ML19289C357
| ML19289C357 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 12/27/1978 |
| From: | Skrutski R NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
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| References | |
| NUDOCS 7901120084 | |
| Download: ML19289C357 (2) | |
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Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman ep*A*p
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In the Matter of
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Docket Nos. 50-443 NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al.
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50-444
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(Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2)
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NOTICE OF HEARING f
December 27, 1978 An alternative site issue is still pending in this proceeding.
Its significance at this late date stems from two factors:
(1) the possibility that the proposed Seabrook facility will eventually be required to use large towers to recirculate its cooling water rather than, as the Environ-mental Protection Agency has ruled, being allowed to return the heated water directly to the ocean;--1/ and (2) the absence of a valid decision by this agency on whether, if cooling towers were required at Seabrook, a nuclear facility at that site would remain environmentally acceptable when 2/
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compared to other sites.
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The EPA decision is presently being challenged in the courts.
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This Board earlier held that prior analyses of this
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subject had been inadequate.
79011200frk The NRC staff has now come to the conclusion, supported by a lengthy analysis, that the Seabrook facility remains acceptable even with cooling towers added.
The Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, which opposes the facility, wiches to challenge that conclusion.
The applicant utility com-panies are in essential agreement with the staff, except that they believe that Seabrook compares even more favorably to one of the alternatives (Phillips Cove) than the staff recognizes.
No party having sought to have the matter dis-posed c_ under the Commission's summary disposition procedures, a hearing is necessary to resolve these disputes, t
In accordance with our prior orders, notice is hereby given that an evidentiary hearing, limited to the cooling tower / alternative site issue describe ~d above, will commence at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, January 15, 1979, in the Courtroom of the Superior Court, Hillsborough County Courthouse, 19 Temple Street, Nashua, New Hampshire.
The hearing will continue through that week unless concluded earlier.
Because there have been prior opportunities for members of the public to make limited appearance statements on this issue at Licensing Board hearings, we will not be entertaining limited appearances at this hearing.
FOR THE APPEAL BOARD b'MSb W i tM i R c m a y p e.'t.
Skr:.:.cski Secretary to the Appeal Board e..
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