ML20134B259
| ML20134B259 | |
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| Site: | 05000000, Marble Hill |
| Issue date: | 03/25/1983 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA) |
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| FOIA-84-293 PR-83-051, PR-83-51, NUDOCS 8508150565 | |
| Download: ML20134B259 (4) | |
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..... Office of Public Affairs Washington, D.C. 20555 No. 83-51 Tel. 301/492-7715 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Friday, March 25, 1983)
NRC CONSIDERS LICENSE APPLICATION FOR INDIANA NUCLEAR PLANTS: PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is giving notice that it is considering the application of Public Service Company of Indiana and the h' abash Valley Power Association, Inc. for licenses to operate Units 1 and 2 of
'.the Marble Hill Nuclear Generating Station being built in Saluda Township, J6fferson County, Indiana.
Units 1 and 2 use pressurized water reactors and at full 1130 megawatts. would have an electrical output of about power each New Washington on Thethesite is about Indiana banksix miles of the northeast Ohio River. of Construction permits for the facilities were issued in April 1978.
The notice being published in the Federal Register on March 25 provides that any person whose interest may be affected may file a petition to intervene in the proceeding with respect to issuance of the operating licenses. Petitions should be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention:
Docketing and Service Branch, by April 25.
Petitions for leave to intervene should set forth in detail that the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, how interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding, wishes tospecific and the aspects of the case on which the petitioner intervene.
or otherIf timely petitions appropriate arewill order received, a notice of hearing be issued. In the event a hearing is held and a person is permitted to intervene, he or she becomes a full party to the proceeding and has a right to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing.
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83-51 Whether or not there is a hearing, no operating license would be issued until after completion of the safety and environmental reviews by the NRC staff and findings by the Commission that the license application complies with the l requirements of both the Atomic Energy Act and the Commission's l regulations. A license would not be issued for either unit until it was found that the unit had been satisfactorily l completed and is ready for fuel loading. The applicants
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have advised that construction may be completed as early as June 1986 for Unit I and December 1987 for Unit 2.
As they become available, all of the documents relating to the licensing of Units 1 and 2 will be available ;
for public inspection at the.NRC Public Document Room, 1717 l H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and at the Madison-Jefferson Public Library, 420 West Main Street, Madison, Indiana'. i Documents already at those locations include the' Final I
Safety Analysis Reoort and the Environmental Report submitted
.- .- in support of the operating license application; l
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In DlC'SlGUlnU D.C., and is accused of participating in the conspiracy. Ernst isn't charged.
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ing a federal antitrust law and. Il convicted, ' ,j@ Q lQfG e u!d be imed m x mum 51 ml!i n each. U02!!I!!G - 640,064 Indictments Relate to Work But that may be only the baginning of the For WPPSS, PS Indiana; contractors iegar exp- such enminar charge, ris. aneged fited that in federal Ermco courttoin coiiueed rigIndiana b %
charges often are followed by private civil with ' unidentified co-conspirators from 8 Execut,ves Also Named suits bmught by the a!!eged victims of the Starch to November 1978. Also' accused was i Violation.These private suits often entall far Ermco's chairman and president, James A'
, greater financial risks to the companies ac htaddox.
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By Romer E. TAvton cused of wrongdoing, as federal law awards - i
. Another small contractor was charged in staff neporteref Tu w4u. s- hei. . triple the value of damages to any plaintiff (fay with rigging bids on an Indian Health ,
A federal grand jury in Seatt'e indicted that pmves it was harmed by a company's ,
six cf the nation's largest electrical contrac. antitrust violation. . .
service Hospital project in Cherokee, N.C. ,
lors and eight of their executives on charges ' A factor that wou!d limit the private Assistant Attorney General Wi!!iam Bax-of rig;;ing bids on three nuclear rower p! ant damares; however, is that WPPSS haf can. ter, head of the Justice Department's Anti-projxts. . celed Nos. 4 and 5 and suspended work'on tmst Division, said the contracting investi-gations are continuing. Department officials Each of the contracts was for at least No.1 for' as lang as five years. The system's 3100 million, maktng the case one of the executive beard has voted to suspend r.on. wouldn't comment on whether they expect largest bid-rigging suits that the federal struction on No. 3 for three years, subject to further criminal charges.
