ML19331A502

Urges That Licensing Hearings Be Promptly Reconvened & Stresses State of Mi Need for Addl Sources of Electric Power.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19331A502
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	10/13/1971
From:	Strang D MICHIGAN, STATE OF
To:	US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Washington, D.C. b 7 c) tod Gentlemen:

I hope that the Hearings before your august body, relative to the application for licensing to build and to operate a Nuclear Power Generating Plant in Midland by the Consumers Power Company, can be reconvened witnout further delay.

I make this plea because Michigan is one of the foremost industrial leaders in an industrialized Nation. The use of electric power has increased not only by industry, but also in residences to the extent that additional generating capac-ity is an emergency need at the moment.

The News Media have carried stories from time to time, and most certainly you must be aware of them, that in cases of extreme heat where people use air conditioners and other cooling devices, all powered by electric energy, so overload the present generating capacity that. there are brown-outs in many large areas, and the ese of electricity in those areas is curtailed.

l We are also told that now 60% of our power capacity for all purposes is generated l by the use of oil, and it has been proven that our oil supplies are rapidly being depleted, and the search is now on for additional supplies. However, we know that even if additional supplies are found, they too will be rapidly depleted.

To my mind, it seems unthinkable that we delay in providirig other sources of cheap

power, such as the delaying of Hearings on plants that wish to build such sources.

I know that the people opposing such nuclear plaats are sincere in their opposition, however, it is questionable if they have been given true information, or whether they have magnified any possible harmful affect way beyond its proportion.

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O Atomic Energy Comission October 13, 1971 Huclear generating plants are now operating, and most certainly we have information as to their safety and reliability, and are fully capable of dealing with any harm-ful affects that might ensue from their use. One has only to look at the use of nuclear power in ships and submarines, where human beings are in close contact with such power without detrimental affects, to see that we indeed can harness this new source of energy to the benefit of the people. -

Therefore, I beg of you in the best interests of the people of this State, and the-Hation also, that the Hearings be resumed promptly; that Consumers Power be allowed to build this Plant, and I hope other power companies will do likewise.

Thanking you for your prompt action, I remain, Sincerely yours, ml j ?.MAv[..! --

A h;:'w" dg DeFORREST STRANG State Representative 42nd District .

DS:sg cc: President Richard M. Nixon U.S. Representative Edward Hutchinson U.S. Senator Robert Griffin State Representative Louis K. Cramton Mr. Robert Parker 4

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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY ) Docket Nos. 50-329, 330 (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2) )

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copics of a LETTER from State Representative DeForrest Strang, Lansing, Michigan dated October 13, 1971 re reconvening of hearing in the captioned matter have been served on the following by deposit with the United States Postal Service, first class or air mail, this 19th day of October 1971:

Arthur W. Murphy, Esq., Chairman Richard G. Smith, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Smith and Brooker, P. C.

Columbia University School of Law 703 Washington Avenue Box 38 Bay City, Michigan 48706 435 West 116th Street New York, New York 10027 Harold P. Graves, Esq.

Vice President and Dr. Clark Goodman General Counsel Professor of Physics John K. Restrick, Esq.

University of Houston Consumers Power Company 3801 Cullen Boulevard 212 West Michigan Avenue Houston, Texas 77004 Jackson, Michigan 49201 Dr. David B. Hall Mr. R. C. Youngdahl Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Senior Vice President P. O. Box 1663 Consumers Power Company Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 212 West Michigan Avenue

.lackson, Michigan 49201 Dr. Stuart G. Forbes 100 Tennessee Avenue, Apt. 37 lionorable Frank Olds, Chairman Redlands, California 92373 Midland County Board of Supervisors Thomas F. Engelhardt, Esq. 623 St. Charles Street David E. Kartalia, Esq. Midland, Michigan 48640 Regulatory Staff Counsel U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Honorable Jerome Maslowski, Esq.

Washington, D. C. 20545 Assistant Attorney General State of Michigan Robert Lowenstein, Esq. 630 Seven Story Office Building Lower.7tein and Newman 525 West ottawa 1100 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Lansing, Michigan 48913 Washington, D. C. 20036 4 '

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r , e 50-329, 330 Page 2 Honorable Curtis G. Beck Milton R. Wessel, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Allen Kezsbom, Esq.

State of Michigan J. Richard Sinclair, Esq.

Seven Story Office Building Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays 525 West ottawa and llandler Lans ing, Michigan 48913 425 Park Avenue New York, New York 10022 Myron M. Cherry, Esq.

109 North

Dearborn Street William A. Groening,

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Suite 1005 James N. O'Connor, Esq.

Chicago, Illinois 60602 The Dow chemical Company 2030 Dow Center .

Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq. Midland, Michigan 48640 Berlin, Roisman and Kessler 1910 N Street, N. W. William J. Cinster, Esq.

Washington, D. C. 20036 Merrill Building, Suite 4 Saginaw, Michigan 48602 James A. Kendall, Esq.

Currie and Kendall Mr. Wendell 11. Marshall 135 North Saginaw Road RFD No. 10. Mapleton Midland, Michigan 48640 Midland, Michigan 48640 Dr. Wayne E. North, Chairman Irving Like, Esq.

Midland Nucicar Power Committee Reilly, Like and Schneider P. O. Box 335 200 West Main Street Midland, Michigan 48640 Babylon, New York 11702 J

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Office of the Secretary of the Commission cc: Mr. Murphy Mr. Engelhardt Mr. Wells N. Brown H,. Smith m

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