ML19330A201

Forwards RP Griffin 760802 Ltr Re Nd Brown 760727 Inquiry. RP Griffin Advised of Referral

ML19330A201
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Site:	Midland
Issue date:	08/05/1976
From:	Cantus H ENERGY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ADMIN.(PRESENTLY DOE)
To:	Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA)
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0 4A AUG 5 1976 l'r. Carltcn Kc: merer, Director Offr:e of Congressional Affairs Nuclecr Pegulatory Camission 1717 H Street, NW.

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Dear Mr. Kannerer:

Enclosed is correspendence frcm Senator Pobert P. Griffin dated August 2,1976, regarding an inquiry frc:n his constituent, Mr. Neil D.

BCrsn .

Since the nature of this inquiry relates to the activities of the

!!uclear Pagulatory Ccnmissicn rather than the 2.ergy Pasearch and Developr:ent Adninistration, it is requested that proper action be taken by your office.

We are advising Senator Griffin of this referral by copy of this letter.

Sincerely, H. Hollister Cantus, Director Office of Congressicnal Pelations

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By TODD MASON .

Daily News staff writer assume that there will always be an in.

tervenor with the information, energy Government and industry officials and money required" to press public is.

are still debating the impact of the sues.

Court of Appeals decision Wednesday "The present court says the same upholding environmentalists' chal. consideration persuaded us. that tha lenges of the construction licer.ses for (Nuclear Regulatory) Commission can-Consumers Power Company's twin rw not refuse to consider energy con-actors here. servation alternatives unless an inter.

Consumers said today it believes th6 venor first brings forward information.

constru: tion per=lts remain in force be- ..

cause the appellate decision ordered The appellate bench criticized the only a rehearmg in specific areas and brief reference to unsepcified off-site did not revoke the licenses outright. nuclear waste disposal in the Midland Myron Cherry, the chicago environ- plant environmental impact statement.

mental lawyer who successfully During rehearings. "the ecmmission pressed the suit for the Sagmaw Inter. shall undertake . appropriate consid.

venors, believes the appellate questions eration of waste d2sposal and other of conduct of Licensing hearings equally unaddressed fuel. cycle issues. . ." the question the permits tnetnselves. bench ordered.

The agency bound to interpret and en- Weste disposal poses the largest force the appellate decisino, the Nucle- stumbling block for nuclear powcr de-ar Regulatory Commission (NRC). velopesent. In a separate New York basn't decided what to do, and won't State U.S. appellate decision. a fuel .

for perhaps a week, said Washington ' reprocessing plant was barred from re-sp-besman Frank Ingram. -

opening until the NRC co:cpletes a ga- ,

The decision. however, r* presents a meric environmental ic2 pact statec2ent moral victory for a loose affiliation of on disposal and the fuel cycle.

Midlanders and natiocal stature law. Michigan is one of several sites the yers who pressed their cbjections cf L>. federal government is considering for can pressure and federalintransigence. nuclear waste burial.

And the U.S. District of Columbia . The conclusion in the decision that Court of Appeals appears to be deliber. strikes closest to home - and the one stely introducing the issues of energy Mrs. Sinclair sees as a clear vindlea.

conservation and nuclear waste dis. tion -is the criticized failure of licens.

posal into the construction and oper. Ing proceedings here to present nuclear ation lleensing process. 4 safety issues adequately and under.

"It was not only just but brilliant." standably. *

• Mayr Sinclair said today. Energy con. A 1969 letter to the then Atomic servation and waste disposal are funda. Energy Commission (AEC) from an ad.

mental issues in the Midland environ- visory group urged more research "in mentallst's campaign against nuclear severalimportant areas in which the ef.

power. A Quoting a landmark Supreme Court fort has not been sufficient."

"This was the basis of our getting case in the nuclear power controversy. Into the action la the first place." Mrs, the Calvert Cliffs decision, the appel. Sinclair said. "Without public pressure. ,

late bench noted it was," unrealistic to it didn't look Ilke anyone would tackle

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vorable results so far.

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solit into promotional arms, the Energy

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• at Regulatory Commission. removing a A major conflict of interest charge

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against it.

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'as, ' .p % w e! air said "They (the regulators) have . ~

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, .'t court". Cherry calls it - despits the in.

Judge David Baselon tervenors contention that "these safety Issues should be resolved before these

--ouz cu e constructien licensing nactors wm dn4ned. p

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sbee we han to N hm.,, ardedar!

ifery and I.! censing Board would , Consumers would be In a better posi entertain questions about *.he AEC's t!cn Mrs. Sincia2r said, if the AEC had isory Committee on Reactor Safe. rmivM them $*n. bdm Heming.

ds and its cryptic reference to me appeHate ordu now requins 2 ty problems, she said. .ERC to provide clarifications for the i n would the bsord hear discove safety issues raised in the 1969 letter. I e the reactor's emergency core coo "Otherwise a concerned citizen would i system adequacy - Cherry and beaunable to consider as Congress in.

. Sinclair tecovered the failure of tended, what other difficulties might be ECCS tests in Idaho in 1971 and lurking in the proposed react 3r de-

• ed the AEC for improvements dur, sign."

a c.ational safety hearing on tham.' '*It's been a long. hard row." .' -l

• t hearing was one of the delays in : Sinclair said, a battle that cost 3100.096 .

sicensing proceedings here. . lus, as well as 18 hour2.083333e-4 days <br />0.005 hours <br />2.97619e-5 weeks <br />6.849e-6 months <br /> days assem.

1e intervenors wanted to explore ling, studying, and convincing

would happen if the reactor vessel ress to publish the myriad federal

.ured. "The board ruled that out." dustry papers on nuclear power, said, "They said the AEC wouldn't Consumers Power today outlined the i consider a reactor program if that. new altmadm hearings of prcvided

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for, asking'the a possibliity " t -

acently the NRC discussed' the re-[ entire Court of Appeals to reheart the matter, or asking the Supreme Court to

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review the decision."in a statement by bosird Chairman A. H. Aymond. f .

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activity aiming for completion of the

( plant on the present schedule.*1 1981 '

and 1982. '

tDow Chemical Company finds irony in the energy conservatfort ques.

tion..The nuclear plant, built to 's upply .

process steam to the Dow Michigan di-vision, present the energy generation t

' and factory processes.

pe appelate decision sp ifically asks-the NRC to review energy con-servation in light of Dow's position now to keep its fossil boilers in operation.

poth Consumers and Dow kro look.

Ing at the economic impact of another delsAla construction. Michigan divi-storhgeneral manager Jqseph G.

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