ML20039E420

Package of Two Ltrs Supporting Restart of Facility

ML20039E420
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Site:	Crane
Issue date:	12/17/1981
From:	Cole R, Shield R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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Page 4 NRC SAYS "N0 NEW LICENSES IN 1981" FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF TM!

Here is an organization that deserves your support.

The Nuclear Regulatory Comission now admits its Friends and Family of TMI is a group of citizens who 11cers1 % process doesn't work. In a January 30 live near the Three Mlle Island reactors and, although report to Representative Tom Bevill (Chairman of the they are happy to live there, they are unhappy that House Appropriations Energy and Water Development they have to pay higher electric rates because both Subccmittee), the NRC forecasts that no new nuclear plants are shutdown. They know that THI-1, the power plants will be permitted to start up in 1981.

undamaged plant, has been upgraded and is ready to produce electricity. As soon as THI-1 is on Itne The NRC claims it will license two plants in 1981:

the utility will save 12 to 14 million dollars per Salem 2 (NJ), and Farley 2 (AL). But both those month. This savings will show up in the bills they plants received their fuel load and low power test.

pay.

licenses last year. Only the full power license had n5t been issued. Neither had any public hearings to The utility, Metropolitan Edison, has to buy replace-complete. Thus, the bottom line remains: No new ment power while TMI-l and 2 are shutdown. The operating licenses scheduled to be iss;ed in 1981.

utilities that sell to Meted use coal, nuclear and oil to generate electricity. Since oil is the most The reason, according to the NRC, is that more time expensive, it is used to generato the excess capacity.

15 needed for public hearings and to make decisions This means that while THI-I is shutdown, this country after the hearings are complete. Thus, eleven burns more expensive foroton oil and the friends and nuclear plants that had scheduled operation in 1980 Family of TMI pay higher electric bills, or 1981 will simply sit, complete and idle, while the NRC simply sits.

We would like to encourage you to help Friends and Family of THI in two ways. First, they need more And it's mighty expensive sitting: The NRC has just members, preferably from a broader base than just ubmitted a budget request for a cool half-bt'llon that limited area of Pennsylvania. Membership fees 02

$500.7 million). Let's see now. 5500 mil-are low enough -- $1.00 per yeart To join, please lion to license zero plants works out to, uh, um, write to: Friends and Family of THI, P.O.Dox 82, mucn per plant would y.cu,say that is.

High Spire, PA 17034. Second, and probably more o

Chairman Ahearne?

1mportant, is to write to the NRC and Congress demanding the restart of TMI-1. The NRC docket But the biggest cost, of course, is the delay in number is 50-2895P, THI-Unit 1.

Address your getting useful output from these plants. These letter to: Mr. John F. Ahearne, Chairman, U.S.

eleven plants (11,000 megawatts total capacity) are Nuclear Regulatory' Commission, 1717 H Street, NW, capable of producing the energy equivalent of over Washington, D.C.

20555.

100 million barrels of oil per year..The 01ablo Canyon station alone could cut California electric costs by $80 million per month if it were allowed UNDER THE TABLE INTERVENOR FUNDING to run. (It was reaoy to load fuel in February.

1975, but the utt11ty has been fcrced to burn oil instead for the last five years.)

When lawyers sue a Federal Agency it is not always news, not even when they wirt. When their suit says One year ago (in February 1980), Rep.* 8evill chewed they just want to get money for the poor and elderly out the NRC comission for holding up licensing as the Congress intended, it sounds like the lawyers (NLAS No. 25, Maren 1980). He threatened budget are " good guys", therefore, it's good news. Well, cuts, and ordered progress reports on reactor not always -- as Peter Metzger and Richard Westfall licensing. We hope he helps the NRC'get an even point out in the recent issue of " Policy Review" clearer message from Congress this year.

(Heritage Foundation, Winter 1981).

We suggest you write Hon. Tom Bevill, Chairman, Their article "The Great Ecology Swindle" is a well Subcommittee on Energy anc Water Development, House written and well documented story of how so-called 1

Appropriation Comittee, U.S. House of Representa-

.public interest" lawyers almost circumvented the j

tive, Washington. 0.C., 20515. Applaud his efforts will of Congress. That intent was to provide finan-to get the NRC moving and urge him on. Send copies clal relief for the poor and elderly foced with the of your letter to your Congressmen and Chairman

" heat or eat" problem caused by sky-rocketing fuel i

John F. Ahearne Nuclear Regulatory Commission' costs. The first out-of-court settlement would l

L'ashington. 0.C., 20555.

have, instead, funneled most of the money to support consumer-activist organizations, fund more The SenateAppropriations Energy and Water Development bureaucrats and buy more pamphlets. Fortunately for Subcomittee (U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510) the taxpayers, the Capital Legal Foundation filed a should,not be neglected either. Address letters to complaint. After listening to the complaint, the Mark Hatfetid, Chairman, and Dennett Johnston, Ranking judge has this to say:

"I believe that the parties, Minority Menber, both by what they said and by what they did not say, F

misled me both as to the facts and the law. I

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believe they were aware, as I was not, that the The NRC Comissioners are walking around bow-legged various expenditures required by the consent order these days, we hear. They were really chewed out by were only arguably related to the Congressional the House Appropriations subcommittee Feb.19. for purpose and that the order was a bootstraps method failure to license completed nuclear plants. The of accomplishing those expenditures."

questics were very pointed, questioning not only the Commissioners' performance, but their competence and The Metzger-Westfall story gives the details and we qualifications as well. They were ordered to reappear recomend reading it. After reading this almost.

in two weeks with written plans to expedite licensing.

unbelievable story, you will probably want to NLAS fully agrees that the NRC's performance is a suggest to your Congressman that this type,,0f cozy disgrace, and will excerpt the transcript in our next agreement between activist lawyers both Jh and out issue.

of 9overnment must stop.

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