ML19261D775

Urges on Behalf of Peach Bottom Township,Pa That Site Be Reviewed at Time Plant Needs to Be Constructed

ML19261D775
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Site:	05000463, 05000464
Issue date:	05/05/1979
From:	Malone G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Denise R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Dear Mr. Denise:

Mr. Donald P. Irwin.

I received your letter of May 1, 1978, directed to address as being: All parties should first note my current PORTS, BEERS, FELDMANN & MALONE 145 East Market Street York, Pennsylvania 17401 Second, you should be advised that because I will be in court all day on May 11., 1978, I will not be able to 'be pre-cent to meet with you. However, I do wish to convey to you Peach Bo ttomItTownship's view that there should not be an early site re-view.

is the position of the Township that the site should be reviewed at the time the plant needs to be built taking into con-sideration conditions at that time. Conditions in the area and in other possible alternate site locations may be significantly altered between the present and the time the plant would be needed.

In addition, the nature of the plant, the technology involved, particularly with respect to water usage, may at the time of the ultimate decision to proceed with construction be substantially dLfferent than what would at present be contemplated; and, there-fore, the conditions which might indicate one site as favorable

.aw might in the light of the changed conditions, changed techno-legy and changed plant design proposals, indica te tha t a dif f erent site ought to be utilized.

Por instance, one factor which has recently da/ci:ruu into almost critical proportions is the virtcal d_sappcar:n = ,'"

snad in the uppcr Chcsapeake Bay and the drastic declin. _- rr.

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rebaire Philadciphia Electric to install fish 1:1ters c r : : ". c

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Mr. Richard P. Denise May 5, 1378 However, I do not think the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should be in a position where twenty years from now they would be committed to accept construction on a site which in light of conditions and technology at that time appears not to be the best site available.' Also, by that time more may be known about the problems of nuclear plant concentrations and what dangers, if any, are increased by concentrating a number of nuclear plants in one location. As I am sure.you are aware, Peach Bottom already has two such plants, and the ones proposed by Philadelphia Electric are intended to be constructed directly across the river from the :isting plants.

The Township believes that there is some leakage from these facilities, and that the more facilities you have in a concentrated area the greater concentration of radiation in that area and that this concentration may at scme point approach dangerous levels. Again, we believe that there will be better information concerning these possible hazards twenty years from now than there there is at the present time. Therefore, we would respectfully request that the commission not grant an early site review for this project.

Very truly yours, PORTS, BEERS, FELDMANN & MALONE

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