ML19261D783

Opposes Const of Addl Nuclear Facility in Area

ML19261D783
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Site:	05000463, 05000464
Issue date:	04/30/1979
From:	Hess R PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONWEALTH OF
To:	Denise R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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q m 717 225-5045 - 717.366*9949 hcitai2 IIf fi}CIIIISt[l1311NI RALPH W. HEsS STATE SENATCm ISTM DisfatCT April 30, 1979 Mr. Richard Denise Assistant Director for Special Projects Division of Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Eegulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Denise:

As a State Senator, I represent 235,000 people along both sides of the Susquehanna River in southcentral Pennsylvania. The river waters and our proximity to Philadelphia and Baltimore have made this area the electric power generating heart of the region. Included within or immediately ad-jacent to my district are seven power facilities -- Three Mile Island (nuclear), Brunner's Island (coal) , Safe Harhor (hydro) , Conowingo (hydro) ,

Holtwood (hydro) , Muddy Run (hydro) and Peach Bottcm (nuclear). In addition to these seven facilities the Philadelphia Electric Company has proposed the construction of a nuclear facility to be known as the Fulton Generating Station.

I can appreciate your need to generate electricity in order to assure the ecencmic health of our country; however, I hope you will understand my con-cern for the health of my friends and neighbcrs. No power facility is built without some sacrifice by the locality. Whether it is the loss of shad fisheries, scenery or local ecencmic disruptien, no sacrifice has been as great as that associated with the nuclear facilities.

We live with Three Mile Island in our front yard and Peach Bottcm in cur back-yard. The night =are of the incident at Three Mile Island will live a lcng time in local memories. To quote Governor Thcrnburgh, "I'm not about to forget 2311 140 7906260373

Mr. Richard Cenise US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 April 30, 1979 that some very brave and tired wcmen and children fled their hcmes and lived en a stadium floor. I'm not about to forget that our pecple and our lovely countryside have been put through the kinds of emoticnal, physical and eco-nemic and environmental strains that might never te fully comprehended by anybody."

For these reasons I cppose a third nuclear facility in this area. Cur people have made many sacrifices over the years and should not now be asked to shoulder the psychological burden of the propcsed Fulton Generating Station.

Warmest good wishes.

Sincerely, Ralph W. Hess

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