ML20003B808
| ML20003B808 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/10/1981 |
| From: | Cohalan P SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8102250603 | |
| Download: ML20003B808 (2) | |
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Dear Mr. Ahearne:
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-a As you probably know, the County of Suffolk is an active party intervenor in the operating licensing procedures currently pending before the Atomic Licensing Safety Board regarding the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station.
As intervenor, the County has, through its attorneys and technical experts, been actively engaged in discovery, negotiation, and stipulations with reference to what we perceive to be possible safety issues regarding the Shoreham facility.
The schedule date for issuance of the Shoreham SER was originally December 1980. We are now infonned that your staff's report to the Bevill Sub-comittee under date November 21, 1980, indicates a June 1981 appearance date for that SER, or an additional delay of six months, for which no explantion has been offered.
In addition, the County feels that the Staff's suggestion that the OL hearings for Shoreham will only take 4 months (November 1981 to. March 1982) is at best highly speculative and not in keeping with what I feel will be a well-researched and well-presented argument regarding the safety aspects of Shoreham by the intervenors.
To clarify the record, the County of Suffolk is at this point l
specifically a " neutral intervenor".
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Nuclear Power Station is the concept that this plant, must?in-the first' instance, be proven to be absolutely compatible with the public health a'nd safety of the citizens of Long Island.
I am further concerned,that the licensing hearings by your Agency not lag behind the actual construction of the plant, since to have the plant physically complete without the OL hearings also being complete, l
would be a disservice not only to the Company, but also to the ratepayers of the County.
In recent months, the fuel cost adjustment, which under New York law is automatically passed on to the ratepayers, has been decreasing dramatically.
Many of our ratepayers have found their utility bills increasing at the alarm-ing rate of 50%. monthly, due to the fuel cost adjustment.
LILC0 believes the Shoreham Plant, when operable, will relieve part of this financial burden caused by spiraling world oil prices. The SER, in my judgment,is. essential and should
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j John Ahearne, Chairman February 10, 1981 Page Two May I request that you and your Staff give this matter imediate consideration to the end that the SER be issued within the next few weeks.
Sincerely yours, PETER F. C0HALAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE PFC:pl cc: Honorable Norman F. Lent Mr. W. O. Uh1 Mr. I. L. Freilicher 1
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