ML20234B733

Responds to 620421 Request for Info Re Hearing to Consider Issuance of CP for Util.No Application Has Been Submitted Yet & No Hearing Date Established

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a license for this reactor. Accordingly, a date for a hearing for this remotor has not yet been established.

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This refers to your april 21 letter requesting infor-sation concoming the hearing to consider issaance of a construction permit "for the Pacific Electric Co. ~

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location at Bodega Head, California.

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a date for a hearing for this mactor has not yet been established. If an application for a license for this reactor is submitted by Pacific Gas and Pslectric Company and subsequently a notice of hearing to con-sider issuance of a constnetion jermit for the reactor is issued by the Commission, we will glad to send you a copy of the notice.

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Induirial science anti scholastic' science : skirmished e.

' 3caterday in the running fight over whether the Pacific Gas site has a rock base, an im-l t p otec n again t and Elcetric Company should build a $st million n,aclear I

power plant on Sonoma Connty's Bodega liend.,yf.

up residentially" and a good Politics and the fishing in-harbor provides vitally need-r dustry's product image afso ed sea ' transportation for i heavy equipment that must got into the act as the State

- Public Utilities Commissi6n be brought in.

Earlier opponents to the reopened its hearing on plant have objected it would PG&E's application to con-destroy the area's' natural struct the 325,600 kilowatt beauties, interfere with Bo-f power plant.

dega Bay's extensive profes.

The crowd of 150 was over-sional fishing activities and whcimingly against the lajure marine life.

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PG&E plan. But the company Worthington said the plant t made its pointa and was able would not damage the ap-t to back down' w I L n e a s e s degree." He admitted planned pearance to "any appreciable

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overhead power lines would plication under advisement be visible but not " interfere in March, but reopened hear.

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Willard H. Nutting, senior

' protests retently, particud mechanical engineer, s aid I larly from nature levers and PG&E will meet an Atomic Energy Commission ' safety :

- scientists. PUC Examirier-i

- 1,eonard S. Patterson will re-equirement 'by designating

, r the 225 acre site an "exclu-9:30.ene the session todaylat conv i n area to protect the pub-s

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, lie in case of an accident.

Both assured the PUC that for at least a month-PG&E will not interftte with J. Dean Worthington, chlef publie access to Doran Beach

PG&E civil engineer, said the.

nd Park, uses of the tide-a a company had examined pos-lan' ds or navigation in the isible s i t e s for the 325, 00

harbor, ilowatt plant from San Frka-

'Dr. Joel F. Gustafson, pro-k

'cisco Bay to Point Arena a'nd fessor of biological sciences decided a 225 acre site on Bo.

at San Francisco State Col.

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lege, said the plant.would be located on the edge of the San Andreas fault and therefore there was a serious possibility J

of; an atomic accident in case of, an,earthq'uake. He also' testified that marine life would.be injured by the plant.'

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T Editor--I am ' writing regarding your apparent stand against the -

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residents of Bodega Bay who have gone to considerable trouble and expense to block every attempt t A heavily outnumbered

. emprove the area and o7or the past

! increased public use en it up to

.continEent from the Pa-several years. Fear of competition r cific Gas and Electne C. o.

of ar:y sort is the chief motivating traded shots with an army factor in these groups, one of of aroused nature lovers

,'which is on record that it will op-as the battle of Bodega

, pose any change or improvement Jof the area which does not directly llead' opened here yester-benefit its members. I believe that

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Atleast 150 demonstra-posed wer plant is based on this tive scientists, fishermen,

- type o regsoning.

i Surely the support for this proj.

Politicians and other an-l

, Board of Supervisors and the Ha~ r.wect given by the Sonoma County gry cit zens appeared.

They packed the State

+bor Commissioners is not to bei Building hearing room where lightly weighed nor cast'aside. In ;;

Examiner Leonard S. Patter-t

spite of all the fuss being made at '

son of the State Public Utill-

, Bodega Bay, they are still the repR

.tles Commission was hearing v resentatives of the people. In our.F evidence on PG&E's plan for l

7 opinion, they are doing a fine job."I a $61 million nuclear power i

If you will check the record, you >

Plant on the Sonoma county C**8 t*

Sposing all of the proposals that havewill find those same people op..'

