ML20003D070

Responds to Re Facility.Public Meetings Will Be Scheduled After OL Application Is Submitted & Accepted. Issues Noted in Ltr Will Be Addressed in Future Safety & Environ Reviews

ML20003D070
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	03/09/1981
From:	Tedesco R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Anthony R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
References
NUDOCS 8103190023
Download: ML20003D070 (1)

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Dear Mr. Anthony:

Mr. Darrell G. Eisenhut has referred your letter of December 23, 1980, regarding the Limerick Generating Station, to me for response.

e At the present time further public meetings in the vicinity of the site are not scheduled. However, after an application for an operating license is submitted and accepted, such meetings may well be appropriate.

As a result of our letter to Philadelphia Electric of January 5,1981 (copy enclosed), we do not expect the application for the operating license to be submitted before mid-March. After the application for the Limerick plant is received and reviewed for completeness, the Commission will publish a Federal Register Notice advising the public of the opportunity to request a hearing before an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Notice will also be provided in local papers at this time.

For your general information, the proceedings held in conjunction with the Construction Permit application were initiated with a Federal Register Notice of Hearing issued November 30, 1971. This public hearing 'was concluded on March 6, 1974. Construction Permits were issued on June 19, 1974 based on i

the Licensing Board's initial decision of June 14, 1974. Several individuals and groups participated in this hearing as intervenors. The record of these proceedings can be found in the public Document Room in Pottstown.

'All of the issues that you mentioned in your letter have been noted and will b2 specifically addressed in our future safety and environmental reviews.

Your letter, along with others, is being retained in our active file for future reference.

Thank you for your expression of interest in the licensing of the Limerick Generating Station.

Sincerely, AEW Robert L. Tedesco Assistant Director for Licensing Division of Licensing

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Nuclear Operations JAN 0 5 D81 Philadelphia Electric Company 2301 Market Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101

SUBJECT:

LIMERICK RISK ASSESSMENT STUDY This is to thank you for your Cecember 9,1980 p*esentation at Pottst Pennsylvania on your Limerick Risk Assessrent Study

cwn, in more detail especially with regard to the proposed e results for the Limerick Station to improve the safety marginse ng considered I Because of the importance that the NRC places on your Risk As for Lir4 rick we again request that you submit your final report as so

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Study Report.

At the latest, the final report of the Risk Assessment Study should be provided as a part of your FSAR when it is tendered.

During the course of the public meeting held on Dece-ter 9 Accordingly, you should include a discussion of each

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ers whenever (A) The first area concerns erergency preparedness as it effects special institutions.

Recognizing that emergency preparedness is an cagoing particular attention to those local considerations th at the public meeting.

(B) cussed by several participants at the meeting. Cooling wa Environmental Statement was issued for your Const He recognize that the fore, the staff will thoroughly review the environmental impacts There-associated with diversion of Delaware River water.

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V. Boyer JAN 0 51981 (C) The construction of one of the facilities structures was stated to b located on the right-of-way of a public road that runs through the site.

A specific discussion, including exclusion area controls, should te included in your application.

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During the course of construction at the site, the staff expressed some concern about the final design and construction of the spray pond.

is our understanding that this will be the ultimate heat sink and there-It fore must be designed and constructed in compliance with appropriate regulations and guides.

You should address the subject thoroughly in your tendered application so that the staff can provide an adequate and tirely review of this item in view of our understanding that construction of the sprsy pond will start next spring.

(301)492-7792.If yta have any questions, please contact the Profa-t Manager, D. S A

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_ wish to express my gratitude for the hearing that ycu were i

the actual site.instru ental in arranging on the Li:erick nuclear construction, near Most unfortunately word of the hearing did not reach =e in time to attend and testify on benalf of Friends of One Earth c Zelauare Valley We urge ycu to pursue as soon as pesable your intention f or furtnerhearings and we shall cercainly be there.

Will you kindl7 notify as to the date and location of the next.

Ue are convinced that this plant shculd not proceed as a ncke, and we strengly urge ycur division not to grant a license.

health and safety hazard.is not needed for the area's electric. security and it pcse Philadephia Electric has been stubbern in refusing to censider any alternatives.

This we believe ycu and we must conv?nce then to do.

As for the present invest =ent, we believe i

a large part innovation such as the use of solid waste.of that could be exploited by a chang a

The acccunt Dece:cer 9 was callcus and self serving.that I read of Phila. Electric's presenta Seven 31111cn residents within a thirty alle radius cannot be dismissed or cc:forted by statistical charts en probability ; we are well lations that made the T.M.I. tecident aware of the calcu-is too dangercus and

" impossible". Nuclear reaction note areas,1f then.

. unpredictable to be carried on except in re-which Phila Electric ignored, accidents with fuel transport andIn addition stetage and transport of spent fuel.

j Cbvtcusly Phila.Electricshculd have conducted public hearings in the early stages of planning this plant and the decision had to be shared by those who wculd be exposed,and their children.

ly citizens,their errerts,and environ = ental and civic groups ust be Eelated-3iven a share in the decision whether to centinue construction. We' cc==end ycu for ycur concern in this.

In addition to healthand safety thers are other facters that need to be aired : Phila. Electric's present excess capacity new means 3.Lcvins in Softof peak demand centrol, disecenc les of scale as set forth by Accry of decentralization.Enerry Faths,hspecially Chapter 5.),and concepts already soliciting contributions to its grid frcde note that Scuthern Edisen of Cllifornia is tors.

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