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The Region I (Newark) office was infomed by the licensee by telephone at 4:00 p.m on February 29, 1972, that they had received an order from the a
New York State Environ = ental Conservation' Cossiscioner, Mr.- Henry L'. Diacond, to halt testing of the circulating vnter system for Unit.No. 2 because of
" substantial' fich kills."
Unit No. 2' has a fuel loadin6 licenso and has been testing-various' plant syste'nsi including the circulating water system. The licensee has been run-ning one of their siX ' circulating -Vater pu7. pm to obtain system data and information on the effects of running the circulating water system on fish.
The licensee considers 'it i=portant to run~ these tests in the vinter in that this is the time vben most pmblems' cre expected.-
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According to the New York City newspap~er, articles, Mr. Diamond is repdrted to have said'that' more than 100,000 yhite perch',Jatrijed bass and other. fish hade beeii impaled and killed on the plant's veter[ intake screens during the past'veck..
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con Ed had not operated'the circulating vat'er system for two days. Mr. Diamond has staten that there vill be a hearing
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on this matter in Albany on March '9,1972. Con Ed has stated that.they have no inte'nt,of operating the, circulating V:ter system until'after the hearing.
Tnis prob'lem has received a great deal of publicity in the New York ' area.
Prominent ~artic1cs were in the-New York Times and the New York Daily News on March 1,,1972. Furthemore, this i'ssue vas. discussed on television. news brosacasts on the evening of February 29j - 1972, and.on many local' radio news broadcast's 'on the morning of MarcliT,1972.. '
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The Region I office promptly'infomed the tocal' AEC Public Relations representative in New York on February. 29, 1972. HQ Public Relations personnelivere ' informed on the morning of Jarch '1,1972.
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this particular case and any previous cases of fish kills at Unit'No. 2.
It is Region-I's intention to follov-up this visit with a v1 sit to the main offices of the licensee and the New York State Environmental.
Conservation Group to accure that we are aware ~of all details relating to this type problem.
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Com issioner Ramey's Technical Assistant,gp@sioner Doub's Technical Assistant and the staff of tg.{of61 Ch,ec,hMeYon Atomic Energy have been informed by telephone.
...ig.t ti Contacts:
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X7421 F. J. Nolan
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XT356 R. H. Engelken Distribution:
Chair =an SchlesinGer F. Schroeder, DE Commissioner Ramey R. R. Maccary, DRS Commissioner Johnson S. Levine, OEA Commissioner Larson R. S. Boyd, DE Co=missioner Doub R. C. DeYoung, DE -
L". H. Muntzira, DR.
D. J.; Skovholt, DE E. J. Bloch, DR H. R, Denton, DE (2)
C. K. Beck,. DR L. Kornblith, Jr., CO C. L.. Henderson, DR R. Di O'Neill, OCR (2)
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S. H. Ranauer, DR J. Fouchard, PI V. Gilinsky, DR M.'Shaw, RDT E. J. Bauser, JCAE J. A. Harris, PI P. A. Morris, DEL J. D. Anderson, IMS S. Smiley, DML M. Bilec,,OS E. G; Case, DRS R. F'. Traley, ACRS (3)
C. D'. W. Thornton, IMS R. L'. Tedesco, DE L. D. Low,. CO CO Regional Offices General Manag e (2)
DR Readira File General Counsel (2)
. REG Central File Secretary (2) i j
L. Rogers, DREP A. Giambusco, DREP D. R. Muller, DPIP e
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