ML20063H127

Statement Supporting Yakima Indian Nation Petition to Intervene.Many Aspects of Petition Germane Only to Representation by Yakima Indian Nation

ML20063H127
Person / Time
Site:	Skagit
Issue date:	07/20/1982
From:	Wapato S COLUMBIA RIVER INTER-TRIBAL FISH COMMISSION
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0fftISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

PUGET SOUND POWER & LIGHT Docket Nos. STN 50-522 COMPANY, ET AL. STN 50-523 Skagit/Hanford Nuclear Power )

Projects, Units 1 and 2 )

STATEMENT OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER INTER-TRIBAL FISH COMMISSION IN SUPPORT OF INTERVENTION BY THE YAKIMA INDIAN NATION The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Comission supports the Yakima Indian Nation petition to intervene in the Skagit/Hanford proceedings. The comission considers the potential contribution to the Skagit/Hanford proceeding The by participation of the.Yakima Indian Nation to be of paramount value.

Inter-Tribal Fish Comission does not, and could not, represent the discrete, individual position of the Yakima Nation.

Many aspects of the Yakima petition are germane only to representation l

! by the Yakima Indian Nation. These aspects include:

(a) the requirement to assure the Yakima Indian Nation and its people perpetual free access to all ceded lands; (b) the requirement to eliminate any potential need to evacuate or recomend evacuation of any of the Yakima peop10 from the Yakima reservation or ceded lands; (c) the requirement to design and construct the project to assure that the health of the Yakima Indian people or treaty reserved assets will not be threatened; and (d) the requirement that no aspect of the project would infringe upon the unique value system of the Yakima Indian Nation or any written or unwritten Yakima laws.

With regard to fishery issues, the Inter-Tribal Fish Comission hasIn always this enjoyed a close wor. king relationship with the Yakima Indian Nation.

aspect, the comission would be willing to coordinate with the Yakima Nation where interests overlap. Yet the comission does not represent the discrete interests of the Yakima Nation even with respect to fishery matters. The 8209010335 820716

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O comission acts only according to the consensus position of the fish and wildlife comittees of the four Columbia River treaty tribes so as to promote and coordinate their conservation practices. An essential aspect of promoting these conservation practices is to ensure that particular similarly held treaty rights are not rendered nugatory. Thus the comission has determined to intervene in the Skagit/Hanford proceedings.

The comission considers, building a sound record to be essential for the Skagit/Hanford permitting and licensing. Thus, the comission believes that the addition of the Yakima Indian Nation as a party would greatly assure the development of such a record in an orderly fashion.

Respectfully Submitted,

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S. Timothy Wapat6 N__3 Dated this 2-C' day of July, 1982.

I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ilVCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICEllSING BOARD In The Matter of Puget Sound )

Power and Light, et al, ) Docket Nos.

Amended Application for Construction )

Permits and Facility Licenses, ) STN 50-522, 50-523 SKAGIT/HANFORD NUCLEAR PROJECT )

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I have this M day of July 198!, served true copies of Petitioner, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission's Statement in Support of Intervention by the Yakima Indian Nation, by mail, postage prepaid, upon the following:

John F. Wolf, Esq., Chairman Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 3409 Sheperd Street Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. Frank F. Hooper Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel School of Natural Resources University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48190 F. Theodore Thomsen, Esq.

Perkins, Cofe, Stone, Olsen & Williams 1900 Washington Building 1325 Fourth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 Richard L. Black, Esq.

Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Executive Legal Ofrector Washington, D.C. 20555 j

i James B. Hovis Yakima Indian ilation c/o Hovis, Cockrill & Roy 316 Box 487 Yakima, WA 98907 Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council flicholis D. Lewis, Chairman Mail Stop PY-11 Olympia, WA 98504 Darrell Peeples, Esq.

Administrative Judge Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council Mail Stop PY-11 Olympia, WA 98504 Terrence L. Thatcher, Esq.

ilational Wildlife Federation and Oregon Environmental Council Dekum Building - Suite 708 519 S.W. 3rd Portland, OR 97204 Ralph Cavanagh, Esq.

Natural Resources Defense Council 25 Kearny Street San Francisco, CA 98108 Nina Bell, Staff Intervenor Coalition for Safe Power Suite 527, Governor Building 408 S.W. Second Avenue Portland, OR 97204 s'

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Robert C. Lothro Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Comission 8383 N.E. Sandy Blvd., Suite 320 Portland, OR 97220 l

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