ML19331A678

Discusses Nuclear Power Plant Const Delays Caused by NRC Inefficiency & Indifference.Requests President Carter to Take Positive & Constructive Action Re Voter Supported Nuclear Energy.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19331A678
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Site:	Seabrook, Surry, Midland, 05000434, 05000435
Issue date:	03/25/1977
From:	Sweetnam J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Carter J PRESIDENT OF U.S. & EXECUTIVE OFFICES
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Dear Jr. President.

YOU /.PPEAL FOR CONSERVATIOI;"0F EIGRC': Ai:D BETTER SOU'tCES OF PC'.MR.

Yet your administration, by delays, indecision, ha as tringing, P.nd red tape is in eficct rejecting one of our grantest, cheapest, cleanest, most iney.auctable ocurces of power - !?UCLEAll EIER0Y.

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Three cases in noint *

1. The Public Service Company of iiew }?anpahire has underway a major ..

nuclear power plant at Seabroof, II.E. The Atomic Energy Ccad.csion

has, by sucpcnding previously granted p'ermits and posing interr..inatcle delays on the iscuance of new approvalc, so stymied the conctructica of this plant that all activitf has ceased and the Co7.pany han prac-tically given up on the project.

2. The Virginia Electric and Power Company Ioard of Directors recently voted to stop construction on two important nuclear units at Surrey, Va. and to abandon thiJ: project, primarily becauce of the delays and difficultiec encountered with the A.E.C. *

. 3 The Consumers Power Company has been so obstructed in its construc-tion of a nuclear power plant at Midland, IJich. that it has practi-cally given up on the project, and the principal contractor for power from this potential source has decided to turn elscuhore.

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l IJr. Carter, you are scheduled to introduce a new proposed enarg/

program on April 20,'. Unlocs scmc positive anL constructive action 10 taken by the A.E.Ci before then, I shall at that tine enke an effort to see that widespread publicity is given to the above three situatio.'.s and to the negative general policy that they illustrate, pointing out to fellcw Americans that they owe the administraticn no cacrifice or cocnerr.-

tion in energy concarvation while the adninistration itselfac effectiecl,- '

neutralicing the growth of one of our Createst cources of chcap energy.

The voters of several states voted by substantial margins in favor of the continuance of nuclear power plant construction. Yet a high p.r-cent ge of the projected progress in thic ficid, so vital to our energy conservation progran, ic being fructrated by a handfull of willful; environmentalists and the inefficiency and indifference of your Atomic ,

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,3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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In the Matter of )

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CONSUPERS POWER COMPANY ) Docket No. (s) 50-329

) 50-330 (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2) )

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SERVICE LIST Frederic J. Coufal, Esq. , Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke James A. Kendall, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Currie and Kendall U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 135 North Saginaw Road Washington, D.C. 20555 Midland, Michigan 48640 Dr. J. Venn Leeds , Jr. Judd L. Bacon, Esq.

10807 Atwell Consu=ers Power Company Houston, Texas 77096 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Office ef the Executive Legal Director Counsel fer NRC Staf f William J. Ginster, Esq.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Merrill Building, Suite 4 ,

Washington,-D.C. 20555- Saginaw, Michigan 48602 Myron M. Cherry, Esq.

One IBM Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60611 ,

Harold F. Reis, Esq.

Lowenstein, Newman, Reis-& Axelrad- Honorable-Curtis G. Beck 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Assistant Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20036 State of Michigan Seven Story Office Building Honorable Charles A. Briscoe 525 West Ottawa Assistant Attorney General Lansing, Michigan 48913 State of Kansas Topekc, Kansas 66612 Lee Nute, Esq.

Michigan Division Irving Like, Esq. The Dow Chemical Company Reilly, Like and Schneider 47 Building 200 West Main-Street Midland, Michigan 48640-Babylon, New York 11702

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. m UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COSDIISSION In the Matter of )

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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY ) Docket No. (s) 50-329

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document (s) upon each person designated on the official service list compiled by the Of fice of the Secretary of the Commission in this proceeding in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.712 of 10 CFR Part 2-

' Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Rules and Regulations.

Dated at Washington, D.C. this ~

day of br 197 .

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