Witnesses accused the big 1.been put forth for the development company of a multitude of g

. of the area, and offering no alter--

sins ranging.from collusion native plan except to leave every-see Ecge 20, Col. 2 thing at Bodega Ba arid has been for,y exactly as it is the past fifty

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. The recreational needs of the people are increas!ng at a fantastic s

rate. The Bodega Bay area offers the only boat harbor on the ocean.

.between San l~rancisco and Eureka'. <

1 The~ PC&E project will. create a ilarge source of local revenue

. the development of the area..for'

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'sb,[l PHYSICIST ney for the PG&E, spent two:?

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PHILIP S. FLINT.

Another witness was Phlh.p sion cross-examining Flint.. '

S. Flint, a physicist for the

., He charged collus. ion Fairchild Semiconductor lab. Morrissey's motibn to throw

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oratory in Palo Alto and a out the physicist's charges of r,,

g f,1 candidate for the Santa Clara illegality for lack of evidence.

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[-p the Sierra Club, charged tha.t, ly witness in the seven hour".

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'I the PG&E's Wmaneuverings session, Stanley B. Barton,.

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He drew on admission John C. Morrissey, attor. written only last week at the request'of PG&E's defense counsel.

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hearings in March, but the jections were heard during matter was reopened for fur.

ther h' earing when the com-mission. received a flood of protests by mall.

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The Indians By Mike Thomas The State Public Util.

itics Conunission yester.

day heard all about the i

windflowers at Bodega Bay, and: the University of California's good neigh-bor policy, and how the

. j public relations men but-j tered up Sonoma county's senice clubs.

And about the Indians.

The. longgone In dian s were dragged in by Rose Gaffney over the protests of

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PG&E's plan for a nuclear power plant at Bodega Head against Mrs. Gaffney and See Page 10, Col. 2 4

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Hearing on PG&E Project Fowers, :ndian Mishn,

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later, and she stepped aside A.

several scores of other stit-t make way for David E.

Starker Leopold, the university's Vice Chancellor,

-raged nature lovers.

I'8U " *"*.the Sierra Club s took the stand to answer that SLIDES conservation editor, who Mrs. Gaffney, a massive, called PG&E's proposed SGI UC would "neither support million power plant "a thorH cation because "we are notnor oppose" the PG&

outdoorsylooking waman oughly objectionable intru ia conservation organization who has spent most of her sion."

76 years on a ranch over.

and we are not a political looking the proposed power TOO FAR'.

pressure group."

l plant site, treated Examiner Pesonen said he thought He said university biolo.

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Leonard S. Patterson and the maybe fellow Sierra Club gists didni think the powe audience to a showing of member Philip S. Flint went plant would make the arear color slides of Bodega's a little too far on Monday unusable" for a marine bi-scenery.

when he suggested thatsome plogy lab, although if a pro-With the slides, slie gave of the tactics used by PG&E posed access road crosses the a running narrative about in trying to win approval of tidelands bordering the UC

' the flowers. the tides and its power plant plan might property, th,e effects might the rocky shore, and about have been "i!!cgal."

be " serious indeed."

. the Indians who used to "To my knowledge, there However, said Leopold, the e uld say they didn't think roam Bodega's rugged hills. was nothing strictly im university's official position the power plant would seri-

"Does this have any rel. proper," said Pesonen, but was that it wasn't going to ou ly harm the-marine life.

evancy to the application he said it was a "well known interfere with its " neigh-

. "It, would itake years to before this commission?" fact" that PG&E encourages bor's" bus'iness, so long as determine that," he said, demanded Morrissey, its executives to join service the neighbors leave UC

' PETITION

. BEAUTIFUL, clubs and be good fello,ws at alone.

