ML19340A318

Forwards Resolution Passed at Convention by Oh Div of Izaak Walton League of America Re Moratorium on Facility Licensing & Limit on Temp of Waste Cooling Water Discharged Into Public Waterways.Notice of Hearing Requested

ML19340A318
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Issue date:	11/06/1970
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Gentlemen:

I wish tc, call your attention to g resolution passed

- recently at an Ohio Division Convention of t,1.e !zaak ,

Walton League of America, e a The two highlights of the resolution are....

" We firmly believe that an imediate moratorium should be invoked against any f urther licensing of i

Nuclear power plants, intil more experience has been accu =ulated from the operation of these installations presently in being."

" We would impose a limit Of 1 F rise in temperature l

of waste colling waters dischargod into public waterways, l -

at the point of discharge by State or Federal law."

j We understand thzre is to be a public hearing in the We near future at eibher Port Clinton or Cleveland.

would like to have a notice of this hearing, the time and place so that we can bw represented at this meeting.

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Policy of The Ohio Division of The Izac Relative to Electric Power Generating Plants:

Adopted et T% State ';onvention of the Ohio Division of the Izaeh Walton l

Lece ue of erica on the 4th day of October,1970.

We firmly believe that an inner.iste moratorium should be invoked against any further licensing of hTCLhl power plants, until nore experience has been accumulatea frca the operctica of those installations presently in being.

Preof should be required. to the full satisfaction of the Council on Environ-cental Quality, the federal environment protection atency and the public, that HUCL %t plants cre co:pletely SAFE - beyend any reasencble dcubt.

1:UCLEmt PC .Jt is simply much too dengerous e_ playthin6 to experinent with --

until proper technology cnd ,expertisc has been acquired!

We believe that the Price-Anderson Act should be repcsled and thet c11 liability l arising from nuclear instelletion should be lifted from the shoulders of federa is.xcavers a.ui returned to the evners of the nuclear properties.

Ve protest any further proliferation of nuclesr entities untilit con be proved ,

that SAFE, pertsnent, storage facilities can be provided for the burgeoning .

burden of dent,erous AT EIC % STES.

Le urge th Atomic Engergy Coccission and otherIngovernment agencies fact, Dr. Arthur .1 to impose a Et,0 limit as the standord of radiation exposures Templin of the Atomic Ehergy Co==ission s Lawrence Laboratory, recomended i

change last Merch at a seminsr in San Antonio for science writers.

licensing the construction The Atomic Energy Cov. mission shculd be prchibited fro: Fed er, of Luclear Electric Generating Plants,_ until so.oe hcve been epproved by the al Wcter Quality Administrstion, the Nstional Air Pollutien Control Adminie-tration, and the corresponding authorities of the stete or states in which such construction is proposed.

Me would impose a' limit of 1 F rise in temperature of w Any STr.lE povered electric generating plant, whether ntgelecr er fossil fuel operated, should be required to install and use an adequate C cooling system.

Eslablish EFFLUENT STAhDudD5 for both Air and Vater pollution.

Collect USE charges from polluters of both air and water; whether they be irdustrial,' municipal or other. - .

Strive constant 1y' to raise Ohio's (uslity Standards - for both AIR and Water.

The Atomic Energy Commission should be prohibited from licensing the construction

'of hVCLEM Electric Generating Plants, until scne.

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Amend the Federal Gater Quality Act to authorize fcdercl officiels to inspect industriel, municipal or similar establishcents that are polluting or ere

-sus 3cted of pollut3 ng public waterways ~ especially interstate veterveys.

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97 NOV l ? 1970 * ~d2 (,,Living In A F1ner Environment _)

,,n.wras Box 15 University Hall w rreen I Bowling Green State University 4 Sr8m N Bowling Green, Ohio 4 g

" 43403 Mr. Russell Train.

Council on Environmental Quality Washington,;D. C.

Dear Mr. Train:

I-would like to bring to your attention a serious situation developinq .

in the State of Ohio with respect to the Davis-Besse fluclear Power Plant

. proposed by Toledo Edison Company an d Cleveland Electric Illuminating 4 Company. Our group has been following the progress of the plant for  ;

some time. -a d

The environmental impact of such plants have caused controversy in every state where they are- proposed. Our area has been no different.

There is great citizen concern in our state for environmental and public health hazards this plant would effect. We had hopes of ' improving the situation by petitioning, writing letters, appeals to the sponsoring utility compsnies', and generally expressing public concern for safeguarding against the hazards.

Unfortunatdy, all our talk and suggestions have fallen on deaf ears. .

