ML19263D165

Urges Prompt Decision in Favor of Plant License Because of Need for Energy Independence from Opec Countries & Cost of Delay in Developing Alternate Sources

ML19263D165
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Site:	Perkins
Issue date:	03/05/1979
From:	Styles J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Bowers E Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 7903220073
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Dear I's . Ecw=rs :

I triefly visited the hearing conducted by your Board in Mccksv111e, N.C., in January. I spcke to you during a recess to make inquiry as to when your Beard would

.ake a final decesion on Duke Pewer Co. 's. application to con-struct the propcsed Pedkins plant. In addition I contacted the parties and their counsel and gained the distinct impression that representation of the public was most limited. The' nost articulate group represenced the private interests of a liclted number of property owners a t High Rock Lake who apparently be-lieved tha t construction of the electrical porer plant would possibly interfere with their recreational facilities. I could find nc one who s ocke for the several hundred thousand other residents of the a' rea who rould be greatly benefitted by a power plant which would produce electrical energy without use of oil cr' coal.

I believe that it is urgent that inmediate steps be taken to cbtain or produce energy to replace that nor obtained frc=CPEC countries and to break the strangle-held these foreign countries now hold en ou econc=y.

This urgency jpstifies energency steps to attain energy independence instead of the years of delay your

• and other agencies have generated.

I an sure that you are aware of the tremen-dous cost increases generated by the several years of delay already generated.

I u ge that you consider all factors and the best inte ests of all citizens and of our country and nake and publ .sh a prenpt decesion.

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