ML20206R383

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Responds to 860730 Concerns Re NRC 860724 Ruling Permitting Util Demonstration That Protection of Public in Emergency Assured,Despite Lack of State & Local Cooperation in Preplaning.Decision Based on Adjudicatory Record
ML20206R383
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Site: Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date: 08/22/1986
From: Bernthal F
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To: Eckart D
HOUSE OF REP.
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Dear Congressman Eckart:

The Commission has received your letter of July 30, 1986 concerning our July 24 ruling in the Shoreham proceeding.

In that decision, we held as a matter of law that the license applicant should be permitted the opportunity to show that lack of State and local cooperation in preplanning does not absolutely preclude a finding, based on the facts adduced in the evidentiary record, of reasonable assurance that adequate measures can and will be taken to protect the public in an emergency.

We did not make such a factual finding in our decision, and we did not say that we would.

Commissioner Asselstine expressed a dissenting view which was attached to the Commission's July 24, 1986 order.

As you know, the decision was part of a formal adjudication being conducted under the Administrative Procedure Act, which mandates our consideration of only those materials that are part of the adjudicatory record.

Accordingly, while the Commission appreciates your concerns, we hope that you will understand that we must base our decision on the adjudicatory record of the Shoreham proceeding.

To avoid the perception that we are engaging in prohibited communications, we are serving your letter and our response on the parties to the adjudication.

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