ML20148B572
| ML20148B572 | |
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| Site: | New England Power |
| Issue date: | 01/30/1973 |
| From: | Bedrosian P, Corkin C ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY |
| To: | Casey Smith NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| NUDOCS 7810310286 | |
| Download: ML20148B572 (2) | |
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i On Decembcr 22, 1972 representatives. of New England Power Company j
met with the Regional Power Plant Committee and asked whether EPA would iccue a permit for a once-through cooling discharge associated with m
d generating facilities of at least 900 megawatts.
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question depends primarily on the opinion of experts in the field of j-biology.
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Our biologists, Robert Leger and Dr. Jan Prager, have reviewed all of l,
the available studies on the West Passage of Narraganset Bay where Rome
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Point is located and have concluded that a once-through cooling system would be tmacceptable. Attached hereto are copies of their reports.
~3 The Committee met on January 30, 1973 and voted unanimously to accept 1
the conclusions of Messrs. Leger and Prager and to recommend that the eaj Agency inform the Company that a permit for once-through cooling would 3
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Rhode Island is an appropriate site'for a power plant.
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Present for the EPA: Jan Prager, Joan Harrison, Wally Woo (for j
j Tony Cortese), Byron Keene (for Paul Bedrosian), Bob Leger and Charles Corkin.
Thi Company wants to conatruct and. operate power generating facilities
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.Q"s consisti'ng of at least a 900 meg. plant but would like to have two eleven hundred meg.' plants. The preference is f6r atomic energy but, if necessary, si fossil fuel'can be used 1
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17 whather EPA shuuld allow the discharge of unrreated cooling water into the j;
Mk estuary at Rome Point.
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The Com"pany will submit the results of a biological study done by k
George Matheson concerning the population of that marine environment and the probable effects of the heated effluent.
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. Bob Leger and Jan Prager will review the Matheson study.
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Prager, Harrison and Corkin will revicu the Rome Point site as vc11 as i
s; other potential sites on the Rhode Island coastline.
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, Ogden Sawyer indicated that if permission for once-through cooling 4
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would seek a site more suitable for the discharge of heated water.
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Sawyer and Plumicy were grateful for our assurance that we would review
'b the probicm and make a recommendation as soon as possible.
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