ML20150A796

Comments on Util 880616 Request to Suspend Antitrust License Condition.Economic Advantages for Util Owning Nuclear Power Plants Have Failed to Materialize

ML20150A796
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Site:	Davis Besse, Perry, 05000000
Issue date:	06/30/1988
From:	Hiatt S OHIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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h ~~ hhk June 30,* f988 COMMENTS OF )HIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY, INC. ("0CRE')

ON CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO. et al. REQUEST TO SUSPENO ANTITRUST LICENSE CONDITIONS, 53 FED. REG. 02589, June 16, 1988.

The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. and Toledo Edison have requested that the antitrust license conditions for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant and the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station be suspended.

The basis for this request is that the economic odvantages thought to exist for utilities owning nuclear power plants have foiled to materialice.

The postulated economic advantages of nuclear power cre, occording to the utilities, the motive of the antitrust provisions of the Atomic Energy Act and of the license conditions at issue.

Locking the realization of these conditions, the utilities claim, the ontitrust provisions should be lifted.

Among the ontitrust conditions in the licenses for Perry and Dovis-Besse is a requirement that the utilities wheel power across their tronsmission lines at the request of any other utility, including municipal utilities, which have much lower electric rates.

The economic disadvantages or nuclear power, porticularly the large rate hikes to be forced upon the captive CEI and TE rotepoyers, hove lead mu.icipalities to consider forming their own electric systems, and existing municipol systems are considering expanding their service oreos. Cleorly, given a choice, no one would choose to Pay the extremely high rotes resulting from the cost overruns at Perry cnd poor managemen't and operationoi history at Davis-Besse.

So CEI and TE ore worried that municipoi systems will entice their customers away.

Such is life in a free, competitive marketplace.

However, CEI and TE. forced to abide by the antitrust license condicions due to their anticompetitive behavior in the 1970s, now wont to be shielded from free market forces and the consecuencen of their own mismonagement ce Perry and Davis-Besse.

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the true motive of this request is anticompetitive.

Because this anticompetitive motive is contrary to the spirit of the antitrust provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, the request should be denied.

It is further not in the public interest to cut off ovenues of relief from rote shock, which wt11 cause much human suffering and dash any hopes of economic

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