ML19352A855

Ack Receipt of Forwarding Constituent Comments on Proposed Rule 10CFR2 Re Expediting NRC Hearing Process

ML19352A855
Person / Time
Issue date:	04/30/1981
From:	Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA)
To:	Alicia Dixon SENATE
References
FRN-46FR17216, RULE-PR-2 46FR17216-697, NUDOCS 8106020229
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Dear Senator Dixon:

Thank you for your letter dated April 17, 1981 enclosing correspondence from your constituent, Patrick Drazen, who is concerned about proposed NRC regulations and legislation designed to reduca delays in the licensing process for nuclear power plants The diverson of staff resources and rethinking of safety requirements following the accident at Three Mile Island adversely affected licensing activity at the Comission.

As a result, we estimate that in 1981 and 1982 approximately a dozen nuclear plants will be completed from 1 to 12 months before a full power license decision can be made.

The Comission is concerned about this situation and is proposing a number of actions Your constituent mentions several of these proposed changes.

to correct it.

Amendments to the Comission's Rules of Prhetice,10 CFR Part 2, were published in the Federal Register for comment on March 18, 1981.

These amendments, if adopted, should permit more timely conduct of NRC hearings

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by tightening the time allowed for each part of the process and by providing-firmer time management.

Public coninents received by April 7,1981 will be considered by the Comission before promulgation of a final rule.

Also on March 18, 1981, the Comission submitted proposed legislation *a Congress, which would allow it to authorize interim reactor operation for fuel loading and low-power operating and testing before the completion of a hearing.

Such interim operation would save at least two months and, where the low power testing revealed a need for repairs or modifications, could save substantially more time.

This proposed authority would expire at the end of 1983 thereby assuring that this adjustment to our licensing requirements would be temporary and confined to those plants which have been directly affected by the Comission's post-TMI action.

I am enclosing for your information a copy of the proposed changes *a Part 2 and of the letter to Congress transmitting the proposed legislation.

I hope that this information is helpful in responding to your constituents.

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Senator Alan Dixon t

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. Washington, DC 20510 Senator'Dixon:

This is '-.xpress my dissatisfaction with some rule changes proposed for the Nucle Regulatory Commission.

Both these rules seem designed to bypass public hearings on whether certain nuclear plants can be built.

In the first case, the NRC is proposing a removal of the public's right of discovery.

By this measure, any public interest group opposed to the licensing & construction of a nuclear power plant has access to informa-tion about the plant, and can use this information to argue a case against the plant.

The elimination of right of discovery in effect would bypass the public will by denying the public information on which to prepare a case.

While that proposal disenfranchises the public in effect, we would be disenfranchised in reality by the second proposal: a rule that would permit nuclear power plants to begin operating before a license has been granted.

This in itself is bad enough--if this rule is adopted, we =ight as well not arrest anyone who drives or hunts without a license--and it is a slap in the face of the rule of law.

Taken with the other proposal, it speaks of a j

willingness on the part of the current administration to govern by fiat, rather than by consultation with the governed.

Mr. Reagan's advocacy of nuclear power is well-known; what is not well-known, especially in light of the Three Mile Island incident and other les-cer accidents, is whether nuclear power is as safe as its proponents clai=.

The proposed rule change would seem to want to settle the issue without exa=ining the evidence.

It would be an unconscionable move, and I ask you and your colleagues to speak out and vote against this proposal.

It's an insidious trend, short-circuiting government via the consent of the governed.

This is a principle which no administration should turn its back on, however big its " mandate".

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