ML19242C673

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Responds to Request for Suspension of License SNM-960 & Removal of All Pu from Site.License Will Not Be Suspended at This Time.Forwards Decision
ML19242C673
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Site: 07000754
Issue date: 06/29/1979
From: Dircks W
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Baldwin W
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
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cc: George Edgar J. Ward, State of California Morgan, Lewis & Backius State Health Officer 1800 M Street, N.W.

Washington, D. C.

20036 L. C. Schwendiman, PNL Jed Somit, Esq.

J. Mishima, PNL Law Offices of William C. Ibershof 100 Bush Street, Suite 304 E. Endebrock, LASL San Francisco, CA 94104 F. J. Tokar::, LLL Edward Luton, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board L. Wight, TERA U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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20555 W. G. Hall, Consulting Engineering Services Dr. Harry Foreman, Director Center for Population Studies University of Minnesota Box 395, Mayo Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Mr. Ken Wade 1735 New York Avenue, N.W.

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,a E WASHINGTON. D. C. 20555 JUN I9 M Docket No.70-754 Mr. W. Andrew Baldwin Legal Director Friends of the Earth 124 Spear Street San Francisco, California 94105

Dear Mr. Baldwin:

The purpose of this letter is to respond to your request under 10 CFR 2.206 to suspend the activities under License No. SNM-960, Docket No.70-754, at the General Electric Company's Vallecitos Nuclear Center and remove all plutonium frcm the site. Congressmen Ronald F. Dellums and John Burton, California Assemblyman Thcmas Bates and other California residents joined your request.. For the reasons stated in the enclosed response to your request, we have deternined not to suspend the license at this time.

As ycu requested, we will provide you with a copy of the structural analyses applicable to the SNM-license review when the reports are finali::ed.

The normal operating inventory of radioactive materials that are in foms conducive to release is contained in the General Electr: 2 submittals which you have referenced in your petition. These quantities are the only values whicn are appropriate for release calculations. Since you already possess this data, it is unnccessary to transmit an additional copy.

A copy of this detemination will be placed in the Ccmmission's Public Document Rcca at 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

20555 and at the local reading roca for the Vallecitos Nuclear Center located at the Nuclear Regulatory Ccmmission, Region V, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, 1990 N. California Boulevard, Suite 202, Walnut Creek, California 94596.

A copy will also be filed with the Secretary of the Ccamission for review in accordance with 10 CFR 2.206(c) of the Commission's regulations.

Sincerely,

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William J. Dircks, Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

Enclosure:

Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206 L ii, T U

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