These are on file in Austin at the Universir of Texas Center for Energy Studies, the City of Austin Puelic Library and the Electric Utility Administrative Offices.

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l The City of Austin has a very excellent professional library staff, and we would be very pleased to provide the

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necessary facilities to acco==odate and to control the materials required for the Public Document Room in the Austin downtown T p. --

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It is my understanding that Mr. Hancock has been in centact with Ms. Souder and has indicated to her that initially

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l associated with the project, after some certain cutually

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feel that the City of Austin is unique in that it has been bYIT'$i

i{bd' extremely active, from a public point of view, with respect to f<'. ?dM.,

the nue: ear issue and, as a matter of fact, has gone through five public votes with respect to the nuclear issue and Austin's d!5 Q W participation.in the South Texas Proj ect.

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provide factual and complete infor=ation to che :itizens wich respect to the development of this project.

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I would like to take this opportunity to express'my appreciation for the straightforward and open manner in which NRC has been responding to our previous concerns and questions w'5 MW-~

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