ML20003F944
| ML20003F944 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/10/1981 |
| From: | Walker R HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 8104240347 | |
| Download: ML20003F944 (7) | |
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As you know, my constituents from Lebanon County, Pennsyl-vania have been very concerned about the economic impact of the Three Mile Island accident and subsequent cost re-sulting from-the inactivity of the undamaged Unit one reactor at the island.
Mr. David Wauls, Executive Vice i
President of the Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce, has I
taken the time to point out to me the cost of not reacti-l vating TMI Unit One to local business and residential cus-l tomers.
I feel Mr. Wauls' views have merit and I have enclosed his recent correspondence for your review.
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trust you will give the analysis your full consideration and look forward to receiving your comments.
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Dear Congressman Walker:
Please find enclosed a copy of the Econcnic Impacts of TMI on Lebanon County Businesses, We wo.uld urge your total supoort and commitment to resolve this problem for the benefit of everyone.
Please let me know your thouchts on the enclosed.
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P. O. BOX 899. LE8 ANON, PENNSYLVANIA 17042 TELEPHONE 717 273 3727 woth ettotes M the Lemanen Treadway Inn Quenson Road and Poplar Street March 25,1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
S260,273 A DAY CONTACT: David L. Wauls TMI's Unit One, Inactive For Executive Vice President Almost Two Years, Costing Lebanon Valley Chamber of Comme.
Met Ed's Customers TEL: 717/273-3727
$95 Million Annually A dozen Lebanon Va'lley employers report increasingly dim prospects for future expansion and employment, because of the higher cost of electricity stemming from the inactivity of the undamaged Unit One at Three Mile Island.
4 For these businesses,1980 electric bills were $573,242 higher than 1979's, a recent local survey found.
History can show us that Pennsylvania can no longer afford to lose any more businesses. The Commonwealth (between 1969-1978) has shown a 9.5% decrease in the number of establishments; a 13.7% decrease in Capital Expenditures; a 15.4 % decrease in the number of manufacturing employees and a 6.1% decrease in Wages and Salaries. We must resolve the concerns of Three Mlle Island for the benefit of everyone in the Met Ed System and the Commonwealth,
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.mmediate Release arch 25,1981 "Footdragging by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in delaying the relicensing of the undamaged nuclear reactor is costing all customers of the Metropolitan Edison Company about $95 million a year," reported David Wauls, executive vice president of the Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce "That's more than a quarter million dollars every day that Unit One stands idle," he added.
Business and industry have been particularly hard hit, Wauts noted, with rate increases amounting in some cases to more than $1,000 per empl "Not only are we experiencing these burdens placed on us by TMI," states Wauls "but we (the industrial user) also have experienced drastic percenta J
l increases of 202% in our rates between 1969 and 1978, while the residential customer has experienced a 120% increase and the commercial customer 126%. "
While Met Ed's residential consumer bills are now 20% higher than l
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those of customers of neighboring utilities, industrial users are paying up to 64% more, it was found in an economic impact study conducted by the l
engineering firm of Roy T. Weston, Inc., West Chester, and commissioned by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce. What this means is that the residential cusicmers are paying roughly $60/ year more than their neighboring i
utility customers in Pennsylvania.
"The electricity Unit One could be generating would not only lighten the burdens which business and residential customers are faced with, but would also save the equivalent of 10 million barrels of oil, or 2.3 million tons of ccal a year," Wauls explained.
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. arch 25,1981 Further Wauls commented that " Profits, investments and jobs are related such that fewer profits mean less investment in new opportunitie jobs."
" Unit C;.e has had a five-year safe operating record and is l
undamaged," the Chamber spokesman noted.
l Safety is our first concern, a Wauls said, "but we think the NRC should take action to make sure that all safety measures are in place so Unit One can return to production. " " People should also realize that there are currently 7 pressurized water reactors built in this country by Babcock and Wilcox (similar to TMI Unit 1) that are currently producing electricity Industrial users of electricity interviewed during the Weston research said they worried that continued delay in licensing Unit One will result in the bankruptcy of the utility, prolonged litigation, and possible
" brown-outs" or interruptions of service.
A spot check of Lebanon Valley businesses (employing a total of more than 3,000 persons) showed their total electric bills in 1980 were more than half a million dollars higher than in 1979.
Robert B. Graybill, president of the Pennfield Corporation, said i
their expenses for electricity last year had risen more than S23 000 at Pennfield Poultry in Fredericksburg. According to the company's engineer, James Morrison, the higher power costs might. lead to " mills being shut down" for the company, whose products include feed, poulty products and 1
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. Immediate Release Aarch 25,1981 S. E. Specht, senior vice president at Buell-Envirotech, said "a detailed evaluation must be made to determine if other facili attractive than our Lebanon plants. " Even with a strong conservation program last year, the firm's electric cost was up S23,000 According to William E. Uhler, president, Lebanon Valley Offset will have to obtain $230,000 in additional business to pay for their $23,000 jump in power costs.-
"We will not expand in this location" was the comment of John E. Booth, president of Lebanon Packaging Company.
He repcrted that their electric bill rose from $119,637 in 1979 to $152,999 last year, making it much more difficult to compete.
At Lebanon Steel Foundry, the power bill jumped 47% to $115,000 per month last year.
An official there said the it: creased cost puts the company at a competitive disedvantage, and will probably mean fewer job opportunities in the future.
l At Quaker Alloy Casting Company, Mar'in M. Pfautz, vice l
president and controller, said further expansion cannot be considered if electricity costs continue to escalate at present rates.
The president of Textile Printing and Finishing Company, A. L.
Hanford, III, also saw little prospect of expansion.
1 And similar opinions ware expressed by Mark H. Tice, president l
of Lebanon Plumbing Supply Company, and H. M. Huffman, plant manager at Wnitmoyer Labs.
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