ML19296B875
| ML19296B875 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png |
| Issue date: | 01/14/1980 |
| From: | Duncan R HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Gossick L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| NUDOCS 8002220307 | |
| Download: ML19296B875 (2) | |
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Dear Mr. Gossick:
Thank you for your detailed letter of January 9th responding to mine of December 14th.
You suggest that somehow or other it was inappropriate for Chairman Ahearne Your suggestion leads me to be-to respond to my letter.
lieve that you are really saying that there is something inappropriate about my letter.
I try to be very careful in You my contacts with the Executive branch of government.
will note that I specifically disclaimed any intention to interfere in your judgment, and simply urged on behalf of my constituency a prompt decision. I would appreciate it if you would advise me wherein my letter is either illegal or inappropriate, with such citations of authority as may be E
helpful.
R I appreciate that a decision was made by the licensing board very promptly after the hearing, and for that we in the Pacific Northwest are grateful.
I must a& nit, however, that I do not understand why a hearing was required, and what if anything was learned as a L
result of the hearing that was not already known on November I am not aware that anyone petitioned for the hear-30th.
ing, that the licensee requested it, or that the staff Though you did not mention it, low water in requested it.
the Columbia Basin system, the problems with Trojan, delays in bringing additional generation on line and severe envir-onmental restrictions on the operation of a couple of diesel s
emergency generating facilities brought us very close to rolling brown-outs and, in fact, caused cut-backs in employ-ment in our area.
least of all this Member of Congress, wants to No one, We are, operate a nuclear plant if safety problems exist.
increasingly concerned, as I think the President is
- however, becoming, with regulatory delays that seem to have no real purpose.
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