ML19332E299
| ML19332E299 | |
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| Issue date: | 10/27/1989 |
| From: | NRC |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19327B830 | List: |
| References | |
| UDALL-891027, NUDOCS 8912070042 | |
| Download: ML19332E299 (1) | |
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QUESTION 51 If a licensee determines that a nucledr facility should be.
- closed and decommissioned, does the NRC have the authority to compel-that licensee to continue to operate the facility because the NRC determines that the power generated by the facility _is needed?
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As stated in response to Question 3, in accordance with'Section 188 of the-L Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6 2238, the Commission, upon i
a detemination that the public convenience and necessity requires, "may, l
after consultation with the appropriate regulatory agency, State or Federal, having jurisdiction, order that possession be taken of and such facility l
' operated for such period of time as the public convenience and necessity _...
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may, in the judgment of the Commission, require...."
The exercise e? this authority is' contingent upon the predicate that the license for such facility l
had been revoked pursuant.to Section 186 of the AEA, 42 U.S.C. Q 2236 and i
requires the payment of just compensation.
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