ML19331A907
| ML19331A907 | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 05/18/1972 |
| From: | Deyoung R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Like I REILLY & LIKE |
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50-329 C. L. Hendersen, DR and 50-3M R. C. DeYoung, L R. Tedesco, L J. A. Murphy, L D. Kartalia, OGC G. Ertter, (DR-Z1 (DR-4472)
J. Cook, DR Irving Like, Esq.
M. Groff, (OR-4472)
Reilly, like and Schneider N' EY N ' E IU 200 West !*ain Street Babylon, New York 11702
Dear Mr. Like:
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Thank you for your letter of April 27, 1972, retarding the April 18, 4
1972, request by Coneumere Power Company for (1) an eiiiemption pur-
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I omant to le CFR 50.12 to perfem limited site preparation activities', ~ ~ ' {
patiously autherised by 10 CFR 50.10(b) and now prohibited by l
10 CFR So.lo(s) and (3) the retentian of the esempeten granted by the Atemte Energy r w aeise sa July 30, 1971 autheriafes eartala con-structies activities for the Midland plant. We will eensider your enemmmes la ser evalustiam of that requeet.
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energy. Set encompasses a substant.a por-new piant to predece I bdima pnseds of sty.
To produce magneswm.sa'ts are extracted /
tene. of Do*'s pra6.ts - and many of these.
rene a year. 5:yrene is used a the prnducrian frem bfme usteg a Ngtc9ece, rerinet t4 a:ecM are sto betra made m M4and.
of sach rhmss as aata tadhghts, and eier In tne chemical mdustry, sne wholesa'e pnce pastic produts.
tncitv. la Texas, readily availaWe warured ni cttemscals generaiy has stumped for more The Texas piant w:ll resu't in the shutdown gas ta used to po+er the electree tardnes }
than a cecade. whde total manufactunns costs at ecornmical cost. Dow puraps ordmaryP
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of f,ve other Dow styrene plants.
seamater to its plants freet Ge Go of Mexico.
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It will operate with the same number of per-it the, een a@te e'eetr c turb6me fue:a ;
must centinualy update manufactanrg opera-
. nonnet required to run tust one of the present in %chigan, a'1 - er at least part -of the a tens. budding plants-that edi produce far ptants, yet will produce more than three times massive rnateesnint operatton mrght srrt! be I ge et quantaties of chemicals with fewer the combmed productica of those fava ph located at Multand.
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wdl be shut does as a resua These products are the bests of anti-freeza bosne buddings date back to the ture el the Dow's fuel shortage in Mackgan plagued tM whch Dow seus an isrp pannty to the' aura,4 certury.
company for a long t;me.
motive edustry.
Dow must decide ubether to rebudd those The productuae of magnesium - the light-Aithough these products are sold pnmardy';
e: der Sciand piants or replace them eith new weight metaJ used ut maams asummum alloys to the eate makers et Detrat. It is more eco I piants budt on the Gulf Coast.
- was switched from Ed!and to Texas durms
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As math any edustry, the pnmary response.
1bertd War II,
J amtg@4 3 q., y A rad to Eth-bdity of Dow's directors is to act as the best Dow is Ame " - F -
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pros mterests of the shareholders.
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' leth ethylene and propvfame are petroleum Dow also marsama most of its i
4denvitNes. Becanon ptroseem is as arpetutv fact!>use at Waad and seg deciseams
]in Michigan, rt is do,ibly advantageous to maha'.Dow's operstaans all over the worki an osuch products on the Guit Coast where raw them.
I jmatennis forboth prdactaan fuel and product But scout one<hard of the strosble reses sbese are aw and deve5prnest budget Dow ear narts eac I Dow esecuts,ed dee's like to ta;k about their year, is dented not to preg new p
'protnerna and the necessity for saufIlms opera-ucts, but to nad bettu ways of making Irians to the south. Thee poet out that ahce products.
I efounder Herbert Dow converted am n&d cutter That means fedmg newer, cheaperwavs og
'teo md! to the caerpany's first chemicai dist.1-producmg many thericals Dow prenant,
herv *3 years age productics econoraws a maaes at MWland.
)f 2and were ideal whether or not these esws ed!
- At that tune, there were both a gnet unders - appued to plants in depends 'M
' ground ses from wtnch to draw brae and on whether de W poww past gaa M wooden cWe to Ere the distiary boders from Dow's earmest last year were up about is, fhang Yait water sea is sti3 n.
8 per shan en kract and has aa-p bree to taka care of $2 bdban.
aw tam,t g Cow's chemical neecs for a century-if then la 1 Dow see a m
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-hemical operaums then which de not depad pand W iecnam of shut M W N high ;evels of heat enrrgy.
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piastaca, agricataral chemicana and is 19*3.
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