ML19261B844

A&M Cleeton Motion to Reopen Hearing Record Re Need for Power & File Updated Testimony Due to Matl Change Since 770701.Wants Boston Edison 771231 Forecast & Ma Energy Facilities Siting Council 781024 Decision Considered

ML19261B844
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Site:	05000471
Issue date:	01/25/1979
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Chairman, Atomic Fafety and In the Matter of Licensing Board Boston Edison Company, et al U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Pilgria Nucle;r Generating Sta-Washington, D.C. 20555 tion, Unit 2; Docket No. 50-471)

Motion 43: That the Board Order that the " earing Record Be Re-Ocened with Resoect to the Is sue of Need for Power' and chat Upda'ted Testimony 3e Filed Thereon Alan and Marion Cleeton, by their counsel, hereby move that the Licensing Board order that the hearing record in the referenced pro-ceeding be reopened with respect to the issue of need for power, and that the various parties to this proceeding be allowed and directed to file updated testimony with respect to such issue.

As grounds therefor, they state the following:

1. The record in the instant proceeding on the issue of need for power, which was ene of the issues initially raised by the Cleetons, was closed on July 1, 1977.

2. Subsecuent to the closing of the record on this issue, Boston Edison has in each successive power needs forecast, includ-ing its most recent long-range forecast dated December 31, 1977, revised its estinates downward frcm the proj ections which were the basis of the testimony earlier taken in this proceeding.

3. On October 24, 1978, the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council, which is the state agency responsible for approving or disapproving each annual utility power neec forecast and con-firming or denying the need for new generation facilities, issued its decision regarding the 3oston Edison Company long-range fore-cast (1973-1987) of electric power needs and requirements dated December 31, 1977. Such decision (E.F.S.C. 17S-12, a copy of which was furnished to the Ecar d by the Conconwealth on December 5, 1973) declared that the Siting Council "[could) not accept the for2 casted 79030703if