the weekly luncheons to win "Y e s,"

said 'Mrs. Gaf-OPPOSED The day's Id wih wu the support nf community iney. "Now about those Indians

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- The Uruversity of the Pa. waitress Hazel Boenneke, a leaders member of the Bodega Bay lie said the " congenial re-Chamber of Commerce. She

. went for about 40 minutes. lationship" bet >veen PG&E

.wasn't quite so neigh-Nobody seemed came armed with a petition

/ cept Morrissey',to mind exand the Sonoma county offi, Joel Hedgpeth,. go a t e e d bearing si rector of the university's anti-power gnatures : of 1328 cials who granted a use per. di plant citizens.

"It was beautiful" sighed mit for the power plant was Pacific Marine Station at. With many of the more i somebody in the audience probably helped along by this Dillon Beach on Bodega Bay, than 100 persons in the State

. as Mrs. Gaffney ended her sort of low-pressure public t Id the examiner that his Building hearing room wait.

L slide show and announced relations campaign.

university was against the Ing to testify after she

. that she now had a six page UC power plant unless PG&E finished, Examiner Patterson

statement to read.

Like Flint, Pesonen de. guaranteed it would take "Is this also historical?" manded to know why the measures to ensure the gave up the idea of trying asked Morrissey.

to wind up the hearings U n i y e rsi t y of California, preservation of marine life "This isn't historical. This which plans a marine biology and access to the shore '*

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is combat," snapped Mrs. laboratory next door to the.

Hedgpeth added that.he scheduled still another two-He declared a recess and Gaffney.

PG&f site at Bodega Head, didn't see how the University.d But Patterson asked her hasn't opposed the nuclear to save her statement for power plant.

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y ao fishermen and some conser. plan to build acontention of He said t ugliness" to the valionists that a nuclearplant tory at Bodega Bay th marinelabora. might see "a picket fe would "

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ing on the proposed Bode;;a subjected to " undue pres-Day nuclear power plant into sure" to halt plans for a sci-and Electric atomic power Berry pointed out that the Sierr a' mild furor yesterday with entific installation there.

plant were interrupted by at-gc33,a' Club and other citi-groups oppose the nu.

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The Bodega Head power plant hearings rambled Gilbert, probably the only rather u n bc!ie Va biy person in the State liullding through their seventh day hearing room who remem.

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1 There ' was progress, of question was, answered y sorts. The lawyers and oth a nsoudng %.,, it er cross.cxaminers managed to Could he recod show

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. Let the record show that Wednesday.

It was a loud 'No'," sighed Mostly, it went like this.

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.' Just before time for the Pesonen, taking advantage or noon recess the hearing i

foom was m, o m e n 1a ri1y the ' State Public Utilities

} dure of allowing anybody tCommission's strange proce.

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motion under advisement, a

plug the power plant.

still at least' half a dozen marine biology laboratory at announced unhappily:

OBJECTION witnesses waiting to testify, Bodega Bay, and whether "I said earlier that we William Knecht, attorney and lawyer Berry said he'd PG&E had exerted any "un. would n.ot proceed beyond j

l for the California Farm Bu-like to have still more. He due influence" to keep them today except in dire circum-Federation, objected.

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Then he went off to study 1 the 48 e xhibit s and 1500 pages of transcript from eight days of hearings.

i Pa t t e rs o n wouldn't at-1 tempt to estimate how long it will take before he's rea'dy

'to make a recommendation to the State Public Utilities Commission as to whether1 the Pacific Gas & ElectricI Co. should be allowed tol build a $61 million nuclear ;

powered electric generatingi plant at Bodega Head.