l government has prosecuted in terms'of dol- appmval by the plant owners' committee. 'In South San Francisco, a spokesman for Atkinson, said that "to the best of our
- lars involved, according to Justice Depart. WPPSS has said that it spent $2.25 billion on I rnent officials. They also noted that it.is rare Nos. 4 and 5, that No.1 is 63% complete and knowledge, we feel Wismer & Becker ~
i that antitmst criminal charges are filed that No. 3 is 75% finished. WPPSS spokes- shouldn't . have been impficated" in the
! against top executives of big companies. men yesterday were unable to say how grand jury's indictment. He said the unit Two ef the contracts were for work on much was spent on the electrical contracts. " cooperated fu!!y" with the jury's investiga-four nuclear plants for the financia:ly trou. The Indiana plant is currently under con- tion.
t:cd Washington Pubite Power Supply Sys. struction. .
.The spokesman said Atkinson bought tem; the third was for construction of the The executives named in the indictment, Wismer & Becker in 1950 and noted that the Marbie Hi!! Nuclear Generating Station for if convicted, could be sentenced to as many a!!eged price rigging took place in 1978.
Public Service Co. of Indiana. lie said the parent company learned of
, as three years in prison and fined,as muc'h Companies charged mth rigging bids on as $100,000 each. the investigation earlier this year from Rob-a!! three contracts are Fischbac.h & 51oore The individuals charged are Franc.is S. ert Albrecht, president of Wismer& Becker Inc. of Dallas, a subsidiary'of Fischbach and then an Atkinson director, lie said Mr Corp. of New York Cty; Howard P. Foley c Ke 1stmm, fomer chaiman of Fischbach Albrecht [d offered not to seek reelection to the Imm and cmmy chaiman of hs paren . teard, and his offer was accepted. Alr. Al-Co.,a prises subsidiary Inc., both ofofWashington, HowardiP. Foley D.C.; LK. Enter . Lawrence E. Grundy, western divis, ion presi' brecht resigned June 1, the spokesman said.
Comstock & Co., a subsidiary of LK.C. Inc., (dent of hhych & Mmre; Bancroft T. Fo* Ile s
, both of. Danbury, Conn.; Commonwealth le?'Jf , President and chle! executive officer brecht.to quit.
Electne Co., a subsidiary of Corr.monwealth :of Howard P. Foley Co.; Charles L Scharfe in Richland, a WPPSS spokesmnn de-Ccs., both of L!ncoln, Neb.; Lord Electric *.Jr., chairman and president of LK. Com- clined comment on the indictment liecause
, fo. of New York City; and Wismer & Becker stock and its parent; Paul C. Schorr III, ford officials hadn't seen it yet. He said WPPSS Contracting Engineers Inc. of Sacramento,- merly president of Commonwealth Elec'tric didn't request the grand jury's investiga-
, .Cahf., a subsid.'ary of Guy F. Atkinson Co. and currently president and chairman of its tion.
of California, in San Francisco. . . parent: Peter F. Matthews, president and In Lincoln. Tracy Donovan, president of
. ch!ef executive of Lord Electric; and Hemy Commonwealth , Electric, said. "We are i Jury's Allegations A. Kamment.ind and Paul E. Arbogast, both aware of an indictment being filad. We in-The indictment charged that these com Vice presidents of IArd Electnc. tend to plead r!ot guilty. We have retnined panies colluded wd.th unidentified co conspir- counsel, and we intend to fight it."
ators frcm April to December 1978 to rig Other Bid Rigging Probes bids on the three primary electrical con- The Seattle indictment is the most s.igmf.t-tracts. It a!!eges that they discussed.the cant to emerge so far ! cra eight grand ju-preparation and submission of bids, shared
' ries in several states that are probing al-price Information and agreed to designate which of them would get certain projects leged bid rigging by electrical contractors.
According to - the Indictment. WPPSS One industry official said that documents __
have been subpoenaed from as many.as 30
' awarded one of the contracts, for about $100.r o f the nation s largest contractors.
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'Wismer & Becker for work on p! ants No.1 NThe Justice Department also filed a bid-and No. 4 near Richland. Wash. The other rigging charge yesterday again'st a smaller WPPSS contract, for plants No. 3 and No. 5 electrical contractor. Ermco Inc. of India-near Satsop, Wash., went to Fischbach & napolis, in connection with .a series of elec-Moore for about $151 million, the grand jury trical construction projects at Chrysler said. The Marble H;Il job." valued at about
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