ML20125A727
| ML20125A727 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane, Midland  |
| Issue date: | 05/29/1979 |
| From: | Howell S CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| Shared Package | |
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| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908150758 | |
| Download: ML20125A727 (1) | |
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.WE URGENTLY REQUE.ST THAT. YOU RECONSIDER YOUR PROPOSED REORDERING
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'0F LICENSING PRIORITIES AS IT PERTAINS TO, CONSUMERS'POWEF COMPANY'S MIDLAND PLANT.
YOUR PROPOSAL PUTS MIDLAND INTO THE CATEGORY.WITH '
' LICENSING ACTIVITY SUSPENDED UNTIL JANUARY 1980 ONLY BECAUSE OF YOUR '
STAFF.,'S ESTIMATED ~ CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION DATE.
'WE DO NOT AGREE W ITH THE STAF,F'S ESTIMATE... THIS NEW DATE WAS b.4ILATERALLY SELECTED
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BY YOUR STAFF WITHOUT DISCUSSION WITH US EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN,
TRYING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS TO DISCUSS
- DELAYS IN THE S'TAFF'S PERFOR-MAN.CE OF THEIR REVIEWS OF OUR APPLICATION.
.THREE SCHEDULED MEETINGS WITH THE STAFF, IN WHICH WE.HAD WANTED TO DISCUSS THE STAFF'S REVIEW AND OUR CURRENT ASSESSMENT OF THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE, HAVE BEEN CANCFLLFD 9Y THE STAFF.
THE PROPOSE 0 REORDERING PUTS MIDLAND BEHIND OTHER UNITS THAT MIDLAND WAS WELL AHEAD OF IN THE PRIORITY LISTING YOU ESTABLISHED LAST AUGUST.
ON YOUR AUGUST 1978 PRIORITY LIST, MIDLAND ' WAS AHEAD OF-ALL, EXCEPT ONE, AF THE PLANTS NOW PROPOSED FOR CONTINUING OPERATING LICrNSE RrVIEW.
p ON TPr 9 ASIS O'F rOUITY AND COMMON Sr.NSE, WE 9ELIEVE THAT LICENSING REVir.W SHollLO PROC'EEn AND THAT 'TbE OR AF T ENV IRONMr.NT AL ST ATEMENT' S PGilLD RE PU9LISHED.
VIDI.AN0 FAS QFFN IN THE NRC LICENSING PROCESS LONr-ER THAN ANY OTHER plant UNnFR REVIrW.
OllR APPLICATION FOR A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT WAS
--*-~^"r3 to YFARS AGO.. MIDLAND HAS SUFFERED TFROUGH INNU MERA9 LE.
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