Our group-and others (Izaak Walton League, Cleveland Clean Air and Water, Sierra Club, etc.) have asked the 0hio Water Pollution Control f Daard to look into the thermal affects of this plant more thoroughly, since conflicting scientific opinion was expressed by experts other than those contracted by the utility company. With evaluation of the Environ-mental Report filed with AEC by the Toledo Edison Company, we found it' hardly pursant- to Section 102 C of the flational Environmental Policy Ac t , 1970.

As a matter of fact, it is vague t,nd incomplete on ecological matters, exactly what it is supposed to be concerned with. The report skillfully jumps to' conclusions on the basis of pitifully inadequate limnological research'and poor scientific logic.

For instance, figures -indicating an additional discharge of hot water (containing minerals, etc.) have been given to us by Toledo Edison Engineers,

but are neglected in the report.

Thus, we. find the Environmental Report filed by Toledo Edison Company (announced August 20,1970 in the Federal Register) in violation of the AEC regulations in Appendix D to'10 CFR Part 50, which are pursuant to the fulfillment of the NEPA, 1970.

i State officials have indicated they will make corments on the Report

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is' sue with some of these environmental hazards involved, I doubt they I will pursue matter. They have been reluctant to express concern over the I matter and also to hold public hearings on the thermal discharge effect.

i Since a factual and unbiased record on thermal discharge affects does i'

-not Exist and only sketchy details of radiological emission effects on

-the food chain organisms in Lake Erie, it would seem imperative that this-be studied as soon as possible before a construction permit is granted.

~.his is why we are appealing to you, since all our other expressions i of concern have failed, we would urge enforcement of the NEPA (Interim Guidelines) requiring _more thorough and adequate studies of the environ-mental impact of nuclear power.

Sincerely yours, LQhhe' (k <t?nul Vicki Evans  !

Robert Thomasson  :

Benjamin Marvin .

Co-chairmen, LIFE Enclosure CC: Tim Atkinson,-Council of Environmental Quality Atomic Energy Commission Senator William Saxbe-Senator Stephen Young Mr. Roger Cloud, Auditor of State Mr. John Gilligan Mr. Howard Metzenbaum Mrs. Betty Clerik, Cleveland Press Mr. Chase Clements, WSPD Mr. Ron Koffman, Sandusky Register Mr. Craig Edwards, WOH0 Mr. Michael Woods, Toledo Blade Mr. Dave Easterly, Dayton Daily News

-Mr. ' Jim Smith, BG flews Mr. Derry Bird, .WTOL-TV Mr.. Paul Jones, Sentinel Tribune -

Mr. Biff Cole, f!BC-Cleveland WKYC MF. William McCann, Cleveland Plain Dealer Lorain Journal - l Fremont flews Messenger l Port Clinton Herald l Bellevue Gazette (

Berlin-Milan Voice 1 1tiorwalk Reflector

-Huron Reporter .

Toledo Times .

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PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY L.I.F.E. (LIVING IN A FINER ENVIRON"EtlT) 8.G.S.U. BOULING GREEN, OHIO Bowling Green State University student environmental action aroup L.I.F.E. (Living In a Finer Environment) has charged that the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant Environmental Report is a violation of Atomic Energy Comission regulations. They maintain the document does not fulfill AEC regulations in Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50. Pursuant to the National Environment Policy Act of 1970, the AEC provisions require applicants for permits to construct nuclear power reactors to submit an Environmental Report which is supposed to discuss the environnental impact of the pronosed action.

The plant is being constructed on a 900 acre site on the southwest shore of Lake Erie in Ottawa County, Ohio. Announcement of the availability of the Report was made on August 20, 1970, in the Federal Register; and coments from state and local agencies on the Report can be made for 60 days. After this time, the AEC prepares their Environmental Report (from the applicants') in fulfillment of the National Environmental Policy Act,1970.

• x Spokesman for the group, Miss Vicki Evans, a Junior biology ma.ior, said in reading the Report she "found it vague and incomplete on statements Qf g :

concerning ecological impact--with little specific data on exactly what ('7 -

will be discharged into the lake, how much, and with what effect."

She added further that the Report skillfully jumns to conclusions M$$

on the basis of pitifully inadequate research and poor scientifie looic. a 4 0!E 1110 up Citing the section of affects of radiological releases on environment, g3133308 she pointed out that the report states "it is expected that any changes in \g radioactivity levels will be insignificant and will have no effect on the environment"; but later in the report, radiological studies are present e S/

only in part as they are not even completed yet' Hithout adequate proof of the affects of accumulations of radionucleides in the food chain, in Lake Erie area, the report concludes the (page 8) " study will verify that no organisms will concentrate released radioactivity to any significant level." Miss Evans, co-chairman of L.I.F.E., asked, "since the study is funded by the electric companies, does this mean the scientific report concludes the way they want it to?" I Another Bowling Green State University student, Daniel Romick (Sophomore, BA) has found inadequacies in the Environmental Report.

