ML19274D202
| ML19274D202 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 05000471 |
| Issue date: | 01/08/1979 |
| From: | Regan W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Abbott W SIMMONDS, WINSLOW, WILLIS & ABBOTT |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7901150269 | |
| Download: ML19274D202 (1) | |
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JSN 0.81979 Docket No. 50-471 Mr. William S. Abbott Simorids, Winslow, Willis
-and Abbott 50 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Dear Mr. Abbott:
Enclosed in accordance with your request of December 29, 1978, is a copy of Mr. Dircks' November 21, 1978, letter to Congressman Edward Boland.
Please contact me if I can be of further assistance.
Sincerely, Wm. H. Regan, J
, Clief Environmental jects Branch 2 Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis
Enclosure:
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[5hV b $ *I$d The Honorable Edward P. Boland United States IIouse of Representatives Washington, D.C.
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Dear Congressman Boland:
I am responding to your October 26, 1978 request for information regarding the October 24, 1978 letter of Mr. James M. Lydon, Vice President, Boston Edison Company. On October 17, 1978, Harold Denton, NRC's Director of NucIcar Reactor Regulation, wrote to you e:cplaining his reasons for
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deciding to recirculate those sections of the Pilgrim Unit 2 Envircnmental Impact S.atement relating to alternative sites. In that letter, Mr. Denton indiened that he had given Boston Edison the opportunity to respond to his decision to rceirculate. Mr. Lydon has forwarded to you Boston Edison's legal memorandum opposing the decision to recirculate.
Mr. Denton's letter set forth several policy considerations which led to his decision to recirculate. Boston Edison did not address any of these policy considerations. Mr. Denton also indicated that there was some
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litigative risk in not rc :irculating. The Commission's Office of the Execu-tive Legal Director ha, reviewed the applicable cases, including those cited in Boston Edison's legal memorandum and remains of the opinion that, entirely apart from the policy considerations cited in Mr. Denton's letter of October 17, 1978, there is some litigative risk in a decision not to recirculate.
I have enclosed for your information letters from William S. Abbott, Attorney for Intervenors Alan and Marion Clecton and Charles Corkin, II Chief.
Environmental Protection Division, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of the Attorney General, expressing their disagreement with the legal position taken by Boston Edison.
If I can be of further assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely, (Si;:n:d)
Willi,m J. Ihrcks Deputy Executise Director for Operations Dorf 7F/h0/M 387 9
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