ML20049J540

Objects to to Congress & Monthly Status Rept Including Licensing Schedule Which Anticipates Early Issuance of Ol.Statements Inappropiate to Commissioner

ML20049J540
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	03/05/1982
From:	Cohalan P SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8203180322
Download: ML20049J540 (2)

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Dear Mr. Chairman:

This is in reference to your letter to Congressman Tom Bevel, dated February 26, 1982, th'at transmitted the NRC's " Monthly Status Report to Corigress. "

After reviewing your letter and the Status Report, I am concerned that the Commission may not realize either the seriousness of the safety issues pending before the NRC in the Shoreham case, or the importance to suffolk County and its citizens that these issues be considered fairly and fully by the Commission.

I am writing now to underscore Suffolk County's deter-mination that the Shoreham plant be licensed to operate only if, after complete and objective hearings on the record, the plant is found safe and in compliance with all applicable regulations.

The licensipg schedu.le..engAqs.ed with your letter to Congressman Bevel anticipates for th,e shiir:eham plant "the early issuance '

power immediatepf"an-operating--license-restricted to 5%

ly-f orldowing-ASLB decision. "

Your Report then projects t@e-ASDB-decision-to-be-in. October 1982.

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of the Commiss. ton, 6hicli'is' in f.act sitting as a quasi-judicial forum,in'the.Sh6reham case..tirst, the statements 9* )

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Cohalan, Suff olk County Executive DATE; March 5, 1982 Page 2 suggest prejudgement by the Commission of..the outcome of the licensing hearing.

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a not-so-subtle signal to the regulatory staff, and most significantly to the ASLB judges, that sthey are bound to a hearing schedule that must be completed by September and to a decision that~ must approve'a 5%

operating license for Shoreham.

I respectfully wish to state, Mr.' Chairmab, that there must be no artificial cons,traints, whether they be imposed by the Commission through. promises or commitmehts to Congress or otherwise, that compromise the health and safety of Suffolk County's citizens.

The hearings on the Shoreham plant must follow procedures that assure f air and thoroughgoing evaluations of all of the health and safety issues, and the timetable for ASLB.and Commission decision-making must serve the ends of safety and objectivity alone.

I hope that you share with me these principles for the Shoreham case, and I accordingly ask that you respond to me so that the views of the Commission will be clear to the citizens of Suffolk County and to the Commission's own staff in the upcoming Shoreham hearings.

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