ML19340D234
| ML19340D234 | |
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| Site: | 05000514, 05000515 |
| Issue date: | 12/11/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Lindblad W PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. |
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| NUDOCS 8012290384 | |
| Download: ML19340D234 (6) | |
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Dear Mr. Lindblad:
This rep 1Ies to your letter to Chairman Ahearne dated September 30, 1980.
In your letter you state that it is Portland General Electric Company's (PGE) l desire to continue with the licensing effort of the Pebble Springs Nuclear l
Plant appilcation on a nest Ilmited fashion, but PGE has been unable to convince the staff to consnit the not..:*ary resources to move ahead on matters rotated to environmental-site suitability.
The basis for our position has been that closing the record on the four environ-mental-site suitability issues set forth in your letter would still not permit the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to authorize ths staff to issue a limited work authorization on a construction permit (CP). This is because other Issues, such as "need for power," remain open due to Indefinite schedules on the Pebble Springs application.
For the past several months, we have been reviewing the situations related to numerous CP applications to actively restart the reviews of these part.lcular appilcations concerning radiological health and safety.
With respect to your request, we have re-examined your proposal and now find l
that completion of the four issues requires only a relatively small allocation l
of our manpower resources with the majority of this effort coming from our support contractor, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), for the alternative site Accordingly, we accept your proposal to proceed with the Ilmited effort area.
There is the someining problem, however, of scheduling of these four issues.
this work at ANL and with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR).
As you may be aware, we have many high priority appilcations that are severely straining our resources; nevertheless, I am confident we can establish a A staff member from mutually acceptable schedule for this limited effort.
NRR will contact you shortly.
I trust that this satisfles your request.
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Dear Mr. Lindblad:
Your letter to Chairman Ahearne dated September 30, 1980 has been referred to me for response.
In your letter you state that it is Portlano General Electric Company's (PGE) desire to continue with the licensing effort of the Pebble Springs Nuclear Plant application on a most 11miud fashion, but PGE has been unable to convince the staff to commit the necessary resources to move ahead on matters related to environnental-site suitability.
The basis for our position has been that closing the record on the four environ-mental-site suitability issues set forth in your letter would still not permit the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to authorize the staff to issue a limited work authorization or a construction pemit (CP). This is because other issues, such as "need for power," remain open due to indefinite schedules on the Pebble Springs application.
For the past several months, we have been reviewing the situations related to numerous CP applications to actively restart the reviews of these particular applications concerning radiological health and safety.
With respect to your request, we have re-examined your proposal and now find that completion of the four issues requires only a relatively small allocation of our manpower resources with the majority of this effort coming from our support contractor, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), for the alternative site area. Accordingly, we accept, your proposal to proceed with the Ifmited effort of these four issues. There is the remaining problem, however, of scheduling.
this work at ANL and with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). As you may be aware, we have many high priority applications that are severely straining our resources; nevertheless, I au confident we can establish a mutually acceptable schedule for this limited effort. A staff member from NRR will contact you shortly.
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Dockets 50-514 50-515 Honorable John F. Ahearne, Chairman U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Dear Dr. Ahearne:
The purpose of this letter is to express Portland General Electric Company's desire to proceed with construction licensing of the Pebble Springs Nuclear Plant. We have been unable to convince your Staff to commit the necessary resources to move ahead with our application in even the most limited fashion.
% e Pebble Springs licensing proceeding has been ongoing for over six Prior to the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI), NRC Staff years.
review and hearings before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board were moving to.rards completion. Since the TMI accident, further safety review and licensing proceedings have been in abeyance pending the formulation of a licensing policy by the NRC to appropriately reflect the lessons learned from the accident for pending Construction Permit applications.
Although NUREG-0718 is a step in this direction, it appears to us that Commission approval of a complete policy statement for Construction l
Permit applications may be months away. Pending completion of this policy statement, we believe a partial initial decision on environ-mental and site suitability issues could now be entered where the hear-ing record is complete. We also believe several other environmental and site suitability issues are amenable to resolution in the near-term and we seek to complete and close the record on these issues. Moving forward towards completion of these latter category of issues involves a limited commitment of staff resources. These issues are:
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Alternative sites. The NRC Staff has completed their alternative site review and issued it in.the form of a Final Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement in April of 1980. This review needs to be addressed in hearings.
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Accident Considerations under NEPA.
In accordance with the Commission's Statement of Interim Policy dated June 13,1980, en NRC Staff determination is needed to I
ascertain if any "special circumstances" exist for Pebble Springs that would warrant reconsideration of accidents at the Construction Permit stage of review.
We appreciate the manpower difficulties the NRC is experiencing and recognize that greater priority should be properly afforded to near-term Operating License applicants.
Consistent with this situation, we have endeavored to close out only those environmental and site suitability issues currently pending in our proceeding which do not induce a signi-I ficant commitment of staff resources and which would not fall within
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the purview of the Commission's TMI licensing policy for Construction Per=it applications. We believe this is a reasonable, efficient and prudent course to pursue. However, your Staff has been unwilling to provide even the most minimum of resources necessary to support the completion of hearings on the foregoing matters.
I respectfully request that you ask your Staff to give due consideration l
to the Pebble Springs application and to provide the support needed to go forward with final stages of hearings on the remaining environmental and site suitability matters identified herein.
Sincerely, gas w p.m n blad Vice President Engineering-Construction c:
Mr. Lynn Frank, Director State of Oregon Department of Energy Elizabeth S. Bowers, Esq.
Dr. Walter H. Jordan Dr. William E. Martin Bernard M. Bordenick, Esq.
Frank Ostrander, Jr., Esq.
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