ML20148B572

Advises That Siting Plant W/Once Through Cooling Sys at Rome Point Unacceptable.Permit Will Not Be Issued

ML20148B572
Person / Time
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
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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 m iccue a permit for a once-through cooling discharge associated with d generating facilities of at least 900 megawatts. The answer to that

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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

%] 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 e the conclusions of Messrs. Leger and Prager and to recommend that the  !

aj Agency inform the Company that a permit for once-through cooling would '

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DATE: December 26, 1972

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. - -k 3 On Deceriber 22, 1972, Edward Plum 1cy and Ogdon Savyer of the New 1

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England' Power Company met with the Committee for Power Plant Siting and 'i; cf Operation in order to request EPA to take a position on whether Rome Point i Rhode Island is an appropriate site'for a power plant.

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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 [

consisti'ng of at least a 900 meg. plant but would like to have two eleven

.Q"s hundred meg.' plants. The preference is f6r atomic energy but, if necessary, si fossil fuel'can be used 1 s

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'd The specific problem with which this committee must first deal is 1 17 whather EPA shuuld allow the discharge of unrreated cooling water into the j; Mk estuary at Rome Point.

i]k The Com"pany will submit the results of a biological study done by George Matheson concerning the population of that marine environment and

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g1 . Bob Leger and Jan Prager will review the Matheson study.

1 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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df6 , Ogden Sawyer indicated that if permission for once-through cooling 7 would be denied. the Company will not build a plant at Rome Point, but 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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