ML19326D798

Comments on Proposed Rules 10CFR50 & 51 W/Swinomish Tribal Community:Endorses Position for Full Consideration of Class 9 Accidents.Urges Consideration of Class 9 Accident in Skagit Proceedings.W/Certificate of Svc

ML19326D798
Person / Time
Site:	Skagit
Issue date:	06/17/1980
From:	Gendler M, Means D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, SKAGITONIANS CONCERNED ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER (SCANP)
To:	Ahearne J, Gilinsky V, Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
FRN-45FR40101, RULE-PR-50, RULE-PR-51 NUDOCS 8007030305
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l June 17, 1980 (45 FR.,40100 Chairman John Ahearne Commissioner Richard T. Kennedy U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Commissioner Victor Gilinsky Commissioner Peter A. Bradford U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission

• Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Commissioner Joseph M. Hendrie s U.S. Nuclear Regulatory #/

Commission DCCXETED g Washington, D.C. 20555 USNRC .

Re: Commission Action on SECY-80-131 -

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" Accident Consideratione Under NEPA" ( C(( g s 7

Gentlemen: y li m-e n/

Skagitonians Concerned About Nuclear Plants .SCANP), inter venors in the ongoing Skagit LWA proceedings, Docket Nos.

50-522 and 50-523, and the Swinomish Tribal Community submit this letter to demonstrate their full support of the request by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that the potential for and consequences of Class 9 accidents be considered fully under NEPA in every ongoing proceeding, including the Skagit proceeding.

SCANP, a nonprofit association of Skagit County residents, intervened in the Skagit proceeding at the outset, and has maintained throughout the proceeding that NEPA requires full consideration of Class 9 accidents in the staff's environ-mental impace statement, and throughout the hearing process.

Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee v. AEC, 449 F.2d 1109 (D.C. Cir. 1971).  !

The Swinomish Tribal Community is a #ederally recognized Indian tribe organized under the Indian Reorganization Act.

The tribe's reservation was established at the mouth of the  ;

Skagit River pursuant to the Treaty of Point Elliott, 12 Stat. 927 (Jan. 22, 1855), a treaty which also recognized and i preserved the fishing rights of the Swinomish in Skagit River I and Puget Sound waters. See Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n, 99 S. Ct. 3055 (1979). The Swinomish Tribal Community's petition to inter- h.g[, )j vene in the Skagit proceeding presently is pending before the  !

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Chairman John Ahearne and Commissioners June 17, 1980 .

Page Two SCANP and the Swinomish Tribal Community fully endorse the posi-tion of the Commonwealth that NEPA requires full consideration of Class 9 accidents. The need for addressing Class 9. accidents is especially compelling in the Skagit proceeding, where the potential for natural catastrophe (earthquake, upstream dam collapse, Mt.

Baker eruption) combines with the potential for extraordinarily serious consequences (contamination of Skagit River liquid pathway, complete loss of local Indian tribe populations, inability to evacuate river valley enclosed by mountains and Sound) to render the possibility and consequences of a Class 9 accident far too great to be ignored.

Accordingly, SCANP and the Swinomish Tribal Community urge the

. Commission to direct its staff to address the potential for and consequences of Class 9 accidents in the Skagit proceeding and in other ongoing proceedings. on an individual basis which takes into full account the unique situations attendant to each plant site. The staff should be directed to prepare supplemental draft environmental impact statements addressing the Class 9 issue for Skagit and each of the other ongoing proceedings, and to circulate this EIS in accordance with NEPA. 40 CFR 51502.9(c)(1)(ii),(c)(4) . After cirulating these draf t statements and evaluating the comments received in response thereto, the staff should issue supplemental final statements for each proceeding, and thereaf ter introduce the supplemental statements into evidence in the licensing proceedings, to enable the licensing boards to consider the Class 9 issue, based upon full information. 40 CFR 51502.9 (c ) (3) , (4).

Thank you for your consideration.

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Michael W. Gendler Counsel for Skagitonians Concerned About Nuclear Plants

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Counsel for Swinomish Tribal Community

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• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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PUGET SOUND POWER & LIGHT ) DOCKET NOS. STN 50-522 COMPANY, et al., ) 50-523

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(Skagit Nuclear Power Project, ),

Units 1 and 2) ) June 17, 1980

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that cop'es of:

l A LETTER TO THE COMMISSION dated June 17, 1980, have been served on the follcwing by depos iting the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, on this 17th day of June, 1980.

Valent ine B . Deale, Esq. , Chairman Docketing and Service Section Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Office of the Secretary U .S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commiss ion Commission 1001 Connect icut Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20036 Richard L. Black, Esq.

Dr. Frank F. Hooper, Member. Counsel for NRC Staff Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory School of Natural Resources Commission Univers ity of Michigan Office of the Executive Legal Ann Arbor, MI. 48104 Director Washington, D, C. 20555 Gustave A. Linenberger, Member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Nicholas D. Lewis, Chairma n U .S . Nuclear Regulatory Energy Facility Site Evaluation Commission Council Washington, D.C. 20555 820 East Fif th Avenue Olympia, Washington 98504 Certificate - 1

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Richard M. Sandvik, Esq., Russel W. Busch l Assistant Attorney General Evergreen Legal Services  ;

520 Smith Tower Departmenc of Justice I 500 Pacific Building Seattle, Washington 98104 520 S. W. Yamhill Portland, Oregon 97204 Thomas Moser Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Robert Lowenstein, Esq. Skagit County Courthouse Lowens te in, Newman, Reis & Mt. Vernon, Washington 98273 Axelrad 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Warren Hastings Wadaington, D.C. 20036 -

Portland General Electric Co.

121 S .W. Salmon S treet James W. Durham, Esq. TB 13 Portland General Electric Co. Portland, Oregon 97204 121 S .W. Salmon S treet TB 17 Portland, Oregon 97204 CFSP and FOB E. Stachon & L. Marbec 19142 S. Bakers Ferry Road Boring, Oregon 97009 Canadian Consulate General Peter A. van B rak.el Vice-Consul 412 Plaza 600 6th and S tewart S treet Seattle, Washington 98101 F. Theodore Thoms en Perk ins , Coio, Stone, Olsen

& Williams 1900 Washintston B uilding Seattle, Washington 98101 .

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