ML20080F267
| ML20080F267 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 09/15/1983 |
| From: | Fleischaker D FLEISCHAKER, D.S., JOINT INTERVENORS - DIABLO CANYON |
| To: | Asselstine J, Bernthal F, Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8309190241 | |
| Download: ML20080F267 (5) | |
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DAVID S. FLEISCHAKER DCCXETED US'!%
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BRANCH September 15, 1983 NunziG Palladino, Chairman o
James Asselstine, Commissioner Frederick M. Bernthal, Commissioner Victor Gilinsky, Commissioner Thomas Roberts, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20555 Re:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 and Unit 2, Docket # 50-275 & 50-323 Gentlemen:
The Commission has deferred indefinitely its meeting to hear the views of the parties to the Diablo Canyon licensing proceeding-on reinstatement of the low power test license.
When that meeting is rescheduled, we request that it be held in San Luis Obispo, California, the location of the plant,
-and that the public be provided an opportunity to address the Commission.
We believe that all parties -- and particularly the Commission -- have much to gain by granting this request.
In the first place, a local hearing will increase public understanding of the Commission's deliberative process.
Usually all that the public sees is the final product of the Commission's deliberations, an edict issued by faceless bureaucrats living far from the plant.
- However, if the public is provided the opportunity to hear the arguments 8309190241j30 g PDR ADOCK PDR Q
-September 15, 1983 Page Two first : hand, (instead of through second hand, abbreviated news reports) and to see the Commission consider those arguments, then they are likely to have a greater apprecia-tion for the decision making process.
Moreover, if they believe in the strength of their case, PG&E, Teledyne and the Staff should welcome the opportunity to present them to the public.
- Secondly, presenting the public an opportunity to express their views to the Commissioners demonstrates that o
this matter is receiving the high degree of concern that it merits.
The events of the last two years have taken their toll on public confidence.
First, in an unprecedented act, the Commission, in November 1981, was compelled to reversed its safety finding and suspend the Diablo Canyon operating license issued only two months earlier.
Since that time repeated disclosures of major design and construction errors has further eroded public confidence in the plant's safety.
And most recently the public learned that PG&E (1) withheld documents reporting major deficiencies in the quality
-assurance program of a major construction contractor, and (2) misled the Appeal Board on this matter in sworn testi-mony at the July, 1983 " mini hear ng,"*/ a disclosure that cast suspicion on the reliability of_ the Diablo Canyon Project's recent assurance that the plant is now safe.
Under these unusual circumstances, the Commission should take every step to permit public participation and
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Joint Intervenors Supplement to Motion to Reopen the
_Record on the Issue of Construction Quality Assurance Dated September 9, 1983
September 15, 1983 Page Three increase public appreciation for its decision making pro-cess.
Granting this request is a step in that direction.
Very truly yours, JOEL R.
REYNOLDS, ESQ.
JOHN R. PHILLIPS, ESQ.
ERIC HAVIAN, ESQ.
Center for Law in the o
Public Interest 10951 W. Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90064 213/470-3000 DAVID S.
FLEISCHAKER, ESQ.
Post Office Box 1178 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101 405/235-8444 I
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By:
UM4 7ld4h David S.
Fleischaker Attorneys for Petitioners SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE SCENIC SHORELINE PRESERVATION CONFERENCE, INC.
ECOLOGY ACTION CLUB SANDRA SILVER ELIZABETH APFELBERG JOHN J.
FORSTER cc:
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
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Docket Nos. 50-275
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50-323 (Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power
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-Plant,-Unit 1-and Unit 2
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 6'
I hereby certify that on this 15th day of September, 1983, I have served copies of the foregoing letter, mailing them through the U.S. mails, first class, postage prepaid.
Mr. Fredrick Eissler Joel Reynolds, Esq.
Scenic-Shoreline Preservation John R.-Phillips, Esq.
Conference, Inc.
Eric Havian, Esq.
4623 More Mesa Drive Center for' Law in the Public Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Interest 10951 W. Pico Boulevard Malcolm-H. Furbush, Esq.
Los Angeles, CA 90064 Vice President & General Counsel Richard Hubbard Philip A. Crane, Esq.-
MHB Technical Associates Pacific. Gas & Electric Co.
1723 Hamilton Ave., Suite K 77 Beale Street, #3135 San Jose, CA' 95725 San Francisco,-CA 94106-Arthur C. Gehr, Esq..
Docket and Service Branch Snell & Wilmer Office of the Secretary 3100 Valley Center U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Phoenix, Arizona 85073 Commission-Washington, D.C.
20555 Bruce Norton, Esq.
Norton, Burke,' Berry &
Lawrence Chandler, Esq.-
French, P.C.
Office of the Executive 2002 East Osborn Legal Director BETH_042 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 U.S.-Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 s.
Janice E. Kerr, Esq.
Maurice Axelrad, Esq.
Lawrence Q. Garcia, Esq.
Lowenstein, Newman, Reis &
J. Calvin Simpson, Esq.
- Axelrad, P.C.
California Public Utilities 1025 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Commission Washington, D.C.
20036 5246 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Virginia and Gordon Bruno Pecho Ranch John Van De Kamp, Atty. Gen.
Post Office Box 6289 Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Los Osos, CA 93402 Chief Attorney General Michael J. Strumwasser, Sandra & Gordon Silver Special Counsel to the 1760 Alisal Street Attorney General San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 State of California 3580 Wilshire Boulevard, Nancy Culver Suite 800 192 Luneta o
Los Angeles, CA 90010 San Luis Obispo, CA 93402 Betsy Umhoffer Carl Neiburger 1493 Southwood Telegram Tribune San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Post Office Box 112 San Luis Obispo, CA 93402 h
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