ML19296C961
| ML19296C961 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 02/01/1980 |
| From: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Moynihan D SENATE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8002290129 | |
| Download: ML19296C961 (2) | |
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Dear Senator Moynihan:
i The Special Inquiry Group appointed by the Comission to look into the accident at Three Mile Island has recently completed its work.
A' copy of its report has already been provided to you.
One of its major recomendations gives high priority to locating the entire Comission in a single location.
An identical recomendation was made last October by the President's Commission on the Accident
' at Three Mile Island.
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Both of these recomendations reinforce a position long taken publicly by the Comission and underscore facts already well known about the adverse impacts of NRC's present dispersed operations.
To quote from the report of the Special Inquiry Group, " physical separation of the Comission from the staff, and of staff offices and branches from one another, is not only time-wasting but also encourages a
' poor working relationship and fragmentation in the staff".
We' ere well aware of the many problems which caused the Senate Comittee to institute a temporary moratorium on the construction of new Federal office buildings.
Your own efforts to bring sense and integrity to the process before authorizing further construction can only be applauded.
We are in complete agreement with those objectives.
However, in-the case of NRC, the difficulties of further delay in consolidation go beyond mere inconvenience to Comissioners and staff and added costs to the taxpayers.
As the two independent inquiries just cited emphasize, the Comission's current mode of
. operation significantly hampers both its ability to respond effectively in a crisis situation and to. function normally in such a way as to best assure the public health and safety.
The circum-stances I.believe you will agree are extraordinary and have already been thorougly explored in the media and in Congress.
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The basic framework in terms of needs and environmental impact studies has already been laid.
Congressional action on a new building for i
NRC was iminent at the time the moratorium vias imposed.
The urgency of solving our long-term housing needs compels me to request an exception to the Comittee's current ban on new construction.
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