ML19291B887
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| Site: | New Haven |
| Issue date: | 11/21/1979 |
| From: | Abrams R, Bialik E NEW YORK, STATE OF |
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| Download: ML19291B887 (12) | |
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NE'.1 YORK STATE BOARD ON ELECTRIC GENERATION SITING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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- f. GAS CORPORATION and the LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY pursuant to Article VIII :
of the Public Service Law for a certificate
, of environmental compatibility and public : CASE No. 80008 need to construct two 1250-megawatt nuclear generating units in the Town of New Haven, :
Oswego County, or at an alternate site in the Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County. :
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of the Public Service Law for a certificate of environnental compatibility and public : CASE NO. 80008
. need to construct two 1250-negawatt nuclear generating units in the Town of New Haven, :
Oswego County, or at an alternate site in the Tcwn of Stuyvesant, Columbia County. : ________________________________:{ STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL IN OPPOSITION TO APPLICANTS' MOTION FOR REHEARING This statement is submitted by Attorney General Robert Abrams in opposition to the motion by applicant, dated November 12, 1979, for rehearing of the Boarri's order dismissing their app,lication. The Attorney General submits that the motion does not raise any new matters to justify a rehearing. ARGUMENT Applicants mis-state this Board's ruling. The - -
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willing to build the proposed plant if approval is ob-tained. The Board should not consider an application by a dummy company which has no present intention to build the plant. Since LILCO evidently has no such intention, and NYSE&G has not said it would proceed without a
, partner, there are no viable applicants before the Board.
Nor is there clear evidence that serious applicants will emerge in the future. . Ownership of the facility must be known before the application to this Board can even be completed. An application for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need must contain very detailed information about the prospective owner of,_and proposed use for, the facility. So long as the issues of ownership and use are not resolved, this vital information cannot be provided or reviewed. Applicants say that "nowhere in Article VIII is the word ' owners' or ' ownership' used" (motion, p. 7) . However, the regulations plainly require detailed information
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While ownership is in " doubt, those issues cannot be addressed.
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necessary technical e::pertise, financial security, re-liability and competence cannot be considered in the absence of real applicants. Applicants' claim that they were denied due process because their own testimony in the Jamescort case was relied on is absurd.- Applicants were obviously familiar with that testimony, and had one opportunity af ter another to refute it, but never did. They argued before this Board that the testimony was misinterpreted, but did not put in evidence proving LILCO's current intention to proceed with this project. Again, in their current motion, they have failed to put in such proof. They should not be given another chance to do so. Applicants suggest that their November 1978 application should be accepted as proof of current intent, but that can hardly refute the Jamescort testimony filed several months later that there was no such current intent. Indeed, the Jamescort statement said that as of February 1979 applicants did "not g know whether it will prove to be de-sirable~for LILCO~to' join Tithl YSEsG' in~Eui'ldin'g and owning
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Applicants' recuest that environnental hearings be held despite the absence of a viable application is baseless. It would be a waste of time for the Board and staf f of the Public Service Cornission and other State agencies, as well as other parties, to present evidence on
, the environnental impacts of a project which is not about to be built and for which proposed owners are lacking. It is not known if serious applicants to build the plant as now proposed will ever appear. Therefore, holding hearings on the disnissed application would be pointless.
CONCLUSION It is accordingly requested that the notion for rehearing be denied-in all respect. Dated: Mew York, New York November 21, 1979 Respectfully submitted, 4 Uad h UjliUglj MI ROBERT ABRAMS Attorney General of the State of New York 2 World Trade Center. New York, New York 10047
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NEW YORK STATE BOARD ON ELECTRIC GENERATION SITING AND THE ENVIRONMENT _____________________________________________x Application of the NEW YORK STATE ELECTRIC :
& GAS CORPORATION and the LONG ISLAND .
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CERTIFICATION OF SERVICE 95/j STATE.OF NEW YORK )
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COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) , This is to certify that a true copy of the annexed Statement of Attorney General Robert Abrams in Opposition to Applicants' Motion for Rehearing was served upon the persons appearing on the attached list by depositing in a post office box regularly maintained by the Government of the United States in the County of New York, State of New York, on November 21, . 1979,-or. in the case- of New York State agencies,-was on that. date- sent either' by such mailing or bv 'deposi ting in the - - - -
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. Dr. Walter H. Jordan, Member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 881 West Guter Drive Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Thomas R. Matias Administrative Law Judge New York State Department of Public Service Empire State Plaza Agency Building No. 3 Albany, New York 12223 Dr.. Sidney A. Schwartz New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 50 Wolf Road Albany, New York 12233 Robert Grey, Michael Flynn and Craig Indyke, Staff Counsel New York State Department of Public Service Empire State Plaza Albany, New York 12223 Stephen H. Lewis, Esq.
Marcia E. Mulkey, Esq. , Office .of.. Executive.. Legal Direqtor_- . . , , -.
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Stanley B. Kli: berg, Acting Counsel New York State Energy Office 2 Rockefeller Plaza Albany, New York 12223 David A. Engel, Esq. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 50 Wolf Road Albany, New York 12233 Ms. Linda Clark Safe Energy for New Haven Box #22 - RD #1 Mexico, New York 13114 Ecology Action c/o Helen Daly W. River Road, RD #5 Oswego, New York 13126 Mrs. Nancy K. Weber Oswego County Farm Bureau RD #3 Mexico, New York 13114 Robert J. Kafin, Esq. Attorney for Columbia County, Town of Stuyvesant & Concerned Citizens for Safe Energy, Inc. Miller, Mannix, Lemery & Kafin 11 Chester Street P.O. Box 765 Glens Falls, New York 12801 Mr. William Keeping Supervisor
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