Co-chairman of the Erie County Comittee Against Thermo-Nuclear Pollution, Mr. Romick and his group have been following the progress of the Davis-Besse plant for quite some time. He questioned the acuracy of nany statements contained in the report.

Concerning the transferal of a fomer Federal wildlife refuae to the utility companies, page 5 quotes Mr. John Gottschalk, Director of Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife as saying "this project is a mutually beneficial effort between government and industry." A resident of Sandusky, Ohio. Romick doesn't question whether the plant would be profitable for government and industry, but he wonders just how beneficial it will be to the people and environment of that area.

He feels the tax monies from the plant may help the school system now, but it will not buy a new Western basin for Lake Erie or a radiation-free living area for the residents.

In the liquid effluent section of the Report, no amounts, content, and effect of discharge are mentioned. But, according to Lowell Roe, Chief 9

Mechanical Engineer for Toledo Edison Company, 35,000 gallons of hot water

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e (85-92 F) per minute '(or 50.4 million gallons daily) will still be dumpedIt will als into Lake Erie 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day continuously.

--2-5% of 'controvercial AEC emission limits and concentrations of mineral

'(nitratesandphosphates). But,~the probable affects of this discharae are not mentioned in the Report. ~

It remains to be seen why the cooling tower is considered to be a solution to the thermal pollution problem when such a larce quantity.

of- hot water will still be dumped into . Lake Erie, a cuantity which isThe harmful even larger than' the moisture in the cooling tower vapor plume.

affects of this vapor plume were formerly used Andasasaabasis forthe result, theharmful utility companies' argument against using the tower.

affects of the vapor cloud are played down and barely mentioned in the Report. The Reports conclusion states "There are no adverse environmental affects anticipated from the construction and operation of the Davis-BesseWith resea station." It seems they are ignoring fSe facts.

discharges effects on Lake Erie being incomplete and of varyino opinion, and the damage 'from nuclear power plant radiation emissions being one of the most-controversial' subjects at this time--there is' every reason to believe that adverse environmental effects could be anticipated from the construction and operation of the Davis-Gesse Nuclear Power Plant.

October 20, 1970 Miss Vicki Evans Co-chaiman, L.I .F.E.

Box 15, University llall

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Bowling Green, 0hio Phone 372-2632 i

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TOLEDO EDISO:7 COMP /dIY, ET AL. ) Docket lio. 50-346 ~

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of (1) letter from Eurt G. Erickner, Ohio Division, Tne Isaak Valton league of America, dated Hoveuber 6,1970 transmitting resolution and requesting notice of hearing; and (2) letter from Miss Vicki Evans to Mr. Russell Train, Council on Environ = ental Quality with attached statement in the captioned matter have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class or air mail, this 17th day of November 1970:

Walter T. Skallerup, Jr., Esq. Leslie Henry, Esq.

Chairman, Atomic Safety and Fuller, Seney, Henry & HodSe Licensing Board '

600 Owens-Illinois Building ~

1155 Crest Lane h05 Madison Avenue ~

McLean, Virginia 22101 Toledo, Ohio 43604 ,

Jcmes P. Gleason, Esq., Alternate Gerald Charnoff, Esq.

Chairman Shaw, Pittman, Potts, Trovbridge Atomic Safety and Licensing Faard and Madden Donahue, Ehrmantraut & Gleason 910 17th Street, H. W.

11125 Rockville Pike Washington, D. C. 20006 Rockville, Maryland 20352 Thomas F. Engelhardt, Esq.

Dr. Valter H. Jordan Paul W. Wallig, Esq.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Regulatory Staff Counsel.

P. O. Box X U. C. Atomic Energy Co= mission Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37330 Washington, D. C. 20545 Dr. Charles E. Winters Wilson U. Snyder, Esq.

8300 Fernwood Road Fuller, Seney, Henry & Hodge Bethesda, Maryland 20034 300 Owens-Illinois Building 405 Madison Avenue Dr. John C. Geyer, Chairman Toledo, Ohio 4360h Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering Lonald H. Hauser, Esq.

The Johns Hopkins University The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Company P. O. Box 5000 Cleveland, Ohio 44101

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53-2h6 Mr. Roger L. Eilli=c Mr. Glenn J . 3eepson, Vice Atomic Energy Coordinator President - Fouer Development Ecpartment Tne Toledo Edicon Company 65 Couth Front Street h20 14adison Avenue F.0. Box 1001 Toledo, Ohio h3601 Colurbus, Ohio h321E IIonorabic fiarry R. Johnson President, hoard of County Comissioners Ottava County Courthouse Port Clinton, Ohio 43 h52

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