ML20079F093

Newspaper Article Re Higher Const Costs at Arizona Nuclear Project

ML20079F093
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Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	02/17/1982
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Highsr Arizona Nuc aar Projsct Cests Predict;d ! am- nime i By Tlearne Gray heady 31 ballkm more than now an- 1he consultant, Elsasco Services h'gher price tag. Delays are likely to be. dose tsee suit Sws:sst tk tputed e Inc.. said the massive nuclear proJ- occur because of the time it takes to An independent rosasultant hired

'Ihat could rutse the partner- ect Sd males west of Ptioentx appe. ors get a completed plant fully tested I agent'tes' cust of tsuytug into the to RA: right on schedule and within its and ready to run, the consultant's i by the Muilesto irrigattosa Isistant propers, utthough the amount of the $3.9 billion budget.

and the city of Heddmg has warned report said. At the Arizona project, I hicie.ase remained uncertain Tues- Isu! the schedule and budget are like other projects around the ca-that the Artsuna flucicar l'ower dey as the consultant's report was light, line report said, warning Mo- tion, that turnover process aiready is l "Pro ject -is- takcly to end up costing snade public in Modesto Tuesday. desto and Hedding staat they should 2% months behind schedule and not k p plan on the project falling behind moving as fast as construction has ;

i and costing more. moved.

~> t The news didn't stop the ModeMo The most likely schedule wou'd

[ e rJJ .Y;:fc!ligenrc,

• Irrigation District Board of Direc- set back Units I and 2 by eighe wasmrit. sore. u c A secl tors from adopung an enabling ordi-months and Unit 3 by nine months fe w.s C.*:e O st. 3, i nance to carry out the purchase and and would cost $4.85 billson, Ebasco h:34 fou. f.m . from actting a June 5 vote on the found.

matter.The city of Hedding will vote - Charlee. Viss, MID's asslatant S A CR A!.1EllTO, CALIF, on the propusal an Apr:1. general manager for power resourc-Assuming their voters agree, the es, said that would raise the cost to

) agencies are plarisiing to sell some MID and HedOng from $157 m!!!!an '

u sJ . (f/n /,/gc,u y, g),, g,

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Wmma- oes se c a.,o , ((8 l 7 }962 l $MG ndmon in bonds or notes late / to $192 mWh,ra, Wh an undeter '

FVErl filG - 1 *f 6,60'1 l th:2 year to femince the acquisition- mined impact oo the e>timated $300 t.be  ! oin,,'  ;

[swa uu. SullDAY - 210,360 . A 3 9 percent share of the proict is 'mtith>n totalinvestment.

Pu@ Page , for sale by the El Paso Electric Co., -

M which wants capital for a transtnis- l Bloor.lunultu , pa, * ,ston venture. of that, the Modesto 4 pjgg33 , daMrict would buy 83 percent and '

FED 16 lae Heading :he rest ai a combined cosi of $157 mittion, plus more for financ-1A01111IfiG - 12,382 ing taxes, coohng supply, transmis 4 '

sion lines und nucle.sr fuel.

Because they w6tl go to the bond market for money, Hedding and the ReaI need fOr n-pOWery . trrig.nuon disuict Idred Ebasco for !

With all the debate over nuclear w.wer, let um an independent study of the nucIcar not forget that it supplies oAlyTi cent of Project.

the energy we use in the United States, and that -

tlast I of the Arizona project cur-i 14 is never likely to r,upply snore than nine renuy is more than 90 percent com-k percent. The latter figure is not from environ- litete und expected to begin operal-a mental groups I,ut from the Shell Od Company. lug by May 1983. Ebasco found. Unit C Energy casu.crvation, or' using e.nergy wisely, 2 is et for completion in May 1984

could save more than that. Do you really want and Unit 3 in May 1986.

all the psobleans that come with nuclear power Ehasco offered several alterna- I for this sanall amount of energy? Inve, and slower, completion sched-GERALD R. SCIIULTZ ulca, dach with a correspondingly

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