ML19269C490
| ML19269C490 | |
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| Site: | 07002738 |
| Issue date: | 01/29/1979 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| NUDOCS 7902030066 | |
| Download: ML19269C490 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NgCLEARREGULATORYCOMMISSION COMMISSIONERS:
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Docket No. 70-2738
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License No. XSNM-1222 Application to. Export Special Nuclear
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ORDER On December 8,1978, the Commission ordered a hearing on XSNM-1222, inviting the Department of State, the NRC Staff, the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and members of the public to submit written comments on issues raised by that license application.
CLI, 8 NRC In that order we stated that we would consider whether an opportunity for oral presentations would be warranted, after reviewing written comments received.
In response to its order, the Commission has received submissions from the Department of State, the NRC Staff, and a joint statement from the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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G believes they will assist the Commission in making the statutory deter-minations required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as revised by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978.
These pleadings address the issues raised by the application in considerable detail.
Ta ken together with the vast record already before the Commission on the Tarapur licensing matter, we do not believe that oral presentations before the Commission would substantially assist the Commission in its analysis of this license application.
Veighing the small benefits likely to accrue from an oral hearing against the delay and effort which would result frcm such a proceeding we have decided not to order oral presentations. Accordingly, the public proceeding in this case is deemed complete upon issuance of this order, and statutory time limits under the NNPA for agency action shall recommence as of this date.
It is so ORDERED.
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Secretary of thd Commission Dated at Washington, D.C.,
this 29th day of January,1979.