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| ML20031F311 | |
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| Site: | 05000514, 05000515 |
| Issue date: | 10/07/1981 |
| From: | Marbet L FORELAWS ON BOARD |
| To: | Bowers E, Jordan W, Paris O Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8110190522 | |
| Download: ML20031F311 (3) | |
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Elizabeth S. Bowe tjs 9 Dr. Oscar H. Paris Atomic Safety and Lie g Board Atomic Safety P.td Licensing Bd.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear P.egulatory Comm.
Washington, D.C.
20555 Washington, I.C.
20555 Dr. Walter A. Jordan
\\ Nilf 881 West Outer Drive Oak Ridge, TN 37830 googgigo ustmo In the Matter of OCT.1 3 M * "$
Portland General Electric Company, et a 7 (Pebble Springs Nuclear Plant Unit 1 an pg g Suntuf Docket Nos. 50-514, 50-515 gngssut:s
Dear Members of the Board,
A Forelaws On Board has received a copy of the "Affidavi of W.J. Lindblad, President of Portland General Electric Com-pany, Regarding Intent to Proceed with the Pebble Springs Pro-ject" as well as " Applicants response to Intervenor's Motion for Suspension of Purther Hearings."
We are preparing our re-sponse for the October 14, 1981, pre-henr',; conference.
In the interim I enclose copies of additional press clippings which I referred to in the Board's Conference Call of Septem-ber 16, 1981.
I hope these are of help to the Board.
Respectfully submitted.
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. PGE's initiat recepti:n is the effer I t) negitiate was positive. Bauman
' 58y5 th ush the c:mpany had its cwn
'FFOR TNE WEEK IULY l4 21.1981
.. ideas of terms. Atlegislative f invitation, the company submitted a 1
draft of a billit could support for
. amortization of the debt. As written.
'Ihere is a possit>le way out-or.
- the legislation allowed the company Pebble Springs EE ',','",'tE*,','((.*((,*,'";d ihai
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hi An Offer PGE
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early this spring. severa! leading pessibility of future construction 8
h CouId Refuse C:n"Mc"g'l22 u',"d is)",'1",%",7"2ll:,7,l",'c support a bill allowmg the utilities to Whi Je PGE lobbyist Doug Heider recover half the debt from the ALEM - ONE might call the swin ratepayers after the companies sold w n say much about what he calls Snuclear-power plants proposed for off whatever they could.The utilities exploratory discussions." he notes.y.
Pebble Springs the " reactors that would also support ilB 2258 We met with them.very much in proposed changes in the Energy refused to die."
g od faith.but ultimately decided that.
In 1975 a staie agency approved Facility Siting Councillaw that this kind of measure was not in the -
pubh.. terest.,. Bauman adds thatit construction of the plants only to S
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cm have that decision overturned by the was PGE,s board of directors. rather,
a than the company's management,who Oregon Supreme Court. in 1978 voters approved an initiative
. vet ed further negotiations.
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. Why? One reason is that the deal prohibiting Portland General Electri-3 and Pacific Power & Li6t from billing ratepayers for the unfinished plants th
,j simply wasn't sweet enough. Lobdell,
,p though not a direct participant in the until they actually produced power.
7 discussions,was well aware of them.
m Then came Three Mile Island. a
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"Between 50 and 75 cents on the legislatively mandated 18 month f -
11 use committee."If the legislators dollar is all I'd pay." Lobdell soid a moratorium on further nurii.ar construction.and a successful were negotiating from that position.1 measure on the November 1980 ballot can see why PGE would not be
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interested.
prohibiting building any new atomic proponents believe would make it plants until the federal government But isn't 50 cents on the dollar has a licensed nuclear waste disposal g more difficult to site thermal plants.
I whether nuclear or coal.
better than the nothing the company has so far recieved? True, but Lobdell.
site actually operating.
