ML20140B823
| ML20140B823 | |
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| Issue date: | 09/29/1983 |
| From: | Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Mitchell G SENATE |
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Dear Senator Mitchell:
This letter responds to your letter inquiring whether the Commission has any information reflecting specific instances where tne hearing process has delayed a nuclear power plant's operation, or knows of any instances of unnecessary backfit requirements.
The direct answer to your questions is'in both cases no.
On the details of these responses, the individual Comissioners have a variety of views, some of which were presented in their testimony before the Subcomittee on Energy Conservation and Power of the House Comittee on Energy and Comerce on September 23, 1983 or in the information submitted to supplement the record of the hearing.
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WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510 July 20, 1983 Ilonorable Nunzio J.
Palladino Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 11 Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
I would like to thank you for the Commissioners parti'*
cipation in the hearing before the Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation on May 25, 1983, regarding the nuclear licensing reform proposals.
On Thursday, July 14, 1983, the sub-Committee held further hearings on these proposals.
One of my continuing concerns about these proposals is the attempt to modify the current hearing and backfitting procedures in a way that might not serve the public interest.
In his testimony before the Subcommittee, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, representing the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, stated:
... contrary to a popularly held myth, the public hearings aspects of the licensing process has never delayed a single nuclear power-plant's operatio'n by a single week.
Indeed, one reads the many pages of j
industry, NRC and DOE testimony in vain for a single specific illu-stration of a licensing delay (or an unnecessary backfit)-that this i
legislation would cure.
Indeed, I have carefully reviewed your statement pre-sented to the Subcommittee and the transcripts of that hearing and have found no such illustration.
If the Commission has information about any specific instances where the hearing process has delayed a nuclear powerplant's operation, or know of any instances of un-necessary backfit requirements, could you please supply the details so I can fully understand the nature of any problems with which we are attempting to address by this legislation.
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Your prompt reply would be of great benefit to this Subcommittee's deliberations.
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