The last two hours of yesJ terday's overtime s e s sio n were devoted to final state-ments by some of the wit.

nesses who enlivened the hearings with t e s t i m o n y j about everything from In-dians to dinoflagellate fan oceanic faicroorganismL Opponents of the power plant reiterated their stand

'i that the plant would area rich in scenery, spoil an recrea-tion, ge o1ogy, archscology i

and marine life-and possi.

bly endinger human lives.-

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SEPc 19FJ Mr. J. B. Be11mmin 185 Hill Road Berkeley, California Dear Mr. Neilandas l

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l This is in reply to your letter of August 20, 1962.. I am anclaming hero.

with a copy of Part 9 of the -imaion's angulations "pdblic Beoords" r

l which I believe should answer your inquiry concerning access to F=ianica documents. All "public records", as defined in part 9, are available for inspection at the P - immica's publie Document Boca, 1717 E Street, 5.0,

Washington, D. C.

Certain of those desuments, such as the Nasards Analysis prepared by the Commission's Division of Licensing and Regulation and the Hearing Essainer's Initial Decisicos are avai1=hle for distribution to members of the publis without charge, while others, such as applications and other docuamats filed by applicants or parties to a proceeding, trans-cripts of hearings, and exhibits received in avuanea in such hearin6s' will be made av=ilah1a at a shargs.of 35 cents per page. Also enclosed is a copy, of Part I of the Camusission's regulations " Rules of Practice" relat-ing to our hearing,. h.

In accordamos with your aupressed interest in the Humboldt Bay facility.of Pacific Osa & E1 metric congegr, I en encassing a copy of the Essards Analysis prepared by the Commission's Division of Licensing and Regulation concerning Pacifie Oss & Electric Company's application for a provisional operating license for the Miamboldt Bay reactor. Attached to this Essards Analysis are all four of the reports of the Advisory Committee on Reactor

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Safegmards concerning this project. As you may know, Pacific Gas &

Electrie Coogamy's = 14a=tions for a construction permit and for a pro-visional operating liaa=== flor the Ehmahn1At Bey reactor were each the sub-ject of extensive public hearings in which all safety aspects of the reactor, Nwns the pressure suppression containment systen, were care-fully considered. The entire liosase application and related correspond-ence concerning the Numhn1At Bay project 24y be inspected at the Commis-sion's Public Doctansat Boos. You will probably also be able to obtain I

access to many of these doctansats by contacting the Office of Atomic Energy Development and endiation (State of c=14fornia), Sacrammato 14, e=14 f%enia.

The Commissism has not as yet received an application from Pacific Gas &

Electric Cougaar fler its proposed facility at Bodega Atomic Park and, l

accordin6 y, we are not emare of the details of that proposal. Eeuever, 1

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1 the Jtaff has discussed the general features of the proposed Bodega reactor with Pacific Gas & Electric Company representatives, and it is our unders+ d== that the Company proposee to use the pressure suppression containment system in this reactor.

i am also =~ ha*=

herewith copies of Fort 100 of the Commissica's regulations "Beactor Site Criteria". part 13) as orig 4="y proposed 1961, provided that "no and panh11=had for comment on February 11,4 to 1/2 mile 2nna the surssee facility should be locatet ciceer than 1/

location of a known active earthgenha fault". In the regulations as adopted, the sinf man distance was changet to 1/4 mile in order to elimi-note the ambiguity in the reguistion as orig 4="y prescued.

For your furtcar informaties the public hearing on the Numboldt Bay reactor was held on July 19, 1962, and $be hearing =raminer's Initial Decision authorisin. issuance of a provisiemal operating license was'.

published on August 17, 1962. tlader the e - 4aasaa's rules, the hear-l ing e--*'s Initial Decision became imanadiately effective and will become the final decision of the Commission en October 2,1963, unless modified.er reversed by the cm==1asion prior te that tias. Aeoordingly, subject to ucy action the ca==i== ion any take before October 2, the provisional operating license was isseed in aseerdance with the heer-in6 examiner's decision on August 26, 1962. Tom will note that year letter to se of Auguat 20 asking for. the encameed information and your letter of Au6ust 31 to the e==1== ion roguesting intervention 1;. the dumboldt Bay case bota came after the hearing and after the time allowed for interventies as provided la the Connaission's Rules of Practice. You any expost that the r==i== ion will rule upon your roguest for intervention in the meer future mas in no event later than October 2, 1962.

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