ML20037A475
| ML20037A475 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 08/18/1970 |
| From: | Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Finkel J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8003050679 | |
| Download: ML20037A475 (7) | |
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AUG 181970 Mrs. Jean Fenton Finkel Finkel & Finkel Masonic Building lorain, Ohio 44052
Dear Mrs. Finkel:
1 at pleased to reply to your letter of June 17, 1970, to the President concerning the proposed Davis-Lesse Nucicar Pont Station. The Toledo Edison Cocpany's application for a permit to construct the Davis-Besse plant was received in August 1969 and presently is being revised by the AEC regulatory staf f.
With respect to the use of the site for a wildlife refuge, it is our understanding that the Toledo Edison Company has leased approxinately 2
one-half of the 900 acre site as a wildlife refuge to the Bureau of
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Department of the Interior.
Concerning the use of cooling tevers, as the enclosed annouacement indicates, the applicant announced on July 31, 1970, that they wculd ceploy cooling towers at the Davis-Eesse plant.
In addition, th e recently enacted Water Quality Icprovecent Act of 1970 (copy enclosed),
which amends certain sections of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, requires applicants for a construction permit and operating license for any nuclear power plant which will discharge ef fluents into the navigable waters of the United States to provide the AEC with a certification from the State or interstate pollution control; agency, or the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, that there is reasonable assurance that the plant will not violate applicable water quality standards. The AEC would generally be prohibited from issuing any such pernit or license without having received this certification. In the case of the Davis-Besse plant which had an application pending on the date of enactnent of the Act, the Act provides that if a construction perrtit is issued for the plant before April 3,1971, the applicant cust subnit a water quality certification to the AEC within one year f rom the date the con-struction percit is issued or the permit will ter=inate at the end of the one year period. Thereafter, the AEC u.ay not issue a permit or license for the plant until a water quality certification first has been roccived.
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Mrs. Jean Tenton Titnel You eay also be interestod in knowing that under the National Environeental Policy Act of 1969, a copy of which is enclosed, each Tederal atency is-required to consult with appropriate rederal, State and local agencies concerning cajor Federal actions significantly af fecting the quality of the human environment and to prepare a detailed statement concerning, among other things, the environmental impact of the proposed action.
I am enclosing a statenant of general policy which indicates the canner in which the Comission proposed to exercise its responsibilities under the Act. As the policy statement indicates, the Co= ission has identified the licensing of nuclear power reactors as one of the actions which would require the -preparation of a detailed environmental statement. We expect
- to roccive the applicant's environmental report on the Davis-3csse plant within the next few weeks, and we' will foraard you a copy of the report when it is received. The environnental report also vill be c.ade avail-able for corcent by approprinte rederal, State and local agencies, including the U.S. Department of the interior. At the conclusion of the co :=ent period, the regulatory staf f will prepare - a detailed environ-mental statement which will include r. discussion of any probleas or objections raised and the disposition thereof.
Copics of the environmental statement will be forwarded to the Council on Environnental Quality and the agencies concerned, and will accompany the application through the Cor:uission's review processes, including the public hearing.
Sincerely, 7 sp,d ) Harold [. Price Harold L. Price
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June 17, 1970 The Honorable Richard ':. ':ixon Fresident of the United States The '.~ nite Houso
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This letter is a strong protest to you regarding the governnental authorisation of the Atonic Energy Electric plant to be built at the ucstern end of Inke Erie. There are two nain reasons for ny protest (and -any other oersons of my acquaintance feel the sane vay):
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Tne proposed site of the plant is ir. an area that is a dedicated uildlife r.arsh refuge for wild foul and has been in public trust for nany years. I:ou rather than a rarch, it will beconc a nechanical solid land of buildings and paved arcas.
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The heated output of nator that uill raise the water tenp-erature of Iake Erie up 5 degroes (at the optinistic report)
(17 degrees at the pessinistic report) is such an assinine concept that I honestly can't believe that the covernnental bodies have given their pernission.
I live on Iake Erie shores and have closelv observed these waters since 1960. In early spring the unters are nudt$ and full of floating debris run-off fron the srollen rivers. In June the unters start to " blue-out" encept uhen there is an East current that brings the Black P.iver flow to its 'est, rather than its nornal flou castuard touard Uiagara Falls.
Other than these cast cr rents and for a feu days after, we have blue raters again.
(Elue water does not nean a blue clear unter - but even a blue effect on the surfaco affords a psychological clarity. ) Along around the end of Julv and August, when the tencerature of the lake has rison, a green-yeller algae forns. If the unter tencerature is 78 degrees, then the green is about 2" to 6" thick; uhen a heat uave pushes the water tenocraturc up to 79 or 80 degrees, the green algae runs to a depth of
_Cne degree is catastrophic to the pleasurability of about h tc 6 _f_cej.
the lake -- it reall" looks like a stagrant pond, even with the imves.
Ynen er goverraental bodies agree to a 5 degree raise -- it is horrifying to centemplate -- it sconc ne vill soon be able to walk to Canada.
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The liciorablo Richard M. :'i:on Fresident of the United States 2-June 17,1970 I an auare that fuel for poner is in decreasindy short supply and uill ran out in this area cver the next 5 to 10 years, sr I an not advocating that to should not have an ato-ic poxcr plant, bat it scens to no that the ecological ftitare of I:orthern Chie is "enack on the linc" nou.
- First, a marsh should not be used -- and I5n 2re is only being used to savo dollars over parchasing other nore " valuable?" land; and second, where ever this needed plant is pinced, it should be forced to spend the additional nonics (not nach over a period of future) to cool do m its heated vaters so as not to pollute the envirorr.ent.
It is : y understanding that the poner concanics are nuarc of the roonire-nent for cooling toucrs, and are nilling to install then. 16pparently, hc7cver, they are being told by the authorizing gcVernnental agencies that they do not need to install then.
~..'ny ? ? ? uith an exploding nood for poner, should they not absolutely be ordered to install cooling toners nou - Vnen the nood for then is obvious in the non future!
Ihank you fur proceeding at once on this natter of extrene vital interest to all the citizens of Ohio, surrounding states, and Canada.
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