ML19309B740
| ML19309B740 | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/05/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Bier J, Johns S AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| Download: ML19309B740 (3) | |
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Ms. JoAnn Bier 204 Clinton Street Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Ms. Shirley J. Johns Route #1, Box 88 Ellsworth, Michigan 49729
Dear Ms. Bier and Ms. Johns:
Your petition of January 6,1980 addressed to Mr. Dennis Ziemann, Chief, Operating Reactors Branch No. 2, requested that eight issues be resolved before the Nuclear Regulatory Comission allowed the Big Rack Point Plant to start up. The Big Rock facility was shutdown on December 31, 1979, for implementation of TMI Lessons Learned requirements.
Essentially all of the concerns identified in your petition of January 6, 1980, are identical to those contained in your petition of November 4, 1979.
By letter of December 4,1979, I informed you that we were treating your earlier petition, under 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission's regulations, as a request for an order to show cause why the operating license for Big Rock Point should not be suspended pending resolution of the seven issues you identified.
(Receipt of your request was noticed in the Federal Register on December 11,1979, 44 FR 71489).
We are carefully evaluating each of the issues you have identified to assure that our reply is fully responsive to your concerns.
When our evaluation is complete, we will rule on your request.
However, our evaluation of your concerns has pro-gressed to the extent that we can conclude there is sufficient assurance of safety to permit the Big Rock Point facility to continue operating pending the final disposition of the issues raised in your petition; there-fore, there is no need for immediate or emergency actions. Our assessment in. support of this conclusion is enclosed.
The new issues identified in your petition of January 6,1980, will be con-solidated for consideration with those raised in your earlier request.
Please be assured that I have instructed my staff to give its highest prior-ity to your petitions to enable me to rule on the request for an order.
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. March 5,1980 cc Mr. Paul A. Perry, Secretary U. S. Environmental Protectic Consumers Power Company Agency j
212 West Michigan Avenue Federal Activities Branch Jackson, Michigan 49201 Region V Office ATTN:
EIS COORDINATOR Judd L.- Bacon, Esquire 230 South Dearborn Street Consumers Power Conpany Chicago, Illinois 60604 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Herbert Grossman, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
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Hunton & Williams U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission George C. Freeman, Jr., Esquire Washington, D. C.
20555 P. O. Box 1535 Richmond, Virginia 23212 Dr. Oscar H. Paris Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Peter W. Steketee, Esquire U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission 505 Peoples Building Washington, D. C.
20555 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 Mr. Frederick J. Shon Sheldon,- Harmon, Roisman and Weiss Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1725 I Street, N. W.
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission Suite 506 Washington, D. C.
20555 Washington, D. C. ~20006 Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant Mr. John O'Neill, II ATTN: Mr. C. J. Hartman Route 2, Box 44 Plant Superintendent Maple City, Michigan 49664 Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Charlevoix Public Library Chri sta-Maria 107 Clinton Street Route 2, Box 108C Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Chai rman Mr. Jonathan T. Cain County Board of Supervisors Special Assistant to the Governor Charlevoix County Office of the Governor Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 State of Michigan Lansing, Michigan 48703 Office of the Governor (2)
Room 1 - Capitol Building Mr. David P. Iloffman Lansing, Michigan 48913 Nuclear Licensing Administrator Consumers Power Company Director, Technical Assessment 212 West Michigan Avenue j
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