Why would antinuclearlegislators ifowever. such blows have not yet fier such a deal? For one thing the who agrees with Bauman that the proved fatal Since PGE's debt is
. tate is losing control over most companies no longer want to build the about twice that of PP&L. and PGE is a smaller company and less insulated c;nergy decisions. In a case working its plants, says PGE is convinced it can vyay toward the U.S. Supreme Coun. a get much more.
against theimpact of what's proving fyderal judge in San Diego ruled that
" Ballot Measure 7 [ outlawing to be a poor investment. it tat es the th.c Atomic Energy Act preempts state atomic construction until there is an lead in any discussions involving Pebble Springs. Last fall. it urged the laiw and that the siting of nuclear operating waste site and the voters U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P!; ants is a federal decision.The have approved the plant] came along N:orthwest Regional Power Act after a substantial portion of the to speed up the parallel federal de;monstrates a continuing investment had already been made.",,
i licensing effort for the plant.
e eigressional commitment to the says Lobdell."The law is relatively Why would PGE persist in its nuc lear solution. Rep. Rick Bauman clear that the state can't take the pursuit of two plants that nearly (D%ortland) was among those who company's propecty without paying evenone predicts will never be built?
enteyed the session convinced that just compensation.So there they are.
The answeris money. Ahandon there=was still a real possibility that sitting there, saying. *We think that if Pebble Springs and the company may Pebb,'le Springs would be built.
- e get into court,wc*re going to get a.
lose the estimated S'150 million it has "h'2'ybody was running around b,ig chunk of money back and can deal alreadyinvested. Aslon slender hope remainsTorliirplaisi's say ing the plants were dead except with the part that's left.'"
as some Given that PGEis confident that it resurrection:PGC cari pEi onE lPQE President) Bob Short." he says.
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p "Aihd after I looked at how the debt would prevail in court, he explains.
p'rcsciting the bill to angrg keg i;; rowing every year.1 saw only the company is willing to get its other ifo'eIholdm, Additionally,the o options for the company: build affairs m shape and dealwith the c
'*/c plants or recover the money."
Pebble Spnngs issue when the time is company logs part of the debt each II/
year as income and then uses this
" asset as collateral to horrow money b Bauman beheves that the right. Additionally.he says, accepting to finance dividends to stockholders.
cpmpanies don't want to build the any deal might eventually weaken the plants, but that PGE in particular company's case.
Understandably, antinuclear l>olitically has no choice but to it's all a very high. stakes game. PGE activists have interpreted many of pontinue the licensing process. Public stockholders are carrying a huge debt PGE's political maneuverings as a
' Utility Commissioner John Lobdell-while company ratepayers live in the prelude io a Pebble ) rings revival. It all produces a et,,ic political stand-5 agrees. explaining that Short's sure knowledge that, constructing the immediate predecesor. Frank plants will cause their already off: nuclear oa - icnts refuse to yield or compror-n their heartfelt
- Warren. ran the cc.npany about four skyrocketing rates to increase further.
years too long, constantly endorsing But in absence of any legislative 2
antagonisrr NE figures it can't the atomic solution.
action this session, the stand-off will afford to.
-GREG WASSON
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for a-power 9f7 HERMISTON - The " soc at a.
mosphere" in Oregon is not suppor.
tive of construction and operatica of a nuclear power plant at Pebble Springs, Gov. Vic Atiyeh said today.
Atiyeh, speaking to 150 at a,com.
munity breakfast, said plans for con.
struction of Oregon's second nuclear plant near Arlington are la a
" standby" position.
"It is safe to say there is just not a social atmosphere in Oregon for a nuclear power plant. Looking at things pragmatically, it looks like it won't happeu." the governor said.
Atlyeh added be urged Portland General Electric to seek other,
energy Sources.
e "It looks like it won't happes, so let's get after the energy sources we can get," he said.
The governor also expressed con.
fidence that the economy of Oregon will improve.
"In 1979, my first session, the ma.
'jor controversy was how to give away 3600 million. The point is, just like 1971,1H1 is not forever. Rings will change. I am confident the econ.
omy will improve. The question is when, and who can answer that," he said.
Attyeh said while each community will receive support from the state government, he did not consider the state's role one of telling commu.
nities how to deal with economic issues.
"But it is a role to help people help themselves," be said.
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