ML19331B019
| ML19331B019 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Midland, Marble Hill |
| Issue date: | 01/18/1977 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Huddleston W SENATE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8007250715 | |
| Download: ML19331B019 (2) | |
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Docket f!as. 50-329 -
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.q*IHis DOCUMENT CONTAINS The Honorable Walter D. Huddleston POOR QUAUTY PAGES United States Senate Washington D. C.
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Ctar Senator Huddleston:
This is in reply to your letter of Decerier 28, 1976, to the Chaiman of the i;uclear Regulatory Comission, regardina licensing hearings for the proposed Marble Hill Huclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, at
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"adison, Indiana. With that correspondence you enclosed a cony of a letter which you had received from "r. John Embry, Conservation Chairran for the Sierra Club in Louisville, Kentucky, in which i'r. Embry urced that scheduled flRC hearings for the Marble _ Hill #acility be stopped "until the ownership of the plant is established and the need for the power beco es clear."
Since the Comission riay be called upon to participate in an ad.iudicatory review of any determination made by the NRC Atomic Safety and Licensino Eoard before which the application for the f?arble Hill construction perr.its is pending, it would be inappropriate for Chairman Rowden to coment.
Accordinoly, your letter has been referred to me.
m In his letter Mr. Embry makes reference to an article dated December 3.
1976, which was published in the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal.
The article was an account of the prehearino conference in the l'arble Hill proceeding which had been held the previous day in Madison, Indiana.
As accurately reported in that newspaper account, the !!RC lecal Staff had arcued to the presiding Licensina " card that because of cues' ions rcised about the participation of certain co-owners of the proposed facility the Poard should refrain from settinc a date for evidentiary bearings to begin pending resolution of the o mership issue.
- However, it was held by the Board that evidentiary hearines would proceed.
beoinning en February 15, 1977, with an early filine by the ".nnlicant, pflic Service of Indiana (PSI), describinc rore fully the arrannerents for particication by PSI and the other utilities involved in ownership of or use of power from the l'arble Hill facility.
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The Honorable Walter D. Huddleston
- 4 l'r. Enbry states in his letter to you that "the federal panel that ordered the hearings to begin has ignored one very irportant part of
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the justification for the plant: ME ED_. "
It is certainly the fmC Staff's position that need for power is one of the major issues of the Marble Hill application. However, I wish to enphasize in this regard that the Staff expects that this issue will be fully addressed by the parties and the Licensing Board in this proceeding. The prehearing debate referenced by Mr. Erbry was limited to the question of what further infomation should be required of the utilities involved for purposes of liticating the need for power issues and what effect the schedule for supplying this infomation should have on the overall hearing schedule.
It rias the detemination of the presiding Doard that pending resolution of the ownership question, issues other than need for power which were ripe for hearing should be heard. !!hile the fmC Staff arcue:" for a different approach, it is nevertheless our view that this was a procedural question properly within the Licensing Board's discretion to decide.
Sincerely.
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