ML19296B798

Requests NRC Hearings Re Util Plans to Sell Power Outside State of Ga,On Behalf of Georgians Against Nuclear Energy

ML19296B798
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	02/14/1980
From:	Flack G MYER, BOWMAN, STROUP & FLACK
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8002210513
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Mr. Harold E. Denton, Director 2 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation - -

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Phillips Building Room T 202A Washington, D. C. 20555 Re: Docket Nos. 50-424 & 50-425

Dear Mr. Denton:

Last week I received a phone call from James E. Joiner of Trout-man, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, counsel to Georgia Power. Mr.

Joiner requested me to identify more fully the separate legal proceeding alluded to in paragraph 2 of my January 29 letter to you. I advised him that I had referred to the case of Georgia Power Company v. Georgia Public Service Commission, Case No. C-51925, Fulton County Superior Court, in the State of Georgia. More specifica11; , I had referred to an October 26 (rather than the 27th as noted in my letter) unrecorded hearing in open court in which Mr.

Joiner summarized the company's planned sales of both Scherer and Vogtle Plants. At that hearing, either Mr. Joiner mis-stated or my colleagues misunderstood, that Georgia Power planned to sell approximately 1200 MN of Plant Scherer. In either case, Mr. Joiner informs me that Georgia Power intends only to sell approximately 800 MW of Plant Scherer outside the State of Georgia.

However, this incident illustrates the need for a hearing in this matter. Regulation by the Commission is based on the premise that there is an unfilled need for power which can best be met with a nuclear plant. This complicated issue should not be settled after a mere exchange of letters or on the basis of unrecorded extemporaneous statements made for a different purpose. Instead, the Commission should conduct a reasoned hearing to ascertain all relevant information and make a reasoned judgment on the basis of

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i Mr. Harold Denton Page Two February 14, 1980 the record. On behalf of Georgians Against Nuclear Energy, I urge you to conduct such hearings.

Very truly yours, Gary Plack GF/1 cc: James E. Joiner, Esq.

W. E. Ehrensperger, Esq.

G. F. Trowbridge, Esq.

Stephen G. Burns, Esq.