ML19351D430
| ML19351D430 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Maine Yankee, Crane |
| Issue date: | 09/29/1980 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Mitchell G SENATE |
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| NUDOCS 8010100121 | |
| Download: ML19351D430 (1) | |
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Dear Senator Mitchell:
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7 In your letiter to Chairman Ahearne dated August 12, 1980, you expressed l.
concern that Maine's electricity consumers might have to pay part of the costs associated with decontaminating the Three hile Island, Unit 2 nuclear cower plant. Your concern was based on a recent proposal by the General Public Utilities Corporation that the costs of decontaninating the facility be shared by all the nation's consumers of nuclear-generated electricity.
The Nuclear Regulatory Comission's statutory charter is to assure the protection of public health and safety and the acceptability of itpacts on the environment from activities licensed and subject to regulation by the fiRC.
Provided that any financing r.ethods used do not adversely affect the l
licensee's safe decontamination of the facility, the MRC is without juris-l diction insofar as tne apportionment of costs ar.ong electricity consumers.
L Such matters generally fall within the purview of the Federal Energy Regulatory Comission, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Comission and the l
New : Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
The Cornission staff is currently monitoring and will continue to ronitor the financial viability of the General Public Utilities Corporation and is also studying and evaluating options for financing the decontamination of i
Three Mile Island, Unic 2 to assure that the decontamination can proceed on i
a course that protects the public health and safety and the environment.
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Corrissioner Bradford notus that he cannot imagine circumstances in which i
the NRC could legitimately recomend a financing method that contemplates payments by Maine electric customers (or'any others not served by T!*I) for j
these costs.
Sincerely, I'
(Signed) E. Kevin Cornell
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