ML20010H196
| ML20010H196 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 09/03/1981 |
| From: | Bialik E NEW YORK, STATE OF |
| To: | Ahearne J, Gilinsky V, Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8109240121 | |
| Download: ML20010H196 (2) | |
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Gentlemen:
On May 30, 1980 the Commission crdered that an adjudicatory hearing be held before an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to consider the safety issues' raised by the Union of Concerned Scientists with respect to Units 2 and 3 of Indian Point.
The order provided that the hearings be held in the vicinity cf tha Indian Point plants, and that the. final, post-hearing decision be made by the Commission itself.
The. hearing is required, among other reasons, because the population surrounding the Indian Point plants is greater than the population surrounding any other nuclear plant in the country.
A major accident at Indian Point could. expose millions of people to risk, and a thorough hearing on the safety issues, therefore, is i: perative.
l Nonetheless, the Commission has failed to proceed with the hearing on these important issues because of a claimed inability to agree on the members of the hearing board.
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hearing of such magnitude should not be delayed for such a flimsy reason.
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constitute the board and set up a timely schedule for DSD commencement of the hearing in the vicinity of the plant.
S One issue requiring special artention is the adecuacy I
of emergency respor.se plans for these plants.
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1981 Region I informed the operators of the plants that their plans were deficient in numerous respects, and that if the deficiencies.were not corrected within 120 days (i.e.,
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